Resources

The WSI is equipped with state-of-the-art equipment for semiconductor preparation, characterization, and device technology:

Material preparation

  • MBE and CBE machines for GaAs, InP, and Sb based heterostructures
  • Ultrahigh purity GaAs MBE machine (electron mobilities > 10 Mio cm2/Vs)
  • MBE and MOCVD machines for GaN based systems
  • MBE machines for SiGe epitaxy
  • Plasma-enhanced Si-CVD
  • UHV evaporation equipment for magnetic thin films

Characterization and spectroscopy tools

  • High resolution X-ray diffraction
  • Atomic force microscopy
  • Electron microscopy and EDX equipment
  • Photoluminescence (from IR to UV)
  • Raman spectrometers
  • DLTS, Optical DLTS, CV-profiling
  • Hall measurements and magneto-transport
  • FTIR spectroscopy
  • High frequency parameter analyzers
  • Spin resonance (ODMR, EDMR)
  • He3 cryostats with magnetic fields up to 15 and 17 Tesla

Semiconductor Technology

  • 250 m2 class 100 clean room facility with photolithography, e-beam lithography, reactive ion etching, metallization
  • Special characterization facility for laser diodes
  • Pulsed laser materials' processing

IT infrastructure

  • Microsoft Windows domain based Client/Server infrastructure with integrated Exchange 2007, Sharepoint Services, and Office Communication Server groupware
  • About 300 clients
  • High end compute servers

Our computer certificates (for download)

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News at the WSI

14 May 2012

Two doctoral candidates from Walter Schottky Institut establish a new company   more

20 Mar 2012

Researchers at the Walter Schottky Institut demonstrate versatility of solid-state protein sensor   more

01 Dec 2011

CeNS publication award for L. Prechtel et al.   more

02 Nov 2011

Rohde & Schwarz Award for Jia Chen   more

24 Oct 2011

Prof. Jonathan Finley receives Prize for Good Teaching 2010 from the Bavarian Ministry for Science, Research and Arts.   more

Forthcoming seminars

May 29, 2012

GaN, graphene and other extreme materials of future electronics   more

May 22, 2012

Towards integrated quantum information photonics circuit: Fabrication and characterization of waveguide superconducting single photon detectors   more