As a much-enriched supplement to the previous review paper entitled the “Effective work
functions for ionic and electronic emissions from mono-and polycrystalline surfaces”[Prog …

During the last decade, interest on the growth and self-assembly of organic molecular
species on solid surfaces spread over the scientific community, largely motivated by the …

We study the relaxations, surface energies, and work functions of low-index metallic
surfaces using pseudopotential plane-wave density-functional calculations within the …

Superconductivity in the extreme two-dimensional limit is studied on ultrathin lead films
down to two atomic layers, where only a single channel of quantum well states exists …

When density functional theory is used to describe the electronic structure of periodic
systems, the application of Bloch's theorem to the Kohn-Sham wavefunctions greatly …

The purpose of this review is to focus from an experimental point-of-view on the new
physical properties of some of the thinnest superconducting films that can be fabricated and …

Manipulating the Kondo effect by quantum confinement has been achieved by placing
magnetic molecules on silicon-supported nanostructures. The Kondo resonance of …

Realization of topological superconductors (TSCs) hosting Majorana fermions is a central
challenge in condensed-matter physics. One approach is to use the superconducting …

Using a low temperature growth method, we have prepared atomically flat Pb thin films over
a wide range of film thickness on a Si-(111)-7× 7 surface. The Pb film morphology and …

The energy gap Δ of superconducting Pb islands grown on Si (111) was probed in situ
between 5 and 60 monolayers by low-temperature scanning tunneling spectroscopy. Δ was …