2015
Costa Lambrinoudis from Physics and Astronomy program Stuttgart – Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research
Placement Information Year you started your placement 2015 Placement period May – August, September – December Supervisor’s name Dr. Alexander Boris Project Details Overview My project involved measuring the dielectric response of a superconductor called YBCO at various temperatures. Project objectives One of the theory groups here came up with a set of models that […]
Lawrence, Wang from Physics and Astronomy program Stuttgart – Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research
Placement Information Year you started your placement 2015 Placement period May – August, September – December Supervisor’s name Robin, Wanke Project Details Overview I worked with the thermoelectronics team, which was involved in developing an efficient thermoelectronic energy conversion set-up. Thermoelectronics is, as the name implies, a highly efficient method of converting heat into electrical […]
Trevor Clarke from Physics and Astronomy program Stuttgart – Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research
Placement Information Year you started your placement 2015 Placement period May – August, September – December Supervisor’s name Christian Ast Project Details Overview Calculations of the electronic band structure of a graphene lattice perturbed by a randomly fluctuating but continuous and smooth potential landscape are executed using MATLAB. Potential landscapes are simulated via two techniques: […]
Alex Toews from Engineering Physics program Stuttgart – Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research
Placement Information Year you started your placement 2015 Placement period May – August, September – December Supervisor’s name Andreas Schnyder Project Details Overview Magnetic impurities in an s-wave superconductor induced Shiba bound-states. A chain of magnetic impurity spins leads to a band of Shiba bound states, whose band structure is similar to an effective p-wave […]
Rachel Zhao from Biophysics program Erlangen – Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light
Placement Information Year you started your placement 2015 Placement period May – August, September – December Supervisor’s name Vahid Sandoghdar Project Details Overview The Max Planck institute for the science of light (Sandoghdar Division) explores various aspect of light-matter interaction at the nanometer scale. The group concentrate on research involving quantum optics, laser spectroscope, cryogenics, […]
Lisa Wei from Biophysics program Erlangen – Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light
Placement Information Year you started your placement 2015 Placement period May – August, September – December Supervisor’s name Vahid Sandoghdar Project Details Overview The Sandoghdar Division at the MPL is a dynamic group that focuses upon investigating the light-matter interaction at the nanometer scale by using a combination of techniques from quantum optics, laser spectroscopy, […]
Christina Wong from Chemistry program Dresden – Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids
Placement Information Year you started your placement 2015 Placement period May – August, September – December Supervisor’s name Martin Valldor Project Details Overview I am working with the New Materials with Composite Anionic Lattices group under Martin Valldor at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids in Dresden. Our goal is to synthesize […]
Taylor Wright from Chemistry program Dresden – Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids
Placement Information Year you started your placement 2015 Placement period May – August, September – December Supervisor’s name Martin Valldor Project Details Overview The discovery, synthesis, and study of new inorganic chemical compounds with unique and interesting crystal lattices, primarily transition metal compounds having two or more anions. Newly discovered compounds are characterized using single […]
