Selected Case Studies
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Real-Time Signal Processing in Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) at Fraunhofer IPT
Optical coherence tomography (OCT) systems are developed at the Fraunhofer Institute for Production Technology (IPT) for medical and industrial applications. OCT is an imaging technique that relies on a signal processing chain. This chain used in Fraunhofer’s OCT systems covers, e.g., the acquisition of data from a line scan camera, image-related adjustments, a Fourier transformation, and the reduction of signal noise. Since these OCT systems are required to provide high spatial and temporal resolution in production setups, e.g., video frame rate (25 frames/s), the parallelization and tuning of the signal processing chain is crucial. more
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Injection molding is very important in plastics processing since it enables cheap and easily adaptable large-scale production of plastic components. As the microstructure of semicrystalline thermoplastics has a huge impact on the mechanical properties, the Institute for Plastics Processing at RWTH Aachen University (IKV) has developed the simulation software SphäroSim which can predict the microstructure of semicrystalline thermoplastics during solidification. Due to the long runtime of the simulation, high-resolution simulations are restricted to small areas. more
The JuKKR package is developed at Research Center Juelich and contains a collection of codes for electronic structure calculations based on the Korringa-Kohn-Rostocker-Green's function method. One part of JuKKR is the KKRimp code, which allows the quantum mechanical simulation of impurities and defects embedded in a variety of materials. This allows unparalleled insights into their electronic and magnetic properties. Moreover, it allows to describe scattering of electrons off defect atoms. Recently, the code has been extended to describe defects embedded in superconductors which is an important ingredient in the search for materials that are useful for future stable quantum computing applications. more
What is the nature of Dark Matter? What happened to the antimatter that must have been produced in the Big Bang? Where are cosmic rays accelerated and how do they propagate through the Milky Way? As a multi-purpose instrument for the precision spectroscopy of cosmic rays, AMS was conceived to answer fundamental questions about our Universe. CLAIX supports scientists of the I. Physikalisches Institut B at RWTH Aachen University with the analysis of the data gathered by AMS. more
Photo: I. Physikalisches Institut B