Karl Franzens University Graz

Graz University of Technology 


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GCP Physics Colloquium Summer 2025

 

Tuesday 04 March 2025      

16:15 - 17:15

Accessing the interface properties with photoemission electron microscopy
Ass.-Prof. Dr. Giovanni Zamborlini, Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz, Institut für Physik, NAWI Graz, 8010 Graz, Austria

Photoemission electron microscopes (PEEMs) are incredibly versatile tools for investigating the chemical and physical properties of surfaces. Thanks to their electron lens system, they can capture both spatial and angular information of the photoemitted electrons. This feature ma ...more

 

Tuesday 11 March 2025      TUG

16:15 - 17:15

High-resolution electron energy-loss spectroscopy: how recent advances have now truly put a “synchrotron in the microscope”
Prof. Dr. Quentin Ramasse, SuperSTEM Laboratory & University of Leeds

At the dawn of the aberration-correction era, Prof. L. Mick Brown encouraged the microscopy community in now a seminal lecture to embrace and adopt widely this new technology, which promised, in his words, to place a “synchrotron in the microscope”. Although perhaps merely as ...more

 

Tuesday 18 March 2025      

16:15 - 17:15

Atom-Surface Interaction: Theory and Computations
Kurt Busch

One promising approach to integrated quantum technologies relies on hybrid systems where cold atoms are combined with nano-photonic or nano-plasmonic elements for on-chip applications. For instance, this allows for the realization of numerous functional devices such as compact in ...more

 

Tuesday 25 March 2025      TUG

16:15 - 17:15

New Frontiers in Nanoscale Magnetism: Towards Three Dimensional Materials and Devices
Prof. Dr. Amalio Fernandez-Pacheco, Vienna University of Technology

The expansion of nanomagnetism to three dimensions provides exciting opportunities to explore new physical phenomena and opens great prospects to create 3D magnetic devices for green computing technologies [1]. In this talk, I will present some of our recent works dedicated to t ...more

 

Tuesday 01 April 2025      KFU

16:15 - 17:15

The Role of Surface/Interface Phenomena in The Antibacterial Action of Nano- and Microscale Zinc Oxide, Gallium Oxide, and Gallium Hydroxide.
Dr. Yuri M. Strzhemechny, Department of Physics and Astronomy Texas Christian University Fort Worth, TX USA

Worldwide trend of increasing antibiotic resistance has spun interest in alternative antibacterial agents such as metal oxide particles. Whereas the antibacterial action of many such oxides is well established, the mechanism of this activity is largely unknown. Cytotoxicity could ...more

 

Tuesday 08 April 2025      TUG

16:15 - 17:15

Machine-learning accelerated materials discovery and optimisation
Prof. Patrick Rinke, Department of Physics, Technical University Munich, Germany

Materials are the foundation of technological advancements that shape our modern society. Their con-tinuous development enables new applications and products, while the discovery of novel materials addresses key societal challenges like clean energy production, sustainability, gl ...more

 

Tuesday 06 May 2025      TUG

16:15 - 17:15

Flecks of extraterrestrial dust, all over the roof - The story of their cosmic makeup
Prof. Leen Decin, Institute of Astronomy, KU Leuven

After decades of failures and misunderstandings, scientists have solved a cosmic riddle — what happens to the tons of dust particles that hit the Earth every day but seldom if ever get discovered in the places that humans know best, like buildings and parking lots, sidewalks an ...more

 

Tuesday 13 May 2025      TUG

16:15 - 17:15

Nonlocal electronic correlations at the two-particle level
Dr. Anna Kauch, Vienna University of Technology

Susceptibilities and optical conductivity are examples of two-particle response functions that are the key quantities for connecting theoretical predictions for corelated materials with experimental results. It can however become highly nontrivial to calculate them, especially in ...more

 

Tuesday 20 May 2025      TUG

16:15 - 17:15

Diverse Mechanisms in Resistive Switching
Jong Han, SUNY at Buffalo

Resistive switching (RS), the sudden change of resistance of materials driven by an electric field, has been a subject of intense research for many decades. Despite the similarities from the (equilibrium) metal-insulator transition in condensed matter physics, the RS has only rec ...more

 

Tuesday 03 June 2025      TUG

16:15 - 17:15

Complexity in Organic Mixed Ionic Electronic Conductors and its Application in Neuromorphic Computing
Dr. Hans Kleemann, TU Dresden

Complexity is decisive property enabling systems to work at the edge of chaos, which is necessary for resource-efficient computing and the design of intelligent machines. The complex behavior of a system originates from the nonlinear properties of all its components, resulting in ...more

 

Tuesday 17 June 2025      HS 05.01

16:15 - 17:15

Tracking and Manipulating Band Properties in Materials via Light–Matter Interaction
Prof. Dr. Michael Schüler, Université de Fribourg, Paul Scherrer Institut: group leader
https://sites.google.com/view/schueler-research-group/home

The quantum geometry of Bloch electrons — describing the momentum-space structure of electronic wave-functions — plays a critical role in determining material properties, especially in transport phenomena and light–matter interactions. However, directly accessing this geome ...more