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

 

Current/recent teaching

 

Recent publications highlights

  • 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)