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From microchips through to quality assurance

How ZEISS is helping future mobility. Here‘s an overview.

Trends such as autonomous driving and e-mobility are presenting the car industry with major challenges. The growing demand for electric vehicles is giving rise to an increased need for quality assurance from development and production through to assembly. Self-driving cars require particularly powerful sensors and microchips. ZEISS is committed to making sure that these requirements are being met. In fact, there are also areas in which ZEISS is making the mobility of tomorrow safer, more sustainable and more comfortable over and above quality assurance and chip and sensor production.

Batteries

Batteries are crucial for the safety, the lasting performance and the range achieved by electric cars. From research and development through to production, the fact that we thoroughly check the properties of materials, electrodes, cells, modules and bases will makes sure that battery technologies will perform to a high-quality standard.

Fuel cell system

The fuel cell system transfers hydrogen to electric energy to the electric engine, with many cells arranged in series and connected in the fuel cell stack. The highest dimension standards in production and development of each individual component are needed for its construction.

E-engine

Compact and lightweight, yet extremely fast with powerful torque. The components have to fit perfectly in order to generate maximum performance with minimum. The precise production and assembly of the hairpins make for the main challenge for the latest generation of engine.

Power electronics

Power electronics achieves efficient conversion of electrical energy and accurately controls of electronics components. Integration tendency requires higher quality control on semiconductors, PCBA, finished modules and housing, to increase the efficiency and reliability.

Gear

Electric vehicle drivetrains have a single or two-stage gearbox that shares a housing with the engine. A number of measuring and inspection steps are needed to ensure the best performance, slight wear and tear and quiet operation.

A woman sits in an autonomous vehicle, interacting with holographic displays on the windshield that provide information about the journey, finances, and appointments.

Multifunctional Smart Glass

ZEISS multifunctional smart glass offers new functionalities that willenhance the safety of all road users thanks to detection,projection, lighting and filtering functionalities. The windshield offers plenty of room for numerous assistance systems. The side windows, by contrast, can be used as a projection surface for augmented reality applications, video chats or create a customized seating arrangement.

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High-performance microchips

Autonomous driving requires enormous processing capacity, which is made possible by ever smaller and more powerful microchips. Substantially finer structures can be realized on the microchip carriers or wafers through using ZEISS High-NA-EUV lithography. This enables the production of even more powerful, energy-efficient and cost-effective chips.

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LiDAR-Sensors

LiDAR chips made by ZEISS spin-off Scantinel Photonics are smaller than SIM cards. LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) enables self-driving vehicles to measure distances and speeds of other cars and objects in their vicinity quickly and precisely. With an impressive range of 300 meters, this technology helps to improve the decisions autonomous vehicles make and ensures safer driving.