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Fraunhofer is tackling the current challenges facing industry head on. By pooling their expertise and involving industrial partners at an early stage, the Fraunhofer Institutes involved in the projects aim to turn original scientific ideas into marketable products as quickly as possible.
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Scientific achievement and practical relevance are not opposites - at Fraunhofer they are mutually dependent. Thanks to the close organisational links between Fraunhofer Institutes and universities, science at Fraunhofer is conducted at an internationally first-class level.
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The Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft is the leading organisation for applied research in Europe. Institutes and research facilities work under its umbrella at various locations throughout Germany.
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PublicationIEEE Microwave Theory and Technology Society Membership and Geographic Activities: Women in Microwaves Subcommittee [Women in Microwaves]( 2024-05)In this column, we would like to provide you with a recent update on the activities of the Women in Microwaves (WIM) subcommittee within the IEEE Microwave Theory and Technology Society (MTT-S) Membership and Geographic Activities. WIM is dedicated to establishing an inclusive network of women in the field of microwaves that attracts, scales, and connects. We do that by promoting women engineers/scientists in the microwave community, attracting women graduate students and professionals to join MTT-S, and increasing the visibility of women within MTT-S.
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PublicationResidual encoding framework to compress DNN parameters for fast transfer( 2023-07-24)Efficient communication is significant for federated learning and DNN model deployment. However, transferring hundreds of millions of DNN parameters over networks with limited bandwidth results in long communication delays or even data losses. To alleviate or even remove the communication bottleneck, efficient methods for parameter compression can be applied. Inspired by video encoding, which exploits inter-frame similarity for compression, we investigate the strong temporal correlations of parameter updates in two near epochs of the DNN model and introduce a model parameter residual encoding framework. By transmitting encoded residual between model parameters in two near epochs, the receiver can reconstruct new model parameters and finish the updates with less communication cost. Furthermore, with respect to our framework, we develop lossless and lossy model parameter compression methods and demonstrate them on popular classification and detection networks. The results show that the lossless method can compress the data size of the parameters to less than 90%, and the lossy method can shrink the parameter size to less than 50% with a fair low loss. Our source code is released at https://github.com/zhouliguo/DNN_param_encode.
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PublicationRecycling of solid-state batteries( 2024)Solid-state batteries (SSBs) are expected to provide higher energy densities, faster charging performance and greater safety than lithium-ion batteries (LIBs). Introducing a solid electrolyte (SE) results in changes in materials, manufacturing processes and cell characteristics. Compared to LIBs, however, there is a limited understanding of the recyclability of SSBs. Here we review the present strategies for indirect recycling of various SSBs, such as resynthesis, and direct recycling, such as reconditioning, focusing on promising SEs including oxides, sulfides/thiophosphates/halides and polymers. We consider the recycling routes adapted to different SEs, consisting of pretreatment as well as mechanical and metallurgical processes. Future recycling solutions will need to meet the demands for robust, energy-efficient methods with minimal environmental impact, while delivering high recycling rates and good secondary material quality.
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PublicationMulti-Layered Satellite Communications Systems for Ultra-High Availability and Resilience( 2024)Satellite communications systems provide a means to connect people and devices in hard-to-reach locations. Traditional geostationary orbit (GEO) satellite systems and low Earth orbit (LEO) constellations, having their own strengths and weaknesses, have been used as separate systems serving different markets and customers. In this article, we analyze how satellite systems in different orbits could be integrated together and used as a multi-layer satellite system (MLSS) to improve communication services. The optimization concerns combining the strengths of different layers that include a larger coverage area as one moves up by each layer of altitude and a shorter delay as one moves down by each layer of altitude. We review the current literature and market estimates and use the information to provide a thorough assessment of the economic, regulatory, and technological enablers of the MLSS. We define the MLSS concept and the architecture and describe our testbed and the simulation tools used as a comprehensive engineering proof-of-concept. The validation results confirm that the MLSS approach can intelligently exploit the smaller jitter of GEO and shorter delay of LEO connections, and it can increase the availability and resilience of communication services. As a main conclusion, we can say that multi-layered networks and the integration of satellite and terrestrial segments seem very promising candidates for future 6G systems.
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PublicationMeasurement of Local Recombination Activity in High Diffusion Length Semiconductors( 2023)
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