PhD / Master Thesis Graphene and other 2D Materials
Graphene, a crystal composed of only one layer of carbon atoms arranged in a regular hexagon, is regarded as a material which is believed to be capable of performing miracles in nanotechnology. Only five years after the first successful preparation of graphene, its discoverers Geim and Novoselov were therefore awarded a Nobel Prize in Physics. As the original preparation method (pilling of single atomic layers of graphite) does not offer a good perspective for broad technological use, many groups of researchers are concentrating very hard on the development of alternative manufacturing procedures. A completely new and very flexible method for graphene production from molecular monolayers has been recently discovered in our group (Adv. Mater. 25, 4146‐4151 (2013)). Your PhD / Master Thesis has one of the following goals: ‐ production and characterization of graphene sheets and graphene nanostructures with well‐defined structural and electronic properties; ‐ engineering and characterization of functional heterostructures of graphene with other 2D materials for implementations in novel field‐effect transistors and biological sensors. To achieve these goals you will apply a combination of complementary state‐of‐the‐art techniques and methods for materials processing, spectroscopy, microscopy, electric and magneto‐transport measurements of 2D carbon materials. You will work very interdisciplinary and in close cooperation with many groups in Germany (e.g., Physikalisch‐ Technische Bundesanstalt (German Insitute of Standarts), University of Ulm, University of Frankfurt am Main, University Regensburg, MPI for Biophysics) und in abroad (e.g., Swiss, USA, Sweden). Contact: PD Dr. Andrey Turchanin University of Bielefeld Faculty of Physics D0‐231 Universitätsstr. 25, 33615 Bielefeld, Germany Tel.: +49‐521‐1065376 E‐Mail:
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