School of Mathematics and Physics

Dr Peter Jacobson

Physics Tutor Coordinator
Lecturer in CMP
School of Mathematics and Physics
+61 7 334 68753
Physics Annexe (06), Room 436
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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 received his PhD from Tulane University (New Orleans) in 2012. Before coming to UQ in 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, his work is focused on improving the fabrication processes for superconducting quantum devices. The centrepiece of his laboratory is a new low-temperature scanning tunneling microscope (LT STM/AFM) which allows devices to be probed and manipulated on the atomic scale. If you are interested in seeing single atoms or molecules and how this information can help make better devices, just drop by my office or send me an email!

Featured projects Duration
Scanning Probe Microscopy of Superconducting Capping Layers
Molecular Beam Epitaxy Growth of Aluminum Films for Superconducting Qubits
Atomic scale manipulation for better electronic devices
Imaging and Manipulating Molecular Nanostructures via Scanning Probe Microscopy

Publications

Journal Articles (26)
Conference Papers (5)

Journal Articles

Schied, Monika, Prezzi, Deborah, Liu, Dongdong, Kowarik, Stefan, Jacobson, Peter A., Corni, Stefano, Tour, James M. and Grill, Leonhard (2023). Chirality-Specific Unidirectional Rotation of Molecular Motors on Cu(111). ACS Nano, 17 (4), 3958-3965. doi: 10.1021/acsnano.2c12720
Ruiz del Árbol, Nerea, Sánchez-Sánchez, Carlos, Martínez, José I., Rodríguez, Luis, Serrate, David, Verdini, Alberto, Floreano, Luca, Jacobson, Peter, Grill, Leonhard, Martín-Gago, José A. and López, María F. (2023). On-surface synthesis of metal–organic frameworks: the critical role of the reaction conditions. Chemical Communications, 59 (20), 2954-2957. doi: 10.1039/d3cc00185g
Schied, Monika, Prezzi, Deborah, Liu, Dongdong, Jacobson, Peter, Corni, Stefano, Tour, James M. and Grill, Leonhard (2022). Inverted conformation stability of a motor molecule on a metal surface. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Part C, 126 (21), 9034-9040. doi: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.2c00406
Degnan, Zach, He, Xin, Frieiro, Alejandro Gomez, Sachkou, Yauhen, Fedorov, Arkady and Jacobson, Peter (2022). Ternary metal oxide substrates for superconducting circuits. Materials for Quantum Technology, 2 (2) 025004. doi: 10.1088/2633-4356/ac70a2
Guo, Xiao, He, Xin, Degnan, Zach, Donose, Bogdan C., Bertling, Karl, Fedorov, Arkady, Rakić, Aleksandar D. and Jacobson, Peter (2021). Near-field terahertz nanoscopy of coplanar microwave resonators. Applied Physics Letters, 119 (9) 091101, 1-6. doi: 10.1063/5.0061078
Jacobson, Peter, Prezzi, Deborah, Liu, Dongdong, Schied, Monika, Tour, James M., Corni, Stefano, Calzolari, Arrigo, Molinari, Elisa and Grill, Leonhard (2020). Adsorption and motion of single molecular motors on TiO2(110). The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 124 (45) acs.jpcc.0c07065, 24776-24785. doi: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.0c07065
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), e1602060. 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) 14119. 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) 8536. 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 (4), 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

Guo, Xiao, Bertling, Karl, Donose, Bogdan C., He, Xin, Degnan, Zach, Solemanifar, Armin, Zhang, Xueqin, Laycock, Bronwyn, Virdis, Bernardino, Fedorov, Arkady, Jacobson, Peter and Rakić, Aleksandar D. (2022). Terahertz nanoscopy: a non-destructive characterization tool for nanomaterials and nanostructures. The 2022 Conference on Optoelectronic and Microelectronic Materials and Devices, Adelaide, SA Australia, 11-16 December 2022.
Guo, Xiao, Donose, Bogdan, Bertling, Karl, He, Xin, Degnan, Zach, Solemanifar, Armin, Laycock, Bronwyn, Fedorov, Arkady, Jacobson, Peter and Rakic, Aleksandar (2021). Advances and challenges in THz scattering SNOM. 8th Australian THz Workshop, Sydney, NSW Australia, 3 December 2021.
Jacobson, Peter, Guo, Xiao, He, Xin, Degnan, Zach, Donose, Bogdan, Bertling, Karl, Fedorov, Arkady and Rakic, Aleksandar (2021). Near-field terahertz nanoscopy of coplanar microwave resonators. Australian Institute of Physics Summer Meeting, Brisbane, QLD Australia, 6th-9th December 2021.
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. 235th American Chemical Society National Meeting, New Orleans, LA, United States, April 6-10, 2008. Washington, DC, United States: American Chemical Society.
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. 52nd International Conference on Electron, Ion and Photon Beam Technology and Nanofabrication, Portland, United States, May 27-30, 2008. Melville, NY, United States: A I P Publishing LLC. doi: 10.1116/1.3002566

Areas of research

Condensed matter physics