Research & Facilities
Due to the constantly increasing available computational power and to the development of very efficient calculation algorithms, it is nowadays possible to predict very accurately material properties, basing simply on the fundamental principles of quantum mechanics. The newly established research group "Ab initio theory of ferroelectric materials" focuses its research on complex material systems such as ferroelectric compounds or metallic nanowires on semiconducting substrates, which are modeled in the framework of the density functional theory. The calculations are performed in high performance computer clusters such as the HRLS in Stuttgart or the PC2 in Paderborn.