Thin films are nowadays utilized in many applications, ranging from semiconductor devices to optical coatings and are even present in pharmaceuticals (polymers). This wide-spread application of films with thicknesses from atomic monolayers to microns is due to the developments of thin film deposition techniques. Thin films are also important for studies of materials with new and unique properties due to the possibility of tuning their crystallographic and morphological properties. The thin film approach, i.e. the presence of interfaces (to a substrate or the film surface) adds more degrees of freedom for influencing the properties of materials, e.g. by lattice strain or surface functionalization. For these fundamental studies of material properties large research facilities such as synchrotron radiation or neutron spallation sources are one of the keys that the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) provides.
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TFI SEMINAR
Date: Monday 9 September, 2024, 16:00
Title: TBA
Speaker: Xiaochun Huang
Room: OFLG/402
Literature meeting
Date: Monday 16 September, 2024, 16:00
Speaker: Daniele Pergolesi & Kyle Stephens
Room: OFLG/401
TFI SEMINAR
Date: Monday 23 September, 2024, 16:00
Title: TBA
Speaker: Nick Shepelin
Room: OFLG/402
LMX SEMINAR:
Date: Friday 27 September 2024, 13:00
Speaker: Soohyeon
Room: OSGA/EG06
September 2024
iWOE-30 2024
International Workshop on Oxide Electronics
September 29.-2.October 2024 , Darmstadt, Germany
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August 2024
International Mass Spectrometry Conference 2024
Aug. 17-23, 2024
Melbourne, Australia
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Projects @ TFI
Most of the time we have student projects related to the work we do. Just talk to us if you are interested in something we are working on not advertised on our pages.
Currently, we are looking for a Semester or Master Student on the topic of ferroelectric field effect transistors (FeFETs).
If anyone is interested, please contact Prof. Dr. Thomas Lippert (thomas.lippert@psi.ch) or Dr Nikita Shepelin (nikita.shepelin@psi.ch).
At present, we have no open PhD positions available. Other open positions are always published on the PSI Open Positions page.