Office 3.18
nadine.leisgang-at-unibas.ch
Phone: +41 61 207 37 64

Education

2021 – Now Postdoctoral Researcher, Quantum- and Nanoelectronics Group of Prof. C. Schönenberger and Nano-Photonics Group of Prof. R. Warburton, University of Basel, Switzerland
2017 – 2021 Ph. D. in Physics (QCQT Fellowship), Department of Physics, University of Basel, Switzerland
Thesis: “Electrical control of excitons in a gated two-dimensional semiconductor”
2015 – 2017 M.Sc. Physics (QSIT INSPIRE Award), University of Basel, Switzerland
2012 – 2015 B.Sc. Physics, University of Basel, Switzerland

Research

My research focuses on the fundamental excitonic properties of optically active layered semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs), as well as the interaction of electrons in such systems.

List of Publications

  • L. Sponfeldner, N. Leisgang, S. Shree, I. Paradisanos, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, C. Robert, D. Lagarde, A. Balocchi, X. Marie, I. C. Gerber, B. Urbaszek and R. J. Warburton, Capacitively-coupled and inductively-coupled excitons in bilayer MoS2, arXiv:2108.04248, submitted (2021).
  • N. Leisgang, S. Shree, I. Paradisanos, L. Sponfeldner, C. Robert, D. Lagarde, A. Balocchi, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, X. Marie, R. J. Warburton, I. C. Gerber and B. Urbaszek, Giant Stark splitting of an exciton in bilayer MoS2, Nature Nanotechnology 15, 901–907 (2020).
  • I. Paradisanos, S. Shree, A. George, N. Leisgang, C. Robert, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, R. J. Warburton, A. Turchanin, X. Marie, I. C. Gerber and B. Urbaszek, Controlling interlayer excitons in MoS2 layers grown by chemical vapor deposition, Nature Communications 11, 2391 (2020)
  • J. G. Roch, D. Miserev, G. Froehlicher, N. Leisgang, L. Sponfeldner, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, J. Klinovaja, D. Loss and R. J. Warburton, First-order magnetic phase transition of mobile electrons in monolayer MoS2, Physical Review Letters 124, 187602 (2020)
  • J. G. Roch, G. Froehlicher, N. Leisgang, P. Makk, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi and R. J. Warburton, Spin-polarized electrons in monolayer MoS2, Nature Nanotechnology 14, 432-436 (2019)
  • N. Leisgang, J. G. Roch, G. Froehlicher, M. Hamer, D. Terry, R. Gorbachev and R. J. Warburton, Optical second harmonic generation in encapsulated single-layer InSe, AIP Advances 8, 105120 (2018) (Editor’s Pick).
  • J. G. Roch, N. Leisgang, G. Froehlicher, P. Makk, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, C. Schönenberger and R. J. Warburton, Quantum-confined Stark effect in a MoS2 monolayer van der Waals heterostructure, Nano Letters 18, 1070–1074 (2018).