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On May 24, 2023, SAOT members and MAOT students visited the ASML headquarter Veldhoven and gained insights into the company, which is the world's largest supplier of lithography systems for the semiconductor industry.

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Snow, science, and soft skills: At the SAOT Winter Academy, our doctoral candidates learned about the basics of optics and data management. In addition, there was time to explore the wintry foothills of the Alps and Neuschwanstein Castle.  

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In the latest issue of the Journal of Biophotonics, Lucas Kreiß et al. present label-free analysis of fibrotic tissue remodeling. The importance of their publication is underlined by its choice for the journal's front cover, which shows the comparison of healthy lung tissue to lung fibrosis. The ...

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How to write good scientific papers? How to develop high-end optical imaging systems? For this year's SAOT Summer Academy, our Doctoral Candidates spent a week at the Fraunhofer Research Campus Waischenfeld. In addition to the full-day courses and get-togethers, we visited the Sophienhöhle and the W...

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Since 2006, the Erlangen Graduate School in Advanced Optical Technologies (SAOT) acts as an interdisciplinary hub for research on photonics and optical technologies in Erlangen. With the Young Researcher Award (YRA) in Advanced Optical Technologies, SAOT honors young scientists for their outstanding...

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We are happy to present our brand-new brochure "Photonics Research in Erlangen". It contains a detailed overview on research groups and investigators working on photonics and optical technologies in Erlangen. Further, for our Scientist Spotlights, we interviewed selected scientists, and with our ...

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Congratulations to former SAOT Young Researcher Award Winner Professor Darko Zibar from Technical University of Denmark, DTU, for being awarded with the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel International Research Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. His award goes along with €45,000 and an invitation...

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We are happy to announce that from today on, SAOT and our activities as hub for research on photonics and optical technologies in Erlangen are present on LinkedIn. We will provide our followers with insights to Erlangen's photonics labs, latest publications, research highlights and much more. Don't ...

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Within the SAOT Summer Academy 2021, SAOT doctoral candidates and MAOT students dealt with optical phenomena that we constantly encounter in everyday life.

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