PhD Theses

• 2026 - Stefan Schulte
  "Extending the capabilities and applications of quantum dot-functionalized tips in scanning probe microscopy as a platform for charge and spin sensing"
  
• 2026 - Mark Hutter
  "Towards high-quality decoupled Graphene heterostructures"
  
• 2026 - Miriam Raths
  "Growth and Excitation Dynamics of Epitaxial 2D Materials and Molecular Layers Studied by Electron and Momentum Microscopy"
  
• 2025 - Philipp Kopp (born Leinen)
  "Controlled single-molecule manipulation"
  
• 2025 - Keda Jin
  "Probing electric and magnetic order in 2D van der Waals heterostructures with scanning tunneling methods"
  
• 2025 - Hao Yin
  "Investigation of 2D materials using low energy electron microscopy (LEEM)"
  
• 2025 - Jonathan Hofmann
  "Electrical anisotropy and shear-resistant topology in the quasi one-dimensional van-der-Waals material α-Bi4Br4"
  
• 2024 - Anja Meier (born Haags) (Jülich Excellence Prize)
  "Advances in Photoemission Orbital Tomography"
  
• 2023 - Soroush Arabi
  "Properties of artificially created spin structures studied by scanning probe methods"
  
• 2023 - You-Ron Lin
  "Structure of two-dimensional multilayers and topological superconductors: surfactant mediated growth, intercalation, and doping"
  
• 2023 - David Cuma
  "Multi-tip scanning tunneling potentiometry on thin bismuth films and topological insulators in a cryogenic system"
  
• 2021 - Sven Just
  "Disentangling parallel conduction channels by charge transport measurements on surfaces with a multi-tip scanning tunneling microscope = Trennung von parallelen Leitfähigkeitskanälen durch Ladungstransportmessungen an Oberflächen mittels eines Multispitzen-Rastertunnelmikroskops"
  
• 2021 - Xiaosheng Yang
  "Investigating the interaction between pi-conjugated organic molecules and metal surfaces with photoemission tomography"
  
• 2021 - Arthur Leis
  "Nanoscale four-point charger transport measurements in topological insulator thin films"
  
• 2020 - Gerben van Straaten
  "Geometric and electronic properties of heteromolecular organic monolayers on noble metal substrates studied by photoemission spectroscopy and X-ray standing waves"
  
• 2018 - Janina Keller (born Felter)
  "Different growth modes of molecular adsorbate systems and 2D materials investigated by low-energy electron microscopy"
  
• 2018 - Matthew Green
  "Creating and characterizing a single molecule device for quantitative surface science"
  
• 2017 - Taner Esat
  "Tailoring Molecular Magnetism"
  
• 2017 - Felix Lüpke (Jülich Excellence Prize)
  "Scanning tunneling potentiometry at nanoscale defects in thin films"
  
• 2017 - Jessica Sforzini
  "The influence of the substrate on the structure and electronic properties of carbon-based 2D materials"
  
• 2016 - Hubertus Junker
  "Charge transport measurements at GaAs-nanowires and development of a low-temperature four-tip scanning tunneling microscope"
  
• 2015 - Sonja Schröder
  "Structural and electronic characterization of hetero-organic NTCDA-CuPc adsorbate systems on Ag(111)"
  
• 2015 - Kathrin Schönauer
  "Structural and electronic investigations on homo- and hetero-organic layers involving CuPc on silver single crystal surfaces"
  
• 2015 - Norman Fournier
  "STM-based quantum transport through molecular wires"
  
• 2015 - Caroline Henneke
  "Kinetic and thermodynamis considerations on the formation of heteromolecular layers on metal surfaces"
  
• 2015 - Richard Spiegelberg
  "Entwicklung einer leistungsfähigen Detektions-Elektronik für die Multispitzen-Rastersondenmikroskopie zur Fehleranalyse an integrierten Schaltungen"
  
• 2014 - Stefan Korte
  "Ladungstransport durch Graphenschichten und GaAs-Nanodrähte untersucht mit einem Multispitzen-Rastertunnelmikroskop"
  
• 2014 - Marcus Blab
  "Ladungstransportmessungen an Si(111)-Oberflächen mit einem Multispitzen-Rastertunnelmikroskop"
  
• 2014 - Martin Willenbockel
  "Interacting interactions: A study on the interplay of molecule-molecule and molecule-substrate interactions at metal-organic interfaces"
  
• 2014 - Georgy Kichin
  "Submolecular imaging with single particle atomic force sensors"
  
• 2013 - Mirko Müller
  "Strukturelle und chemische Charakterisierung von selbst-assemblierten Monolagen organischer Moleküle auf Oberflächen = Structural and chemical characterization of self-assembled monolayers of organic molecules on surfaces"
  
• 2013 - Benjamin Stadtmüller
  "Study of intermolecular interactions in hetero-organic thin films"
  
• 2013 - Christoph Kleimann
  "Adsorption of (hetero-)organic phthalocyanine and PTCDA thin films on Ag(111)"
  
• 2013 - Evgeniy Zubkov
  "Aufbau einer Vierspitzen-Rastertunnelmikroskop/Rasterelektronenmikroskop-Kombination und Leitfähigkeitsmessungen an Silizid Nanodrähten"
  
• 2012 - Christian Weiss
  "STM beyond vacuum tunnelling: Scanning tunnelling hydrogen microscopy as a route to ultra-high resolution"
  
• 2012 - Giuseppe Mercurio (Jülich Excellence Prize)
  "Study of molecule metal interfaces by means of the normal incidence x-ray standing wave technique"
  
• 2011 - Ingo Kröger
  "Adsorption von Phthalocyaninen auf Edelmetalloberflächen"
  
• 2010 - Olga Neucheva
  "Investigation of a metal-organic interface - realization and understandin of a molecular switch"
  
• 2009 - Konstantin Romanyuk
  "Influence of the step properties on submonolayer growth of Ge and Si at the Si(111) surface"
  
• 2009 - Michel Kazempoor
  "Strukturuntersuchung organischer Moleküle auf Au(111)-Oberflächen"
  
• 2007 - Neelima Paul
  "Bi surfactant mediated growth for fabrication of Si, Ge nanostructures and investigation of Si, Ge intermixing by STM"
  
• 2007 - Anna Strózecka
  "Electronic and vibrational properties of fullerenes and metallofullerenes studied by STM and STS"
  
• 2007 - Philipp Jaschinsky
  "Kombinierte Rasterelektronen- und Mehr-Spitzen-Rastertunnelmikroskopie als Methode zur Ladungstransportmessung im Nanometerbereich"
  
• 2003 - Markus Sulzberger
  "Wachstum von dreidimensionalen Germaniuminseln auf unverspannten und verspannten Silizium(001)-Oberflächen"