Dr. Erdmann Spiecker

Curriculum Vitae

23.04.1968

1974 - 1984

1985 - 1987

May 1987

1987/89

1989 - 1995




1990 - 1995

1995 - 1999


11/1999

11/1999 - 6/2000


7/2000 - today

6/2002
 

born in Frankfurt/Main

elementary school and Gymnasium, Kassel

Gymnasium Wyk auf Föhr

Abitur, Wyk auf Föhr

civil service in Frankfurt/Main

study of physics, University of Göttingen, degree: Diploma in physics, Diploma work on "The role of self-interstitials during phosphorous diffusion gettering of gold in silicon"

Scholarship of the "Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes"

PhD student, 4. Physikalisches Institut (Institute of Semiconductor Physics), Göttingen

PhD in Physics "Antiphase boundaries in long-range ordered (InGa)P"

research associate, 4. Physikalisches Institut, Göttingen


research associate, Mikrostrukturanalytik, Universität Kiel

Helmut-Alexander-Award received at the conference "Extendend Defects in Semiconductors / Wide band-gap semiconductors", Bologna

Research

  • High-temperature diffusion and gettering of metallic impurities in semiconductors
  • High-resolution transmission electron microscopy of semiconductor heterostructures
  • Long-range ordering phenomena in ternary compound semiconductors
  • Strain relaxation and defects in thin crystalline films
  • Investigation of surface and interface phenomena of transition metal dichalcogenide crystals by   microscopic techniques
  • Crystal structure determination by convergent-beam electron diffraction and related techniques
  • Characterization of crystal defects by large-angle convergent beam electron diffraction (LACBED)
     

Lectures

Electron Microscopy I
Electron Microscopy II

Honors
 

 

Publications

E. Spiecker, Ch. Jäger, H. Lu, and W. Jäger, Unified Polarity Analysis of <110> and <001> Sphalerite-type Crystal Samples Using Bragg-line Contrast Rules, Microscopy of Semiconducting Materials, Cambridge 2003, T. Cullis and P. Midgley (Eds.), Inst. Phys. Conf. Ser., in press.

E. Spiecker and W. Jäger, Quantitative large-area analysis of misfit dislocation arrays by bend contour contrast evaluation, Microscopy of Semiconducting Materials, Cambridge 2003, T. Cullis and P. Midgley (Eds.), Inst. Phys. Conf. Ser., in press.

E. Spiecker, Interface and Surface Phenomena of Transition Metal Dichalcogenide Crystals: Ultrathin Layer Epitaxy and Self-assembling of Nanostructures, Microsc. Microanal. 9 (Suppl. 3), 2003, p. 300.

E. Spiecker, Ch. Jäger, H. Lu and W. Jäger, Polarity Determination of Sphalerite-type <110> and <001> Crystal Samples Using Simple Bragg-line Contrast Rules, Microsc. Microanal. 9 (Suppl. 3), 2003, p. 94.

Ch. Jäger, E. Spiecker, and W. Jäger, Shapes and Interfaces of Voids in III-V Compound Semiconductors, Microsc. Microanal. 9 (Suppl. 3), 2003, p. 296.

S. Hollensteiner, E. Spiecker, W. Jäger, H. Haselier, and H. Schroeder, Analyses of Nanostructure Formation by Cu Deposition onto VSe2 Surfaces, Microsc. Microanal. 9 (Suppl. 3), 2003, p. 216.

E. Spiecker, Fundamentals of Large-Angle Convergent Beam Electron Diffraction (LACBED), Proceedings of the 1st Stanislaw Gorczyca Summer School on Advanced Transmission Electron Microscopy (2003), Part B, p. 229.

E. Spiecker, Application of Large-Angle Convergent Beam Electron Diffraction (LACBED) and bend contour contrast analysis for the investigation of crystal defects, Proceedings of the 1st Stanislaw Gorczyca Summer School on Advanced Transmission Electron Microscopy (2003), Part B, p. 251.

E. Spiecker, Ch. Jäger und W. Jäger, Lokale Bestimmung der Atomanordnung in polaren Kristallen mit Sphaleritstruktur im Transmissionselektronenmikroskop, Zeitschrift f. Kristallographie, Suppl. 20 (2003) 37.

Ch. Jäger, E. Spiecker, J.-P. Morniroli und W. Jäger, Analyse von Versetzungsringen mittels konvergenter Elektronenbeugung, Zeitschrift f. Kristallographie, Suppl. 20 (2003) 34.

S. Hollensteiner, E. Spiecker, C. Dieker, W. Jäger, R. Adelung, L. Kipp and M. Skibowski, Self-assembled nanowire formation during Cu deposition on atomically flat VSe2 surfaces studied by microscopic methods, Mater. Sci. Eng. C 23 (2003) 171.

E. Spiecker and W. Jäger, Burgers vector determination of large area misfit dislocation arrays by bend contour analysis in transmission electron microscopy images, J. Phys.: Condensed Matter 14 (2002) 12767-12776.

E. Spiecker, Determination of crystal polarity from bend contours in transmission electron microscopy images, Ultramicroscopy 92 (2002) 111.

Ch. Jäger, E. Spiecker, J.-P. Morniroli and W. Jäger, Polarity determination of III-V compound semiconductors by large-angle convergent beam electron diffraction, Ultramicroscopy 92 (2002) 273.

E. Spiecker, Ch. Jäger and W. Jäger, Polarity analysis of GaP with the bend contour method, ICEM 15, Durban (2002) p. 649.

Ch. Jäger, E. Spiecker, J.-P. Morniroli and W. Jäger, Analysis of dislocation loops by means of large-angle convergent beam electron diffraction, J. Phys.: Condensed Matter 14 (2002) 12777.

R. Adelung, F. Ernst, A. Scott, M. Tabib-Azar, L. Kipp, M. Skibowski, S. Hollensteiner, E. Spiecker, W. Jäger, W. Gunst, A. Klein, W. Jagermann, V. Zaporojtchenko and F. Faupel, Self-assembled nanowire networks by deposition of copper onto layered-crystal surfaces, Advanced Materials 14 (2002) 1056.

W. Schröter, V. Kveder, M. Seibt, A. Sattler and E. Spiecker, Mechanisms and computer modelling of transition element gettering in silicon, Sol. Energy Mater. Sol. Cells 72 (2002) 299.

E. Spiecker, Ch. Jäger and W. Jäger, Determining the crystal polarity of compound semiconductors from bend contours, Microscopy of  Semiconducting Materials XII, Oxford (2001), Inst. Phys. Conf. Ser. No. 169, p. 311.

E. Spiecker, M. Seibt, W. Schröter, R. Winterhoff and F. Scholz, Exploiting long-range atomic ordering for the investigation of strain relaxation in lattice-mismatched epitaxy: A case study on CuPtB-type ordered (GaIn)P on GaAs, Applied Surface Science 188 (2001) 61.

M. Gimbel, S. Schneider, E. Spiecker and M. Seibt, Defect-enhanced solid-state amorphization in Zr100-xAlx/Ni thin-film diffusion couples, Appl. Phys. Lett 76 (2000) 1825.

E. Spiecker, M. Seibt, W. Schröter, M. Wenderoth, R. Winterhoff and F. Scholz, Formation and evolution of antiphase boundaries during epitaxial growth of long-range ordered GaInP, Microscopy of Semiconducting Materials XII, Oxford (1999), Inst. Phys. Conf. Ser. No. 164, p.179.

M. Seibt, M. Apel, A. Döller, H. Ewe, E. Spiecker, W. Schröter and A. Zozime, Modeling and experimental verification of gettering mechanisms, Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Silicon Materials Science and Technology, Electrochem. Soc., Pennington, NJ, USA; (1998) Vol. 2, p. 1064.

E. Spiecker, M. Seibt and W. Schröter, Phosphorous-diffusion gettering in the presence of non-equilibrium concentration of self-interstitials: A quantitative model, Phys. Rev. B 55 (1997) 9577.

M. Seibt and E. Spiecker, Behaviour of the size distribution function of end-of-range dislocation loops during silicon oxidation, Diffusion and Defect Data Part B 47-48 (1996) 205.