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Gan, Prof Shen, Prof. Chang, and others. My accommodation was at the Sunset Beach hotel, where I

tried to get access to the Beach in the early morning for swimming in the Taiwan Strait with a group of
local early-morning swimmers, who were curiously greeting me as a foreigner.

I had prepared a series of lectures for graduate students entitled "Technical Paper Writing Workshop",
and I encouraged the students from the very beginning to ask questions even during the lectures and the
students had then to present short oral overviews about their current thesis subjects for practicing English

language skills. The students were curious from the very beginning, but they were first too shy to interact
with me directly. This improved a lot after having presented their own brief overviews in front of the class.

From the very beginning my host professors at MOES introduced me to a variety of delicious food places
which I enjoyed a lot. I got to know many interesting sites in and around Kaohsiung, and I even visited
Kenting and surroundings, where Prof. Mitch Chou took me in his car together with Prof. D.R. Hang and

Prof. C.W. Ko from the CSE department, who had spent some time as exchange student at Freiburg
University and spoke German. This was a memorable short excursion into a beautiful resort area with
accommodation in a small private pension like on a Greek island.

In late summer 2007 I go the surprising news that I will receive the first prestigious 2007 Tsung-Ming Tu Dr. Ploog

Award of the Taiwan National Science Council and the German Humboldt Foundation to promote future
research cooperation between Taiwan and Germany. My co-recipient was Prof. Peter Jonas from Freiburg
University.

So, I was delighted to travel with my wife in December 2007 to NSYSU and to Taipei to attend the Award
ceremony. My wife got a first impression about the outstanding hospitality of my Taiwanese colleagues,

and she enjoyed this a lot.

After the Award ceremony and after returning to Berlin, I started to draft a research proposal on growth
and electronic properties of ZnO thin films and heterostructures for transparent conductive oxides and UV
emitters that we could carry out at the MOES department in the near future. Both Profs L.W. Chang and M.
Chou fine-tuned the proposal and submitted it for funding to MOST in Taipei before the end of the year.

During 2007 I started to co-supervise the thesis of the Ph.D. student K.R. Wang at MOES working on

morphological, structural and optical properties of GaN films grown by MBE on sapphire substrates. He
finished his experimental work successfully at MOES in 2008, and from 2009 on he became a postdoc in
the TEM group of Dr. A. Trampert at PDI Berlin.

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