2016
Chin Chen from Physics and Astronomy program Stuttgart – Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research
Placement Information Year you started your placement 2016 Placement period May – August, September – December Supervisor’s name Philipp Hansmann Project Details Overview I am working in a research group led by Philipp Hansmann in the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research. Our group looks at the electronic structure of correlated materials using computational […]
Chan Gwak from Physics and Astronomy program Dresden – Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids
Placement Information Year you started your placement 2016 Placement period May – August, September – December Supervisor’s name Maurits W. Haverkort Project Details Overview My project is concerned with the use of computational methods to investigate various properties of transition metal compounds. It is characterized by the sequential application of different levels of theory, depending […]
Cameron Herberts from Biophysics program Stuttgart – Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research
Placement Information Year you started your placement 2016 Placement period May – August, September – December Supervisor’s name Dr. Ilja Gerhardt Project Details Overview The principle aim of this group is to investigate the properties of single photons and single emitters for their potential use in quantum computation schemes. There are two streams of research […]
Kevin Kwon from Physics and Astronomy program Stuttgart – Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research
Placement Information Year you started your placement 2016 Placement period May – August, September – December Supervisor’s name Christian Ast Project Details Overview In the past 3 months, I have been working with MATLAB and Simulink to simulate a Scanning Tunneling Microscope (STM) and Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy (STS). My STM simulation is able to take […]
Alexander Kyriazis from Engineering Physics program Stuttgart – Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research
Placement Information Year you started your placement 2016 Placement period May – August, September – December Supervisor’s name Robin Wanke Project Details Overview I am a member of the thermoelectronics team at the Max Planck Solid State Research Institute in Stuttgart, Germany. My team focusses on pushing the efficiencies of thermal energy to electrical energy […]
Brandon Reber from Physics and Astronomy program Stuttgart – Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research
Placement Information Year you started your placement 2016 Placement period May – August, September – December Supervisor’s name Alexander, Boris Project Details Overview Conventional superconductivity has been used in various technologies over the years, such as maglev trains, MRI machines, and particle accelerators. Although the mechanism of superconductivity in conventional, low-Tc superconductors has been successfully […]
Mohamed Shaaban from Physics and Astronomy program Stuttgart – Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research
Placement Information Year you started your placement 2016 Placement period May – August, September – December Supervisor’s name Andreas Schnyder Project Details Overview In recent years topological materials have gained the attention of researchers as a result of exhibiting new physical phenomenon with promising applications (e.g. quantum information technology). One of these phenomena is the […]
Brian Tam from Chemistry program Dresden – Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids
Placement Information Year you started your placement 2016 Placement period May – August, September – December Supervisor’s name Liu Hao Tjeng Project Details Overview The Department of Physics of Correlated Matter at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids investigates how interactions among the electrons in materials with transition and rare earth metals […]
