Change through innovation – that’s the motto of the Innovation Day for SMEs of the Federal Ministry of Economics and Climate Protection (BMWK), which starts today in Berlin. On the open-air site of the BMWK project executing organization AiF Projekt GmbH in Berlin-Pankow, numerous funding initiatives and programs of the BMWK present themselves every year to the curious questions of interested visitors. This year, the focus is on the topics of sustainability and climate protection, digital and health. Dr. Martin Schädel, Business Unit Manager MOEMS, and Jessica Thorhauer from Project Controlling will present an optical gas sensor that measures the concentration of carbon dioxide in the air we breathe. The gas sensor works according to the NDIR principle, in which a developed IR emitter (infrared emitter) serves as a light source. The live raw sensor signals as well as the evaluated CO2 concentration of the volunteers will be displayed at the CiS Research Institute booth D11. The demonstrator is also the result of a BMWK-funded project Textured Blackbody MEMS IR Illuminator (TeSIS) with grant number 49MF190034. In this project, a novel, significantly simplified process chain for the production of these IR emitters with blackbody properties was developed. This makes it possible to almost halve the manufacturing costs. An international patent has been successfully secured for this promising idea under PCT/EP2018/083263.
With the Innovation Day, innovative SMEs as well as business-related research institutions demonstrate the effectiveness of federal funding. As a member of the Konrad-Zuse-Gemeinschaft, the interest group of non-profit, privately organized research institutions, the CiS Research Institute transfers findings of science into applicable technologies. We invite you to visit us at booth D11. The event itself is free of charge.
The research and development work described was funded by the German Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Action (BMWK) in the research project “Textured Blackbody MEMS IR Emitter” (TESIS).
Funding code: 49MF190034
