Dr. Monica Ciomaga Hatnean

I am running and maintaining the Materials Discovery Lab, a solid state synthesis and crystal growth facility hosted in the Department of Materials (D-MATL), at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich (ETH). The idea for this facility stems from a joint initiative between PSI and ETHZ aiming to strengthen the collaborations between the two institutions.

I am Scientist (Chemist) working on synthesis, crystal growth and characterisation of various materials with interesting properties (see below the Research Interests section). My research is placed at the interface between Materials Science, Solid State Chemistry and Condensed Matter Physics.

Research Interests

• Synthesis, crystal growth and characterisation of polycrystalline and single crystalline samples of various compounds (e.g. oxides, borides, chalcogenides, oxichalcogenide, intermetallics).
• Study of materials that exhibit interesting structural and physical properties. These materials belong to the following areas of research:
  • Exotic states of matter (e.g. skyrmionic materials, topological insulators, superconductors, etc).
  • Frustrated magnetism (e.g. pyrochlores, garnets, Shastry-Sutherland lattices, etc).
  • Multiferroic, ferroelectric and magnetoelectric materials (e.g. ferrites, manganites, etc).
  • 2D and other van der Waals materials (e.g. semiconductors, superconductors, etc).
  • Polymorphism, structural phase transitions, structural disorder and their effect on the physical properties of the material.

Publications

A full and up-to-date list of all my publications (including number of citations) can be accessed on Web of Science Researcher Profiles, ORCID or Google Scholar.

Short CV