Smart system integration technologies for lightweight structures

The Chemnitz University of Technology and the Fraunhofer Institute for Electronic Nanosystems ENAS are participating in Excellence-Cluster MERGE. In the sphere of the Integrated Research Domain D Micro- and Nanosystem-Integration in composite structures new approaches for microelectronic components in hybrid structures are developed. The objective is to enable the functionalizing by sensors, actuators and electronics and therefore a further improvement of performance and functional density of hybrid components. In this paper a brief overview of the new concepts is presented.