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Together with Simon Streck and Lukas Engesser from Thyssenkrupp Presta AG, we recently visited the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) in Grenoble.

The Markforged Community Brunch took place yesterday at Urma AG in Rupperswil.

Cosmic ray testing is usually performed with the gate electrode shortened to the emitter ground, producing zero electric field across the gate dielectric oxide. In real applications, the gate is usually charged to +/-15 V with respect to the emitter, resulting in a field strength exceeding 100 kV/mm. This work aims to test the effect of a gate voltage applied on the failure in time (FIT) rate of Trench Si-IGBTs irradiated with protons and neutrons, providing more realistic test conditions close to the application. Further, HTGB tests are performed on the surviving devices to provide novel insights into the impact of cosmic ray particles on the gate oxide reliability.

We are pleased to present you with our 2023 Annual Report of our Technology Transfer Center. The Annual Report is available here in German.

A tailor-made high-temperature oven was developed as part of a customer project with Hitachi Energy.

With over 200 guests from research, industry and politics, the grand opening of our new home, the "Switzerland Innovation Park Innovaare", took place yesterday. The park offers 23,000 square metres of state-of-the-art clean rooms, laboratories, precision workshops, offices and meeting rooms. The perfect base for companies and start-ups to settle. At the opening ceremony, we took the opportunity to present our technology transfer center and expand our network.

Flavia Bonelli, Toni Israel, Julian Czajor and Felix Bölter from Stäubli visited us this week. After a short round of introductions, we had an intensive dialogue. The product examples they brought with them helped us to better understand the challenges faced by Stäubli. Afterwards, our guests were given a tour of our premises and gained an insight into the development process of our infrastructures. We are looking forward to our future collaboration.

Merck & Co., Inc. is an American multinational pharmaceutical company headquartered in Rahway, New Jersey, and is named for Merck Group, founded in Germany in 1668, of whom it was once the American arm. The company does business as Merck Sharp & Dohme or MSD outside the United States and Canada. It is one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world, generally ranking in the global top five by revenue.

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