Welcome to the Research Training Group 1621

Research Profile

The discovery of high temperature superconductivity in iron-based intermetallic compounds, in particular in iron pnictides and iron chalcogenides in early 2008, triggered a worldwide new research activity to understand the fundamental physics in these systems and to search for new applications of superconductivity.  

The iron-based superconductors form a new and rich class of unconventional high-temperature superconductors based on intermatallic compounds with a complex multi-band Fermi surface.  The aim of this research training group is to examine iron-based superconductors as well as structurally or electronically related intermetallic superconductors such as transition metal dichalcogenides in an interdisciplinary and strongly interacting research initiative.

The contributing institutions on the Dresden research campus are working on this research field with great success. Experimentally a complete spectrum reaching from single crystal growth and thin film preparation via X-ray and neutron scattering to charge and spin sensitive spectroscopy techniques are used.  Theoretical modelling is done on the level of electronic structure calculations as well as with a variety of many body methods to examine the stability and excitations in magnetic and superconducting phases or to to describe the transport properties in these systems.  

The topical focus leads to a strong cooperation between the approximately 20 PhD students.  One and two week practical tutorials are regularly organized for all PhD students to learn about the complementary experimental and theoretical techniques in a modern and interdisicplinary research field.

The speaker of the Research Training Group 1621 is Prof. Dr. Hans-Henning Klauß, Institute of Solid-State Physics.

The Research Training Group 1621 is a research project funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG).

First funding period: April 1st, 2011 - September 30st, 2015
Second fundig period: October 1st, 2015 - March 31st, 2020