Project Details
Projekt
GRK 1240: Nanotronics - Photovoltaics and Optoelectronics from Nanoparticles
Subject Area
Process Engineering, Technical Chemistry
Electrical Engineering and Information Technology
Condensed Matter Physics
Electrical Engineering and Information Technology
Condensed Matter Physics
Term
from 2006 to 2010
Project identifier
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 967790
Nanoparticles are typically of dimensions between 1 nm and 100 nm. Their electronic and optical properties are significantly different from bulk materials and adjustable by varying their size. This new class of materials is located in the regime between atoms or molecules and macroscopic solids. It forms the precursor to a wealth of innovative applications. However, a sustainable transfer of fundamental and applied scientific knowledge into marketable products is mostly still missing.
The research activities within this Research Training Group will be focussed on the promising topics of Nanotronics with emphasis on "Conversion of electric energy into light" and "Conversion of light into electric energy". Goal is the realisation of optoelectronic and photovoltaic devices not through the usual lateral structures on semiconductor single crystals, but instead by using disperse systems of nanoparticles as optically active materials. This will open a new path to printable optoelectronics and photovoltaics. Close cooperation between theory, preparation, characterisation, analysis, and device development at the university and in industry will result in a new quality of education. It represents also a novel concept for the transfer of scientific knowledge into new products.
The innovative feature of this Research Training Group is the close cooperation between university and industry in research and education in a graduate programme including all relevant disciplines. In this Research Training Group we intend to combine the creative curiosity of young scientists at the university with the product development in industry (Degussa, Science to Business Center) in such a way that fundamental knowledge is smoothly transferred into marketable products and systems. This requires a new kind of scientist and engineer, thinking and working much more interdisciplinarily and cooperatively than usual.
The research activities within this Research Training Group will be focussed on the promising topics of Nanotronics with emphasis on "Conversion of electric energy into light" and "Conversion of light into electric energy". Goal is the realisation of optoelectronic and photovoltaic devices not through the usual lateral structures on semiconductor single crystals, but instead by using disperse systems of nanoparticles as optically active materials. This will open a new path to printable optoelectronics and photovoltaics. Close cooperation between theory, preparation, characterisation, analysis, and device development at the university and in industry will result in a new quality of education. It represents also a novel concept for the transfer of scientific knowledge into new products.
The innovative feature of this Research Training Group is the close cooperation between university and industry in research and education in a graduate programme including all relevant disciplines. In this Research Training Group we intend to combine the creative curiosity of young scientists at the university with the product development in industry (Degussa, Science to Business Center) in such a way that fundamental knowledge is smoothly transferred into marketable products and systems. This requires a new kind of scientist and engineer, thinking and working much more interdisciplinarily and cooperatively than usual.
DFG Programme
Research Training Groups
Major Instrumentation
Investitionen: (PCS/-Potential-Meßgerät, 81.734,- Euro)
Instrumentation Group
1470 Potentiometer, Geräte für Amperometrie, Voltametrie, Coulometrie
Applicant Institution
Universität Duisburg-Essen
Spokesperson
Professor Dr. Markus Winterer
Participating Researchers
Professor Dr. Gerd Bacher; Professor Dr. Peter Entel (†); Professor Dr. Dieter Jäger; Professor Dr. Axel Lorke; Professor Dr. Dietrich Wolf
