Sustainable Mobile Communication
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Challenges of Mobile Communication:
- Energy efficiency of communication net is comparable to old light bulbs
- Data transfer of mobile communication is increasing exponentially
- Smart phones are difficult to recycle
Tasks for Sustainable Systems Engineers:
- Improve the energy efficiency of power electronic systems
- Develop new ways and architectures for data transfer and data transmission
- Build smart phones based on recyclable materials
- Develop and establish material life cycles for microelectronic devices
- Transfer “problem awareness” and “technical solutions” into industry and society
Related industrial partners:
- Technology: Evatec, UMS, Global Foundries
- Devices: Ampleon, Infineon, Qualcomm
- Systems: Nokia, Ericson, Sony
- Net: Bosch, Telekom, Huawei
Related scientific projects of INATECH:
- Materials: German Science Foundation, “ScAlN/GaN-Heterostructures for Power Electronics”
- Energy: Fraunhofer Gesellschaft, “Enery Efficient Power Electronics 2020+”
- Resilience: German Science Foundation, “Robust Diamond Based Resonators”
- Links:
https://www.inatech.uni-freiburg.de/de/professuren/lek
https://www.iaf.fraunhofer.de/
Related lectures (MA-SSE):
- Nanomaterials
- Material Life Cycles
- Microelectronics
- RF- and Microwave Devices
- Power Electronic Circuits & Devices
- Structural Robustness
- Reliability Engineering