NanoScienceOpen: Bringing nanoswitches to the public and the nature of science to pupils (Ö)

• Subject Area: Computer Science, Systems and Electrical Engineering
• Term: from 2015 to 2023
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 167917811

The project aims at offering experiments and supplementary materials to foster and support a flow of basic ideas, methods and key results from the SFB to the public. The primary target group comprises pupils in grades 8 through 13 and their teachers. They are addressed by the educational lab SCIphy-LAB_nano, which was founded in the second period of the SFB (i.e. the first period of the project Ö), and was visited by more than 570 young people from October 2017 through September 2018. In addition to measures, which address groups of pupils in their school framework, it is planned to offer a series of special workshops for highly interested individual young people and specific workshops for girls.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 917: Resistively Switching Chalcogenides for Future Electronics - Structure, Kinetics and Device Scalability: 'Nanoswitches'
• Applicant Institution: Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen
• Project Heads: Dr. Ralf Detemple; Professorin Dr. Heidrun Heinke