Principal Investigators

Prof. Dr. Uwe Bovensiepen

Lotharstraße 1
47057 Duisburg
phone +49 203 37 94566/94533
fax +49 203 37 94555
uwe.bovensiepen@uni-due.de
http://www.uni-due.de/agbovensiepen/

A05 Femtosecond Time-Resolved Soft X-Ray Spectroscopy for an Element Specific Analysis of Complex Nanostructures
B01 Local and Non-Local Relaxation Dynamics of Hot Carriers

Ultrafast Dynamics of Solids and their Interfaces

Non-equilibrium states of correlated materials
Electron relaxation in low dimensional structures
Magnetism on ultrafast time scales

Prof. Dr. Richard Kramer Campen

Lotharstraße 1
47057 Duisburg
phone +49 203 37 94690
richard.campen@uni-due.de
https://www.uni-due.de/ag-campen/

A06 Non-Equilibrium Charge Transfer between Solids and Adsorbates in Vacuum and at Electrified Solid / Liquid Interfaces

Chemical Physics of Interfaces

Femtoelectrochemistry
Ultrafast Dynamics at Condensed Matter Interfaces
Nonlinear optical and optoelectronic spectroscopy

Dr. Andrea Eschenlohr

Lotharstraße 1
47057 Duisburg
phone +49 203 37 94531
andrea.eschenlohr@uni-due.de

A07 Charge Transfer, Diffusion, and Lattice-Mediated Dynamics in Oxide Heterostructures

Ultrafast Dynamics in Solids

Non-equilibrium electron and lattice dynamics in heterostructures
Charge and spin transfer at interfaces
Time-resolved x-ray and non-linear optical spectroscopy

Dr. Martin Paul Geller

Lotharstraße 1
47057 Duisburg
phone +49 203 37 92237
martin.geller@uni-due.de

A01 Time-Resolved Electrical Non-Equilibrium Spectroscopy on Artificial Atoms and Molecules

Optical and Transport Properties of Nanostructures

Transport measurements on low-dimensional quantum systems (quantum dots, two-dimensional electron gases)
Interaction between nanoobjects
Optical spectroscopy on nanoparticles/quantum dots
Nanopattering techniques (focused ion beam, electron beam lithography)

Prof. Dr. Manuel Gruber

Lotharstraße 1
47057 Duisburg
phone +49 203 37 92558
fax +49 (0) 203 37 91727
manuel.gruber@uni-due.de
https://www.uni-due.de/physik/gruber/

A08 Non-Equilibrium Dynamics of Tunnel Junctions Excited with Terahertz Light

Non-Equilibrium Dynamics of Tunnel Junctions Excited with Terahertz Light

Exitations
Terahertz

Dr. Markus Gruner

Lotharstraße 1
47057 Duisburg
phone +49 203 37 92247
markus.gruner@uni-due.de

C02 Coupling between Structural and Electronic Excitations: an ab-initio Investigation

Ab initio simulations of functional magnetic materials

Energy conversion materials: shape memory alloys and magnetocaloric effect
Competion of magnetic and elastic interactions: Lattice dynamics and martensitic microstructure on the nano-scale
Metallic nanoparticles: Structural stability, spin and orbital magentism

Prof. Dr. Eckart Hasselbrink

Universitätsstraße 1
45141 Essen
phone +49 201 183 3055
fax +49 201 183 3228
eckart.hasselbrink@uni-duisburg-essen.de

A06 Non-Equilibrium Charge Transfer between Solids and Adsorbates in Vacuum and at Electrified Solid / Liquid Interfaces

Surface Dynamics

Nanostructuring of surfaces for functionalization with organic monolayers
Gas-surface dynamics & surface photochemistry
Time-resolved dynamics of vibrations at surfaces

Prof. Dr. Michael Horn-von Hoegen

Lotharstraße 1
47057 Duisburg
phone + 49 203 37 91438/91439
fax +49 203 379 1555
horn-von-hoegen@uni-due.de
http://www.uni-due.de/ag-hvh/

B04 Non-Equilibrium Dynamics of the Phonon System
C03 Driven Phase Transitions at Surfaces: Initial Dynamics, Hidden States and Relaxation

Morphology and Dynamics of Surfaces

Manipulation of semiconductor surface morphology
Epitaxial growth, surfactant mediated epitaxy
Selforganisation of nanostructures
Ultrafast electron and lattice dynamics in nanostructures

Prof. Dr. Jürgen König

Lotharstraße 1
47057 Duisburg
phone +49 203 37 93329/93331
fax +49 203 37 93665
koenig@thp.uni-due.de
http://www.uni-due.de/thp/

A02 Charge Carrier Dynamics in Nanostructures
B07 Unifying Theoretical Description of Relaxation in Electron Systems

Condensed Matter Theory

Quantum transport in nanostructructures
Spintronics
Diagrammatic transport theory

Prof. Dr. Peter Kratzer

Lotharstraße 1
47057 Duisburg

phone +49 203 37 93313/4731

fax +49 203 37 94732
peter.kratzer@uni-duisburg-essen.de

https://www.uni-due.de/physik/kratzer/

B02 Ab-Initio Simulation of Electronic Excitation and Relaxation
B07 Unifying Theoretical Description of Relaxation in Electron Systems

First-Principles and Statistical Methods in Materials Physics

Ab initio theory of elementary excitations at surfaces
Atomic and electronic structure of thin magnetic films
Growth simulations of semiconductor quantum dots and quantum wires
Thermoelectric properties of self-assembled nanocrystals in a semiconductor matrix
Spincaloritronics in alloy heterostructures

Prof. Dr. Axel Lorke

Lotharstraße 1
47057 Duisburg

phone +49 203 37 93265/93264
axel.lorke@uni-due.de

https://www.uni-due.de/aglorke/

A01 Time-Resolved Electrical Non-Equilibrium Spectroscopy on Artificial Atoms and Molecules

Semiconductors and Nanostructures

Quantum dots, ballistic and quantum transport
Self-organized nanostructures
Optical-spectroscopy

Prof. Dr. Frank Meyer zu Heringdorf

Lotharstraße 1
47057 Duisburg

phone +49 203 37 91465/91439

fax + 49 203 37 91555
meyerzh@uni-due.de

B06 Relaxation Pathways for Collective Electronic Excitations

In-Situ Surface Microscopy

Low energy electron microscopy and time-resolved photoemission electron microscopy
Self-assembly of nanostructures
Plasmon dynamics
Organic thin films and devices

Prof. Dr. Martin Mittendorff

Lotharstr. 1
47057 Duisburg
phone +49 203 37 92273
martin.mittendorff@uni-due.de
https://www.uni-due.de/ag-mittendorff/

B09 THz Dynamics of Photo-Excited Charge Carriers on the µm Scale

Time-resolved THz spectroscopy

Carrier dynamics in black phosphorus
Nonlinear graphene plasmonics
THz near-field microscopy

Dr. Katharina Ollefs

Lotharstraße 1
47057 Duisburg
phone +49 203 37 92387
fax +49 203 37 93601
katharina.ollefs@uni-due.de

A07 Charge Transfer, Diffusion, and Lattice-Mediated Dynamics in Oxide Heterostructures

Magnetic Materials

Caloric effects in magnetic materials
Magnetic nanoparticles and thin films
Magnetic interactions in phase segregation by temperature treatment

Prof. Dr. Rossitza Pentcheva

Lotharstraße 1
47057 Duisburg

phone +49 203 37 92238
rossitza.pentcheva@uni-due.de

http://www.uni-due.de/physik/pentcheva/

C02 Coupling between Structural and Electronic Excitations: an ab-initio Investigation

Computational Material Physics

Nanoscaled Oxides for Electronics, Spintronics, and Energy Conversion
Boundary Surface Induced Electronic Phenomena
Topological Nontrivial Phases

Prof. Dr. Marika Schleberger

Lotharstraße 1
47057 Duisburg
phone +49 203 37 91600/91601
fax +49 203 37 92334
marika.schleberger@uni-due.de
https://www.uni-due.de/physik/schleberger/

C05 Exploring Particle-Induced Excitations in the Time Domain

2D Materials Science

Nanoscaled modifications by energetic ions
Correlative scanning probe and optical microscopy
Graphene and other 2D materials

Prof. Dr. Sebastian Schlücker

Universitätsstr. 5
45141 Essen
phone +49 201 183 6843
fax +49 201 183 6841
sebastian.schluecker@uni-due.de
http://www.uni-due.de/schluecker-lab/

A04 Photoinduced Non-Equilibrium Dynamics in Molecular Adsorbates: From Ensemble to Single-Molecule Experiments

Nano Bio Photonics

Nano particle label reagents: design, synthesis and physical properties of SERS nano particles with defined geometries
Nano bio photonics: tissue based tumor diagnostics using immune SERS microscopy
Nano bio analytics: development of nano particle based assays for high sensitive detection of biological targeting molecule

Prof. Dr. Ralf Schützhold

Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR)
Abteilung für Theoretische Physik
Bautzner Landstraße 400
01328 Dresden
phone +49 351 260-3618
fax +49 351 260-3292
r.schuetzholdhzdr.de https://www.hzdr.de/db/Cms?pNid=877