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Electron-Based Imaging Technologies

At the end of January 2022, Professor Danilo Pescia transitioned to emeritus status and his group is no longer active. This website provides an overview over the group's former activities and is no longer updated.

Professor Pescia’s group specialised in different aspects of spin polarized electron based imaging technologies, aimed at investigating magnetic and electronic properties of surfaces with nanometer spatial resolution. Intensive effort was dedicated to design and construct special instruments for imaging, most of them conceived and assembled in-house.

Recently, Scanning Tunnelling Microscopy was extended to the field emission regime and the new electronic system produced was successfully used to perform spin polarized electron imaging.

The three active instruments left at the end of the Professorship were transferred, with the strong support of the Department of Physics, to, respectively, the University of York (UK, Prof. S. Tear, Energy resolved Scanning Field Emission Microscopy) and the Università degli Studi di Milano (Italy, Prof. G. Rossi, Scanning Field Emission Microscopy with Polarization Analysis and Low Temperature Scanning Field Emission Microscopy with Polarization Analysis).

Further Instrumentation for Scanning Tunneling Microscopy and Atomic Force Microscopy was transferred to the University of Sumy (Ukraine, Prof. Protsenko).

These instruments have been transferred as compact units and will be embedded into the research of the respective host Universities.

The sub pages 'Research', 'The Group' and 'Publications archive a copy of the last group’s activities: it provides insights into Professor Pescia’s research on spin polarized imaging and access to the groups publications.

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