Center for Transport and Devices
The Center for Transport and Devices of Emergent Materials (CTD) at the TU Dresden aims at linking research efforts, distributed over different faculties and institutions, in the fields of solid-state physics, materials science and electronic devices.
The objective is to investigate the electronic properties of novel "emergent" materials with an eye towards interesting physical phenomena and their potential for future applications in electronic devices. Concrete examples for emergent materials are topological insulators, frustrated magnets and other strongly correlated electron systems, hybrid materials (e.g. mesoscopic semiconductor-superconductor heterostructures, oxide heterostructurs), graphen and other low-dimensional systems, molecular nanostructurs, complex organic or metalorganic compounds, as well as ferromagnetic half-metals.
Within the CTD, emergent materials are synthesized and produced as devices or parts thereof, i.e., in the form of nanoscale electronic elements. These devices will both be investigated experimentally and modelled theoretically. This enables us to understand fundamental materials properties, in particular transport phenomena such as quantum interferences, ballististic transport, spin dephasing, spin injection, as well as surface and interface transport. The activities of the CTD form an interdisciplinary bridge between basic research, i.e., the synthesis and study of complex materials, and applied research, e.g., in the field of electronics.
Members of the CTD are scientists from TU Dresden and the surrounding research institutes; the organisational structure is described here.