Fraunhofer Institute for Microstructure of Materials and Systems IMWS
Award as innovation champion 2025
The Fraunhofer Institute for Microstructure of Materials and Systems IMWS was selected by “FOCUS Business” as one of the 315 most innovative companies and institutions based in Germany.
October 24, 2024 / Munich
DWV Innovation Award
Franziska Hönig won the DWV Innovation Award of the German Hydrogen Association with her dissertation “Analysis and Evaluation of Oxygen Produced by Electrolysis in the Focus of Decentralized Energy Systems”.
October 1, 2024 / Stuttgart
Best Paper Award
Andreas Graff, Michél Simon-Najasek and Susanne Hübner won the Best Paper Award at the European Symposium on Reliability of Electron Devices, Failure Physics and Analysis with their paper “Reliability and Failure Analysis of AlGaN/GaN HEMT with NiPtAu and PtAu Gate”.
September, 26 / Parma, Italien
Innovation prize of the ZENIT e.V. network
The Fraunhofer CSP, a joint institution of the Fraunhofer IMWS and the Fraunhofer ISE, was awarded the innovation prize of the ZENIT e.V. network for “SOLARcon - yield-optimized aligned small PV modules in exposed concrete facades”.
May 13, 2024 / Mühlheim an der Ruhr
Outstanding Researchers Award 2023
Sebastian Brand and Michael Kögel have received the “Outstanding Researchers Awards 2023” from the Intel Corporation for their work “Increasing the sensitivity and 3D resolution of microscopic lock-in thermography analysis”.
April 19, 2024 / Santa Clara, USA
Germany's most innovative companies
The Fraunhofer IMWS has once again been recognized in the “Capital” and Statista rankings. For the sixth time in a row, it has been voted one of the most innovative companies in Germany, as determined by the market research service provider Statista and the business magazine “Capital”. The Fraunhofer Center for Silicon Photovoltaics CSP is also represented in the ranking, which is based on the assessment of innovation and industry experts.
March 1, 2024 / Hamburg
Best Poster Award
Robert Heidrich won second place in the Best Poster Award category of the PV Symposium of Conexio-PSE GmbH for his poster contribution “Polymer additives - a double-edged sword for the reliability of photovoltaic modules”. The poster illustrates the influence of polymer-based encapsulation materials such as ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer and polypropylene or polyethylene terephthalate, which are used in backsheets, on the long-term behavior of solar modules.
February 29, 2024 / Bad Staffelstein