Prizes and awards

The Feng Chia University in Taiwan has appointed Dr. Ralf Bandorf, manager of the group ”Highly Ionized Plasmas and PECVD” at the Fraunhofer IST as ”Distinguished Chair Professor FCU”. In doing so the university pays tribute to the longstanding good scientific cooperation. Thus, on June 1^st, 2018 a Memorandum of Understanding was signed that sealed the partnership between Fraunhofer Institute for Surface Engineering and Thin Films IST and Feng Chia University, that had already existed since 2014. A successful cooperation has developed especially in the field of high power impulse magnetron sputtering (HiPIMS), an innovative coating technology and the special field of Ralf Bandorf. The goal is now to build a joint center for highly ionized plasmas.

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Prof. Dr. Günter Bräuer received the K-T Rie Award for his achievements in the field of applied plasma research at this year's Asian-European International Conference on Plasma Surface Engineering (AEPSE), which took place in Jeju, Korea, from 11 to 15 September 2017.

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Jessica Gerstenberg from the Institute for Surface Technology at the TU Braunschweig was awarded the 1^st place in the poster prizes for her poster ʺMicrostructure Investigations on Gas Flow Sputtered Thermal Barrier Coatingsʺ together with her co-authors from the Fraunhofer IST and the Institute for Materials at the TU Brauschweig. In her work, she examined zirconium-based heat-insulation layers produced by gas flow sputtering, e.g. with regard to the microstructure of the layer.

Employees of the Fraunhofer IST were honored with the third place in the poster prizes awarded during the 11^th International Conference on Coatings on Glass and Plastics from June 12 – 16, 2016 in Braunschweig. Felipe C. Carreri, Holger Gerdes, Ralf Bandorf, Michael Vergöhl and Günter Bräuer from the Fraunhofer IST were awarded for the contribution “Deposition of ITO films by reactive high power impulse magnetron sputtering from a metallic rotatable target”.

At the INNOspace Masters conference on May 4, 2016 in Berlin, Dr. Andreas Dietz, manager of the business unit aerospace at the Fraunhofer IST, was honored by the German Center for Aerospace (DLR) in the framework of the competition INNOspace Masters 2016. Together with his project partners Prof. Enrico Stoll from the Institute of Space Systems of the TU Braunschweig and Stefan Linke from INVENT GmbH he took the second place in the category “DLR Space Management Challenge” with the “OCULUS” project.

Dipl.-Ing. Martin Weber, long-standing employee of Fraunhofer IST, received the supplemental award to the EFB Project Award 2016 for his successful work on the project “Fast Tool Wear Test for Deep and Stretch Drawing of Sheet Steel”. It was presented on April 12^th during the congress of the European Research Association for Sheet Metal Working (EFB).