Atomic Alchemy: Unleashing the Power of Particles

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I will present a series of small talks, as chosen by the audience, on my various research projects over the years related to magnetism at the small scale such as its implication to spintronics, topological insulators, proximity induced magnetism in graphene, oxide interfaces, nanoparticles, cube on hexagon epitaxy or spin-polarised low-energy electron interactions.

Light incident on metal nanoparticles can set up a collective electron oscillation, or plasmon. These plasmons offer a powerful tool to concentrate light far beyond what is possible with conventional optics, allowing light to be focused all the way down to the molecular length scale, thus enabling single-molecule optical interrogation. Spatial information is lost during this process, but by pairing spectral information with modelling, we are able to visualise, on an atomic level, how a molecule behaves at catalytically active interfaces.