The Interface Physics group uses various types of Scanning Probe Microscopy, Surface X-Ray Diffraction, and other techniques to investigate the structure and dynamic behavior of surfaces and interfaces. Most of the special-purpose instruments used in this research are home-built. Topics that we are working on at present include catalysis, nanotribology, deposition of graphene and other thin films,and nanobiology. Click on any of the items below to find out more . Click here to get a general introduction into Scanning Probe Microscopy.

In atoms moving through Cu(001) surface, by Raoul van Gastel

Atomic Slide Puzzles:
vacancy diffusion &
 surprising surfactants

 

   
Seeing Thin Films Evolve:
Grain & Film Growth

 

Pt(110) under high CO-pressure, by Bas Hendriksen

High-Pressure STM, AFM and SXRD on
'Live' Catalysts'

Variable-temperature STM, by Laurens Kuipers

High-Speed,
Variable-Temperature STM

 

AFM-image of LH2 complex, by Amalia Stamouli

Bio AFM Lab

 

The Tribolever: Friction Force Sensor, by Martin Dienwiebel

Nanotribology:
Friction on the Atomic Scale

Principle of Scanning Probe Microscopy

Principle of Scanning Probe Microscopy 

Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems
(MEMS)


Check out our SmartMix project NIMIC: Nano-Imaging under Industrial Conditions


Leiden Center for Ultramicroscopy

 

Our Commercial Spinoff:
Leiden Probe Microscopy


Ellie van Rijsewijk; Tel. ++31 (0)71 527 5480; E-mail
Last modification: 18.08.2010