The Yearbook 2018 of the Max Planck Society is online. The contribution of our institute describes for the general audience how researchers around Elena Hassinger make electrons in metals oscillate in high magnetic fields in order to get out their extraordinary electric transport properties.
a) Crystal structure of a delafossite. Shown in blue is the conducting layer composed of palladium atoms and in green, are the poorly conducting rhodium oxide layers. The red spheres represent oxygen atoms and the green spheres inside the polyhedra represent the rhodium atoms. b) Fermi surface of the delafossite, the musical instrument for the quantum music. Its cylindrical shape with a hexagonal cross-section gives rise to the anisotropic conductivity of the electrons. The colors correspond to the calculated electron velocity along different spatial directions.
a) Crystal structure of a delafossite. Shown in blue is the conducting layer composed of palladium atoms and in green, are the poorly conducting rhodium oxide layers. The red spheres represent oxygen atoms and the green spheres inside the polyhedra represent the rhodium atoms. b) Fermi surface of the delafossite, the musical instrument for the quantum music. Its cylindrical shape with a hexagonal cross-section gives rise to the anisotropic conductivity of the electrons. The colors correspond to the calculated electron velocity along different spatial directions.
Congratulations to Claire Donnelly, who was awarded the IEEE Magnetics Society Early Career Award for “For excellent work on developing x-ray techniques for imaging magnetic structures in three dimensions”.
Dr. Eteri Svanidze and Dr. Uri Vool, research group leaders at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids in Dresden, were appointed TUD Young Investigators.
Uri Vool was awarded a starting grant from the European Research Council (ERC). He is an independent group leader at the MPI-CPfS, and will use the grant to explore novel superconductors by integrating them into hybrid quantum circuits.
IMPRS-CPQM student Chia-Chi Yu won a poster Prize at the 21st GDCh Conference on Inorganic Chemistry, Solid-State Chemistry, and Materials Research in Marburg (September 27-28, 2022).
Maia G. Vergniory, a researcher in our department of Solid State Chemistry, has recently been elected as APS Fellow by the American Physical Society (APS) for her pioneering work developing a new theory known as Topological Quantum Chemistry that has allowed to identify thousands of new topological materials.
A team of researchers from MPI for Chemical Physics of Solids and the MPI for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter in collaboration with researchers from Switzerland and Spain has reported the first observation in a structurally achiral crystal, the Kagome superconductor CsV3Sb5. Their work has been published in the current issue of Nature.
We offer our warm congratulations to our Max Planck Fellow Professor J.C. Séamus Davis of the University of Oxford and University College Cork, who has been awarded the prestigious 2023 Oliver E. Buckley Prize of the American Physical Society.
Dr. Eteri Svanidze was honored with this year's award within the L'Oréal-UNESCO funding program "For Women in Science". We warmly congratulate Dr. Svanidze on this award.