This lab is equipped with an Ultra High Vacuum (UHV) chamber that houses a Low Temperature Scanning Tunneling Microscope (LT-STM) which allows experiments in a temperature range that goes from 4.5 ºK up to 300 ºK. In this experimental setup it is possible to deposit ultra thin films of different materials a well as molecular layers and study them by means of scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy. This combination allows us to study the electronic properties at atomic resolution. We can address new problems such as surface diffusion of individual atoms and molecules, catalytic processes at surfaces, the study of standing waves and charge density waves, the study in real space of quantum well states, the magnetic domain structure of surfaces with atomic resolution and the interaction between individual molecules and their vibrational modes. The Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) lab at IMDEA Nanoscience offers a facility for structural, magnetic or electrostatic surface characterization of different nature (insulator, metallic, proteins, bacterium...). The surface characterization can be performed in contact or tapping mode in air or liquid media. For that purposes, we have two different AFM equipment: 1) JPK Nanowizard II which combines fluorescence and atomic force microscopies providing multitude of applications in Soft Matter and Life Science research, 2) Nanotec Cervantes AFM system which integrates different units for contact and tapping measurements in air or liquid media which enables to probe I-V, magnetic, and electrostatic characteristics on any surface or indentation hardness on biomolecules
