Materials research laboratory
Our group forms a team of experts in experimental, theoretical and computational material physics. Staff consist of about ten researchers, most of them work with external funding (TEKES, Academy of Finland, Private foundations). National and International collaboration plays an important role in research.
Research
Our research combines experimental, computational, and theoretical investigations on semiconductors and metals with aim to develop materials for new technologies.
Teaching
The courses given by the staff: Semiconductor Physics, Semiconductor Technology, Semiconductor Spectroscopy, Surface Physics of Materials used in Electronics, Computational Materials Physics, Thermodynamics, Surface Science.
Studies and Future Work
Our students learn various skills related to material physics. They become experts in low energy electron diffraction (LEED), scanning tunneling microscopy (STM), x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), synchrotron radiation, theory of solid-state materials and computational simulations. Visits to foreign research institutes provide important experience in the international collaboration. Graduates from Material Physics have got jobs in various fields: universities, military, business sector, teaching, entrepreneurship; etc.
Cooperation
Cooperation with both the local research groups (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Department of Future Technologies, MatSurf organization, Åbo Akademi) and national and international research institutes is essential to our research.
Main partners:
- Applied Materials Physics, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
- Department of Physics, Martin Luther University, Halle, Germany
- Department of Physics, University of Helsinki, Finland
- Department of Electronics and Nanoengineering, Aalto University, Finland
- Ioffe Physical-Technical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation
- Optoelectronic Reserch Center, the Technical University of Tampere, Finland
- Max Laboratory in Lund, Sweden (Synchrotron Research)
- Max Planck Institute, Halle, Germany
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Texas at Dallas, USA