This year’s German Future Prize goes to the development team of ams Osram from Regensburg. Norwin von Malm and Stefan Grötsch, as well as Hermann Oppermann from the Fraunhofer Institute for Reliability, received the prestigious award for their innovative LED headlight technology, which increases safety when driving.
The winning “Digital Light” is based on a high-resolution LED matrix with 25,600 individually controllable light points. Norwin von Malm says, “Each of these pixels is only half the size of a human hair. And since we want to be able to control each of these pixels separately, each one has to be connected to a power source individually. That was one of the big challenges we had to solve”.
