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Speaker: Eberhard Manske, TU Ilmenau
Time: 3:00 p.m.
Place: TU Ilmenau, Faraday lecture hall, Weimarer Straße 32, access Prof. Schmidt-Straße
Admission: 5 euros
The industrial revolution, which began in the second half of the 18th century, enabled a significant increase in precision, efficiency and production speed through the use of machines. With the help of machine tools, it was now possible to reproduce the exact same shape over and over again in the production of parts - the birth of serial and mass production of components, devices and entire machines. Initially, a tenth of a millimeter was the requirement for precise production, but soon it had to be a hundredth of a millimeter.
Since the 1960s, the micrometer, i.e. one thousandth of a millimeter, has given its name to a completely new technology: microelectronics. Not only does it still influence all’areas of society today, the ever-increasing miniaturization of electronic components has been unstoppable ever since. And since the 1990s, a whole series of nanotechnologies have been working in the range of a millionth of a millimeter.
In his lecture at the TU Ilmenau Bürgercampus, Prof. Eberhard Manske, Head of the Group Process Measurement and Sensor Technology at TU Ilmenau until his retirement in 2024, will take the audience on a journey into the world of precision metrology. He made it clear that even today, research is still making it possible to increase accuracy by several powers of ten. Applications on an atomic scale and the picometer, the billionth of a millimeter, are coming onto the scene.
Ursula Nirsberger
TU Ilmenau Citizens’ Campus
+ 49 3677 69 4794
buergercampus@tu-ilmenau.de