Scanning Tunneling Microscopy (STM)
2025
"Distributed Current Injection into a One-Dimensional Ballistic Edge Channel"
K. Moors, C. Wagner, H. Soltner, F. Lüpke, F. S. Tautz and B. Voigtländer
Physical Review Letters 135(18), 186301 (2025) [10.1103/l47r-plxq]
"Highly Structure‐Selective On‐Surface Synthesis of Isokekulene Versus Kekulene
Z. Ruan, Q. Fan, A. Reichmann, F. Kang, T. Naumann, S. Werner, O. Kleykamp, J. Martinez-Castro, F. Lüpke, A. Haags, F. C. Bocquet, C. Kumpf, S. Soubatch, J. Sundermeyer, P. Puschnig, F. S. Tautz, J. M. Gottfried and S. Wenzel
Angewandte Chemie / International edition 64(36), e202509932 (2025) [10.1002/anie.202509932]
"Shear-resistant topology in the quasi-one-dimensional van der Waals material Bi₄Br₄"
J. K. Hofmann, H. Jeon, S. M. Hus, Y. Zhang, M. Zheng, T. Wichmann, A.-P. Li, J.-J. Zhou, Z. Wang, Y. Yao, B. Voigtländer, F. S. Tautz and F. Lüpke
Physical Review B 111(24), 245415 (2025) [10.1103/tdp5-wmqc]
“Direct Observation of Fully Spin-Polarized Tunnel Current Between Quantum Spins Using a Single Molecule Sensor”
Y. Bae, M. Ternes, K. Yang, A. J. Heinrich, C. Wolf and C. P. Lutz
ACS Nano 19, 1361 (2025) [10.1021/acsnano.4c13934]
2024
"Bottom-up Synthesis and Characterization of Porous 12-Atom-Wide Armchair Graphene Nanoribbons"
Q. Fan, Z. Ruan, S. Werner, T. Naumann, R. Bolat, J. Martinez-Castro, T. Koehler, T. Vollgraff, W. Hieringer, R. Mandalia, C. Neiß, A. Görling, F. S. Tautz, J. Sundermeyer and J. M. Gottfried
Nano Letters 24(35), 10718–10723 (2024) [10.1021/acs.nanolett.4c01106]
"A quantum sensor for atomic-scale electric and magnetic fields"
T. Esat, J. Oh, D. Borodin, A. J. Heinrich, F. S. Tautz, Y. Bae and R. Temirov
Nature Nanotechnology 19, 1466–1471 (2024) [10.1038/s41565-024-01724-z]
"Electrostatic potentials of atomic nanostructures at metal surfaces quantified by scanning quantum dot microscopy"
R. Bolat, J. M. Guevara, P. Leinen, M. Knol, H. H. Arefi, M. Maiworm, R. Findeisen, R. Temirov, O. T. Hofmann, R. J. Maurer, F. S. Tautz and C. Wagner
Nature Communications 15(1), 2259 (2024) [10.1038/s41467-024-46423-4]
"Determining the temperature of a millikelvin scanning tunnelling microscope junction"
T. Esat, X. Yang, F. Mustafayev, H. Soltner, F. S. Tautz and R. Temirov
Communications Physics 6(1), 81 (2023) [10.1038/s42005-023-01201-4]
“Assembly of Arbitrary Designer Heterostructures with Atomically Clean Interfaces”
K. Jin, T. Wichmann, S. Wenzel, T. Samuely, O. Onufriienko, P. Szabo, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, J. Yan, F. S. Tautz, F. Lüpke, M. Ternes and J. Martinez-Castro
Advanced Materials Interfaces 11, 2300658 (2024) [10.1002/admi.202300658]
2023
"Electron spin secluded inside a bottom-up assembled standing metal-molecule nanostructure"
T. Esat, M. Ternes, R. Temirov and F. S. Tautz
Physical Review Research 5(3), 033200 (2023) [10.1103/PhysRevResearch.5.033200]
"Concept for the Real-Time Monitoring of Molecular Configurations during Manipulation with a Scanning Probe Microscope"
J. Scheidt, A. Diener, M. Maiworm, K.-R. Müller, R. Findeisen, K. Driessens, F. S. Tautz and C. Wagner
The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 127(28), 13817–13836 (2023) [10.1021/acs.jpcc.3c02072]
"Accurate quantification of the stability of the perylene-tetracarboxylic dianhydride on Au(111) molecule–surface interface"
V. G. Ruiz, C. Wagner, F. Maaß, H. H. Arefi, S. Stremlau, P. Tegeder, F. S. Tautz and A. Tkatchenko
Communications Chemistry 6(1), 136 (2023) [10.1038/s42004-023-00925-2]
2022
"Disentangling the electronic structure of an adsorbed graphene nanoring by scanning tunneling microscopy"
J. Martinez-Castro, R. Bolat, Q. Fan, S. Werner, H. H. Arefi, T. Esat, J. Sundermeyer, C. Wagner, J. M. Gottfried, R. Temirov, M. Ternes and F. S. Tautz
Communications Materials 3(1), 57 (2022) [10.1038/s43246-022-00275-x]
"Probing Edge State Conductance in Ultra‐Thin Topological Insulator Films"
A. Leis, M. Schleenvoigt, K. Moors, H. Soltner, V. Cherepanov, P. Schüffelgen, G. Mussler, D. Grützmacher, B. Voigtländer, F. Lüpke and F. S. Tautz
Advanced Quantum Technologies 5(9), 2200043 (2022) [10.1002/qute.202200043]
"Design Principles for Metastable Standing Molecules"
H. H. Arefi, D. Corken, F. S. Tautz, R. J. Maurer and C. Wagner
The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 126(15), 6880–6891 (2022) [10.1021/acs.jpcc.2c01514]
"Nanoscale tip positioning with a multi-tip scanning tunneling microscope using topography images"
A. Leis, V. Cherepanov, B. Voigtländer and F. S. Tautz
Review of Scientific Instruments 93(1), 013702 (2022) [10.1063/5.0073059]
2021
"Resolving Ambiguity of the Kondo Temperature Determination in Mechanically Tunable Single-Molecule Kondo Systems"
M. Žonda, O. Stetsovych, R. Korytár, M. Ternes, R. Temirov, A. Raccanelli, F. S. Tautz, P. Jelínek, T. Novotný and M. Švec
The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 12(27), 6320–6325 (2021) [10.1021/acs.jpclett.1c01544]
"Front Cover: Lifting the Spin‐Momentum Locking in Ultra‐Thin Topological Insulator Films"
A. Leis, M. Schleenvoigt, V. Cherepanov, F. Lüpke, P. Schüffelgen, G. Mussler, D. Grützmacher, B. Voigtländer and F. S. Tautz
Advanced Quantum Technologies 4(11), 2170111 (2021) [10.1002/qute.202170111]
"The stabilization potential of a standing molecule"
M. Knol, H. H. Arefi, D. Corken, J. Gardner, F. S. Tautz, R. J. Maurer and C. Wagner
Science Advances 7(46), eabj9751 (2021) [10.1126/sciadv.abj9751]
"Lifting the Spin‐Momentum Locking in Ultra‐Thin Topological Insulator Films"
A. Leis, M. Schleenvoigt, V. Cherepanov, F. Lüpke, P. Schüffelgen, G. Mussler, D. Grützmacher, B. Voigtländer and F. S. Tautz
Advanced Quantum Technologies 4(11), 2100083 (2021) [10.1002/qute.202100083]
"Local stiffness and work function variations of hexagonal boron nitride on Cu(111)"
A. Grewal, Y. Wang, M. Münks, K. Kern and M. Ternes
Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology 12, 559–565 (2021) [10.3762/bjnano.12.46]
"A millikelvin scanning tunneling microscope in ultra-high vacuum with adiabatic demagnetization refrigeration"
T. Esat, P. Borgens, X. Yang, P. Coenen, V. Cherepanov, A. Raccanelli, F. S. Tautz and R. Temirov
Review of Scientific Instruments 92(6), 063701 (2021) [10.1063/5.0050532]
"Symmetry mediated tunable molecular magnetism on a 2D material"
Y. Wang, S. Arabi, K. Kern and M. Ternes
Communications Physics 4(1), 103 (2021) [10.1038/s42005-021-00601-8]
“Free coherent evolution of a coupled atomic spin system initialized by electron scattering”
L. M. Veldman, L. Farinacci, R. Rejali, R. Broekhoven, J. Gobeil, D. Coffey, M. Ternes and A. F. Otte
Science 372, 964 (2021) [10.1126/science.abg8223]
2020
"Autonomous robotic nanofabrication with reinforcement learning"
P. Leinen, M. Esders, K. T. Schütt, C. Wagner, K.-R. Müller and F. S. Tautz
Science Advances 6(36), eabb6987 (2020) [10.1126/sciadv.abb6987]
"Parasitic conduction channels in topological insulator thin films"
S. Just, F. Lüpke, V. Cherepanov, F. S. Tautz and B. Voigtländer
Physical Review B 101(24), 245413 (2020) [10.1103/PhysRevB.101.245413]
"Sensing the Spin of an Individual Ce Adatom"
M. Ternes, C. P. Lutz, A. J. Heinrich and W.-D. Schneider
Physical Review Letters 124(16), 167202 (2020) [10.1103/PhysRevLett.124.167202]
"Inelastic electron tunneling spectroscopy for probing strongly correlated many-body systems by scanning tunneling microscopy"
F. Eickhoff, E. Kolodzeiski, T. Esat, N. Fournier, C. Wagner, T. Deilmann, R. Temirov, M. Rohlfing, F. S. Tautz and F. B. Anders
Physical Review B 101(12), 125405 (2020) [10.1103/PhysRevB.101.125405]
"Room temperature in-situ measurement of the spin voltage of a BiSbTe₃ thin film"
A. Leis, M. Schleenvoigt, A. R. Jalil, V. Cherepanov, G. Mussler, D. Grützmacher, F. S. Tautz and B. Voigtländer
Scientific Reports 10(1), 2816 (2020) [10.1038/s41598-020-59679-9]
2019
"Atomic-scale spin sensing with a single molecule at the apex of a scanning tunneling microscope"
B. Verlhac, N. Bachellier, L. Garnier, M. Ormaza, P. Abufager, R. Robles, M.-L. Bocquet, M. Ternes, N. Lorente and L. Limot
Science 366(6465), 623–627 (2019) [10.1126/science.aax8222]
"Quantitative imaging of electric surface potentials with single-atom sensitivity"
C. Wagner, M. F. B. Green, M. Maiworm, P. Leinen, T. Esat, N. Ferri, N. Friedrich, R. Findeisen, A. Tkatchenko, R. Temirov and
F. S. Tautz
Nature Materials 18, 853–859 (2019) [10.1038/s41563-019-0382-8]
"The theory of scanning quantum dot microscopy"
C. Wagner and F. S. Tautz
Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 31, 475901 (2019) [10.1088/1361-648X/ab2d09]
"In-situ four-tip STM investigation of the transition from 2D to 3D charge transport in SrTiO₃"
A. Leis, C. Rodenbücher, K. Szot, V. Cherepanov, F. S. Tautz and B. Voigtländer
Scientific Reports 9(1), 2476 (2019) [10.1038/s41598-019-38888-x]
"Surface structures of tellurium on Si(111)–(7×7) studied by low-energy electron diffraction and scanning tunneling microscopy"
F. Lüpke, J. Doležal, V. Cherepanov, I. Ošt’ádal, F. S. Tautz and B. Voigtländer
Surface Science 681, 130–133 (2019) [10.1016/j.susc.2018.11.016]
2018
"Lateral scattering potential of the PTCDA/Ag(111) interface state"
A. Sabitova, R. Temirov and F. S. Tautz
Physical Review B 98(20), 205429 (2018) [10.1103/PhysRevB.98.205429]
"Special Issue on Multiprobe Techniques"
C. Tegenkamp and B. Voigtländer
Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 30, 1361–648X (2018) [10.1088/1361-648X/aaee03]
"Multi-tip scanning tunneling microscopy: Experimental techniques and data analysis"
B. Voigtländer, V. Cherepanov, S. Korte, A. Leis, D. Cuma, S. Just and F. Lüpke
Review of Scientific Instruments 89(10), 101101 (2018) [10.1063/1.5042346]
"In situ disentangling surface state transport channels of a topological insulator thin film by gating"
F. Lüpke, S. Just, M. Eschbach, T. Heider, E. Młyńczak, M. Lanius, P. Schüffelgen, D. Rosenbach, N. von den Driesch, V. Cherepanov, G. Mussler, L. Plucinski, D. Grützmacher, C. M. Schneider, F. S. Tautz and B. Voigtländer
npj Quantum Materials 3(1), 46 (2018) [10.1038/s41535-018-0116-1]
"Investigation of charge carrier depletion in freestanding nanowires by a multi-probe scanning tunneling microscope"
A. Nägelein, M. Steidl, S. Korte, B. Voigtländer, W. Prost, P. Kleinschmidt and T. Hannappel
Nano Research 11(11), 5924–5934 (2018) [10.1007/s12274-018-2105-x]
"A standing molecule as a single-electron field emitter"
T. Esat, N. Friedrich, F. S. Tautz and R. Temirov
Nature 558(7711), 573–576 (2018) [10.1038/s41586-018-0223-y]
"Molecular Model of a Quantum Dot Beyond the Constant Interaction Approximation"
R. Temirov, M. Green, N. Friedrich, P. Leinen, T. Esat, P. Chmielniak, S. Sarwar, J. Rawson, P. Kögerler, C. Wagner, M. Rohlfing and
F. S. Tautz
Physical Review Letters 120(20), 206801 (2018) [10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.206801]
"Four-point probe measurements using current probes with voltage feedback to measure electric potentials"
F. Lüpke, D. Cuma, S. Korte, V. Cherepanov and B. Voigtländer
Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 30(5), 054004 (2018) [10.1088/1361-648X/aaa31e]
"Erratum: Low vibration laboratory with a single-stage vibration isolation for microscopy applications"
B. Voigtländer, P. Coenen, V. Cherepanov, P. Borgens, T. Duden and F. S. Tautz
Review of Scientific Instruments 89(1), 019901 (2018) [10.1063/1.5008390]
“Long spin relaxation times in a transition metal atom in direct contact to a metal substrate”
J. Hermenau, M. Ternes, M. Steinbrecher, R. Wiesendanger and J. Wiebe
Nano Letters 18, 1978–1983 (2018) [10.1021/acs.nanolett.7b05392]