2014
Brandon Stuart from Engineering Physics program Stuttgart – Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research
Placement Information Year you started your placement 2014 Placement period May – August, September – December Supervisor’s name Ionela Vrejoiu Project Details Overview My job involves investigating the properties of ferroelectric thin film structures through the use of atomic force microscopy (AFM) and piezoresponse force microscopy (PFM). The project evolved to cover the study of […]
Ben Hughes from Engineering Physics program Stuttgart – Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research
Placement Information Year you started your placement 2014 Placement period May – August, September – December Supervisor’s name Ilja Gerhardt Project Details Overview I work with cryogenic and optical equipment in a lab at the 3rd Institute of Physics at Stuttgart University. I work on one large project in conjunction with two graduate students, which […]
Connor Vandenberg from Engineering Physics program Erlangen – Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light
Placement Information Year you started your placement 2014 Placement period May – August Supervisor’s name Markus Sondermann Project Details Overview I am part of the 4piPAC (photon atom coupling) group. As the name suggests, the primary goal of this group is to achieve a higher coupling efficiency between light and matter. The project that I […]
Conor Omand from Physics and Astronomy program Stuttgart – Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research
Placement Information Year you started your placement 2014 Placement period May – August, September – December Supervisor’s name BJ Kim Project Details Overview I am working with the neutron scattering group in the Solid State Spectroscopy department at the MPI for Solid State Research. My project so far has been growing crystals of CaCu3Ru4O12 and […]
Emily Hopkins from Chemistry program Dresden – Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids
Placement Information Year you started your placement 2014 Placement period May – August, September – December Supervisor’s name Martin Valldor Project Details Overview Solid state chemistry, with a focus on air-sensitive high temperature synthesis. Our aim is to make materials with interesting physical properties, such as 1D systems, odd magnetic properties or superconductors. Project objectives […]
Joel Foo from Physics and Astronomy program Stuttgart – Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research
Placement Information Year you started your placement 2014 Placement period May – August, September – December Supervisor’s name Mathieu le Tacon Project Details Overview To perform spectroscopic measurements and other characterization techniques on samples of Strontium-doped 214-Lanthanum Nickel Oxide. The main focus is through Raman Scattering, as that is the specialty of this particular lab. […]
Lucy Wei from Biophysics program Erlangen – Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light
Placement Information Year you started your placement 2014 Placement period May – August, September – December Supervisor’s name Vahid Sandoghdar Project Details Overview The Nano-Optics division (Vahid Sandoghdar) at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light focuses on the light-matter interactions on a nanometer scale. By combining concepts from quantum optics, laser spectroscopy, […]
Nathan, Cheng from Physics and Astronomy program Stuttgart – Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research
Placement Information Year you started your placement 2014 Placement period May – August, September – December Supervisor’s name Dirk, Manske Project Details Overview The project I am working on in Stuttgart is to examine the available models of the bosonic spectral density for various unconventional superconductors both in equilibrium and a non equilibrium pump probe […]
Ryley Hill from Physics and Astronomy program Dresden – Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids
Placement Information Year you started your placement 2014 Placement period May – August Supervisor’s name Andrew Mackenzie Project Details Overview My position at MPI was research assistant. I was working in the Quantum Materials department in a lab containing two cryogenic chambers along with two PhD students, under the supervision of a post-doc group leader. […]
Sungjoon (Sean) Huh from Chemistry program Dresden – Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids
Placement Information Year you started your placement 2014 Placement period May – August, September – December Supervisor’s name Martin Valldor Project Details Overview Studying mixed anionic system with low dimensional spin ladder and a focus on its physical properties. Project objectives I synthesized compounds with mixed anions and was able to make it pure. Afterwards, […]
Yuan (Andrew) Yao from Physics and Astronomy program Stuttgart – Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research
Placement Information Year you started your placement 2014 Placement period May – August, September – December Supervisor’s name Alexander Boris Project Details Overview Many fundamental questions remain open about the mechanism of high temperature superconductivity (HTS) in layered copper oxides. One of the challenges is to understand the competition and coexistence of HTS with other […]
Darrick Lee from Engineering Physics program Stuttgart – Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research
Placement Information Year you started your placement 2014 Placement period May – August, September – December Supervisor’s name Andreas Schnyder Project Details Overview My research project is to look at the bound states localized at defects in different types of superconductors. This is first done computationally, by numerically diagonalizing a Hamiltonian. Then, the goal is […]
Piotr Kot from Physics and Astronomy program Stuttgart – Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research
Placement Information Year you started your placement 2014 Placement period May – August, September – December Supervisor’s name Christian Ast Project Details Overview I am simulating graphene in matlab. I insert various types of defects in the graphene Hamiltonian, and then by doing a Fourier transform I can get the bandstructure. From there I am […]
