Lothar Houben

10.7k total citations · 3 hit papers
219 papers, 8.7k citations indexed

About

Lothar Houben is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Surfaces, Coatings and Films. According to data from OpenAlex, Lothar Houben has authored 219 papers receiving a total of 8.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 154 papers in Materials Chemistry, 89 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 36 papers in Surfaces, Coatings and Films. Recurrent topics in Lothar Houben's work include 2D Materials and Applications (37 papers), Thin-Film Transistor Technologies (35 papers) and Advanced Electron Microscopy Techniques and Applications (35 papers). Lothar Houben is often cited by papers focused on 2D Materials and Applications (37 papers), Thin-Film Transistor Technologies (35 papers) and Advanced Electron Microscopy Techniques and Applications (35 papers). Lothar Houben collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Israel and United States. Lothar Houben's co-authors include Maya Bar‐Sadan, F. Finger, Andrey N. Enyashin, H. Wagner, Reshef Tenne, Gotthard Seifert, B. Rech, Sharon G. Wolf, R. Carius and M. Luysberg and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Lothar Houben

211 papers receiving 8.5k citations

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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.

Edge and confinement effects allow in situ measurement of size and thickness of liquid-exfoliated nanosheets

2014 473 citations Claudia Backes, Hannah C. Nerl et al. Nature Communications profile →
New Route for Stabilization of 1T-WS₂ and MoS₂ Phases

2011 439 citations Andrey N. Enyashin, Lothar Houben et al. profile →
Electrostatic co-assembly of nanoparticles with oppositely charged small molecules into static and dynamic superstructures

2021 206 citations Lothar Houben et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Lothar Houben Germany	45	6.4k	4.3k	1.4k	1.1k	1.0k	219	8.7k
Michel Bosman Singapore	47	4.2k 0.7×	3.7k 0.9×	2.1k 1.5×	2.6k 2.4×	1.3k 1.2×	223	8.3k
Christian Kisielowski United States	41	3.2k 0.5×	1.9k 0.4×	928 0.7×	731 0.7×	786 0.8×	143	5.7k
Gerd Duscher United States	45	4.5k 0.7×	3.1k 0.7×	1.3k 0.9×	1.0k 0.9×	678 0.7×	213	7.0k
Armin Gölzhäuser Germany	48	3.5k 0.5×	3.7k 0.9×	2.8k 2.0×	863 0.8×	462 0.5×	194	7.2k
Robert Hovden United States	38	3.9k 0.6×	2.9k 0.7×	805 0.6×	1.1k 1.0×	2.6k 2.6×	135	7.1k
E. Snoeck France	40	5.9k 0.9×	2.6k 0.6×	1.7k 1.3×	2.7k 2.5×	879 0.9×	182	9.5k
Peter Ercius United States	50	5.4k 0.8×	2.6k 0.6×	1.6k 1.2×	1.4k 1.3×	1.7k 1.7×	224	9.8k
Thomas Altantzis Belgium	35	3.1k 0.5×	1.6k 0.4×	1.2k 0.9×	1.5k 1.4×	977 1.0×	83	5.4k
U. Bangert United Kingdom	35	5.0k 0.8×	2.2k 0.5×	1.4k 1.1×	793 0.7×	455 0.4×	178	6.3k
Matthew F. Chisholm United States	57	9.8k 1.5×	5.1k 1.2×	1.6k 1.2×	3.1k 2.9×	2.4k 2.3×	211	14.0k

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Rez, Peter, et al.. (2025). Contrast by electron microscopy in thick biological specimens. Journal of Microscopy. 300(3). 341–355. 1 indexed citations

Houben, Lothar, Yishay Feldman, Anna Kossoy, et al.. (2025). Discovering the Crystal Structure of Biogenic Xanthine Crystals. Crystal Growth & Design. 25(18). 7524–7536.

Abutbul, Ran E., Lothar Houben, Ofra Golani, et al.. (2025). Metal Ion Dynamic Nuclear Polarization in Mn(II)-Doped CdS Nanocrystals: Atomic-Scale Investigation of the Dopant and Its Host. ACS Nano. 19(18). 17640–17652. 1 indexed citations

Oliveira, Filipa M., et al.. (2025). Synthesis of tubular MXenes with carbon fiber template and use as anodes in lithium-ion batteries. Communications Materials. 6(1). 2 indexed citations

Houben, Lothar, et al.. (2025). Topotactic Growth of Zintl Phase Eu₅In₂As₆ Nanowires with Antiferromagnetic Behavior. Nano Letters. 25(18). 7292–7297.

Wachtel, Ellen, Hagai Cohen, Lothar Houben, et al.. (2024). A Gd-doped ceria/TiOx nanocomposite as the active layer in a three terminal electrochemical resistivity switch.. Solid State Ionics. 411. 116572–116572. 1 indexed citations

Kadam, Sunil R., K. Manjunath, Saptarshi Ghosh, et al.. (2024). Nanotubes and other nanostructures of VS2, WS2, and MoS2: Structural effects on the hydrogen evolution reaction. Applied Materials Today. 39. 102288–102288. 1 indexed citations

Shimon, Linda J. W., Lothar Houben, Anna Kossoy, et al.. (2024). Morphological Evolution of Metal‐Organic Frameworks into Hedrite, Sheaf and Spherulite Superstructures with Localized Different Coloration. Chemistry - A European Journal. 31(7). e202403577–e202403577. 1 indexed citations

Waterman, David G., Tim Gruene, Yun Song, et al.. (2024). Cryo-tomography and 3D Electron Diffraction Reveal the Polar Habit and Chiral Structure of the Malaria Pigment Crystal Hemozoin. ACS Central Science. 10(8). 1504–1514. 4 indexed citations

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Hegner, Franziska Simone, Stefan S. Rudel, Roman Korobko, et al.. (2024). The Critical Role of Anharmonic Lattice Dynamics for Macroscopic Properties of the Visible Light Absorbing Nitride Semiconductor CuTaN₂. Advanced Energy Materials. 14(19). 6 indexed citations

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Houben, Lothar, et al.. (2024). Bio‐Inspired Crystalline Core‐Shell Guanine Spherulites. Advanced Materials. 36(28). e2308832–e2308832. 1 indexed citations

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Kumar, Sujit, Tatyana Bendikov, Michael Elbaum, et al.. (2023). Topotactic, Vapor-Phase, In Situ Monitored Formation of Ultrathin, Phase-Pure 2D-on-3D Halide Perovskite Surfaces. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 15(19). 23908–23921. 6 indexed citations

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Novák, Libor, Lothar Houben, Jakub Zálešák, et al.. (2023). W ₁₈ O ₄₉ Nanowhiskers Decorating SiO ₂ Nanofibers: Lessons from In Situ SEM/TEM Growth to Large Scale Synthesis and Fundamental Structural Understanding. Crystal Growth & Design. 24(1). 378–390. 3 indexed citations

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Movsesyan, Artur, Eva Yazmin Santiago, Lothar Houben, et al.. (2023). Anisotropic Circular Dichroism in Aligned Chiral Tellurium Nanorods. Advanced Optical Materials. 11(18). 4 indexed citations

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Shtrikman, Hadas, Magdalena A. Załuska–Kotur, R. Buczko, et al.. (2022). Intrinsic Magnetic (EuIn)As Nanowire Shells with a Unique Crystal Structure. Nano Letters. 22(22). 8925–8931. 2 indexed citations

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Urban, K., Juri Barthel, Lothar Houben, et al.. (2022). Progress in atomic-resolution aberration corrected conventional transmission electron microscopy (CTEM). Progress in Materials Science. 133. 101037–101037. 16 indexed citations

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Oksenberg, Eitan, Aboma Merdasa, Lothar Houben, et al.. (2020). Large lattice distortions and size-dependent bandgap modulation in epitaxial halide perovskite nanowires. Nature Communications. 11(1). 489–489. 92 indexed citations

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Chen, Bo, Raanan Carmieli, Lothar Houben, et al.. (2020). Guest Transition Metals in Host Inorganic Nanocapsules: Single Sites, Discrete Electron Transfer, and Atomic Scale Structure. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 142(34). 14504–14512. 25 indexed citations

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Chen, Xiaolong, Chen Chen, Lothar Houben, et al.. (2018). Large-Velocity Saturation in Thin-Film Black Phosphorus Transistors. ACS Nano. 12(5). 5003–5010. 37 indexed citations

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Nerl, Hannah C., Kirsten T. Winther, Fredrik S. Hage, et al.. (2017). Probing the local nature of excitons and plasmons in few-layer MoS<sub>2 </sub>. Technical University of Denmark, DTU Orbit (Technical University of Denmark, DTU). 34 indexed citations

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