SFB/TR 196
Mobile Material Characterisation and Localisation by Electromagnetic Sensing (MARIE)
The team at this Collaborative Research Centre/Transregio develops detectors capable of identifying the material properties of any object.
New approaches for mobile material detectors are developed by the team of Collaborative Research Centre/Transregio 196. The detectors are intended to identify the material properties of any object, even if that object is concealed behind walls. One potential area of application: the technology might help detect unconscious people in smoke-filled or contaminated buildings or locate burning wires inside the walls. To this end, the detectors must record high-frequency data ranging between several Gigahertz up to Terahertz. A broadband measurement system is to be investigated for this purpose in the Collaborative Research Centre.
Host university is the University of Duisburg-Essen; co-speaker at Ruhr University Bochum is Professor Ilona Rolfes from the High Frequency Engineering Institute. Partners include the University of Wuppertal, TU Darmstadt, the Fraunhofer Institute for High Frequency Physics and Radar Techniques, and the Fraunhofer Institute for Microelectronic Circuits and Systems. The research network has been funded since 2017.
