Research of the Materials Department
The activities of the Department Materials Research are focused on the research program "Materials for Micro- and Nanoelectronics".
Materials research at IHP targets the integration of new materials into current and future silicon technologies to achieve additional, better or innovative functionalities. It also gears towards the preparation of new research fields at the institute.
Current focal points of the activities with high-k dielectrics are binary and ternary alloys for future applications in MIM capacitors, memories and transistors as well as for epitaxy mediation for global high quality heteroepitactical semiconductor layers (silicon-insulator-silicon stacks). Additionally, new materials for SAW filters and non-volatile memories are evaluated.
Future activities will concentrate on THz devices with the capability to be integrated, preferably HBTs, MIIMIM hot electron tunnelling transistors and graphene transistors.
Silicon materials research is the subject matter of the Joint Lab IHP/BTU. Silicon properties are tailored to enable new applications and to improve existing ones.
Focuses are initial basic research for Si-based light emitters for optical data transmission, defect engineering for future silicon wafers, band structure design and charge carrier transport in Si-based quantum structures, and the control of electrical properties of crystal defects in solar silicon.
Selected Projects of this Research Program
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23-01-12
E-MRS Spring Meeting 2012 in Strasbourg (France)
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23-01-12
ESRF highlights IHP materials research study in its “Spotlight on Science”
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05-01-12
PhD graduation in IHP Materials Research Department
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11-10-11
Wilhelm and Else Heraeus Physics School
June 10-16, 2012
Physikzentrum Bad Honnef
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05-10-11
New UHV-CVD chamber from Riber at work in IHP`s Material Research Department
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12-09-11
Visiting guest scientist Dr. Adam Szyszka from Wroclaw University of Technology
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20-07-11
E-MRS 2011 Fall Meeting
Stress, structure, and stoichiometry effects on the properties of nanomaterials[more]
09-02-11
IHP Fellowship 2011
Prof. Giovanni Capellini received the international IHP Fellowship 2011 [more]
09-02-11
“Bremer Studienpreis 2010” awarded to Dr. Andreas Schaefer [more]
16-11-10
Cooperation Agreement between Faculty of Physics at Technical University of Poznan and IHP signed on 29th October 2010 [more]
25-10-10
Visiting guest scientist Prof. Ya-Hong Xie from University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) at IHP [more]
13-09-10
Memorandum of Understanding signed between E3S in Berkeley and IHP [more]
14-07-10
Prof. E. Yablonovitch visits IHP. “Prof. Eli Yablonovitch from University of Berkeley, an outstanding scientist in the field of semiconductor and ... [more]
20-05-10
New DFG cluster project starts at IHP. The German National Science Foundation funds a new interdisciplinary cluster project between ... [more]
29-04-10
E-MRS 2010 Spring Meeting (7th – 11th June 2010)
Two IHP scientists from the Materials Research Department have the pleasure to follow the invitation of the organizers of Symposium E for holding invited talks. ... [more]
25-03-10
PhD graduations in IHP Materials Research Department [more]
09-03-10
EU Gennesys White Paper “Study on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology in Europe Exploiting Synchrotron Radiation and Neutron Facilities” published [more]
03-02-10
Siltronic and IHP sign three years research contract on the development of engineered Silicon wafer systems. [more]
20-01-10
DPG Spring Meeting 2010
During the DPG Solid State Physics Spring Meeting from 22nd – 26th March 2010 in Regensburg (Germany) ...[more]
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