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| New article published in Communications Materials 2020-02-28  New results published in Communications Materials. Using atomic force microscopy at Room and Low temperature combined with molecular dynamics, we studied the thermal expansion coefficient of 2D molecular islands based on spoked wheel molecules. We find that the increasing motion, with temperature, of the alkyl chains is responsible of the giant thermal expansion coefficient we measured. | ||
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| New PhD Student 2020-02-07 Jung-Ching Liu sarted a PhD with us. She will work on the "Investigation of atomic and molecular structures on Niobium by scanning probe microscopy". | ||
| New article published in Nanoletters 2019-12-06  New results published in Nano Letters. Using atomic force microscopy and molecular dynamics, we detected the sequential bending and twisting around C-C single bond of a long polymeric chain when detached from a gold substrate at low temperature. | ||
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| Best SNI Master Thesis for Sebastian Scherb 2019-11-11  Sebastian Scherb, now PhD student with us received the price for the best Master thesis from the SNI. His work was entitled "UHV AFM and STM studies of electrospray deposited graphene-like molecules". | ||
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| New article published in Nature Materials 2019-10-24  Our results on a new quantum-mechanical dissipation mechanism that occurs only at certain voltages on topological insulator surface is published in Nature Materials. At the specific tip-sample voltage and distance, the single electron migrate from the tip through an intermediate image potential state into the material. The mere presence of a single charge carrier in electronic state strongly influences the energy dissipation on topological insulator surface. | ||
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| New PhD student 2019-10-17 Fabien Sanchez started a PhD with us. He will work on "the interaction of materials surfaces with low energy ions". | ||
| New PostDoc 2019-10-17 Rodrigo Antunes startd his postdoc with us. He will work on "understanding the process of ammonia formation and destruction in a nitrogen / hydrogen plasma". | ||
| nc-AFM Award for Prof. Alexis Baratoff 2019-08-12  During the 22nd international ncAFM conference (July 29th to August 2nd, 2019) in Regensburg, Prof. Alexis Baratoff got the nc-AFM award for his theoretical contributions in this field of research. The award is a 40 million times enlarged model of the Silicon 7x7 surface. Original data were obtained by the non-contact AFM with a CO-terminated tip by Emmerich et al [Science 348, 308 (2015)] and then machined by the workshop of the University of Regensburg. Picture: From left to right: Franz Giessibl, Alexis Baratoff, Jascha Repp and Jay Weymouth. | ||
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| Best poster award for Carl Drechsel at the Swiss Nano Convention 2019-06-25  Car Drechsel received the best poster award price at the Swiss Nano Convention that was held in Lausanne (8-9 June 2019). His poster was about "Adsorption of Fe clusters on superconducting Pb". | ||
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| New article in ACS Nano 2019-05-03  Our results, from the collaboration with the group of Dr Maria Clelia Righi, on the intercalation with potassium bromide of graphene on Cu(111) is published in ACS Nano. | ||
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