Jan Schlegel awarded with Czochralski Prize

Jan Schlegel has been honored for his master thesis "preparation of waveguides and micro resonators in oxide" at Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Berlin with the Jan Czochralski Award on November 18. His master thesis has been created in the Process Technology Department at Ferdinand-Braun-Institut, combining theoretical aspects of the design with practical work for the implementation in chips.

The prize was introduced in 2016 on the occassion of the centennial of the Czochralski process used to manufacture ultra-pure silicon single crystals. With it, talented R&D offspring shall be encouraged in the sense of Jan Czochralski, who was committed to German and Polish metal research with a strong emphasis on connecting scientific and practical aspects.