Innovations for more sustainability: Fraunhofer RESET research centre opens in Dresden

Making our lives even more sustainable: The Fraunhofer Institute for Electron Beam and Plasma Technology (FEP) has opened the RESource Efficient Energy Technologies (RESET) research centre. Its research focuses on electron beam technologies and biomedical applications, for example. The centre also focuses on green hydrogen.

The Fraunhofer FEP wants to set new standards with RESET. To this end, state-of-the-art laboratory facilities have been created on the extended campus in Dresden. Above all, research will be conducted here on sputter epitaxy, biomedical applications and electron beam technologies. However, RESET also wants to be at the forefront of practical applications, for example in innovative process technologies. The production, storage and processing of hydrogen play a key role here. 

One of the many sustainable research topics at RESET is metal recovery through bioleaching or the production of bio-based materials. To this end, new processes with electron-stimulated microorganisms are being tested. Another research group is dedicated to the development of magnetrons and process technologies for depositing thin layers on 200 mm silicon wafers. These can later be used in light-emitting diodes (LEDs) or power electronics.

The research centre was inaugurated in the presence of high-ranking guests from politics and industry. Together with Lord Mayor Dirk Hilbert and State Secretary Prof Thomas Popp, Institute Director Prof Elizabeth von Hauff and Holger Hanselka, President of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, opened the new campus. "I am pleased and proud that the campus has been expanded to include state-of-the-art laboratories for biomedical applications, a clean room for our research in the field of sputter epitaxy and attractive spaces for creative and collaborative work for our researchers," said Prof. von Hauff. 

At the end of the official opening ceremony, she gave her guests a tour of the new campus and provided initial insights into specific research projects. The premises as such are also doing pioneering work in terms of green innovation: the energy-efficient supply of the entire building as well as its sustainable use were already at the centre of attention during the construction phase. For example, cooling energy is obtained from groundwater, air conditioning is provided by means of adiabatic exhaust air humidification and a PV system generates its own electricity.

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