Publications by Giulia Elisabetta Pacchioni

Cluster Catalysis with Lattice Oxygen: Tracing Oxygen Transport from a Magnetite (001) Support onto Small Pt Clusters

Wolfgang Harbich, Giulia Elisabetta Pacchioni, Ke Zhang

Oxidation catalysis on reducible oxide-supported small metal clusters often involves lattice oxygen. The present work aims at differentiating whether the reaction takes place at the cluster/support interface or on the cluster. To that purpose, we trace the ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2021

Two-Orbital Kondo Screening in a Self-Assembled Metal Organic Complex

Harald Brune, Stefano Rusponi, Oleg Yazyev, Marina Pivetta, Fabio Donati, Luca Gragnaniello, Gabriel Albert Autes, Giulia Elisabetta Pacchioni

Iron atoms adsorbed on a Cu(111) surface and buried under polyphenyl dicarbonitrile molecules exhibit strongly spatial anisotropic Kondo features with directionally dependent Kondo temperatures and line shapes, as evidenced by scanning tunneling spectrosco ...

American Chemical Society2017

Two-dimensional metal-organic networks as templates for the self-assembly of atom and cluster arrays

Giulia Elisabetta Pacchioni

This thesis presents a study of the use of two-dimensional metal-organic systems as templates for the organization of metal atoms and clusters on surfaces. We start with a systematic characterization of the metal-organic porous networks formed on Cu(111) b ...

EPFL2016

Out-of-Plane Alignment of Er(trensal) Easy Magnetization Axes Using Graphene

Harald Brune, Stefano Rusponi, Marina Pivetta, Alberto Cavallin, Fabio Donati, Luca Gragnaniello, Giulia Elisabetta Pacchioni, Jan Gui-Hyon Dreiser

We have studied Er(trensal) single -ion magnets adsorbed on graphene/Ru(0001), on graphene/Ir(111), and on bare Ru(0001) by scanning tunneling microscopy and X-ray absorption spectroscopy. On graphene, the molecules self -assemble into dense and well -orde ...

American Chemical Society2016

Phonon-Mediated Electron Transport through CaO Thin Films

Wolf-Dieter Schneider, Giulia Elisabetta Pacchioni

Scanning tunneling microscopy has developed into a powerful tool for the characterization of conductive surfaces, for which the overlap of tip and sample wave functions determines the image contrast. On insulating layers, as the CaO thin film grown on Mo(0 ...

Amer Physical Soc2015

Competing Interactions in the Self-Assembly of NC-Ph-3-CN Molecules on Cu(111)

Harald Brune, Marina Pivetta, Giulia Elisabetta Pacchioni

We report on low-temperature scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy measurements on NC-Ph-3-CN molecules adsorbed at 300 K on a Cu(111) surface. Upon cooling, the molecules form chain and honeycomb structures, incorporating Cu adatoms supplied by t ...

American Chemical Society2015

Origin of Perpendicular Magnetic Anisotropy and Large Orbital Moment in Fe Atoms on MgO

Harald Brune, Pietro Gambardella, Stefano Rusponi, Marina Pivetta, Fabio Donati, Luca Gragnaniello, Giulia Elisabetta Pacchioni, Jan Gui-Hyon Dreiser

We report on the magnetic properties of individual Fe atoms deposited on MgO(100) thin films probed by x-ray magnetic circular dichroism and scanning tunneling spectroscopy. We show that the Fe atoms have strong perpendicular magnetic anisotropy with a zer ...

American Physical Society2015

Formation of Fe Cluster Superlattice in a Metal-Organic Quantum-Box Network

Harald Brune, Marina Pivetta, Uta Schlickum, Giulia Elisabetta Pacchioni

We report on the self-assembly of Fe adatoms on a Cu(111) surface that is patterned by a metal-organic honeycomb network, formed by coordination of dicarbonitrile pentaphenyl molecules with Cu adatoms. Fe atoms landing on the metal surface are mobile and s ...

Amer Physical Soc2013