Degrees

30 November 2022

We congratulate Dr. Maryam Omidian on her successful PhD defense.  Her dissertation led to a number of publications:

(1) "Structural and local electronic properties of clean and Li-intercalated graphene on SiC(0001)"; Surf. Sci. 699, 121638 (2020)

(2) "Electric-Field Control of a Single-Atom Polar Bond"; Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 216801 (2021)

(3) "From a wide band gap to the superconducting proximity effect: Fe on Pb(111)"; New J. Phys. 25, 033036 (2023)

(4) "Scanning tunneling spectroscopy of lithium-decorated graphene"; Ann. Phys. 535, 2300249 (2023)

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22 September 2022

We congratulate Silas Amann on his successful Bachelor defense!  His bachelor thesis led to a publication:
Magnetic bound states of iron clusters on a superconductor
S. Amann et al., Phys. Rev. B 108, 195403 (2023)

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18 March 2022

We congratulate Karl Rothe on his successful Master defense!  His master thesis led to a number of publications:

K. Rothe et al.
Tracking the Interaction between a CO-Functionalized Probe and Two Ag-Phthalocyanine Conformers by Local Vertical Force Spectroscopy
J. Phys. Chem. A 126, 6890 (2022)

K. Rothe et al.
Quantifying Force and Energy in Single-Molecule Metalation
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 144, 7054 (2022)

K. Rothe et al.
Extraction of Chemical Reactivity and Structural Relaxations of an Organic Dye from the Short-Range Interaction with a Molecular Probe
J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 13, 8660 (2022)

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26 October 2021

We congratulate Stefan Schulte on his successful Master defense!

His master thesis was published: "Changing the interaction of a single-molecule magnetic moment with a superconductor", Nano Lett. 23, 1622 (2023)

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30 September 2021

We congratulate Bastian Noßmann on his successful Master defense!

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29 April 2021

We congratulate Dr. Alexander Mehler on his successful PhD defense! His dissertation led to a number of publications:

(1) “Ordered superstructures of a molecular donor on Au(111)”; Langmuir 33, 6978 (2017)

(2) “Exciting vibrons in both frontier orbitals of a single hydrocarbon molecule on graphene”; J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 31, 065001 (2018)

(3) “Preparation of graphene bilayers on platinum by sequential chemical vapour deposition”; Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 21, 3140 (2019)

(4) “Probing site-dependent decoupling of hexagonal boron nitride with molecular frontier orbitals”; J. Vac. Sci. Technol. A 37, 061404 (2019)

(5) “Scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy of rubrene on clean and graphene-covered metal surfaces”; Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 11, 1157 (2020)

(6) “Dissimilar decoupling behavior of two-dimensional materials on metal surfaces”; J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 11, 5204 (2020)

(7) "Second floor of flatland: Epitaxial growth of graphene on hexagonal boron nitride"; Small 17, 2102747 (2021)

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14 September 2020

We congratulate M. Sc. Therese Engelhardt on her successful Master defense!

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25 February 2020

We congratulate B. Sc. Karl Rothe on his successful Bachelor defense! His bachelor thesis was published: "Scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy of rubrene on clean and graphene-covered metal surfaces"; Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 11, 1157 (2020)

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2 October 2019

We congratulate B. Sc. Stefan Schulte on his successful Bachelor defense! His bachelor thesis was published: "Energy-resolved secondary-electron emission of candidate beam screen materials for electron cloud mitigation at the Large Hadron Collider"; Phys. Rev. Accel. Beams 23, 103101 (2020)

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8 March 2019

We congratulate Dr. Johannes Halle on his successful PhD defense! His dissertation led to a number of publications:

(1) "Understanding and engineering of phonon-mediated tunneling into graphene on metal surfaces"; Nano Lett. 18, 5697 (2018)

(2) "Preparation of graphene bilayers on platinum by sequential chemical vapour deposition"; Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 21, 3140 (2019)

(3) "Tailoring intercalant assemblies at the graphene-metal interface"; Langmuir 35, 2554 (2019)

(4) "Monolayer and Bilayer Graphene on Ru(0001): Layer-Specific and Moiré-Site-Dependent Phonon Excitations"; J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 12, 6889 (2021)

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18 December 2018

We congratulate Dr. Jonathan Brand on his successful PhD defense! His dissertation led to a number of publications:

(1) "Impact of atomic-scale contact geometry on Andreev reflection"; Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 107001 (2017)

(2) "Electron and Cooper pair transport across a single magnetic molecule explored with a scanning tunneling microscope"; Phys. Rev. B 97, 195429 (2018)

(3) "Moving atoms on surfaces: Impact of external parameters on required force"; Phys. Rev. B 98, 235420 (2018)

(4) "Probing relaxations of atomic-scale junctions in the Pauli repulsion range"; New J. Phys. 21, 103041 (2019)

(5) "Nonequilibrium bond forces in single-molecule junctions"; Nano Lett. 19, 7845 (2019)

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2 July 2018

We congratulate M. Sc. Markus Girschick on his successful Master defense!

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27 June 2018

We congratulate B. Sc. Bastian Noßmann on his successful Bachelor defense!

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8 January 2018

We congratulate B. Sc. Matthias Hübner on his successful Bachelor defense! His bachelor thesis was published: "Experimental verification of the adiabatic transfer in Wilberforce pendulum normal modes"; Am. J. Phys. 86, 818 (2018)

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16 October 2017

We congratulate B. Sc. Therese Engelhardt on her successful Bachelor defense!

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6 October 2017

We congratulate M. Sc. Sven Hoffmann on his successful Master defense!

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31 August 2017

We congratulate Dr. Martin Müller on his successful PhD defense! His dissertation led to a number of publications:

(1) "Plasticity of single-atom Pb junctions"; Phys. Rev. B 93, 235402 (2016)

(2) "Lateral electron confinement with open boundaries: Quantum well states above nanocavities at Pb(111)"; Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 136803 (2016)

(3) "Open-boundary reflection of quantum well states at Pb(111)"; Phys. Rev. B 96, 205426 (2017)

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31 August 2017

We congratulate Dr. Stefan Meierott on his successful PhD defense! His dissertation led to a number of publications:

(1) "Electronic and magnetic states ofMn2 andMn2Hon Ag(111)"; New J. Phys. 16, 063021 (2014)

(2) "Atom-by-atom dehalogenation of a porphyrin molecule adsorbed on Ag(111)"; J. Phys. Chem. C 118, 30162 (2014)

(3) "Kondo effect of single Co atoms on Au(110) "; Phys. Rev. B 91, 201111(R) (2015)

(4) "Spectroscopic line shapes of vibrational quanta in the presence of molecular orbitals"; J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 7, 2388 (2016)

(5) "Asymmetry parameter of peaked Fano line shapes"; Rev. Sci. Instrum. 87, 103901 (2016)

(6) "Line shapes in inelastic electron tunneling spectroscopy of single-molecule junctions"; Phys. Rev. B 96, 205437 (2017)

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28 September 2017

We congratulate M. Sc. Alexander Mehler on his successful Master defense! His master thesis was published: "Ordered superstructures of a molecular donor on Au(111)"; Langmuir 33, 6978 (2017)

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2 May 2017

We congratulate M. Sc. Sandra Gozdzik on her successful Master defense! Her master thesis was published: "Electron and Cooper pair transport across a single magnetic molecule explored with a scanning tunneling microscope"; Phys. Rev. B 97, 195429 (2018) - Editors' suggestion

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16 December 2016

We congratulate M. Sc. Robert Bagdahn on his successful Master defense!

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8 November 2016

We congratulate M. Sc. Lisa Loidolt on her successful Master defense!

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25 October 2016

We congratulate M. Sc. Alexander Tries on his successful Master defense! His master thesis was published: "Layer-by-layer decoupling of twisted graphene sheets epitaxially grown on a metal substrate"; Small 14, 1703701 (2018)

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15 March 2016

We congratulate B. Sc. Markus Bohn on his successful Bachelor defense!

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26 February 2016

We congratulate M. Sc. Marcel Rink on his successful Master defense! His master thesis led to a number of publications:

(1) "Identification of vibrational excitations and optical transitions of the organic electron donor DBP"; Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 17, 30404 (2015)

(2) "Adsorption and desorption of hydrogen on nonpolar GaN(1-100) surfaces: Kinetics and impact on surface vibrational and electronic properties"; Phys. Rev. B 95, 195314 (2017)

(3) "Fuchs-Kliewer phonons of H-covered and clean GaN(1-100)"; Surf. Sci. 667, 31 (2018)

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18 January 2016

We congratulate Dr. rer. nat. Michael Endlich on his successful PhD defense! His dissertation led to a number of publications:

(1) "Screening of electron-phonon coupling in graphene on Ir(111)"; Phys. Rev. B 88, 205403 (2013)

(2) "Moiré-induced replica of graphene phonons on Ir(111)"; Ann. Phys. 526, 372 (2014)

(3) "Phthalocyanine adsorption to graphene on Ir(111): Evidence for decoupling from vibrational spectroscopy"; J. Chem. Phys. 141, 184308 (2014)

(4) "Energy and spectroscopic line shape of the C-O stretch mode on Ir(111) in the presence of organic molecules"; J. Phys. Chem. C 120, 11490 (2016)

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20 December 2015

We congratulate B. Sc. Maciej Topyła on his successful Bachelor defense! His bachelor thesis was published: "Superstructures and electronic properties of manganese-phthalocyanine molecules on Au(110) from submonolayer coverage to ultrathin molecular films"; Langmuir 32, 6843 (2016)

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14 October 2015

We congratulate B. Sc. Alexander Mehler on his successful Bachelor defense!

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8 September 2015

We congratulate M. Sc. Johannes Halle on his successful Master defense! His master thesis was published: "Filling the gap: Li-intercalated graphene on Ir(111)"; J. Phys. Chem. C 120, 5067 (2016)

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16 April 2015

We congratulate B. Sc. Benno Platte on his successful Bachelor defense!

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5 February 2015

We congratulate M. Sc. Jonathan Brand on his successful Master defense! His master thesis was published: "Impact of atomic-scale contact geometry on Andreev reflection"; Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 107001 (2017)

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15 January 2015

We congratulate M. Sc. Stefan Purle on his successful Master defense!

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17 December 2014

We congratulate M. Sc. Tobias Kreuch on his successful Master defense! His master thesis was published: "Atom-by-atom dehalogenation of a porphyrin molecule adsorbed on Ag(111)"; J. Phys. Chem. C 118, 30162 (2014)

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8 October 2014

We congratulate B. Sc. Jakob Linkmann on his successful Bachelor defense!

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16 June 2014

We congratulate M. Sc. Christian Günz on his successful Master defense!

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7 January 2014

We congratulate B. Sc. Sandra Gozdzik on her successful Bachelor defense! Her bachelor thesis was published: "Phthalocyanine adsorption to graphene on Ir(111): Evidence for decoupling from vibrational spectroscopy"; J. Chem. Phys. 141, 184308 (2014)

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12 December 2013

We congratulate B. Sc. Nadja Herzer on her successful Bachelor defense!

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19 October 2013

We congratulate B. Sc. Marcel Rink on his successful Bachelor defense!

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17 October 2013

We congratulate M. Sc. Stefan Meierott on his successful Master defense!

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2 October 2013

We congratulate M. Sc. Martin Müller on his successful Master defense!

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27 August 2013

We congratulate M. Sc. Felix Schwarz on his successful Master defense! His master thesis was published: "Electronic and vibrational states of single tin-phthalocyanine molecules in double layers on Ag(111)"; J. Phys. Chem. C 119, 15716 (2015)

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8 October 2013

We congratulate M. Sc. Torsten Sachse on his successful Master defense! His master thesis was published: "Electronic and magnetic states ofMn2 andMn2Hon Ag(111)"; New J. Phys. 16, 063021 (2014)

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12 October 2012

We congratulate B. Sc. Jan Hildisch on his successful Bachelor defense! His bachelor thesis was published: "Energy and spectroscopic line shape of the C-O stretch mode on Ir(111) in the presence of organic molecules"; J. Phys. Chem. C 120, 11490 (2016)

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2 February 2012

We congratulate M. Sc. Martin Jahn on his successful Master defense! His master thesis was published: "Oxygen vibrations and acoustic surface plasmon on Be(0001)"; Phys. Rev. B 86, 085453 (2012)

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20 December 2011

We congratulate M. Sc. Martin Kunz on his successful Master defense!

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21 October 2011

We congratulate B. Sc. Martin Müller on his successful Bachelor defense! His bachelor thesis was published: "Oxygen vibrations and acoustic surface plasmon on Be(0001)"; Phys. Rev. B 86, 085453 (2012)