The research at AEPT and BPT is divided into four research areas, which have a large overlap in content due to the interdisciplinary nature of plasma technology.
- Materials Processing and Environmental Applications
- Technological High-frequency Plasmas
- Modeling and Simulation
- Biomedical Applications
The research is supported to a significant extent by public funding sources. These are
- the German Research Foundation (DFG)
- Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
- the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi)
- the Ministry of Economic Affairs, Innovation, Digitalisation and Energy of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia (MWIDE.NRW)
The lists of ongoing and already completed DFG projects can be found here:
- GEPRIS: Chair of Applied Electrodynamics and Plasma Technology
- GEPRIS: Chair of Electrical Engineering and Plasma Technology
- GEPRIS: Junior Professorship of Biomedical Plasma Technology
As part of our research, AEPT is/was member of the following coordinated research initiatives, among others:
- SFB 1316 “Transient Atmospheric Plasmas – From Plasmas to Liquids to Solids”
- SFB 1461 “Neurotronics: Bio-inspired Information Pathways”
- ForMikro – FlexTMDSense
- TRR 87 “Pulsed High Power Plasmas for the Synthesis of Nanostructured Functional Layers”
- FOR 2093 “Memristive Devices for Neuronal Systems”
- FOR 1123 “Physics of Microplasmas”
- GRK 1051 ” Non-Equilibrium Phenomena in Low-Temperature Plasmas: Diagnostics – Modelling – Application”
- SFB 591 “Universal Behaviour of Plasmas far from Equilibrium: Heating, Transport and Structure Formation”