The collaborative research centre "Co-operative Phenomena in Solids: Metal-Insulator Transitions and the Order of Microscopic Degrees of Freedom" at Augsburg University is dedicated to the interactive, quantum-mechanical, multiparticle systems of solid-state physics. The prime question is: how do the interaction and collective behaviour of microscopic degrees of freedom of the electrons and lattice lead to ordered structures and metal-insulator transitions. The ideal class of material for studying such effects are transition metal oxides. Speaker: Prof. Dr. Dieter Vollhardt, Institut fur Theoretische Physik III, tel.: 0821/598 3700
Heterolayer structures are synthetically coated materials separated by well defined boundary areas in the nanometric range with novel physical properties. The aim of this collaborative research centre "Magnetic Heterolayers: Structure and Electronic Transport" at the Ruhr-University Bochum is to elucidate the basic physical principles of such heterolayers. They possess great potential for applications in information and communications technology, especially in the field of data storage, magnetic-field sensors and the control of future data storage media. Speaker: Prof. Dr. Hartmut Zabel, Institut fur Experimentalphysik/Festkrperphysik, tel.: 0234/322 3649/3650
Due to the technological problems it presents, the terahertz range, the transition between the radio and the infra-red ranges of the electromagnetic spectrum, is the range which has been least researched spectroscopically, even though it is of importance for the elucidation of numerous astrophysical and chemical processes. A large part of the luminosity of the Milky Way and other galaxies is emitted in this range, and characteristi
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Contact: Dr. Eva-Maria Streier
em.streier@dfg.de
49-228-885-2250
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
6-Dec-1999