Atomic Scale Physics

Current focus:
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Artificial designer materials
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Electronic properties of metal-organic frameworks
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Atomically well-defined graphene nanoribbons
Group members

Alumni
name | position | current position (initial position after Aalto) |
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Benjamin Alldritt | PhD 2022 | Bluefors |
Shawulienu Kezilebieke | post-doc / research fellow 2014-2021 | Professor, University of Jyväskylä |
Nurul Huda | PhD 2021 | Bluefors |
Anna-Maija Valtavirta | MSc 2019 | Murata Electronics |
Ilona Pohjavirta | MSc 2019 | Vaisala |
Avijit Kumar | post-doc 2014-17 | Assistant professor, IIT Bhubaneswar, India |
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 | post-doc, Fritz-Haber Institute, Berlin (earlier IBM Zurich Research Laboratory) |
Robert Drost | PhD 2016 | Bluefors (post-doc, Max-Planck Institute, Stuttgart) |
Päivi Järvinen | PhD 2015 | Neste (earlier Bain & Company and Picosun) |
Sampsa Hämäläinen | PhD 2014 | Accenture |
Latest publications
Control of Molecular Orbital Ordering Using a van der Waals Monolayer Ferroelectric
Real-Space Imaging of Triplon Excitations in Engineered Quantum Magnets
Visualization of Moiré Magnons in Monolayer Ferromagnet
Evidence of Nodal Superconductivity in Monolayer 1H-TaS2 with Hidden Order Fluctuations
Automated Tip Functionalization via Machine Learning in Scanning Probe Microscopy
Water Dimer-Driven DNA Base Superstructure with Mismatched Hydrogen Bonding
Precise atom manipulation through deep reinforcement learning
Confinement-Engineered Superconductor to Correlated-Insulator Transition in a van der Waals Monolayer
Reply to: “Topological and trivial domain wall states in engineered atomic chains”
Electrostatic Discovery Atomic Force Microscopy
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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