My research interests encompass a variety of aspects in materials science spanning over different length and time scales. I use first principles electronic structure calculations ( Density Functional Theory) to study surface properties (relaxations, chemisorption etc ..) and to gain insight into the nature of the environment dependent interatomic bonding. I use model potentials to perform extensive studies of temperature/time dependent properties of complex/low symmetry systems. read more

Effect of van der Waals Interactions on the Adsorption of Olympicene Radical on Cu(111): Characteristics of Weak Physisorption versus Strong Chemisorption

H. Yildirim, A. Kara

J. of Phys. Chem. C 117 (6), 2893 (2013) read more

Trends in Adsorption Characteristics of Benzene on Transition Metal Surfaces: Role of Surface Chemistry and van der Waals Interactions

H. Yildirim, T. Greber, A. Kara

J. of Phys. Chem. C 117 (40), 20572 (2013) read more

Adv. Mater. Int. 1 (2014) read more

Formation of one-dimensional self-assembled silicon nanoribbons on Au(110)-(2x1)

M. R. Tchalala, H. Enriquez, A. J. Mayne, A. Kara, S. Roth, M. G. Silly, A. Bendounan, F. Sirotti, T. Greber, B. Aufray, G. Dujardin, M. Ait Ali, H. Oughaddou

Appl. Phys. Lett. 102, 083107 (2013)read more