Scanning Probe Microscopy (SPM) techniques (STM, AFM, SNOM…) have allowed the emergence of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology. These fields represent new frontiers to study a variety of physical, chemical and biological phenomena on a scale at least 10000 times smaller than the world we normally observe. The Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, in particular the Department of Condensed Matter Physics, counts with a longstanding tradition in SPM, a group of techniques in continuous evolution among the most versatile and powerful instrumentation to investigate the nanoworld.
In this seminar, I will present my research of the last years on low dimensional systems through the use and development of advanced AFM tools. I will start with a brief introduction on instrumental and methodological contributions to the advancement of nanoscale characterization techniques, including a novel and simple method to fabricate nanoelectrodes by AFM manipulation and assembly of metal nanowires. Then I will comment the work done on tuning graphene properties by applying ultrahigh pressures locally, along with the isolation of antimonene, one of the few elementary 2D allotropes. I will go on showing the electrical characterization of different low dimensional systems: long molecular wires, water molecules under extreme confinement, few layer antimonene and ultrathin hexagonal Boron Nitride (hBN) layers.
*contact mail: pablo.ares@uam.es
Access link, click here!
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid © 2008 · Ciudad Universitaria de Cantoblanco · 28049 Madrid · Información y Conserjería: 91 497 43 31 E-mail: informacion.ciencias@uam.es Gestión de estudiantes de Grado y Posgrado: 91 497 8264 / 4329 / 4353 / 4349 / 6879 / 8362 E-mail: administracion.ciencias@uam.es
