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Fakultät für Naturwissenschaften

Technische Universität Chemnitz

Fakultät für Naturwissenschaften
Institut für Physik
Reichenhainer Straße 70
D-09126 Chemnitz
Telephone: +49 371 531-21500
https://www.tu-chemnitz.de

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Basic information

Total number of students at the department

350

Number of master degree students (w/o teacher qualification)

90

Support during the study entry phase

Total score for support in the study entry phase

11/14 points

International orientation

Share of anglophone research groups

25.0%

Research

Research profile (distribution of PhD theses)

  • Optical, Quantum Optical, Atomic, Molecular and Plasma Physics: 0%
  • Surface Physics and Nanostructures: 33.3%
  • Solid-state and Materials Physics: 37.5%
  • Particle Physics: 0%
  • Astrophysics and Astronomy: 0%
  • Soft matter physics, Biological and Chemical Physics, interdisciplinary works: 29.2%

Students' assessments on undergraduate, presence-learning-courses

Teacher support
Support in studies
Courses offered
Study organisation
Exam organisation
Laboratory internships

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Support for stays abroad

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Rooms

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IT-infrastructure
Student Workstations

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Overall study situation
Return rate of the questionnaires

16

Students' assessments on consecutive master's degree courses

Teacher support
Support in studies
Courses offered
Study organisation
Transition to Master's studies
Research orientation
Overall study situation
Return rate of the questionnaires

17

Further information provided by the department

Special features regarding teaching

Modern school student lab "Wunderland Physik" (Physics Wonderland) for school classes; annual Physics summer school for school students; extensive collection of Physics demonstration experiments for lectures on Experimental Physics; modern and well-equipped Physics practicals facilities, numerous courses at the interface between psychology and physics.

Exchange universities for stay abroads

Université Grenoble Alpes; Politechnika Lubelska; Babes-Bolyai University; Aberystwyth University; University of Oregon

Special features regarding the equipment

The institute building offers a modern infrastructure for research (media facilities, clean rooms in cooperation with Fraunhofer ENAS and ZfM) and teaching (seminar rooms, practicals labs etc.); the institute has its own mechanical and electronic workshop which includes a teaching workshop; MAIN Research Center (Materials, Architectures and Integration of Nanomembranes).

Special features regarding research activities

Division in four key areas of research: Complex Materials, from Molecular to Functional Materials, Scientific Modelling and Simulation, Sensor Engineering and Cognition; knowledge transfer in numerous cooperation projects with regionally, nationally and internationally active companies and non-university research institutions; numerous third-party funded projects.

Other special features

Modernly equipped school laboratory "Wunderland Physik" for school classes; extensive collection of physical demonstration experiments for lectures on experimental physics; modernly and extensively equipped physical practical course; comprehensive teaching and research offer at the interface between psychology and physics as well as at the interface to chemistry and the material sciences.

Further information on research activities

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Last Update 2021: Data collected by the CHE Center for Higher Education
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