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Profile
| Academic position | Associate Professor, Senior Lecturer, Reader |
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| Research fields | Experimental Condensed Matter Physics,Production and Properties of Functional Materials |
| Keywords | Dark Matter, Topological, Dirac Weyl, Condensed Matter, Electronic Devices |
| Honours and awards | 2019: Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter - Emerging Leader 2019 2016: MINERVA ARCHES Award 2016: Sofia Kovalevskaja Award |
Current contact address
| Country | Netherlands |
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| City | Delft |
| Institution | Delft University of Technology |
| Institute | Kavli Institute of NanoScience |
Host during sponsorship
| Prof. Dr. Stuart Parkin | Max-Planck-Institut für Mikrostrukturphysik, Halle (Saale) |
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| Start of initial sponsorship | 01/11/2016 |
Program(s)
| 2016 | Sofja Kovalevskaja Award Programme |
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Nominator's project description
| The symmetries and topologies of materials are directly manifested in their chemical and physical properties. Thus, crystal structures with particular arrangements and coordinations of atoms can exhibit quixotic electronic structures and, consequently, exotic electronic properties. Dr. Mazhar Ali’s interests lie in this interplay between symmetries, topologies and properties. During his graduate work at Princeton University he discovered that a simple chemical compound displayed “titanic” magnetoresistance, coupled with very high mobilities. The highly unusual properties of this compound, one member of a rapidly expanding class of materials - Weyl semi-metals - makes them of potential interest for future electronic devices. During his post-doctoral stay at IBM Research, he explored thin films of these materials and, with the Sofja Kovalevskaya Award he plans to create novel “Fermitronic” devices that take advantage of the unique properties of these materials that can be readily tuned and controlled by subtly varying their electron density. |