Research areas

• electronic structure of high temperature superconductors: k-space microscopy, transport probes, scanning tunneling spectroscopy
  
  
• electronic structure of colossal magnetoresistant manganites: k-space microscopy, transport probes, x-ray absorption, scanning tunneling spectroscopy
  
  
• crystal growth of transition metal oxides and pnictides: colossal magnetoresistant manganites & high temperature superconductors
  
  
• structure and dynamics of liquid crystalline electronic structure of correlated electron systems

Experimental Techniques

• Angle Resolved PhotoEmission Spectroscopy (ARPES):
  The FOM-Amsterdam Momentum-Space Microscope - FAMoS - made possible by an infastructural grant from the foundation FOM (and also supported by funding from the UvA) offers excellent ARPES performance (2meV, 0.1° resolution, computerized rotation about three angular axes [polar, azimuth and tilt] at a sample temperature of down to 14K).

• Ultra High Vacuum Low Temperature Scanning Tunneling Microscope (UHV LT-STM):
  Commercially available STM/STS system with outstanding performance (drift of only a few Angstrom in 12 hours for 4.5-15K, pm resolution and < 0.5 mV resolution).
  
  
• Travelling solvent floating zone crystal growth (Dr. Yingkai Huang)
  
  
• Resonant dynamical x-ray light scattering Synchrotron-based coherent scattering can be used to probe the dynamics nanoscale order in the spin, charge or orbital order of correlated systems. With the advent of x-ray lasers this technique will come of age in the next few years.
  
  
• photoemission of core and valence levels