Publications by Markus Etzkorn

Extracting transport channel transmissions in scanning tunneling microscopy using superconducting excess current

Klaus Kern, Markus Etzkorn, Jacob Senkpiel

Transport through quantum coherent conductors, such as atomic junctions, is described by conduction channels. Information about the number of channels and their transmissions can be extracted from various sources, such as multiple Andreev reflections, dyna ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2022

Gigahertz Frame Rate Imaging of Charge-Injection Dynamics in a Molecular Light Source

Klaus Kern, Markus Etzkorn, Anna Maria Roslawska, Abhishek Grewal

Light sources on the scale of single molecules can be addressed and characterized at their proper sub-nanometer scale by scanning tunneling microscopy-induced luminescence (STML). Such a source can be driven by defined short charge pulses while the lumines ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2021

Single channel Josephson effect in a high transmission atomic contact

Klaus Kern, Markus Etzkorn, Jacob Senkpiel

The Josephson effect in scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) is an excellent tool to probe the properties of a superconductor on a local scale. We use atomic manipulation in a low temperature STM to create mesoscopic single channel contacts and study the Jo ...

NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP2020

Robustness of Yu-Shiba-Rusinov resonances in the presence of a complex superconducting order parameter

Klaus Kern, Markus Etzkorn, Jacob Senkpiel

Robust quantum systems rely on having a protective environment with minimized relaxation channels. Super-conducting gaps play an important role in the design of such environments. The interaction of localized single spins with a conventional superconductor ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2019

Single Charge and Exciton Dynamics Probed by Molecular-Scale-Induced Electroluminescence

Klaus Kern, Markus Etzkorn, Anna Maria Roslawska, Christoph Grosse

American Chemical Society (ACS)2018

Giant apparent lattice distortions in STM images of corrugated sp2-hybridised monolayers

Alfredo Pasquarello, Harald Brune, François Patthey, Stefano Rusponi, Markus Etzkorn, Donat Fabian Natterer, Anne Lehnert, Quentin Dubout, Laurent Claude

We report on the strengths and limitations of scanning tunnelling microscopy (STM) when used for characterising atomic-scale features of quasi two-dimensional materials, such as graphene and single layers of hexagonal boron nitride, which may present stron ...

Institute of Physics (IoP) and Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft2016

Critical Josephson current in the dynamical Coulomb blockade regime

Klaus Kern, Markus Etzkorn, Matthias Alexander Eltschka, Maximilian Assig

The current-voltage characteristics of a voltage-biased Josephson junction in the low conductance regime of an ultra-low temperature scanning tunneling microscope (STM) is dominated by sequential charge tunneling. Using P(E) theory we show that the Josephs ...

Amer Physical Soc2016

A nanoscale gigahertz source realized with Josephson scanning tunneling microscopy

Klaus Kern, Markus Etzkorn, Matthias Alexander Eltschka, Maximilian Assig

Using the AC Josephson effect in the superconductor-vacuum-superconductor tunnel junction of a scanning tunneling microscope (STM), we demonstrate the generation of GHz radiation. With the macroscopic STM tip acting as a lambda/4-monopole antenna, we first ...

Amer Inst Physics2015

Superconducting scanning tunneling microscopy tips in a magnetic field: Geometry-controlled order of the phase transition

Klaus Kern, Markus Etzkorn, Matthias Alexander Eltschka, Maximilian Assig

The properties of geometrically confined superconductors significantly differ from their bulk counterparts. Here, we demonstrate the geometrical impact for superconducting scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) tips, where the confinement ranges from the atom ...

Amer Inst Physics2015

Probing Absolute Spin Polarization at the Nanoscale

Klaus Kern, Markus Etzkorn, Matthias Alexander Eltschka, Maximilian Assig

Probing absolute values of spin polarization at the nanoscale offers insight into the fundamental mechanisms of spin-dependent transport. Employing the Zeeman splitting in superconducting tips (Meservey-Tedrow-Fulde effect), we introduce a novel spin-polar ...

Amer Chemical Soc2014