Franz Josef Gießibl (born 27 May 1962 in Amerang) is a German

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and university professor at the

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Life

Giessibl studied physics from 1982 to 1987 at the

Technical University of Munich The Technical University of Munich (TUM or TU Munich; german: Technische Universität München) is a public research university in Munich, Germany. It specializes in engineering, technology, medicine, and applied and natural sciences. Establis ...

and at Eidgenössische Technischen Hochschule Zürich. He received a diploma in experimental physics in 1988 with Professor Gerhard Abstreiter and continued with a PhD in physics with Nobel Laureate

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at the IBM Physics Group Munich on atomic force microscopy. After submitting his PhD thesis in the end of 1991, he continued for 6 months as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the IBM Physics Group Munich and moved to Silicon Valley to join Park Scientific Instruments, Inc as a senior scientist and later director of vacuum products from mid 1992 until the end of 1994. He joined the Munich office of management consulting firm McKinsey & Company from 1995 to 1996 as a senior associate. During that time, he invented the qPlus sensor, a new probe for atomic force microscopy and continued experimental and theoretical work on the force microscope at the chair of Professor Jochen Mannhart at

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where he received a habilitation in 2001. In 2005, he obtained offers for a chair at the

University of Bristol , mottoeng = earningpromotes one's innate power (from Horace, ''Ode 4.4'') , established = 1595 – Merchant Venturers School1876 – University College, Bristol1909 – received royal charter , type ...

(England) and

(Germany). In 2006, he joined the faculty at the Department of Physics at the

in Germany. From about 2005, he collaborated with the scanning tunneling microscopy groups of

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and

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and from about 2010 with

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to help to establish combined

scanning tunneling microscopy A scanning tunneling microscope (STM) is a type of microscope used for imaging surfaces at the atomic level. Its development in 1981 earned its inventors, Gerd Binnig and Heinrich Rohrer, then at IBM Zürich, the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1986. ...

and atomic force microscopy at ultralow temperatures. He was a visiting fellow at the center for nanoscience and technology (CNST) of the

and a visiting professor at

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from fall 2015 to spring 2016. Some of Giessibl's experimental and simulated images inspired the offset print editions ''Erster Blick'' (2000) and ''Graphit'' (2004) by visual artist

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. Franz Giessibl is married and has two sons.

Scientific contributions

Giessibl established atomic force microscopy as a surface science tool with atomic resolution, launching the field of Non-contact atomic force microscopy. Together with his team, he even obtained subatomic spatial resolutio
''(F.J. Giessibl, S. Hembacher, H. Bielefeldt, J. Mannhart, Science 2000)''
and published papers on ground breaking experiments, instrumentation and theoretical foundations of atomic force microscopy. Giessibl is the inventor of the qPlus sensor, a sensor for Non-contact atomic force microscopy that relies on a quartz cantilever. His invention has enabled atomic force microscopy to obtain subatomic spatial resolution on individual atoms and submolecular resolution on organic molecules. Today, the qPlus sensor is used in more than 500 commercial and homebuilt atomic force microscopes around the world. * 1992: Built the first low-temperature force microscope for ultrahigh vacuum with

(PhD adviser) and

Christoph Gerber Christoph Gerber is a titular professor at the Department of Physics, University of Basel, Switzerland. Christoph Gerber is the co-inventor of the atomic force microscope. Born in Basel, Switzerland, on 15 May 1942, he was among the 250 most cit ...

br>Giessibl, C. Gerber, G. Binnig, Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology B 1991''
and obtained atomic resolution on KBr with i
''(F.J. Giessibl, G. Binnig, Ultramicroscopy 1992)
KBr has a very low reactivity, yet major challenges such as jump-to-contact of AFM tip and sample had to be overcome to obtain atomic resolution. * 1992: Proposed a mechanism allowing atomic resolution in noncontact-AF
''Phys Rev B 1992)''
* 1994: Solved the problem of imaging reactive samples and obtained for the first time atomic resolution on Silicon 7x7 by force microscopy using frequency-modulation atomic force microscopy in noncontact mode with large amplitude
''(Science 1995)''
* 1996: Invented the qPlus sensor, a self sensing AFM quartz sensor that is self sensing (piezoelectric effect), highly stable in frequency and stiff enough to allow sub-Angstrom oscillation amplitudes (Patents DE19633546, US6240771
''Appl. Phys. Lett. 1998''
. * 1997: Introduces a formula that connects frequency shifts and forces for large amplitude
''(Phys Rev B 1997)''
* 2000: Obtains atomic spatial resolution using qPlus sensor
''Appl. Phys. Lett. 2000''
. * 2000: Observes subatomic resolution on tip feature
''(F.J. Giessibl, S. Hembacher, H. Bielefeldt, J. Mannhart, Science 2000)''
* 2001: Invents an algorithm to deconvolute forces from frequency shifts
Phys Lett 2001.''
. * 2003: Extended version of his habilitation thesis is published in Reviews of Modern Physic
''(RMP 2003).''
* 2003: Obtaines atomically resolved lateral force microscop
''(F.J. Giessibl, M. Herz, J. Mannhart, PNAS 2003).''
* 2004: Achieves sub-Angstrom resolution on tip features using a qPlus sensor in a low temperature AFM using higher harmonic force microscop
''(S. Hembacher, F.J. Giessibl, J. Mannhart, Science 2004).''
* 2005–2008: Helps to spread out qPlus sensor technology to IBM Research Laboratories Almaden and Rüschlikon, leading to measurements of forces that act during atomic manipulation (M. Ternes, C.P. Lutz, C. Hirjibehedin, F.J. Giessibl, A. Heinrich
Science 2008)
and single-electron charges on single gold atom
''(Science 2009).''
* 2012: Introduces carbon monoxide front atom identification (COFI), a method for the atomic and subatomic characterization of scanning probe tip
''(J. Welker, F.J. Giessibl, Science 2012).''
* 2013: Observes evidence for superexchange interaction and very low noise data of exchange interactions between CoSm tips and antiferromagnetic Ni
''(F. Pielmeier, F.J. Giessibl, Phys. Rev. Lett. 2013).''
* 2013: Observes atomic resolution in ambient conditions without special sample preparatio
''(D. Wastl, A.J. Weymouth, F.J. Giessibl, Phys. Rev. B 2013).''
* 2014: Measurement of CO-CO interactions by lateral force microscop
''(A.J. Weymouth, T. Hofmann, F.J. Giessibl, Science 2014).''
* 2015: Atomic resolution of few atom metal clusters and subatomic resolution of single metal atom
''(M. Emmrich et al., Science 2015).''
* 2016: Simultaneous inelastic tunneling spectroscopy and AF
''(N. Okabayashi et al., Phys. Rev. B 2016)''
AFM with superconductive tip
''(A. Peronio, F.J. Giessibl, Phys. Rev. B 2016)''
Multifrequency AFM using bimodal qPlus sensors
''H. Ooe et al., Appl Phys Lett 2016''
. * 2018: Simultaneous inelastic tunneling spectroscopy and AFM shows bond weakening effect
''N. Okabayashi et al., PNAS 2018''
. * 2018: Joint study with John Sader group on well- and ill posed force deconvolution schemes
''J. Sader, B. Hughes, F. Huber, F.J. Giessibl, Nature Nanotechnology 2018''
. * 2019: Review article about qPlus sensors and applications
''Review of Scientific Instruments 2019''
. * 2021: Measurement of very weak bonds to artificial atoms formed by quantum corrals ( https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abe2600 ''Science 2021'']).

Selected publications

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Books

1. Noncontact Atomic Force Microscopy: Volume II (NanoScience and Technology), S. Morita, F.J. Giessibl, R. Wiesendanger (Eds.), Springer 2012 2. Noncontact Atomic Force Microscopy: Volume III (NanoScience and Technology), S. Morita, F.J. Giessibl, E. Meyer, R. Wiesendanger (Eds.), Springer 2015 3. Erster Blick in das Innere eines Atoms – Begegnungen mit

zwischen Kunst und Wissenschaft, Franz J. Gießibl, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König, Köln, Germany (2022) 4. First View inside an Atom― Encounters with

between Art and Science, English Edition, Franz J. Gießibl, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König, Köln, Germany (2022)

Awards and honors

* 1994: R&D 100 Award (together with Brian Trafas) * 2000: Deutscher Nanowissenschaftspreis * 2001: Rudolf-Kaiser-Preis * 2009: Karl Heinz Beckurts-Preis * 2010: Ehrenfest Kolloquium Leiden (27 Oct 2010) (Netherlands) * 2013: Zernike Kolloquium Groningen (Netherlands) * 2014: Joseph F. Keithley Award For Advances in Measurement Science of the American Physical Society * 2015: Rudolf-Jaeckel Prize of the German Vacuum Society * 2016:

Foresight Institute Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology The Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology is an award given by the Foresight Institute for significant advances in nanotechnology. Two prizes are awarded annually, in the categories of experimental and theoretical work. There is also a separate chal ...

References

External links

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Mark Wendman nanoscience blog
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