Group members

Christian Bernhard

Group Leader

christian.bernhard@unifr.ch

+41 (0)26 300 9070

Office: 1.60

Ordinary professor at UniFr since 2005.



List of publications till October 2020

CV

Premysl Marsik

Senior Researcher

premysl.marsik@unifr.ch

+41 (0)26 300 8919

Office: 1.58b

Background:

Building spectroscopic ellipsometers since 2004.

Current activity:

Ellipsometry guru.

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Bing Xu

Postdoc

bing.xu@unifr.ch

+41 (0)26 300 9104

Office: 0.58.3

Background:

Study of the optical properties of the topological semimetals, Center for High Pressure Science and Technology Advanced Research, Beijing China (2016)

Current activity:

Infrared Spectroscopy on thin films and bulk materials, exotic phenomena in cuprates


Subhrangsu Sarkar

Postdoc

subhrangsu.sarkar@unifr.ch

+41 (0)26 300 9217

Office: 1.58.?

Background:

Finite size effect in metal nanoparticles: Complex interplay of quantum size, surface and lattice deformation effects, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India (2018)

Current activity:

Growth of epitaxial multilayers by PLD, investigation of proximity effect in superconducting thin films using transport, X-Ray scattering and neutron reflectivity, spintronics

Jarji Khmaladze

PhD student

jarji.khmaladze@unifr.ch

+41 (0)26 300 9066

Office: 0.58.1

Background:

Developing techniques of rapid synthesis of high temperature superconductors, Tbilisi State University, Georgia (2013)

Current activity:

Pulsed laser deposition (PLD) growth of thin films, unconventional superconductivity, magnetism and proximity effects at interfaces with XMCD and PNR in the PLD grown multilayer thin films

Roberto de Andres Prada

PhD student

roberto.deandresprada@unifr.ch

+41 (0)26 300 9074

Office: 1.61.2

Background:

Sputtering deposition of Complex Oxides with nanometric resolution. Study of the transport properties, together with the thermal and magnetic dependences of these materials when grown on multilayered structures. GFMC, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (2014).

Current activity:

Characterization of the structural and magnetic properties of Pulsed Laser Deposited perovskites. Optical Lithography and Focused Ion Beam nanosculpting of devices at the Albanova Nanofabrication Facility, Stockholm.

Evgeniia Sheveleva

PhD student

evgeniia.sheveleva@unifr.ch

+41 (0)26 300 9126

Office: 0.58.2

Background:

Study of the Carbon Nanostructures Interactions in Terahertz Radiation, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Faculty of Physical and Quantum Electronics, Moscow, Russia (2015)

Current activity:

Infrared, visible range Spectroscopy on thin films and bulk materials, iron pnictides, unconventional superconductivity, muon spin rotation


Fryderyk Lyzwa

PhD student

fryderyk.lyzwa@unifr.ch

+41 (0)26 300 9069

Office: 0.58.2

Background:

Characterization of Ruddlesden-Popper SrO(SrTiO3)n=4 thin films grown by MAD- Atomic-Layer-Epitaxy, Georgia-Augusta-University Göttingen, Germany and Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna, Italy (2015)

Current activity:

Terahertz and Infrared Spectroscopy on thin films and bulk materials, Ruddlesden-Popper series SrO(SrTiO3)n=4, ultrathin SrIrO3 Iridates, construction of our TellMag project


Roxana Gaina

PhD student

roxana.gaina@unifr.ch

+41 (0)26 300 ----

Office: 1.58

Background:

Study of hysteresis phenomena in spin crossover systems, University "A.I. Cuza" of Iasi, Romania (2016)

Current activity:

Complex oxides, x-ray magnetic circular dichroism, x-ray linear dichroism, x-ray reflectivity, polarized neutron reflectometry


Qi He

PhD student

qi.he@unifr.ch

+41 (0)26 300 9069

Office: 1.61.1

Background:

Investigation of Preparation, Structures and Magnetic Properties of Nanostructured Fe-Ni-Cr Alloy, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, ChengDu, China (2013)

Current activity:

Characterization of superconducting and magnetic thin films, complex oxides, organic superconductors

Mathias Soulier

PhD student

mathias.soulier@unifr.ch

+41 (0)26 300 ????

Office: 1.58

Background:


Current activity: