Gottfried Strasser - Professor of materials engineering for nanoelectronics

Nanoelectronics specialist Gottfried Strasser bridges the gap between basic and applied research and the manufacture of components from nanomaterials. Electronic components are becoming increasingly smaller. "Modern computer chips already have components that are only a few nanometres in size," explains Gottfried Strasser, TU professor of materials engineering for nanoelectronics at the Institute for Solid State Electronics and the Center for Microand Nanostructures. Gottfried Strasser's area of work comprises the development of techniques which can be used to produce materials for electronic and optoelectronic components. "We are developing materials with individual layers that are only a few nanometers - that is micromillimeters - in size, which can be used to build laser light sources and sensors, for example," Strasser explains. This is possible using a technique in which layers the thickness of single atoms are evaporated onto carrier media. "We deposit individual atoms and create crystals with adjustable electronic and photonic properties," the TU researcher clarifies.