Fabian Pauly

5.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
98 papers, 4.6k citations indexed

About

Fabian Pauly is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Fabian Pauly has authored 98 papers receiving a total of 4.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 84 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 60 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 26 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Fabian Pauly's work include Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures (79 papers), Quantum and electron transport phenomena (33 papers) and Force Microscopy Techniques and Applications (22 papers). Fabian Pauly is often cited by papers focused on Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures (79 papers), Quantum and electron transport phenomena (33 papers) and Force Microscopy Techniques and Applications (22 papers). Fabian Pauly collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Spain and Japan. Fabian Pauly's co-authors include Juan Carlos Cuevas, J. K. Viljas, Marius Bürkle, Elke Scheer, Linda A. Zotti, Marcel Mayor, P. Nielaba, Pramod Reddy, Falco Hüser and Douglas Natelson and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Fabian Pauly

97 papers receiving 4.6k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Influence of Conformation on Conductance of Biphenyl-Dithiol Single-Molecule Contacts

2009 269 citations Artem Mishchenko, David Vonlanthen et al. Nano Letters profile →
Single-Molecule Junctions Based on Nitrile-Terminated Biphenyls: A Promising New Anchoring Group

2010 211 citations Artem Mishchenko, Linda A. Zotti et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Fabian Pauly Germany	37	3.6k	2.4k	1.7k	1.0k	448	98	4.6k
Hatef Sadeghi United Kingdom	39	3.3k 0.9×	1.8k 0.8×	2.5k 1.5×	909 0.9×	206 0.5×	139	4.5k
Michael Galperin United States	35	3.4k 0.9×	3.3k 1.4×	872 0.5×	709 0.7×	359 0.8×	96	4.5k
Víctor M. García‐Suárez Spain	31	3.6k 1.0×	2.5k 1.0×	2.5k 1.5×	608 0.6×	729 1.6×	82	4.9k
Gemma C. Solomon Denmark	38	4.0k 1.1×	2.5k 1.0×	1.7k 1.0×	652 0.6×	272 0.6×	109	4.8k
Yuval Yaish Israel	18	2.7k 0.7×	2.8k 1.2×	2.6k 1.5×	1.2k 1.1×	236 0.5×	45	4.8k
Gabino Rubio‐Bollinger Spain	42	3.5k 1.0×	2.1k 0.9×	3.7k 2.1×	1.2k 1.1×	561 1.3×	73	6.0k
Alexander W. Holleitner Germany	38	2.4k 0.7×	2.5k 1.0×	2.4k 1.4×	814 0.8×	471 1.1×	146	4.9k
Artur Erbe Germany	32	2.0k 0.5×	1.5k 0.6×	1.4k 0.8×	1.1k 1.0×	440 1.0×	142	3.8k
Sara Sangtarash United Kingdom	30	2.1k 0.6×	1.1k 0.5×	1.3k 0.8×	567 0.5×	95 0.2×	84	2.7k
Jahan M. Dawlaty United States	24	970 0.3×	1.2k 0.5×	1.1k 0.7×	660 0.6×	353 0.8×	93	2.7k

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Sharma, Manas, Yannick J. Franzke, Christof Holzer, Fabian Pauly, & Marek Sierka. (2025). Density Functional Theory for Molecular and Periodic Systems in TURBOMOLE: Theory, Implementation, and Applications. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A. 129(39). 9062–9083. 1 indexed citations

Pauly, Fabian, et al.. (2025). Revealing Molecule-Internal Mechanisms that Control Phonon Heat Transport through Single-Molecule Junctions by a Genetic Algorithm. ACS Nano. 19(36). 32093–32107. 1 indexed citations

Ingold, Gert‐Ludwig, et al.. (2025). Classifying destructive quantum interference in molecular junctions: Toward molecular quantum rulers. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 163(2).

Pauly, Fabian, et al.. (2024). Fully Reprogrammable 2D Array of Multistate Molecular Switching Units. Advanced Materials. 36(36). e2401662–e2401662. 2 indexed citations

Franzke, Yannick J., et al.. (2024). Efficient treatment of relativistic effects with periodic density functional methods: Energies, gradients, and stress tensors. Physical review. B.. 109(16). 2 indexed citations

Pauly, Fabian, et al.. (2023). Simulating bistable current-induced switching of metallic atomic contacts by electron-vibration scattering. Physical review. B.. 108(1). 1 indexed citations

Linseis, Michael, et al.. (2023). Single-molecule conductance studies on quasi- and metallaaromatic dibenzoylmethane coordination compounds and their aromatic analogs. Nanoscale. 15(11). 5305–5316. 4 indexed citations

Hsu, Chunwei, Patrick Zwick, Diana Dulić, et al.. (2021). Mechanical conductance tunability of a porphyrin–cyclophane single-molecule junction. Nanoscale. 14(3). 984–992. 25 indexed citations

Xing, Guangzong, Yuwei Li, Zhenzhen Feng, David J. Singh, & Fabian Pauly. (2020). Copper(I)-Based Flexible Organic–Inorganic Coordination Polymer and Analogues: High-Power Factor Thermoelectrics. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 12(48). 53841–53851. 16 indexed citations

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Matt, Muriel, et al.. (2019). Statistical analysis of electronic and phononic transport simulations of metallic atomic contacts. Physical review. B.. 100(12). 4 indexed citations

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Bouvron, Samuel, Romain Maurand, Alexander Graf, et al.. (2018). Charge transport in a single molecule transistor probed by scanning tunneling microscopy. Nanoscale. 10(3). 1487–1493. 15 indexed citations

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Irmler, Andreas, Asbjörn M. Burow, & Fabian Pauly. (2018). Robust Periodic Fock Exchange with Atom-Centered Gaussian Basis Sets. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation. 14(9). 4567–4580. 18 indexed citations

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Matt, Muriel, et al.. (2017). Thermal conductance of metallic atomic-size contacts: Phonon transport and Wiedemann-Franz law. Physical review. B.. 96(20). 25 indexed citations

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Karimi, Mohammad Ali, Safa Golrokh Bahoosh, Markus Herz, et al.. (2016). Shot Noise of 1,4-Benzenedithiol Single-Molecule Junctions. Nano Letters. 16(3). 1803–1807. 39 indexed citations

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García, Raúl, M. Ángeles Herranz, Edmund Leary, et al.. (2015). Single-molecule conductance of a chemically modified, π-extended tetrathiafulvalene and its charge-transfer complex with F<sub>4</sub>TCNQ. KOPS (University of Konstanz). 25 indexed citations

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Chen, Allen, Mireille Matt, Fabian Pauly, et al.. (2014). Shot noise variation within ensembles of gold atomic break junctions at room temperature. Journal of Physics Condensed Matter. 26(47). 474204–474204. 13 indexed citations

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Lee, Woochul, Kyeongtae Kim, Wonho Jeong, et al.. (2013). Heat dissipation in atomic-scale junctions. Nature. 498(7453). 209–212. 218 indexed citations

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Ward, Daniel R., Falco Hüser, Fabian Pauly, Juan Carlos Cuevas, & Douglas Natelson. (2010). Optical rectification and field enhancement in a plasmonic nanogap. Nature Nanotechnology. 5(10). 732–736. 333 indexed citations

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Mishchenko, Artem, David Vonlanthen, Velimir Meded, et al.. (2009). Influence of Conformation on Conductance of Biphenyl-Dithiol Single-Molecule Contacts. Nano Letters. 10(1). 156–163. 269 indexed citations breakdown →

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Kiguchi, Manabu, Oren Tal, Sören Wohlthat, et al.. (2008). Highly Conductive Molecular Junctions Based on Direct Binding of Benzene to Platinum Electrodes. Physical Review Letters. 101(4). 46801–46801. 257 indexed citations

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