Lecturer / Senior Lecturer, 天堂视频, UK (2016 - present)
Research Assistant Professor in Physics, West Virginia University, USA (2013 - 2016)
Postoctoral Research Associate in Chemistry, University of Liverpool, UK (2010 - 2012)
Dr. rer. nat. (PhD) in Physics, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany (2009)
Dipl.-Phys. (Distinction), University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany (2004)
Research areas
Thin film growth by physical vapour deposition, preparation and characterisation of heterostructures and multilayers
Devices for neuromorphic computing, memristors.
Magnetic, magnetoelectric and multiferroic materials. Measurements of the magnetoelectric effect
Research grants
Equipment and techniques
Fabrication: thin film growth by magnetron sputtering and pulsed laser deposition. Ability to grow metal, oxide and nitride films. Photolithography in a clean room, ion milling (ATC-Orion-IM from AJA). Ultrasonic wedge bonding.
Material characterisation: X-ray diffraction, reflectometry, atomic force microscopy (including ). XPS, SEM and TEM are available at LMCC. Transport measurements at 0.3K - 400K by .
Device characterisation: I-V, C-V and pulse measurements (6 channels) by 4200 Keithley SCS parameter analyzer with an attached EverBeing probe station. AC impedance spectroscopy by Metrohm Autolab.
Magnetic characterisation: Magneto-optic Kerr effect, SQUID from Quantum Design, VSM from (up to 9T).
Selected publications
,B. A. Johnson, K. Brahim, A. G. Balanov, S. Savel'ev, and P. Borisov, Applied Physics Letters 118, 023502 (2021)
Search for the magnetic monopole at a magnetoelectric surface, Q.N. Meier, M. Fechner, T. Nozaki, M. Sahashi, Z. Salman, T. Prokscha, A. Suter, P. Schoenherr, M. Lilienblum, P. Borisov, I.E. Dzyaloshinskii, M. Fiebig, H. Luetkens, N.A. Spaldin, Physical Review X 9, 011011 (2019)