Ferdinand Braun Institute, Leibniz Institute for High Frequency Technology

Ferdinand Braun Institute, Leibniz Institute for High Frequency Technology
Category:	research Institute
Carrier:	Research Association Berlin
Legal form of the carrier:	Registered association
Seat of the wearer:	Berlin
Membership:	Leibniz Association
Facility location:	Berlin-Adlershof
Type of research:	Applied research
Subjects:	Natural sciences
Areas of expertise:	III / V electronics, photonics , integrated quantum technology, III / V technology
Basic funding:	Federal government (50%), states (50%)
Management:	Günther Tränkle
Employee:	approx. 310 (as of 2019)
Homepage:	www.fbh-berlin.de

Ferdinand Braun Institute, Leibniz Institute for High Frequency Technology (2011)

The Ferdinand Braun Institute, Leibniz Institute for Maximum Frequency Technology (FBH) is a research facility that is sponsored by the Forschungsverbund Berlin e. V. (FVB) and is a member of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Scientific Community . The institute is based in Berlin in the science and business location Adlershof (WISTA), its research activities are assigned to applied research in the field of natural science in the areas of III / V electronics, photonics, integrated quantum technology and III / V technology.

history

The institute emerged from the former "Central Institute for Optics and Spectroscopy" (ZOS) and parts of the "Central Institute for Electron Physics" (ZIE) of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR . Based on a recommendation by the Science Council , the institute was re-established on January 1, 1992.

The institute is named after Ferdinand Braun (1850–1918), who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1909 for his contribution to the development of wireless telegraphy .

Field of activity

FBH conducts applied research based on III / V semiconductors . The applications are aimed at information and communication technology , sensors and laser technology , among other things . The focus is on III / V electronics in the design and manufacture of transistors, integrated microwave circuits, atmospheric plasma sources, terahertz electronics and GaN power electronics. In photonics , the focus is on high-power diode lasers, high-brilliance diode lasers and hybrid laser systems, as well as components for quantum technology. The FBH also develops UV laser diodes and UV LEDs.

FBH works in four research areas: photonics, III / V electronics, and integrated quantum technology. The III / V technology division provides the necessary material and process technologies. They are supplemented by the science management department, which takes care of the strategic orientation, support for project applications and projects in training and further education.

As a service, the FBH offers the possibility of realizing prototypes of electronic and optoelectronic gallium arsenide and gallium nitride components, the epitaxy of gallium arsenide-based layer structures, the development of gallium arsenide processes, the pilot series production of integrated microwave circuits and laser diodes, know-how in high-frequency measurement technology and the simulation and design of coplanar circuits.

The institute operates a clean room laboratory with metal-organic gas phase epitaxy and hydride gas phase epitaxy ( substrate diameter : 2 to 4 inches) and process line (substrate diameter: 2 to 4 inches). It has material and process analysis, component metrology and tools for simulation and CAD.

Cooperations

The institute maintains cooperative relationships with various national and international universities, non-university research institutions and business. The FBH offers services from epitaxy and process steps to the finished component.

The Ferdinand Braun Institute is part of the Forschungsverbund Berlin e. V. and is a member of the Leibniz Association (Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Science Association). It is also a member of OpTecBB, an initiative of research institutions and companies to develop and use optical technologies.

In the university area, there is close cooperation with the Technical University of Berlin , the Humboldt University of Berlin and other universities in the region and in Germany, both in teaching and in joint research groups and projects.

The FBH has been part of the Microelectronics Germany Research Factory since 2017

Spin-offs

Spin-offs from research institutions are part of a strategy wanted by the federal government and the states to exploit marketable research results that have been funded from public funds. As a rule, employees of the facilities and, if necessary, the institutes themselves participate in such spin-offs. FBH has so far had a total of eleven such spin-offs. Eight brands are currently active on the market as own brands.

Examples:

In 1999 the FBH the Three-Five Epitaxial Services AG (TESAG) was founded by employees who on a contract basis ( Foundry ) semiconductor layer structures as the basis for the fabrication of devices such as laser diodes , LEDs , transistors ( HBTs ) or Schottky diodes produces . The company is now part of Jenoptik .

The company eagleyard Photonics, founded in 2002, develops high-performance laser diodes with wavelengths from 650 nm to 1120 nm in close cooperation with the FBH and manufactures them for medical, scientific and industrial applications.

In 2006, BeMiTec, a company for the development, production and marketing of high-performance gallium nitride transistors (GaN) for future mobile communications applications, was founded. The GaN transistors currently achieve the international peak value of 100 W output power and enable a significant increase in bandwidth. They thus provide the basis for mobile services with high data volumes, the combination of several services in a single amplifier module and a reduction in the size of the components.

In 2013, three new spin-offs by FBH employees started: from the marketing of a plasma source (BEAPLAS), to the production of thin layers at atmospheric pressure, to the further development of semiconductor technology for applications in sensor and display technology (Brilliance Fab Berlin ) to measuring devices for microwave technology (Phasor Instruments).

In 2016 the spin-off of UVphotonics followed with ultraviolet light-emitting diodes, and in 2017 BeamXpert: the company offers simulation software for optical systems.

Management, infrastructure, financing

The director of the FBH, Günther Tränkle, is a full professor at the Institute for High Frequency Technology and Semiconductor System Technologies at the Technical University of Berlin . There he heads the Microwave and Optoelectronics Department. Tränkle has headed the FBH since 1996. Around 310 people work at the institute, including 150 scientists and doctoral students and 25 student assistants (as of 2019).

The total budget of the institute in 2018 was 37.9 million euros, of which around 19.2 million euros were public third-party funds and 3.8 million euros were industrial contract research.

Web links

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