Research Centre
Laboratory of Nano and Quantum Engineering

The Laboratory of Nano and Quantum Engineering (German: Laboratorium für Nano- und Quantenengineering, LNQE) is an interdisciplinary research facility in which institutes of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics and the Faculty of Natural Sciences all participate. The research in the LNQE is divided into the four research fields of nano electronics, nano materials, mechanics/magnetics and quantum, bio and nano engineering.

Goals of the Laboratory of Nano and Quantum Engineering

The synthesis and control of materials on the scales within the micro and nano fields provide the approach to completely new types of material and system properties. On these scales quantum effects appear in which there is a still largely unused potential of revolutionary new types of functionalities. The controlled manipulation and mastering of such materials and functionalities thus demands new types of tools. The research of natural scientists and engineers meets in these structural sizes and thus releases resources synergetically. Completely new construction elements of nano technology are developed from this.

The necessary interdisciplinary research for this has a basis in the Laboratory of Nano and Quantum Engineering. For this purpose the know-how of various specialist fields is focussed and gathered together in a broad effort to open up new fields of application based on purposeful basic research and to make use of nano technology economically.

The purpose of the LNQE is the selfless support of applied research in the field of mesoscopic systems in the micro and nano fields. Within this framework the facility carries out research projects in interdisciplinary cooperation. The facility makes their results available to the interested public in a suitable form. In addition to the research, especially in the focal point fields of nano materials, mechanics/magnetics, nano electronics, optics and quantum systems, the training and support of up and coming scientists in these fields is among the tasks of the LNQE

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