Max Planck Institute for Microstructure Physics
| Max Planck Institute for Microstructure Physics | |
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_28.jpg) Entrance building, 2007 |
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| Category: | research Institute |
| Carrier: | Max Planck Society |
| Legal form of the carrier: | Registered association |
| Seat of the wearer: | Munich |
| Facility location: | Halle (Saale) |
| Arose from: | Institute for Solid State Physics and Electron Microscopy ( Academy of Sciences of the GDR ) |
| Type of research: | Basic research |
| Subjects: | Natural sciences |
| Areas of expertise: | Solid state physics , materials science |
| Basic funding: | Federal government (50%), states (50%) |
| Management: | Stuart Parkin (managing director) |
| Employee: | about 100 |
| Homepage: | www.mpi-halle.de |
The Max Planck Institute for Microstructure Physics is a non-university research facility of the Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science (MPG) in Halle (Saale) . The institute primarily conducts basic research in the field of natural sciences in the field of solid state physics and materials science .
history
The institute was originally founded in 1960 under Heinz Bethge as the Institute for Solid State Physics and Electron Microscopy of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR . Based on a recommendation made by the Science Council in 1991 to continue using the institute's scientific potential in part, the Max Planck Institute for Microstructure Physics under founding director Hellmut Fischmeister became the first institute of the Max Planck Society in the new federal states on January 1st 1992 ceased its work and since then has been part of the chemical-physical-technical section of the Max Planck Society. The new institute building was inaugurated in 1997.
Experimental Department I started work in 1992 and was headed by Jürgen Kirschner until 2015 . Since 1993 the experimental department II has been headed by Ulrich Gösele . After his death in 2009, the Potsdam physicist Peter Fratzl was acting head of the department. Patrick Bruno was the director of the theory department from 1998 to 2007 , and Eberhard Gross from 2009 to 2019 . Peter Grünberg and Sajeev John were or are external scientific members of the institute.
Tasks of the institute
Research in the institute is carried out in two experimental and one theoretical departments; each department is headed by a director. The head of the experimental department Nanosystems from Ions, Spins and Electrons (NISE) has been Stuart Parkin since 2014 , who also serves as managing director of the whole institute. The Nanophotonics, Integration and Neural Technology (NINT) department has been headed by Joyce Poon since 2019 , with Andrei Bernevig heading the theory department .
The research activity mainly concerns the peculiarities of the formation and the properties of micro- and nano-solid structures in basic as well as in applied research . Low-dimensional systems such as surfaces and interfaces , thin layers , quantum wires and quantum points are of particular interest. Materials of the important solid-state classes such as semiconductors , insulators , metals and ferroelectrics are examined .
The joint training program "International Max Planck Research School (IMPRS) for Science and Technology of Nano-Systems" is operated in cooperation between the Martin Luther University and the Fraunhofer Institute for Microstructure of Materials and Systems. The IMPRS offers foreign and German students extensive training in the fields of nanosciences and nanotechnology with the aim of doing a doctoral thesis.
literature
- Max Planck Society (Ed.): Max Planck Institute for Microstructure Physics Author: Roland Knauer . Foreword by Ulrich Gösele . Series of reports and communications from the Max Planck Society, issue 1998,2, ISSN 0341-7778
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Nano-Systems from ions, spins and electrons. Max Planck Institute for Microstructure Physics, accessed on May 29, 2020 (English).
- ↑ a b contact information. Max Planck Institute for Microstructure Physics, accessed on May 29, 2020 .
- ↑ Nanophotonics, Integration and Neural Technology. Max Planck Institute for Microstructure Physics, accessed on May 29, 2020 . H
Coordinates: 51 ° 29 ′ 43 ″ N , 11 ° 56 ′ 29 ″ E