Conveners
Parallel Session 11: Surfaces
- Chris McNeill (Monash University)
Angle Resolved PhotoEmission Spectroscopy (ARPES) is a widely used technique for the investigation of the electronic structure of materials and can also be used to study many-body interactions such as electron-phonon couplings. The characteristic that separates ARPES from other surface science techniques is that it enables the direct visualisation of the electronic structure.
In this talk, I...
The electric field induced quantum phase transition from topological to conventional insulator has been proposed as the basis of a topological field effect transistor. In such a device an electric field can switch ‘on’ the ballistic flow of charge and spin along dissipationless edges of the two-dimensional (2D) quantum spin Hall insulator [1], and when ‘off’ is a conventional insulator with no...
Abstract: Metal surfaces coated with self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) are often used in large area based molecular junctions. However, characterizing these junctions still eludes chemists and physicists alike because of the complexity associated with the orbitals involved in charge transport and their behaviour under varying temperature. The metal-molecule interaction in such a system...
Conjugated organic materials, such as semiconducting polymers and small molecules, have shown great potential for electronic applications, boasting favorable properties such as being mechanically flexible and having low processing temperatures. Additionally, the organic components comprising semiconducting polymers and small molecules are interchangeable, resulting in a high degree of...
Graphene has transformed experimental two-dimensional (2D) physics and has proven itself an indispensable testing-bed for improving our understanding of condensed-matter physics. Recent theoretical and experimental results from literature have suggested that graphene, highly doped with alkaline earths(through intercalation and/or surface decoration), can superconduct at relatively high...
