Prof. Dr. Herbert Pfnür

Office address
Institut für Festkörperphysik
Leibniz Universität Hannover
Phone: +49 (0)511 762 4819
Fax: +49 (0)511 762 4877
Email: pfnuer(at)fkp.uni-hannover.de
Web: www.fkp.uni-hannover.de/agp
Project E4
Transport and collective excitations in metallic wires
Areas of Research
• Metallic nanowires and films: Structure and electronic transport.
• Organic molecules on surfaces.
• Expitaxy and electronic properties of insulator films
• Epitaxial graphene: plasmons and local transport properties
Selected Publications
1. C. Tegenkamp, Z. Kallassy, H. Pfnür, H.-L. Günter, V. Zielasek, M. Henzler
Switching Between One and Two Dimensions: Conductivity of Pb-induced Chain Structures on Si(557)
Phys. Rev. Lett., 95, 176804 (2005).
2. H. Pfnür, C. Tegenkamp, V.Maslyuk, T. Bredow
Band gap engineering at surfaces of insulating films by adsorption of organic molecules
Surf. Sci. 600, 1664 (2006).
3. H. Pfnür, C. Tegenkamp, M. Czubanowski, D. Lükermann, J. Rönspies, S. Wießell
Correlation of geometrical and electronic properties in metallic nanowires.
Phys. Stat. Sol. B 247, 2509 (2010)
4. Eddy P. Rugeramigabo, C. Tegenkamp, H.Pfnür, Takeshi Inaoka, Tadaaki Nagao
One-dimensional plasmons in ultra-thin metallic silicide wires of finite width
Phys. Rev. B 81, 165407 (2010).
5. H. Pfnür, T. Langer, J. Baringhaus, C. Tegenkamp,
Monopole and multipole plasmons in a two-dimensional system
J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 23, 112204 (2011) (fast track)