Fakultät für Naturwissenschaften at the TU Chemnitz

Institut für Physik

TU Chemnitz

Reichenhainer Straße 70
09126 Chemnitz
Phone: +49 371 531-21500

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Basic information

Total number of students	350
Number of master degree students	90

Support during the study entry phase

Total score for support in the study entry phase

11/14 points

Results of study

Graduations in appropriate time, undergraduate degrees	83.3 %
Graduations in appropriate time, master's	58.5 %

International orientation

Share of anglophone research groups

25.0 %

Research

Research profile (distribution of PhD theses)

Students' assessments on undergraduate, presence-learning-courses

Teacher support	2.0
Support in studies	1.9
Courses offered	1.9
Study organisation	1.4
Exams	2.1
Laboratory internships
Research orientation	1.5
Support for stays abroad
Rooms
Library	1.8
IT-infrastructure	1.7
Workstations
Overall study situation	1.8

Students' assessments on consecutive master's degree courses

Teacher support	1.9
Support in studies	2.1
Courses offered	2.2
Study organisation	1.5
Transition to Master's studies	1.8
Research orientation	1.7
Overall study situation	1.7

Degree courses with details

Degree courses without details

Further degree courses of the department

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Further information provided by the department

Special features regarding teaching
Modern school student lab "Wunderland Physik" (Physics Wonderland) for school classes; annual Physics summer school for school students; extensive collection of Physics demonstration experiments for lectures on Experimental Physics; modern and well-equipped Physics practicals facilities, numerous courses at the interface between psychology and physics.
Exchange universities for stay abroads
Université Grenoble Alpes; Politechnika Lubelska; Babes-Bolyai University; Aberystwyth University; University of Oregon
Special features regarding the equipment
The institute building offers a modern infrastructure for research (media facilities, clean rooms in cooperation with Fraunhofer ENAS and ZfM) and teaching (seminar rooms, practicals labs etc.); the institute has its own mechanical and electronic workshop which includes a teaching workshop; MAIN Research Center (Materials, Architectures and Integration of Nanomembranes).
Special features regarding research activities
Division in four key areas of research: Complex Materials, from Molecular to Functional Materials, Scientific Modelling and Simulation, Sensor Engineering and Cognition; knowledge transfer in numerous cooperation projects with regionally, nationally and internationally active companies and non-university research institutions; numerous third-party funded projects.
Other special features
Modernly equipped school laboratory "Wunderland Physik" for school classes; extensive collection of physical demonstration experiments for lectures on experimental physics; modernly and extensively equipped physical practical course; comprehensive teaching and research offer at the interface between psychology and physics as well as at the interface to chemistry and the material sciences.
Further information on research activities
www.tu-chemnitz.de/physik/forschung.html
Further information about study entry phase
https://www.tu-chemnitz.de/physik/SEKO/