2026 Harald Brune: Materials Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Materials Science	78	2937	2838	50	48	273	25002

Research.com Recognitions

2011 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For contributions to understanding of nucleation, epitaxial growth, and the selfassembly of nanostructure superlattices

Overview

Harald Brune is affiliated with the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland. Their research activity spans key areas within materials science and physics and astronomy, focusing especially on atomic and molecular physics, optics, and materials chemistry.

Their recent work includes several publications in notable scientific journals. These are:

Engineering atomic-scale magnetic fields by dysprosium single atom magnets (2021, Nature Communications)
Molecular motor crossing the frontier of classical to quantum tunneling motion (2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
Unconventional Spin Relaxation Involving Localized Vibrational Modes in Ho Single-Atom Magnets (2020, Physical Review Letters)
Correlation between Electronic Configuration and Magnetic Stability in Dysprosium Single Atom Magnets (2021, Nano Letters)
Measuring the Intra-Atomic Exchange Energy in Rare-Earth Adatoms (2020, Physical Review X)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Harald Brune include:

S. Rusponi
Fabio Donati
Marina Pivetta
Aparajita Singha
A. Barla

They often publish in venues that reflect their interdisciplinary work, including:

ACS Nano
arXiv (Cornell University)
Nature Communications
Physical Review Letters
Angewandte Chemie International Edition

Harald Brune's research encompasses a broad range of topics, many centered around magnetic phenomena and quantum effects at the nanoscale. These include:

Magnetism in coordination complexes
Magnetic properties of thin films
Quantum and electron transport phenomena
Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures
Catalytic Processes in Materials Science
Advanced NMR Techniques and Applications
Lanthanide and Transition Metal Complexes

The subfields making up the core of their expertise are:

Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Materials Chemistry
Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Spectroscopy

In recognition of their contributions to the scientific community, Harald Brune was named a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2011. The citation highlighted their work on the understanding of nucleation, epitaxial growth, and self-assembly of nanostructure superlattices.

Best Publications

Scanning tunneling microscopy observations on the reconstructed Au(111) surface: Atomic structure, long-range superstructure, rotational domains, and surface defects

Johannes V. Barth;Harald Brune;Gerhard Ertl;R. J. Behm

1652
Citations
Microscopic view of epitaxial metal growth: nucleation and aggregation

Harald Brune

1408
Citations
Giant Magnetic Anisotropy of Single Cobalt Atoms and Nanoparticles

P. Gambardella;S. Rusponi;M. Veronese;S. S. Dhesi

1334
Citations
Self-organized growth of nanostructure arrays on strain-relief patterns

Harald Brune;Marcella Giovannini;Karsten Bromann;Klaus Kern

829
Citations
Building one- and two-dimensional nanostructures by diffusion-controlled aggregation at surfaces

Holger Röder;Elmar Hahn;Harald Brune;Jean-Pierre Bucher

611
Citations
The role of magnetic anisotropy in the Kondo effect

Alexander Otte;Markus Ternes;Kirsten von Bergmann;Sebastian Loth

461
Citations
Controlled deposition of size-selected silver nanoclusters

Karsten Bromann;Christian Félix;Harald Brune;Wolfgang Harbich

420
Citations
Interaction potential and hopping dynamics governing sliding friction

Elisa Riedo;Enrico Gnecco;R. Bennewitz;E. Meyer

412
Citations
Interaction of oxygen with Al(111) studied by scanning tunneling microscopy

H. Brune;J. Wintterlin;J. Trost;G. Ertl

403
Citations
Reaching the magnetic anisotropy limit of a 3d metal atom

Ileana G. Rau;Susanne Baumann;Susanne Baumann;Stefano Rusponi;Fabio Donati

398
Citations
Surface migration of ``hot'' adatoms in the course of dissociative chemisorption of oxygen on Al(111)

H Brune;J Wintterlin;RJ Behm;G Ertl

384
Citations
Metal−Organic Honeycomb Nanomeshes with Tunable Cavity Size

U. Schlickum;R. Decker;F. Klappenberger;G. Zoppellaro

376
Citations
Long-range adsorbate interactions mediated by a two-dimensional electron gas

N. Knorr;N. Knorr;H. Brune;M. Epple;A. Hirstein

366
Citations
Magnetic remanence in single atoms

F. Donati;S. Rusponi;S. Stepanow;C. Wäckerlin

358
Citations
Kinetics of capillary condensation in nanoscopic sliding friction.

Elisa Riedo;Francis Lévy;Harald Brune

350
Citations
Atomic-resolution imaging of close-packed metal surfaces by scanning tunneling microscopy.

J. Wintterlin;J. Wiechers;H. Brune;T. Gritsch

341
Citations
Supramolecular control of the magnetic anisotropy in two-dimensional high-spin Fe arrays at a metal interface

Pietro Gambardella;Pietro Gambardella;Pietro Gambardella;Sebastian Stepanow;Sebastian Stepanow;Alexandre Dmitriev;Alexandre Dmitriev;Jan Honolka

336
Citations
Effect of Strain on Surface-Diffusion and Nucleation

Harald Brune;Karsten Bromann;Holger Röder;Klaus Kern

328
Citations
Mechanism of the Transition from Fractal to Dendritic Growth of Surface Aggregates

Harald Brune;Christoph Romainczyk;Holger Röder;Klaus Kern

325
Citations
Radial elasticity of multiwalled carbon nanotubes.

Ismael Palaci;Ismael Palaci;Stephan Fedrigo;Harald Brune;Christian Klinke;Christian Klinke

306
Citations
One-dimensional metal chains on Pt vicinal surfaces

P. Gambardella;M. Blanc;H. Brune;K. Kuhnke

299
Citations