Education
The scientists of the Leibniz-Institut für Kristallzüchtung are involved in the field of academic education. They hold lectures at various educational institutions. They supervise doctoral, bachelor's and master's thesis at the institute, at universities and colleges.
In addition, we supervise doctoral, bachelor's and master's theses directly at the institute or at the corresponding universities and colleges. Please send your initiative application with the usual documents to the personnel department or directly to the respective contact person of the department you are interested in. You can find job offers here.
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Online Lectures
Teaser | Online Lectures:
IKZ sections present the scientific fundamentals of crystal growth
Introduction to the Leibniz Institut für Kristallzüchtung
Prof. Dr. Thomas Schröder
Oxide and Fluoride Volume Crystals
Prof. Dr. Matthias Bickermann: “Melt Growth of β-Ga2O3 Bulk Crystals”
Semiconductor Volume Crystals
PD Dr. habil. R. Radhakrishnann Sumathi, Dr. Robert Menzel,
Dr. Iryna Buchovska: “Semiconductor Crystals”
Thin Oxide Films
Dr. Andreas Popp: "β-Ga2O3: The Next Material for High Power Electronics?"
Crystalline Materials for Photonics
Dr. Peter Gaal: "Structural Dynamics in Crystalline Materials"
Crystals for Electronics
Prof. Dr. Matthias Bickermann: "Growth and Characterization of Bulk AlN Crystals"
Fundamental Description
Dr. Milena Petkovic, Lucas Viera: "Numerical simulation and AI enable deeper insights into crystal growth processes”
Experimental Characterization
Dr. Dan Zhou: “In Situ Transmission Electron Microscopy on Crystalline Materials”
Semiconductor Nanostructures
Dr. Kevin-Peter Gradwohl: "Silicon-Germanium quantum materials: Semiconductors layers free of nuclear spin”
Books by IKZ authors
Detlef Klimm
Thermal Analysis and Thermodynamics (in Materials Science)
De Gruyter-Brill (2022)
ISBN 9783110743777
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110743784
Will Kleber, Joachim Bohm, Detlef Klimm, Manfred Mühlberg, Björn Winkler
Einführung in die Kristallographie
De Gruyter Studium (2021), 20th Edition
ISBN 978-3-11-046023-0
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110460247
Zbigniew Galazka
Transparent Semiconducting Oxides – Bulk Crystal Growth and Fundamental Properties
Jenny Stanford Publishing (2020)
ISBN 978-981-4800-94-5
https://doi.org/10.1080/0889311X.2024.2423101
Peter Rudolph
Crystal Growth Fundamentals - Part I: Thermodynamics of Crystallization
DeGruyter (2025)
ISBN 9783111711058
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111711164
Peter Rudolph
Crystal Growth Fundamentals - Part II: Kinetics of Crystallization
DeGruyter (2026)
ISBN 9783111714165
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111714226
Edited and Co-Edited Volumes
Single Crystals of Electronic Materials - Growth and Properties
Edited by: Roberto Fornari
Woodhead Publishing (2019)
ISBN 978-0-08-102096-8
https://doi.org/10.1016/C2016-0-02171-X
Handbook of Crystal Growth - Bulk Crystal Growth, Band IIA/IIB
Edited by: Peter Rudolph
Elsevier (2015), 2nd Edition
ISBN 978-0-444-63303-3
https://doi.org/10.1016/C2013-0-09791-5
Comprehensive Semiconductor Science and Technology
Edited by: Roberto Fornari
Elsevier (2025), 2nd Edition
ISBN 978-0-323-95819-6
https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-96027-4.06001-0
Nitride Semiconductors: Handbook on Materials and Devices
Edited by: Pierre Ruterana, Martin Albrecht, Jörg Neugebauer
Wiley-VCH (2003)
ISBN 9783527403875
https://doi.org/10.1002/3527607641
Teaching in summer semester 2026
X-Ray Scattering: Basics and Applications in Materials Science
PD Dr. Martin Schmidbauer
Lecture at the Department of Physics
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Crystal Growth I: Basics and Methods
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Matthias Bickermann
Lecture at the Department of Chemistry
Technische Universität Berlin (held in German)
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IKZ Summer and Winter Schools
IKZ Summer Schools focus on an academically interested research audience in the field of advanced Master student, PhD students and Postdocs. IKZ Winter Schools also serve to inform an industrial audience about new developments in the research and development of crystalline materials and to train colleagues with professional experience.
17th IKZ Summer School 2025
“Artificial Intelligence and Transmission Electron Microscopy”
16th IKZ Summer School 2024
"Barium Stannate Heterostructures for advanced Oxid Electronics"
15th IKZ Summer School 2023
"Polar Piezoelectric Oxides"
5. IKZ Winter School 2023
"Materials Platforms and Device Technology for Power Electronics"
14th IKZ Summer School 2022
"Dynamics and Processes in Crystalline Materials | Time resolved electron and X-ray studies"
4. IKZ Winter School 2022
"Machine Learning in Materials Science & Crystal Growth"
13th IKZ Summer School 2021
"Oxides for Electronic Applications"
3. IKZ Winter School 2021
"Layer Transfer Technologies – from artificial crystals to novel applications"
12th IKZ Summer School 2020
"Fundamentals of Vapor-Phase Thin Film Deposition"
2. IKZ Winter School 2020
"Synergy of Experimental and Numerical Studies for Crystal Growth of Bulk Semiconductors"
11th IKZ Summer School 2019
"Quantum Computing as a Material Challange"
1. IKZ Winter School 2019
"International Lectures on Crystal Growth - Methods, Thermodydnamics, Kinetics, Transport, Defects"
10th IKZ Summer School 2018
“Solid-State Lasers”
