Theses
The AG Nanomagnetism and Magnonics is happy to work with motivated students who wish to write their thesis on the topics covered by the group.
Please find the list of available, on-going and finished theses below. If you find an interesting topic for you, please contact directly the supervisor. If you wish to work on some other project not covered in this list, please contact us at office.nanomag(at)univie.ac.at. You can find more about our research here.
Doctoral theses
| Name | Topic | Finish date | Supervisor |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fabian Majcen | Inverse-Design Magnonic Transducers and Unconventional Computing Systems | ongoing | Andrii Chumak, Florian Bruckner |
| Kristýna Davídková | Magnonic devices for RF applications and unconventional computing | ongoing | Andrii Chumak |
| David Schmoll | Spin waves coupled to single photons in the visible regime at millikelvin temperatures | ongoing | Sebastian Knauer & AC |
| Rostyslav Serha | Quantum magnonics in paramagnetic and ferrimagnetic materials | ongoing | Andrii Chumak |
| Andrey Voronov | Magnon-based data processing | ongoing | Andrii Chumak, Claas Abert |
| Clemens Schmid | Magnetic flux quanta and spin-wave dynamics in superconductor-ferromagnet hybrid structures | ongoing | Oleksandr Dobrovolskiy |
| Noura Zenbaa | Experimental realisation of direct- and inverse-design magnetic deviceser | 27.01.2025 | Andrii Chumak |
| Sebastian Lamb-Camarena | 3D Curvilinear Nano-Magnetism and Spatio-Temporal Magneto Optic Microscopy | 04.11.2024 | Oleksandr Dobrovolskiy |
| Barbora Budisnká | Edge-barrier and film thickness effects on fast vortex dynamics in superconductors | 20.06.2024 | Oleksandr Dobrovolskiy |
| Michael Schneider | Bose-Einstein condensation of a DC-pulse driven magnon systems | 08.12.2021 | Andrii Chumak |
| Björn Heinz | Nano-scaled exchange magnonics | 01.12.2021 | Andrii Chumak |
Master's theses
| Name | Topic | Finish date | Supervisor |
|---|---|---|---|
| Philipp Jäger | Experimental Realization of Super-Nyquist Sampling Time-Resolved MOKE for Forward Volume Spin Wave Detection | ongoing | Franz Vilsmeier, AC |
| Simon Peinhaupt | Superconducting qubit-based detection of magnons | ongoing | Rostyslav Serha, AC |
| Boris Valenta | Advancements in Experimental Inverse-Design Magnonics | ongoing | Fabian Majcen, AC |
| Phillip Reheberger | Brillouin Light Scattering Spectroscopy at Millikelvin Temperatures | ongoing | David Schmoll, SK, AC |
| Stanislava Shpilinska | Nanoengineered superconductors for magnon generators and single-photon detectors | ongoing | Oleksandr Dobrovolskiy |
| Fabian Majcen | Experimental realisation of inverse-design magnonics | 02.09.2024 | Noura Zenbaa, AC |
| Markus Gruber | Nonlinear conductivity and flux-flow instabilities in superconducting MgB2 thin films | 28.06.2024 | Oleksandr Dobrovolskiy |
| Andreas Höfinger | High-frequency antennas for all-electrical excitation and detection of propagating spin waves | 16.05.2024 | Sebastian Knauer, AC |
| Aram Sajdak | Characterisation of ultrathin Ga:YIG films | 08.02.2024 | Khrystyna Levchenko, AC |
| Clemens Schmid | Flux-flow instability in superconducting Nb, MoSi, and WSi films | 16.02.2023 | Oleksandr Dobrovolskiy |
| David Schmoll | Enabling technology for high frequency quantum magnonics | 31.03.2022 | Sebastian Knauer, AC |
| Elisabeth Weiß | Propagation of magnetostatic surface spin waves in YIG nano-structures | 25.06.2021 | Andrii Chumak |
Bachelor's theses
| Name | Topic | Finish date | Supervisor |
|---|---|---|---|
| Artemis Stamos | Propagating Spin-Wave Spectroscopy at the Macroscale and Nanoscale | ongoing | Kristýna Davídková, AC |
| Wolfgang Czingraber | Microwave spectroscopy of propagating spin-waves in macroscaled YIG films | ongoing | Khrystyna Levchenko, Kristýna Davídková, AC |
| Iva Simonovic | Characterisation of advanced microwave circuits for magnonics | 30.03.2025 | Kristýna Davídková, AC |
| Rebecca Klingbeil | Automatization of ferromagnetic resonance studies | 25.09.2024 | Andrey Voronov, AC |
| Emre Agacdiken | Experimental methods to excite and detect spin-waves | 24.04.2024 | Andrii Chumak |
| Richard Emberger | nvestigation of Yttrium-Iron-Garnet Spheres at Millikelvin Temperatures | 28.09.2023 | Sebastian Knauer |
| Meret Riedl | Quasiparticle energy relaxation in superconductors for single-photon detectors | 19.09.2023 | Oleksandr Dobrovolskiy |
| Simon Peinhaupt | Vector field dependent spin-wave measurements at millikelvin temperatures | 29.02.2023 | Sebastian Knauer |
| Nadine Omar | Surface-plasmon enhancement of Brillouin light spectroscopy | 15.01.2023 | Oleksandr Dobrovolskiy |
| Gabriel Sommer | Cryogenic time-resolved magneto-optical Kerr effect microscopy | 15.01.2023 | Oleksandr Dobrovolskiy |
| Fabian Polnitzky | Design and optimisation of microstrip antennas for spin-wave excitation | 13.09.2023 | Andrii Chumak |
| Fiona Rechberg | Inverse spin Hall effect in YIG/Pt heterostructures | 26.04.2023 | Khrystyna Levchenko, AC |
| Fabian Majcen | Investigation of Backward Volume Magnetostatic Spin Waves using Propagating Spin Wave Spectroscopy | 16.08.2022 | Noura Zenbaa, AC |
| Christopher Kimmel | The generation of propagating spin waves with the combination of spin Hall effect and spin-transfer torque | 30.09.2021 | Andrii Chumak |
| Manuel Alexander Kucera | Approaching a current-controlled dynamic magnonic crystal as a logic gate | 10.2020 | Andrii Chumak |