Molecular Quantum Structures (AG Rahe)
The demand for new approaches to information technology is increasingly fuelled by the fundamental, and imminent, limitations that now arise in current device technology. Our research group investigates the fabrication and microscopic characterisation of organometallic materials, enabling new approaches to information technology at the atomic scale. With a low-temperature scanning probe microscopy-based approach, the group especially sets a focus on charge transfer properties at the atomic-scale in these novel materials.
Latest News
20.04.2026 : AI4Science at Hannover Messe 2026
We are part of the AI4Science initiative presented at Hannover Messe 2026
- see also press release
16.07.2025 : Article published in ACS Nano
"Sidestepping Intermolecular Hydrogen Bonds: How Single Water Molecules Adsorb and Assemble on the Calcite(104)−(2×1) Surface" by J. Heggemann, J. Huang, S. Aeschlimann, S. Spiller, A.S. Foster, P. Rahe (see Link)
- see also press release
- see also article on pro-physik
26.06.2025 : Article published in Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology
"Tendency in tip polarity changes in non-contact atomic force microscopy imaging on a fluorite surface" by B. Kyeyune, P. Rahe, M. Reichling (see Link)
05.05.2025 : Article published in small methods
"Systematically Navigating Through the Parameter Space During the Lateral Manipulation of PTCDA on the Ag(111) Surface" by T. Dierker, P. Laubrock, P. Rahe (see Link)
21.01.2025 : Editorial published
"Advanced atomic force microscopy techniques V" by P. Rahe, I. Bald, N. Hauptmann, R. Hoffmann-Vogel, H. Mönig, M. Reichling (see Link)
This Editorial concludes the thematic issue "Advanced atomic force microscopy techniques V" in Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology (see Link).
We thank all authors who contributed to this thematic issue!
05.08.2024 : NC-AFM 2024 conference in Montréal (Canada)
We contribute with two talks by Jonas Heggemann et al. ("Water adsorption on calcite(104)-(2×1) studied by high-resolution real-space imaging") and Maximilian Koall et al. ("Visually represented, hand-controlled SPM experiments") as well as one poster by Maximilian Koall et al.("Automatic tip characterization with Ag(111) step edges")
(conference webpage: Link)
- Congratulations to Maximilian Koall, who was awareded the Best Poster Prize!
12.07.2024 : Article accepted for publication in Physical Review B
"Sublattice identification on CaF2(111): From combinatorics to physics" by B. Kyeyune, R. Olbrich, M. Reichling, and P. Rahe (see Link)
04.07.2024 : Invited talk
"Nanoscale Charge Measurements with Charge Force Microscopy" by P. Rahe in the Research Network Nanoscience (GdR CNRS 2096 NS-CPU) Seminar (France, online) (see Announcement)
12.02.2024 : Article published in Review of Scientific Instruments
"Determination of in-plane surface directions in scanning probe microscopy images" by B. Kyeyune, R. Olbrich, P. Rahe, and M. Reichling (see Link)
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