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20062025
most citedThe mechanism of high-resolution STM/AFM imaging with functionalized tips

615 citations · 1.7k across the 36 of their papers we have counts for

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37 papers

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Observing the spatial and temporal evolution of exciton wave functions

Marcel Theilen, Siegfried Kaidisch, Monja Stettner +12

Excitons, the correlated electron-hole pairs governing optical and transport properties in organic semiconductors, have long resisted direct experimental access to their full quant…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Circular dichroism in the photoelectron angular distribution of achiral molecules

Christian S. Kern, Xiaosheng Yang, Giovanni Zamborlini +9

Circular dichroism in the angular distribution (CDAD) is the effect that the angular intensity distribution of photoemitted electrons depends on the handedness of the incident circ…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025★ 8 cited

Reversible Switching of the Environment-Protected Quantum Spin Hall Insulator Bismuthene at the Graphene/SiC Interface

Niclas Tilgner, Susanne Wolff, Serguei Soubatch +8

Quantum Spin Hall Insulators (QSHI) have been extensively studied both theoretically and experimentally because they exhibit robust helical edge states driven by spin-orbit couplin…

physics.chem-ph2025

Tomographic identification of all molecular orbitals in a wide binding energy range

Anja Haags, Dominik Brandstetter, Xiaosheng Yang +11

In the past decade, photoemission orbital tomography (POT) has evolved into a powerful tool to investigate the electronic structure of organic molecules adsorbed on surfaces. Here…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024

Epitaxial growth of mono- and (twisted) multilayer graphene on SiC(0001)

Hao Yin, Mark Hutter, Christian Wagner +3

To take full advantage of twisted bilayers of graphene or other two-dimensional materials, it is essential to precisely control the twist angle between the stacked layers, as this…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023★ 1 cited

Coherent and incoherent excitation pathways in time-resolved photoemission orbital tomography of CuPc/Cu(001)-2O

Alexa Adamkiewicz, Miriam Raths, Monja Stettner +10

Time-resolved photoemission orbital tomography (tr-POT) offers unique possibilities for tracing molecular electron dynamics. The recorded pump-induced changes of the angle-resolved…

cond-mat.mes-hall2023★ 2 cited

One-dimensional topological superconductivity in a van der Waals heterostructure

Jose Martinez-Castro, Tobias Wichmann, Keda Jin +8

One-dimensional (1D) topological superconductivity is a state of matter that is not found in nature. However, it can be realised, for example, by inducing superconductivity into th…

cond-mat.mes-hall2023★ 5 cited

Electron spin secluded inside a bottom-up assembled standing metal-molecule nanostructure

Taner Esat, Markus Ternes, Ruslan Temirov +1

Artificial nanostructures, fabricated by placing building blocks such as atoms or molecules in well-defined positions, are a powerful platform in which quantum effects can be studi…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022★ 3 cited

A novel high-current, high-resolution, low-kinetic-energy electron source for inverse photoemission spectroscopy

H. Ibach, H. Sato, M. Kubo +3

A high-current electron source for inverse photoemission spectroscopy (IPES) is described. The source comprises a thermal cathode electron emission system, an electrostatic deflect…

cond-mat.mes-hall2022★ 11 cited

How cold is the junction of a millikelvin scanning tunnelling microscope?

Taner Esat, Xiaosheng Yang, Farhad Mustafayev +3

We employ a scanning tunnelling microscope (STM) cooled to millikelvin temperatures by an adiabatic demagnetization refrigerator (ADR) to perform scanning tunnelling spectroscopy (…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022

Benchmarking theoretical electronic structure methods with photoemission orbital tomography

Anja Haags, Xiaosheng Yang, Larissa Egger +10

In the past decade, photoemission orbital tomography (POT) has evolved into a powerful tool to investigate the electronic structure of organic molecules adsorbed on (metallic) surf…

cond-mat.mes-hall2022★ 1 cited

Portrait of locally driven quantum phase transition cascades in a molecular monolayer

Soroush Arabi, Taner Esat, Aizhan Sabitova +7

Strongly interacting electrons in layered materials give rise to a plethora of emergent phenomena, such as unconventional superconductivity. heavy fermions, and spin textures with…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022★ 6 cited

Boron nitride on SiC(0001)

You-Ron Lin, Markus Franke, Shayan Parhizkar +8

In the field of van der Waals heterostructures, the twist angle between stacked two-dimensional (2D) layers has been identified to be of utmost importance for the properties of the…

cond-mat.mes-hall2022★ 5 cited

Nanoscale tip positioning with a multi-tip scanning tunneling microscope using topography images

A. Leis, V. Cherepanov, B. Voigtländer +1

Multi-tip scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) is a powerful method to perform charge transport measurements at the nanoscale. With four STM tips positioned on the surface of a samp…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021★ 14 cited

Vertical structure of Sb-intercalated quasifreestanding graphene on SiC(0001)

You-Ron Lin, Susanne Wolff, Philip Schädlich +7

Using the normal incidence x-ray standing wave technique as well as low energy electron microscopy we have investigated the structure of quasi-freestanding monolayer graphene (QFML…

physics.chem-ph2021

Momentum-space imaging of σ-orbitals for chemical analysis

Anja Haags, Xiaosheng Yang, Larissa Egger +11

Tracing the modifications of molecules in surface chemical reactions benefits from the possibility to image their orbitals. While delocalized frontier orbitals with π-character are…

cond-mat.supr-con2021★ 10 cited

The Vertical Position of Sr Dopants in the SrBiSe Superconductor

You-Ron Lin, Mahasweta Bagchi, Serguei Soubatch +6

The discovery of topological superconductivity in doped BiSe made this class of materials highly important for the field of condensed matter physics. However, the structura…

physics.ins-det2021★ 21 cited

A millikelvin scanning tunneling microscope in ultra-high vacuum with adiabatic demagnetization refrigeration

Taner Esat, Peter Borgens, Xiaosheng Yang +5

We present the design and performance of an ultra-high vacuum (UHV) scanning tunneling microscope (STM) that uses adiabatic demagnetization of electron magnetic moments for control…

eess.SY2021

Control of Scanning Quantum Dot Microscopy

Michael Maiworm, Christian Wagner, Taner Esat +4

Scanning quantum dot microscopy is a recently developed high-resolution microscopy technique that is based on atomic force microscopy and is capable of imaging the electrostatic po…

physics.chem-ph2020★ 67 cited

Tracing orbital images on ultrafast time scales

Robert Wallauer, Miriam Raths, Klaus Stallberg +10

Frontier orbitals, i.e., the highest occupied and lowest unoccupied orbitals of a molecule, generally determine molecular properties, such as chemical bonding and reactivities. Con…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2020★ 1 cited

kMap.py: A Python program for simulation and data analysis in photoemission tomography

Dominik Brandstetter, Xiaosheng Yang, Daniel Lüftner +2

For organic molecules adsorbed as well-oriented ultra-thin films on metallic surfaces, angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy has evolved into a technique called photoemission t…

eess.SY2020

Fusing Online Gaussian Process-Based Learning and Control for Scanning Quantum Dot Microscopy

Maik Pfefferkorn, Michael Maiworm, Christian Wagner +2

Elucidating electrostatic surface potentials contributes to a deeper understanding of the nature of matter and its physicochemical properties, which is the basis for a wide field o…

cond-mat.mes-hall2020★ 77 cited

Autonomous robotic nanofabrication with reinforcement learning

Philipp Leinen, Malte Esders, Kristof T. Schütt +3

The ability to handle single molecules as effectively as macroscopic building-blocks would enable the construction of complex supramolecular structures inaccessible to self-assembl…

cond-mat.mes-hall2019★ 19 cited

Inelastic electron tunneling spectroscopy for probing strongly correlated many-body systems by scanning tunneling microscopy

Fabian Eickhoff, Elena Kolodzeiski, Taner Esat +7

We present an extension of the tunneling theory for scanning tunneling microcopy (STM) to include different types of vibrational-electronic couplings responsible for inelastic cont…