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Local stiffness and work function variations of hexagonal boron nitride on Cu(111)

Klaus Kern, Markus Ternes, Abhishek Grewal

Combined scanning tunnelling and atomic force microscopy using a qPlus sensor enables the measurement of electronic and mechanic properties of two-dimensional materials at the nanoscale. In this work, we study hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN), an atomically ...

BEILSTEIN-INSTITUT2021

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

Quantum engineering of spin and anisotropy in magnetic molecular junctions

Klaus Kern, Markus Ternes

Single molecule magnets and single spin centres can be individually addressed when coupled to contacts forming an electrical junction. To control and engineer the magnetism of quantum devices, it is necessary to quantify how the structural and chemical env ...

Nature Publishing Group2015

A diamond-based scanning probe spin sensor operating at low temperature in ultra-high vacuum

Klaus Kern, Markus Ternes

We present the design and performance of an ultra-high vacuum (UHV) low temperature scanning probe microscope employing the nitrogen-vacancy color center in diamond as an ultrasensitive magnetic field sensor. Using this center as an atomic-size scanning pr ...

Amer Inst Physics2014

Tracking Temperature-Dependent Relaxation Times of Ferritin Nanomagnets with a Wideband Quantum Spectrometer

Klaus Kern, Markus Ternes

We demonstrate the tracking of the spin dynamics of ensemble and individual magnetic ferritin proteins from cryogenic up to room temperature using the nitrogen-vacancy color center in diamond as a magnetic sensor. We employ different detection protocols to ...

Amer Physical Soc2014

Lateral and Vertical Stiffness of the Epitaxial h-BN Monolayer on Rh(111)

Klaus Kern, Markus Ternes

The response to strain in covalently bound single layers has a large impact on the growth and properties. We investigate the quasi-two-dimensional hexagonal boron nitride on Rh(111), which is interesting due to its high intrinsic corrugation. We use combin ...

Amer Chemical Soc2014

Temperature and magnetic field dependence of a Kondo system in the weak coupling regime

Klaus Kern, Markus Ternes, Uta Schlickum, Peter Wahl

The Kondo effect arises due to the interaction between a localized spin and the electrons of a surrounding host. Studies of individual magnetic impurities by scanning tunneling spectroscopy have renewed interest in Kondo physics; however, a quantitative co ...

Nature Publishing Group2013

The Quantum Magnetism of Individual Manganese-12-Acetate Molecular Magnets Anchored at Surfaces

Klaus Kern, Markus Ternes, Stephan Rauschenbach, Gordon Rinke, Nicha Thontasen

The high intrinsic spin and long spin relaxation time of manganese-12-acetate (Mn-12) makes it an archetypical single molecular magnet. While these characteristics have been measured on bulk samples, questions remain whether the magnetic properties replica ...

American Chemical Society (ACS)2012

Spectroscopic manifestations of the Kondo effect on single adatoms

Wolf-Dieter Schneider, Markus Ternes

The present topical review focuses on recent advances concerning an intriguing phenomenon in condensed matter physics, the scattering of conduction electrons at the localized spin of a magnetic impurity: the Kondo effect. Spectroscopic signatures of this e ...

2009

Melting of Two-Dimensional Adatom Superlattices Stabilized by Long-Range Electronic Interactions

François Patthey, Wolf-Dieter Schneider, Marina Pivetta, Markus Ternes

The melting transition of Ce adatom superlattices stabilized by long-range substrate-mediated electronic interactions on Cu(111) and Ag(111) noble metal surfaces has been investigated by low-temperature scanning tunneling microscopy, density functional the ...

2009