Publications related to Cubical atom

Magnetism of Single Surface Adsorbed Atoms Studied with Radio-Frequency STM

This thesis investigates the magnetic properties of single atoms and molecules adsorbed on thin magnesium oxide decoupling layers, grown on a silver single crystal. To address these systems experimentally, we use a low temperature scanning tunneling micros ...

EPFL2024

Erbium and thulium on MgO(100)/Ag(100) as candidates for single atom qubits

Harald Brune, François Patthey, Stefano Rusponi, Marina Pivetta, Fabio Donati, Aparajita Singha, Edgar Fernandes

Lanthanide atoms on surfaces are an exceptional platform for atomic-scale magnetic information storage. However, their potential as qubits remains unexplored due to the limited number of experimental setups that can coherently drive the spins of single ada ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2023

Unified theory of atom-centered representations and message-passing machine-learning schemes

Michele Ceriotti, Guillaume André Jean Fraux, Sergey Pozdnyakov, Jigyasa Nigam

Data-driven schemes that associate molecular and crystal structures with their microscopic properties share the need for a concise, effective description of the arrangement of their atomic constituents. Many types of models rely on descriptions of atom-cen ...

AIP Publishing2022

Competitive Dehydrogenation and Backbone Fragmentation of Superhydrogenated PAHs: A Laboratory Study

Eduardo Carrascosa Casado, Robert Richter

Superhydrogenated polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) have been suggested to catalyze the formation of H-2 in certain regions of space, but it remains unclear under which circumstances this mechanism is viable given the reduced carbon backbone stabilit ...

2021

Catalyzing Bond-Dissociation in Graphene via Alkali-Iodide Molecules

Klaus Kern, Stephan Rauschenbach, Sabine Abb, Sven Alexander Szilagyi, Hannah Julia Ochner

Atomic design of a 2D-material such as graphene can be substantially influenced by etching, deliberately induced in a transmission electron microscope. It is achieved primarily by overcoming the threshold energy for defect formation by controlling the kine ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2021

Laser photo-detachment combined with Langmuir probe in magnetized electronegative plasma: how the probe size affects the plasma dynamic?

Ivo Furno, Riccardo Agnello

Laser photo-detachment combined with a Langmuir probe (LP) is used to diagnose negative ion properties in electronegative plasmas. The technique relies on the combined use of a laser pulse and an LP. The laser pulse converts negative ions into electron-ato ...

2021

Controlling Single Molecule Conductance by a Locally Induced Chemical Reaction on Individual Thiophene Units

Klaus Kern, Uta Schlickum, Hagen Klauk, Peter Wahl, Ivan Pentegov, Verena Katharina Schendel

Among the prerequisites for the progress of single-molecule-based electronic devices are a better understanding of the electronic properties at the individual molecular level and the development of methods to tune the charge transport through molecular jun ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH2020

Oxidative cleavage of -O-4 bonds in lignin model compounds with a single-atom Co catalyst

Paul Joseph Dyson, Xile Hu, Zhaofu Fei, Antoine Philippe Van Muyden, Lichen Bai, Xiang Li, Zhangjun Huang, Xinjiang Cui, Sijie Liu

Single-atom catalysts are emerging as primary catalysts for many reactions due to their 100% utilization of active metal centers leading to high catalytic efficiencies. Herein, we report the use of a single-atom Co catalyst for the oxidative cleavage of th ...

2019

A Cobalt-Iron Double-Atom Catalyst for the Oxygen Evolution Reaction

Xile Hu, Duncan Thomas Lindsay Alexander, Lichen Bai

Single-atom catalysts exhibit well-defined active sites and potentially maximum atomic efficiency. However, they are unsuitable for reactions that benefit from bimetallic promotion such as the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) in an alkaline medium. Here we ...

2019

Functionalised metal-organic frameworks: a novel approach to stabilising single metal atoms

Andreas Züttel, Elsa Callini

We have investigated the potential of metal-organic frameworks for immobilising single atoms of transition metals using a model system of Pd supported on NH2-MIL-101(Cr). Our transmission electron microscopy and in situ Raman spectroscopy results give evid ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2017

Construction of a low temperature STM and studies of large molecular systems

Daniel Pablo Rosenblatt

Several aspects in the field of molecular self assembly are addressed in this thesis. Thanks to the scanning tunnelling microscope (STM), structural, electronic and magnetic properties on surfaces can be studied down to the size of a single atom. In this t ...

EPFL2016

First-principles study of H adsorption on graphene/SiC(0001)

Alfredo Pasquarello, Gabriele Sclauzero

The adsorption of atomic H above the carbon buffer layer in the graphene/SiC(0001) interface system is investigated within density functional theory through a set of realistic interface models that do not impose large artificial strains on the graphene. We ...

Wiley-Blackwell2013

Quantum transport through single atoms and molecules

Klaus Kern, Yi Zhang, Peter Wahl

Experiments on quantum transport in a low temperature scanning tunneling microscope provide the possibility to study atomic and molecular contacts with well-defined electrode-geometry at least for one of the contacts, the surface. Here, we show for a numbe ...

Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh2013

Unusual Rydberg System Consisting of a Positively Charged Helium Nanodroplet with an Orbiting Electron

Marcel Drabbels, Evgeniy Loginov

Evidence is presented of an unusual Rydberg system consisting of a helium nanodroplet containing a positively charged sodium ion and an orbiting electron. Rydberg states of this system with principal quantum number n

American Physical Society2011

Spectroscopy on Rydberg states of sodium atoms on the surface of helium nanodroplets

Marcel Drabbels, Evgeniy Loginov

One- and two-photon excitation spectra of sodium atoms on the surface of helium droplets are reported. The spectra are recorded by monitoring the photoionization yield of desorbed atoms as function of excitation frequency. The excitation spectra involving ...

American Chemical Society2011

Atomic structure of the two intermediate phase glasses SiSe4 and GeSe4

Alfredo Pasquarello

The microscopic origin of the intermediate phase in two prototypical covalently bonded A(x)B(1-x) network glass forming systems, where A=Ge or Si, B=Se, and 0

2009

{2,2 '-[1,1 '-(3-Azapentane-1,5-diyldinitrilo)diethylidyne] diphenolato}(piperidine) cobalt(III) tetraphenylborate

Kurt Schenk

The title compound, Co(C20H23N3O2)(C5H11N) or [Co{(Me-sal)(2)dien}(pprdn)] BPh4, where (Me-sal) 2dien is 2,2'[1,1'-(3-azapentane-1,5-diyldinitrilo)diethylidyne]diphenolate and pprdn is piperidine, contains a pentadentate (Me-sal) 2dien ligand fu ...

2008