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SENSOR Innovation Award
SENSOR Innovation Award 2005
At the SENSOR+TEST 2005, the SENSOR Innovation Award was divided between two teams.
- Dr. Hagen Thielecke, Fraunhofer Institute for Biomedical Technology – IBMT, St. Ingbert, with the development “Cell-based biosensor for the evaluation of biopharmaceutical substances and medical therapies”
With the aid of a special electrical measurement, medical samples, such as individual cells and minute tissue particles, can be characterized. By this means the effectiveness of given pharmaceuticals can be efficiently tested. Effective therapy approaches, which can be individualized for the patient, e.g. for cancer therapy, can be filtered out from the multitude of possibilities. The innovative biosensor comprises a special capillary microcell, which enables positioning of the measuring array based on a hydrodynamic principle. Utilizing this fundamental system improvement, it will become possible to implement this method in the clinical routine. - Dr. Alexander Dräbernstedt, Dr. Frank Heimes, Dirk Hettwer, Dr. Christian Rembe, Dr. Heinrich Steger, Dr. Michael Wörtge, Polytec GmbH, Waldbronn, with the development “Confocal, stroboscopic measuring microscope with integrated scanning vibrometer”
In microsystem technology very many components are based on cantilever silicon structures for measuring acceleration, rotation, and other parameters. Many of these components, such as airbag sensors, are safety relevant. The vibration of the sensor structures is often used to generate a sensor signal. However, undesired vibrations can falsify the measuring signal. The dimensional projection of the vibration modes and amplitudes of the smallest microsystem components is thus of greatest technical significance in development and in quality assurance. The microscope developed at Polytec makes it possible to develop a device, which can be applied for this specialized and sophisticated measuring task. To this effect it was necessary to provide an intelligent combination of state-of-the-art optical and electronic measuring technology. The device was commercially successful within a short time.
Other nominated submissions 2005:
- AKTIV SENSOR GmbH, Stahnsdorf: „Mikrogehäuste “miniaturized, media-separated silicon pressure and differential pressure sensors for industrial application”
- CSEM Centre Suisse d’Electronique et de Microtechnique SA, CH – Zürich: “Integrated proximity sensor based on organic semiconductor materials”
- Fraunhofer IBMT, St. Ingbert: “Cell-based biosensor for the evaluation of biopharmaceutical substances and medical therapies”
- Metallux AG, Korb: “Polymer pressure sensor”
- Polytec GmbH, Waldbronn: “Integration of scanning laser Doppler vibrometry in a confocal measuring microscope for 3D vibration measurement of microstructures”
