Recent theses of the SNOM group

2025

• Emil Mahnke, "Nano-Spectroscopic Characterization of Nucleic Acids-Based Macromolecules", Master Thesis, TU Dresden, 2025.

2024

• Maximilian Obst, "Tailoring Phonon Polaritons in 2D van-der-Waals Materials", Dissertation, TU Dresden, 2024.
• Emil Mahnke, "Biomaterial Characterization via THz Nanospectroscopy", Lab Project Report, TU Dresden, 2024

2023

• Jakob Wetzel, "Nanoscopic Fourier-Transform Infrared Spectroscopy on Modern Two-Dimensional Materials", Master Thesis, TU Dresden, 2023.
• Hamed Amin Pour, "The Role of Polarization in Infrared Near-Field Optical Microscopy", Dissertation, TU Dresden, 2023.
• Soham Gharat, "Infrared and Raman Active Phononic Modes in Polar Crystals", Masterarbeit, Master Thesis, 2023.

2022

• Alexander Turchanin, "Nanoskopische Untersuchung von monolagigen lateralen Übergangsmetall-Dichalkogenid Heterostrukturen unter Beleuchtung", Bachelor Thesis, TU Dresden, 2022.
• Tobias Nörenberg, "Terahertz Phonon Polaritons Hosted in the 2D van der Waals Materials α-MoO₃ and α-GeS", Dissertation, TU Dresden, 2022.

2021

• Felix Gregor Kaps, "The Role of Polarization in Scanning Near-Field Optical Microscopy", Master Thesis, TU Dresden, 2021.
• Lukas Wehmeier, "Resonant Phonon Nanoscopy of Perovskite Oxide Interfaces in the Mid-Infrared to Terahertz Regime", Dissertation, TU Dresden, 2021.
• Hebatullah Addoushy, "Numerical Simulations of Optical Properties of Silicon Surfaces with Sub-Wavelength-Scale Structures", Master Thesis, TU Dresden, 2021.

2020

• Maximilian Obst, "Optische und elektrische Untersuchungen an VO₂-Dünnfilmen", Master Thesis, TU Dresden, 2020.

2019

• Denny Lang, "Infrared nanospectroscopy at cryogenic temperatures and on semiconductor nanowires", Dissertation, TU Dresden, 2019.
  (Carried out at Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, HZDR, Prof. Manfred Helm)
• Frederik Kuschewski, "Investigation of nanometer scale charge carrier density variations with scattering-type scanning near-field microscopy in the THz regime", Dissertation, TU Dresden, 2019.

2017

• Jonathan Döring, "Low-temperature scattering-type scanning near-field optical microscopy on ferroelectrics", Dissertation, TU Dresden, 2017.
• Maximilian Obst, "Potential Untersuchung von Graphen-Transistoren mithilfe von Kelvin-Rastersondenmikroskopie", Bachelor Thesis, TU Dresden, 2017.
• Edward Van Sieleghem, "Interference effects in infrared scattering scanning near-field optical microscopy", Master Thesis, TU Dresden and KU Leuven, 2017.