Audio / video studio

  • Head: Prof. Falko Blask, Tel.: (0911) 5880-1104
  • Staff: Norbert Weigand, Tel.: (0911) 5880-1012
  • Bahnhofstraße location, Building BB, Rooms BB.101 and BB.101a
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Practical Physics Course

  • Head: Prof. Dr. sc. nat. Bernd Braun, Phone: +49 911 5880-1745
  • Employees: Bernd Lunkenbein and Steffen Reißenweber, Phone: +49 911 5880-1358
  • Laboratory Engineer: Johannes Endres, Phone: +49 911 5880-1735
  • Location K: KESSLERPLATZ Building KA, Rooms KA.207, KA.211 and KA.222

The Physics internship is usually the first laboratory internship at the university for most students of the technical programmes (Applied Chemistry, Communications and Precision Engineering, Process Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Supply Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Information Technology as well as Materials Engineering). Accordingly, it serves both as an introduction to experimental work and as didactic support for the accompanying lectures on physics in the first year of study.

Physics laboratories

In recent years, a number of special laboratories have been established in the field of physics, which can be used for practical courses, theses, and application-oriented research and development:

Electron microscopy laboratory

  • Head: Prof. Manfred Kottcke, Tel.: (0911) 5880-1749
  • Kesslerplatz location, Building KA, Room KA.234a

Laser laboratory

  • Head: Prof. Bernd Braun, Tel.: (0911) 5880-1745
  • Kesslerplatz location, Building KA, Room KA.120

Medical engineering laboratory

  • Head: Prof. Florian Steinmeyer, Tel.: (0911) 5880-1746
  • Kesslerplatz location, Building KA, Room KA.234

Optical quantum technologies laboratory

  • Head: Prof. Andreas Stute, Tel.: (0911) 5880-1860
  • Kesslerplatz location, Building KA, Room KA.209

Photovoltaics laboratory

  • Head: Prof. Klaus Hofbeck, Tel.: (0911) 5880-1305
  • Wassertorstraße location, Building WG, Room WG.312

Plasma laboratory

  • Head: Prof. Norbert Koch, Tel.: (0911) 5880-1873
  • Kesslerplatz location, Building KA, Room KA.415

Sensor technology laboratory

  • Head: Prof. Klaus Hofbeck, Tel.: (0911) 5880-1305
  • Kesslerplatz location, Building KA, Room KA.109

Ultrasound laboratory

  • Head: Prof. Florian Steinmeyer, Tel.: (0911) 5880-1860
  • Kesslerplatz location, Building KA, Room KA.415

Simulation laboratory

  • Head: Prof. Oliver Natt, Tel.: (0911) 5880-1878
  • Laboratory engineer: Johannes Endres, Tel.: (0911) 5880-1735
  • Kesslerplatz location, Building KA, Room KA.402

In addition to teaching conventional practice-oriented mathematical and scientific approaches and methods, the increasing complexity of technological developments in many areas requires that training be supplemented by methods and approaches that take this complexity into account. The key qualifications required for this include the creation and implementation of models on the computer (Computer Aided Engineering - CAE) including subsequent simulation, numerical computing, implementation of algorithms, and complicated formula manipulations (e.g., in areas such as integral calculus and differential equations).

In addition, it is becoming increasingly important in everyday professional life to be able to present mathematical and technical issues in an accessible and appealing way. This requires an appropriate preparation of the numerical results in a form of graphical representations and animations. The computer pool in the simulation laboratory, which is integrated into the Central IT network, is equipped to enable students to learn these skills.

The powerful computers are equipped with computer algebra systems (Maple, Mathematika, MathCAD), numerical systems (Matlab, Octave, Scilab, etc.), statistical systems (Systat), and a number of special software packages. These include:

Systems for system modelling and simulation: MATLAB/Simulink and Dymola (modelling with the description language Modelica)
FEM and Multiphysics: COMSOL with a number of extensions for the following application areas: nonlinear and linear structural dynamics, material fatigue, heat transfer, electrodynamics, radio frequency applications, wave optics, plasma physics, acoustics, and fluid mechanics
Special software for the simulation of plants for the production of renewable energies: PV*SOL and T*SOL Expert
A 3D CAD system: CREO

The computer pool is used for courses and can also be used by employees and students of the university for independent work: Equipment, opening hours

More information is available on our intranet pages.

VR and AI laboratory

  • Head: Prof. Markus Kaiser, Tel.: (0911) 5880-1855
  • Kesslerplatz location, Building KA, Room KA.216