Leibniz-Institut für Festkörper- und Werkstoffforschung

The Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research Dresden - IFW Dresden short - is a non-university research institute in the state of Saxony and a member of the Leibniz Association. It operates material science on scientific basis and spread out a sheet from the progress of knowledge in the fields of physics and chemistry with technological development of new materials and products.

The Institute is located on the central campus of the Technical University of Dresden, at the corner Nöthnitzer Street / Helmholtzstraße in Dresden- Suedvorstadt.

History

The IFW Dresden was founded from the former Central Institute for Solid State Physics and Materials Testing of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR out as a body of Blue List on 1 January 1992. It emerged from the largest materials research center of the GDR, which enjoyed an international reputation already at that time. Meanwhile, the IFW Dresden has developed into a leading international institution in selected fields of natural science-based materials research.

Staff and funding

The IFW Dresden has approximately 400 employees. Of these 190 scientists, mostly physicists, chemists and engineers. These also include 80 young scientists doing their PhD work at the IFW. Every year about 100 bore, mostly foreign scientists each for several weeks or months at the Institute. The basic funding of about 23 million euros is provided in each half by federal and state governments. The compositions of the countries the majority is supported by the Free State of Saxony. In addition to the basic funding promotes the IFW annually about 5 million Euros project funds.

Organization / Institute

The institute is headed by the Scientific Director and the Commercial Director, which together form the board. The scientific area of ​​the IFW Dresden is divided into five IFW institutions whose directors are professors at TU Dresden and TU Chemnitz simultaneously:

• Institute for Solid State Research
• Institute for Metallic Materials
• Institute of Complex Materials
• Institute for Integrative Nanosciences
• Institute for Theoretical Solid State Physics

In addition, the areas of research and technology management.

Research program

The research program of the IFW Dresden includes the following five research areas:

• Superconductivity and superconductors
• Magnetism and Magnetic Materials
• Molecular nanostructures and molecular solids
• Metastable alloys
• Coating materials of the electronic

In all of these research areas, the entire range of the physical and chemical basics to technical process and the product is covered. The five IFW institutes are working together in all five areas of research.