STM Image Gallery
Three atoms can make a heart.
Classic top view
STM image of Manganese trimers on an Iridium surface
A small asymmetry of the STM tip breaks their threefold symmetry and makes them appear as nanometric hearts.
Related Publication: A. Rodríguez-Sota et al., ACS nano. 18, 3699 (2024).
Image: UHH/A. Rodríguez-Sota
STM image of Manganese trimers on an Iridium surface
The scanning proccess moves some of the atoms that form the trimers in a preferred direction, creating the effect of some kind of atomic shooting stars.
Related Publication: A. Rodríguez-Sota et al., ACS nano. 18, 3699 (2024).
Image: UHH/A. Rodríguez-Sota
Nanostructures produced by heating H-Fe/Re(0001)
(weird & unpublished)
Image: UHH/Kubetzka
3D images
Domain wall loop and Skyrmion in Rh/Co/Ir(111)
Data published in: Sebastian Meyer et al., Nature Commun. 10, 3823 (2019)
Image: UHH/Kubetzka
Creating skyrmions and cutting domain walls with the current from an STM tip in PdFe/Ir(111)
Related publication: Niklas Romming et al., Science 341, 636 (2013)
Image: UHH/Kubetzka
Co atoms on a spin spiral, showing spin-depending electron density distributions
Related publication: David Serrate et al., Nature Nanotechnology 5, 350 (2010)
Image: UHH/Kubetzka
Composite images
Spin-friction STM image across a 2Q domain wall in fcc Mn/Re(0001)
Data published in: Jonas Spethmann et. al., Nature Commun. 12, 1 (2021)
Image: UHH/Kubetzka
Spin-friction STM image and Néel state in Fe/Re(0001)
Data published in: Safia Ouazi et al. Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 076102 (2014).
Image: UHH/Kubetzka
Miscellaneous
Rescue needed
Here the single crystal (3x7 mm) was loose on the sample plate and the sample plate was about to fall out of the shuttle. With a steady hand, the crystal could be transferred to a load lock for rebinding.
Foto: UHH/von Bergmann