Dresden/Germany

http://www.ifw-dresden.de/

Scientist in charge: Dr. Rüdiger Klingeler (Coordinator)

Expertise and experience

The IFW Dresden can boast a longstanding experience in the field of molecular nanostructures such as fullerenes and CNT. The objectives of this re­search are the synthesis of molecular nanostruc­tures and the determination of their electronic, opti­cal and transport properties both in the bulk and in in­di­vidual structures as well as for doped and functionalised systems. The IFW Dresden has extended ex­­perience in the management and coordination of European projects such as the networks FUN­TU­BE (HPMD-CT-2000-00044), FULPROP (ERB-FMRX-CT-97-0155), New BMG (HPMD-CT-2001-00094) and WomenInNano (FP6 SAS6-CT2005-016754) and has taken part in more than 35 fur­ther pro­jects in FP4, FP5, FP6 as partners. The IFW Dresden is co-organiser of the Interna­tional Max-Planck-Research School ‘Dy­namical Pro­cesses in Atoms, Molecules and Solids’ in Dresden and the annual ‘Interna­tional Winter School on Electronic Properties of Novel Ma­terials’ in Kir­ch­berg. Among a large variety of international cooperations and European network programmes with­in FP5 and FP6, there are some examples which are most important for the project at hand. Firstly, the IFW is the coordinator of the European network WomenInNano. In collaboration with the Women­­In­Nano project the IFW Dresden as the co-ordinator institution will guarantee that gen­der as­pects will be integrated in the RTN. In addition, the female trainees of the whole RTN will have the possibility to attend the network of women in leading position in science, i.e. they will have im­me­diate and intimate access to this community which is of great value for their further sci­en­tific ca­reer. Also the high magnetic field facility highlights the connections of the IFW to Euro­pe­an scien­tific facilities since the IFW is partner of the EuroMagNET high magnetic field consor­ti­um (FP6 R113-CT2004-506239).

Key equipment

NMR: 9.2T magnet with +-0.2T sweepcoil, 7T magnet, equipped with 3 Tecmag Apollo spectrometers, 11.7T magnet with Bruker 500 MHz Avance II spectrometer (equipped with a broadband 31P to 109Ag probe head and a selective 1H/13C probe head); Electron Spin Resonance: X-Band Bruker Spectrometer (10GHz, 3.5–300K); tunable, high-field (17T) and high-frequency (1THz) ESR Spectrometer; 0.3-300K); several Scanning Probe Microscopes (TEM, SEM, STM, AFM, MFM (with magn. field)); Physical Properties Measurement System PPMS, AC-Susceptibility; SQUID Magnetometer (1.7K<T<800K; AC-option); VSM magnetometer (B<17T, hydrostatic pressure p<1GPa), magnetization in pulsed magnetic fields up to 60T (1.8K-300K).

Key scientific staff