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

615 citations · 1.3k across the 18 of their papers we have counts for

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18 papers

cond-mat.mes-hall2026

A miniature evaporator for in-operando deposition of isolated atoms in a low-temperature scanning tunneling microscope

Jeongmin Oh, Hermann Osterhage, Vasily Cherepanov +5

Depositing dilute atomic ensembles onto cold samples is challenging in low-temperature scanning tunneling microscopes (STM) because radiation shields and restricted internal geomet…

cond-mat.mes-hall2026

Orbitals of Artificial Atoms in a Gapped Two-Dimensional Vacuum

Mong-Wen Gu, Aizhan Sabitova, Taner Esat +4

Advances in nanotechnology now allow the creation of artificial atoms - engineered structures whose electronic states closely mimic those of real atoms. Understanding how these art…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 1 cited

Bond-resolved STM with density-based methods

Emiliano Ventura-Macias, Jose Martinez-Castro, Guillermo Haas +7

Bond-resolved STM (BRSTM) is a recent technique that combines the advantages of scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) with the outstanding intramolecular resolution provided by non-c…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023★ 15 cited

The electrostatic potential of atomic nanostructures on a metal surface

Rustem Bolat, Jose M. Guevara, Philipp Leinen +9

The discrete and charge-separated nature of matter - electrons and nuclei - results in local electrostatic fields that are ubiquitous in nanoscale structures and are determined by…

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.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.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.mes-hall2021

Disentangling the Complex Electronic Structure of an Adsorbed Nanographene: Cycloarene C108

Jose Martinez-Castro, Rustem Bolat, Qitang Fan +9

We combine low-temperature scanning tunneling spectroscopy, CO functionalized tips and algorithmic data analysis to investigate the electronic structure of the molecular cycloarene…

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…

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…

cond-mat.mes-hall2018★ 24 cited

Resolving Ambiguity of the Kondo Temperature Determination in Mechanically Tunable Single-Molecule Kondo Systems

Martin Žonda, Oleksandr Stetsovych, Richard Korytár +7

Determination of the molecular Kondo temperature poses a challenge in most cases when the experimental temperature cannot be tuned to a sufficient extent. We show how this am…

cond-mat.mes-hall2015★ 100 cited

Scanning Quantum Dot Microscopy

Christian Wagner, Matthew F. B. Green, Phillipp Leinen +5

Interactions between atomic and molecular objects are to a large extent defined by the nanoscale electrostatic potentials which these objects produce. We introduce a scanning probe…

cond-mat.mes-hall2014★ 251 cited

The origin of high-resolution IETS-STM images of organic molecules with functionalized tips

Prokop Hapala, F. Stefan Tautz, Ruslan Temirov +1

Recently, the family of high-resolution scanning probe imaging techniques using decorated tips has been complimented by a method based on inelastic electron tunneling spectroscopy…

cond-mat.mes-hall2014★ 615 cited

The mechanism of high-resolution STM/AFM imaging with functionalized tips

Prokop Hapala, Georgy Kichin, Christian Wagner +3

High resolution Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) and Scanning Tunnelling Microscopy (STM) imaging with functionalized tips is well established, but a detailed understanding of the ima…

cond-mat.mes-hall2010★ 16 cited

Dynamical bi-stability of single-molecule junctions: A combined experimental/theoretical study of PTCDA on Ag(111)

Thomas Brumme, Olga Neucheva, Cormac Toher +8

The dynamics of a molecular junction consisting of a PTCDA molecule between the tip of a scanning tunneling microscope and a Ag(111) surface have been investigated experimentally a…

cond-mat.mes-hall2010★ 163 cited

Imaging Pauli repulsion in scanning tunneling microscopy

C. Weiss, C. Wagner, C. Kleimann +3

A scanning tunneling microscope (STM) has been equipped with a nanoscale force sensor and signal transducer composed of a single D2 molecule that is confined in the STM junction. T…

cond-mat.mes-hall2008★ 23 cited

Quantum transport through STM-lifted single PTCDA molecules

Florian Pump, Ruslan Temirov, Olga Neucheva +4

Using a scanning tunneling microscope we have measured the quantum conductance through a PTCDA molecule for different configurations of the tip-molecule-surface junction. A peculia…