Introduction into advanced experimental techniques to probe electronic, optical, chemical and magnetic properties of surfaces at the nanoscale
Introduction into measuring principles and the underlying physics, using topical data from the scientific literature
Presentation and discussion of state of the art experiments based on scanning probe methods, for example on
• conductance phenomena and charging effects in spatially confined systems
• optical properties of dielectric and metallic nanostructures (optical phonons, excitons, plasmons)
• electronic and luminescence behaviour of single molecules (density of states, frontier orbitals, luminescence and Raman response)