Condensed Matter Physics

Condensed matter physics is concerned with the development and investigation of new materials with unusual electrical, magnetic, or mechanical properties that exist because of the interaction between structure and chemical composition and can be altered through appropriate structuring or chemical doping. The "palette" of materials under investigation ranges from intermetallic compounds to semiconducting materials and into organics, and the structure of samples may be a single crystal, composite, thin film, or nanostructure. 

The spectrum of investigative methods is equally as wide, encompassing low-energy characterisation techniques that measure conductivity, magnetisation, and thermal properties, electronic, optical, and ultra-high-speed spectroscopy, as well as structural characterisation with electron and x-ray microscopy, scanning probe methods, and diffraction techniques using photons, electrons, or neutrons. The development of new methods is also included.  This work predominantly advances basic research, but is also useful in technical applications, especially organic components and the development of superconducting and magnetically hard materials.  

The following professorships work in this area:

At the Institute of Theoretical Physics:

• M. Vojta, theoretical solid state shysics  
• C. Timm, condensed matter theory
• J. van den Brink, solid state theory (IFW)
• H.-J. Sommer, theory of polymers (IPF)
• A. Nikoubashman, Theory of Bioinspired Polymers
• R. Moessner, many-body physics (MPI-PKS)

At the Institute of Applied Physics:

• K. Leo, Optoelectronics
• L. Eng, Experimental physics/photonics

• S. Reineke, Organic Semiconductors

• A. Chernikov, Ultrafast Microscopy and Photonics

• M. Helm, Spectroscopy in semiconductor physics (HZDR)
• S. Maehrlein, High-Field Terahertz Physics (HZDR)

• G. Cuniberti, Materials Science and Nanotechnology (IfWW)

• J.Czarske, Measurement and Sensor System Technique (Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering)

• K. Nielsch, Metallic Materials and Metal Physics (IFW)

• O. Schmidt, Nanophysics (TU Chemnitz)

• S. Mannsfeld, Organic Devices (cfaed)

• Y. Vaynzof, Emerging Electronic Technologies (IFW)

At the Institute of Solid State ans Materials Physics:

• C. Laubschat, Physics of surfaces 
• NN, Solid state physics
• S. Kaiser, Ultrafast Solid State Physics and Photonics
• H.-H. Klauss, Solid state physics/electonic properties

• D. Inosov, Neutron Spectroscopy of Condensed Matter

• J. Geck, Physics of Quantum Materials
• E. Hassinger, Low-Temperature Physics of Complex Electron Systems
• B. Büchner, Experimental solid state physics (IFW)
• A. Lubk, Electron Optics (IFW)
• J. Wosnitza, Physics in high magnetic fields (HZDR)
• J. Fassbender, Applied solid state physics (HZDR)
• C. Felser, Chemistry of Inorganic Materials (MPI-CPfS)
• E. Gati, High-Pressure Physics of Correlated Quantum Matter (MPI-CPfS)
• L. H. Tjeng, Condensed matter physics (MPI-CPfS)