Klaus Kern

44.6k citations

608 papers · 35.9k indexed · 9 hit papers · h-index 93

Impact in

Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics top 0.02%
- Surface and Thin Film Phenomena
- Quantum and electron transport phenomena
- Advanced Chemical Physics Studies
- Magnetic properties of thin films
Materials Chemistry top 0.05%
- Graphene research and applications
- Carbon Nanotubes in Composites

Papers in

Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics 367
- Surface and Thin Film Phenomena 126
- Quantum and electron transport phenomena 108
- Advanced Chemical Physics Studies 90
- Magnetic properties of thin films 56
Structural Biology 12

Co-authors: Marko Burghard Harald Brune Cristina Gómez‐Navarro Alexander M. Bittner R. Thomas Weitz Holger Röder Klaus Kuhnke Kannan Balasubramanian
Journals: Physical Review Letters (55 papers)Nano Letters (51 papers)Physical Review B (45 papers)Surface Science (43 papers)Applied Physics Letters (36 papers)
Partner nations: Germany Switzerland United States

In The Last Decade

Klaus Kern

602 papers receiving 35.1k citations

Hit Papers

9 papers align trajectories log scale

TiO₂ Anatase with a Bandgap in the Visible Region 2014 · 600 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2014 Nano Letters
2010 Nano Letters
2008 Nano Letters
2007 Nano Letters
2007 Physical Review Letters
2003 Science
2002 Nature
2000 Applied Physics Letters
1998 Nature

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All Works

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1	Nanoscale Mapping of Magnetic Auto-Oscillations with a Single Spin Sensor Nano Letters ·Per Grunde Weydahl, 은영 손, 秦娇娇, Gunther Richter, Rainer Stöhr, Klaus Kern, Jörg Wrachtrup, Aparajita Singha	2025	1
2	Controlled Formation of Nanoribbons and Their Heterostructures via Assembly of Mass‐Selected Inorganic Ions Advanced Materials ·Xuejiao Zhang, Vesna Šrot, Munir Snu, Klaus Kern, Peter A. van Aken, Kelvin Anggara	2024	6
3	Selective excitation of vibrations in a single molecule Nature Communications ·Yang Luo, Shaoxiang Sheng, Michele Pisarra, Alberto Martín‐Jiménez, Fernando Martı́n, Klaus Kern, Manish Garg	2024	6
4	Tracking a spin-polarized superconducting bound state across a quantum phase transition Nature Communications ·Sujoy Karan, Haonan Huang, K Kurowska, Ciprian Padurariu, Björn Kubala, Klaus Kern, Joachim Ankerhold, Christian R. Ast	2024	5
5	Real-time tracking of coherent oscillations of electrons in a nanodevice by photo-assisted tunnelling Nature Communications ·Yang Luo, Frank Neubrech, Alberto Martín‐Jiménez, Na Liu, Klaus Kern, Manish Garg	2024	3
6	Seeding and Emergence of Composite Skyrmions in a van der Waals Magnet Advanced Materials ·M. Yu. Uritskaya, Max T. Birch, Kai Litzius, Sebastian Wintz, Fehmi Sami Yasin, Luke Turnbull, Kottinen Yt, D. A. Mayoh, G. Balakrishnan, Markus Weigand, Xiuzhen Yu, Klaus Kern, Gisela Schütz, Marko Burghard	2023	31
7	Universal scaling of tunable Yu-Shiba-Rusinov states across the quantum phase transition Communications Physics ·Haonan Huang, Sujoy Karan, Ciprian Padurariu, Björn Kubala, Juan Carlos Cuevas, Joachim Ankerhold, Klaus Kern, Christian R. Ast	2023	5
8	Molecular sensitised probe for amino acid recognition within peptide sequences Nature Communications ·Xu Wu, Bogdana Borca, Suman Sen, K Navin, Sabine Abb, 吴克报, Aurelio Gallardo, Jesús I. Mendieta‐Moreno, H. E. Moore, Pavel Jelı́nek, Stephan Rauschenbach, Klaus Kern, Uta Schlickum	2023	3
9	Superconducting quantum interference at the atomic scale Nature Physics ·Sujoy Karan, Haonan Huang, Ciprian Padurariu, Björn Kubala, Firas Mahmood Mustafa, Annica M. Black‐Schaffer, Gonzalo Morrás, A. Levy Yeyati, Juan Carlos Cuevas, Joachim Ankerhold, Klaus Kern, Christian R. Ast	2022	20
10	Ultrashort Pulse Excited Tip-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy in Molecules Nano Letters ·Yang Luo, Alberto Martín‐Jiménez, Rico Gutzler, Manish Garg, Klaus Kern	2022	19
11	Atomic-Scale Structural Fluctuations of a Plasmonic Cavity HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe) ·S. Kaye, Pablo Merino, PIERRE COLACLIDES, Christelle Léon, Klaus Kuhnke, Klaus Kern	2021	13
12	Low-energy electron holography imaging of conformational variability of single-antibody molecules from electrospray ion beam deposition Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·扶二子辰巳, M. D. Kislik, Sabine Abb, Joseph Gault, Carol V. Robinson, Luigi Malavolti, Stephan Rauschenbach, Klaus Kern	2021	16
13	Ultrafast Photon-Induced Tunneling Microscopy ACS Nano ·Manish Garg, Alberto Martín‐Jiménez, Yang Luo, Klaus Kern	2021	21
14	Spin-Split Band Hybridization in Graphene Proximitized with α-RuCl₃ Nanosheets Nano Letters ·سلوى باقر جوهر, Youngwook Kim, Jeongwoo Kim, Daniel Weber, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Noejung Park, Bettina V. Lotsch, J. H. Smet, Marko Burghard, Klaus Kern	2019	65
15	The Structure of the Cobalt Oxide/Au Catalyst Interface in Electrochemical Water Splitting Angewandte Chemie ·Jakob Fester, Yifan Zhu, Doris Grumelli, Rico Gutzler, Zhaozong Sun, Jonathan Rodríguez‐Fernández, Klaus Kern, Jeppe V. Lauritsen	2018	20
16	The Structure of the Cobalt Oxide/Au Catalyst Interface in Electrochemical Water Splitting Angewandte Chemie International Edition ·Jakob Fester, Yifan Zhu, Doris Grumelli, Rico Gutzler, Zhaozong Sun, Jonathan Rodríguez‐Fernández, Klaus Kern, Jeppe V. Lauritsen	2018	104
17	Imaging proteins at the single-molecule level Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Jean-Nicolas Longchamp, Stephan Rauschenbach, Sabine Abb, Conrad Escher, Tatiana Latychevskaia, Klaus Kern, Hans‐Werner Fink	2017	93
18	埋込みSiGe/Si(001)島の三次元等組成プロフィル Applied Physics Letters ·Georgios Katsaros, M. Stoffel, Armando Rastelli, Oliver G. Schmidt, Klaus Kern, J. Tersoff	2007	0
19	Cを合金化したSi(001)表面上のGeドットの核形成 Physical Review B ·Toropova Ne, Andreas Beyer, いづみ藤川, Klaus Kern	2002	1
20	Real‐Time Single‐Molecule Imaging of the Formation and Dynamics of Coordination Compounds Angewandte Chemie ·Nian Lin, Alexandre Dmitriev, Jens Weckesser, Johannes V. Barth, Klaus Kern	2002	43

About Klaus Kern

Klaus Kern is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Structural Biology, Condensed Matter Physics, Materials Chemistry and Electrical and Electronic Engineering, having authored 608 papers that have together received 35.9k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Surface and Thin Film Phenomena (126 papers), Graphene research and applications (115 papers), Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures (109 papers), Quantum and electron transport phenomena (108 papers), Advanced Chemical Physics Studies (90 papers), Magnetic properties of thin films (56 papers), Carbon Nanotubes in Composites (54 papers) and Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism (51 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics (16.1k citations), Materials Chemistry (17.1k citations), Condensed Matter Physics (4.0k citations), Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials (4.9k citations) and Structural Biology (331 citations). Klaus Kern has collaborated with scholars based in Germany, Switzerland and United States. Frequent co-authors include Marko Burghard, Harald Brune, Cristina Gómez‐Navarro, Alexander M. Bittner, R. Thomas Weitz, Holger Röder, Klaus Kuhnke, Kannan Balasubramanian, Alf Mews and Pietro Gambardella. Their work appears in journals such as Physical Review Letters, Nano Letters, Physical Review B, Surface Science and Applied Physics Letters.

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