Big thanks to Liam Watson for a special VIP tour of the beamline tunnels at the Australian synchrotron!

Belated welcome to Nathan Krause and Reece Harrison - two undergrad students working with us over the summer. In just two weeks, they've learnt how to #exfoliate graphite and #hBN to fabricate working #graphene FET-like #devices for #STM experiments!

Atomic-scale manipulation studies never get old. This one, led by @benjamin-lowe.bsky.social, uses the #STM tip to drive a #Kondo seesaw in a #2D #MOF on Ag(111).

Bias-dependent #STM images capturing a structural phase transition of a molecular system on Cu(111) - flipping from close-packed to a #kagome lattice in real time. Still one of the strangest datasets we’ve ever recorded, and very much an unsolved mystery in the lab.

Nice write up on our work in Physics World! physicsworld.com/a/scientists...

Scientists realize superconductivity in traditional semiconducting material – Physics World

Superconducting germanium could find application in a new generation of quantum devices

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We’re welcoming PhD students! If you’re into quantum physics and low-dimensional nanomaterials, we’ve got a range of projects that can be tailored to your interests. #STM, #STS, #nc-AFM, #UHV, #devicefabrication and #DFT International students welcome! Details here: nano.physics.monash.edu.au/join

The moment when you accidentally 10x the proportional instead of the setpoint just as you're about to get good data after tip shaping for 3 hours 🫠

Distinguishing between magnetic states at the atomic-scale 🧪⚛️ Now in @jacs.acspublications.org, we show that SPM with NiCp2 molecules can discriminate between nearly degenerate magnetic ground states 🧲🔬🧑‍💻 @fzuavcr.bsky.social @imdeanano.bsky.social @oistedu.bsky.social 👇 doi.org/10.1021/jacs...

This 2D #MOF was a pleasure to study! Distinct #chiral phases emerged as a result of tilted molecules, giving us a great excuse to perform #nc-AFM 😏. Each chiral phase uniquely confined the Ag(111) surface state resulting in changes to the 2DEG band structure driven purely by structural symmetry.

Tuning Interface Electronic Properties via Chiral Two‐Dimensional Metal‐Organic Frameworks

Structural symmetries are crucial for dictating the electronic properties of materials. Numerical methods with low-temperature scanning probe microscopy techniques are combined to quantitatively addr....

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Now that's a tip #STM