JPCM Special Issue on Internal Interfaces

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The Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter (JPCM) has announced a Special Issue on Internal Interfaces. Guest editors are Michael Gottfried and Ulrich Höfer from SFB 1083 in Marburg.

This special issue will collect up-to-date research related to the structural characterization of internal interfaces between solid materials as well as investigations addressing electronic coupling and dynamics of charge transfer processes at heterostructures. Original articles covering fundamental or applied aspects of research on internal interfaces are welcome.

Articles can be submitted between May and September 2018. For more information see the special issue website.

Pedro Echenique is awarded honorary membership of European Physical Society (EPS)

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Pedro Miguel Echenique, external member of SFB 1083 and former PI of guest project “Electron dynamics at organic/inorganic interfaces from first principles” has been awarded a honorary membership of the European Physical Society (EPS). The EPS Council reserves this rare distinction to a maximum of 30 living individuals with exceptional achievements in physics. Current honorary members include four scientists from Germany and one from Spain (https://www.eps.org/page/distinction_honorary).

Professor Echenique was elected by the Council 2018 in Paris for his outstanding achievements as a scientist in the field of Surface Physics, Attophysics, Interaction of charges and radiation with matter and Many-body Physics and for his contributions as an exceptional and tireless advocate of outreach, dissemination and public awareness of physics, notably the creation and development of Passion for Knowledge, which is a large-scale public outreach event in Donostia, Basque Country, promoting science as the driving force behind technological progress and the foundation of human culture.

https://www.epsnews.eu/2018/04/eps-distinctions-2018/

Kenta Kuroda receives Young Scientist Award of the Physical Society of Japan

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Kenta Kuroda receives Young Scientist Award of the Physical Society of Japan (Photo: Univ. of Tokyo).

We congratulate Dr. Kenta Kuroda, former JSPS fellow and guest scientist of project B6 (Höfer) on receiving the prestigious “Young Scientist Award” of the Physical Society of Japan for his “Research on spin-polarized surface electrons and their light control in topological insulators using photoelectron spectroscopy”.

The prize is awarded annually in recognition of an outstanding young researcher who promises to make a lasting contribution to the future of physical research in Japan. It was given to Dr. Kuroda at the Annual Meeting of the Physical Society of Japan held at the Tokyo University of Science on March 22, 2018.

In work conducted in Marburg in 2014-15 [1] and continued at the Institute for Solid State Physics of the University of Tokyo [2], he demonstrated by precise measurements of topological insulators using photoelectron spectroscopy that light is able to control the spin-polarized Dirac surface electrons. In previous research conducted as a PhD student at Hiroshima University Kuroda had already characterized the electronic structure of these special surface electrons as Dirac particles [3].

Publications

  1. K. Kuroda, J. Reimann, J. Güdde, and U. Höfer
    Generation of Transient Photocurrents in the Topological Surface State of Sb2Te3 by Direct Optical Excitation with Midinfrared Pulses
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 076801 (2016).
  2. K. Kuroda, K. Yaji, M. Nakayama, A. Harasawa, Y. Ishida, S. Watanabe, C.-T. Chen, T. Kondo, F. Komori, and S. Shin
    Coherent control over three-dimensional spin polarization for the spin-orbit coupled surface state of Bi2Se3
    Phys. Rev. B. 94, 165162 (2016).
  3. K. Kuroda, M. Arita, K. Miyamoto, M. Ye, J. Jiang, A. Kimura, E. E. Krasovskii, E. V. Chulkov, H. Iwasawa, T. Okuda, K. Shimada, Y. Ueda, H. Namatame and M. Taniguchi
    Hexagonally Deformed Fermi Surface of 3D topological Insulator Bi2Se3
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 076802 (2010).