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

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

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

Slow Magnetic Relaxation of Dy Adatoms with In-Plane Magnetic Anisotropy on a Two- Dimensional Electron Gas

Harald Brune, Stefano Rusponi, Marina Pivetta, Darius Constantin Merk, Boris Sorokin, Sébastien Reynaud, Dante Philippe Sblendorio

We report on the magnetic properties of Dy atoms adsorbed on the (001) surface of SrTiO3. X-ray magnetic circular dichroism reveals slow relaxation of the Dy magnetization on a time scale of about 800 s at 2.5 K, unusually associated with an easy-plane mag ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2022

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

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

Assessing dystrophies and other muscle diseases at the nanometer scale by atomic force microscopy

Giovanni Dietler, Harald Brune, Andrzej Kulik, Nicolas Mermod, Guillaume Witz

Aim: Atomic force microscopy nanoindentation of myofibers was used to assess and quantitatively diagnose muscular dystrophies from human patients. Materials & methods: Myofibers were probed from fresh or frozen muscle biopsies from human dystrophic patient ...

Future Medicine2014

Molecular motor crossing the frontier of classical to quantum tunneling motion

Harald Brune, Samuel Thomas Stolz

The reliability by which molecular motor proteins convert undirected energy input into directed motion or transport has inspired the design of innumerable artificial molecular motors. We have realized and investigated an artificial molecular motor applying ...

National Academy of Sciences2020

Complex Magnetic Exchange Coupling between Co Nanostructures and Ni(111) across Epitaxial Graphene

Harald Brune, François Patthey, Stefano Rusponi, Marina Pivetta, Pietro Gambardella, Fabio Donati

We report on the magnetic coupling between isolated Co atoms as well as small Co islands and Ni(111) mediated by an epitaxial graphene layer. X-ray magnetic circular dichroism and scanning tunneling microscopy combined with density functional theory calcul ...

American Chemical Society2016

Assembly of Robust Holmium-Directed 2D Metal-Organic Coordination Complexes and Networks on the Ag(100) Surface

Harald Brune

We describe the formation of lanthanide-organic coordination networks and complexes under ultra-high-vacuum conditions on a clean Ag(100) surface. The structures comprise single Ho atoms as coordination centers and 1,4-benzenedicarboxylate (from terephtali ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2018

Structural and electronic properties of the Bi/Au(110)-1x4 surface

Harald Brune, Marco Grioni, Oleg Yazyev, François Patthey, Marina Pivetta, Alberto Crepaldi, Gabriel Albert Autes, Cédric Tournier-Colletta

We report on the structural and electronic properties of the Bi/Au(110)-1 x 4 surface, by combining scanning tunneling microscopy, angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy, and first-principles calculations. The analysis of the precursor 1 x 8 moire struc ...

American Physical Society2013

Asymmetric Elimination Reaction on Chiral Metal Surfaces

Harald Brune, Samuel Thomas Stolz

The production of enantiopure materials and molecules is of uttermost relevance in research and industry in numerous contexts, ranging from nonlinear optics to asymmetric synthesis. In the context of the latter, dehalogenation, which is an essential reacti ...

Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh2021

Magnetic Hysteresis in Er Trimers on Cu(111)

Harald Brune, Stefano Rusponi, Marina Pivetta, Jan Gui-Hyon Dreiser, Fabio Donati, Christian Wäckerlin, Aparajita Singha, Romana Baltic

We report magnetic hysteresis in Er clusters on. Cu(111) starting from the size-of three atoms. combining Xray magnetic circular dichroism, scanning tunneling microscopy, and mean-field nucleation theory, we determine the size dependent magnetic properties ...

American Chemical Society2016

Atomic-scale engineering of magnetic anisotropy of nanostructures through interfaces and interlines

Harald Brune, Stefano Rusponi, Philipp Buluschek, Sergio Vlaic

The central goals of nanoscale magnetic materials science are the self-assembly of the smallest structure exhibiting ferromagnetic hysteresis at room temperature, and the assembly of these structures into the highest density patterns. The focus has been on ...

Nature Publishing Group2012

A high bandwidth and high transmission STM bias line for ESR and quantum stochastic resonance measurements at 0.4 K

Harald Brune, François Patthey, Shixuan Shan, Johannes Schwenk, Clément Marie Soulard

We present a scanning tunneling microscope operating in a 3He cryostat at a base temperature of 0.4 K, suitable for electron spin resonance (ESR) [S. Baumann, W. Paul, T. Choi, C. P. Lutz, A. Ardavan, and A. J. Heinrich, Science 350, 417 (2015)], quantum s ...

2025

Self-Assembly of Nanoporous Chiral Networks with Varying Symmetry from Sexiphenyl-dicarbonitrile on Ag(111)

Harald Brune, Uta Schlickum, Régis Decker

The self-assembly of sexiphenyl-dicarbonitrile molecules on the Ag(111) surface is investigated using low-temperature scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) in ultrahigh vacuum. Several nanoporous networks with varying symmetry and pore size coexist on the su ...

American Chemical Society2009

Structure and magnetism of atomically thin Fe layers on flat and vicinal Pt surfaces

Klaus Kern, Harald Brune, Stefano Rusponi, Pietro Gambardella

Ultrathin Fe films on Pt substrates have been investigated under ultrahigh vacuum conditions by scanning tunneling microscopy, low energy electron diffraction, magneto-optical Kerr effect, x-ray magnetic circular dichroism measurements, and Kerr microscopy ...

2006

4 f occupancy and magnetism of rare-earth atoms adsorbed on metal substrates

Harald Brune, Stefano Rusponi, Sebastian Stepanow, Jan Gui-Hyon Dreiser, Pietro Gambardella, Fabio Donati, Christian Wäckerlin, Aparajita Singha, Romana Baltic

We report x-ray absorption spectroscopy and x-ray magnetic circular dichroism measurements as well as multiplet calculations for Dy, Ho, Er, and Tm atoms adsorbed on Pt(111), Cu(111), Ag(100), and Ag(111). In the gas phase, all four elements are divalent a ...

Amer Physical Soc2017

Element-specific X-Ray detection of electron paramagnetic resonance in thin films of quantum bits

Harald Brune, Giovanni Boero, Stefano Rusponi

Element-specific magnetism accessible by synchrotron-based X-ray spectroscopy has proven to be valuable to study spin and orbital moments of transition metals and lanthanides in technologically relevant thin-film and monolayer samples. The access to cohere ...

Nature Research2024

X-Treme beamline at SLS: X-ray magnetic circular and linear dichroism at high field and low temperature

Harald Brune, Stefano Rusponi, Jan Gui-Hyon Dreiser, Thomas Schmidt

X-Treme is a soft X-ray beamline recently built in the Swiss Light Source at the Paul Scherrer Institut in collaboration with Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne. The beamline is dedicated to polarization-dependent X-ray absorption spectroscopy at hig ...

Wiley-Blackwell2012

Electronic states of moiré modulated Cu films

Harald Brune, Stefano Rusponi, Anne Lehnert

We examined by low-energy electron diffraction and scanning tunneling microscopy the surface of thin Cu films on Pt(111). The Cu/Pt lattice mismatch induces a moire modulation for films from 3 to about 10 ML thickness. We used angle-resolved photoemission ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2012

Ring State for Single Transition Metal Atoms on Boron Nitride on Rh(111)

Harald Brune, François Patthey, Donat Fabian Natterer

The low-temperature adsorption of isolated transition metal adatoms (Mn, Co, and Fe) onto hexagonal boron nitride monolayers on Rh(111) creates a bistable adsorption complex. The first state considerably weakens the hexagonal boron nitride- (h-BN-) substra ...

Amer Physical Soc2012

Nitrogen fixation at passivated Fe nanoclusters supported by an oxide surface: Identification of viable reaction routes using density functional calculations

Alfredo Pasquarello, Harald Brune

Using density-functional calculations, we investigate the possibility of ammonia synthesis at supported Fe nanoclusters along catalytic routes closely resembling those in biological nitrogen fixation. To achieve similar catalytic conditions as at the activ ...

2009