Walter Schottky Institute

The Walter Schottky Institute (WSI) (German: Walter-Schottky-Institut) is a research center at the Technical University of Munich, dedicated to the physics of semiconductors.

The idea for an interdisciplinary research facility that would bridge the gap between fundamental physics and applied semiconductor electronics emerged in the early 1980s.

[1] Thus, as early as December 1985, the general conditions for founding the research institute as a collaborative project between the Technical University of Munich and Siemens were discussed with Bavarian state government.

[1] The institute building covers an area of 2400 m2 and provides space for laboratories and offices of eight research groups in four chairs with a total of over 150 employees.

The institute is considered one of the world's leading research facilities for the fabrication and characterization of semiconductor heterostructures.