Atomic Scale Physics
Current focus:
- Artificial designer materials using 2D van der Waals materials, molecular self-assembly, and heterostructures
- Atomic scale characterization and modification of materials based on scanning probe techniques
- Chemistry and physics of single molecules
Group members
Alumni
| name | position | current position (initial position after Aalto) |
|---|---|---|
| Mohammad Amini | PhD 2024 | Beneq |
| Markus Aapro | PhD 2024 | VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland |
| Viliam Vaňo | PhD 2023 | PCCM postdoctoral fellow, Princeton University |
| Héctor González-Herrero | post-doc 2020-2022 | Ramón y Cajal Fellow, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid |
| Chen Xu | post-doc / MSCA postdoctoral fellow 2019-2023 | Aalto |
| Linghao Yan | post-doc / MSCA postdoctoral fellow 2017-2022 | Professor, Soochow University |
| Benjamin Alldritt | PhD 2022 | Bluefors |
| Abraham Kipnis | MSc 2021 | PhD student, Aalto (Microsoft) |
| Shawulienu Kezilebieke | post-doc / research fellow 2014-2021 | Professor, University of Jyväskylä |
| Nurul Huda | PhD 2021 | Oak Ridge National Laboratory (Bluefors) |
| Anna-Maija Valtavirta | MSc 2019 | Murata Electronics |
| Ilona Pohjavirta | MSc 2019 | Vaisala |
| Avijit Kumar | post-doc 2014-17 | Assistant professor, IIT Bhubaneswar |
| Kaustuv Banerjee | PhD 2017 | IMEC, Belgium |
| Amina Kimouche | post-doc 2014-16 | University of Potsdam (earlier Beatriu de Pinos postdoctoral fellowship, ICN2, Barcelona) |
| Fabian Schulz | PhD 2016 | CIG Nanogune, San Sebastian (IBM Zurich Research Laboratory) |
| Robert Drost | PhD 2016 | Aalto (post-doc, Max-Planck Institute, Stuttgart) |
| Päivi Järvinen | PhD 2015 | Neste (earlier Bain & Company and Picosun) |
| Sampsa Hämäläinen | PhD 2014 | Finnish Climate Fund (Accenture) |
Latest publications
Direct Imaging of Chirality Transfer Induced by Glycosidic Bond Stereochemistry in Carbohydrate Self-Assemblies
Doped Mott Phase and Charge Correlations in Monolayer 1𝑇−NbSe2
Hamiltonian Learning of Triplon Excitations in an Artificial Nanoscale Molecular Quantum Magnet
On-surface synthesis of Heisenberg spin-1/2 antiferromagnetic molecular chains
Tuning spinaron and Kondo resonances via quantum confinement
Atomic-Scale Visualization of Multiferroicity in Monolayer NiI2
Direct imaging of carbohydrate stereochemistry
Atomically Sharp 1D Interfaces in 2D Lateral Heterostructures of VSe2─NbSe2 Monolayers
Structure Discovery in Atomic Force Microscopy Imaging of Ice
Demonstrating Kondo behavior by temperature-dependent scanning tunneling spectroscopy
Facilities:
The Atomic Scale Physics research group is located in Nanotalo and operates three low-temperature, ultra-high vacuum (UHV), scanning probe microscopes that are housed at the Aalto Nanomicroscopy center.
The Createc LT-STM/AFM operates at a low temperature (T = 5 K) and it is optimized for simultaneous AFM and STM experiments on the same atomic location - more details at https://www.aalto.fi/en/department-of-applied-physics/uhv-scanning-probe-microscopes.
The Unisoku USM-1300 is designed for temperatures down to 300 mK and ultra-high vacuum to perform STM and spin-polarized STM experiments in an external magnetic field of up to 11 T - more details at https://www.aalto.fi/en/department-of-applied-physics/uhv-scanning-probe-microscopes.
The Createc LT-STM/AFM operates at a low temperature (T = 5 K) and the same UHV setup houses X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and low-energy electron diffraction (LEED) setups - more details at https://www.aalto.fi/en/department-of-applied-physics/uhv-scanning-probe-microscopes.
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