7. IKZ Summer Course on Crystal Growth 2013

"(Point) Defects in Crystals"

Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Jürg Weber, Technical University Dresden

October 07.-09, 2013

The dramatic progress of microelectronic and photovoltaic devices would have been impossible without sophisticated techniques to detect properties of dopants and defects. Highly sensitive spectroscopic techniques and demanding theoretical methods had to be developed to unravel the nature of these imperfections of the ideal crystalline structure.
In a series of 5 lectures the fundamental properties of dopants and defects are briefly discussed, and an outline is presented on recent developments in defect identification and characterization. Several representative examples will be presented from different semiconductors.

Mon, 07.10. 10:00-12:00 - Introduction to the Zoo of Defects
Mon, 07.10. 14:00-16:00 - "Shallow" Defects: Dopants
Tue, 08.10. 10:00-12:00 - "Deep" Defects: Transition Metals
Tue, 08.10. 14:00-16:00 - The “simplest” Defect: Hydrogen
Wed, 09.10. 10:00-12:00 - Important Defects: still unknown!

Prof. Jürg Weber is Chair of Semiconductor Physics at TU Dresden since December 1999. He is engaged in the study of impurities and defects in various semiconductors. His present area of specialization is the study of hydrogen in various hosts and its importance in device technology.
Prof. Jürg Weber was dean and vice rector, coeditor of several special issues of "Applied Physics", and chaired and co-chaired several meeting symposia. Since 1984 he organizes the annual workshop on "Point Defects in Semiconductors".