Awards:
  • 2011: Winner of the "SPIE Green Photonics Award" 
  • 2010: Winner of the "Chemnitzer Meilenstein"  
  • 2007: Winner of the Innovation Price Saxony
  • 2007: Laureate of the “Economic Growth Price” of the economic region Chemnitz-Zwickau
  • 2007: Winner of the Innovation Price 2007 Industry in the category “Microtechnology” of the “Initiative Mittelstand”
  • 2003: 1st Price in foundation contest of the city of Chemnitz, Germany
  • 2003: 2nd Price in foundation contest “FutureSAX” of the state of Saxony, Germany
initative mittelstand
3D-Micromac patents (excerpt):

  • Method for producing miniature bodies or microstructured bodies

  • Device and method for producing a three-dimensional object 

  • Method and apparatus for laser cutting (German patent DE102008000306B4) 

  • Laser micromachining station (German patent DE102005043596B4) 

  • Sample preparation method for transmission electron microscopy in which material is first removed from a sample using ultra-short pulse laser ablation under vacuum and then inert gas ions are fired at the remaining thin bar

Patents applied for (excerpt):

  • Laser marking method, use of a laser marking device and lens element 

  • Method and Apparatus for Producing Samples for Transmission Electron Microscopy 

  • Laser micro-machining system hole cutter has beam source and an optical unit that sets up rotation and oscillation (DE102007032231) 

  • Specimen for electron microscopic investigations has coating for draining away charge that has opening at point at which electron beam is incident on specimen (DE10358182) 

  • Forming method of crystal piece

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