Louis E. Brus

55.0k total citations · 59 hit papers
261 papers, 45.5k citations indexed

About

Louis E. Brus is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, Louis E. Brus has authored 261 papers receiving a total of 45.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 174 papers in Materials Chemistry, 109 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 106 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in Louis E. Brus's work include Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties (66 papers), Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films (44 papers) and Photochemistry and Electron Transfer Studies (38 papers). Louis E. Brus is often cited by papers focused on Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties (66 papers), Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films (44 papers) and Photochemistry and Electron Transfer Studies (38 papers). Louis E. Brus collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Israel. Louis E. Brus's co-authors include Michael L. Steigerwald, M. Nirmal, Moungi G. Bawendi, R. Rossetti, Tony F. Heinz, T.D. Harris, Jiang Jiang, William L. Wilson, Feng Wang and Gordana Duković and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Louis E. Brus

260 papers receiving 43.8k citations

Hit Papers

Electronic wave functions in semiconductor clusters: expe... 1978 2026 1994 2010 1986 1996 1983 1999 2005 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k 2.5k
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  1. Electronic wave functions in semiconductor clusters: experiment and theory
    1986 2.7k citations Louis E. Brus The Journal of Physical Chemistry profile →
  2. Fluorescence intermittency in single cadmium selenide nanocrystals
    1996 1.6k citations Louis E. Brus et al. Nature profile →
  3. A simple model for the ionization potential, electron affinity, and aqueous redox potentials of small semiconductor crystallites
    1983 1.5k citations Louis E. Brus The Journal of Chemical Physics profile →
  4. Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy of Individual Rhodamine 6G Molecules on Large Ag Nanocrystals
    1999 1.1k citations Louis E. Brus et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  5. The Optical Resonances in Carbon Nanotubes Arise from Excitons
    2005 954 citations Feng Wang, Louis E. Brus et al. Science profile →
  6. Ag Nanocrystal Junctions as the Site for Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering of Single Rhodamine 6G Molecules
    2000 923 citations Louis E. Brus et al. profile →
  7. The Quantum Mechanics of Larger Semiconductor Clusters ("Quantum Dots")
    1990 916 citations Louis E. Brus et al. profile →
  8. Quantum crystallites and nonlinear optics
    1991 905 citations Louis E. Brus profile →
  9. Charge Transfer on the Nanoscale:  Current Status
    2003 872 citations Louis E. Brus et al. profile →
  10. Semiconductor crystallites: a class of large molecules
    1990 825 citations Louis E. Brus et al. profile →
  11. Drying-mediated self-assembly of nanoparticles
    2003 795 citations Eran Rabani, David R. Reichman et al. Nature profile →
  12. Luminescence Photophysics in Semiconductor Nanocrystals
    1998 766 citations Louis E. Brus et al. profile →
  13. Graphene Oxidation: Thickness-Dependent Etching and Strong Chemical Doping
    2008 726 citations Louis E. Brus et al. Nano Letters profile →
  14. Single Molecule Raman Spectroscopy at the Junctions of Large Ag Nanocrystals
    2003 715 citations Louis E. Brus et al. profile →
  15. Nucleation and Growth of CdSe on ZnS Quantum Crystallite Seeds, and Vice Versa, in Inverse Micelle Media
    1990 711 citations Louis E. Brus et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  16. Quantum size effects in the redox potentials, resonance Raman spectra, and electronic spectra of CdS crystallites in aqueous solution
    1983 707 citations R. Rossetti, Louis E. Brus et al. The Journal of Chemical Physics profile →
  17. Luminescence properties of CdSe quantum crystallites: Resonance between interior and surface localized states
    1992 654 citations Louis E. Brus et al. The Journal of Chemical Physics profile →
  18. Luminescence and photophysics of cadmium sulfide semiconductor clusters: the nature of the emitting electronic state
    1986 644 citations Louis E. Brus et al. The Journal of Physical Chemistry profile →
  19. Quantum Confinement in Size-Selected, Surface-Oxidized Silicon Nanocrystals
    1993 629 citations Louis E. Brus et al. Science profile →
  20. Coulomb engineering of the bandgap and excitons in two-dimensional materials
    2017 568 citations Archana Raja, Andrey Chaves et al. Nature Communications profile →
  21. Local Polar Fluctuations in Lead Halide Perovskite Crystals
    2017 561 citations Omer Yaffe, Yinsheng Guo et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  22. Size effects in the excited electronic states of small colloidal CdS crystallites
    1984 560 citations R. Rossetti, Louis E. Brus et al. The Journal of Chemical Physics profile →
  23. Biosynthesis of cadmium sulphide quantum semiconductor crystallites
    1989 530 citations Louis E. Brus et al. Nature profile →
  24. Crystal Structure and the Paraelectric-to-Ferroelectric Phase Transition of Nanoscale BaTiO3
    2008 517 citations Peter L. Redmond, Louis E. Brus et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  25. Electronic structure and bonding in icosahedral C60
    1986 505 citations Robert C. Haddon, Louis E. Brus et al. Chemical Physics Letters profile →
  26. Excited electronic states and optical spectra of ZnS and CdS crystallites in the ≊15 to 50 Å size range: Evolution from molecular to bulk semiconducting properties
    1985 504 citations R. Rossetti, Louis E. Brus et al. The Journal of Chemical Physics profile →
  27. Electronic structure and photoexcited-carrier dynamics in nanometer-size CdSe clusters
    1990 499 citations Louis E. Brus et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  28. Noble Metal Nanocrystals: Plasmon Electron Transfer Photochemistry and Single-Molecule Raman Spectroscopy
    2008 488 citations Louis E. Brus profile →
  29. Silver Nanodisk Growth by Surface Plasmon Enhanced Photoreduction of Adsorbed [Ag+]
    2003 484 citations Louis E. Brus et al. Nano Letters profile →
  30. Reversible Basal Plane Hydrogenation of Graphene
    2008 464 citations Tony F. Heinz, Philip Kim et al. Nano Letters profile →
  31. Zero-dimensional "excitons" in semiconductor clusters
    1986 429 citations Louis E. Brus profile →
  32. Research opportunities on clusters and cluster-assembled materials—A Department of Energy, Council on Materials Science Panel Report
    1989 428 citations Louis E. Brus et al. profile →
  33. High-resolution scanning tunneling microscopy imaging of mesoscopic graphene sheets on an insulating surface
    2007 400 citations Philip Kim, Louis E. Brus et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  34. A luminescent silicon nanocrystal colloid via a high-temperature aerosol reaction
    1993 393 citations Louis E. Brus et al. The Journal of Physical Chemistry profile →
  35. Synthesis of Monodisperse Nanoparticles of Barium Titanate:  Toward a Generalized Strategy of Oxide Nanoparticle Synthesis
    2001 390 citations Stephen O’Brien, Louis E. Brus et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  36. Nanocrystal Quantum Dots: From Discovery to Modern Development
    2021 388 citations Alexander L. Efros, Louis E. Brus ACS Nano profile →
  37. Luminescence of Silicon Materials: Chains, Sheets, Nanocrystals, Nanowires, Microcrystals, and Porous Silicon
    1994 388 citations Louis E. Brus The Journal of Physical Chemistry profile →
  38. Picosecond kinetic and vibrationally resolved spectroscopic studies of intramolecular excited-state hydrogen atom transfer
    1989 347 citations Louis E. Brus et al. The Journal of Physical Chemistry profile →
  39. Near-field spectroscopy of single molecules at room temperature
    1994 344 citations Louis E. Brus et al. Nature profile →
  40. Imaging and Time-Resolved Spectroscopy of Single Molecules at an Interface
    1996 334 citations Louis E. Brus et al. Science profile →
  41. Magnetite Fe3O4Nanocrystals:  Spectroscopic Observation of Aqueous Oxidation Kinetics
    2003 332 citations Louis E. Brus et al. profile →
  42. Observation of Excitonic Rydberg States in Monolayer MoS2 and WS2 by Photoluminescence Excitation Spectroscopy
    2015 322 citations Heather M. Hill, Albert F. Rigosi et al. Nano Letters profile →
  43. Electronic states of semiconductor clusters: Homogeneous and inhomogeneous broadening of the optical spectrum
    1988 302 citations Louis E. Brus et al. The Journal of Chemical Physics profile →
  44. Photochemical Reactivity of Graphene
    2009 291 citations Zheyuan Chen, Colin Nuckolls et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  45. Chemical Synthesis and Luminescence Applications of Colloidal Semiconductor Quantum Dots
    2017 290 citations Jonathan S. Owen, Louis E. Brus Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  46. Size, shape, and composition of luminescent species in oxidized Si nanocrystals and H-passivated porous Si
    1995 281 citations Louis E. Brus et al. profile →
  47. Charge, Polarizability, and Photoionization of Single Semiconductor Nanocrystals
    1999 266 citations Louis E. Brus et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  48. Charge Transfer Chemical Doping of Few Layer Graphenes: Charge Distribution and Band Gap Formation
    2009 257 citations Philip Kim, Louis E. Brus et al. Nano Letters profile →
  49. X-ray structural characterization of larger CdSe semiconductor clusters
    1989 245 citations Louis E. Brus et al. The Journal of Chemical Physics profile →
  50. Dimensions of luminescent oxidized and porous silicon structures
    1994 245 citations Louis E. Brus et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  51. Electron–vibration coupling in semiconductor clusters studied by resonance Raman spectroscopy
    1989 244 citations Louis E. Brus et al. The Journal of Chemical Physics profile →
  52. Electronic Spectroscopy and Photophysics of Si Nanocrystals: Relationship to Bulk c-Si and Porous Si
    1995 244 citations Louis E. Brus et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  53. Synthesis, Stabilization, and Electronic Structure of Quantum Semiconductor Nanoclusters
    1989 243 citations Louis E. Brus et al. profile →
  54. Theoretical model for enhanced photochemistry on rough surfaces
    1981 228 citations Louis E. Brus et al. The Journal of Chemical Physics profile →
  55. Higher excited electronic states in clusters of ZnSe, CdSe, and ZnS: Spin-orbit, vibronic, and relaxation phenomena
    1986 224 citations Louis E. Brus et al. The Journal of Chemical Physics profile →
  56. Photochemical kinetics of salicylidenaniline
    1980 224 citations Louis E. Brus et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  57. Proton transfer and tautomerism in an excited state of methyl salicylate
    1978 186 citations Louis E. Brus et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  58. Intramolecular proton transfer and excited-state relaxation in 2-(2-hydroxyphenyl)benzothiazole
    1980 183 citations Louis E. Brus et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  59. Continuous‐Wave Lasing in Cesium Lead Bromide Perovskite Nanowires
    2017 169 citations Louis E. Brus et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Louis E. Brus United States 102 34.7k 20.1k 10.0k 9.4k 8.5k 261 45.5k
Xiao Cheng Zeng United States 108 33.3k 1.0× 18.0k 0.9× 6.2k 0.6× 6.8k 0.7× 5.3k 0.6× 931 50.9k
Jochen Feldmann Germany 91 17.9k 0.5× 14.7k 0.7× 9.0k 0.9× 6.3k 0.7× 9.0k 1.1× 369 31.8k
Christof Wöll Germany 101 24.1k 0.7× 14.4k 0.7× 7.7k 0.8× 7.5k 0.8× 3.5k 0.4× 661 38.7k
Tony F. Heinz United States 110 52.3k 1.5× 32.1k 1.6× 12.7k 1.3× 20.3k 2.1× 6.9k 0.8× 317 68.0k
Thomas Frauenheim Germany 91 24.3k 0.7× 12.0k 0.6× 3.2k 0.3× 11.9k 1.3× 3.7k 0.4× 716 38.2k
Geoffrey A. Ozin Canada 106 25.6k 0.7× 11.2k 0.6× 6.9k 0.7× 10.2k 1.1× 5.1k 0.6× 728 43.9k
Dmitri V. Talapin United States 94 37.5k 1.1× 24.2k 1.2× 6.3k 0.6× 4.4k 0.5× 7.3k 0.9× 278 43.6k
Gábor A. Somorjai United States 131 44.2k 1.3× 16.2k 0.8× 10.8k 1.1× 18.8k 2.0× 7.3k 0.9× 890 73.3k
B. Delley Switzerland 66 23.7k 0.7× 10.3k 0.5× 3.5k 0.4× 7.1k 0.7× 6.0k 0.7× 295 37.2k
Andrey L. Rogach Hong Kong 128 46.6k 1.3× 31.6k 1.6× 8.1k 0.8× 4.7k 0.5× 8.2k 1.0× 624 59.0k

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20 of 20 papers shown
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Raja, Archana & Louis E. Brus. (2023). Non-local dielectric effects in nanoscience. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 159(2). 2 indexed citations
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Efros, Alexander L. & Louis E. Brus. (2021). Nanocrystal Quantum Dots: From Discovery to Modern Development. ACS Nano. 15(4). 6192–6210. 388 indexed citations breakdown →
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Guo, Yinsheng, Omer Yaffe, Trevor D. Hull, et al.. (2019). Dynamic emission Stokes shift and liquid-like dielectric solvation of band edge carriers in lead-halide perovskites. Nature Communications. 10(1). 1175–1175. 136 indexed citations
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Raja, Archana, Malte Selig, Gunnar Berghäuser, et al.. (2018). Enhancement of Exciton–Phonon Scattering from Monolayer to Bilayer WS2. Nano Letters. 18(10). 6135–6143. 50 indexed citations
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Raja, Archana, Andrey Chaves, Jaeeun Yu, et al.. (2017). Coulomb engineering of the bandgap and excitons in two-dimensional materials. Nature Communications. 8(1). 15251–15251. 568 indexed citations breakdown →
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Yaffe, Omer, Yinsheng Guo, Liang Z. Tan, et al.. (2017). Local Polar Fluctuations in Lead Halide Perovskite Crystals. Physical Review Letters. 118(13). 136001–136001. 561 indexed citations breakdown →
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Guo, Yinsheng, Raymond B. Smith, Zhonghua Yu, et al.. (2016). Li Intercalation into Graphite: Direct Optical Imaging and Cahn–Hilliard Reaction Dynamics. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 7(11). 2151–2156. 105 indexed citations
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Wang, Lei, Zheyuan Chen, Cory R. Dean, et al.. (2012). Negligible Environmental Sensitivity of Graphene in a Hexagonal Boron Nitride/Graphene/h-BN Sandwich Structure. ACS Nano. 6(10). 9314–9319. 95 indexed citations
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Thrall, Elizabeth S., Andrew C. Crowther, Zhonghua Yu, & Louis E. Brus. (2012). R6G on Graphene: High Raman Detection Sensitivity, Yet Decreased Raman Cross-Section. Nano Letters. 12(3). 1571–1577. 90 indexed citations
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Heinz, Tony F., Feng Wang, Matthew Y. Sfeir, et al.. (2006). Interactions between individual carbon nanotubes studied by Rayleigh scattering spectroscopy. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 3 indexed citations
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Sfeir, Matthew Y., Tobias Beetz, Feng Wang, et al.. (2006). Optical Spectroscopy of Individual Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes of Defined Chiral Structure. Science. 312(5773). 554–556. 192 indexed citations
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Hallock, Alexander J., Peter L. Redmond, & Louis E. Brus. (2005). Optical forces between metallic particles. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 102(5). 1280–1284. 117 indexed citations
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Rabani, Eran, David R. Reichman, Phillip L. Geissler, & Louis E. Brus. (2003). Drying-mediated self-assembly of nanoparticles. Nature. 426(6964). 271–274. 795 indexed citations breakdown →
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Erlanger, Bernard F., Bi-Xing Chen, Min Zhu, & Louis E. Brus. (2001). Binding of an Anti-Fullerene IgG Monoclonal Antibody to Single Wall Carbon Nanotubes. Nano Letters. 1(9). 465–467. 158 indexed citations
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Brus, Louis E.. (1986). Electronic wave functions in semiconductor clusters: experiment and theory. The Journal of Physical Chemistry. 90(12). 2555–2560. 2683 indexed citations breakdown →
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Rossetti, R., Robert C. Haddon, & Louis E. Brus. (1980). Intramolecular proton tunneling in the ground and lowest excited singlet states of 9-hydroxyphenalenone. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 102(23). 6913–6916. 61 indexed citations
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Goodman, Julie & Louis E. Brus. (1978). Solvent effect on excited state conformational changes in trifluoronitrosomethane. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 100(10). 2971–2974. 14 indexed citations
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Brus, Louis E. & V. E. Bondybey. (1975). Molecular ions and electron transport in rare gas lattices: C−2 formation mechanism and X 2Σ+g↔B 2Σ+u spectroscopy. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 63(7). 3123–3129. 44 indexed citations
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Bondybey, V. E. & Louis E. Brus. (1975). Interdependence of guest radiationless transitions and localized phonon structure: NH and ND(A 3Π) in rare gas lattices. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 63(2). 794–804. 93 indexed citations
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Brus, Louis E.. (1971). Two exponential decay of 3371 å laser excited CS2 fluorescence. Chemical Physics Letters. 12(1). 116–119. 49 indexed citations

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