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At this year’s European Microwave Week (EuMW), the LHFT was once again represented with numerous interesting contributions. Particularly exciting is the fact that two publications were each awarded a Young Engineer Prize. This award recognizes outstanding contributions presented by young engineers o...

Once again this year, the LHFT was able to secure numerous prizes at the International Microwave Symposium (IMS) Student Design Competition. Nicole Zocher and André Scheder took first place in the competition on the topic of "Tunable Impedance Matching Network". Second place went to Tobias Kög...

The start-up team "inveneer" at LHFT was chosen as one of the winning teams in phase 1 of this year's BayStartUp business plan competition in northern Bavaria. In two rounds, inveneer was first able to impress with its business plan and then with its pitch in front of a twenty-member jury! The foun...

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Martin Vossiek was elected (at rank 1) in the DFG review board election 2023 (for the term 2024 - 2028) for the review board: 4.42 Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, subject: 4.42-02 Communication Technology and Networks, Microwave Technology and Photonic Systems, Sign...

On February 9, 2024, the Institute of Microwaves and Photonics (LHFT) held its annual "LHFT Three Minute Thesis Competition". This competition is based on the "Three Minute Thesis competition (3MT™)" held at over 200 international universities. This year's winners are Mr. M.Sc. David Panusch and Mr....

For his Master's thesis, Leonhard Hahn was honoured with the VDE Bayern Award 2023, as well as a Baumüller master's prize and the Fritz-and-Maria-Hofmann-Prize. In his thesis, he worked on the design, implementation and evaluation of a subharmonic super-regenerative receiver. In contrast to conventi...

Dr.-Ing. Erik Sippel received the ATE Doctoral Prize on Faculty of Engineering Day 2023. This is awarded in recognition of outstanding scientific achievements to doctoral students at FAU's Faculty of Engineering. In his dissertation "Holographic 3D Indoor Localization", he laid the foundations for p...

Dr.-Ing. Stephan Biber / Siemens Healthineers AG and his "Team 1" received the German President's Award for Technology and Innovation, the Deutscher Zukunftspreis (https://www.deutscher-zukunftspreis.de/en). In addition to Dr.-Ing. Stephan Biber and Dr. rer. nat. David M. Grodzki from Siemens Health...

Dr. Ingrid Ullmann received the best paper award at the IEEE SENSORS Conference 2023 in Vienna. Her contribution was entitled “Radar-Based Continuous Human Activity Recognition with Multi-Label Classification“ (authors: Ingrid Ullmann, Ronny Guendel, Nicolas Kruse, Francesco Fioranelli, Alexander Ya...

At this year's IEEE European Radar Conference (EuRAD), the LHFT could celebrate two great successes. Johanna Bräunig won the Young Engineer Prize of EuRAD 2023 with her paper. This award is given to the best publication presented at EuRAD by young junior scientists. She was awarded for her conferenc...

At this year's International Microwave Symposium (IMS), LHFT PhD students demonstrated their talents by securing three notable awards in the student design competitions. In the Component-less Bias Tee competition, Tobias Kögel and Andre Scheder took first place! Well done! The team, consisting...

The Institute of Microwaves and Photonics was strongly represented this year at one of the most important and largest conferences for microwave engineering. At the annual IEEE International Microwave Symposium (IMS), the latest research results and publications from the fields of field simulation, R...

Christoph Kammel, from the Institute of Microwave and Photonics (LHFT), won a prize in the Student Paper Competition at the renowned 2023 IEEE Radar Conference. His paper, titled “MIMO Radar-Based Rotation Parameter Estimation of Non-Cooperative Space Debris Objects”, introduces a novel technique fo...

The IEEE Microwave Theory & Technology Society (MTT-S) celebrates its 70th anniversary with a special issue of the IEEE Journal of Microwaves. On this occasion - in addition to the publications of the regular issue - selected and influential scientists from the field of microwave technology were...