Education:
- Private lecturer, ETH Zürich, Department of Physics, since 2010
- Private lecturer, University of Augsburg, Experimental Physics VI, 2006 - 2010
- Habilitation, University of Augsburg, 2006, Department of Physics
- Ph.D., University of Cambridge, UK, 1994, Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy and IRC in Superconductivity.
- Dipl. Phys., University of Tübingen, Germany, 1990, Faculty of Physics, Solid State Physics, Prof. Rudolf P. Hübener.
Workexperience:
- Senior Scientist, Paul Scherrer Insitut, Thin Films and Interfaces Group, Prof. Thomas Lippert, since 2008
- Co-project leader for the Sonderforschungsbereich 484 - Kooperative Phänomene im Festkörper (Collaborative Research Center 484: Cooperative Phenomena in Solids) at the University of Augsburg, 2003 - 2007
- Research Scientist, University of Augsburg, Experimental Physics VI, Prof. Jochen Mannhart, 1998 - 2007
- Research Scientist, Research Centre Karlsruhe KIT, Institut of Nuclear Solid State Physics, now Institut of Solid State Physics, Prof. Herrmann Rietschel, 1996 - 1998
- Post-Doc, University of Twente, Low Temperature Division, Prof. Horst Rogalla, 1995.
Expertise:
- Laser ablation (PLD), sputtering, preparation and characterization of thin and ultrathin epitaxial layers and heterostructures, transport measurements, lithography.
- XRD, RHEED, AFM, plasma mass spectrometry, time resoloved optical spectrometry, SIMS and TOF-SIMS.
- Materials with highly correlated electronic systems, multiferroics, oxide materials for renewable energy and respective applications, interface physics of oxides with strong electronic correlations, highly mobile electron gases at oxide interfaces, collective quantum phenomena.
- Superconductivity (conventional and high temperature superconductors) and magnetism. Physics of Josephson elements and magnetic tunneling devices. Order parameter symmetry in high-Tc superconductors. Development of active elements (oxide electric field effect transistors, injection elements) superconducting non-volatile memory and nanotechnology.
Teaching:
- Every Spring Term, the lecture on Inorganic Thin Films: Processing, Properties and Applications, 327-2104-00L, was given at the ETH Zurich.
- This lecture is being replaced by the 4h lecture course Thin Films Technology - From Fundamentals to Oxide Electronics, 327-2210-00L. The lecture is given by Morgan Trassin (Materials Department) and myself. More details can be found here
Publications:
- Publication list April 2024
Key Publications:
- B. Biswas; V. F. Michel; Ø. S. Fjellvåg; G. Bimashofer; M. Döbeli; M. Jambor; L. Keller; E. Müller; V. Ukleev; E. V. Pomjakushina; D. Singh; U. Stuhr; C. A. F. Vaz; T. Lippert; and C. W. Schneider;
Role of Dy on the magnetic properties of orthorhombic DyFeO3
Phys. Rev. Materials 6, 074401 (2022) - C. W. Schneider, M. Döbeli, Chr. Richter, and T. Lippert;
Oxygen diffusion in oxide thin films grown on SrTiO3
Phys. Rev. Materials 3, 123401 (2019) - K. Shimamoto, S. Mukherjee, S. Manz, J. S. White, M. Trassin, M. Kenzelmann, L. Chapon, T. Lippert, M. Fiebig, C. W. Schneider and C. Niedermayer
Tuning the multiferroic mechanisms of TbMnO3 by epitaxial strain
Sci. Rep. 7, 44753 (2017) - A. Ojeda, C. W. Schneider, M. Doebeli, T. Lippert, and A. Wokaun
Plasma plume dynamics, rebound, and recoating of the ablation target in pulsed laser deposition
J. Appl. Phys. 121, 135306 (2017) - J. White, M. Bator, Y. Hu, H. Luetkens, J. Stahn, S. Capelli, S. Das, M. Döbeli, T. Lippert, V. K. Malik, J. Martynczuk, A. Wokaun, M. Kenzelmann, C. Niedermeyer, and C. W. Schneider
Strain-induced ferromagnetism in antiferromagnetic o-LuMnO3 thin films
Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 104110 (2013) - C. W. Schneider, M. Esposito, I. Marozau, K. Konder, M. Doebeli, Y. Hu, M. Mallepell, A. Wokaun, and T. Lippert
The origin of oxygen in oxide thin films - role of the Substrate
Appl. Phys. Lett. 97, 192107 (2010) - N. Reyren , A. Caviglia , J. - M. Triscone, S. Thiel, G. Hammerl, C. Richter, C. W. Schneider, T. Kopp, and J. Mannhart
Superconducting Interfaces of Insulating Oxides
Science 317, 1196 - 1199 (2007) - S. Thiel, G. Hammerl, A. Schmehl, C. W. Schneider, and J. Mannhart
Tunable Electron Gas with Memory Function in Perovskite Heterostructures
Science 313 (5795), 1942 - 1945 (2006) - R. Held, J. Xu, A. Schmehl, C. W. Schneider, J. Mannhart, and M. R. Beasley
New Memory Concept for Superconducting Electronics
Appl. Phys. Lett. 89, 163509 (2006) - F. Loder, A.P. Kampf, T. Kopp, J. Mannhart, C.W. Schneider, and Y.S. Barash
Magnetic flux periodicity of h/e in superconducting Loops
Nature Physics 4, 112-115 (2008) - C. W. Schneider, G. Hammerl, G. Logvenov, T. Kopp, J.R. Kirtley, P. J. Hirschfeld, and J. Mannhart
Half-h/2e Critical Current-Oscillations in SQUIDs
Europhys. Lett. 68, 86 - 92 (2004) - R. R. Schulz, B. Chesca, B. Goetz, C. W. Schneider, A. Schmehl, H. Bielefeldt, H. Hilgenkamp, and J. Mannhart
Design and Realization of an All d-wave dc pi-SQUID
Appl. Phys. Lett. 76, 912 - 914 (2000) - D. Fuchs, C. W. Schneider, R. Schneider, and H. Rietschel
High Dielectric Constant and Tunability of Epitaxial SrTiO3 Thin Film Capacitors
J. Appl. Phys. 85, 7362 - 7369 (1999)