Master thesis subjects 2024-2025
The Department of Solid State Sciences offers several master thesis subjects every year. An overview of the topics for the academic year 2024-2025 is listed below. Click on a subject to see more details and don't hesitate to contact us if you have further questions. Some of the topics were highlighted by several of our PhD students, and you can watch their pitches (only in Dutch).
CoCooN
(conformal coatings for nanomaterials, surface modification, surface physics, nano-electronics en energy applications)
Gaining fundamental insight in Atomic Layer Deposition
- In situ measurement techniques for atomic layer deposition: a big data approach
- Coatings with atomic precision for enabling the observation of Gravitational Waves
Materials for nano-electronics and sensors
- Atomic Layer Deposition of Cobalt for applications in the semiconductor industry
- Characterisation of smart glass: pushing towards sustainable windows
- Small and sensitive: multiple protection strategies for light emitting quantum dots
- Selector devices: key components in next-gen memory technology
Materials for lithium-ion batteries for energy storage
- Atomic Layer Deposition of functional coatings for Lithium-ion batteries
- Protection of lithium anodes by atomic layer deposition of metal oxides
- Thin film technology for on-chip batteries
Materials for electrolysis of hydrogen as sustainable energy carrier
- Atomic layer deposition of metal sulphides for energy applications
- Surface physics of electrodes for green hydrogen production
DiSC
(study of defects in semiconductors and research of paramagnetic defects in solids)
- Active Eu-centers in radiation dosimeter materials
- Defects in SiGe/Si heteroepitaxial layers for advanced nanosheet MOS transistors
DRAFT
(surface physics and thin films)
- Noble metals: an optical study on nucleation
- Refractory elements as sensor for thin film growth
- Study on Reactively Sputtered ITO Layers
DyNaMat
(dynamics of functional nanomaterials)
- Imaging of domain and domain wall dynamics in antiferromagnets
- A nanomagnetic realisation of a Brownian motor
- Coercivity-size relation of magnetic nanoparticles
- Modelling coupled order parameters in nano scaled 2D-heterostructures
LumiLab
(luminescence, optical spectroscopy, photocatalysis and switchable materials)
- A post-plasma photocatalytic reactor for air purification
- Near-infrared emitting luminescent materials for multimodal medical diagnostics
- Self-sensing materials by luminescence
- Visual detection of internal defects in structures by a thermo-luminescent coating
- Cathodoluminescence in an electron microscope: the perfect research tool for UV emitting phosphors
- Quantifying light pollution in the wider Ghent area
- Small and sensitive: multiple protection strategies for light emitting quantum dots
- The road to glow-in-the-dark road markings
- Active Eu-centers in radiation dosimeter materials