PROMOTING TALENTS AND RECRUITING EXPERTS.

At the national and international level, we are permanently looking for talented and qualified personnel for our scientific, technical and administrative tasks. In many ways we enable the professional development at IKZ and educate skilled staff also for the labor market.read more
 
Restoring the reliability of crystal technology supply chains requires action at European and national level.

With support from DGKK, ENCG and the Leibniz-Strategy Forum 'Technological Sovereignty', an interactive map was created to provide information on scientific and industrial activities in the field of crystalline materials in Europe.read more
 
The use of Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) significantly accelerates the development of processes in crystal growth.

The section "Fundamental Description" is currently studying real-time predictions of growth processes by dynamic ANN.read more
 
Modern microelectronics: Everyday life is unthinkable without mobile communication and navigation

A significant part of data storage and transmission technologies is based on modern semiconductor crystals...read more
 
Center for Laser Materials: Lasers are key components of many products that we use in daily life

It`s our mission to develop laser materials that open up new wavelength ranges, enable more efficient laser operation or higher output powerread more...
 
Metrology: Any kind of reliable measurements require referencing and calibration to an ultra-precise unit system

The international system of units (SI system) was revolutionized over the last years by connecting all SI units to fundamental natural constants instead of artificial objects. The last missing unit was the kilogram (kg) mass unit.read more...
 
Medicine & Health: Crystals are often at the heart of modern medical equipment

Advanced crystals are needed to monitor people´s health state and treat diseases in an efficient way.read more
 
Quantum technologies are supposed to evolve from basic research to future technology in the coming years (from lab to fab)

This could revolutionise areas such as data processing, sensor technology, cryptography and simulation. The prerequisite is often crystalline materials of unprecedented precision.read more...
 
Energy & Climate: The need for green technologies is beyond doubt for climate protection

Our innovative crystalline materials are key to enable efficient energy solutions to promote the decarbonization of today´s economy.read more...
 
Cosmology: Advanced crystals with highly precise properties are often needed in fundamental physics to expand our knowledge of the Universe

Such crystals are not available on the market and need to be specifically developed.read more...

News

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10-2024 News

Contribution of IKZ and DGKK to the Exhibition “MINERALS - Treasures of the Earth Guest at Landgrafenschloss in Marburg”

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09-2024 News

Symposium on 'Integration of Advanced Materials on Silicon' at this year’s E MRS Fall Meeting highlights major achievements with contributions from researchers across 15+ Countries

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09-2024 News

Complete analysis of lattice strain in semiconductor micro-devices by X ray diffraction microscopy

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Events

Berlin-Adlershof14:0028. Oct

October, 28th, 2024: IKZ Colloquium

CARMEN STELIAN: “Crystal growth modeling with COMSOL Multiphysics“

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Berlin-Adlershof09:0028. Nov

November 28-29, 2024 | IOP-HU Early Career Researcher Conference on Energising Materials 2024

3rd IOP-HU Early Career Researcher Workshop at CSMB, HU Berlin

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Job vacancies

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QualificationPhD student (m/f/d)PositionTopic: “Growth of narrow gap III-V semiconductor bulk crystals by VGF method” Job vacancy08.10.2024Application deadline15.11.2024

QualificationPhD student (m/f/d)PositionTopic: “Solid-State Optical Refrigeration of Fluoride Crystals” Job vacancy08.10.2024Application deadline

QualificationPhD student (m/f/d)PositionTopic: “In Situ Transmission Electron Microscopy of Ultraviolet LED Materials Degradation Mechanisms” Job vacancy01.10.2024Application deadline

QualificationMaster thesis (m/f/d)PositionTopic: „Raman characterization of alloying effects in (AlxGa1-x)2O3“ Job vacancy18.03.2024Application deadline

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Publications

Ieee Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics(3), (2024) | 09-2024

Femtosecond Tm:Lu2O3 Lasers Operating in the Spectral Region Below 2 μm

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Journal of Physics-Condensed Matter(31), (2024) | 08-2024

Is Ba3In2O6 a high-Tc superconductor?

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Solid State Ionics(2024) | 06-2024

Li-diffusion in lithium niobate - tantalate solid solutions

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Physica Status Solidi a-Applications and Materials Science2024) | 05-2024

Evolution of the Electrical Conductivity of LiNb1-xTaxO3 Solid Solutions across the Ferroelectric Phase Transformation

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Physica Status Solidi a-Applications and Materials Science2024) | 05-2024

Influence of Li-Stoichiometry on Electrical and Acoustic Properties and Temperature Stability of Li(Nb,Ta)O3 Solid Solutions up to 900 °C

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Applied Surface Science(2024) | 04-2024

In-situ spectral reflectance investigation of hetero-epitaxially grown β-Ga2O3 thin films on c-plane A2O3 via MOVPE process

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The Leibniz-Institut für Kristallzüchtung

The Leibniz-Institut für Kristallzüchtung (IKZ) in Berlin-Adlershof is an international state-of-the-art competence center for science & technology as well as service & transfer for innovations in and by crystalline materials. The R&D spectrum thereby ranges from basic over applied research activities up to pre-industrial research tasks.

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Research focus of the institute

Volume Crystals

Nanostructures & Layers

Materials Science

Application Sciences

Cross sectional topics

Focus Topics

Joint Labs

Leibniz Strategy Forum “Technological Sovereignty”

Technological sovereignty has become one of the most important issues in innovation agendas and policies at both German and European levels. Today, it is clear that Europe must shape the development and application of new technologies internationally on an equal footing. Institutions of the Leibniz Association have initiated the interdisciplinary Strategy Forum on technological sovereignty to bring the unique Leibniz perspective to this central topic area.

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