Faculty of Physics,

Technical University Munich

Crystal and Material Laboratory

Welcome

The Crystal Laboratory of the Faculty of Physics is mainly a service laboratory  open to the different experimental working groups of the faculty, but also provides help and consulting for members of other faculties and universities in Germany and abroad. In rare cases we also provide help for private industry if there is a common scientific interest.

Besides that,  a growing crystal growth activity has been developed during the last years, which enabled us to rebuild our laboratory with  very modern crystal growth  facilities, characterization and machining equipment. 

The Crystal Lab. nowadays contributes to the work of the Research Unit FOR538 of the German Science Foundation with growth, orientation and cutting of high temperature superconductor crystals and to the Excellence Cluster “Origin and Structure of the Universe” of the Technical University Munich by to growth of CaWO₄ detector crystals of several cm in diameter for the CRESST experiment.

CaWO₄ single crystal

Ba_1-xK_xFe₂As₂ single crystal

YBa₂Cu₃O_7-δ crystals in a BaZrO₃ crucible

La_2-x Sr_xCuO₄ single crystal of a  high temperature superconductor grown by the Travelling Solvent Floating Zone (TSFZ) technique

Molten Zone during the growth of  a  high temperature superconductor crystal La_2-x Sr_xCuO₄ by the Travelling Solvent Floating Zone (TSFZ) technique

Physik - Department

Technische Universität München

Kristall - Labor

James-Franck-Str. 1

D-85747 Garching

How to reach us:

Phone: 0049-89-28912642

           0049-89-28912637  

Fax:    0049-89-28914660

E-Mail:   A.Erb@wmi.badw.de

              S.Mayr@ph.tum.de