Physico-technical institute

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The Physikalisch-Technische Institut ( PTI ) in Jena was a research and development institute from 1982 to 1992. It belonged to the Academy of Sciences of the GDR .

Prehistory and foundation

In 1951, the establishment of the Research Institute for Magnetic Materials was initiated by Martin Kersten , then director of the Physics Institute of the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena . The institute was incorporated into the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin in 1954 . In 1956 the management was transferred to Max Steenbeck . In 1959, the Institute for Magnetohydrodynamics was spun off under the direction of Max Steenbeck. Another institute founded in Jena in 1961 was the research center for measurement technology and automation .

In connection with the transformation of the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin into the Academy of Sciences of the GDR in 1972, the three Jena institutes were assigned to the following newly created institutes:

  • The Research Institute for Magnetic Materials the Central Institute for Solid State Physics and Materials Research in Dresden
  • The Institute for Magnetohydrodynamics the Central Institute for Electron Physics in Berlin
  • The research center for measurement technology and automation at the Central Institute for Optics and Spectroscopy in Berlin

These three Jena facilities were merged in 1982 to form an independent Jena institute, the Physikalisch-Technische Institut. Günther Albrecht , who was appointed to the Academy of Sciences of the GDR in Berlin by the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena, played a decisive role .

Within the academy, the PTI was part of the academy's research area physics, nuclear and materials science. When he was founded, his research focus was on selected areas of solid-state and plasma physics, layer technology and special components for microelectronics.

Research priorities

Scientific reports of the PTI

The working directions of the then newly created Physikalisch-Technische Institut were formulated as follows:

  • Manufacture and structuring of metallic and insulating layers and layer systems as well as optical layers and layer systems using largely uniform methods for layer deposition, layer microstructuring and their characterization
  • Development and application of gas lasers, especially noble gas ion lasers and metal vapor lasers
  • Contributions for new components on the basis of thin layers, especially in the field of sensor technology for versatile use.

In 1983 the field of fiber sensors was added and in 1986 the field of optical waveguides.

Mainly regional companies such as Carl Zeiss Jena , Jenaer Glaswerk , Keramische Werke Hermsdorf , VEB Elektronik Gera benefited from the application-oriented, industry-oriented research and development .

resolution

As a result of the introduction of the D-Mark in the GDR in July 1990, all previous GDR industrial partners canceled their contracts.

In January 1991 the PTI was evaluated. The “Physics” working group of the Science Council met under the leadership of Helmut Gabriel at the PTI.

As part of the adaptation of the universities and research institutions of the former GDR to the existing structures of the Federal Republic of Germany, the Science Council stated in 1991: "The PTI has dealt with the research topics it has addressed with remarkable success".

Successor institutes

Much of the PTI's research was continued from January 1, 1992 in the newly founded Thuringian State Institute Institute for Physical High Technology (IPHT). In 2013 it was accepted into the Leibniz Association as the Leibniz Institute for Photonic Technologies (IPHT) . Topics and personnel in the fields of optics and system technology were continued in 1992 within the Fraunhofer Society as the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Optics and Precision Mechanics (Fraunhofer IOF).

literature

  • Physikalische Blätter 47 (1991) No. 8, page 766
  • Physikalische Blätter 47 (1991) No. 9, page 819
  • Physikalische Blätter 49 (1993) No. 1, page 44

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ VEB Electronics Gera
  2. ↑ H.Gabriel, G.Lahmer: Contribute with the utmost commitment to the solution of the problems! Conversation with Prof. H. Gabriel about the evaluation of the institutes of the former Academy of Sciences . Ed .: Physikalische Blätter 47th volume 47 , no. 9 , 1991, pp. 819 .
  3. ↑ Renate Maynitz, with the collaboration of Hans-Georg Wolf: German research in the unification process . In: Campus Verlag Frankfurt / New York (ed.): Writings of the Max Planck Institute for Society Research Cologne . tape 17 , 1994, ISBN 3-593-35180-3 .
  4. ^ Hans-Georg Wolf: Organizational fates in the German unification process: the development paths of the institutes of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR . In: Campus (Ed.): Writings of the Max Planck Institute for Research on Society . tape 27 . Campus, 1996, ISBN 3-593-35523-X .
  5. ↑ R. Sietmann: IPHT Jena - from research to product The Jena Institute for Physical High Technology fights against the vortex of industrial decline in the region . In: Physical sheets . tape 49 , no. 1 , 1993, p. 42 .