Louis E. Brus

Research.com Recognitions

• 2013 - Welch Award in Chemistry, Robert A. Welch Foundation
• 2012 - Benjamin Franklin Medal, Franklin Institute
• 2011 - Peter Debye Award, American Chemical Society (ACS)
• 2010 - NAS Award in Chemical Sciences, National Academy of Sciences (US) For his leading role in the development of a fundamental building block for nanoscience, colloidial semiconductor nanocrystals, and for his contributions to our understanding of the quantum effects that control their optical properties.
• 2004 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
• 2001 - Irving Langmuir Award, American Chemical Society (ACS)
• 1998 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Best Publications

• Electron-electron and electron-hole interactions in small semiconductor crystallites : The size dependence of the lowest excited electronic state

  L. E. Brus

  6739
  Citations

• Electronic wave functions in semiconductor clusters: experiment and theory

  Louis Brus

  4557
  Citations

• Anomalous lattice vibrations of single- and few-layer MoS2.

  Changgu Lee;Hugen Yan;Louis E. Brus;Tony F. Heinz

  4136
  Citations

• Fluorescence intermittency in single cadmium selenide nanocrystals

  M. Nirmal;B. O. Dabbousi;M. G. Bawendi;J. J. Macklin

  2625
  Citations

• A simple model for the ionization potential, electron affinity, and aqueous redox potentials of small semiconductor crystallites

  L. E. Brus

  2406
  Citations

• Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy of Individual Rhodamine 6G Molecules on Large Ag Nanocrystals

  Amy M. Michaels;M. Nirmal;L. E. Brus

  1691
  Citations

• The Quantum Mechanics of Larger Semiconductor Clusters ("Quantum Dots")

  Moungi G. Bawendi;Michael L. Steigerwald;Louis E. Brus

  1671
  Citations

• Tuning the graphene work function by electric field effect.

  Young-Jun Yu;Yue Zhao;Sunmin Ryu;Louis E Brus

  1607
  Citations

• Quantum crystallites and nonlinear optics

  L. Brus

  1578
  Citations

• The optical resonances in carbon nanotubes arise from excitons

  Feng Wang;Gordana Dukovic;Louis E. Brus;Tony F. Heinz

  1576
  Citations

• Quantum size effects in the redox potentials, resonance raman spectra, and electronic spectra of CdS crystallites in aqueous solution

  R. Rossetti;S. Nakahara;L. E. Brus

  1450
  Citations

• Semiconductor crystallites: a class of large molecules

  Michael L. Steigerwald;Louis E. Brus

  1407
  Citations

• Ag Nanocrystal Junctions as the Site for Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering of Single Rhodamine 6G Molecules

  Amy M. Michaels;and Jiang Jiang;Louis Brus

  1353
  Citations

• Charge Transfer on the Nanoscale: Current Status

  David M. Adams;Louis Brus;Christopher E. D. Chidsey;Stephen Creager

  1289
  Citations

• Luminescence Photophysics in Semiconductor Nanocrystals

  Manoj Nirmal;Louis Brus

  1268
  Citations

• Nucleation and Growth of CdSe on ZnS Quantum Crystallite Seeds and Vice Versa, in Inverse Micelle Media

  A. R. Kortan;R. Hull;R. L. Opila;M. G. Bawendi

  1251
  Citations

• Quantum confinement in size-selected, surface-oxidized silicon nanocrystals.

  William L. Wilson;P. F. Szajowski;L. E. Brus

  1102
  Citations

• Drying-mediated self-assembly of nanoparticles.

  Eran Rabani;David R. Reichman;Phillip L. Geissler;Phillip L. Geissler;Louis E. Brus

  1095
  Citations

• Surface derivatization and isolation of semiconductor cluster molecules

  M. L. Steigerwald;A. P. Alivisatos;J. M. Gibson;T. D. Harris

  1094
  Citations

• Luminescence properties of CdSe quantum crystallites: Resonance between interior and surface localized states

  M. G. Bawendi;P. J. Carroll;William L. Wilson;L. E. Brus

  1066
  Citations