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.
Open positions
Interested to work with us ? Don't hesitate to look our open positions or send us your CV.
News from us
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Global Science Film Festival
The documentary "AFM - A Swiss success story with three letters and hundreds of applications" was shown in the the Cinema "Stadtkino" as part of Global Science Film Festival 2024.
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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.
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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".
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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".
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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.
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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…
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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.
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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…