Promotores: Prof.dr. J. Aarts, Prof.dr. J.M. van Ruitenbeek

Triplet superconductivity refers to a condensate of equal-spin Cooper pairs (pairs of electrons with equal spin).

Promotor: J. Aarts

Electrons in a crystal lattice have properties that may differ from those of a free electron in vacuum.

In my group (the Aarts lab) we combine or structure materials, mostly in thin film form, in such a way that the hybrid has different and novel properties or functionalities.

Theoretical physicists research a special class of particles; Weyl fermions. They have found them to exhibit paradoxical behavior, in contradiction to a thirty-year old fundamental theory in electromagnetism. A possible application is a new kind of electronics—spintronics. Publication in Physical Review…

Electrons that spin synchronously around their axis, turn out to stay superconducting across large distances within magnetic chromium dioxide. Electric current from these electrons can flip small magnets, and its superconducting version could form the basis for a hard drive without energy loss. Publication…

The use of a new type of detector has generated a strong improvement in the resolution of electron microscopes. The 'low-energy electron microscope' (LEEM) can now be used for research on the thinnest possible materials. The tests with the detector represent the first result of the ESCHER project.

Lecture

Lecture

Lecture

The Joan Van der Waals colloquium is an ongoing bi-weekly lecture series.