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Near-atomic resolution reconstructions from in situ revitrified cryo samples

Marcel Drabbels, Ulrich Lorenz, Gabriele Bongiovanni, Jonathan Mark Voss, Oliver Florian Harder

A microsecond time-resolved version of cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) has recently been introduced to enable observation of the fast conformational motions of proteins. The technique involves locally melting a cryo sample with a laser beam to allow the ...

2023

Electronic Structure of InAs and InSb Surfaces: Density Functional Theory and Angle-Resolved Photoemission Spectroscopy

Gabriel Aeppli, Vladimir N. Strocov

The electronic structure of surfaces plays a key role in the properties of quantum devices. However, surfaces are also the most challenging to simulate and engineer. Here, the electronic structure of InAs(001), InAs(111), and InSb(110) surfaces is studied ...

WILEY2022

Magnetic Properties of Surface Adsorbed Metal Adatoms and Dimers

Dante Philippe Sblendorio

This thesis investigates the magnetic properties of single atoms and dimers adsorbed on graphene and oxide decoupling layers supported by single crystal metal substrates, using scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) and spin-polarized scanning tunneling micro ...

EPFL2022

Temporally-Coherent Surface Reconstruction via Metric-Consistent Atlases

Pascal Fua, Mathieu Salzmann, Shaifali Parashar, Jan Bednarík, Siddhartha Chaudhuri

We propose a method for the unsupervised reconstruction of a temporally-coherent sequence of surfaces from a sequence of time-evolving point clouds, yielding dense, semantically meaningful correspondences between all keyframes. We represent the reconstruct ...

2021

Copper Nanocrystal Morphology Determines the Viability of Molecular Surface Functionalization in Tuning Electrocatalytic Behavior in CO2 Reduction

Raffaella Buonsanti, James Richard Pankhurst, Valery Okatenko, Pranit Srinivas Iyengar

Molecular surface functionalization of metallic catalysts is emerging as an ever-developing approach to tuning their catalytic performance. Here, we report the synthesis of hybrid catalysts comprising copper nanocrystals (CuNCs) and an imidazolium ligand f ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2021

Infrared Activities of Adsorbed Species on Metal Surfaces: The Puzzle of Adsorbed Methyl (CH3)

Rainer Beck, Harmina Vejayan

Reflection–absorption infrared spectroscopy (RAIRS) is widely used to identify molecular adsorbates on metals during surface chemical reactions, but the interpretation of RAIRS data can be difficult with experiment alone. Here, we reveal from first-princip ...

2021

Gold Chain Formation via Local Lifting of Surface Reconstruction by Hot Electron Injection on H-2(D-2)/Au(111)

Klaus Kern, Anna Maria Roslawska, Abhishek Grewal

The hexagonal close packed surface of gold shows a 22 x root 3 "herringbone" surface reconstruction which makes it unique among the (111) surfaces of all metals. This long-range energetically favored dislocation pattern appears in response to the strong te ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2020

Mapping Electrochemical Heterogeneity at Gold Surfaces: A Second Harmonic Imaging Study

Sylvie Roke, Arianna Marchioro, Igor Nahálka

Designing efficient catalysts requires correlating surface structure and local chemical composition with reactivity on length scales from nanometers to tens of microns. While much work has been done on this structure/function correlation on single crystals ...

2020

The Effect of Surface Reconstruction on the Oxygen Reduction Reaction Properties of LaMnO3

Vasiliki Tileli, Reinis Ignatans

Perovskites have been widely studied for electrocatalysis due to the exceptional activity they exhibit for surface-mediated redox reactions. To date, descriptors based on density functional theory calculations or experimental measurements have assumed a bu ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2019

Exploring the Kondo Effect of an Extended Impurity with Chains of Co Adatoms in a Magnetic Field

Frédéric Mila

Motivated by recent STM experiments, we explore the magnetic field induced Kondo effect that takes place at symmetry protected level crossings in finite Co adatom chains. We argue that the effective two-level system realized at a level crossing acts as an ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2019

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