PD Dr. Silke Schön

PD Dr.  Silke Schön

PD Dr. Silke Schön

Privatdozent/in at the Department of Physics

ETH Zürich

FIRST-Lab

HCI D 121

Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 1-5/10

8093 Zürich

Switzerland

Additional information

Course Catalogue

Autumn Semester 2024

Number Unit
327-6101-00L FIRST Introduction Day
402-0317-00L Semiconductor Materials: Fundamentals and Fabrication

Research fields:

  • Nanophysics
  • Nanosensors
  • Active laser devices (surface emitting lasers)
  • Passive laser devices (saturable absorber mirrors)
  • Thin film flat panel displays
  • Solar cells
  • Acousto-optic materials
  • IR detectors

Special expertise in:

Thin film technology

  • Molecular beam epitaxy (MBE)
  • Liquid phase epitaxy (LPE)
  • X-ray rocking curve (XRC) analysis
  • Ellipsometry, reflectometry, photoluminescence (PL)
  • CV profiling
  • Secondary ion mass spectroscopy (SIMS)
  • Scanning electron microscopy (SEM), Atomic force microscopy (AFM)

Bulk material technology

  • Chemical gas phase transport (CVT)
  • Travelling heater method (THM)
  • Differential thermal analysis (DTA), phase diagram analysis
  • X-ray powder diffraction (XRD)
  • Photoelectrochemistry

Material systems

  • Binary, ternary and quaternary III-V semiconductors: (Al,Ga)As, (In,Ga)As, (Ga,In)(N,As)
  • Group-IV semiconductors: Si
  • Binary and ternary II-VI semiconductors: ZnS, SrS, (Hg,Cd)Te
  • Fluoride materials: CaF2, BaF2
  • Chalcopyrite materials: ZnGeAs2, ZnGeP2
  • Phosphate materials: GaPO4

CV is available on external page LinkedIn.

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