{"id":8,"date":"2025-10-08T07:57:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T05:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/members.ifimac.uam.es\/stm2d\/?page_id=8"},"modified":"2025-10-13T16:34:36","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T14:34:36","slug":"about-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/members.ifimac.uam.es\/stm2d\/about-me\/","title":{"rendered":"About us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Our group is devoted to studying the properties of two-dimensional materials and their emergent physical and chemical properties. To this end, we employ a combination of advanced experimental techniques, including:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Low-temperature scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy (LT-STM\/STS)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Thin-film growth by molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) under ultra-high vacuum (UHV) conditions<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) and X-ray photoemission spectroscopy (XPS) measurements conducted at leading synchrotron facilities<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Our laboratories host <strong>three LT-STM systems<\/strong> operating at <strong>1.2 K<\/strong> and <strong>4.2 K<\/strong>, one of them equipped with a <strong>magnetic field up to 3 T<\/strong>, as well as one microscope that operates at room temperature. All systems are equipped with evaporators for in-situ thin-film growth and allow <strong>UHV-compatible sample transfer.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">In recent years, our research has focused on the following topics:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><strong><u>Epitaxial growth<\/u><\/strong> of graphene and monolayers of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) on different substrates by molecular beam epitaxy, and the study of their resulting crystallographic and electronic properties.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><strong><u>Chemistry on 2D materials<\/u><\/strong>, by exploring the covalent bonding of chemical species to epitaxial graphene and monolayers of TMDs in ultra-high vacuum conditions.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><strong><u>Strongly Correlated Electron Systems<\/u><\/strong>, studied by scanning tunnelling microscopy\/spectroscopy. STS maps allow us to visualize quasiparticle scattering and interference of the highly correlated electrons.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><strong><u>Superconductivity in novel materials and thin films<\/u><\/strong>, with particular emphasis on how substrate interactions influence their superconducting properties.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><strong><u>Topological Surface States<\/u><\/strong><strong>, <\/strong>focussing on their atomic-scale structure and coupling to selected substrates to reveal new topological phenomena.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><strong><u>Excitonic insulators, <\/u><\/strong>by mapping the local density of states and visualizing emergent collective phenomena such as charge density waves.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our group is devoted to studying the properties of two-dimensional materials and their emergent physical and chemical properties. To this end, we employ a combination of advanced experimental techniques, including: Low-temperature scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy (LT-STM\/STS) Thin-film growth by molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) under ultra-high vacuum (UHV) conditions Angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) and X-ray&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","no-post-thumbnail","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/members.ifimac.uam.es\/stm2d\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/members.ifimac.uam.es\/stm2d\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/members.ifimac.uam.es\/stm2d\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/members.ifimac.uam.es\/stm2d\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/members.ifimac.uam.es\/stm2d\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/members.ifimac.uam.es\/stm2d\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":176,"href":"https:\/\/members.ifimac.uam.es\/stm2d\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions\/176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/members.ifimac.uam.es\/stm2d\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}