Department of Physics
Force Microscopy Lab | Meyer Group
Akash Gupta, Gema Navarro and Léa Stan won scientific awards during conferences. Congrats to you ! Akash Gupta won the prize of the NCCR SPIN Art & Science Contest 2026 in the category of Visual Representation of a scientific concept in…
In this work, we investigate oxygen-reduced strontium titanate (SrTiO₃) using a combination of low-temperature atomic force microscopy (AFM) and scanning tunneling spectroscopy (STS). Our tunneling measurements reveal Image Potential…
Shaivi Gupta started her PhD thesis with us. She will work on on Radio-frequency plasma cleaning for ITER diagnostic first mirrors. Enjoy the way.
We colaborated to the article ”Laterally π-Extended Polyhelicenes” published in JACS. To help demonstrating the synthesis of of laterally π-extended polyhelicenes (EPHs) we used Electrospray deposition to safely transfert the EPHs in UHV…
Our work ”Superlubricity of Borophene: Tribological Properties in Comparison to hBN” is published in ACS Nano. We combined SPM techniques and calculations to study the lateral interface formed between borophene and hBN and showed for the…
Vijayalaxmi Sankeshwar started PhD with us. She will use advanced surface characterization (ncAFM, KPFM) to tudy doping in semiconductors with the aim of paving the way for next-generation quantum technologies.
Lucien Van Assche starded his PhD with us. He will work on Probing spins in molecular systems adsorbed on superconductors.
Our work ”Chemical Coordination Induced Fullerene Dimers on Hot Pt(111)” is published in Angewandte. We combined non contact AFM and DFT simulation to study the thermal evolution of C60 islands. Its reveal the importance of C60 dimers as…
Our work “Moiré Energy Dissipation Driven by Nonlinear Dynamics” by Shuyu Huang et al. is published in ACS Nano. It uncovers the nonlinear instability-driven energy dissipation in moiré superlattices, advancing the understanding of…
Sanah Hussain started her PhD thesis with us. She will work on plasma wall interaction for fusion reactor.
