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Faculty of Mathematics and Natural SciencesInstitute of Physics II Dep. of Physics

Writing your thesis in the Ando lab

Are you interested in writing your Bachelor, Master or PhD thesis in our group? We are always happy to welcome motivated students in our group. Here, we list some potential topics and give an overview over the group and the options for finishing a thesis in our group. In addition to the topics listed here, there always is further projects available which are related to our very recent science. 

In the Ando lab, bachelor and master students are supervised by a PhD student or a postdoc. For a PhD student, there is a postdoc supervisor who guides through the thesis work. There is 5 sub groups which work with different techniques and focus, but all of them deal with similar physics questions.

  • MBE
    Using molecular beam epitaxy we grow high-quality thin films. Thesis topics can range from optimizing growth conditions to complex hybrid structures that also employ clean room fabrication techniques.
  • Devices
    In a clean room we use a set of nanofabrication machines. Mostly basing on topological insulator materials, by combination with other materials, for example superconductors, we create “devices” with novel quantum physics in them.
  • cQED
    Some circuits of components such as inductors and Josephson junctions can behave like artificial atoms and can realize quantum bits (qubits). We make use of the high-frequency properties of such qubits in the microwave-regime  in order to study their application for future computation schemes.
  • STM
    With a scanning tunneling microscope we investigate the surface physics of topological matter and other materials. The resolution of such a microscope even allows to observe individual atoms
  • Growth
    A lot of the research on topological materials starts with the materials themselves which are grown in our group using different single crystal growth techniques. We grow our own high-quality crystals in the group.
     

All of these groups also make use of low-temperature facilities and cryo-techniques to perform measurements at low temperatures, sometimes down to few mK.

Topics for theses are available in all of these groups.