2D sandwiches, artificial layered building blocks for multifunctional materials

Date

Feb 11, 2025

Time

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Speaker

Dr. Timotheus Verhagen

Affiliation

FZU - Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences

Language

en

Main Topic

Materialien

Host

Rita Taubert

Description

The possibility to create new materials bottom-up was enhanced via the stacking of atomically thin layers of two-dimensional (2D) materials with van der Waals interactions. Unfortunately, the downside of van der Waals interactions is the, in general, weak electronical and mechanical interaction between the individual layers. This hinders the creation of multiferroic materials working at ambient conditions, which are despite extensive research still very scarce, from stacked layers with van der Waals interactions. My research, funded by an ERC Starting Grant, aims to create a new building block, the 2D sandwich, to tackle this problem. In this seminar, I will explain what are 2D sandwiches, why we would need them, how we will bake them and show our progress on growing the individual layers, which will be combined into the sandwich.

Links

• Seminars at the IFW

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