FMF

When?: September 15, 2015 5:00 PM
Where?: X5114.0001

What?

As a bachelor student you have to make choices about your tracks, research places and eventually a master. It can be quite difficult to get a complete picture of all that our University has to offer. Of course, the one-sided areas are easy to image. More interesting are the areas where two or more sciences meet. The monthly borrel lectures give interactive insight in these multidisciplinary areas that push the limits of science. Followed by free drinks and snacks (borrel) there is room for informal discussion.

This lecture goes under the titel 'Symmetry, Topology in Advanced Electronic Materials' by Thomas Palstra, (ZIAM). Many of the electronic properties of materials are enclosed in the symmetry of their atomic or molecular lattice. Good examples are ferroelectrics that break space inversion symmetry or ferromagnets that break time reversal symmetry. In recent years advances in scanning probe microscopies show that in addition to these macroscopic phenomena, novel properties emerge at the nanoscale. In addition to the symmetry, also local topology, such as vorticity, determine the properties of these materials on the nanoscale.This provides new opportunities for novel device configurations.