Welcome to the Nanolino Lab at the Department of Physics, University of Basel!

Our research interest focuses on Scanning Probe microscopy and surface science. We are studying 2D materials and molecular systems with atomic force microscopy and scanning tuneling microscopy in ultra high vacuum at room and cryogenic temperatures. We are interested in their tribological, electronic and quantum properties. We also have some instrumental development of force microscopy activity.

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News from us

NatCom Friction

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New article in Nature Communications

The paper “Non-Amontons frictional behaviors of grain boundaries at layered material interfaces” by Yiming Song and co-workers was published in Nature Communications.
KF-colloquium

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Colloquium Presentation from Katharina Franke

Katharina Franke from FU Berlin gave an inspiring colloquium's talk about "Opportunities from single magnetic adatoms on superconductors".
defense PH

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PhD defense

Congratulation to Dr. Paul Hiret for his PhD thesis defense: "Radiofrequency magnetised and unmagnetised plasma sheath/bulk properties and their influence on the erosion distribution".
P-Willke

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Nano & Quantum Seminar

Philip Willke gives a beautiful talk at the Nano & Quantum Seminar about the ESR-STM, which is electron spin resonance experiments of single atoms and molecules with scanning tunneling microscopy.
Thermal Expansion

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New article in Small

In our work by Scherb et al., we showed that the thermoresponse of 2D supramolecular assemblies can be controlled via the length variation of alkyl chains involved in intermolecular interactions. Our supramolecular assemblies are formed…
Ernst35

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Anniversary celebration

We celebrated 35 remarkable years of scientific excellence of Prof. Ernst Meyer in Department of Physics, University of Basel.
PRL Yiming

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New article in Physical Review Letters

In our work on single, double and triple jumps in atomic friction and its influence on the velocity dependence, Yiming Song, Yin Wang and coworkers observed that double and triple jumps occur more often at higher velocity, which leads to a…
Nicolo

New Master Student

Welcome to Nicolo Lopopolo for his master degree intership. He will investigate tungsten and boron thin films for fusion application.

New PhD position

We have a new PhD position PhD position for a student in Plasma / Thin Films / Surface Science interactions for magnetic nuclear fusion devices.
phosphorene

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New article in nature comm

The work from Outhmane Chahib et al. is published in Nature Communications. Pentamers of phosphorous on Ag(111) were observed by nc-AFM. The charge transfer was determined by field emission resonances (Gundlach resonances) as well as Kelvin…