News list from us
/ Events
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.
/ Research
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.
/ Events
Colloquium Presentation from Katharina Franke
Katharina Franke from FU Berlin gave an inspiring colloquium's talk about "Opportunities from single magnetic adatoms on superconductors".
/ Doctorate/PhD
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".
/ Events
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.
/ Research
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…
/ Events
Anniversary celebration
We celebrated 35 remarkable years of scientific excellence of Prof. Ernst Meyer in Department of Physics, University of Basel.
/ Research
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…