Basel Universität

Departement für Physik

Prof. Dr. Thomas Jung

Titularprofessor of Nanoscience
PSI Professorship at the University of Basel

Swiss Nanoscience Institute (SNI) and
Department of Physics
University of Basel
Klingelbergstrasse 82
4056 Basel
Switzerland

Office / Lab in Basel:
web-page: http://www.nanolab.unibas.ch
direct phone: +41 (0)61 267 3665
secretariat: +41 (0)61 267 1238
fax: +41 (0)61 267 3795
e-mail:

Group Leader Molecular Nanoscience
Laboratory for Micro- and Nanotechnology
Paul Scherrer Institut
5232 Villigen PSI
Switzerland

Office at PSI:
web-page: http://lmn.web.psi.ch/molnano/jung/index.html
direct phone: +41 (0)56 310 4518
fax: +41 (0)56 310 2646
e-mail:


Short Biography

Thomas Jung obtained a Diploma in Solid State Physics and Biophysics from ETH Zürich in 1987 on Photoemission (with H.C. Siegmann) and a Ph. D. in Solid State Physics and Surface Physics from the University of Basel in 1992. In his Ph. D. work he developed dedicated Atomic Force Microscopy experiments for nanomechanics, magnetic imaging and for single flux line investigations above Superconductors (with H. J. Guentherodt). He implemented AFM at PSI's Zürich Research Laboratory (Formerly RCA, Now CSEM) Research Laboratory before joining IBM T. J. Watson Research Laboratory in Yorktown Heights NY (US) as a Post Doctoral Fellow in 1992 to work on the electronic states of metallic wires and islands. (with Ph. Avouris and F. J. Himpsel) Between 1994 and 1997 he experimented with individual molecules, their self assembly, positioning and their conformation at IBM's Zürich Research Laboratory in Rüschlikon, Switzerland (with J. K. Gimzewski).

Thomas Jung was hired as a Staff Scientist at Paul Scherrer Institute in 1997, had been invited Scientist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison (with F. J. Himpsel) and Invited Professor at University of Kyoto (with K. Matsushige). In 1998 he started as a group leader of the Nanolab at the University of Basel and in 2002 he was appointed group leader of the Molecular Nanoscience group at PSI and in 2009 Titularprofessor at the University of Basel. From 1999 to 2002 held the Presidency of the Swiss Physical Society. He is a board member for scientific journals like the European Physical Journal, the Annales Henry Poincare and the Europhysics News and he organized and co-organized several conferences and workshops to promote scientific issues as well as the public understanding of science and technology. Currently he is a Member of the Scientific Board of the NCCR Nanoscience.



Research Summary

The group is building and exploring properties of addressable nanostructures geared towards future applications in devices and for specifically functional surfaces and materials.

Such structures are manufactured at surfaces predominantly in parallel by Self Assembly, but also by 'growth', by site specific chemical reactions, and in combination with individual atomic and molecular manipulation. 'Hard' solid substrates with predominantly weak (ultrathin insulating layers) or stronger (metals / semiconductors) interaction are combined with inherently 'soft' architectured, molecular and supramolecular structures to explore their cooperative interaction and properties at surfaces and interfaces.

Supra molecular mechanics is concerned with bi- / multistable behaviour of supra-molecular assemblies, generally governed by the conformation flexure of the molecular building blocks and their cooperative interaction. Molecular Electronics through individual investigations of addressable molecular assemblies at surfaces and ultrathin devices and Molecular Spintronics through the investigation of electronic magnetic coupling between molecules and magnetic surfaces. By interaction of surface electronic states with supra molecular porous networks Quantum Wells and Electronic Metamaterials have been described.

Electronic, optic and magnetic properties of such architectured layers, nanowires and quantum dots are characterised, both as individual addressable entity at the surface by using specific techniques with the Scanning Probe Microscope and as an ensemble. Therefore spectro- / microscopy correlation is performed using Surface Science Techniques also at the Swiss Light Source in combination with Scanning Probe Microscopy.



Selected Publications

  1. J. Lobo-Checa, M. Matena, K. Mueller, J.H. Dil, F. Meier, L.H. Gade, T.A. Jung, M. Stoehr, Band Formation from Coupled Quantum Dots Formed by a Nanoporous Network on a Copper Surface, Science 325, 300 (2009).
  2. N. Wintjes, D. Bonifazi, F.Y. Cheng, A. Kiebele, M. Stöhr, T.A. Jung, H. Spillmann, F. Diederich, A supramolecular multiposition rotary device, Angew. Chem.Int. Ed. 46, 4089 (2007).
  3. A. Scheybal, T. Ramsvik, R. Bertschinger, M. Putero, F. Nolting, T.A. Jung, Induced magnetic ordering in a molecular monolayer, Chem. Phys. Lett. 411, 214 (2005).
  4. M. de Wild, S. Berner, H. Suzuki, H. Yanagi, D. Schlettwein, S. Ivan, A. Baratoff, H.J. Guentherodt, T.A. Jung, A novel route to molecular self-assembly: Self-intermixed monolayer phases, Chem. Phys. Chem. 3, 881 (2002).
  5. T.A. Jung TA, R.R. Schlittler, J.K. Gimzewski, Conformational identification of individual adsorbed molecules with the STM, Nature 386, 696 (1997).
  6. T.A. Jung, Y.W. Mo, F.J. Himpsel, Identification of metals in scanning tunneling microscopy via image states, Phys. Rev. Lett. 74, 1641 (1995).