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Visualizing hot carrier dynamics by nonlinear optical spectroscopy at the atomic length scale

Probing and manipulating the spatiotemporal dynamics of hot carriers in nanoscale metals is crucial to a plethora of applications ranging from nonlinear nanophotonics to single-molecule photochemistry. The direct investigation of these highly non-equilibri ...

Springer Science and Business Media LLC2025

Charge Transfer of Metal Porphyrins on a NaCl Thin Film Observed by Scanning Tunneling Microscopy in the Transport Gap

Klaus Kern

Elucidating the electronic structure of organic molecules in contact with a dielectric layer is essential to understanding and controlling many important processes, such as catalysis, photochemistry, and electroluminescence. However, this challenge calls f ...

American Chemical Society (ACS)2025

Single-Molecule Phosphorescence and Intersystem Crossing in a Coupled Exciton Plasmon System

Klaus Kern

American Chemical Society (ACS)2025

Nanoscale Mapping of Magnetic Auto-Oscillations with a Single Spin Sensor

Klaus Kern

Spin Hall nano-oscillators convert DC to magnetic auto-oscillations in the microwave regime. Current research on these devices is dedicated to creating next-generation energy-efficient hardware for communication technologies. Despite intensive research on ...

2025

Attosecond microscopy -Advances and outlook

Klaus Kern

Attosecond microscopy aims to record electron movement on its natural length and time scale. It is a gateway to understanding the interaction of matter and light, the coupling between excitations in solids, and the resulting energy flow and decoherence b ...

IOP Publishing - EPL Association2025

Investigation of Interface Interactions Between Monolayer MoS2 and Metals: Implications on Strain and Surface Roughness

Klaus Kern

Achieving a low contact resistance has been an important issue in the design of two-dimensional (2D) semiconductor-metal interfaces. The metal contact resistance is dominated by interfacial interactions. Here, we systematically investigate 2D semiconductor ...

2024

Controlled Formation of Nanoribbons and Their Heterostructures via Assembly of Mass-Selected Inorganic Ions

Klaus Kern

Control of nanomaterial dimensions with atomic precision through synthetic methods is essential to understanding and engineering of nanomaterials. For single-layer inorganic materials, size and shape controls have been achieved by self-assembly and surface ...

Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh2024

Scanning Tunneling Microscopy for Molecules: Effects of Electron Propagation into Vacuum

Klaus Kern, Abhishek Grewal

Using scanning tunneling microscopy (STM), we experimentally and theoretically investigate isolated platinum phthalocyanine (PtPc) molecules adsorbed on an atomically thin NaCl(100) film vapor deposited on Au(111). We obtain good agreement between theory a ...

Amer Chemical Soc2024

Tracking a spin-polarized superconducting bound state across a quantum phase transition

Klaus Kern

The magnetic exchange coupling between magnetic impurities and a superconductor induce so-called Yu-Shiba-Rusinov (YSR) states which undergo a quantum phase transition (QPT) upon increasing the exchange interaction beyond a critical value. While the evolut ...

Nature Portfolio2024

Selective excitation of vibrations in a single molecule

Klaus Kern

The capability to excite, probe, and manipulate vibrational modes is essential for understanding and controlling chemical reactions at the molecular level. Recent advancements in tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopies have enabled the probing of vibrational fin ...

Nature Portfolio2024