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Teaching Solid-State Physics  (PDF, 3Mb) Lecture notes of a course given by Bernard Giovannini (in french) MaNEP Doctoral School The MaNEP doctoral program was launched at the end of 2007 in DPMC, Geneva. Please follow the above link for more information.

Computing MAFALDA Our local computing facility: a cluster of 90 CPUs SpeS Spectral properties of supercondutors (Fortran-90 code, access restricted) ELISA QMC/DMFT in 0 and 1 dimensions (Fortran-90 code, access restricted) This PDF file contains the theory behind the code. Utilities SPOT STM-related bibliographic database (access restricted) VUC Free web-based multi-purpose unit calculator and converter Widget for MacOS X users === >

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Graduate studies (1994-1998)

Master thesis (1993-1994)

PUBLICATIONS

[26] Imaging the essential role of spin-fluctuations in high-T_c superconductivity

N. Jenkins, Y. Fasano, C. Berthod, I. Maggio-Aprile, A. Piriou, E. Giannini, B. W. Hoogenboom, C. Hess, T. Cren, and Ø. Fischer

arXiv:0909.0500 (2009)

[ arXiv ]

[25] Hall effect on the triangular lattice

G. León, C. Berthod, T. Giamarchi, and A. J. Millis

Physical Review B 78, 085105 (2008)

[ PRB - arXiv ]

[24] Scanning tunneling spectroscopy in the superconducting state and vortex cores of the β-pyrochlore KOs₂O₆

C. Dubois, G. Santi, I. Cuttat, C. Berthod, N. Jenkins, A. P. Petrovic, A. A. Manuel, Ø. Fischer, S. M. Kazakov, Z. Bukowski, and J. Karpinski

Physical Review Letters 101, 057004 (2008)

[ PRL - arXiv ]

[23] Preeminent role of the Van Hove singularity in the strong-coupling analysis of scanning tunneling spectroscopy for two-dimensional cuprates

G. Levy de Castro, C. Berthod, A. Piriou, E. Giannini, and Ø. Fischer

Physical Review Letters 101, 267004 (2008)

[ PRL - cond-mat - ]

[22] Hall effect in strongly correlated low dimensional systems

G. León, C. Berthod, and T. Giamarchi

Physical Review B 75, 195123 (2007)

[ PRB - cond-mat ]

[21] Node-like excitations in superconducting PbMo₆S₈ probed by scanning tunneling spectroscopy

C. Dubois, A. P. Petrovic, G. Santi, C. Berthod, A. A. Manuel, M. Decroux, Ø. Fischer, M. Potel, and R. Chevrel

Physical Review B 75, 104501 (2007)

[ PRB - cond-mat ]

[20] Scanning tunneling spectroscopy of high-temperature superconductors

Ø. Fischer, M. Kugler, I. Maggio-Aprile, C. Berthod, and Ch. Renner

Reviews of Modern Physics 79, 353 (2007)

[ RMP - cond-mat - - ]

[19] Breakup of the Fermi surface near the Mott transition in low-dimensional systems

C. Berthod, T. Giamarchi, S. Biermann, and A. Georges

Physical Review Letters 97, 136401 (2006)

[ PRL - cond-mat ]

[18] Heterovalent interlayers and interface states: An ab initio study of GaAs/Si/GaAs (110) and (100) heterostructures

M. Di Ventra, C. Berthod, and N. Binggeli

Physical Review B 71, 155324 (2005)

[ PRB - cond-mat ]

[17] Vorticity and vortex-core states in type-II superconductors

C. Berthod

Physical Review B 71, 134513 (2005)

[ PRB - cond-mat - ]

[16] Schottky barrier heights at polar metal/semiconductor interfaces

C. Berthod, N. Binggeli, and A. Baldereschi

Physical Review B 68, 085323 (2003)

[ PRB - cond-mat ]

[15] Modeling scanning tunneling spectra of Bi₂Sr₂CaCu₂O_8+δ

B. W. Hoogenboom, C. Berthod, M. Peter, Ø. Fischer, and A. A. Kordyuk

Physical Review B 67, 224502 (2003)

[ PRB - cond-mat - ]

[14] Density of States in High-T_c Superconductor Vortices

C. Berthod and B. Giovannini

Physical Review Letters 87, 277002 (2001)

[ PRL - cond-mat - ]

[13] Ideal unreactive metal/semiconductor interfaces: The case of Zn/ZnSe(001)

S. Rubini, E. Pelucchi, M. Lazzarino, D. Kumar, A. Franciosi, C. Berthod, N. Binggeli, and A. Baldereschi

Physical Review B 63, 235307 (2001)

[ PRB ]

[12] Cooperon-propagator description of high-temperature superconductivity

C. Berthod and B. Giovannini

Physica C 364-365, 467 (2001)

[ Physica C - cond-mat ]

[11] Gorkov equations for a pseudogapped high-temperature superconductor

B. Giovannini and C. Berthod

Physical Review B 63, 144516 (2001)

[ PRB - cond-mat ]

[10] Koster-Slater model for the interface-state problem

M. Di Ventra, C. Berthod, and N. Binggeli

Physical Review B 62, R10622 (2000)

[ PRB ]

[9]   Schottky barrier tuning with heterovalent interlayers: Al/Ge/GaAs versus Al/Si/GaAs

C. Berthod, N. Binggeli, and A. Baldereschi

Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology B 18, 2114 (2000)

[ JVSTB ]

[8]   Electronic Properties of Ideal and Engineered Metal/Semiconductor Interfaces

C. Berthod

PhD Thesis n°1914 (EPFL, Lausanne, 1999)

[ PDF (3Mb) ]

[7]   Formation energy, lattice relaxation, and electronic structure of Al/Si/GaAs(100) junctions

C. Berthod, N. Binggeli, and A. Baldereschi

Physical Review B 57, 9757 (1998)

[ PRB ]

[6]   Al/ZnSe(100) Schottky-barrier height versus initial ZnSe surface reconstruction

M. Lazzarino, G. Scarel, S. Rubini, G. Bratina, L. Sorba, A. Franciosi, C. Berthod, N. Binggeli, and A. Baldereschi

Physical Review B 57, R9431 (1998)

[ PRB ]

[5]   Local interface dipoles and the tuning of the Al/GaAs(100) Schottky barrier height with ultrathin Si interlayers

C. Berthod, N. Binggeli, and A. Baldereschi

Europhysics Letters 36, 67 (1996)

[ EPL ]

[4]   Schottky barrier tuning at Al/GaAs(100) junctions

C. Berthod, J. Bardi, N. Binggeli, and A. Baldereschi

Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology B 14, 3000 (1996)

[ JVSTB ]

[3]   Schottky barrier engineering at Al/Ga_1-xAl_xAs junctions

J. Bardi, C. Berthod, N. Binggeli, and A. Baldereschi

Proceedings of the XXIII International Conference on the Physics of Semiconductors (World Scientific, Singapore, 1996), p. 1003

[2]   dc transport in perturbed multichannel quantum wires

C. Berthod, F. Gagel, and K. Maschke

Physical Review B 50, 18299 (1994)

[ PROLA ]

[1]   Electron transport in perturbed quantum wires

C. Berthod, F. Gagel, and K. Maschke

Proceedings of the XXII International Conference on the Physics of Semiconductors (World Scientific, Singapore, 1994) p. 1943

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Personal data

	Date of birth	October 24, 1968
	Marital status	Married, two children
	Postal address	Marteray 18, 1752 Villars-sur-Glâne

Positions

	2006-	Scientific collaborator at DPMC
	1999-2005	"Maître assistant" at DPMC, University of Geneva

Education

	12/1998	PhD degree in physics
	1994-1998	Graduate studies at EPFL
	03/1994	Master degree at the Institute of Applied Physics (IPA-EPFL)
	1990-1994	Undergraduate studies in physics at EPFL, Lausanne
	1989	Various jobs in Austria and Greece
	06/1988	Swiss classical baccalaureate (latin-greek), Saint-Maurice