Publications by Wolf-Dieter Schneider

Engineering Spin Interaction Channels of FePc on Au(111)

We demonstrate the reversible control of interactions between a local molecular spin, hosted within an iron phthalocyanine (FePc) molecule, and the conduction electrons of a supporting Au(111) surface. Using the tip of a scanning tunneling microscope, we d ...

American Chemical Society (ACS)2025

Highlights of the Science and Life of Peter Varga (1946-2018)

Wolf-Dieter Schneider

Peter Varga has passed on October 27, 2018. His pioneering discoveries of chemical resolution at the atomic scale on surface alloys, atomic resolution of ultrathin alkali halides, nucleation of bcc iron in ultrathin films, and the microscopic structure of ...

2020

Sensing the Spin of an Individual Ce Adatom

Wolf-Dieter Schneider, Markus Ternes

The magnetic moment of rare earth elements originates from electrons in the partially filled 4f orbitals. Accessing this moment electrically by scanning tunneling spectroscopy is hampered by shielding of outerlying orbitals. Here, we show that we can detec ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2020

Phonon-Mediated Electron Transport through CaO Thin Films

Wolf-Dieter Schneider, Giulia Elisabetta Pacchioni

Scanning tunneling microscopy has developed into a powerful tool for the characterization of conductive surfaces, for which the overlap of tip and sample wave functions determines the image contrast. On insulating layers, as the CaO thin film grown on Mo(0 ...

Amer Physical Soc2015

Chiral supramolecular self-assembly in 2D

Wolf-Dieter Schneider

Amer Chemical Soc2014

Adsorption of thioether molecules on an alumina thin film

Wolf-Dieter Schneider

Low-temperature scanning tunneling microscopy has been employed to study the adsorption of (bis(3-phenylthio)-phenyl)sulfane (BPPS) molecules on an aluminum-oxide film grown on NiAl(110). Large variations in the molecular coverage on incompletely oxidized ...

Elsevier Science Bv2014

Transport properties and electronic structure of individual metallic nanocontacts on dielectric supports: A local view

Wolf-Dieter Schneider

Amer Chemical Soc2013

Electron quantization in arbitrarily shaped gold islands on MgO thin films

Wolf-Dieter Schneider

Low-temperature scanning tunneling microscopy has been employed to analyze the formation of quantum well states (QWS) in two-dimensional gold islands, containing between 50 and 200 atoms, on MgO thin films. The energy position and symmetry of the eigenstat ...

Amer Physical Soc2013

Growth of Two-Dimensional Lithium Islands on CaO(001) Thin Films

Wolf-Dieter Schneider

The nucleation and growth behavior of lithium on a CaO/Mo(001) thin film has been investigated by means of scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy. The Li follows two different growth regimes on the surface. Whereas extended 2D islands develop on to ...

Amer Chemical Soc2012

Scanning Tunneling Microscopy and Spectroscopy of Supported Nanostructures

Wolf-Dieter Schneider

Recent advances in low-temperature scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) and spectroscopy (STS) have provided new opportunities for the investigation of the local geometric, electronic, magnetic, and optical properties of nanostructures. This review focuses ...

2012