Laser technologies, plasma technologies, opto-electronics, sensorics, photonics

Areas of competence

• Development of new materials and coating technologies for opto-electronic, electro-optic and non-linear optical devices
• Fabrication and characterisation of organic, inorganic and organic-inorganic materials and functional layers
• Laser applications in materials processing
• Plasma technologies / thin film technologies
• Linear transmission and emission spectroscopy, laser induced plasma spectroscopy (LIPS)
• Characterisation of non-linear optical properties - second harmonic generation (SHG), third harmonic generation (THG), Pockels-effect, Kerr-effect
• Raster probe microscopy (atomic force microscopy and scanning tunneling microscopy), raster electron microscopy with EDX, digital microscopy
• Metallographic preparation and investigation methods
• Focused ion beam set-up (FIB)
• Single wavelength and spectroscopic ellipsometry, surface plasmon spectroscopy, M-line spectroscopy
• Laser cutting, laser ablation, laser deposition
• Plasma activation, plasma cleaning, plasma coating of surfaces
• Synthesis of low molecular compounds, conjugated polymers and chromophores
• Spin coating, Langmuir-Blodgett technique, high-vacuum deposition, vacuum deposition polymerisation
• Structuring of thin layers

Laboratories

• Laboratories for chemical synthesis, analytics, materialography, vacuum and plasma coating
• Laboratory for electrical characterisation of materials and devices
• Laser laboratories (CO2-Laser, KrF-excimer laser, ps- and ns Nd:YAG-lasers, Ar-ion laser, N2-lasers, cw- and pulsed solid state lasers, diode lasers)
• Laboratory for spectroscopy: UV-VIS-NIR, FTIR, Raman microscope

Equipment

• Clean room (Spin coater, mask aligner, light microscopy, LB-trough)

Software licences

• ZEMAX, Virtual Lab, MathLab, Mathematica, Hyperchem, Gausian, MathCad, Labview, ChemOffice, EndNote

Patents / inventions

• DE 10132329 "Light emitting device and technolgy for its fabrication"
• WO 2010/057549 AI: Electrically Switchable Optical Grating Having DFB Laser Properties, A DFB Laser Containing Same, And A Production Method Therefor

Membership in networks

• "Protection and improvement of surfaces"
• "Graphene Network"
• OptecBB
• Laserverbund Berlin - Brandenburg

Cooperation

• Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca (Italy)
• Politecnico di Milano (Italy)
• Technische Universität Graz (Austria)
• Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata (Italy)
• University of Naples "Frederico II" (Italy)
• Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon (France)
• Université de Lille (France)
• Kungliga Tekniska Hoegskolan Stockholm (Sweden)
• Weizmann Institute Rehovot (Israel)
• Technische Hochschule Brandenburg (Germany)
• Brandenburgische Technische Hochschule Cottbus - Senftenberg (Germany)
• Institute of Low Temperature and Structural Research, PAN, Wroclaw (Poland)
• Institute of Electronic Materials Technologies, LRN, Warszaw (Poland)
• Leibniz-Institute for Innovative Micro-Electronics Frankfurt / Oder (Germany)
• Fraunhofer Institute for Photonic Micro-Systems Dresden (Germany)
• Fraunhofer Institute of Applied Polymer Research (Germany)
• Rolls Royce Deutschland (Germany)
• First Sensor AG (Germany)
• SENTECH Instruments GmbH (Germany)
• Prignitz Microsystemtechnik Technology (Germany)

Advanced vocational training opportunities

• Laser applications in measuring techniques and materials processing

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