Dr. Peter Zahn

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Review Articles

Nicki F. Hinsche, Florian Rittweger, Martin Hölzer, Peter Zahn, Arthur Ernst, and Ingrid Mertig,
Ab initio description of the thermoelectric properties of heterostructures in the diffusive limit of transport,
Phys. Stat. Sol. A 213, 672–683 (2016), First published: 7 October 2015

M. Gradhand, D.V. Fedorov, F. Pientka, P. Zahn, I. Mertig, and B.L. Göyrffy,
First-principles calculations of the Berry curvature of Bloch states and the transport of spin and charge by electrons in solids,
Psi-k: Scientific Highlight of the Month 104 (Feb 2011)

Peter Zahn and Ingrid Mertig,
Enhanced Magnetoresistance
in H. Kronmüller and S. Parkin (eds.), Handbook of Magnetism and Advanced Magnetic Materials,
John Wiley & Sons (July 2007)

Peter Zahn
Spintronics: Transport Phenomena in Magnetic Nanostructures
in S. Gemming, M. Schreiber, and J.-B. Suck (eds.), Materials for Tomorrrow,
chap. 3, Springer, Berlin (2007)

Resistive Switching

D. Blaschke, F. Munnik, J. Grenzer, L. Rebohle, H. Schmidt, P. Zahn, and S. Gemming,
A correlation study of layer growth rate, thickness uniformity, stoichiometry, and hydrogen impurity level in HfO2 thin films grown by ALD between 100°C and 350°C,
Appl. Surf. Sci. 506, 144188 (2020),

Helge Wylezich, Hannes Mähne, Anett Heinrich, Stefan Slesazeck, Jura Rensberg, Carsten Ronning, Peter Zahn, and Thomas Mikolajick,
Adjusting the Forming Step for Resistive Switching in Nb₂O₅ by Ion Irradiation,
J. Vac. Sci. Tech. B 33, 01A105 (2015),

H. Wylezich, H. Mähne, J. Rensberg, C. Ronning, P. Zahn, S. Slesazeck, and T. Mikolajick,
Local Ion Irradiation-Induced Resistive Threshold and Memory Switching in Nb₂O₅/NbOx Films,
ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces 6, 17474-17480 (2014),

Spin and Electronic Transport

Lokamani, M.; Kilibarda, F.; Günther, F.; Kelling, J.; Strobel, A.; Zahn, P.; Juckeland, G.; Gothlef, K.; Sheer, E.; Gemming, S.; Erbe, A.,
Stretch Evolution of Electronic Coupling of the Thiophenyl Anchoring Group with Gold in Mechanically Controllable Break Junctions,
Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 14, 5709-5717 (2023)

J. Kelling, P. Zahn, J. Schuster, and S. Gemming,
Elastic and Piezoresistive Properties of Nickel Carbides from First-Principles,
Phys. Rev. B 95, 024113 (2017), arXiv 1604.00328 (2016),

M. Gradhand, D.V. Fedorov, F. Pientka, P. Zahn, I. Mertig, and B.L. Györfy, First-principles calculations of the Berry curvature of Bloch states for charge and spin transport of electrons, J. Phys.: Cond. Mat. 24, 213202 (2012),

M. Gradhand, D.V. Fedorov, F. Pientka, P. Zahn, I. Mertig, and B.L. Göyrffy,
Calculating the Berry curvature of Bloch electrons using the KKR method,
Phys. Rev. B 84, 075113 (2011)

M. Gradhand, D. V. Fedorov, P. Zahn, and I. Mertig,
Extrinsic spin Hall effect from first principles,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 186403 (2010)

M. Gradhand, D. V. Fedorov, P. Zahn, and I. Mertig,
Spin Hall angle versus spin diffusion length: Tailored by impurities,
Phys. Rev. B 81, 245109 (2010)

M. Gradhand, D. V. Fedorov, P. Zahn, and I. Mertig,
Fully relativistic treatment of spin-flip scattering caused by impurities,
Phys. Rev. B 81, R020403 (2010)

D.V. Fedorov, P. Zahn, M. Gradhand, and I. Mertig, First principles calculations of spin relaxation times of conduction electrons in Cu, Phys. Rev. B 77, 092406 (2008)

Thermoelectric Transport

Peter Zahn,
Universal Limits of Thermopower and Figure of Merit from Transport Energy Statistics,
arXiv 1804.02774 (2018),

Hinsche, N.F.; Rittweger, F.; Hölzer, M.; Zahn, P.; Ernst, A.; Mertig, I.,
Ab initio description of the thermoelectric properties of heterostructures in the diffusive limit of transport,
Phys. Stat. Sol. A 213, 672-683 (2016),

Dankwort, T.; Hansen, A.-L.; Winkler, M.; Schürmann, U.; König, J. D.; Johnson, D. C.; Hinsche, N. F.; Zahn, P.; Mertig, I.; Bensch, W.; Kienle, L.,
Nanostructure, thermoelectric properties, and transport theory of V₂VI₃ and V₂VI₄ / IV-VI based superlattices and nanomaterials,
Phys. Stat. Sol. A 213, 662–671 (2016),

Hinsche, Nicki F.; Hölzer, M.; Ernst, A.; Mertig, I.; Zahn, P.,
Ab intio description of thermoelectric properties based on the Boltzmann theory,
in Eibl, Nielsch, Peranio, Völklein (eds.), Thermoelectric Bi₂Te₃ Nanomaterials, Weinheim: Wiley-VCH (2015), pp. 187-221, ISBN 978-3-527-33489-6,

F. Rittweger, N.F. Hinsche, P. Zahn, and I. Mertig,
Signature of the topological surface state in the thermoelectric properties of Bi₂Te₃,
Phys. Rev. B 89, 035439 (2014),

N.F. Hinsche, I. Mertig, and P. Zahn,
Lorenz function of Bi₂Te₃/Sb₂Te₃ superlattices,
J. Electronic Materials 42, 1406-1410 (2013), arXiv:1206.6124 (2012)

N. F. Hinsche, I. Mertig, and P. Zahn,
Thermoelectric transport in strained Si and Si/Ge heterostructures,
J. Phys.: Cond. Mat. 24, 275501 (2012), arXiv:1205.6313 (2012)

J. de Boor, D. S. Kim, X. Ao, M. Becker, N.F. Hinsche, I. Mertig, P. Zahn, and V. Schmidt,
Thermoelectric properties of porous silicon,
Appl. Phys. A 107, 789-794 (2012)

P. Zahn, N.F. Hinsche, B.Y. Yavorsky, and I. Mertig,
Bi₂Te₃: Implications of the rhombohedral k-space texture on the evaluation of the in-plane/out-of-plane conductivity anisotropy,
J. Phys.: Cond. Mat. 23, 505504 (2011), arXiv:1108.0023 (2011)

Nicki F. Hinsche, Ingrid Mertig, and Peter Zahn, Effect of strain on the thermoelectric properties of silicon: An ab initio study, J. Phys.: Cond. Mat. 23, 295502 (2011) (chosen as Highlight 2011, FREE ARTICLE), arXiv:1103.2120 (2011)

B.Y. Yavorsky, N.F. Hinsche, P. Zahn, and I. Mertig,
Electronic structure and transport anisotropy of Bi₂Te₃ and Sb₂Te₃,
Phys. Rev. B 84, 165208 (2011), arXiv:1109.0186 (2011)

N.F. Hinsche, B.Y. Yavorsky, P. Zahn, and I. Mertig,
Influence of strain on the anisotropic thermoelectric transport properties of Bi₂Te₃ and Sb₂Te₃,
Phys. Rev. B 84, 165214 (2011), arXiv:1108.1304 (2011)

P. Zahn, N.F. Hinsche, B.Y. Yavorsky, and I. Mertig,
Bi₂Te₃: Implications of the rhombohedral k-space texture on the evaluation of the in-plane/out-of-plane conductivity anisotropy,
acc. for J. Phys.: Cond. Mat. (2011), arXiv:1108.0023 (2011)

Metallic Multilayers, Ultrathin Films, Nanowires, Bulk systems:
Electronic Structure, Spectroscopy, and Transport Properties

Ahmad Echresh, Himani Arora, Florian Fuchs, Zichao Li, René Hübner, Slawomir Prucnal, Jörg Schuster, Peter Zahn, Manfred Helm, Shengqiang Zhou, Artur Erbe, Lars Rebohle and Yordan M. Georgiev,
Electrical Characterization of Germanium Nanowires Using a Symmetric Hall Bar Configuration: Size and Shape Dependence,
Nanomaterials 11, 2917 (2021), DOI:10/kw5m

Samir Lounis, Peter Zahn, Alexander Weismann, Martin Wenderoth, Rainer G. Ulbrich, Ingrid Mertig, Peter H. Dederichs, and Stefan Blügel, Theory of real space imaging of Fermi surface parts, Phys. Rev. B 83, 035427 (2011), arXiv:1010.2112 (2010)

P. Bose, P. Zahn, J. Henk, and I. Mertig,
Spin polarization in photoelectron spectroscopy from antiferromagnets: Cr films on Fe(110) from first principles,
Journal of Electron Spectroscopy and Related Phenomena 182, 97 (2010)

M. Gradhand, M. Czerner, D. V. Fedorov, P. Zahn, B. Yu. Yavorsky, L. Szunyogh, and I. Mertig, Spin polarization on Fermi surfaces of metals by the KKR method, Phys. Rev. B 80, 224413 (2009)

A. Weismann, M. Wenderoth, S. Lounis, P. Zahn, N. Quaas, R.G. Ulbrich, P. Dederichs, and S. Blügel,
Seeing the Fermi-surface in Real Space by Nanoscale Electron Focusing,
Science 323, 1190 (2009)

M. Hortamani, L. Sandratskii, P. Zahn, and I. Mertig,
Physical origin of the incommensurate spin spiral structure in Mn₃Si,
J. of Applied Physics 105, 07E506 (2009)

T. Dziekan, V. Meded, S. Shallcross, B. Hjörvarsson, P. Zahn, and S. Mirbt,
Influence of Vanadium spin-polarization on the dissolution of Hydrogen in Vanadium,
Phys. Rev. B 79, 012402 (2009)

T. Dziekan, V. Meded, S. Mirbt, P. Zahn, and S. Shallcross
Anomalies in transition metal conductivity: Strong evidence for Fermi velocity dominance
Phys. Rev. B 77, 155123 (2008)

D.V. Fedorov, G. Fahsold, A. Pucci, P. Zahn, and I. Mertig,
Mobility of conduction electrons in ultrathin Cu and Fe films on Si(111)
Phys. Rev. B 75, 245427 (2007)

T. Dziekan, P. Zahn, V. Meded, and S. Mirbt
Theoretical calculations of mobility enhancement in strained silicon
Phys. Rev. B 75, 195213 (2007)

Dmitry V. Fedorov, Peter Zahn, and Ingrid Mertig,
Manifestation of quantum confinement in transport properties of ultrathin metallic films
Thin Solid Films 515, 6921 (2007)

E.N. Voloshina, Yu.S. Dedkov, M. Richter, and P. Zahn
Electronic structure, magnetism, and spin-dependent transport of CeMnNi₄
Phys. Rev. B 73, 144412 (2006)

Denis V. Vyalikh, Peter Zahn, Manuel Richter, Yuri S. Dedkov, and Serguei L. Molodtsov,
Short-period oscillations in photemission from thin films of Cr(100)
Phys. Rev. B 72, 041402 (2005)

Dmitry V. Fedorov, Peter Zahn, and Ingrid Mertig,
Size effects and conductivity of ultrathin Cu films
Thin Solid Films 473, 346 (2005)

B.Y. Yavorsky, P. Zahn, and I. Mertig
About noncollinear magnetic structures in fcc-Fe on Cu(100)
Jour. Mag. Mag. Mat. 290-291, 408-410 (2005)

B. Yu. Yavorsky, P. Zahn, and I. Mertig,
Ab initio study of the magnetic structure of fcc Fe grown on a Cu(001) substrate
Phys. Rev. B 70, 014413 (2004)

B. Yu. Yavorsky, P. Zahn, and I. Mertig,

V. Meded, S. Olsson, P. Zahn, B. Hjövarsson, and S. Mirbt,
Resistivity of hydrogen-loaded Fe/V and Mo/V (100) superlattices: The role of vanadium expansion
Phys. Rev. B 69, 205409 (2004)

Jörg Opitz, Peter Zahn, and Ingrid Mertig,
Ab initio calculated electronic structure of metallic nanowires and nanotubes
Phys. Rev. B 66, 245417 (2002)

P. Zahn, N. Papanikolaou, F. Erler, and I. Mertig,
Evolution of Co/Cu multilayer conductivity during growth: ab intio study
Phys. Rev. B 65, 134432 (2002) cond-mat/0109293 (2001)

J. Binder, P. Zahn, I. Mertig, R. Zeller, and P.H. Dederichs
Magnetic properties of impurities and impurity pairs in magnetic multilayers
Phil. Mag. B 78, 537 (1998)

Tunneling Magneto Resistance (TMR), Landauer Conductance

Martyna Polok, Dmitry V. Fedorov, Alexei Bagrets, Peter Zahn, and Ingrid Mertig,
Evaluation of conduction eigenchannels of an adatom probed by an STM tip,
Phys. Rev. B 83, 245426 (2011), arXiv:1103.1162 (2011)

P. Bose, P. Zahn, I. Mertig, and J. Henk,
Correlating transmission and local electronic structure in planar junctions: A tool for analyzing transport calculations,
Phys. Rev. B 83, 174451 (2011), arXiv:1012.4936 (2010)

N. F. Hinsche, M. Fechner, P. Bose, S. Ostanin, J. Henk, I. Mertig, P. Zahn,
Strong influence of complex band structure on tunneling electroresistance: A combined model and ab initio study,
Phys. Rev. B 82, 214110 (2010), arXiv:1007.3681v1 (2010)

P. Bose, P. Zahn, J. Henk, and I. Mertig,
Tailoring tunnel magnetoresistance by ultrathin Cr and Co interlayers: A first-principles investigation of Fe/MgO/Fe junctions,
Phys. Rev. B 82, 014412 (2010), arXiv:1001.2322 (2010)

Christian Heiliger, Peter Zahn, Bogdan Yu. Yavorsky, and Ingrid Mertig,
Thickness dependence of the tunneling current in the coherent limit of transport,
Phys. Rev. B 77, 224407 (2008)

Martin Gradhand, Christian Heiliger, Peter Zahn, and Ingrid Mertig,
Tunneling magnetoresistance with amorphous electrodes,
Phys. Rev. B 77, 134403 (2008)

Peter Zahn, Patrik Thunström, and Tomas Johnson,
Complex Band Structures of Spintronics Materials,
in Björn Enquist, Per Lötstedt and Olof Runborg (eds.), Multiscale Modeling and Simulation in Science,
Lecture Notes in Computational Science and Engineering, Vol. 66, Springer, Berlin (September 2008)

Christian Heiliger, Martin Gradhand, Peter Zahn, and Ingrid Mertig,
Tunneling Magnetoresistance on the sub-nanometer scale
Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 066804 (2007)

Christian Heiliger, Peter Zahn, and Ingrid Mertig
Influence of interface oxidation on the TMR ratio of Fe/MgO/Fe tunnel junctions
Jour. Mag. Mag. Mat. 316, 478-480 (2007)

Christian Heiliger, Peter Zahn, Bogdan Yu. Yavorsky, and Ingrid Mertig
Interface structure and bias dependence of Fe/MgO/Fe tunnel junctions: Ab initio calculations
Phys. Rev. B 73, 214441 (2006)

Christian Heiliger, Peter Zahn, Bogdan Yu. Yavorsky, and Ingrid Mertig
Influence of the interface structure on the bias dependence of tunneling magnetoresistance
Phys. Rev. B 72, 180406(R) (2005)

Peter Zahn and Ingrid Mertig,
Landauer conductance of tunnel junctions: Strong impact from boundary conditions
Phil. Mag. B 84 2949 (2004) cond-mat/0310703 (2003)

N. Papanikolaou, J. Opitz, P. Zahn, and I. Mertig,
Spin-filter effect in metallic nanowires
Phys. Rev. B 66, 165441 (2002)

Ingmar Riedel, Peter Zahn, and Ingrid Mertig
Ab intio calculation of the transmission coefficients from a superlattice electronic structure
Phys. Rev. B 63, 195403 (2001) cond-mat/0011059 (2000)

Giant Magneto Resistance (GMR)

M. Fechner, P. Zahn, S. Ostanin, M. Bibes, and I. Mertig,
Switching magnetization by 180° with an electric field,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 197206 (2012)

Peter Zahn, Jörg Binder, and Ingrid Mertig,
Impurity scattering and quantum confinement in giant magnetoresistance systems
Phys. Rev. B 68, 100403(R) (2003)

M.Ye. Zhuravlev, W. Schepper, S. Heitmann, H. Vinzelberg, P. Zahn, I. Mertig, H.O. Lutz, A.V. Vedyayev, G. Reiss, and A. Hütten,
Reliable prediction of giant magnetoresistance characteristics
Phys. Rev. B 65, 144428 (2002)

J. Binder, P. Zahn, and I. Mertig,
Scattering anisotropy and giant magnetoresistance in magnetic multilayers
J. of Applied Physics 89, 7107 (2001)

Frido Erler, Peter Zahn, and Ingrid Mertig
Finite-size effects in giant magnetoresistance: an ab initio calculation
Phys. Rev. B 64, 094408 (2001)

J. Binder, P. Zahn, and I. Mertig
Ab initio calculations of Giant MagnetoResistance
J. of Applied Physics 87, 5182 (2000)

P. Zahn, J. Binder, I. Mertig, R. Zeller, and P.H. Dederichs
Origin of giant magnetoresistance: Bulk or interface scattering?
Phys. Rev. Lett. 80 (19), 4309 (1998)

J. Binder, P. Zahn, and I. Mertig
Inverse Giant MagnetoResistance in Fe/Cu/Co/Cu multilayers
Jour. of Mag. and Mag. Mat. 165, 100-103 (1997)

M. Richter, V.N. Antonov, P. Zahn, P.M. Oppeneer, M. Davis, A.Ya. Perlov, I. Mertig, S.V. Halilov, and H. Eschrig
Ab initio calculations of the giant magnetoresistance in uranium intermetallics
J. of Applied Physics 81, 5538 (1997)

M. Richter, P. Zahn, M. Divis, and I. Mertig
Giant MagnetoResistance in uranium intermetallics: Ab initio calculations for U₂Pd₂In and U₂Pd₂Sn
Phys. Rev. B 54, 11985 (1996)

P. Zahn, I. Mertig, M. Richter, and H. Eschrig
Ab inito calculations of the Giant Magnetoresistance
Phys. Rev. Lett. 75 (16), 2996 (1995)

I. Mertig, P. Zahn, M. Richter, H. Eschrig, R. Zeller, P. H. Dederichs,
Ab initio calculation of residual resistivity in dilute Fe alloys and Giant MagnetioResistance in Fe/Cr multilayers,
J. of Mag. and Mag. Mat. 151, 363 (1995)

Magnetic Interlayer Exchange Coupling

Peter Zahn and Ingrid Mertig,
c(2x2) Interface Alloys in Co/Cu Multilayers- Influence on Interlayer Exchange Coupling and GMR
Phys. Rev. B 63, 104412 (2001) cond-mat/0009213 (2000)

J. Opitz, P. Zahn, J. Binder, and I. Mertig
Ab initio Calculation of the Interlayer Exchange Coupling in Fe/Au - Multilayers:
The Role of Impurities at the Interface
Phys. Rev. B 63, 094418 (2001)

J. Opitz, P. Zahn, J. Binder, and I. Mertig
Interlayer Exchange Coupling in Fe/Au Multilayers
J. of Applied Physics 87, 6588 (2000)

P. Zahn, I. Mertig, R. Zeller, and P.H. Dederichs
Screened KKR with hard core potentials,
Phil. Mag. B 78, 411 (1998)

J. Opitz, P. Zahn, and I. Mertig
Interlayer exchange coupling: a comparison of two theoretical concepts,
Phil. Mag. B 78, 557 (1998)

P. Zahn, I. Mertig, R. Zeller, and P.H. Dederichs
Tight binding KKR - Application to CoCu(001): Electronic structure and transport,
Mat. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc. 475, 525 (1997)

Electronic Structure of Materials

Lokamani, Jeffrey Kelling, Robin Ohmann, Jörg Meyer, Tim Kühne, Gianaurelio Cuniberti, Jannic Wolf, Guido Juckeland, Thomas Huhn, Peter Zahn, Francesca Moresco, and Sibylle Gemming,
Describing chain‑like assembly of ethoxygroup‑functionalized organic molecules on Au(111) using high‑throughput simulations,
Scientific Reports 11, 14949 (2021)

Lokamani, Jeffrey Kelling, Robin Ohmann, Jörg Meyer, Tim Kühne, Gianaurelio Cuniberti, Jannic Wolf, Thomas Huhn, Peter Zahn, Francesca Moresco, and Sibylle Gemming,
A combined experimental and theoretical study of 1,4-bis(phenylethynyl)-2,5-bis(ethoxy)benzene adsorption on Au(111),
Surface Science 712, 121877 (2021), DOI:10/kw5n

Matthias Schneider, Dieter Lipp, Alexander Gladun, Peter Zahn, Axel Handstein, Günter Fuchs, Stefan-Ludwig Drechsler, Manuel Richter, Karl-Hartmut Müller, Helge Rosner,
Heat and Charge Transport Properties of MgB₂,
Physica C 363, 6 (2001) cond-mat/0105429 (2001)

S.-L. Drechsler, S.V. Shulga, K.-H. Müller, G. Fuchs, J. Freudenberger, G. Behr, H. Eschrig, L. Schultz, M.S. Golden, H. von Lips, J. Fink, V.N. Narozhnyi, H. Rosner, P. Zahn, A. Gladun, D. Lipp, A. Kreyssig, M. Loewenhaupt, K. Köpernik, K. Winzer, K. Krug
Superconducting rare earth transition metal borocarbides,
Physica C 318, 117 (1999)

L. M. Sandratski, J. Kübler, P. Zahn, and I. Mertig,
Electronic structure, magnetic, and Fermi surface properties of UPd₂Al₃
Phys. Rev. B 50 (21), 15834 (1994)

Soft Active Matter

Alsaadawi, Yara; Eichler-Volf, Anna; Heigl, Michael; Zahn, Peter; Albrecht, Manfred, and Erbe, Artur
Control over self-assembled Janus clusters by the strength of magnetic field in H₂O₂,
Eur. Phys. J. E 44, 23 (2021), DOI:10/f3dc,

Anna Eichler-Volf, Yara Alsaadawi, Fernando Vazquez Luna, Qaiser Ali Khan, Simon Stierle, Chi Xu, Michael Heigl, Zahra Fekri, Shengqiang Zhou, Peter Zahn, Manfred Albrecht, Martin Steinhart and Artur Erbe,
Sensitivity of PS/CoPd Janus particles to an external magnetic field,
RSC Advances 11, 17051 (2021), DOI:10/hrjh,

Applied Science

Clemens Otto, Susann Zahn, Felix Rost, Peter Zahn, Doris Jaros, and Harald Rohm,
Physical Methods for Cleaning and Disinfection of Surfaces,
Food Engin. Rev. 3, 171-188 (2011)