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Sabine Maier

Atomic scale imaging, manipulation, and spectroscopy Mechanical and electrical properties of molecules in self-assembled films Ambient pressure photoelectron spectroscopy for environnemental sciences Studies of friction, adhesion, and wear at the nanometer scale Electronic, mechanical, and chemical properties of nanoclusters Structure of thin liquid films and wetting Nanoscale material imaging and manipulation (Molecular Foundry) Catalytic and chemical properties of surfaces

Sabine Maier
Postdoctoral Fellow

Materials Sciences Division
Mail stop 66R0200-8256
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, California 94720 USA

Phone: +1-510-486-7478
FAX: +1-510-486-7268
Email:sbmaier*lbl.gov (replace * by @)

Homepage: http://monet.physik.unibas.ch/~maier/index.htm

Project

I am a postdoctoral fellow in Prof. M. Salmeron's group. I'm currently working together with Ingeborg Stass on atoms and small molecules adsorbed at Ru(0001). We are using a low temperature scanning tunnelling microscope operated in an ultrahigh vacuum environment.

Education

2007 PhD in Physics, University of Basel, Switzerland

2003 MSc in Physics, University of Basel, Switzerland

Professional Experience

2007-now: Postdoc in the group of Prof. M. Salmeron
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, USA

2004-2005: Visiting scientist in the research group of Prof. R. Bennewitz
McGill University, Montreal, Canada

2003-2007: PhD in the research group of Prof. E. Meyer
University of Basel, Switzerland

Selected Publications

S. Maier, L.-A. Fendt, L. Zimmerli, T. Glatzel, O. Pfeiffer, F. Diederich, E. Meyer
Nano-Engineering of Molecular Porphyrin Wires on Insulating Surfaces
SMALL 4 No. 8 (2008) 1115-1118

S. Maier, E. Gnecco, A. Baratoff, R. Bennewitz, E. Meyer
Atomic-scale friction modulated by a buried interface: Combined atomic and friction force microscopy experiments
Phys. Rev. B 78 (2008) 045432

S. Maier, O. Pfeiffer, T. Glatzel, E. Meyer, T. Filleter, R. Bennewitz
Asymmetry in the reciprocal epitaxy of NaCl and KBr
Phys. Rev. B 75 (2007) 195408

A. Socoliuc, E. Gnecco, S. Maier, O. Pfeiffer, A. Baratoff, R. Bennewitz, E. Meyer
Atomic-Scale Control of Friction by Actuation of Nanometer-Sized Contacts
Science 313 (2006) 207

S. Maier, Yi Sang, T. Filleter, M. Grant, R. Bennewitz, E. Gnecco, E. Meyer
Fluctuations and jump dynamics in atomic friction
Phys. Rev. B 72 (2005) 245418

L. Nony, E. Gnecco, A. Baratoff, A. Alkauskas, R. Bennewitz, O. Pfeiffer, S. Maier, A. Wetzel, E. Meyer, C. Gerber
Observation of individual molecules trapped on a nanostructured insulator
Nano Letters 4 (2004) 2185

Research Interests

scanning probe microscopy, self assembly of molecules, atomic-scale friction