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From 2008 to 2010 I came regularly with my wife for one or two months to MOES for teaching and advice

to graduate students and staff. We both enjoyed short visits to the mountain ranges, to historic sites in
Tainan and surroundings (Fort Anping, Chihkan Towers, Cigu salt mountain), Taroko Gorge with stunningly
steep marble cliffs, Sun Moon Lake and surroundings, betel-nut farms and road-side shops), to exciting
eateries with fresh seafood, Japanese Sushi or Haka-style, where we were often taken by Prof. Ho and
his wife, Prof. Chang & Prof. Chou. Prof Gan was instructing me about Taiwanese traditions, local birds

and small animals around the campus (including the numerous robbing macaques monkeys), and his wife
was feeding me daily with delicious cappucino coffee home-made near the TEM laboratory. Prof. Shen
was teaching me about local traditional fruits, food, oolong tea, and earthquake locations in Taiwan (we

once visited the memorial site of the September 1999 "Jiji" earthquake illustrating the terrible destruction
of buildings). In the Sunset Beach hotel we became familiar with typical Taiwanese wedding parties over
March/April weekends with some 200 guests (apparently a good business of that hotel), I had twice the
chance to attend a wedding party of a friend of Prof. Mitch Chou. We slowly became familiar with the
traffic in Kaohsiung, including the use of public buses from Hamasen to downtown, local food markets

for shopping seasonal fruits, the endless rows of motor scouter riders along roadsides, but almost no
bicycle riders (considered to be too dangerous for users).

During my visits to MOES I has the chance to visit several other research laboratories at universities
working on materials science and solid-state physics, including NTU in Taipei, NTHU-TSMC research in

Hsinshu, National Central University in Taitung. This was a great experience.

Our project on growth and properties of ZnO films and heterostructures was finally approved by MOST
with lower funding than requested, but at least we could start and try to find additional resources at MOES
and the university. A simple MBE system was then setup by Prof. Chang, Prof. Chou and the graduate
student James Lu to start the first growth experiments. I was happy to assist them with my previous

experience at PDI.

From 2011 to 2016 I was granted the position as Emeritus Faculty Member at MOES so that I was able
to continue my regular visits to NSYSU and to co-supervise James Lu during his Ph.D. thesis work with
Prof. Chang. My wife and me become more and more familiar with daily life at MOES, the campus,
accommodation at Urban 33 hotel, the brand-new subway (MRT), local eating places, historic sites, etc.

In addition we were taken to numerous interesting places around, e.g to another fresh seafood eatery
on Cijin island reachable by another midtown ferry boat and known mainly by locals, such as the young
colleague of Prof C.W.Ko from CSE. We visited the the famous Dong Gang seafood market and temple

during the April tuna season, where we had delicious food in the local fish market with Profs. Ho and
his wife Pearl Fan. We got more insight into characteristic Taiwanese traditions (temple festivals around
Tainan, procedures of newly born babies and their mothers right after giving-birth, mourning, graveyards

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