
Post Doc Researcher
Philip Willke
Dr. Willke’s research interest focuses on exploring the nano world using scanning probe methods. This includes the magnetic and electronic properties of single atoms, atomic-scale defects and materials. He has investigated local electron transport as well as substitutional defects in graphene and is currently working on magnetic properties of single spin centers on surfaces. Accordingly, new tools and techniques need to be invented and developed, for instance he has further developed the scanning probe techniques of electron spin resonance combined with scanning tunneling microscopy (ESR-STM) as well as scanning tunneling potentiometry (STP).
“Everywhere an early hunch comes before the later knowledge”
- Alexander von Humboldt
- 2013 - 2017
- PhD at Georg-August Universität Göttingen, Scanning Tunneling Microscopy group (Dr. Martin Wenderoth)
- 2012 - 2013
- Master of Science in Physics at Georg-August Universität Göttingen, Focus on Solid State and Materials Physics
- 2011 - 2012
- Genenal Visting Student at Peking University, PR China, Studying Chinese and Physics
- 2008 - 2011
- Bachelor of Science in Physics at Georg-August Universität Göttingen
- 2017 - Current
- Postdoctoral researcher at Center for Quantum Nanoscience, Institute for Basic Science, EWHA Woman’s University, Seoul, South Korea
- 2015 - 2016
- Research Visit, IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, CA, USA (Scanning Tunneling Microscopy group of Dr. Andreas Heinrich / Christopher Lutz)
- 2018
- P. Willke et al., Probing Quantum Coherence in Single Atom Electron Spin Resonance. Science Advances 4, eaaq1543
- 2017
- P. Willke et al., Magnetotransport on the Nanoscale. Nature Communications 8, 15283
- 2015
- P. Willke et al., Spatial extent of a Landauer residual-resistivity dipole in graphene quantified by scanning tunneling potentiometry, Nature Communications 6, 6399
- 2017
- P. Willke et al., Electronic transport properties of 1D-defects in graphene and other 2D-systems. Annalen der Physik.
- 2015
- P. Willke et al., Doping of Graphene by Low-Energy Ion Beam Implantation: Structural, Electronic and Transport Properties, Nano Letters 15 (8), 5110–5115
- 2018-19
- Feodor Lynen Scholarship of the Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation