JENNIFER MACLEOD School of Chemistry, Physics and Mechanical Engineering and Institute for Future Environments Queensland University of Technology All welcome! The seminar flyer can be downloaded here. Abstract One of the goals of nanoscience is achieving precise control over the structure and function of nanoscale architectures at surfaces. Bottom-up approaches using molecular building blocks present Read More

BLANCA BIEL University of Granada Event flyer can be downloaded here. All welcome! Abstract: In this talk I will present my recent work on the electronic properties and SPM characterization of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) and their lateral heterostructures, based on Density Functional Theory simulations.  In particular, I will review some results regarding the STM and Read More

SHUYUN ZHOU Department of Physics, TsinghuaUniversity Event Flyer can be downloaded here. Abstract: Two-dimensional (2D) materials (e.g. graphene, transition metal dichalcogenides) provide an important playground for exploring fundamental physics and potential applications. Probing the electronic structure is critical for revealing the fundamental physics and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) is a direct and powerful technique. In Read More

The seminar flyer can be downloaded here. All welcome. Abstract: The use of a first-principles-based effective Hamiltonian in 2004 led to the prediction of a novel structure in zero-dimensional ferroelectrics, in which electric dipoles organize themselves to form a vortex. Such structure exhibits the spontaneous toroidal moment, as its order parameter. Subsequently, various original phenomena, Read More