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Christian Schönenberger

Christian Schönenberger

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Materials Science

D-Index
80
Citations
22229
World Ranking
2711
National Ranking
45

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2012 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For charge transport experiments in metallic, semiconducting and molecular nanoelectronics

Overview

Christian Schönenberger is affiliated with the University of Basel in Switzerland. Their research primarily spans the fields of Physics and Astronomy as well as Materials Science.

Their work encompasses several specialized subfields, including Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics; Materials Chemistry; Condensed Matter Physics; Artificial Intelligence; and Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

The main research topics addressed by Christian Schönenberger include Quantum and electron transport phenomena, Topological Materials and Phenomena, Graphene research and applications, Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism, Quantum Information and Cryptography, 2D Materials and Applications, and Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates.

Frequent publication venues for their research include arXiv (Cornell University), Nano Letters, Physical Review Research, Communications Physics, and Physical Review B.

Significant recent publications comprise:

  • "One-Dimensional Edge Transport in Few-Layer WTe2", 2020, Nano Letters
  • "Gate-tunable Josephson diode in proximitized InAs supercurrent interferometers", 2023, Physical Review Research
  • "Boosting proximity spin orbit coupling in graphene/WSe2 heterostructures via hydrostatic pressure", 2021, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • "Spin cross-correlation experiments in an electron entangler", 2022, Nature
  • "Magnetic-Field-Independent Subgap States in Hybrid Rashba Nanowires", 2020, Physical Review Letters

Schönenberger frequently collaborates with other researchers, among them A. Baumgärtner, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, A. Kononov, and R. Haller.

Among professional recognitions, Christian Schönenberger was named a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) in 2012 for charge transport experiments in metallic, semiconducting, and molecular nanoelectronics.

Best Publications

  • Electrical conduction through DNA molecules

    Hans-Werner Fink;Christian Schönenberger

  • Aharonov–Bohm oscillations in carbon nanotubes

    Adrian Bachtold;Christoph Strunk;Jean-Paul Salvetat;Jean-Marc Bonard

  • TEMPLATE SYNTHESIS OF NANOWIRES IN POROUS POLYCARBONATE MEMBRANES: ELECTROCHEMISTRY AND MORPHOLOGY

    C. Schonenberger;B. M. I. Van Der Zande;L. G. J. Fokkink;M. Henny

  • Hybrid superconductor–quantum dot devices

    Sylvio Hermann de Franceschi;Leo Kouwenhoven;Christian Schönenberger;Wolfgang Wernsdorfer

  • Interference and Interaction in multi-wall carbon nanotubes

    C. Schönenberger;A. Bachtold;C. Strunk;J.-P. Salvetat

  • Molecular junctions based on aromatic coupling

    Songmei Wu;Maria Teresa González;Roman Huber;Sergio Grunder

  • Nanomechanics of microtubules.

    A. Kis;S. Kasas;S. Kasas;B. Babić;A. J. Kulik

  • Colloidal Dispersions of Gold Rods: Synthesis and Optical Properties

    Bianca M. I. van der Zande;Marcel R. Böhmer;Lambertus G. J. Fokkink,†,§ and;Christian Schönenberger

  • Light-Controlled Conductance Switching of Ordered Metal−Molecule−Metal Devices

    Sense Jan van der Molen;Jianhui Liao;Tibor Kudernac;Jon S. Agustsson

  • Contacting carbon nanotubes selectively with low-ohmic contacts for four-probe electric measurements

    A. Bachtold;M. Henny;C. Terrier;C. Strunk

  • Nernst limit in dual-gated Si-nanowire FET sensors.

    O. Knopfmacher;A. Tarasov;Wangyang Fu;M. Wipf

  • Quantum dot in the Kondo regime coupled to superconductors.

    M R Buitelaar;T Nussbaumer;C Schönenberger

  • What Are the "Holes" in Self-Assembled Monolayers of Alkanethiols on Gold?

    C. Schönenberger;J. A. M. Sondag-Huethorst;J. Jorritsma;L. G. J. Fokkink

  • Electrochemical carbon nanotube field-effect transistor

    M. Krüger;M. R. Buitelaar;T. Nussbaumer;C. Schönenberger

  • Aqueous Gold Sols of Rod-Shaped Particles

    Bianca M. I. van der Zande;Marcel R. Böhmer;and Lambertus G. J. Fokkink;Christian Schönenberger

  • Observation of single charge carriers by force microscopy.

    C. Schönenberger;S. F. Alvarado

  • A differential interferometer for force microscopy

    C. Schönenberger;S. F. Alvarado

  • Interference and Interaction in Multiwall Carbon Nanotubes

    C. Schonenberger;A. Bachtold;C. Strunk;J.-P. Salvetat

  • DOMAIN STRUCTURE OF SELF-ASSEMBLED ALKANETHIOL MONOLAYERS ON GOLD

    C. Schonenberger;J. Jorritsma;J. A. M. Sondag-Huethorst;L. G. J. Fokkink

  • Graphene spintronics: the European Flagship perspective

    Stephan Roche;Johan Åkerman;Johan Åkerman;Bernd Beschoten;Jean-Christophe Charlier

  • Electrical conductance of molecular junctions by a robust statistical analysis.

    M. Teresa Gonzalez;Songmei Wu;Roman Huber;Sense J. Van Der Molen

  • Multiwall carbon nanotubes as quantum dots.

    M. R. Buitelaar;A. Bachtold;T. Nussbaumer;M. Iqbal

Frequent Co-Authors

Kenji Watanabe
Kenji Watanabe National Institute for Materials Science
Takashi Taniguchi
Takashi Taniguchi National Institute for Materials Science
Jesper Nygård
Jesper Nygård University of Copenhagen
Adrian Bachtold
Adrian Bachtold ICFO – The Institute of Photonic Sciences
Marcel Mayor
Marcel Mayor University of Basel
László Forró
László Forró University of Notre Dame
Jiaqiang Yan
Jiaqiang Yan Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Hugo Zbinden
Hugo Zbinden University of Geneva
Robert Huber
Robert Huber University of Duisburg-Essen

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