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Karsten Kunze

Karsten Kunze

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Earth Science

D-Index
35
Citations
4231
World Ranking
7686
National Ranking
162

Overview

Karsten Kunze is affiliated with ETH Zurich in Switzerland, where their research is focused primarily within the fields of Materials Science and Engineering. Their work spans subfields including Materials Chemistry, Mechanical Engineering, Geophysics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and Surfaces, Coatings and Films.

Their research topics encompass a diverse range of areas such as:

  • Graphene research and applications
  • Semiconductor materials and devices
  • Additive manufacturing materials and processes
  • High entropy alloys studies
  • Copper-based nanomaterials and applications
  • ZnO doping and properties
  • Electronic and structural properties of oxides

Kunze has contributed to numerous academic papers, including:

  • "Crystal orientation-dependent etching and trapping in thermally-oxidised Cu2O photocathodes for water splitting" (2022) published in Energy & Environmental Science
  • "Crystallographic preferred orientation, magnetic and seismic anisotropy in rocks from the Finero peridotite, Ivrea-Verbano Zone, Northern Italy - Interplay of anisotropy contributions from different minerals" (2020) published in Tectonophysics
  • "Probing the Intrinsic Strain in Suspended Graphene Films Using Electron and Optical Microscopy" (2023) published in Advanced Science
  • "ISCOPEM2D V1.0: An InSitu Method to Characterize and Compare Chemical Vapor Deposition Graphene Films Using Quality Matrix Approaches" (2024) published in physica status solidi (RRL) - Rapid Research Letters
  • "Mechanical properties and microstructure analysis of laser welded hybrid parts made of additively and conventionally manufactured 1.4313 soft martensitic steel" (2025) published in Materials & Design

Their frequent co-authors include Kishan Thodkar, Milivoj Plodinec, Fabian Gramm, Indira Dey, and Raphael Floeder. Collaboration with these co-authors often covers multiple publications, highlighting ongoing research partnerships.

Kunze publishes regularly in journals such as physica status solidi (RRL) - Rapid Research Letters, Energy & Environmental Science, Tectonophysics, Materials & Design, and Advanced Science.

Best Publications

  • Orientation imaging: The emergence of a new microscopy

    Brent L. Adams;Stuart I. Wright;Karsten Kunze

  • Texture, anisotropy in microstructure and mechanical properties of IN738LC alloy processed by selective laser melting (SLM)

    Karsten Kunze;Thomas Etter;Jürgen Grässlin;Valery Shklover

  • Copper deposition during quartz dissolution by cooling magmatic–hydrothermal fluids: The Bingham porphyry

    Marianne R. Landtwing;Thomas Pettke;Werner E. Halter;Christoph A. Heinrich

  • High Shear Strain of Olivine Aggregates: Rheological and Seismic Consequences

    M. Bystricky;K. Kunze;L. Burlini;J. P. Burg

  • Tailoring the texture of IN738LC processed by selective laser melting (SLM) by specific scanning strategies

    Fabian Geiger;Karsten Kunze;Thomas Etter

  • Visualization of hierarchically structured zeolite bodies from macro to nano length scales

    Sharon Mitchell;Nina-Luisa Michels;Karsten Kunze;Javier Pérez-Ramírez

  • Rheological and microstructural evolution of Carrara marble with high shear strain: results from high temperature torsion experiments

    Marco Pieri;Luigi Burlini;Karsten Kunze;Iona Stretton

  • The role of recrystallisation on the deformation behaviour of calcite rocks: large strain torsion experiments on Carrara marble

    Auke Barnhoorn;Misha Bystricky;Luigi Burlini;Karsten Kunze

  • Evolution of a calcite marble shear zone complex on Thassos Island, Greece: microstructural and textural fabrics and their kinematic significance

    Michel Bestmann;Karsten Kunze;Alan Matthews

  • Dynamic recrystallization processes in plagioclase porphyroclasts

    Robert Kruse;Holger Stünitz;Karsten Kunze

  • ADVANCES IN AUTOMATIC EBSP SINGLE ORIENTATION MEASUREMENTS

    K. Kunze;K. Kunze;S. I. Wright;S. I. Wright;B. L. Adams;B. L. Adams;D. J. Dingley

  • Dynamic recrystallization near the brittle-plastic transition in naturally and experimentally deformed quartz aggregates

    Michael Stipp;Karsten Kunze

  • Orientation analysis of localized shear deformation in quartz fibres at the brittle–ductile transition

    Mirjam van Daalen;Renée Heilbronner;Karsten Kunze

  • Crystallographic fabrics of omphacite, rutile and quartz in Vendée eclogites (Armorican Massif, France). Consequences for deformation mechanisms and regimes

    Alexandra Mauler;Gaston Godard;Karsten Kunze

  • Texture development of calcite by deformation and dynamic recrystallization at 1000 K during torsion experiments of marble to large strains

    M. Pieri;K. Kunze;L. Burlini;I. Stretton

  • High temperature stability of natural maghemite: a magnetic and spectroscopic study

    A.U. Gehring;H. Fischer;Marion Louvel;K Kunze

  • The analysis of quartz c-axis fabrics using a modified optical microscope.

    Christopher J.L. Wilson;David S. Russell-Head;Karsten Kunze;Giulio Viola

  • Texture of Solnhofen limestone deformed to high strains in torsion

    Martin Casey;Karsten Kunze;David L. Olgaard

  • Microstructural characteristics of the nickel-based alloy IN738LC and the cobalt-based alloy Mar-M509 produced by selective laser melting

    Michael Cloots;Karsten Kunze;Peter J. Uggowitzer;Konrad Wegener

  • The Bingham Distribution of Quaternions and Its Spherical Radon Transform in Texture Analysis

    Karsten Kunze;Helmut Schaeben

  • The influence of nano-scale second-phase particles on deformation of fine grained calcite mylonites

    Marco Herwegh;Karsten Kunze

  • Olivine [100] normal to foliation: lattice preferred orientation in prograde garnet peridotite formed at high H2O activity, Cima di Gagnone (Central Alps)

    Katrine Frese;Volkmar Trommsdorff;Karsten Kunze

  • Microstructures and lattice preferred orientations in experimentally deformed clinopyroxene aggregates

    A Mauler;M Bystricky;K Kunze;S Mackwell

  • Ultrafine-grained quartz mylonites from high-grade shear zones: Evidence for strong dry middle to lower crust

    John D. Fitz Gerald;Neil S. Mancktelow;Giorgio Pennacchioni;Karsten Kunze

  • Strain localisation in bimineralic rocks: Experimental deformation of synthetic calcite–anhydrite aggregates

    Auke Barnhoorn;Misha Bystricky;Karsten Kunze;Luigi Burlini

  • Development of crystallographic preferred orientations by nucleation and growth of new grains in experimentally deformed quartz single crystals

    Martine G.C. Vernooij;Bas den Brok;Karsten Kunze

  • Post-deformational annealing of calcite rocks

    Auke Barnhoorn;Misha Bystricky;Luigi Burlini;Karsten Kunze

Frequent Co-Authors

Brent L. Adams
Brent L. Adams Brigham Young University
Holger Stünitz
Holger Stünitz University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway
Ann M. Hirt
Ann M. Hirt ETH Zurich
Hans-Rudolf Wenk
Hans-Rudolf Wenk University of California, Berkeley
Rainer Abart
Rainer Abart University of Vienna
Peter Ulmer
Peter Ulmer ETH Zurich
Roger D. Doherty
Roger D. Doherty Drexel University

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