GRK 415:  Defectstructure-Related Physical Properties

• Subject Area: Condensed Matter Physics
• Term: from 1997 to 2003
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 272261

The aim of this research training group is the explanation and a deeper understanding of the correlation between the defect structure and local physical properties in different materials (semiconductors, metals, and oxides as single crystals, ceramics or thin layers). Using the different methods and experience of the involved disciplines (physics, chemistry and materials science), the interchange between professors and scholarship holder is the basis for the interdisciplinary co-operation during the progress in their thesis. The teaching program includes seminars, colloquia, and lectures to new developments in the experimental techniques of the participating disciplines as well as excursions to national and international research centres like ESRF, ILL, DESY, GSI and so on. In the guest program renowned specialists give reports on their research. In many cases new co-operations with other research groups can be started by such first personal contacts.

• DFG Programme: Research Training Groups
• Applicant Institution: Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg
• Participating Institution: Max-Planck-Institut für Mikrostrukturphysik
• Spokesperson: Professor Dr. Hans-Reiner Höche
• Participating Researchers: Professor Dr. Hans-Peter Abicht; Professor Dr. Günther Dräger (†); Professor Dr. Peter Grau; Professor Dr. Ulrich M. Gösele (†); Professor Dr. Wolfram Hergert; Professor Dr. Reinhard Krause-Rehberg; Professor Dr. Henning Neddermeyer