Dr. Martin ŠVEC

H-Index: 18

Institute of Physics of the CAS, Prague, Czech Republic, EU

Position: Head of the Scanning Probe Luminescence Microscopy Lab at the Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic (http://splm.fzu.cz)

Specialization: High-resolution STM/AFM imaging; Photon-STM methodology; Physics and chemistry of atoms and molecules adsorbed on surfaces; Novel 2D materials

At the NANOCON´21 conference Martin Švec will present an invited lecture “From Single-Molecule Photon Emitters to Entangled Excitonic States” at the session E.

Personal Background and Education:

• PhD and Master degrees - Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
• Post-doc - at the Center of Astrobiology, National Institute of Aerospace Technology, Madrid, Spain

Research Interests and main results:

• Investigation and control of luminescence on single molecules on surfaces
• Correlation of luminescence with high-resolution STM/AFM
• Proof-of-concept single-molecular devices
• Geometrical implications of on-surface chemistry
• Mechanical, electronic and photophysical properties of molecules
• Interaction of individual molecular species and their clusters with novel 2D materials

Publication activity:
He has authored and co-authored of >40 works that have been cited for almost 1 000 times.

His Hirsch index: 18.

Awards:
For his outstanding scientific achievements, and in recognition of his scientific research work, Martin Švec won the prestigious Otto Wichterle Prize in 2014.

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