News of Electrical Engineering

New Helmut Veith Stipend Holders as well as International Student Award winners

07. May 2026

group picture people standing — © Markus Hollo | TU Wien Informatics

Awards for students

From Air to Tea: New Sensor Reveals Invisible Pollution in Minutes

23. April 2026

Woman in a high-tech lab — © Romana Maalouf Photography

Fine particulate matter in the air or nanoparticles in water – a remarkable new technology developed at TU Wien makes it possible to detect tiny…

Mind the Gap! Semiconductor Industry is Relying on the Wrong Materials

20. April 2026

2D materials are widely seen as a promising path toward better computer chips. Researchers at TU Wien now show: some of these materials are unsuitable…

World Record: Nano Membrane for Future Quantum Metrology

16. January 2026

A nano-device with metallic wires — © TU Wien

Nanomechanical systems developed at TU Wien have now reached a level of precision and miniaturization that will allow them to be used in…

Seeing infrared with organic electrodes

18. November 2025

a resercher in front of a microscope with red lighting — © TU Wien

An important step toward visual prostheses: biocompatible electrodes can convert infrared light into nerve impulses, as demonstrated by a team at TU…

Major WWTF funding for TU Wien projects

15. October 2025

colourful pivture with flowers framed by portraits of TUW scientists and researchers — © TU Wien Informatics

Funding for 12 projects from the Vienna Science and Technology Fund's 2025 call for proposals on “Information and Communication Technologies”

Faculties totally fuTUre fit: Performance agreements for 2025–2028 finalised

26. September 2025

group picture: von links nach rechts: Christian Bauer (Dekan der Fakultät für Maschinenwesen und Betriebswissenschaften), Wolfgang Kastner (Vizerektor Digitalisierung und Infrastruktur), Norbert Görtz (Dekan der Fakultät für Elektrotechnik und Informationstechnik), Ronald Blab (Dekan der Fakultät für Bau- und Umweltingenieurwesen), Ute Koch (Vizerektorin Personal), Jens Schneider (Rektor), Andrei Pimenov (Dekan der Fakultät für Physik), Gertrude Kappel (Dekanin der Fakultät für Informatik), Norbert Trolf (Studiendekan der Fakultät für Architektur und Raumplanung) (left to right) — © TU Wien

With these performance agreements, the Rectorate and the faculties have defined plans and projects within the framework of the overall fuTUre fit…

Innovative transistors for quantum chips

23. September 2025

A new transistor technology does not require semiconductor doping – offering decisive advantages for controlling and reading quantum chips.

RECAP - That was the MEA 2025 conference

25. July 2025

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The MEA 2025 Meeting – formally the 13th Meeting on Neural and Electrogenic Cell Interfacing – took place at TU Wien from July 9-11, 2025, bringing…

TU Wien and Harvard create new kind of laser

15. July 2025

Graphical representation of luminous laser rings — © Joshua Mornhinweg (jmornhinweg.com)

A team at Harvard and TU Wien have invented a new tunable laser that uses a series of rings to smoothly emit many light wavelengths from a single…

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