The seminar is planned to be conducted as a combination of presence and online event: the presentation will be given in the seminar room and also broadcasted over Zoom, students can choose whether to attend in person in the seminar room or online. In case there are only a few participants, the seminar will be (almost) purely over Zoom, with the presentation being broadcasted from the seminar room.

The details about the seminar, such as the allocation of topics and presentation dates, as well as the mode of execution of the seminar, will be discussed in the "Vorbesprechung" over Zoom on Monday, October 26th. Please send an email to roland.gillen@fau.de if you are interested in participating in the seminar or at least the Vorbesprechung. A Zoom link for the Vorbesprechung will be sent to the applicants.

A solid knowledge of the basics of solid state physics is recommended for the seminar.

• Electronic and optical applications of zero-dimensional materials, such as Quantum Dots
  

• Tailoring of the physical properties of one-dimensional carbon-based materials, such as carbon nanotubes or graphene nanoribbons.
  

• The physics and possible applications of the vast family of two-dimensional materials, particularly

  • novel carbon-based 2D materials, such as graphene

  • the versatile family of transition-metal chalcogenides

  • monoelemental two-dimensional semiconductors

  • large-bandgap topological insulators

  • "Lego"-based material design using "van-der-Waals heterostructures" of atomically flat materials.

Credits: 5