PhD position: Dr Mark Edmonds

I supervise a wide range of projects in surface and materials physics, with a particular focus on novel electronic materials such as topological insulators where electrons can be transported without dissipation along the edges of the material. It is hoped that these sorts of materials will one day replace conventional silicon based electronics. This work is carried out within the Centre of Excellence for Future Low Energy Electronic Technologies. As a member of my team, you will have the opportunity to conduct experiments in world-class laboratories located in the New Horizons building at Monash University, as well as at the Australian Synchrotron and other Synchrotrons around the world. Students in my group work on growing materials atom by atom (often only a single atomic layer thick)and then study the electronic properties using various spectroscopy techniques such as photoemission, scanning probe microscopy and electrical transport.

• "Probing the electronic properties of Kagome metals and superconductors"
• "Growth and characterisation of 2D topological materials"
• "Realizing new intrinsic magnetic topological insulators for lossless transport applications"
• "Understanding the electronic properties of twisted 2D semiconductors" (with Prof Michael Fuhrer)

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