Prof. Dr. Dieter Weiss
News
04.04.2023
Hubert Georg Maier successfully completed his dissertation today with the doctoral colloquium on his work on “Geometrische Resonanzen in einem HgTe-basierten dreidimensionalen topologischen Isolator”. We congratulate!
11.01.2023
Franz Eberle successfully completed his dissertation today with the doctoral colloquium on his work on “Control of spin relaxation and spin precession in diffusive 2DEG channels”. We congratulate!
08.03.2022
Julia Amanns paper on “Counterintuitive gate dependence of weak antilocalization in bilayer graphene/WSe2 heterostructures“ (Julia Amann, Tobias Völkl, Tobias Rockinger, Denis Kochan, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Jaroslav Fabian, Dieter Weiss, and Jonathan Eroms) has been accepted by Physical Review B and chosen as Editor’s suggestion. The link is: https://journals.aps.org/prb/pdf/10.1103/PhysRevB.105.115425. Congratulations!
04.02.2022
Our first paper on topological superconductivity and probing of Majorana fermions has been published in Physical Review Research ( https://journals.aps.org/prresearch/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.4.013087). This paper, entitled “4π-periodic supercurrent tuned by an axial magnetic flux in topological insulator nanowires” (Ralf Fischer, Jordi Picó-Cortés , Wolfgang Himmler, Gloria Platero, Milena Grifoni, Dmitriy A. Kozlov, N. N. Mikhailov, Sergey A. Dvoretsky , Christoph Strunk , and Dieter Weiss) and largely based on the PhD work of Ralf Fischer and Jordi Picó-Cortés, is a key result obtained within the ERC Grant ProMotion. Congratulations!
17.06.2021
Franz Eberle’s paper on “Diffusive spin transport in narrow two-dimensional-electron-gas Channels“ (F. Eberle, D. Schuh, D. Bougeard, D. Weiss, and M. Ciorga) has been accepted by Physical Review Applied. Congratulations!
11.06.2021
Tobias Völkl successfully completed his dissertation today with the doctoral colloquium on his work on “Spin-Orbit Coupling in Functionalized Graphene” with magna cum laude. We congratulate!
08.06.2021
Robin Huber successfully completed his dissertation today with the doctoral colloquium on his work on "Superlattice Band Structure Engineering of Graphene" with summa cum laude. We congratulate!
04.06.2021
Jimin’s paper on “Mobility spectrum analysis on three-dimensional topological insulator BiSbTeSe2”(Jimin Wang, Alexander Kurzendorfer, Lin Chen, Zhiwei Wang, Yoichi Ando, Yang Xu, Ireneusz Miotkowski, Yong P. Chen, Dieter Weiss) Appl. Phys. Lett. 118, 253107 (2021), https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0047773 has been accepted by Applied Physics Letters. What is more: The Editors felt that the article is noteworthy, and have chosen it to be promoted as an Editor's Pick. Once published, the paper will be displayed on the journal's homepage and will be identified with an icon next to the article title. Congratulations!
04.06.2021
Mariusz was appointed “außerplanmäßiger Professor” and is entitled to use the title of Professor. Congratulations!
11.11.2020
Jimin’s paper on “2D-Dirac surface states and bulk gap probed via quantum capacitance in a 3D topological insulator” (Jimin Wang; Cosimo Gorini, Klaus Richter, Zhiwei Wang, Yoichi Ando, and Dieter Weiss, Nano Lett. 20, 8493 (2020), https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.0c02733) has been accepted for publication in Nano Letters. Congratulations!
30.10.2020
Dieter Weiss has been elected as a Honorary Member of the Ioffe Institute at the Scientific Council Meeting held on October 26, 2020. https://www.uni-regensburg.de/pressearchiv/pressemitteilung/1091268.html
09.10.2020
Robin’s paper on “Gate-tunable two-dimensional superlattices in graphene” (Robin Huber, Ming-Hao Liu, Szu-Chao Chen, Martin Drienovsky, Andreas Sandner, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Klaus Richter, Dieter Weiss, and Jonathan Eroms, Nano Lett. 20, 8046 (2020), https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.0c03021) has been accepted for publication in Nano Letters. Congratulations!
01.07.2020
Johannes Ziegler’s work carried out together with Dima Kozlov on "Quantum Hall effect and Landau levels in the three-dimensional topological insulator HgTe" has been published in the 1 July 2020 issue of Physical Review Research. This work is the result of a longstanding cooperation between Regensburg and the A. V. Rzhanov Institute of Semiconductor Physics, Novosibirsk. Congratulations!
18.06.2020
The Edison Volta Award of the European Physical Society (EPS) was jointly awarded to Dieter Weiss, Klaus Ensslin (ETH Zurich) and Jurgen Smet (MPI-FKF Stuttgart) for “for their seminal contributions to condensed matter nano-science." https://www.eps.org/blogpost/751263/350812/The-EPS-Edison-Volta-Prize-2020-is-announced
18.06.2019
Markus Ehlert successfully completed his dissertation today with the doctoral colloquium on his work on “Transportuntersuchungen an strukturierten Ferromagnet/Halbleiter-Hybridstrukten”. We congratulate!
30.04.2019
The paper by Tobias Preis et al. on “Graphene nanoribbons on hexagonal boron nitride: Deposition and transport characterization” appeared in Applied Physics Letters. The paper resulted from a cooperation between Jonathans group and the group of Klaus Müllen, MPI Mainz. Congratulations!
28.02.2019
Johannes successfully completed his dissertation today with the doctoral colloquium on his work entitled “Quantum transport in HgTe topological insulator nanostructures”. We congratulate!
26.02.2019
Dieter Weiss was named outstanding referee by the Physical Review journals http://journals.aps.org/OutstandingReferees
14.02.2019
Jimin Wang et al. published our first work on a novel material, namely (Bi1–xSbx)2Te3, in Physica Status Solidi B. This work entitled “Capacitance–Voltage Measurements of (Bi1–xSbx)2Te3 Field Effect Devices” resulted from a cooperation with D. Grützmacher’s group from the Forschungszentrum Jülich. Congratulations!
01.02.2019
The paper by Tobias Völkl et al. on “Absence of a giant spin Hall effect in plasma-hydrogenated graphene”, carried out in Jonathans group appeared in Physical Review B. Congratulations!
24.09.2018
The paper by Sebastian Ringer et al. on “Spin field-effect transistor action via tunable polarization of the spin injection in a Co/MgO/graphene contact”, carried out in Jonathans group appeared in Applied Physics Letters. Congratulations!
26.06.2018
The paper of Martin Drienovsky, Jonas Joachimsmeyer, Andreas Sandner, Ming-Hao Liu, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Klaus Richter, Dieter Weiss and Jonathan Eroms on the first observation of Weiss-oscillations in graphene has been accepted by Physical Review Letters. Congratulatios!
15.05.2018
Lin Chen’s paper on "Electric-field control of interfacial spin-orbit fields" with coauthors Martin Gmitra, Michael Vogel, Robert Islinger, Matthias Kronseder, Dieter Schuh, Dominique Bougeard, Jaroslav Fabian, Dieter Weiss and Christian Back has been accepted by Nature Electronics. Congratulations!
10.05.2018
Sebastian Ringer’s paper on “Measuring anisotropic spin relaxation in graphene” with coauthors Stefan Hartl, Matthias Rosenauer, Tobias Völkl, Maximilian Kadur, Franz Hopperdietzel, Dieter Weiss, and Jonathan Eroms has been accepted by Physical Review B. Congratulations!
06.04.2018
The European Research Council (ERC) awarded an Advanced Grant to Prof. Dr. Dieter Weiss for his project “ProMotion” (Probing Majorana quasi-particles and ballistic spin-momentum locking in topolocical insulator nanostructures). ERC grants are Europe’s most prestigious form of research funding and provide very substantial funding, in this case 2.5 Mio. Euro for 5 years.
26.01.2018
In the course of a reunion many of the chair’s alumni presented talks on their current work in industry and academia. The day ended with a lively come together party.
26.01.2018
Today our new ISO 7 cleanroom has been opened officially. The 320 m2 cleanroom features 3 scanning electron microscopes with Nanonic pattern generators for e-beam lithography, focused ion beam, mask aligner for photolithography, electron beam and thermal evaporators for metal deposition, reactive ion etching (RIE) and plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD), chemically assisted ion beam etching (CAIBE) and atomic layer deposition (ALD). A movie giving impressions from the new cleanroom is here.
19.01.2018
Lin Chen’s paper on "Emergence of anisotropic Gilbert damping in ultrathin Fe layers on GaAs (001)" with coauthors Sergiy Mankovsky, Sebastian Wimmer, Martin Schoen, Helmut Koerner, Matthias Kronseder, Dieter Schuh, Dominique Bougeard, Hubert Ebert, Dieter Weiss, and Christian Back has been accepted by Nature Physics. Congratulations!
04.01.2018
Our manuscript „Probing spin helical surface states in topological HgTe nanowires“ by J. Ziegler, R. Kozlovsky, C. Gorini, M.-H. Liu, S. Weishäupl, H. Maier, R. Fischer, D. A. Kozlov, Z. D. Kvon, N. Mikhailov S. A. Dvoretsky, K. Richter, and D. Weiss has been accepted by Physical Review B. (Phys. Rev. B 97, 035157 (2018)
26.10.2017
Our manuscript "Gate-tunable large magnetoresistance in an all-semiconductor spin valve device" by Martin Oltscher, Franz Eberle, Thomas Kuczmik, Andreas Bayer, Dieter Schuh, Dominique Bougeard, Mariusz Ciorga, and Dieter Weiss has been accepted for publication by Nature Communications 8, 1807 (2017).
19./20.10.2017
Prof. Douglas Hofstadter who calculated as PhD student the famous „Hofstadter Butterfly“in Regensburg and who is the author of the Kultbuch „Gödel, Escher, Bach: An eternal golden braid“ (for which he won the Pulitzer Prize ) came back to Regensburg on the occasion of the University’s 50th anniversary and took part in the “Hofstadter Symposium” organized by Klaus Richter and Dieter Weiss.
09.10.2017
Our manuscript "Ballistic geometric resistance resonances in a single surface of a topological insulator" by Hubert Maier, Johannes Ziegler, Ralf Fischer, Dmitriy Kozlov, Ze Don Kvon, Nikolay Mikhailov, Sergey A. Dvoretsky, and Dieter Weiss has been accepted for publication in Nature Communications 8, 2023 (2017).
