Franz Giessibl | Chemical Bonds to Atoms Resolved by Subatomically Resolved Atomic Force Microscopy

Foresight Molecular Machines Group

Franz Giessibl | Chemical bonds to natural and artificial atoms resolved by subatomically resolved atomic force microscopy

Franz Giessibl
Franz Giessibl currently works at the Institute of Experimental and Applied Physics, Universität Regensburg. Franz does research in Condensed Matter Physics, Experimental Physics, Electronics and Mechanics. Giessibl spent most of his professional career improving atomic force microscopy and published papers on ground breaking experiments, instrumentation and theoretical foundations of atomic force microscopy.

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[theultimatereductionist]

24:22 I really wish this interviewer had NOT interrupted Dr Giessibl and pressured him to rush through these slides,
because there were ESPECIALLY fascinating slides at 24:33 and onwards.

[theultimatereductionist]

I still voted this video up for its amazing fundamental experimentation + research + technology!

[mechadense]

17:35 — So the total charge density is not ring-like but the DFT calculations still gave the ring structure in force predictions (for some less or more understood reason).
Some resonance effects in overlap of partially occupied states perhaps?? That is: Is the humps maximum maybe approximately between two allowed standing electron wave wavelengths for a HOMO? But this is all metal and electron gas with no discrete levels at Fermi energy, so theres no HOMO right? Hmm …

21:05 — Superposition of two energy potentials forms an itermediate hump giving a second stable equilibrium-bonding-distance (physisorption) beyond the one with minial bond distance (chemisorption).
I wonder: What are these two potentials and the long distance repulsive part? What repulses something physisorbed when it is not pauli repulsion/degeneracypressue?

23:18 Nice. Here the inner actual pauli repulsion (chemisorption) actually shows up here (the "eyes" pupil). At the former cross sectional force vs distance&offset charts (18:08) this is cut off at the bottom.

[theultimatereductionist]

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[theultimatereductionist]

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