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Exciton dynamics of C-60-based single-photon emitters explored by Hanbury Brown-Twiss scanning tunnelling microscopy

Klaus Kern, Anna Maria Roslawska, Christoph Grosse

Exciton creation and annihilation by charges are crucial processes for technologies relying on charge-exciton-photon conversion. Improvement of organic light sources or dye-sensitized solar cells requires methods to address exciton dynamics at the molecula ...

Nature Publishing Group2015

Substrate effect on supramolecular self-assembly: from semiconductors to metals

Klaus Kern, Dietmar Payer

Terephthalic acid (TPA) deposited on Si(111)-7 x 7, Si(111)-root 3 x root 3-Ag and Ag(111) has been studied as a model system to understand how much passivated semiconductor surfaces differ from semiconductor and metal surfaces in respect of supramolecular ...

2009

Separating the impact of oxygen and water on the long-term stability of n-channel perylene diimide thin-film transistors

Klaus Kern

A detailed understanding for the mechanisms that control degradation of the electrical performance of organic thin-film transistors (TFTs) during exposure to various environments, such as oxygen and humidity, is still developing. This is particularly true ...

Elsevier Science Bv2015

Synthesis of High-Performance Monolayer Molybdenum Disulfide at Low Temperature

Klaus Kern

The large-area synthesis of high-quality MoS2 plays an important role in realizing industrial applications of optoelectronics, nanoelectronics, and flexible devices. However, current techniques for chemical vapor deposition (CVD)-grown MoS2 require a high ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2021

Direct observation of glycans bonded to proteins and lipids at the single-molecule level

Klaus Kern, Stephan Rauschenbach

Proteins and lipids decorated with glycans are found throughout biological entities, playing roles in biological functions and dysfunctions. Current analytical strategies for these glycan-decorated biomolecules, termed glycoconjugates, rely on ensemble-ave ...

American Association for the Advancement of Science2023

Grafting Crown Ether Alkali Host-Guest Complexes at Surfaces by Electrospray Ion Beam Deposition

Klaus Kern, Stephan Rauschenbach

The functionalization of surfaces with host guest compounds is promising for many applications, yet often limited by constraints such as the volatility of the functional compound or the lack of binding to the surface. We use electrospray ion beam depositio ...

2010

Identifying Chemical Functionalization on Individual Carbon Nanotubes and Graphene by Local Vibrational Fingerprinting

Klaus Kern, Kannan Balasubramanian

Chemical functionalization of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) and graphene allows for fine-tuning their physical and chemical properties to realize fascinating new fundamental phenomena as well as exotic applications. A primary challenge in such endeavors is the n ...

Amer Chemical Soc2015

Attosecond microscopy -Advances and outlook

Klaus Kern

Attosecond microscopy aims to record electron movement on its natural length and time scale. It is a gateway to understanding the interaction of matter and light, the coupling between excitations in solids, and the resulting energy flow and decoherence b ...

IOP Publishing - EPL Association2025

Real-time tracking of coherent oscillations of electrons in a nanodevice by photo-assisted tunnelling

Klaus Kern

Coherent collective oscillations of electrons excited in metallic nanostructures (localized surface plasmons) can confine incident light to atomic scales and enable strong light-matter interactions, which depend nonlinearly on the local field. Direct sampl ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2024

A Close Look at Proteins: Submolecular Resolution of Two- and Three-Dimensionally Folded Cytochrome c at Surfaces

Klaus Kern, Stephan Rauschenbach, Gordon Rinke

Imaging of individual protein molecules at the single amino acid level has so far not been possible due to the incompatibility of proteins with the vacuum environment necessary for high-resolution scanning probe microscopy. Here we demonstrate electrospray ...

American Chemical Society (ACS)2012

Tertiary Chiral Domains Assembled by Achiral Metal-Organic Complexes on Cu(110)

Klaus Kern

We report on the formation of chiral domains self-assembled from terephthalic acid (TPA) and iron on a Cu(110) surface. Using scanning tunnelling microscopy, we observe that the supramolecular structures are organized on successive hierarchical levels. Chi ...

2010

Functionalization of Open Two-Dimensional Metal-Organic Templates through the Selective Incorporation of Metal Atoms

Klaus Kern, Sebastian Stepanow, Christopher Seiji Kley

Surface-confined molecular networks can serve as templates to steer the adsorption and organization of secondary ligands, metal atoms, and clusters. Here, the incorporation of Ni atoms and clusters into open two-dimensional robust metal-organic templates s ...

Amer Chemical Soc2013

Reactive Chemical Doping of the Bi2Se3 Topological Insulator

Klaus Kern

Using angular resolved photoemission spectroscopy we studied the evolution of the surface electronic structure of the topological insulator Bi2Se3 as a function of water vapor exposure. We find that a surface reaction with water induces a band bending, whi ...

2011

Phase Reconstruction of Low-Energy Electron Holograms of Individual Proteins

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

Low-energy electron holography (LEEH) is one of the few techniques capable of imaging large and complex three-dimensional molecules, such as proteins, on the single molecule level at subnanometer resolution. During the imaging process, the structural infor ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2022

Bonding and Charge Transfer in Metal-Organic Coordination Networks on Au(111) with Strong Acceptor Molecules

Klaus Kern, Sebastian Stepanow

The geometric and electronic structure of two structurally similar metal organic networks grown on the Au(111) surface is investigated by scanning tunnelling microscopy (STM) and spectroscopy (STS) combined with density functional theory (DFT) calculations ...

Amer Chemical Soc2012

Superconducting scanning tunneling microscopy tips in a magnetic field: Geometry-controlled order of the phase transition

Klaus Kern, Matthias Alexander Eltschka

The properties of geometrically confined superconductors significantly differ from their bulk counterparts. Here, we demonstrate the geometrical impact for superconducting scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) tips, where the confinement ranges from the atom ...

Amer Inst Physics2015

STM study of terephthalic acid self-assembly on Au(III): Hydrogen-bonded sheets on an inhomogeneous substrate

Klaus Kern, Harald Brune, Sylvain Clair

The adsorption and ordering of the molecule terephthalic acid (TPA), 1,4-benzene-dicarboxylic acid C6H4-(COOH)(2), on the reconstructed Au(111) surface has been studied in situ in ultrahigh vacuum by scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) at room temperature. ...

American Chemical Society2004

Noninvasive metal contacts in chemically derived graphene devices

Klaus Kern, Marko Burghard

We study the properties of gold contacts on chemically derived graphene devices by scanning photocurrent microscopy and gate-dependent electrical transport measurements. In the as-fabricated devices, negligible potential barriers are found at the gold/grap ...

AIP American Institute of Physics2009

3D optical Yagi-Uda nanoantenna array

Klaus Kern

Future photonic circuits with the capability of high-speed data processing at optical frequencies will rely on the implementation of efficient emitters and detectors on the nanoscale. Towards this goal, bridging the size mismatch between optical radiation ...

Nature Research2011

Surface plasmon coupling to nanoscale Schottky-type electrical detectors

Klaus Kern, Marko Burghard

We have investigated the near-field coupling of surface plasmons to a titanium/CdS nanowire interface for two different device configurations. A bare aluminum grating on an underlying aluminum layer exhibited the expected stronger electrical signal for per ...

AIP American Institute of Physics2010