Thesis title: The Next Generation of Magnetoresistive Materials
My research focuses on fabricating sensitive magnetometers based on the Extraordinary Magnetoresistance (EMR) effect from high mobility materials such as InSb films, InAs films, and 2-Dimensional Electron Gases. The project uses computational methods to help design device architectures and evaluate results and state-of-the-art microfabrication techniques in order to realize functional devices which are characterized at temperatures ranging from cryogenic up to ambient and magnetic flux densities up to 16 T. The project aims to produce highly-sensitive magnetometers which can be used to study weak magnetic phenomena such as neuronal activity in living organisms.
Start date: 01-06-2024
Finish date: 01-06-2026
PhD supervisors: Dennis Valbjørn Christensen, Nini Pryds, Vincenzo Esposito