Chair of Applied Physics

The Chair of Applied Physics is one of the most traditional of its kind in Germany and celebrates its 75th anniversary this year. On this occasion, the chair, which has been a worldwide center of silicon carbide research since the late 1980s, is hosting an international symposium on "Silicon Carb...

Silicon carbide (SiC) has developed into a high-performance semiconductor technology in recent years. This goes hand in hand with excellent monocrystalline wafer material and continuously improving process technology as well as understanding of SiC’s fundamental material and device physics. However,...

F1 in schools is a technology competition in which teams of 3-6 school students design a miniature car, build it and send it into the race. There is a comprehensive set of rules to follow - similar to the big Formula 1. The cars are powered by opening a CO2 cartridge, and the car then races along a ...

Do our physics curricula provide the appropriate data management competences in a world where data are considered a crucial resource and substantial funding is available for building a national research data infrastructure (German: Nationale Forschungsdateninfrastuktur = NFDI)? Although basic data e...

Experiments are a key ingredient of materials science. Instruments are built, data are collected on a routine basis in every laboratory in universities, research institutes, and industrial sites, but often data is only used for answering a specific question in the hands of a local investigator. In t...