Research
The IFW’s research program is jointly set up and implemented by all scientists of the different IFW institutes. It comprises the following five research areas:
- Superconductivity & superconductors
- Magnetism and magnetic materials
- Molecular Nanostructures and Molecular Solids
- Metastable alloys
- Stress-driven architectures and phenomena
In all these research areas we follow continuous lines from explorative work in natural science through application-relevant problems up to the development of technological processes and new products. All five Institutes of the IFW are involved in each of these research areas.
The research program of the IFW deals with materials, which exhibit particular physical behaviour, like magnetism or superconductivity, or which are newly discovered substances promising interesting properties, like metallic glasses or carbon nanotubes. At the beginning the discovery of new physical effects or chemical compounds give rise to euphoric perspectives concerning their application. But there are many difficulties to be overcome before new achievements in natural sciences can really result in new products. The IFW Dresden meets this challenge and faces up to this whole process.