Master thesis subjects 2022-2023
The Department of Solid State Sciences offers several master thesis subjects every year. An overview of the topics for the academic year 2022-2023 is listed below. Click on a subject to see more details and don't hesitate to contact us if you have further questions. Some of the topics were highlighted by several of our PhD students, you can watch their pitches here (only in Dutch).
CoCooN
(conformal coatings for nanomaterials, surface modification, surface physics, nano-electronics en energy applications)
Gaining fundamental insight in Atomic Layer Deposition
- In situ measurement techniques for atomic layer deposition: a big data approach
- Monte Carlo modelling of gas transport and thin film deposition in complex structures
Materials for nano-electronics and sensors
- Atomic Layer Deposition of Cobalt for applications in the semiconductor industry
- Selector devices: key components in next-gen memory technology
- Atomic Layer Deposition for Tailoring Surface Properties on lab-on-a-chip devices
- Coatings with atomic precision for enabling the observation of Gravitational Waves
Materials for lithium-ion batteries for energy storage
- Atomic Layer Deposition of functional coatings for Lithium-ion batteries
- Protection of lithium anodes by atomic layer deposition of metal oxides
- Thin film technology for on-chip batteries
Materials for electrolysis of hydrogen as sustainable energy carrier
- Atomic layer deposition of metal sulphides for energy applications
- Surface physics of electrodes for green hydrogen production
- Nanotechnology for stable and selective catalysts
DiSC / EMR
(study of defects in semiconductors) / (research of paramagnetic defects in solids)
- Defect engineering in UiO-66 following a combined experimental/theoretical approach
- Perovskite wide band gap materials for tandem solar cell application
- Electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectroscopy studies of plasma-induced radicals in pre-electrospinning polymeric solutions
DRAFT
(surface physics and thin films)
DyNaMat
(dynamics of functional nanomaterials)
- A nanomagnetic realisation of a Brownian motor
- Imaging of domain and domain wall dynamics in antiferromagnets
- Modeling anisoptropic magnetoresistance in artificial spin ices
- Multiscale modelling of thermally active artificial spin ice
- Modelling thermally active artificial spin ice for reservoir computing
- Skyrmion diffusion in synthetic antiferromagnets
- Coercivity-size relation of magnetic nanoparticles
- Classifying EEG data using a skyrmion reservoir computer
LumiLab
(luminescence, optical spectroscopy, photocatalysis and switchable materials)
- Bringing an optical dosimeter from the lab to the field
- Small and sensitive: multiple protection strategies for light emitting quantum dots
- Thermally stimulated luminescence for defect characterization in composites
- A post-plasma photocatalytic reactor for air purification
- Near-infrared emitting luminescent materials for multimodal medical diagnostics
- Identification of optically active trapping defects in persistent phosphors
- Samarium sulfide (SmS) thin films: a sensitive pressure sensor with unlocked potential
- Turning glow-in-the-dark materials into remote luminescence thermometers