MST Kongress 2021

The MST Kongress 2021 opened its doors on Monday, November 8, with the registration of the participants and the opportunity for field trips to visit the laboratories of Hahn-Schickard in Stuttgart, the technology area at Institut für Mikroelektronik Stuttgart, and the 200 mm wafer fab at Bosch in Reutlingen, followed by an opening event in the evening at Forum Ludwigsburg. The following two days saw a wide-ranging conference program with the latest developments on a variety of topics. In line with the current situation, the first session on Tuesday was on pandemics, where new techniques and solutions for point-of-care diagnostics and rapid analysis systems were presented. Parallel to this, three other sessions discussed Mobility, Integrated Hybrid & Microhybrid Systems, as well as Optical and Photonic Components. In the afternoon, the projects of the Bosch IoT Innovation Challenge and the student competition COSIMA were presented and the winners of the Dr. Wilhelmy Award, the GMM Prizes and the Alfred-Kuhlenkamp Award of the GMM were introduced and honored. These were followed by sessions on innovative microsystems, sensors & quantum sensors, process technologies, and economics & sustainability. The sessions and events were accompanied by a main exhibition area, where IMS CHIPS was also present, as well as poster sessions and a start-up pitch.

Wednesday featured the sessions Materials, Quantum Sensors on the Way to Market, Robust & Reliable Microsystems, Health & Care, Assembly & Interconnection, and Microactuators & Energy Harvesters, some of which went on all day. The Optical and Photonic Components sessions continued from the previous day. As on the previous day, the technical presentations were accompanied by extensive poster sessions and the exhibition area.

The event program and further information can be obtained at
www.mikrosystemtechnik-kongress.de