AMA Innovation Award 2015 winner announced
The AMA Association for Sensors and Measurement presented the winners of the AMA Innovation Award 2015 at the SENSOR+TEST trade fair in Nuremberg on the 19th of May. This year, an Austrian development team convinced the jury twofold.
The Ultraprecise Frequency Measurement with Crystalline Semiconductor Mirrors project won the AMA Innovation Award 2015 after having already won the Young Enterprises Special Award. The Crystalline Mirror Solutions’ developer team, Christian Pawlu, Professor Markus Aspelmeyer and Garrett Cole, thus received the €10,000 AMA Innovation Award as well as a free trade-fair stand at the SENSOR+TEST.
A new approach to the precise measurement of time and space by the use of crystalline mirrors, reducing thermal noise by a factor of ten, swayed the jury in both competing categories. A laser beam is bounced back and forth between highly reflecting mirrors to obtain a precise measurement of time and space.
However, the exactitude of the method is limited by thermal noise. A radically new approach by the developer team using crystalline semiconductor mirrors was able to significantly minimise this thermal noise. The Crystalline Mirror Solutions company from Vienna recognised areas of application in communications and measuring technologies as well as in aerospace.
The AMA Association has been presenting its Innovation Award for 15 years and is publishing AMA Innovation Award 2015 – the Contenders, a brochure providing an overview of all submissions.
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