PD Dr. Christof Schneider

Senior Scientist

Paul Scherrer Institut
Forschungsstrasse 111
5232 Villigen PSI
Switzerland

 Education:

Workexperience:

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:


Publications:


Key Publications:

  1.  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) 

  2.   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)

  3.   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)

  4.   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)

  5.   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)

  6.   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)

  7.   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)

  8.   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)

  9.   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)

  10.   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)

  11.   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)

  12.   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)

  13.   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)