• Modelling and design of new semiconductor materials
• Optical and electronic properties of semiconductor hetero- and nanostructures
• Non-equilibrium effects in semiconductor heterostructures and lasers
• Laser modelling
• Exciton hopping in semiconductors
• Phoxonic (photonic / phononic) crystals

Methods

• Many-body theory
• Numerical solution of differential equations
• Monte Carlo simulation
• Multi scale simulation
• Density functional theory
• Density-functional-based tight binding
• Close collaboration with experiment

Scientific cooperation

• The University of Arizona, Arizona Center of Mathematics and Optical Sciences Center, Tucson, Arizona, USA
• Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
• Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada
• Ruhr-Universität Bochum
• Philipps-Universität Marburg
• Universidade de São Paulo, Instituto de Física de São Carlos, Brazil
• Universität Paderborn

Industrial cooperation

• Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH, Regensburg