Tour 1: Leibniz-Institut für Kristallzüchtung (IKZ)

The Leibniz-Institut für Kristallzüchtung (IKZ) in Berlin-Adlershof is an international state-of-the-art competence center for science & technology as well as service & transfer for innovations in and by crystalline materials. The R&D spectrum thereby ranges from basic over applied research activities up to pre-industrial research tasks.

Crystalline materials are key technology enabling components to provide electronic and photonic solutions to today´s and future challenges in society such as artificial intelligence (communication, mobility etc.), energy (renewable energies, power conversion etc.) and health (medical diagnosis, modern surgical instruments etc.).

The tour includes a short presentation of activities on aluminium nitride bulk crystal growth and substrate preparation at IKZ including a visit of the growth equipment and preparation laboratories. Additionally, activities on other semiconductor material like silicon or various oxides grown from the melt will be shown.