MEST Model

Current Members

PhD Candidates
MSc Candidates
  • None
Undergraduate
  • None


Former Members

PhD thesis completed
  • Fadıl İyikanat
    Optical and Electronic Properties of Atomically-thin Layered Materials: First Principles Calculations
    İzmir Institute of Technology, July 2019 (co-supervised with Hasan Şahin)
  • Gözde Özbal
    Thermoelectric Effect in Layered Nanostructures
    İzmir Institute of Technology, July 2019 (co-supervised with Hâldun Sevinçli)
  • Cihan Bacaksız
    Optical Properties of Ultra-thin Materials
    İzmir Institute of Technology, July 2017 (co-supervised with Hasan Şahin)
  • Mehmet Yağmurcukardeş
    Electronic, Vibrational, and Mechanical Properties of Novel Two Dimensional Monolayer Materials
    İzmir Institute of Technology, July 2017 (co-supervised with Hasan Şahin)
  • H. Duygu Özaydın
    Modelling Electronic and Structural Properties of Graphene and Transition Metal Chalcogenide Nanostructures
    İzmir Institute of Technology, July 2016
MSc theses completed
  • Elif Ünsal
    Electronic, Vibrational and Transport Properties of Quasi-one Dimensional Transition Metal Dichalcogenide Structures
    İzmir Institute of Technology, December 2019 (co-supervised with Hâldun Sevinçli)
  • Fadıl İyikanat
    Calculations of Electric and Magnetic Properties of Triangular Graphene Fragments Using Density Functional Theory: Effects of Edge Functionalization and Electric Field
    İzmir Institute of Technology, July 2013
  • Gözde Özbal
    Fröhlich Polaron Calculations in Non-integer Dimensional Space as a Model of Confinement
    İzmir Institute of Technology, July 2013
  • Cihan Bacaksız
    Excitonic Luminescence in Spherical Core-multi-shell Quantum Dot Structures
    İzmir Institute of Technology, July 2011
  • Ozan Arı
    Electronic, Spintronic, and Transport Properties of Carbon-based Nanowires
    İzmir Institute of Technology, July 2011
  • Duygu Can
    Bias Voltage Control of a Molecular Spin Valve
    Bilkent University, August 2009 (co-supervised with Salim Çıracı)

The acronym MEST-Model refers to "Materials, molecular Electronics, Spintronics, & quantum Transport – Modelling group", that was cooked up when I was at Bilkent University. We still keep the name for our research group.



Group Picture: (Back-left to front-right) Tuğrul Senger, Fadıl İyikanat, Yiğit Tunçtürk, Jülide Yıldırım, Gözde Özbal, Elif Ünsal. (Spring 2018)
An older one: (Left to right) Tuğrul Senger, Gözde Özbal, Mehmet Yağmurcukardeş, Cihan Bacaksız, Fadıl İyikanat, Duygu Özaydın. (Summer 2015)