Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging (FLIM) in Technical Applications

This article is in German only. 

Fluorescence lifetime imaging (FLIM) is primarily used in the life sciences to study diverse biological systems, such as analyzing cellular metabolism in cells and tissues. But is FLIM truly limited to this area, or does it also have applications in industrial or process engineering? 

In this article featured in the June 2025 issue of InVISION magazine, Dr. Gerhard Holst discusses which type of FLIM applications can be relevant in industrial environments. He shows examples from an attempt to improve the classification of used wood pieces for better re-cycling to quality control in the production of solar cells which use perovskite as additional material to the application of optical chemical sensors, which change their fluorescence lifetime related to the change of the analyte.