Nitride Semiconductors Take Center Stage at the 20th JSPS Colloquium
From September 8 to 10, the 20th JSPS Bonn Japanese-German Colloquium “Nitride Semiconductor Materials and Devices” took place at Fraunhofer-Institut für Integrierte Systeme und Bauelementetechnologie (IISB) in Erlangen – organized in cooperation with Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU). The colloquium is an event aiming at supporting research cooperation between Japan and German-speaking countries. Every year the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) selects one such event to fund. The corresponding call for proposals is jointly administered by JSPS Bonn Office and the German JSPS Alumni Association.
This year’s colloquium was held by Dr.-Ing. Saskia Schimmel from the nitride semiconductor working group at the Chair of Electron Devices (LEB) at FAU together with Prof. Hiroshi Amano from the Institute of Materials and Systems for Sustainability at Nagoya University in Japan. Prof. Hiroshi Amano was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2014 for his scientific contributions, which made the realization of blue LEDs possible. His research group continues to contribute to significant developments to this day. For instance, Prof. Maki Kushimoto received the Berthold Leibinger Innovationspreis last year for the realization of deep-ultraviolet laser diodes.
Dr.-Ing. Saskia Schimmel leads an Emmy-Noether Junior Research Group and serves as a spokesperson for the DFG priority program „Nitrides4Future“. From 2019 to 2021, she spent two years as a Postdoc conducting research at the working group of Prof. Amano. Last year, during a one-month stay at Prof. Amano’s working group, which was funded by JSPS’s BRIDGE-fellowship, both researchers developed the concept for the 20th JSPS Bonn Japanese-German Colloquium.
Leading experts as well as up-and-coming young scientists in the field of nitride semiconductors from Japan and Germany were invited to the colloquium as speakers. The research area of nitride semiconductors includes various disciplines, including materials science, electrical engineering and physics, which gives interdisciplinary cooperation particularly importance. A lab tour gave insights into the research on nitride semiconductors at LEB and IISB.
In addition to the professional exchange, the event contributed to intercultural exchange between Germany and Japan and offered the opportunity to gain first impressions of Erlangen. Besides this, a guided tour through Siemens Healthineers Med Museum was organized for the speakers. Financial support was provided by the companies Aixtron and PVA TePla, in addition to the funding provided by JSPS.
Contact
Samuel Faber
Chair of Electron Devices
samuel.faber@fau.de