Sverre Magnus Selbach
Background and activities
Research group: Functional Materials and Materials Chemistry (FACET)
Professor of materials chemistry at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at NTNU since 2018, assoc. prof. 2012-18. Visting scientist in the Materials Theory Group at ETH Zürich 2011-12 and at Materials Research Laboratory at UC Santa Barbara in 2008.
PhD in solid state chemistry from NTNU (2009), sivilingeniør (MSc) in Materials Science and Engineering from NTNU (2005), born 1980.
Supervised 4 graduated PhD students, 2 post docs and 22 MSc students. Currently 2 post docs, 3 PhD students and 3 MSc students. About 80 peer-reviewed papers in international journals.
Current post docs and students
- Post doc Didrik R. Småbråten
- Post doc Benjamin Williamson
- PhD student Elise Ramleth Østli
- PhD student Frida Paulsen Danmo
- PhD student Øystein Gullbrekken
- Stud. techn. Iman Yusuf
- Stud. techn. Kristoffer Eggestad
- Stud. techn. Ivar Loland Råheim
Current/recent teaching
- TMT4320 Nanomaterials
- TMT4301 Materials Characterization
- TMT4166 Experimental Materials Chemistry and Electrochemistry
- MT8308 Advanced Solid State Chemistry
Recent publications highlights
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Donald M. Evans, Theodor S. Holstad, Aleksander B. Mosberg, Didrik R. Småbråten, Per Erik Vullum, Anup L. Dadlani, Konstantin Shapovalov, Zewu Yan, Edith Bourret, David Gao, Jaakko Akola, Jan Torgersen, Antonius T. J. van Helvoort, Sverre M. Selbach and Dennis Meier
Conductivity control via minimally invasive anti-Frenkel defects in a functional oxide
Nature Mater. (2020) DOI: 10.1038/s41563-020-0765-x. -
Didrik R. Småbråten, Theodor S. Holstad, Donald M. Evans, Zewu Yan, Edith Bourret, Dennis Meier and Sverre M. Selbach
Domain wall mobility and roughening in doped ferroelectric hexagonal manganites
Phys. Rev. Res. 2 (2020) 033159. -
Petrucio Barrozo Didrik R. Småbråten Yun‐Long Tang Bhagwati Prasad Sahar Saremi Rustem Ozgur Vishal Thakare Rachel A. Steinhardt Megan E. Holtz Vladimir Alexandru Stoica Lane W. Martin Darrel G. Schlom Sverre M. Selbach and Ramamoorthy Ramesh
Defect‐Enhanced Polarization Switching in the Improper Ferroelectric LuFeO3
Adv. Mater. 32 (2020) 2000508. -
Astrid Marthinsen, Tor Grande and Sverre M. Selbach
Microscopic Link between Electron Localization and Chemical Expansion in AMnO3 and ATiO3 Perovskites (A = Ca, Sr, Ba)
J. Phys. Chem. C 124 (2020) 12922. -
Sandra H. Skjærvø, Quintin N. Meier, Mikhail Feygenson, Nicola A. Spaldin, Simon J. L. Billinge, Emil S. Bozin and Sverre M. Selbach
Unconventional Continuous Structural Disorder at the Order-Disorder Phase Transition in the Hexagonal Manganites
Phys. Rev. X 9 (2019) 031001. -
Didrik R. Småbråten, Quintin N. Meier, Sandra H. Skjærvø, Katherine Inzani, Dennis Meier and Sverre M. Selbach
Charged domain walls in improper ferroelectric hexagonal manganites and gallates
Phys. Rev. Mater. 2 (2018) 114405. -
Sandra H. Skjærvø, Didrik R. Småbråten, Nicola A. Spaldin, Thomas Tybell and Sverre M. Selbach
Oxygen vacancies in the bulk and at neutral domain walls in hexagonal YMnO3
Phys. Rev. B 98 (2018) 184102. -
Jacob Schaab, Sandra H. Skjærvø, Stefan Krohns, X. Dai, Megan Holtz, Andres Cano, Martin Lilienblum, Zevu Yan, Edith Bourret, David A. Muller, Manfred Fiebig, Sverre M. Selbach and Dennis Meier
Electrical half-wave rectification at ferroelectric domain walls
Nature Nano. 13 (2018) 1028. -
Bo Jiang, Trygve M. Raeder, De-Ye Lin, Tor Grande and Sverre M. Selbach
Structural Disorder and Coherence across the Phase Transitions of Lead-Free Piezoelectric Bi0.5K0.5TiO3
Chem. Mater. 30 (2018) 2631-2640. -
Astrid Marthinsen, Sinéad M. Griffin, Magnus Moreau, Tor Grande, Thomas Tybell and Sverre M. Selbach
Goldstone-like phonon modes in a (111)-strained perovskite
Phys. Rev. Mater. 2 (2018) 014404. -
Bo Jiang, Tor Grande and Sverre M. Selbach
Local structure of disordered Bi0.5K0.5TiO3 investigated by pair distribution function analysis and first principles calculations
Chem. Mater. 29 (2017) 4244-4252. -
Katherine Inzani, Mohammedreza Nematollahi, Fride Vullum-Bruer, Tor Grande, Turid Worren Reenaas and Sverre M. Selbach
Electronic Properties of Reduced Molybdenum Oxides
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 19 (2017) 9232-9245. -
Sandra H. Skjærvø, Espen T. Wefring, Silje K. Nesdal, Nikolai H. Gaukås, Gerhard H. Olsen, Julia Glaum
Interstitial Oxygen as a Source of p-type Conductivity in Hexagonal Manganites
Nature Commun. 7 (2016) 13745. - Astrid Marthinsen, Carina Faber, Ulrich Aschauer, Nicola A. Spaldin and Sverre M. Selbach
Coupling and competition between ferroelectricity, magnetism, strain, and oxygen vacancies in AMnO3perovskites
MRS Commun. 6 (2016) 182-191.
- Evan L. Runnerstrom, Amy Bergerud, Ankit Agrawal, Robert W. Johns, Clayton J. Dahlman, Ajay Singh, Sverre M. Selbach and Delia J. Milliron
Defect Engineering in Plasmonic Metal Oxide Nanocrystals
Nano Lett. 16 (2016) 3390–3398.
- Katherine Inzani, Tor Grande, Fride Vullum-Bruer and Sverre M. Selbach*
A van der Waals Density Functional Study of MoO3 and Its Oxygen Vacancies
J. Phys. Chem. C 120 (2016) 8959–8968.
Alumni
- Katherine Inzani (Post doc, 2016-2018)
- Bo Jiang (Post doc, 2014-2017)
- Lu Xia (PhD, 2019)
- Astrid Marthinsen (PhD, 2018)
- Didrik R. Småbråten (PhD, 2018)
- Sandra Helen Skjærvø (PhD, 2017)
- Sigmund Sørensen Kielland (Siv.ing./MSc 2019)
- Embla Tharaldsen Bø (Siv.ing./MSc 2019)
- Steinar Åsmund Fagervoll (Siv.ing./MSc 2019)
- Xiaotian Li (Siv.ing./MSc 2018)
- Frida Paulsen Danmo (Siv.ing./MSc 2018)
- Frida Sveen Hempel (Siv.ing./MSc 2018)
- Ingeborg Treu Røe (Siv.ing./MSc 2017)
- Mohammed Mostafa Adnan (Siv.ing./MSc 2017)
- Nikolai Helth Gaukås (Siv.ing./MSc 2016)
- Stine Marie Hoggen (Siv.ing./MSc 2016)
- Kristian Fredrik Thorbjørnsen (Siv.ing./MSc 2016)
- Rasmus Vester Thøgersen (Siv.ing./MSc 2016)
- Elise Ramleth Østli (Siv.ing/MSc 2015)
- Mari Reidulff (Siv.ing./MSc 2014)
- Astrid Marthinsen (Siv.ing./MSc 2014)
- Madelen Mørk Frydenlund (Siv.ing./MSc 2014)
- Christine Blom (Siv.ing./MSc 2014)
- Tormod Østmoe (Siv.ing./MSc 2014)
- Stine Lund Walø (Siv.ing./MSc 2013)
- Silje Kathrin Nesdal (Siv.ing./MSc 2013)
- Torbjørn Cederløv (Siv.ing./MSc 2010)
- Amund Nordli Løvik (Siv.ing./MSc 2010)