The Leibniz-Institut für Kristallzüchtung, German for Leibniz Institute for Crystal Growth and abbreviated with IKZ, is a research institute within the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Scientific Community and is a member of the Forschungsverbund Berlin "The work of the Leibniz Institute for Crystal Growth (IKZ) is devoted to the growth of crystalline materials from basic research up to technological realization. Incorporationin 1992, following a recommendation of the ""Wissenschaftsrat"" of the Federal Republic of Germany Roots go back to the expertise of coworkers from institutes of the former Academy of Sciences of the GDR, especially the ""Centre for Construction of Scientific Equipment"", the Central Institutes of Optics and Spectroscopy and of Electron Physics, and from the former Crystallography Department of the Humboldt University of Berlin. The mission of the Institute is to perform basic and applied research in the fields of growth, characterization and processing of crystalline matter and to fulfil service tasks for partners and customers in industry and science."