2026 Karsten Albe: 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	72	4045	3917	226	218	266	18723

Overview

Karsten Albe is affiliated with the Technical University of Darmstadt in Germany. Their research spans across multiple fields including Engineering and Materials Science, with a notable focus on Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering. Their expertise also extends to Aerospace Engineering and Biomedical Engineering subfields.

Albe's work covers various main topics related to materials and engineering, particularly:

Advancements in Battery Materials
Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies
Ferroelectric and Piezoelectric Materials
Electronic and Structural Properties of Oxides
Machine Learning in Materials Science
High Entropy Alloys Studies
High-Temperature Coating Behaviors

A selection of recent publications by Karsten Albe includes:

"Dislocation-toughened ceramics", 2021, Materials Horizons
"Engineering the Site-Disorder and Lithium Distribution in the Lithium Superionic Argyrodite Li₆PS₅Br", 2020, Advanced Energy Materials
"Tailoring high-energy storage NaNbO₃-based materials from antiferroelectric to relaxor states", 2023, Nature Communications
"The origin of jerky dislocation motion in high-entropy alloys", 2022, Nature Communications
"A machine-learned interatomic potential for silica and its relation to empirical models", 2022, npj Computational Materials

Karsten Albe has frequently collaborated with several co-authors, notably:

Jochen Rohrer
Marcel Sadowski
Linus C. Erhard
Arne J. Klomp
Daniel Utt

Their publications have appeared in various academic venues, with repeated contributions to the following platforms:

arXiv (Cornell University)
npj Computational Materials
Acta Materialia
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Physical Review Materials

Best Publications

Extracting dislocations and non-dislocation crystal defects from atomistic simulation data

Alexander Stukowski;Karsten Albe

1385
Citations
Analytical potential for atomistic simulations of silicon, carbon, and silicon carbide

Paul Erhart;Karsten Albe

717
Citations
First-principles study of intrinsic point defects in ZnO: Role of band structure, volume relaxation, and finite-size effects

Paul Erhart;Karsten Albe;Andreas Klein

687
Citations
Interactions between non-screw lattice dislocations and coherent twin boundaries in face-centered cubic metals

Z. H. Jin;P. Gumbsch;K. Albe;E. Ma

595
Citations
Fundamental degradation mechanisms of layered oxide Li-ion battery cathode materials: Methodology, insights and novel approaches

René Hausbrand;Gennady Cherkashinin;Helmut Ehrenberg;Melanie Gröting

519
Citations
The interaction mechanism of screw dislocations with coherent twin boundaries in different face-centred cubic metals

Z.-H. Jin;Z.-H. Jin;P. Gumbsch;E. Ma;K. Albe

513
Citations
Intrinsic n-type behavior in transparent conducting oxides: a comparative hybrid-functional study of In2O3, SnO2, and ZnO.

Péter Ágoston;Karsten Albe;Risto M. Nieminen;Martti J. Puska

403
Citations
Caloric Effects in Ferroic Materials: New Concepts for Cooling†

Sebastian Fähler;Ulrich K. Rößler;Oliver Kastner;Jürgen Eckert

402
Citations
Mechanisms of aging and fatigue in ferroelectrics

Yuri A. Genenko;Julia Glaum;Michael J. Hoffmann;Karsten Albe

400
Citations
Modelling of compound semiconductors: analytical bond-order potential for gallium, nitrogen and gallium nitride

J Nord;K Albe;P Erhart;K Nordlund

340
Citations
Diffusion of zinc vacancies and interstitials in zinc oxide

Paul Erhart;Karsten Albe

272
Citations
Band structure of indium oxide: Indirect versus direct band gap

Paul Erhart;Andreas Klein;Russell G. Egdell;Karsten Albe

268
Citations
Size‐Dependent Lattice Expansion in Nanoparticles: Reality or Anomaly?

P. Manuel Diehm;Péter Ágoston;Karsten Albe

263
Citations
First-principles study of the structure and stability of oxygen defects in zinc oxide

Paul Erhart;Andreas Klein;Karsten Albe

241
Citations
Enhancing the plasticity of metallic glasses: Shear band formation, nanocomposites and nanoglasses investigated by molecular dynamics simulations

Karsten Albe;Yvonne Ritter;Daniel Şopu

240
Citations
Analytic bond-order potential for bcc and fcc iron—comparison with established embedded-atom method potentials

Michael Müller;Paul Erhart;Karsten Albe

237
Citations
Modeling of compound semiconductors: Analytical bond-order potential for Ga, As, and GaAs

Karsten Albe;Kai Nordlund;Janne Nord;Antti Kuronen

232
Citations
Modeling the metal-semiconductor interaction: Analytical bond-order potential for platinum-carbon

Karsten Albe;Kai Nordlund;Robert S. Averback

211
Citations
Dislocation detection algorithm for atomistic simulations

Alexander Stukowski;Karsten Albe

201
Citations
Intrinsic point defects in CuInSe2and CuGaSe2as seen via screened-exchange hybrid density functional theory

Johan Pohl;Karsten Albe

191
Citations
First-principles study of migration mechanisms and diffusion of oxygen in zinc oxide

Paul Erhart;Karsten Albe

185
Citations
Molecular-dynamics simulations of steady-state growth of ion-deposited tetrahedral amorphous carbon films

H. U. Jäger;K. Albe

179
Citations