Research Projects

The work within the CRC is organized into two project areas and comprises 14 research projects and one transfer project. Project area A, "Sensor Technology", covers the range from materials research on novel ME composites and their constituents (A1, A2) to the research on new sensor concepts (A4, A5, A7, A9) including their in situ characterization (A6, A10) and materials and sensor modelling (A8, A10). Project area B, "Magnetoelectric Sensor Systems for Medical Applications", uses sensor concepts of project area A and deals with analogue and digital signal processing (B1, B2) and three different life science applications (B7, B9, B10) that are considered to be in the range of the sensors’ performance within the second funding period. The former project B5 on deep brain stimulation is continued as a transfer project T1 with Boston Scientific as the industrial partner.

The integration of medical projects at any stage is a specific characteristic of the CRC 1261. It ensures the provision of specific sensor targets and specifications for medical applications as well as the evaluation of the sensors’ performance using realistic and medically relevant problems and environments. Both are considered to be key factors for reaching the overall aims of the CRC. As a consequence, this approach requires a continuous, dedicated, interdisciplinary orientation of the CRC with the participation of internationally well-recognized groups from materials science, physics, electrical engineering, and medicine at Kiel University in collaboration with the Fraunhofer Institute of Silicon Technology (ISIT) and the Leibniz-Institute for Science and Mathematics Education (IPN) throughout all three funding periods. The two project areas will be complemented by two service projects (Z1, Z2), the Integrated Research Training Group (IRTG), and the Scientific Outreach Project (SOP).

 

Project Area A - Sensor Technology

Projects		Involved researchers
	A1 - Magnetostrictive Multilayers for Magnetoelectric Sensors	Jeffrey McCord Dirk Meyners Dennis Seidler Lars Thormählen
	A2 - Hybrid Magnetoelectric Sensors Based on Mechanically Soft Composite Materials	Rainer Adelung Franz Faupel Stefan Schröder Thomas Strunskus Lukas Zimoch
	A4 - ΔE-Effect Sensors	Benjamin Spetzler Robert Rieger Fatih Ilgaz Patrick Wiegand
	A6 - Microstructure and Structural Change of Magnetoelectric and Piezotronic Sensors	Bridget Murphy Lorenz Kienle Otto Lippmann Niklas Wolff
	A7 - Electrically Modulated Magnetoelectric Sensors	Eckhard Quandt Felix Schlichting
	A8 - Modelling of Magnetoelectric Sensors	Martina Gerken Giuseppe Barbieri
	A9 - Surface Acoustic Wave Magnetic Field Sensors	Eckhard Quandt Fabian Lofink Jana Meyer Felix Weisheit
	A10 - Magnetic Noise of Magnetoelectric Sensors	Jeffrey McCord Stephan Wulfinghoff Christian Dorn Elizaveta Golubeva

 

Project Area B - Magnetoelectric Sensor Systems for Medical Applications

Projects		Involved researchers
	B1 - Sensor Noise Performance and Analogue System Design	Michael Höft Andreas Bahr Johan Arbustini Henrik Wolframm
	B2 - Digital Signal Processing	Gerhard Schmidt Christin Bald
	B9 - Magnetoelectric Sensors for Movement Detection and Analysis	Walter Maetzler Gerhard Schmidt Johannes Hoffmann Clint Hansen
	B10 - Magnetoelectric Sensor Systems for Cardiologic Applications	Norbert Frey Gerhard Schmidt Erik Engelhardt Adrian Zaman
	B12 - Bioinspired Nanocomposites for Early Detection of Complications in Gastrointestinal Surgery	Zeynep Altintas Jan-Paul Gundlach Martina Gerken Rahil Radfar
	B13 - Magnetoelectric 3D Mapping in Gastrointestinal Diagnostics	Mark Ellrichmann Fabian Lofink

 

Service Projects

Projects		Involved researchers
	Z1 - MEMS Magnetoelectric Sensor Fabrication	Dirk Meyners Fabian Lofink Lisa Hanke Hanna Lewitz Jana Meyer Marc Alexander Nowak
	Z2 - Magnetoelectric Sensor Characterization	Michael Höft Gerhard Schmidt Eric Elzenheimer

 

Integrated Research Training Group

Projects		Involved researchers
	IRTG - Integrated Research Training Group	Martina Gerken Walter Maetzler Jeffrey McCord

 

Science Outreach

Projects		Involved researchers
	SOP - Scientific Outreach Project	Carolin Enzingmüller Ilka Parchmann Hendrik Groß

 

Closed Projects

Projects		Involved researchers
	A5 - Piezotronic Magnetoelectric Composites	Rainer Adelung Martha Gerhardt
	B7 - 3D-Imaging of Magnetically Labelled Cells	Franz Faupel Christine Selhuber-Unkel Mohammad Sadeghi Angeles De la Cruz García
	T1 - Transfer Project – Individualized Deep Brain Stimulation	Michael Höft Günther Deuschl Ann-Kristin Helmers Mevlüt Yalaz