Autor: Helmut Budzier

Professor Gerald Gerlach, Department of Electrical Engineering, Dresden University of Technology, Germany Professor Gerlach is Head of the Solid State Electronics Laboratory at Dresden University of Technology. He is Deputy Chairman of EUREL (Convention of National Societies of Electrical Engineers of Europe); Chairman of the German Association of University Professors in Measuring Technology (AHMT) and Vice-President of the German Society for Measurement and Control (GMA). He is a member of the Board of Directors of the SENSOR+TEST conference and an Associate Editor of IEEE Sensors journal. Professor Gerlach is an existing Wiley author having co-authored with Wolfram Dotzel and translated by Dörte Müller, Introduction to Microsystem Technology: A Guide for Students (2008). The German version of this book was published by Hanser in 2006. He has contributed chapters to the book Functional Elements in Precision Engineering and Fabrication in Precision Engineering and Microtechnology (both Hanser). He has also written over 250 journal and conference papers, and holds more than 35 patents. Dr Helmut Budzier, Department of Electrical Engineering, Dresden University of Technology, Germany Dr Budzier is a senior researcher at the Solid State Electronic Laboratory at Dresden University of Technology. His main research interests include infrared systems, sensors, IR applications and uncooled IR cameras.