Emeritus professors and retired professors
Emeritus professors and retired professors
Experimental Physics
Prof. em. Dr. Olof Bryngdahl (deceased)
Applied optics
Prof. i.R. Dr. Ralf Courths
Electronic structure of metals, oxides and their surfaces
Prof. em. Dr. Hans-Friedrich Döbele
Reactive molecular plasmas and low-temperature plasmas
apl. Prof. i.R. Dr. Günter Dumpich
Fabrication of metallic nanostructures and characterization of their structural, electrical and magnetic properties
Prof. i.R. Dr. Hilmar Franke
Investigation and characterization of organic materials using optical measurement methods, optical sensing, integrated optics, photonic crystals
Prof. i.R. Dr. Wolfgang Kleemann
Antiferromagnets, dielectric and ferroelectric materials, magnetic layer systems and nanoparticles
Prof. i. R. Dr. Werner Keune (deceased)
Mößbauer spectroscopy; structure and electronic transport of magnetic multilayers
Prof. em. Dr. Dietrich von der Linde (deceased)
Intense laser radiation and ultrafast phenomena
Prof. Dr. Rolf Möller
Electronic surface states and organic molecular crystals
Prof. em. Dr. Winfried Mönch
Semiconductor surfaces and semiconductor interfaces
Prof. i. R. Dr. Dietrich Putzer (deceased)
Prof. em. Dr. Eberhard F. Wassermann (deceased)
Semiconductor surfaces structure and magnetism of 3d transition metal compounds and alloys, gas phase nanoparticlesand semiconductor interfaces
Prof. Dr. Werner Wenig
Investigation and characterization of organic materials
Prof. i.R. Dr. Helmut Werheit
Semiconductor and solid state properties of boron and boron-rich compounds
Prof. Dr. Andreas Wucher
Particle-surface-interaction, instrumental surface and thin film analytics
Theoretical Physics
Prof. Dr. Hans Werner Diehl
Statistical physics / condensed matter theory; critical phenomena at surfaces and interfaces; soft condensed matter
Prof. em. Dr. Roland Feder
Electronic structure of metals, surfaces, and thin films; magnetic properties; density functional theory; low-energy electron diffraction (LEED), photoemission
Prof. i.R. Dr. Peter Entel (deceased)
Ab-initio density functional theory; molecular dynamics simulations for nanoparticle nucleation and growth; phase transitions
Prof. em. Dr. Dr.h.c. Robert Graham
Bose-Einstein condensation, dissipative quantum systems, quantum chaos
Prof. em. Dr. Fritz Haake (deceased)
Quantum Chaos, Quantum Optics
Prof. i.R. Dr. Lothar Schäfer
Statistical mechanics of polymer solutions
Prof. Dr. Stefan Thomae
Hydrodynamic
Prof. em. Dr. Klaus Usadel
Magnetic order, remagnetization dynamics, statistical physics, phase transitions
Didactic of Physics
Prof. i.R. Dr. Udo Backhaus
Science theory studies, conceptualization, elementalization, computer simulations, study of physics education, astronomy
Prof. em. Dr. Gernot Born (deceased)
History of physics education, Johann Gottlob Leidenfrost, physics education in international comparison, conception of physics exhibitions, publication of physics books and working materials for schools
Prof. Dr. Hans E. Fischer
Interdisciplinary cooperation between the three science didactics disciplines (biology, chemistry and physics) as well as empirical educational research and teaching-learning psychology, which - based on the problems of science teaching revealed by the international comparative school performance studies - concentrates on research projects that serve to improve the yield of science teaching
apl. Prof. i.R. Dr. Norbert Treitz (deceased)
Motivating experiments, home experiments, computer programs for teaching physics, designing models, elementary physics for school, explanatory models for color vision
Engineering physics
Prof. i.R. Dr. Volker Buck
Fabrication and characterization of tribological thin films
Prof. i.R. Dr. Winfried Delang
Prof. i.R. Dr. Dieter Mergel
Fabrication and characterization of thin oxide films