Newsletter of the Fraunhofer IST

Dear Readers,

Christmas is coming, and hopefully a more relaxing time for you. Today we will inform you for the last time this year about selected topics, events and current results from the Fraunhofer IST. The most important event was certainly the appointment of Prof. Dr. Christoph Herrmann into the management of the IST. The “answers” column deals again with the topic “vacuum”, Prof. Dr. Günter Bräuer explains how this is generated.

We hope you enjoy reading.We wish you happy holidays and a good start into the New Year. We look forward to providing you with exciting news from the Fraunhofer IST also in 2019.

The Editorial Team

Dear Readers,

The year 2018 was exciting for the Fraunhofer IST in many ways: interesting projects and research results, intensive cooperations and several events, conferences and trade fairs have accompanied the institute's everyday life. The process to regulate the succession of the institute´s management was initiated in spring and has already achieved initial results: Now we can prepare the institute´s path into the future together, with two directors and one deputy. We are looking forward to it.

At the end of the year, we would like to take this opportunity to thank all those who accompanied Fraunhofer IST with their hard work, their commitment, their trust and their support in 2018: above all the staff of the institute, our research partners, the clients from the industry, our sponsors, colleagues and friends. Thank you for a trusting cooperation.

We also thank you, dear reader, for your interest in our institute and we wish you a merry Christmas and a happy New Year.

Günter Bräuer, Christoph Herrmann and Lothar Schäfer

We present three exciting articles concerning new results from the diverse research work carried out at the Fraunhofer IST:

In the coming months the Fraunhofer IST will be active at the following trade shows, conventions, and events: