2012
Eric Huynh from Physics and Astronomy program Berlin – Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society
Placement Information Year you started your placement 2012 Placement period May – August, September – December Supervisor’s name Sergey Levchenko Project Details Overview A system, with a given temperature, pressure and environment will have varying effects on atomic structures. I am implementing a massively parallel Genetic Algorithm to find the most suitable stoichiometry and configurational […]
Jacob Retallick from Engineering Physics program Stuttgart – Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research
Placement Information Year you started your placement 2012 Placement period May – August Supervisor’s name Peter Wahl Project Details Overview My project is based around the design and construction of a couple STM/AFM head for use in studying the characteristics of materials with atomic resolution at low temperature. Project objectives My initial goal was to […]
Jenya Dudley from Chemistry program Dresden – Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids
Placement Information Year you started your placement 2012 Placement period May – August, September – December Supervisor’s name Marc Armbruster Project Details Overview My project focuses on the use of intermetallic compounds for catalytic use. The specific catalytic function I am investigating is the selective semi hydrogenation of ethyne to ethylene. An intermetallic compound is […]
Justin Chang from Biochemistry and Molecular Biology program Dresden – Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids
Placement Information Year you started your placement 2012 Placement period May – August, September – December Supervisor’s name Andreas Leithe-Jasper Project Details Overview The group is interested in skudderdites and other compounds that have interesting properties at low temperature. Project objectives To make different compounds of the classes of interests. Occasionally crystals of these compounds […]
Liao Wang from Physics and Astronomy program Stuttgart – Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research
Placement Information Year you started your placement 2012 Placement period May – August, September – December Supervisor’s name Peter Wahl Project Details Overview Tunneling Spectroscopy of Strongly Correlated Electron Materials is focused on mapping the excitations in correlated electron materials with high spatial and spectral resolution with spectroscopic imaging STM. In correlated electron materials, electronic […]
Roy Nassar from Biophysics program Stuttgart – Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research
Placement Information Year you started your placement 2012 Placement period May – August, September – December Supervisor’s name Dr. Dmytro Inosov Project Details Overview Our group specializes in neutron spectroscopy. We use different neutron scattering techniques to study spin excitations in magnetic and superconducting materials. Sample preparation is usually done at the institute but the […]
Sina Habibian from Engineering Physics program Stuttgart – Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research
Placement Information Year you started your placement 2012 Placement period May – August, September – December Supervisor’s name Christian Ast Project Details Overview During the past five months here at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, I have been working with surface alloys and studying various affects such as Anderson Localization in their […]
Trisha Roberson from Physics and Astronomy program Stuttgart – Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research
Placement Information Year you started your placement 2012 Placement period May – August, September – December Supervisor’s name Dirk Manske Project Details Overview Researching the band gap of the unconventional superconductor Strontium Ruthenate Project objectives Calculate the susceptibility of strontium ruthenate from first principles, determine a model for the effective interaction, and attempt to confirm […]
Yingyu Yao from Physics and Astronomy program Berlin – Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society
Placement Information Year you started your placement 2012 Placement period May – August, September – December Supervisor’s name Luca Ghiringhelli Project Details Overview Implementing the nudged elastic band method in the current computational platform. Test different functionals for DFT on gold clusters. Project objectives Implementing and testing the nudged elastic band method for finding minimum […]
