Research Staff Scientist and the group leader of the atom/molecule manipulation group (5 members) at IBM Research – Zurich. He is Visiting Professor and 2019 parrain de promotion at Toulouse University.
Leo Gross
Research Career
Skills
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AFM with atomic resolution on molecules
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Bond-order discrimination on individual molecules and single-electron charge detection on the atomic scale using AFM
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On-surface synthesis by atom manipulation and characterization of products (molecules with high-spin ground states, spin switches, charge switches, reaction intermediates, radicals, diradicals, antiaromatic molecules and one-dimensional molecular wires)
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Charge-state manipulation of molecules and atoms and resolving the charge distribution within individual molecules by Kelvin probe force microscopy
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Tunneling spectroscopy with single electrons by AFM detection
- 2010
- 2010
- 2012
- 2012
- 2013, 2014 and 2016