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The State Research Center for Optics and Material Sciences (OPTIMAS) is a research center associated with the 
PhysicsChemistryElectrical and Computer Engineering
as well a
Mechanical and Process Engineering
– are members of OPTIMAS. Several additional research centers and institutions are also members: * the Nano Structuring Center TU Kaiserslautern, * the Institut für Oberflächen- und Schichtanalytik
Institute for Surface Science and Thin-film Analysis
IFOS) * the Institut für Verbundwerkstoffe
Institute for Composites Materials
IVW), * the Department "Materials Characterization and Testing" of the Fraunhofer Institut für Physikalische Messtechnik
Fraunhofer Institute for Physical Measurement Techniques, Freiburg
. The current manager of operations at OPTIMAS is, Professor Martin Aeschlimann.
DFG
/ref> * SFB/TRR 49 „Condensed Matter Systems with Variable Many-Body Interactions”, since 07/2007, together with University of Frankfurt and
Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research
and * SFB/TRR 88 3MET „Cooperative Effects in Homo- and Heterometallic Complexes“, since 01/2011, together with
University of Kaiserslautern
The University of Kaiserslautern-Landau (German: ''Rheinland-Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern-Landau'', also known as RPTU) is a public research university in Kaiserslautern and Landau in der Pfalz, Germany.
The university wa ...
within the framework of the research initiative of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate that pursues research in the areas of laser physics
Laser science or laser physics is a branch of optics that describes the theory and practice of lasers.
Laser science is principally concerned with quantum electronics, laser construction, optical cavity design, the physics of producing a po ...
, photonics
Photonics is a branch of optics that involves the application of generation, detection, and manipulation of light in the form of photons through emission, transmission, modulation, signal processing, switching, amplification, and sensing. E ...
and plasmonics
Plasmonics or nanoplasmonics refers to the generation, detection, and manipulation of signals at optical frequencies along metal-dielectric interfaces in the nanometer scale. Inspired by photonics, plasmonics follows the trend of miniaturizing op ...
.
Members
Research groups from four different departments at TU KaiserslauternPhysics
as well a
Mechanical and Process Engineering
– are members of OPTIMAS. Several additional research centers and institutions are also members: * the Nano Structuring Center TU Kaiserslautern, * the Institut für Oberflächen- und Schichtanalytik
Institute for Surface Science and Thin-film Analysis
IFOS) * the Institut für Verbundwerkstoffe
Institute for Composites Materials
IVW), * the Department "Materials Characterization and Testing" of the Fraunhofer Institut für Physikalische Messtechnik
Fraunhofer Institute for Physical Measurement Techniques, Freiburg
. The current manager of operations at OPTIMAS is, Professor Martin Aeschlimann.
Transregional Collaborative Research Centers
Under the roof of OPTIMAS five Transregional Collaborative Research Centers (CRC = Sonderforschungsbereich SFB) of the German Science Foundation (DFG) are operated:/ref> * SFB/TRR 49 „Condensed Matter Systems with Variable Many-Body Interactions”, since 07/2007, together with University of Frankfurt and
University of Mainz
The Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz () is a public research university in Mainz, Rhineland Palatinate, Germany. It has been named after the printer Johannes Gutenberg since 1946. it had approximately 32,000 students enrolled in around 100 a ...
, as well aMax Planck Institute for Polymer Research
and * SFB/TRR 88 3MET „Cooperative Effects in Homo- and Heterometallic Complexes“, since 01/2011, together with
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT; ) is both a German public university, public research university in Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, and a research center of the Helmholtz Association.
KIT was created in 2009 when the University of Ka ...
.
* SFB 926 „Microscale Morphology of Component Surfaces (MICOS)“, since 07/2011;
* SFB/TRR 173 Spin+X „Spin in its collective environment”, since 01/2016, together with University of Mainz
The Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz () is a public research university in Mainz, Rhineland Palatinate, Germany. It has been named after the printer Johannes Gutenberg since 1946. it had approximately 32,000 students enrolled in around 100 a ...
;
* SFB/TRR 185 OSCAR „Open System Control of Atomic and Photonic Matter“, since 07/2016, together with University of Bonn
The University of Bonn, officially the Rhenish Friedrich Wilhelm University of Bonn (), is a public research university in Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It was founded in its present form as the () on 18 October 1818 by Frederick Willi ...
.
In addition, OPTIMAS is associated with the Graduate School of Excellence “Materials Science in Mainz (MAINZ)” which is coordinated by the University of Mainz
The Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz () is a public research university in Mainz, Rhineland Palatinate, Germany. It has been named after the printer Johannes Gutenberg since 1946. it had approximately 32,000 students enrolled in around 100 a ...
. This graduate program is financed since 2007 in the framework of the German Universities Excellence Initiative
The Excellence Initiative of the German Council of Science and Humanities and the German Research Foundation (DFG) aims to promote cutting-edge research and to create outstanding conditions for young scholars at universities, to deepen coopera ...
.
References
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