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The fundamental research activities of the PERL team aim at pushing the limits of power electronic converters in terms of their switching frequencies.

Airport aprons, large construction sites or open-air events are usually defenceless against lightning.

In 2040, electricity production from solar installations will often significantly exceed demand, especially at midday.

They are standard on trains, but on container ships still a dream of the future: Large electric motors are constantly evolving and are used for numerous applications.

The "CD Laboratory for EMC-Aware Robust Electronic Systems" carries out research into the negative electromagnetic influences on electronic components in production and operation in order to eliminate the causes of failures.

Electronic circuits that can be switched and fulfill very different tasks: A breakthrough at TU Wien enables more functionality on less chip area.

Solar rays focused on concentrator photovoltaic cells using parabolic mirrors not only supply electricity, but also thermal energy for industrial processes, heating or cooling.

The heart can be analysed not only as a whole organ, but also on the basis of cultured heart muscle cells using microelectrode arrays.

By Birgit Baustädter Herwig Renner and Daniel Herbst are conducting research into the Austrian electrical energy system at TU Graz and explain in an interview whether our electricity grids are ready for electromobility.

The Energy Economics Group at the Vienna University of Technology is conducting research into how the energy transition can succeed.

The Energy Economics Group at TU Wien is researching how the energy transition can succeed. It will not be easy, but Prof. Reinhard Haas is generally optimistic about the future.

By Falko Schoklitsch In the form of "FlyGrid", a project team led by TU Graz presents the prototype of a flywheel storage system that can store electricity locally and deliver it using fast-charging technology.

Silicon carbide is expensive and its production is extremely energy-intensive, but it is indispensable for many applications.

Is the miniaturisation of electronics reaching its limits because smaller structures lead to more errors? TU Wien (Vienna) has shown that the problem can be overcome if the susceptibility to errors is taken into account when planning circuits.

By Birgit Baustädter Manuel Galler is the audience's favourite. The 33-year-old electrical engineer was able to bring the Science Slam state championship title to Graz for TU Graz.

We are all familiar with power outages - but fortunately widespread outages are rare. This is due to a sophisticated balance of generation and utilization.

By Christoph Pelzl On his journey from practical mathematics to theoretical electrical engineering, Niels Köster improved his scientific writing skills and discovered a love of (industry-related) research.

By Susanne Filzwieser If aircraft disappear from radar, it may be due to overloaded transponders. TU Graz has developed a simulation tool for Austro Control to determine the transponder occupancy.

By Christoph Pelzl TU Darmstadt and TU Graz want to decisively improve electrical machines through computer simulations.

By Beate Mosing The photovoltaic system is working on the roof, the e-car is charging in the garage, or at least the e-bike is hooked up to the electricity.

The EU's Green Deal and Austria's efforts to generate the total demand for electricity in Austria based on renewable energies call for a boost of advancement in the hydropower industry.

A research team from Garching and Vienna discovered a remarkable echo effect - it offers exciting new possibilities for working with quantum information.

By Susanne Eigner The Austrian Alpine region shows one of the highest lightning activities in Europe.

In recent decades, semiconductor technologies have been shrinking, while the operating frequencies and integration density of modern integrated circuits have increased significantly.

By Barbara Gigler TU Graz and Silicon Austria Labs (SAL) launch the first SAL research labs at an Austrian university and lay the foundation for groundbreaking digital products and processes with joint basic research in the field of electronics-based systems.

By Barbara Gigler If it's got electrical engineering written on it, it's part of the future. Find out here more about the colourful world of electrical engineering, everyday student life at TU Graz, what makes good electrical engineers, and what it's like living and studying in Graz.

Reliability is a wide-ranging subject in microelectronics, covering responses to different kinds of stress as well as measures to increase devices' tolerance against them.

By Christoph Pelzl A new publication by TU Graz is dedicated to the "Graz years" of the inventor genius Nikola Tesla and spans from his student days in Graz to Tesla's traces in the present.

By Vera Haberfellner Researchers at TU Graz develop a new charging concept for electric vehicles (EVs).

TU Wien has developed a sensor for measuring the strength of electric fields, which is much smaller, simpler and less prone to distortion than comparable devices.

Tetragon, a TU Wien spin-off, has invented a completely new kind of Braille display, which is user-friendly, cost-effective and extremely portable.

Microprocessors based on atomically thin materials hold the promise of the evolution of traditional processors as well as new applications in the field of flexible electronics.

How to reliably transfer quantum information when the connecting channels are impacted by detrimental noise? Scientists at the University of Innsbruck and TU Wien (Vienna) have presented new solutions to this problem.