About

The story of THATec Innovation

THATec Innovation is a company founded by scientists for scientists. Our motivation is to help you to stay focused on the essential: your scientific work. From our own longstanding experience in experimental physics, we learned a lot about the requirements of everyday’s lab work and developed strategies to overcome major challenges to realize our research ideas. The idea behind THATec Innovation was born in the lab with the major goal to develop hardware and software solutions to let you profit from our experience in the areas of our expertise: the automation of laboratory devices, optical scanning microscopy, and Brillouin light scattering.

If you want to get more details about our scientific work and expertise, in particular for microfocused Brillouin light scattering, have a look at the following publication by our co-founder Dr. Thomas Sebastian et al.:

>> Micro-focused Brillouin light scattering: imaging spin waves at the nanoscale, T. Sebastian et al., Front. Phys. 3, 35 (2015) <<

The history of our company starts in the 90s when our partner Burkard Hillebrands developed the Tandem Fabry- Pérot Data Acquisition Software (TFPDAS, Link to publication). TFPDAS is not only an advanced control software for the tandem Fabry-Pérot interferometer developed by John Sandercock and distributed by his company Table Stable but it also greatly simplified the coordination and synchronization of this complex instrument with additional peripheral devices in automated measurements. A concept that was the starting point for the development of our software platform thaTEC:OS.

As a Diploma and PhD student in the group of Burkard Hillebrands at the TU Kaiserslautern, our co-founder Helmut Schultheiß developed major updates for TFPDAS and the additional software module TFPDAS-Micro for Brillouin light scattering microscopy. For many years, these software modules for Brillouin light scattering spectroscopy and microscopy have been used not only by us but also by scientists in many labs around the world.

On the basis of this long-standing experience, our company THATec Innovation GmbH was founded in 2016 as a spin-off of the Helmholtz Center Dresden-Rossendorf and supported by the Helmholtz association in the framework of the Helmholtz Enterprise program. Since then, THATec Innovation has taken over the further development of TFPDAS (now thaTEC:TFPDAS5) and TFPDAS-Micro (now thaTEC:Microscope) and pushed its concepts to a new level: our software platform thaTEC:OS offers solutions not only for Brillouin light scattering spectroscopy but is a general-purpose platform for the automation of your lab that is already used for various experimental techniques all over the world.

In addition to lab automation, based on our experience in the design, construction and optimization of customized laser scanning microscopes, we offer multifunctional and also custom tailored hardware solutions for optical scanning microscopy. This completes our portfolio and allows us to provide fully automated customized setups which will be set up right where it belongs: in your lab!

Publications

The following list of publications contain a selection of publications from our customers who employed our software platform thaTEC:OS to conduct their measurements.

Submitted

Accepted / In press

• Direct probing of strong magnon-photon coupling in a planar geometry, M. T. Kaffash et al., Quantum Sci. Technol. (2022)

Published

• Double accumulation and anisotropic transport of magneto-elastic bosons in yttrium iron garnet films, P. Frey et al., Phys. Rev. B 104, 014420 (2021)
• Propagation of spin-waves packets in individual nano-sized yttrium iron garnet magnonic conduits, B. Heinz et al., Nano Lett. 20, 4220 (2020)
• Bose-Einstein condensation of quasi-particles by rapid cooling, M. Schneider et al., Nat. Nanotechnol. 15, 457 (2020)
• Temperature dependence of spin pinning and spin-wave dispersion in nanoscopic ferromagnetic waveguides, B. Heinz et al., Ukr. J. Phys. 65, 1094 (2020)
• Experimental Realization of a Passive GHz Frequency-Division Demultiplexer for Magnonic Logic Networks, F. Heussner et al., Phys. Status Solidi RRL, 1900695 (2020)
• Spin pinning and spin-wave dispersion in nanoscopic ferromagnetic waveguides, Q. Wang et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 247202 (2019)
• Optical Detection of Phase-Resolved Ferromagnetic Resonance in Epitaxial FeCo Thin Films, Y. Li et al., IEEE Trans. Magn., DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2019.2893819 (2019)
• Micro-focused Brillouin light scattering: imaging spin waves at the nanoscale, T. Sebastian et al., Front. Phys. 3, 35 (2015)
• Spatial profile of spin excitations in multilayered rectangular nanodots studied by microfocused Brillouin light scattering, M. Madami et al., J. Appl. Phys. 109, 07B901 (2011)
• Experimental Evidence of Field-Induced Localization of Spin Excitations in NiFe Elliptical Rings by Micro-Focused Brillouin Light Scattering, M. Madami et al., IEEE T. Magn. 46, 6 (2010)
• Progress in multipass tandem Fabry–Perot interferometry: I. A fully automated, easy to use, self-aligning spectrometer with increased stability and flexibility, B. Hillebrands, Rev. Sci Instrum 70, 1589 (1999)

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