German Physics Society Dissertation Award 2017 to Stephan Wirths
Jülich, 2017
The 2017 Dissertation Award of the Condensed Matter Section of the German Physical Society went to Dr. Stephan Wirths for his dissertation and talk entitled "Group IV Epitaxy for Advanced Nano- and Optoelectronic Applications".
The professional associations of the German Physical Society, which are united in the Condensed Matter Section, offer a dissertation prize. The aim of the prize is to recognize outstanding scientific work and its excellent presentation in a lecture.
In his dissertation at the Peter Grünberg Institute 9 in Jülich, Dr. Stephan Wirths dealt with the development of low-temperature growth processes for the epitaxial growth of GeSn and SiGeSn alloys directly on Si(001) and on germanium-buffered Si(001) substrates. He succeeded in the first experimental demonstration of light amplification by stimulated emission in these special devices.