Dr Peter Jacobson
Lecturer in CMP
School of Mathematics and Physics
+61 7 336 58579
Physics Annexe (06), Room 436
Researcher biography
Dr Peter Jacobson's research interests are: Scanning Probe Microscopy (STM/AFM), Single Atom Magnetism, Kondo Physics, 2D Materials, Oxide Surfaces, and Molecular Machines.
He recieved his PhD from Tulane University (New Orleans) in 2010. Before coming to UQ (June 2019), he worked at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research (Stuttgart, Germany), TU Wien (Vienna, Austria), and Uni Graz (Graz, Austria).
For more details on research see: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=4ZcJt34AAAAJ&hl=en
At UQ he is setting up a laboratory from scratch - busy, busy...
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| Molecular Beam Epitaxy Growth of Aluminum Films for Superconducting Qubits |
Journal Articles
Jacobson, Peter, Muenks, Matthias, Laskin, Gennadii, Brovko, Oleg, Stepanyuk, Valeri, Ternes, Markus and Kern, Klaus (2017) Potential energy–driven spin manipulation via a controllable hydrogen ligand. Science Advances, 3 4: . doi:10.1126/sciadv.1602060
Muenks, Matthias, Jacobson, Peter, Ternes, Markus and Kern, Klaus (2017) Correlation-driven transport asymmetries through coupled spins in a tunnel junction. Nature Communications, 8 1: . doi:10.1038/ncomms14119
Jacobson, Peter, Herden, Tobias, Muenks, Matthias, Laskin, Gennadii, Brovko, Oleg, Stepanyuk, Valeri, Ternes, Markus and Kern, Klaus (2015) Quantum engineering of spin and anisotropy in magnetic molecular junctions. Nature Communications, 6 1: . doi:10.1038/ncomms9536
Dette, Christian, Perez-Osorio, Miguel A., Kley, Christopher S., Punke, Paul, Patrick, Christopher E., Jacobson, Peter, Giustino, Feliciano, Jung, Soon Jung and Kern, Klaus (2014) TiO2 anatase with a bandgap in the visible region. Nano Letters, 14 11: 6533-6538. doi:10.1021/nl503131s
Jacobson, Peter, Stoeger, Bernhard, Garhofer, Andreas, Parkinson, Gareth S., Schmid, Michael, Caudillo, Roman, Mittendorfer, Florian, Redinger, Josef and Diebold, Ulrike (2012) Nickel carbide as a source of grain rotation in epitaxial graphene. ACS Nano, 6 4: 3564-3572. doi:10.1021/nn300625y
Hagleitner, Daniel R., Menhart, Manfred, Jacobson, Peter, Blomberg, Sara, Schulte, Karina, Lundgren, Edvin, Kubicek, Markus, Fleig, Juergen, Kubel, Frank, Puls, Christoph, Limbeck, Andreas, Hutter, Herbert, Boatner, Lynn A., Schmid, Michael and Diebold, Ulrike (2012) Bulk and surface characterization of In2O3(001) single crystals. Physical Review B, 85 11: . doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.85.115441
Li, Shao-Chun, Jacobson, Peter, Zhao, Shu-Lei, Gong, Xue-Qing and Diebold, Ulrike (2012) Trapping nitric oxide by surface hydroxyls on rutile TiO2(110). Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 116 2: 1887-1891. doi:10.1021/jp209290a
Jacobson, Peter, Stoeger, Bernhard, Garhofer, Andreas, Parkinson, Gareth S., Schmid, Michael, Caudillo, Roman, Mittendorfer, Florian, Redinger, Josef and Diebold, Ulrike (2012) Disorder and defect healing in graphene on Ni(111). Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 3 1: 136-139. doi:10.1021/jz2015007
Parkinson, Gareth S., Novotny, Zbynek, Jacobson, Peter, Schmid, Michael and Diebold, Ulrike (2011) Room temperature water splitting at the surface of magnetite. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 133 32: 12650-12655. doi:10.1021/ja203432e
Parkinson, Gareth S., Novotny, Zbynek, Jacobson, Peter, Schmid, Michael and Diebold, Ulrike (2011) A metastable Fe(A) termination at the Fe3O4(001) surface. Surface Science, 605 15-16: L42-L45. doi:10.1016/j.susc.2011.05.018
Parkinson, Gareth S., Mulakaluri, Narasimham, Losovyj, Yaroslav, Jacobson, Peter, Pentcheva, Rossitza and Diebold, Ulrike (2010) Semiconductor-half metal transition at the Fe3O4(001) surface upon hydrogen adsorption. Physical Review B, 82 12: . doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.82.125413
Li, Shao-Chun, Wang, Jian-guo, Jacobson, Peter, Gong, X. -Q., Selloni, Annabella and Diebold, Ulrike (2009) Correlation between Bonding Geometry and Band Gap States at Organic-Inorganic Interfaces: Catechol on Rutile TiO2(110). Journal of the American Chemical Society, 131 3: 980-984. doi:10.1021/ja803595u
Gong, Xue-Qing, Selloni, Annabella, Dulub, Olga, Jacobson, Peter and Diebold, Ulrike (2008) Small au and pt clusters at the anatase TiO2(101) surface: Behavior at terraces, steps, and surface oxygen vacancies. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 130 1: 370-381. doi:10.1021/ja0773148
Ilie, Carolina C., Jacobson, P. A., Yakovkin, I. N., Rosa, Luis G., Poulsen, Matt, Reddy, D. Sahadeva, Takacs, James M. and Dowben, P. A. (2007) Activated water desorption from poly(methylvinylidene cyanide). Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 111 27: 7742-7746. doi:10.1021/jp071661m
Jacobson, P. A., Rosa, Luis G., Kraemer, Kristin, Ducharme, Stephen and Dowben, P. A. (2007) Polyvinylidene fluoride-trifluoroethylene as a reservoir for absorbed water. Materials Letters, 61 4-5: 1137-1141. doi:10.1016/j.matlet.2006.06.073
Jacobson, P. A., Ilie, Carolina C., Yakovkin, I. N., Poulsen, Matt, Sahadeva Reddy, D., Takacs, James M. and Dowben, P. A. (2006) Water absorption and desorption from the dipole ordered polymer poly(methylvinylidene cyanide). Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 110 31: 15389-15392. doi:10.1021/jp062699m
Rosa, L.G., Jacobson, P.A. and Dowben, P.A. (2006) Evidence for an influence of local dipole excitations in thermal desorption. Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 110 15: 7944-7950. doi:10.1021/jp054929n
Rosa, LG, Jacobson, PA and Dowben, PA (2005) Water adsorption on and desorption from crystalline copolymers of vinylidene fluoride with trifluoroethylene. Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 109 1: 532-535. doi:10.1021/jp045896z
Rosa, LG, Jacobson, PA, Lemoine, R and Dowben, PA (2004) The elimination of the influence of ambient environmental effects on the structure of 'inert' polymers. Journal of Applied Crystallography, 37 672-674. doi:10.1107/S0021889804012026
Jacobson, P.A., Rosa, L.G., Othon, C.M., Kraemer, K.L., Sorokin, A.V., Ducharme, S. and Dowben, P.A. (2004) Water absorption and dielectric changes in crystalline poly(vinylidene fluoride-trifluoroethylene) copolymer films. Applied Physics Letters, 84 1: 88-90. doi:10.1063/1.1637127
Conference Papers
Jacobson, Peter, Wang, Jianguo, Connors, Matthew, Gong, Xue-Qing, Selloni, Annabella and Diebold, Ulrike (2008). COLL 450-Bonding configurations of catechol on rutile and anatase TiO2. In: 235th American Chemical Society National Meeting, New Orleans, LA, United States, (). April 6-10, 2008.
Jacobson, Peter, Li, Shao-Chun, Wang, Chuandao and Diebold, Ulrike (2008). Decomposition of catechol and carbonaceous residues on TiO(2)(110): A model system for cleaning of extreme ultraviolet lithography optics. In: 52nd International Conference on Electron, Ion and Photon Beam Technology and Nanofabrication, Portland, United States, (2236-2240). May 27-30, 2008. doi:10.1116/1.3002566