Press Releases

Dr. Sven Einfeldt & Dr. Neysha Lobo Ploch explain how our UVC LEDs can be used for disinfection in medicine, what the challenges are and how we are currently developing our systems.

The current frequent issue focuses on our developments in the field of high-power diode lasers and their applications.

Two papers from FBH-scientists are Editor’s Picks of the journal Applied Physics Letters. One discusses longitudinal spatial hole burning as a power limit in high-power diode lasers. The other paper presents advances on far-UVC micro-LED arrays with record efficiencies.

At the Munich trade show, the Ferdinand-Braun-Institut will be exhibiting, among other things, a robotic arm with a novel direct-diode laser system for 3D printing. It will also present its diode laser and UV-LED portfolio – with advances in chip technology as well as modules and systems.

The paper presented by Kornelius Tetzner et. al. „SnO/β-Ga₂O₃ heterojunction field-effect transistors and vertical p–n diodes” ranked among the top ten most-read articles in 2022 published by the journal APL.

“Great Conference!", this was how numerous participants from research and industry thanked the organizing team for four days of intense exchange, networking and excursions around ultraviolet light-emitting diodes and their diverse applications.

Diamond material is of great importance for future technologies such as the quantum internet. Special defect centers can be used as quantum bits (qubits) and emit single photons. Researchers from the Joint Lab Diamond Nanophotonics at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and Ferdinand-Braun-Institut have succeeded for the first time worldwide in generating and detecting photons with stable photon frequencies.

The 3rd 'International Conference on UV LED Technologies & Applications' (ICULTA) offers a wide-ranging program covering the entire value chain, from UV LED technology to UV systems and applications. Experts from more than 25 countries are expected to attend.

FBH regularly publishes its research results in scientific journals. Currently, two papers are among the top downloaded articles at two journals published by Wiley

The article "Optimization of Vertical GaN Drift Region Layers for Avalanche and Punch-Through pn-Diodes" by Enrico Brussatera et. al. is IEEE Electron Device Letters' Editor's Pick.

Two publications by FBH scientists were among the most popular articles in the Journal of Applied Physics in 2022.

Non-thermal atmospheric plasmas are ideal for the pretreatment of thermoplastic materials to improve bondability, printability or paintability. The essential aim is to increase the surface energy in order to make the activated workpiece surface more adhesive.

The recently launched QEED project aims to significantly reduce measurement time in clinical cancer diagnostics by developing a spectrally resolved imaging technique based on entangled photon pairs. FBH scientists will develop the required diode lasers and quantum light modules.

ICULTA brings together the international UV LED community – from semiconductor component developers to users – to discuss cutting-edge topics, future perspectives and applications of the versatile UV LED technology. The program is set and registration for participants is now open.

The IEEE Photonics Journal has chosen the paper "60% Efficient Monolithically Wavelength-Stabilized 970-nm DBR Broad-Area Lasers" as 2022 Editor's Choice. The open-access publication by P. Crump et al. describes the progress made at FBH in high-power diode lasers.

Exhibits include novel diode lasers and modules for applications such as materials processing, LiDAR, medicine, optical communication and space as well as a UV LED irradiation system for disinfection.