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Dr. Karsten Rode

Email: rodek(at)tcd.ie

Home: Oslo, Norway

Position: Postdoc

Education

M.Sc. - 2002
Two diplomas obtained, DEA - Diplôme des Études Approfondies and Diplôme d’ingénieur
Institut National des Sciences Appliquées - Toulouse
Final year project: Development of soft and hardware to create a computer control led interface between a semiconductor spreading resistance measurement set-up and the user.
Acquisition and treatment of data.

Ph.D. - 2005
Unité Mixte de Physique CNRS/Thales UMR-137 and Université de Paris-Sud
Ph.D. Title: Contribution à l’étude des semiconducteurs magnétiques - cas de l’oxyde de Zinc dopé au Cobalt
Supervisors Dr. A. Anane, Dr. F. Petroff and Prof. A. Fert

Activities/Interests

European culture, cycling, photography

Specialities

Magneto-transport, optics and electronics. Growth and characterization of Magnetic semiconducting mono- and multilayers

Current Projects

Magneto-transport, optics and electronics. Growth and characterization of Magnetic semiconducting mono- and multilayers

Selected Publications

• Site-specific order and magnetism in tetragonal Mn3Ga thin films
  URL: http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.87.184429
  DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.87.184429
• High spin polarization in epitaxial films of ferrimagnetic Mn3Ga
  URL: http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.83.020405
  DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.83.020405
• Electric field induced changes in the coercivity of a thin-film ferromagnet
  URL: http://iopscience.iop.org/0022-3727/44/30/305001/
  DOI: 10.1088/0022-3727/44/30/305001
• Magnetism of (Zn,Co)O thin films probed by x-ray absorption spectroscopies
  URL: http://apl.aip.org/resource/1/applab/v92/i1/p012509_s1
  DOI: 10.1063/1.2829610