2026 Bernard Delley: Physics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Chemistry	76	4159	3775	96	83	335	45463
Physics	76	3276	3113	80	76	340	46261

Bernard Delley publication distribution in Physics in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Physics in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Bernard Delley sits on this spectrum.

103 publications 1,469+

This scientist: 340 publications — 25th percentile

25% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,469 publications or more.

Bernard Delley D-index placement in Physics in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Physics scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Bernard Delley sits on this spectrum.

70 D-Index 185+

This scientist: 76 D-Index — 11th percentile

11% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 185 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

2009 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
2006 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For his pioneering contributions to density functional methodology and helping to establish density functional theory as a major tool for academic and industrial chemistry

Overview

Bernard Delley is affiliated with the Paul Scherrer Institute in Switzerland. Their research primarily encompasses materials science, with a particular focus on materials chemistry and electronic, optical, and magnetic materials. The scope of their work also includes condensed matter physics, atomic and molecular physics and optics, as well as electrical and electronic engineering.

The researcher's work covers several key topics, including:

Graphene research and applications
Magnetism in coordination complexes
Advanced condensed matter physics
Radioactive element chemistry and processing
2D materials and applications
Physics of superconductivity and magnetism
Surface chemistry and catalysis

Delley has contributed to various frequent publication venues, such as:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Repository for Publications and Research Data (ETH Zurich)
Radiochimica Acta
Physical Review Materials
SSRN Electronic Journal

Recent papers by Bernard Delley include:

"2p x-ray absorption spectroscopy of 3d transition metal systems," 2021, Journal of Electron Spectroscopy and Related Phenomena
"Giant Magnetic Anisotropy in the Atomically Thin van der Waals Antiferromagnet FePS₃," 2022, Advanced Electronic Materials
"The Role of the Magnetic Anisotropy in Atomic-Spin Sensing of 1D Molecular Chains," 2022, arXiv (Cornell University)
"Observation of plaquette fluctuations in the spin-1/2 honeycomb lattice," 2020, Repository for Publications and Research Data (ETH Zurich)
"Fast full-field modulation transfer function analysis for photographic lens quality assessment," 2021, Applied Optics

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Delley include:

Matthias Muntwiler
Wei Chuang Lee
Thomas Greber
M. Kenzelmann
M. V. Ryzhkov

Bernard Delley has been recognized with fellowships including:

Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2009
Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), 2006, for pioneering contributions to density functional methodology and advancing density functional theory as a major tool for academic and industrial chemistry

Best Publications

From molecules to solids with the DMol3 approach

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11305
Citations
An all‐electron numerical method for solving the local density functional for polyatomic molecules

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10381
Citations
Hardness conserving semilocal pseudopotentials

B. Delley

2309
Citations
FAST CALCULATION OF ELECTROSTATICS IN CRYSTALS AND LARGE MOLECULES

Bernard Delley

1323
Citations
Kondo Scattering Observed at a Single Magnetic Impurity

Jiutao Li;Wolf-Dieter Schneider;Richard Berndt;Bernard Delley

795
Citations
Role of Oxygen Vacancies in Cr‐Doped SrTiO3 for Resistance‐Change Memory

M. Janousch;G. I. Meijer;U. Staub;B. Delley

640
Citations
Spectroscopic Evidence for Localized and Extended f-Symmetry States in CeO2

E. Wuilloud;B. Delley;W. D. Schneider;Y. Baer

640
Citations
Quantum confinement in Si nanocrystals

B. Delley;E. F. Steigmeier

621
Citations
Structural Basis for the Conducting Interface between LaAlO 3 and SrTiO 3

P. R. Willmott;S. A. Pauli;R. Herger;C. M. Schlepütz

586
Citations
Efficient and accurate expansion methods for molecules in local density models

B. Delley;Donald E Ellis

520
Citations
The conductor-like screening model for polymers and surfaces

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488
Citations
Binding energy and electronic structure of small copper particles

B. Delley;D. E. Ellis;A. J. Freeman;E. J. Baerends

481
Citations
Half-metallic ferromagnetism in Cu-doped ZnO: Density functional calculations

Lin Hui Ye;Arthur J Freeman;B. Delley

477
Citations
The generation and use of delocalized internal coordinates in geometry optimization

Jon Baker;Alain Kessi;Bernard Delley

475
Citations
Analytic energy derivatives in the numerical local‐density‐functional approach

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431
Citations
Ground-State Enthalpies: Evaluation of Electronic Structure Approaches with Emphasis on the Density Functional Method

B. Delley

408
Citations
Thermodynamic stability and structure of copper oxide surfaces: A first-principles investigation

Aloysius Soon;Mira Todorova;Bernard Delley;Catherine Stampfl

382
Citations
A scattering theoretic approach to scalar relativistic corrections on bonding

B. Delley

362
Citations
Dissociation of O2 at Al(111): the role of spin selection rules.

Jörg Behler;Bernard Delley;Sönke Lorenz;Karsten Reuter

336
Citations
Role of embedded clustering in dilute magnetic semiconductors: Cr doped GaN.

X. Y. Cui;J. E. Medvedeva;B. Delley;A. J. Freeman

293
Citations
Water adsorption on the stoichiometric and reduced CeO2(111) surface: a first-principles investigation

Marco Fronzi;Marco Fronzi;Simone Piccinin;Bernard Delley;Enrico Traversa

288
Citations
Binding energies, molecular structures, and vibrational frequencies of transition metal carbonyls using density functional theory with gradient corrections

Bernard Delley;Michael Wrinn;Hans Peter Lüthi

286
Citations
Spin density in a nitronyl nitroxide free radical. Polarized neutron diffraction investigation and ab initio calculations

Andrei Zheludev;Vincenzo Barone;Michel Bonnet;Bernard Delley

284
Citations
Oxygen adsorption and stability of surface oxides on Cu ( 111 ) : A first-principles investigation

Aloysius Soon;Mira Todorova;Bernard Delley;Catherine Stampfl

272
Citations
Gas-phase-dependent properties of Sn O 2 (110), (100), and (101) single-crystal surfaces: Structure, composition, and electronic properties

Matthias Batzill;Khabibulakh Katsiev;James M. Burst;Ulrike Diebold

267
Citations