Controlled Single Molecule Contacts and Switches
Prof. Dr. Richard Berndt
Institut für Experimentelle und Angewandte Physik, Christian-Albrechts-Universität
zu Kiel, 24098 Kiel, Germany
berndt@physik.uni-kiel.de
Using low-temperature scanning tunnelling microscopy we investigate the
conductance of adatoms and molecules on surfaces. Going beyond the tunnelling
range, we explore closer tip-sample distances in the contact range where currents of
several microamperes are passed through the junction. The talk will address the role
of molecular structure and bonding, switching of planar molecules, and the emission
of light from contacts.
Prof. Dr. Richard Berndt’s Biostketch
(http://www.ieap.uni-kiel.de/surface/ag-berndt/index-e.html)
Richard Berndt is a professor at the
Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Germany.
His group is developping and using scanning probe
microscopes
for
research
into
magnetic
nanostructures and molecular interactions and
functions at surfaces. Having studied physics at the
Universities of Osnabrück and Göttingen and the
Max-Planck-Institut für Strömungsforschung, he
was a PhD student at the IBM Research Laboratory,
Rüschlikon, and obtained his PhD from the
Universität Basel in 1992. After working as postdoc
at the Université de Lausanne, he became professor
at the RWTH Aachen in 1996 and moved on to Kiel
in 1999. He has published more than 180 scientific
articles, among them some 35 papers in Physical
Review Letters, Nature, or Science. Currently, he
serves as the chairman of the Surface Science Division of the German Physical
Society.