Paul-Drude-Institut für Festkörperelektronik

We are pleased to announce that PDI scientist Philipp John, together with collaborators from CNRS-CRHEA (Centre de Recherche sur l’Hétéro-Épitaxie et ses Applications), have been successfully awarded funding through the ANR–DFG program for their new collaborative project MINT. The collaboration underscores PDI’s ongoing commitment to innovation through strategic partnership and to addressing key scientific challenges that shape the future of advanced electronic and photonic technologies.

The annual MBE event for the German-speaking community, DGKK & DEMBE, will take place in Magdeburg from 3–5 December 2025. PDI is pleased to contribute to each day of the conference, presenting new results in epitaxy, hybrid growth approaches, and advances in AI-assisted MBE process optimization.

PDI's Van Dong Pham has been selected for the 2025 Rising Stars Collection of Applied Physics Letters (APL). His paper, “Scanning tunneling microscopy of ultrathin indium intercalated between graphene and SiC using confinement heteroepitaxy,” was chosen as one of just 30 papers highlighted in this year’s edition.

Congratulations to Andrea Ardenghi, who successfully defended his dissertation, “Doping, Phase Control, and Point Defects in Ga₂O₃ Thin Films Grown by Plasma-Assisted Molecular Beam Epitaxy" on October 8th, 2025, at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and PDI, under the supervision of Oliver Bierwagen and Piero Mazzolini.