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Welcome to the Institute of High-Frequency Technology

On our website you will find insights into our diverse research projects, as well as information about our staff, courses, publications, and the latest news from our institute.

Together with our project partners, we conduct research on innovative topics such as non-contact vital signs measurement using radar for medical, veterinary and industrial applications. Other projects focus on ultra-low power communication networks, permittivity measurements and quantum computing research.

A distinctive feature of our institute is our combination of theoretical and experimental work. We employ advanced simulation techniques, manufacturing processes, precision measurement technology, as well as signal processing and machine learning for data analysis. Thanks to our in-house PCB manufacturing, precision mechanics workshop, and various 3D printers, we can rapidly implement theoretical concepts and test them in our antenna measurement chamber or on our linear stage.

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News at the IHF

12.05.22
On September, 13th and 14th, 2022 the Hamburg University of Technology will host the 1st Summer School for Machine Learning in Engineering. The Institute of High-Frequency Technology is one of the co-organizers.
10.05.22
On 10th Mai 2022 Mr. M.Sc Moritz Hägermann successfully defended his docotoral thesis with the titel "Backward-Wave Phenomena in Helix Traveling-Wave Tube Amplifiers".
22.04.22
Caspar Wasle wurde als Teilnehmer des International Space Weather Camps (ISWC) ausgewählt. Dieses vom DLR Neustrelitz, der South African National Space Agency (SANSA) und der University of Alabama in Huntsville organisierte Camp bietet Studenten und Absolventen von Studienfächern der Mathematik, Physik, Informatik und Ingenieurswissenschaften die Möglichkeit, sich intensiv mit dem spannenden und hochaktuellen Thema Weltraumwetter zu beschäftigen. Caspar Wasle hat sich zuvor als Wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft und im Rahmen seiner Bachelorarbeit am Institut im Bereich der Satellitenkommunikation (SANTANA-Aero 2) als äußerst engagierter Student hervorgetan. Wir haben Ihn sehr gerne bei seiner Bewerbung für einen Platz beim ISWC unterstützt und freuen uns, dass wir ihm nun zur Annahme gratulieren können. Im Namen des ganzen Instituts wünschen wir Caspar viel Spaß während der drei sicherlich sehr interessanten und lehrreichen Wochen.
28.01.22
Das Institut für Hochfrequenztechnik (IHF) der Technischen Universität Hamburg (TUHH) hat gemeinsam mit Forschern der FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg und der BTU Cottbus einen Artikel in der multidisziplinären Open-Access-Zeitschrift IEEE Access vorgestellt, bei dem die Einsatzmöglichkeiten von maschinellem Lernen zur Schätzung der Einfallsrichtung in Automobilradarsystemen untersucht werden.
24.11.21
Die virtuelle Veranstaltung “Artificial Intelligence in Engineering” bringt jedes Jahr eine Vielfalt von Anwendern aus den Ingenieurwissenschaften und verwandter Gebiete zusammen, um die neuesten AI-Trends in ihrer Berufs-Praxis vorzustellen. Das Event wurde dieses Jahr eröffnet durch die Keynote “Machine Learning in Engineering and Materials Science: On Your Marks, Get Set, … Go!?” von den MLE-Mitgliedern Christian Feiler, Fabian Lurz, Robert Meißner, Stefan Schulte, Christian Schuster und Gregor Vonbun-Feldbauer.
21.09.21
Das Institut für Hochfrequenztechnik (IHF) hat gemeinsam mit der FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg und Infineon Technologies AG einen neuen Ansatz des maschinellen Lernens vorgestellt, der mit einem hochintegrierten Radarsystem zuverlässig Personen erkennen und deren Aktivitäten klassifizieren kann.
10.09.24
Our paper "Enhancing Geographic Greedy Routing in Sparse LDACS Air-To-Air Networks Through k-Hop Neighborhood Exploitation", has been accepted to the short paper track at 49th IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN), October 8-10, 2024, in Caen, Normandy, France.
10.09.24
Frugal innovation vs. Sustainable Innovation, conflicts and potential synergies.
09.09.24
We are pleased to announce that Prof. Andres Gomez, Professor at the Institute of Computer and Network Engineering of TU Braunschweig, will be giving a talk on Batteryless Internet of Things. Title: Batteryless Internet of Things Date and location: Monday, 16.09.2024 at 14:00 o'clock am in room HS28 - 0.01 You are warmly invited! About Prof. Dr. Andres Gomez Andres Gomez received a dual degree in electronics engineering and computer engineering from the Universidad de Los Andes, Colombia, an M.Sc. degree from the ALaRI Institute (Università della Svizzera Italiana), Switzerland, and a Ph.D. from ETH Zurich, Switzerland. He has over 15 years of professional experience in embedded systems, working in academia and industry. He is currently an associate professor at TU Braunschweig, Germany. His current research interests include batteryless system design, IoT, wireless networks, and AI for resource-constrained systems. Abstract Over the last decade, energy harvesting has seen significant growth as different markets adopt green, sustainable ways to produce electrical energy. Even though costs have fallen, the embedded computing and Internet of Things community has not yet widely adopted energy-harvesting-based solutions. This is partly due to a mismatch between power density in energy harvesters and electronic devices, which, until recently, required a battery or super-capacitor to be functional. This mismatch is especially accentuated in indoor environments, where there is comparably less primary energy available than in outdoor environments. In this talk, I will present a design methodology that can optimize energy flow in dynamic environments without requiring batteries or super-capacitors. Furthermore, I will discuss the general applicability of this approach by presenting several batteryless systems, including recent advances in autonomous batteryless sensors.
09.09.24
Air freight transport to be made more resource-friendly and efficient with the use of AI
09.09.24
This master's thesis aims to investigate the extent to which biochar produced from reed stalks—a byproduct of constructed wetlands—via the VTC process is suitable for stabilizing the anaerobic digestion process.
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09.09.24
Vom 03.09. bis 06.09.2024 fand die 27. International Conference on Composite Structures (ICCS27) in Ravenna, Italien statt.
09.09.24
Our joint paper: UtiliGEM: Energy Management Guided by Learned Application Utility with Areeb Asad, Frank Kraemer, Kerstin Bach (NTNU) and Bernd-Christian Renner (TUHH) has been accepted for presentation at the 14th International Conference on the Internet of Things (IoT 2024). Congratulations!
09.09.24
Dr. Miriam Edel from the Institute of Technical Microbiology at TUHH have worked together with Dr. Johannes Eberhard Reiner from Novo Nordisk Foundation CO₂ Research Center (CORC) and Dr. Benjamin Korth from Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) on oxic microbial electrosynthesis as an potential alternative for biomass production.
06.09.24
On the 5th and 6th of September, the 1st Summer School of the CRC 1615 SMART Reactors took place, focusing on the design of chemical reactors and bioreactors.
06.09.24
In this article that was recently published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research, we analyze the DiGA Fast-Track in Germany and the evolving DiGA-ecosystem using a data-driven analysis.