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TU Wien (Vienna) has succeeded in generating laser-synchronised ion pulses with a duration of well under 500 picoseconds, which can be used to observe chemical processes on material surfaces.

Researchers at TU Wien have investigated how an artificial intelligence categorizes images. The results show astonishing similarities to visual systems in nature. How do you teach a machine to recognize objects in images? Huge progress has been made in this area in recent years. With the help of neural networks, for example, images of animals can be assigned to the respective species with a very high success rate.

A hybrid system that marries quantum computing with traditional high-performance computing is currently being developed in Austria.

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

The "LifeScope3D" research platform has been opened. It offers various new high-tech devices for bio-research at TU Wien, which are available to TU Wien scientists but also external institutions.

Do you always have to optimize everything? This is common practice in technology. In nature, however, "good enough" is sometimes better than "perfect".

One of the great unknowns in climate models: The behavior of certain gases, which often have a strong smell and cause water to condense.

Julian Leonard is awarded an ERC grant. He is developing quantum simulators that can be used to study intriguing effects from solid-state physics.

Katta Spiel researches how people with disabilities experience their access to technology. For this work, Spiel has been awarded an ERC Starting Grant.

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.

How can you exchange one cryptocurrency for another? Until now, you had to either trust large crypto providers or limit yourself to simple currency swaps.

From 24 to 26 May, the Institute of Lightweight Structures and Structural Biomechanics and the Institute of Engineering Design and Product Development went on a joint excursion to several companies in the Augsburg and Munich areas.

With an ESPRIT grant from the Austrian Science Fund FWF, Tobias Schäfer is developing new computational methods to solve previously unsolvable quantum physics problems in computational materials physics.

A new type of battery has been invented at TU Wien (Vienna): The oxygen-ion battery can be extremely durable, does not require rare elements and solves the problem of fire hazards.

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

The interdisciplinary MSc programme Environmental Technology & International Affairs is a joint programme of the Diplomatische Akademie Wien and TU Wien and offers education in technical and international environmental policy.

Austria receives large EU-Grant to enable hosting interactive environments for collaborating and sharing high-performance-compute codes on GCP via the European Open Science Cloud.

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.

The dartboard where you always hit the bull's eye How do you always set a world record in darts? With a newly developed control technology from TU Wien.

The TUW Home Office Guideline from October 2020 has been adapted in a few points to the legal regulations that have been in effect since 1 April 2021.

A protocol has been developed at TU Wien that makes transactions with cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin faster and more secure.

In extreme heat or in the vacuum of space: a novel nanomaterial delivers top performance in extreme situations, as demonstrated by TU Wien (Vienna) with international partners.