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PhD Defense of Felix Zahner

16 June 2026, by Kubetzka

Speaker presenting his thesis in front of a committee

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Felix in front of the committee (find the typo on the slide)

We congratulate Felix Zahner for his successful PhD defense! In his talk he focussed on topological edge states and skyrmionic spin textures in the nodal point superconductor and antiferromagnet Mn/Ta(110). His arguably even more interesting results on a new type of Bitter technique for antiferromagnets (Reciprocity of Magnetism and Nanostructure Growth, arXiv) were discussed during question time. Backup slides are for sissies.

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