The Electronics Design and Manufacturing Association (FED) presented the PCB Design Awards 2022 for the sixth time at its annual conference in Potsdam, Germany. The award, sponsored by the FED, recognizes PCB designers for outstanding work every two years. A panel of six experts judges the designs in terms of technical merit, manufacturability and documentation.

Our IZM-colleague Alireza Rezaei took 2nd place in the "3D/Component Design" category for his work on the Fraunhofer lead project ZEPOWEL (Towards Zero Power Electronics). In this project, nine Fraunhofer institutes successfully demonstrated how sensor systems can consume extremely little power or function completely autonomously, thus saving up to 20 percent of carbon dioxide emissions nationwide.