User:RolandGesche/Ferdinand-Braun-Institut für Höchstfrequenztechnik

Ferdinand-Braun-Institut für Höchstfrequenztechnik (FBH)

im Forschungsverbund Berlin e.V.

Gustav-Kirchhoff-Straße 4

12489 Berlin

Management
Prof. Dr. Günther Tränkle

Departments & Business Areas

 * Optoelectronics / Diode Lasers
 * Dr. Götz Erbert


 * Microwaves / Microwave Components & Systems
 * Dr. Wolfgang Heinrich


 * GaN Electronics
 * Dr. Joachim Würfl


 * GaN Optoelectronics
 * Prof. Dr. Michael Kneissl


 * Materials Technology
 * Dr. Markus Weyers


 * Process Technology
 * Dr. Olaf Krüger

Founded
1992; member of the Leibniz Association

Staff
225 (190 employees, including 95 scientists; 35 student assistants)

Budget (2007)

 * Basic funding: Land Berlin & Federal Government (9.3 Mio. Euro)
 * Public project funding (3.3 Mio. Euro)
 * Industrial contracts (4.0 Mio. Euro)

Research Topics & Business Areas

 * Center of competence for III-V semiconductors - one of the most capable and major businesses in this field in Europe
 * Applied research and development of microwave & optoelectronic devices
 * Diode Lasers
 * - broad area lasers & bars (spectral range 0.6 - 1.2 µm)
 * - high-brightness lasers (line width < 10 MHz)
 * - hybrid laser systems
 * - laser sensors
 * - laser metrology


 * GaN optoelectronics
 * - UV high-power  Diode Lasers
 * - blue & green Diode Lasers
 * - UV  LEDs


 * Microwave components & systems
 * - front ends up to 80 GHz
 * - power amplifiers up to 10 GHz
 * - low-noise components
 * - microplasmas


 * GaN electronics
 * - microwave transistors & MMICs
 * - power electronics


 * Materials and process technology
 * - GaN HVPE
 * - laser micro processing


 * Networks
 * - education
 * - transfer

Spin-offs

 * BeMiTec Berlin Microwave Technologies AG
 * eagleyard Photonics GmbH
 * IXYS Berlin GmbH
 * Jenoptik Diode Lab GmbH
 * TESAG

Partner of

 * Technische Universität Berlin
 * Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
 * ZEMI (Center for Microsystems Technology Berlin)
 * OpTecBB (Network for Optical Technologies Berlin-Brandenburg)

Weblinks

 * Homepage of the Ferdinand-Braun-Instituts für Höchstfrequenztechnik
 * Homepage of the Forschungsverbund Berlin e.V.