Hudert, Florian, Bruchhausen, Axel, Issenmann, Daniel, Schecker, Olivier, Waitz, Reimar, Erbe, Artur, ...
In this Rapid Communication we report the first time-resolved measurements of confined acoustic phonon modes in free-standing Si membranes excited by fs laser pulses. Pump-probe experiments using...
Mikuszeit, Nikolai, Baraban, Larysa, Vedmedenko, Elena Y., Erbe, Artur, Leiderer, Paul, Wiesendanger, Roland
The magnetostatic interactions of colloidal particles, capped with radially magnetized Co/Pt multilayers, are modeled. Motivated by experiment the particles are arranged in microscopic...
Colloidal Micromotors: Controlled Directed Motion (2008)
Baraban, Larysa, Kreidler, Christian, Makarov, Denys, Leiderer, Paul, Erbe, Artur
Here we demonstrate a synthetic micro-engine, based on long-range controlled movement of colloidal particles, which is induced by a local catalytic reaction. The directed motion at long timescales...
Frustration-induced magic number clusters of colloidal magnetic particles (2008)
Baraban, Larysa, Makarov, Denys, Albrecht, Manfred, Rivier, Nicolas, Leiderer, Paul, Erbe, Artur
We report the formation of stable two-dimensional clusters consisting of long-range-interacting colloidal particles with predefined magnetic moments. The symmetry and arrangement of the particles...
Influence of chopped laser light onto the electronic transport through atomic-sized contacts (2008)
Guhr, Daniel, Rettinger, Dennis, Boneberg, Johannes, Erbe, Artur, Leiderer, Paul, Scheer, Elke
This article reports on the influence of laser irradiation onto the electrical conductance of gold nanocontacts established with the mechanically controllable breakjunction technique (MCB). We...
Kreuter, Christian, Bächle, Stefan, Scheer, Elke, Erbe, Artur
We present the characterization of a decanedithiol monolayer using a technique which is based on micro-transfer printing. This technique allows us to contact molecular monolayers on the scale of...
Electrical characterization of DNA in mechanically controlled break-junctions (2008)
Kang, Ning, Erbe, Artur, Scheer, Elke
Electrical characterization of DNA molecules using the mechanically controlled break-junction technique is presented. The mainadvantage of the technique is the control over the electrode distance...
Various driving mechanisms for generating motion of colloidal particles (2008)
Erbe, Artur, Zientara, Marcin, Baraban, Larysa, Kreidler, Christian, Leiderer, Paul
Driven colloidal particles exhibit a number of interesting nonequilibrium effects. In order to study these effects the driving mechanisms have to be understood in detail. In this paper we show three...
Thiolated Nucleotides for Immobilisation of DNA Oligomers on Gold Surfaces (2008)
Bornemann, Benjamin, Liu, Shou Peng, Erbe, Artur, Scheer, Elke, Marx, Andreas
Thiols have a strong tendency to be chemisorbed to gold surfaces forming self-assembled monolayers. The feature of strong S-Au bond formation has been exploited in numerous applications including the...
Thiolated Nucleotides for Immobilisation of DNA Oligomers on Gold Surfaces (2008)
Bornemann, Benjamin, Liu, Shou-Peng, Erbe, Artur, Scheer, Elke, Marx, Andreas
Thiols have a strong tendency to be chemisorbed to gold surfaces forming self-assembled monolayers. The feature of strong S-Au bond formation has been exploited in numerous applications including the...
Characterization of magnetic colloids by means of magnetooptics (2007)
Baraban, Larysa, Erbe, Artur, Leiderer, Paul
A new, efficient method for the characterization of magnetic colloids based on the Faraday effect is proposed. According to the main principles of this technique, it is possible to detect the stray...
Acoustic laser cleaning of silicon surfaces (2007)
Geldhaser, Tobias, Ziese, Florian, Merkt, Florian, Erbe, Artur, Boneberg, Johannes, Leiderer, Paul
We investigate the detachment of small particles from silicon surfaces by means of acoustic waves generated by laser-induced plasma formation at the back side of the sample. It is demonstrated that...
Influence of laser light on electronic transport through atomic-size contacts (2007)
Guhr, Daniel C., Rettinger, Dennis, Boneberg, Johannes, Erbe, Artur, ...
This Letter reports on the influence of laser irradiation onto the electrical conductance of gold nanocontacts established with the mechanically controllable break-junction technique. We concentrate...
Layer Reduction in Driven 2D-Colloidal Systems through Microchannels (2006)
Köppl, Michael, Henseler, Peter, Erbe, Artur, Nielaba, Peter, Leiderer, Paul
The transport behaviour of a system of gravitationally driven superparamagnetic colloidal particles is investigated. The motion of the particles through a narrow channel is governed by magnetic...
Capped colloids as light-mills in optical traps (2006)
Merkt, Florian, Erbe, Artur, Leiderer, Paul
Custom-designed colloidal particles in optical tweezers act as lightmills in a fluid. In particular, aqueous suspensions of capped silica colloids, in which half of the surface is covered with metal...
Control of topography, stress and diffusion at molecule-metal interface (2005)
Zhitenev, Nikolai B., Jiang, Weirong, Erbe, Artur, Bao, Zhenan, Garfunkel, Eric, Tennant, Donald M., ...
Transport properties of metal-molecule-metal junctions containing monolayer of conjugated and saturated molecules with characteristic dimensions in the range of 30-300 nm are correlated with...
Parametric frequency tuning of phase-locked nano-electromechanical resonators (2001)
Kraus, Andreas, Erbe, Artur, Corso, Gilberto, Richter, Klaus, Blick, Robert H.
We present measurements on nanoelectromechanical systems fabricated in semiconductor materials suited for operating frequencies in the radio band. We demonstrate how to achieve parametric frequency...
Nanomechanischer Elektronentransport / (2001)
Zugl.: München, Universiẗat, Diss., 2000.
Beil, Florian W., Pescini, Laura, Höhberger, Eva, Kraus, Andreas, Erbe, Artur, Blick, Robert H.
We present measurements on nanomechanical resonators operating in the radio frequency range. We apply a setup which allows the comparison of two schemes of displacement detection for mechanical...
Nanomechanical vibrating wire resonator for phonon spectroscopy in Helium (1999)
Kraus, Andreas, Erbe, Artur, Blick, Robert H.
We demonstrate how to build a vibrating wire resonator for phonon excitation in liquid helium. The resonator is designed as a nanoscopic mechanically flexible beam machined out of a...