• PhD (Dr. rer. nat.), 2003, Philipps-Universität Marburg
• MSc, 2000, North Carolina State University
  
• Diplom, 2000, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg

Research Interests:

Christoph Boehme joined the physics department faculty in January 2006. His work is centered about the detection of coherent spin motion of extremely small spin ensembles. Traditionally, spin coherence is measured by pulsed magnetic resonance methods which are based on the detection of radiation. As these methods are not able to detect small numbers of spins (electron spin resonance detection limits are typically in the ranges of 108 to 1010 spins), their use for the investigation of systems with low spin densities (e.g. highly diluted chemical radicals) or microscopic quasi 2 dimensional systems such as semiconductor surfaces and interfaces is difficult.

Christoph Boehme's work is centered about the exploration and the development of pulsed electrically and optically detected magnetic resonance spectroscopies and their application to inorganic and organic material systems as well as the development of single spin readout techniques for spin electronics and quantum information concepts.

The materials aspects of this work are significant for thin film technology as used for microelectronics, photovoltaics and display technology.

In addition to these activities, Christoph Boehme has also worked on a number of studies on solar cell technology which are not related to magnetic resonance and spin detection.

Selected Recent Publications

• "Spin Rabi flopping in the photocurrent of a polymer light emitting diode," D.R. McCamey, H.A. Seipel, S.Y. Paik, M.J. Walter, N.J. Borys, J.M. Lupton* and C. Boehme*, Nature Materials, 7 (2008).
• "Spin-dependent processes at the crystalline Si-SiO 2 interface at high magnetic fields," D.R. McCamey*, G.W. Morley, H.A. Seipel, L.C. Brunel, J. van Tol and C. Boehme*, Phys. Rev. B, 78, 045302 (2008).
  Also on " Virtual Journal of Quantum Information" 8 (7) (2008). Also on arXiv:cond-mat/0802.0230v1 (2008).
• "Effect of exchange coupling on coherently controlled spin-dependent transition rates," A. Glieshce, C. Michel, V. Rajevac, K. Lips, S.D. Baranovskii, F. Gebhard, and C. Boehme*, Phys. Rev. B, 77, 245206 (2008). Also on arXiv:cond-mat/0801.1304 (2008).
• "Room Temperature Electrical Detection of Spin Coherence in C60," W. Harneit*, C. Boehme*, S. Schaefer, K. Huebener, K. Fostiropoulos, and K. Lips, Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 216601 (2007). Also on arXiv:cond-mat/0702604 (2007).
• "Electrical detection of 31P spin quantum states," A.R. Stegner*, C. Boehme*, H. Huebl, M. Stutzmann, K. Lips, M.S. Brandt, Nature Physics 2, 835 (2006).
  also on arXiv – quant-ph: 0607178 (2006).
• "The investigation of charge carrier recombination and hopping transport with pulsed electrically detected magnetic resonance techniques," Christoph Boehme*, Klaus Lips, published as book article in the book: "Charge transport in disordered solids with applications in electronics", Wiley Publisher, ISBN: 0-470-09504-0, edited by Sergei Baranovski (2006).
• "Electrical detection of spin coherence in silicon," C. Boehme*, K. Lips, Phys. Rev. Lett.,  91(24), 246603 (2003).
  Also published in the Virtual Journal of Quantum Information and the Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology
• "Theory of the time-domain measurement of spin-dependent recombination with pulsed electrically detected magnetic resonance," C. Boehme*, K. Lips, Phys. Rev. B,  68 (24),   245105 (2003).
• "H loss mechanism during anneal of silicon nitride: Chemical dissociation," C. Boehme*, G. Lucovsky, J. Appl. Phys.,  88 (10),  6055 (2000).