Smaller components and higher frequencies: New CD Laboratory

Many modern electronic systems in a wide range of areas - from smartphones to navigation satellites - use signals in the high-frequency range for communication: On the one hand, the use of particularly high frequencies also allows particularly small components and enables larger bandwidths (e.g. for better data connections). On the other hand, new services often have to switch to higher frequencies because lower frequencies are already in use, and the susceptibility to errors, which must be counteracted, increases as the frequency increases. Head of Laboratory Reinhard Feger and his team are therefore looking into this promising but also challenging area of signal processing and are researching ways of integrating these high frequencies into semiconductor circuits, for example.