Berthold Leibinger Innovationspreis
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The Berthold Leibinger Innovationspreis is an innovation prize for applied laser technology open for participants world wide. It is biennially awarded by the German non-profit foundation Berthold Leibinger Stiftung
for innovations on the application or generation of laser light. In total three prizes are worth 60,000 euros. The prize winners are selected from eight nominees that present their work in person at a jury session.
Berthold Leibinger Stiftung
The German foundation Berthold Leibinger Stiftung was founded in 1992 by the engineer, entrepreneur and patron Berthold Leibinger in Ditzingen near Stuttgart, Germany. The non-profit foundation is dedicated to cultural, scientific, church related and social issues. The capital stock amounts to 9.9...
for innovations on the application or generation of laser light. In total three prizes are worth 60,000 euros. The prize winners are selected from eight nominees that present their work in person at a jury session.
2010
- 1. Prize: Thorsten Trupke, Robert Bardos, University of New South WalesUniversity of New South WalesThe University of New South Wales , is a research-focused university based in Kensington, a suburb in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia...
und BT Imaging Pty Ltd, „Laser Based Luminescence Imaging of Silicon Bricks, Wafers and Solar Cells“ - 2. Prize: Karsten König, JenLab, „Clinical Multi-Photon Tomography“
- 2. Prize: Ralph Delmdahl, Rainer Pätzel, Kai Schmidt, Coherent, Alexander Usoskin, Bruker HTS GmbHBrukerBruker is a leading provider of high-performance scientific instruments and solutions for molecular and materials research, as well as for industrial and applied analysis...
, „UV Excimer Laser Technology: Key to Massproduction of Ceramic High Temperature Superconducting Tapes“ - 13. Prize: Majid Ebrahim-Zadeh, Catalan Institute for Research and Advanced Studies und Radiant Light S.L., „Femtosecond Light Source Spanning from the Ultraviolet to Infrared“
2008
- 1. Prize: Project Group Serial Production with Ultrafast Lasers, Robert Bosch GmbHRobert Bosch GmbHRobert Bosch GmbH is a multinational engineering and electronics company headquartered in Gerlingen, near Stuttgart, Germany. It is the world's largest supplier of automotive components...
, „High-Precision Micromachining in Mass Production“ - 2. Prize: Richard L. Sandstrom, William Partlo , Cymer Inc., „VUV LaserExcimer laserAn excimer laser is a form of ultraviolet laser which is commonly used in the production of microelectronic devices , eye surgery, and micromachining....
for Advanced LithographyLithographyLithography is a method for printing using a stone or a metal plate with a completely smooth surface...
“ - 3. Prize: Cary Gunn , Luxtera Inc.LuxteraLuxtera Inc., founded in 2001, is based in Carlsbad, California. Luxtera is a fabless semiconductor company that is using silicon photonics technology to build complex electro-optical systems in a production silicon CMOS process...
, „Development of CMOSCMOSComplementary metal–oxide–semiconductor is a technology for constructing integrated circuits. CMOS technology is used in microprocessors, microcontrollers, static RAM, and other digital logic circuits...
PhotonicsPhotonicsThe science of photonics includes the generation, emission, transmission, modulation, signal processing, switching, amplification, detection and sensing of light. The term photonics thereby emphasizes that photons are neither particles nor waves — they are different in that they have both particle...
: Silicon Based TransceiverTransceiverA transceiver is a device comprising both a transmitter and a receiver which are combined and share common circuitry or a single housing. When no circuitry is common between transmit and receive functions, the device is a transmitter-receiver. The term originated in the early 1920s...
s“ - 3. Prize: Jürgen CzarskeJürgen CzarskeJürgen Czarske has studied electrical engineering and physics at University of Hanover. At the same university he received the Ph.D. degree on 9 February 1995 and the degree of Dr.-Ing. habil...
, Lars Büttner, Thorsten Pfister , Technische Universität Dresden, „Laser DopplerDoppler effectThe Doppler effect , named after Austrian physicist Christian Doppler who proposed it in 1842 in Prague, is the change in frequency of a wave for an observer moving relative to the source of the wave. It is commonly heard when a vehicle sounding a siren or horn approaches, passes, and recedes from...
Distance Sensor and its Applications“
2006
- 1. Prize: Karin Schütze and Raimund Schütze, P.A.L.M. Microlaser Technologies GmbH, a Company of the Carl Zeiss MicroImaging GmbH, „Laser micro beam and laser catapult for single cell capture“
- 2. Prize: Ian A. Walmsley, University of OxfordUniversity of OxfordThe University of Oxford is a university located in Oxford, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest surviving university in the world and the oldest in the English-speaking world. Although its exact date of foundation is unclear, there is evidence of teaching as far back as 1096...
, „Methods for complete measurement of ultrashort pulseUltrashort pulseIn optics, an ultrashort pulse of light is an electromagnetic pulse whose time duration is of the order of a femtosecond . Such pulses have a broadband optical spectrum, and can be created by mode-locked oscillators...
s“ - 3. Prize: Michael Mei and Ronald Holzwarth, Menlo Systems GmbH, „Optical frequency combFrequency combA frequency comb is the graphic representation of the spectrum of a mode locked laser. An octave spanning comb can be used for mapping radio frequencies into the optical frequency range or it can be used to steer a piezoelectric mirror within a carrier envelope phase correcting feedback loop...
technique“
2004
- 1. Prize: Ursula Keller, ETH ZurichETH ZurichThe Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich or ETH Zürich is an engineering, science, technology, mathematics and management university in the City of Zurich, Switzerland....
, „SESAM – Semiconductor Saturable Absorber Mirror for ultrafast lasers“ - 2. Prize: Andreas Tünnermann, Stefan Nolte and Holger Zellmer, Friedrich-Alexander-University, Erlangen-NurembergFriedrich-Alexander-University, Erlangen-NurembergThe Universität Erlangen Nürnberg is a university in the cities of Erlangen and Nuremberg in Bavaria, Germany. It is the second largest state university in Bavaria, having five Schools, 308 chairs, and 12,000 employees. There are 28,735 students enrolled at the university, of which about 2/3 are...
/ Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Optics and Precision Engineering, „High-power fiber laserFiber laserA fiber laser or fibre laser is a laser in which the active gain medium is an optical fiber doped with rare-earth elements such as erbium, ytterbium, neodymium, dysprosium, praseodymium, and thulium. They are related to doped fiber amplifiers, which provide light amplification without lasing...
s and their applications“ - 3. Prize: Axel Rolle, Specialized Hospital Coswig, SaxonyCoswig, SaxonyCoswig is a town in the district of Meißen, in the Free State of Saxony, Germany. It is situated on the right bank of the Elbe, approximately 9 km southeast of Meißen, and 13 km northwest of Dresden....
, „Lung parenchymal laser surgeryLaser surgeryLaser surgery is surgery using a laser to cut tissue instead of a scalpel. Examples include the use of a laser scalpel in otherwise conventional surgery, and soft tissue laser surgery, in which the laser beam vaporizes soft tissue with high water content...
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2002
- 1. Prize: Work Group Disk Laser, Universität Stuttgart, „Disk laserDisk laserA disk laser or active mirror is a type of solid-state laser characterized by a heat sink and laser output that are realized on opposite sides of a thin layer of active gain medium...
“ - 2. Prize: Tibor Juhasz and Ronald Kurtz, IntraLaseIntraLaseIntraLase was a company based in Irvine, California, producing lasers for the medical industry and for eye surgery. In March 2007 it was acquired by Advanced Medical Optics for $800 million in cash. Advanced Medical Optics was acquired by Abbott Laboratories in February 2009...
Inc., „Femtosecond laser scalpelLaser scalpelA laser scalpel is a scalpel for surgery, cutting or ablating living biological tissue by the energy of laser light. In soft tissue laser surgery, a laser beam ablates or vaporizes the soft tissue with high water content....
for CorneaCorneaThe cornea is the transparent front part of the eye that covers the iris, pupil, and anterior chamber. Together with the lens, the cornea refracts light, with the cornea accounting for approximately two-thirds of the eye's total optical power. In humans, the refractive power of the cornea is...
l surgery“ - 3. Prize: Stefan HellStefan HellStefan W. Hell is a physicist and one of the directors of the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen, Germany as well as the head of the department "Optical Nanoscopy" at the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg.- Life :In 1981 Hell began his studies at the...
, Marcus Dyba and Alexander Egner, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical ChemistryMax Planck Institute for Biophysical ChemistryThe Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen is a research institute of the Max Planck Society. Currently, 812 people work at the Institute, 353 of them are scientists....
, „Optical nanoscopy with ultrashort pulse laser and stimulated emissionSTED microscopyStimulated Emission Depletion microscopy, or STED microscopy, is a fluorescence microscopy technique that uses the non-linear de-excitation of fluorescent dyes to overcome the resolution limit imposed by diffraction with standard confocal laser scanning microscopes and conventional far-field...
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2000
- 1. Prize: Josef Schneider, MAN RolandMAN Rolandmanroland AG manufactures newspaper web offset presses, commercial web offset presses, and sheetfed offset presses for commercial, publications and packaging printing.The company has production facilities in Offenbach am Main and Augsburg...
Druckmaschinen AG, „Laser and digitally changed Printing systems“ - 2. Prize: Martin Grabherr, ULM photonics GmbH, „VCSELVCSELThe vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser, or VCSEL , is a type of semiconductor laser diode with laser beam emission perpendicular from the top surface, contrary to conventional edge-emitting semiconductor lasers which emit from surfaces formed by cleaving the individual chip out of a...
- Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting high-power Laser diode“ - 3. Prize: LU Yong Feng, National University of SingaporeNational University of SingaporeThe National University of Singapore is Singapore's oldest university. It is the largest university in the country in terms of student enrollment and curriculum offered....
, „Laser micro processing in industry“
See also
- Berthold Leibinger ZukunftspreisBerthold Leibinger ZukunftspreisThe Berthold Leibinger Zukunftspreis is an international award for excellent research on the application or generation of laser light...
(affiliated research prize) - Berthold LeibingerBerthold LeibingerBerthold Leibinger is a German engineer, entrepreneur and philanthropist. He is founder of the non-profit foundation Berthold Leibinger Stiftung and Associate and Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the German company Trumpf.- His Life :Born in Stuttgart, Berthold Leibinger graduated with Abitur...
(founder of issuing foundation)