News: LEDs
13 September 2024
ams OSRAM a finalist in Deutscher Zukunftspreis
In cooperation with Dr Hermann Oppermann of the Fraunhofer Institute for Reliability and Microintegration IZM in Berlin, Dr Norwin von Malm (senior director New Technologies) and Stefan Groetsch (who leads the corresponding team within System Solution Engineering) at ams OSRAM GmbH in Premstätten, Austria and Munich, Germany comprise one of three teams nominated as a finalist for the Deutscher Zukunftspreis 2024 (German Future Award), the Federal President’s Award for Technology and Innovation (to be awarded by Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier in Berlin on 27 November).
Picture: The team of ams OSRAM, in cooperation with Fraunhofer IZM, is among the three finalists shortlisted for the German Future Award – Federal President's Award for Technology and Innovation.
Key nomination criteria include innovative performance, patentability, as well as completed or imminent implementation that must also result in creating new jobs.
The team has been nominated to recognize innovations underlying its digital LED headlamp technology, which illuminates the road ahead precisely and brightly without blinding other road users, enhancing general road safety. For this, ams OSRAM developed all-new LED technology that is smaller, more efficient and more intelligent than before, rendering more precise light distribution.
ams OSRAM’s innovation features more than 25,600 LEDs in a matrix consisting of 320 x 80 light points. With each individual LED being controlled by a digital signal, the headlamp works similarly to a video projector. Not only does it illuminate the road ahead precisely and efficiently, but it can also project warning symbols onto the road, such as a snowflake symbol to warn of icy conditions or a special symbol if a wrong-way driver is heading in the vehicle’s direction.
“The German Future Award is a long-standing tradition for us at ams OSRAM: in 2007, an ams OSRAM team won this prestigious award to honor our thin-film technology, and in 2016 we were among the nominees,” notes CEO Aldo Kamper. This demonstrates “the great significance of intelligent light and sensor technologies for our digital society,” he adds.
Beyond the road traffic area, ‘digital light’ provides the technological basis for new applications that could revolutionize the interface between people and electronics, it is reckoned.
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