Publications

2025

  • Haag F, Zhao W, Yang B, Knecht P, Seufert K, Cuxart MG, et al.
    Selective on-surface metalation and uncommon reordering of self-assembled macrocyclic biquinazoline ligands on Ag(111)
    Chemistry: A European Journal. 2025: e202404350 (9 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.202404350
    DORA PSI
  • Schofield SR, J Fisher A, Ginossar E, Lyding JW, Silver R, Fei F, et al.
    Roadmap on atomic-scale semiconductor devices
    Nano Futures. 2025; 9(1): 012001 (69 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1088/2399-1984/ada901
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2024

  • Aguirre A, Pinar Solé A, Soler Polo D, González-Orellana C, Thakur A, Ortuzar J, et al.
    Ferromagnetic order in 2D layers of transition metal dichlorides
    Advanced Materials. 2024; 36(28): 2402723 (7 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.202402723
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  • Constantinou P, Stock TJZ, Tseng LT, Kazazis D, Muntwiler M, Vaz CAF, et al.
    EUV-induced hydrogen desorption as a step towards large-scale silicon quantum device patterning
    Nature Communications. 2024; 15(1): 694 (13 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-44790-6
    DORA PSI
  • Diulus JT, Novotny Z, Dongfang N, Beckord J, Al-Hamdani Y, Comini N, et al.
    h-BN/Metal-Oxide interface grown by intercalation: a model system for nano-confined catalysis
    Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 2024; 128(12): 5156-5167. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.3c07828
    DORA PSI
  • Frezza F, Sánchez-Grande A, Canola S, Lamancová A, Mutombo P, Chen Q, et al.
    Controlling on-surface photoactivity: the impact of π-conjugation in anhydride-functionalized molecules on a semiconductor surface
    Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 2024; 63(30): e202405983 (8 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202405983
    DORA PSI
  • Grisan Qiu YY, Biasin P, Mantegazza P, Baronio S, Heinrich M, Muntwiler MK, et al.
    Seeking borophene on Ni3Al(111): an experimental characterization of boron segregation and oxidation
    Journal of Physics: Materials. 2024; 7(2): 025004 (8 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1088/2515-7639/ad278c
    DORA PSI
  • Hohmann L, Marks K, Chien TE, Öström H, Hansson T, Muntwiler M, et al.
    Effect of coadsorbed sulfur on the dehydrogenation of naphthalene on Ni(111)
    Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 2024; 128(1): 67-76. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.3c04475
    DORA PSI
  • Lee WC, Yu L, Oscarsson J, Ochapski MW, Sagehashi R, Zhang Y, et al.
    Monolayer calibration of endofullerenes with x-ray absorption from implanted keV ion doses
    Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology A: Vacuum, Surfaces, and Films. 2024; 42(2): 023406 (5 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1116/6.0003302
    DORA PSI
  • Marks K, Erbing A, Hohmann L, Chien T-E, Yazdi MG, Muntwiler M, et al.
    Naphthalene dehydrogenation on Ni(111) in the presence of chemisorbed oxygen and nickel oxide
    Catalysts. 2024; 14(2): 124 (14 pp.). https://doi.org/10.3390/catal14020124
    DORA PSI
  • Piquero-Zulaica I, Hu W, Seitsonen AP, Haag F, Küchle J, Allegretti F, et al.
    Unconventional band structure via combined molecular orbital and lattice symmetries in a surface-confined metallated graphdiyne sheet
    Advanced Materials. 2024; 36(31): 2405178 (10 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.202405178
    DORA PSI
  • Romankov V, Bernhardt M, Heinrich M, Vaclavkova D, Harriman K, Daffé N, et al.
    Orientation-driven large magnetic hysteresis of Er(III) cyclooctatetraenide-based single-ion magnets adsorbed on Ag(100)
    Small Science. 2024; 4(8): 2400115 (11 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1002/smsc.202400115
    DORA PSI
  • Stania R, Seitsonen AP, Jung H, Kunhardt D, Popov AA, Muntwiler M, et al.
    Correlation of work function and conformation of C80 endofullerenes on h-BN/Ni(111)
    Advanced Materials Interfaces. 2024; 11(8): 2300935 (5 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1002/admi.202300935
    DORA PSI
  • Usachov DY, Poelchen G, Tupitsyn II, Bokai KA, Glazkova D, Tarasov AV, et al.
    Resonant 4f photoelectron diffraction: insight into Yb compounds
    Physical Review B. 2024; 109(24): L241118 (6 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.109.L241118
    DORA PSI
  • Vezzoni Vicente P, Weiss T, Meier D, Zhao W, Tömekçe BS, G. Cuxart M, et al.
    Holistic structural understanding of epitaxially-grown Bi/Au(111) moiré superstructures
    Physical Review Materials. 2024; 8(10): 104001 (9 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.8.104001
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2023

  • Cuxart MG, Perilli D, Tömekce S, Deyerling J, Haag F, Muntwiler M, et al.
    Spatial segregation of substitutional B atoms in graphene patterned by the moiré superlattice on Ir(111)
    Carbon. 2023; 201: 881-890. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.carbon.2022.09.087
    DORA PSI
  • Gleißner R, Chung S, Semione GDL, Jacobse L, Wagstaffe M, Tober S, et al.
    Role of oxidation-reduction dynamics in the application of Cu/ZnO-based catalysts
    ACS Applied Nano Materials. 2023; 6(9): 8004-8016. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsanm.3c01306
    DORA PSI
  • Minissale M, Salomon E, Pappalardo F, Martin C, Muntwiler M, Angot T, et al.
    The renaissance and golden age of epitaxial dry germanene
    Crystals. 2023; 13(2): 221 (14 pp.). https://doi.org/10.3390/cryst13020221
    DORA PSI
  • Sagehashi R, Lee WC, Liu F, Popov AA, Muntwiler M, Delley B, et al.
    Inferring the Dy-N axis orientation in adsorbed DySc2N@C80 endofullerenes by linearly polarized x-ray absorption spectroscopy
    Physical Review Materials. 2023; 7(8): 086001 (6 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.7.086001
    DORA PSI
  • Tseng LT, Karadan P, Kazazis D, Constantinou PC, Stock TJZ, Curson NJ, et al.
    Resistless EUV lithography: photon-induced oxide patterning on silicon
    Science Advances. 2023; 9(16): eadf5997 (10 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adf5997
    DORA PSI
  • Vladimirova NV, Frolov AS, Sánchez-Barriga J, Clark OJ, Matsui F, Usachov DY, et al.
    Occupancy of lattice positions probed by X-ray photoelectron diffraction: a case study of tetradymite topological insulators
    Surfaces and Interfaces. 2023; 36: 102516 (10 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.surfin.2022.102516
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2022

  • Frolov AS, Usachov DY, Fedorov AV, Vilkov OY, Golyashov V, Tereshchenko OE, et al.
    Ferromagnetic layers in a topological insulator (Bi,Sb)2Te3 crystal doped with Mn
    ACS Nano. 2022; 16(12): 20831-20841. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.2c08217
    DORA PSI
  • Koutsouflakis E, Krylov D, Bachellier N, Sostina D, Dubrovin V, Liu F, et al.
    Metamagnetic transition and a loss of magnetic hysteresis caused by electron trapping in monolayers of single-molecule magnet Tb2@C79N
    Nanoscale. 2022; 14(27): 9877-9892. https://doi.org/10.1039/d1nr08475e
    DORA PSI
  • Kurzhals P, Kremer G, Jaouen T, Nicholson CW, Heid R, Nagel P, et al.
    Electron-momentum dependence of electron-phonon coupling underlies dramatic phonon renormalization in YNi2B2C
    Nature Communications. 2022; 13(1): 228 (9 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-27843-y
    DORA PSI
  • Küchle JT, Baklanov A, Seitsonen AP, Ryan PTP, Feulner P, Pendem P, et al.
    Silicene's pervasive surface alloy on Ag(111): a scaffold for two-dimensional growth
    2D Materials. 2022; 9(4): 045021 (13 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1088/2053-1583/ac8a01
    DORA PSI
  • Lee WC, Sagehashi R, Zhang Y, Popov AA, Muntwiler M, Greber T
    X-ray absorption measurements at a bending magnet beamline with an Everhart–Thornley detector: a monolayer of Ho3N@C80 on graphene
    Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology A: Vacuum, Surfaces, and Films. 2022; 40(5): 053205 (3 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1116/6.0001961
    DORA PSI
  • Rumo M, Pulkkinen A, Ma KY, von Rohr FO, Muntwiler M, Monney C
    Break of symmetry at the surface of IrTe2 upon phase transition measured by x-ray photoelectron diffraction
    Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter. 2022; 34(7): 075001 (10 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-648X/ac3a45
    DORA PSI
  • Tarasov AV, Glazkova D, Schulz S, Poelchen G, Kliemt K, Kraiker A, et al.
    Crystal electric field and properties of 4f magnetic moments at the surface of the rare-earth compound TbRh2Si2
    Physical Review B. 2022; 106(15): 155136 (12 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.106.155136
    DORA PSI
  • Tarasov AV, Mende M, Ali K, Poelchen G, Schulz S, Vilkov OY, et al.
    Structural instability at the In-terminated surface of the heavy-fermion superconductor CeIrIn5
    Surfaces and Interfaces. 2022; 32: 102126 (6 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.surfin.2022.102126
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  • Voroshnin V, Tarasov AV, Bokai KA, Chikina A, Senkovskiy BV, Ehlen N, et al.
    Direct spectroscopic evidence of magnetic proximity effect in MoS2 monolayer on graphene/Co
    ACS Nano. 2022; 16(5): 7448-7456. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.1c10391
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2021

  • Alarab F, Hricovini K, Leikert B, Nicolaï L, Fanciulli M, Heckmann O, et al.
    Photoemission study of pristine and Ni-doped SrTiO3 thin films
    Physical Review B. 2021; 104(16): 165129 (8 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.104.165129
    DORA PSI
  • Berdonces-Layunta A, Schulz F, Aguilar-Galindo F, Lawrence J, Mohammed MSG, Muntwiler M, et al.
    Order from a mess: the growth of 5-armchair graphene nanoribbons
    ACS Nano. 2021; 15(10): 16552-16561. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.1c06226
    DORA PSI
  • Gangwar VK, Kumar S, Singh M, Ghosh L, Zhang Y, Shahi P, et al.
    Pressure induced superconducting state in ideal topological insulator BiSbTe3
    Physica Scripta. 2021; 96(5): 055802 (8 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1088/1402-4896/abe5d4
    DORA PSI
  • Haag F, Deimel PS, Knecht P, Niederegger L, Seufert K, Cuxart MG, et al.
    The flexible on-surface self-assembly of a low-symmetry mabiq ligand: an unconventional metal-assisted phase transformation on Ag(111)
    Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 2021; 125(42): 23178-23191. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.1c07400
    DORA PSI
  • Jonsson V, Piazza L, Månsson M, Weissenrieder J, Tjernberg O, Khartsev S, et al.
    Photoelectron dispersion in metallic and insulating VO2 thin films
    Physical Review Research. 2021; 3(3): 033286 (11 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.3.033286
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  • Lalaguna PL, Hedgeland H, Ryan PTP, Warschkow O, Muntwiler MK, Teplyakov AV, et al.
    Determination of the preferred reaction pathway of acetophenone on Si(001) using photoelectron diffraction
    Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter. 2021; 33(21): 214002 (10 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-648X/abe6dd
    DORA PSI
  • Meier D, Adak AK, Knecht P, Reichert J, Mondal S, Suryadevara N, et al.
    Rotation in an enantiospecific self-assembled array of molecular raffle wheels
    Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 2021; 60(52): 26932-26938. https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202107708
    DORA PSI
  • Nicholson CW, Rumo M, Pulkkinen A, Kremer G, Salzmann B, Mottas M-L, et al.
    Uniaxial strain-induced phase transition in the 2D topological semimetal IrTe2
    Communications Materials. 2021; 2: 25 (8 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43246-021-00130-5
    DORA PSI
  • Vilkov OY, Tarasov AV, Bokai KA, Makarova AA, Muntwiler M, Schiller F, et al.
    Nitrogen-doped graphene on a curved nickel surface
    Carbon. 2021; 183: 711-720. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.carbon.2021.07.038
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2020

  • Baklanov A, Garnica M, Robert A, Bocquet M-L, Seufert K, Küchle JT, et al.
    On-surface synthesis of nonmetal porphyrins
    Journal of the American Chemical Society. 2020; 142(4): 1871-1881. https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.9b10711
    DORA PSI
  • Bokai KA, Tarasov AV, Shevelev VO, Vilkov OY, Makarova AA, Marchenko D, et al.
    Hybrid h-BN-graphene monolayer with B-C boundaries on a lattice-matched surface
    Chemistry of Materials. 2020; 32(3): 1172-1181. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemmater.9b04207
    DORA PSI
  • Frolov AS, Sánchez-Barriga J, Callaert C, Hadermann J, Fedorov AV, Usachov DY, et al.
    Atomic and electronic structure of a multidomain GeTe crystal
    ACS Nano. 2020; 14(12): 16576-16589. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.0c05851
    DORA PSI
  • Förster S, Schenk S, Zollner EM, Krahn O, Chiang C-T, Schumann FO, et al.
    Quasicrystals and their approximants in 2D ternary oxides
    Physica Status Solidi B: Basic Research. 2020; 257(7): 1900624 (11 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1002/pssb.201900624
    DORA PSI
  • Grånäs E, Arndt B, Seitz C, Wagstaffe M, Stierle A
    Atomic scale step structure and orientation of a curved surface ZnO single crystal
    Journal of Chemical Physics. 2020; 152(7): 074705 (6 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5138909
    DORA PSI
  • Rumo M, Nicholson CW, Pulkkinen A, Hildebrand B, Kremer G, Salzmann B, et al.
    Examining the surface phase diagram of IrTe2 with photoemission
    Physical Review B. 2020; 101(23): 235120 (8 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.101.235120
    DORA PSI
  • Sassa Y, Johansson FOL, Lindblad A, Yazdi MG, Simonov K, Weissenrieder J, et al.
    Kagome-like silicene: a novel exotic form of two-dimensional epitaxial silicon
    Applied Surface Science. 2020; 530: 147195 (7 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apsusc.2020.147195
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  • Seo J, Kim DY, An ES, Kim K, Kim G-Y, Hwang S-Y, et al.
    Nearly room temperature ferromagnetism in a magnetic metal-rich van der Waals metal
    Science Advances. 2020; 6(3): eaay8912 (9 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aay8912
    DORA PSI
  • Usachov DY, Tarasov AV, Schulz S, Bokai KA, Tupitsyn II, Poelchen G, et al.
    Photoelectron diffraction for probing valency and magnetism of 4f-based materials: a view on valence-fluctuating EuIr2Si2
    Physical Review B. 2020; 102(20): 205102 (11 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.102.205102
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  • Zhou JS, Reining L, Nicolaou A, Bendounan A, Ruotsalainen K, Vanzini M, et al.
    Unraveling intrinsic correlation effects with angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy
    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America PNAS. 2020; 117(46): 28596-28602. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2012625117
    DORA PSI
  • de Lima LH, Greber T, Muntwiler M
    The true corrugation of a h-BN nanomesh layer
    2D Materials. 2020; 7(3): 035006 (7 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1088/2053-1583/ab81ae
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2010-2019

  • Grillo F, Megginson R, Batchelor D, Muntwiler M, Baddeley CJ
    Structural and electronic characterization of Cu/Au(111) near-surface alloys
    Japanese Journal of Applied Physics. 2019; 58(SI): SIIB09 (5 pp.). https://doi.org/10.7567/1347-4065/ab1b5b
    DORA PSI
  • Hemmi A, Cun H, Tocci G, Epprecht A, Stel B, Lingenfelder M, et al.
    Catalyst proximity-induced functionalization of h-BN with quat derivatives
    Nano Letters. 2019; 19(9): 5998-6004. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.9b01792
    DORA PSI
  • Krempaský J, Fanciulli M, Pilet N, Minár J, Khan W, Muntwiler M, et al.
    Spin-resolved electronic structure of ferroelectric α-GeTe and multiferroic Ge1–xMnxTe
    Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids. 2019; 128: 237-244. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpcs.2017.11.010
    DORA PSI
  • Marks K, Yazdi MG, Piskorz W, Simonov K, Stefanuik R, Sostina D, et al.
    Investigation of the surface species during temperature dependent dehydrogenation of naphthalene on Ni(111)
    Journal of Chemical Physics. 2019; 150: 244704 (8 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5098533
    DORA PSI
  • Preger C, Bulbucan C, Meuller BO, Ludvigsson L, Kostanyan A, Muntwiler M, et al.
    Controlled oxidation and self-passivation of bimetallic magnetic FeCr and FeMn aerosol nanoparticles
    Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 2019; 123(26): 16083-16090. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.9b01678
    DORA PSI
  • Usachov DY, Tarasov AV, Matsui F, Muntwiler M, Bokai KA, Shevelev VO, et al.
    Decoding the structure of interfaces and impurities in 2D materials by photoelectron holography
    2D Materials. 2019; 6(4): 045046 (13 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1088/2053-1583/ab3ea8
    DORA PSI
  • Di Giovannantonio M, Deniz O, Urgel JI, Widmer R, Dienel T, Stolz S, et al.
    On-surface growth dynamics of graphene nanoribbons: the role of halogen functionalization
    ACS Nano. 2018; 12(1): 74-81. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.7b07077
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  • Di Giovannantonio M, Urgel JI, Beser U, Yakutovich AV, Wilhelm J, Pignedoli CA, et al.
    On-surface synthesis of indenofluorene polymers by oxidative five-membered ring formation
    Journal of the American Chemical Society. 2018; 140(10): 3532-3536. https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.8b00587
    DORA PSI
  • Matsui F, Ota H, Sugita K, Muntwiler M, Stania R, Greber T
    Parallel and antiparallel angular momentum transfer of circularly polarized light to photoelectrons and Auger electrons at the Ni L3 absorption threshold
    Physical Review B. 2018; 97(3): 035424 (6 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.97.035424
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  • Matsui F, Nishikawa H, Daimon H, Muntwiler M, Takizawa M, Namba H, et al.
    The 4π kz periodicity in photoemission from graphite
    Physical Review B. 2018; 97(4): 045430 (6 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.97.045430
    DORA PSI
  • Monney C, Schuler A, Jaouen T, Mottas M-L, Wolf T, Merz M, et al.
    Robustness of the charge-ordered phases in IrTe2 against photoexcitation
    Physical Review B. 2018; 97(7): 075110 (8 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.97.075110
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  • Stania R, Seitsonen AP, Kunhardt D, Büchner B, Popov AA, Muntwiler M, et al.
    Electrostatic interaction across a single-layer carbon shell
    Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 2018; 9(13): 3586-3590. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.8b01326
    DORA PSI
  • Usachov DY, Tarasov AV, Bokai KA, Shevelev VO, Vilkov OY, Petukhov AE, et al.
    Site- and spin-dependent coupling at the highly ordered h-BN/Co(0001) interface
    Physical Review B. 2018; 98(19): 195438 (10 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.98.195438
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  • Jöhr R, Hinaut A, Pawlak R, Ząjac Ł, Olszowski P, Such B, et al.
    Thermally induced anchoring of a zinc-carboxyphenylporphyrin on rutile TiO2 (110)
    Journal of Chemical Physics. 2017; 146(18): 184704 (6 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4982936
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  • Muntwiler M, Zhang J, Stania R, Matsui F, Oberta P, Flechsig U, et al.
    Surface science at the PEARL beamline of the Swiss Light Source
    Journal of Synchrotron Radiation. 2017; 24(1): 354-366. https://doi.org/10.1107/S1600577516018646
    DORA PSI
  • Wang X-Y, Dienel T, Di Giovannantonio M, Borin Barin G, Kharche N, Deniz O, et al.
    Heteroatom-doped perihexacene from a double helicene precursor: on-surface synthesis and properties
    Journal of the American Chemical Society. 2017; 139(13): 4671-4674. https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.7b02258
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  • Matsui F, Maejima N, Matsui H, Nishikawa H, Daimon H, Matsushita T, et al.
    Circular dichroism in Cu resonant auger electron diffraction
    Zeitschrift für Physikalische Chemie. 2016; 230(4): 519-535. https://doi.org/10.1515/zpch-2015-0665
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  • Jaouen T, Razzoli E, Didiot C, Monney G, Hildebrand B, Vanini F, et al.
    Excited states at interfaces of a metal-supported ultrathin oxide film
    Physical Review B. 2015; 91(16): 161410 (5 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.91.161410
    DORA PSI
  • Zhang J, Shchyrba A, Nowakowska S, Meyer E, Jung TA, Muntwiler M
    Probing the spatial and momentum distribution of confined surface states in a metal coordination network
    Chemical Communications. 2014; 50(82): 12289-12292. https://doi.org/10.1039/c4cc03941f
    DORA PSI
  • Oberta P, Flechsig U, Muntwiler M, Quitmann C
    Optical design study of the PEARL beamline at SLS
    Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment. 2011; 635(1): 116-120. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2011.01.076
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