As and Epitaxial-Growth MnSi Thin Films - OPUS Würzburg
As and Epitaxial-Growth MnSi Thin Films - OPUS Würzburg
As and Epitaxial-Growth MnSi Thin Films - OPUS Würzburg
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Acknowledgements<br />
First ofall I would like to express my gratitudeto Prof. Dr. Laurens W. Molenkamp<br />
the head of the EP3 chair <strong>and</strong> the spintronics group for giving me the opportunity<br />
to work in his group.<br />
I also want to especially thank the following groups of people:<br />
• PD Dr. Charles Gould for allowing me to work as part of his team <strong>and</strong> for<br />
the helpful corrections <strong>and</strong> suggestions for this thesis. Prof. Dr. Matthias Bode<br />
<strong>and</strong> Prof. Dr. Reinhold Oppermann for agreeing to be my Gutachters in such short<br />
notice <strong>and</strong> their help with this thesis. The Faculty for accelerating the process due<br />
to my numerous visa issues.<br />
• The C113 people: Dr. Fanny Greullet, Tsvetelina Naydenova, Marjan Samiepour,<br />
Thomas Wagner <strong>and</strong> honorary office mate Shijin Babu - thank you very much for<br />
the good memories <strong>and</strong> the enormous help during experiments, in doing data analysis<br />
<strong>and</strong> trying to relax.<br />
•TheC114apeople: Dr. StefanMark, PhilipHartmann, Dr. Michael Rüth,Gabriel<br />
Radu-Dengel <strong>and</strong> Thorsten Kloß, thank you very much for your kindness <strong>and</strong> help<br />
during experiments.<br />
• MBE guys Dr. Lars Ebel for growing the (Ga,Mn)<strong>As</strong> wafers <strong>and</strong> Dr. Christoph<br />
Pohl for the <strong>MnSi</strong> thin films. Florian Pfaff <strong>and</strong> from EP4 <strong>and</strong> his students for<br />
the PLD STO growth <strong>and</strong> Dr. Michael Sing <strong>and</strong> Prof. Dr. Ralph Claessen for<br />
allowing me to use their samples. Dr. Bastian Büttner, Philipp Dürrenfeld, Philip<br />
Hartmann, Fabian Dürr <strong>and</strong> Oliver Hermann for the help in translating some parts<br />
of this thesis. Thanks to Tanja Borzenko <strong>and</strong> Volkmar Hock for all the help <strong>and</strong><br />
answering my questions during device fabrication.<br />
• To everybody else in EP3, thanks for your kindness to a stranger in a strange<br />
l<strong>and</strong>.<br />
• I also would like to gratefully acknowledge the opportunity provided to me by the<br />
European Commission through the Marie Curie Program FP7 as an Early Stage<br />
Researcher.<br />
• To my family, who are always patiently waiting for me to stop this nonsense <strong>and</strong><br />
come home.<br />
• Last but not the least, I would like to thank whatever higher power put me here,<br />
because this experience made me realize what is truly important in life.
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