Concise Profile of Research Areas
Biophotonics (W.
Parak): New nano- and micro-systems and their applications in a wide
variety of fields such as medicine, biology and electronics devices.
Experimental Semiconductor Physics (M.Koch, W. Heimbrodt, W. Stolz, K.
Volz): Electronic and optical properties of novel semiconductor
lasers, semiconductor nanostructures, lasers, and light emitting
diodes; ultra fast spectroscopy, spintronics.
Theoretical
Semiconductor Physics (S. Koch, M. Kira):
Microscopic theory of electronic and optical properties of
semiconductors, nanostructures, semiconductor lasers, quantum optical
effects, photonic crystals
Complex Systems (B.
Eckhardt, P.
Lenz): Theory of non-linear processes at microscopic and
macroscopic scales in atoms, hydrodynamics and biological systems.
Molecular solid
state physics (G. Witte):
Growth, structure and (opto-)elektronic properties of molecular
solids and thin films
Neurophysics (F. Bremmer, W. Einhäuser):
Studies of brain functioning, especially concerning the processing of
visual stimuli.
Surface Physics (U. Höfer, P. Jakob, H. Jänsch):
Diffusion of adsorbates, dynamics of adsorption and desorption as well
as electronic excitations at metal and semiconductor surfaces in ultra
high vacuum.
Optics (S.
Chatterjee, H.
Ries): Non-imaging optics, optical imaging systems, thermodynamics
of light.
Quantum Chaos (H.-J. Stöckmann): Quantum mechanical
problems studied with the help of classical electromagnetic waves.
Many Particle
Physics (F. Gebhard, R. Noack, S. Baranovski):
Development of analytical and numerical methods for the treatment of
many particle problems, application of these methods to materials
science.
Outstanding Characteristics of our Research
Material Sciences Center, including the Structure and Technology Research Laboratory (STRL), funded by the Hessian Government
Graduate courses of lectures funded by the
DFG:
- Funktionalisierung
von Halbleitern
in collaboration with the Department of Chemistry and the Structure and Technology Research Laboratory
- Electron – Electron Interactions in Solids (in collaboration with TU Budapest and the Hungarian Academy of Science)
Research groups funded by the DFG:
Participation in the following cooperative
projects:
Funded by the DFG:
- Dynamics of electron transfer processes at interfaces
- Turbulence
- Semiconductor and metal clusters as building blocks for organized structures
- Nanowires and nanotubes: from controlled synthesis to function
- Quantumoptical Spectroscopy of Semiconductor Nanostructures
- Collaborative Research: Materials World Network: III-V Bismide Materials for IR and Mid-IR Semiconductors
Funded by the BMBF:
- NanoQuit: Nano-electronic semiconductor structures for quantum information technology
- Spin electronics and spin opto-electronics in semiconductors
Funded by the European Union:
- EU-FP7 BIANCHO: Bismide and Nitride components for high temperature operation
