Taiwan Today
Date: January 05, 2017
The Germany-based Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids announced Jan. 4 that it will set
Officials and researchers from Taiwan and Germany jointly announce the establishment of the Center for Complex Phase Materials during a news conference Jan. 4 in Taipei City. (Courtesy of NSRRC)
up a research center at the National Synchrotron Radiation Research Center in northern Taiwan’s Hsinchu City this year.
In a news conference at the Ministry of Science and Technology in Taipei City, the NSRRC said the research conducted at the new facility, called the Center for Complex Phase Materials, will focus on semiconductors, nano-structures and magnetic materials. The German institute and Republic of China (Taiwan) government will each provide 200,000 euros (US$210,504) per year to the center to support the work of graduate students, post-doctoral researchers and scientists.
The research organization based in Dresden, Germany, will also work to strengthen scientific collaboration and talent exchanges with the NSRRC as well as Hsinchu-based National Chiao Tung University and National Tsing Hua University. [FULL STORY]
