Research
Techniques
- Infrared spectroscopy
- Infrared and optical microspectroscopy
- Raman spectroscopy
- Experiments under extreme conditions: high pressure, low temperature
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Quantum materials
- Transition-metal compounds with strong electronic correlations
- Materials with strong spin-orbit coupling
- Topological semimetals
- Materials with topological electronic structure and magnetism
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Nanosystems
- Carbon nanotubes, peapods, fullerides
- 2D materials
![Carbon](https://assets.uni-augsburg.de/media/filer_public_thumbnails/filer_public/08/d8/08d8de8d-b8c8-4156-aa23-d3ae6d9ece54/carbon-nanotube-2842389_1280.jpg__600x375_q85_crop_subject_location-640%2C360_subsampling-2_upscale.jpg)
Functional oxides
- Multiferroics
- Ferroelectrics
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Third-Party Funded Projects DFG
- Tuning topological electronic states and topological magnons TRR360, AREA A1
- Optical spectroscopy study of the interplay between Dirac electrons, magnetism and charge density waves in square-net materials
- Influence of interlayer interaction on the charge and lattice dynamics in layered transition-metal chalcogenides
- Optical spectroscopy study of the Dirac line-node semimetals WXY, with W=Zr, Hf, X=Si, Ge, Sn, and Y=S, Se, Te, at ambient and high pressure
- Characterization of pressure-induced phenomena in carbon nanostructures by optical spectroscopy
- Tuning the ground state of strongly interacting low-dimensional electron systems by pressure: the cuprate spin ladder compounds
- Photo-induced effects in functional oxides studied by time-resolved optical spectroscopy
Third-Party Funded Projects BMBF
- Characterization of exotic electronic and structural states of matter under extreme conditions: IR and THz spectroscopy under high and ultra-high pressures at variable temperatures
[Joint research project, see also: Article (German) about matter under extreme conditions in "Welt der Physik"]