Good data starts with good sensors – whether you are tracking a production process, monitoring a field of crops or capturing a health signal. The Sensing Technologies Lab develops sensing solutions for real-world applications, combining custom-built, flexible and sustainable sensors with robust, commercially available electronics. The result: miniaturised, application-specific sensing solutions that reliably measure physical, chemical and biological parameters.
The lab supports the entire development chain, from sensor concept and design to system integration, fabrication and prototyping, and finally to characterisation and validation. Depending on the application and exploiting the core research portfolio of the group, the possibilities span flexible, biocompatible and resource-efficient sensor concepts and high-performance solutions based on established materials and technologies.
Application areas include industrial monitoring, environmental sensing, precision agriculture, as well as biomedical and food systems. The lab’s particular areas of expertise include integrating sensors into wearable interfaces, microfluidic systems and compact electronic readout platforms.
Through its interdisciplinary approach, the Sensing Technologies Lab bridges research and real-world application. It works with companies to turn ideas into functional sensor devices and robust prototypes – from initial brief through to application-oriented validation.
Sensing solutions for industry, environmental monitoring, agriculture and sports and healthcare, tailored to real-world applications
Custom sensor technology with robust electronics
Broad range of methods, from sustainable sensor concepts to high-performance solutions
Support across the entire development chain
Development of application-specific sensing solutions
Integration of sensors with commercial electronics
Design, prototyping and validation of sensor and electronic systems
Electrical, physical and functional characterisation
Collaboration with companies from first idea to prototype
Printing systems for functional materials, including screen printing, dispense printing, spray coating, and 3D printing
Cleanroom for micro structuring, including spin coater, mask aligner, and thin-film deposition (e.g., e-beam and thermal evaporation)
Glovebox systems for controlled processing environments
Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), reflectometry, optical microscopy, optical profilometry, atomic force microscopy (AFM) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM)
Probe stations equipped with parameter, network and impedance analysers, potentiostat, climate chamber and custom test setups (e.g., for electromechanical, electrooptical and electrochemical characterisation)
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