Max-Planck-Institut für Festkörperforschung
(Max-Planck-Institute for Solid State Research)

Heisenbergstr. 1
D-70569 Stuttgart
Germany
Phone: +49 711 689-1660
Fax: +49 711 689-1662
e-mail: k.kern[at]fkf.mpg.de
Internet: http://www.fkf.mpg.de/kern

Brief curriculum vitae

Klaus Kern is Director and Scientific Member at the Max-Planck-Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart, Germany, Professor of Physics at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland and Honorary Professor at the University of Konstanz, Germany. His present research interests are in nanoscale science, self-ordering phenomena and in chemistry and physics of surfaces and interfaces. He holds a chemistry degree and PhD from the University of Bonn. After his doctoral studies he was staff scientist at the Research Center Jülich and visiting scientist at Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill before joining the Faculty of EPFL in 1991 and the Max-Planck-Society in 1998. Professor Kern has authored and coauthored 400 scientific publications, which have received more than 13’000 citations. He has served on numerous advisory committees to universities, professional societies and institutions and has received a number of scientific awards and honors, including the 2008 Gottfried-Wilhelm-Leibniz Prize. Kern can be reached by e-mail at k.kern[at]fkf.mpg.de

Key publications (selection)

• Jens Dorfmüller, Ralf Vogelgesang, R. Thomas Weitz, Carsten Rockstuhl, Christoph Etrich, Thomas Pertsch, Falk Lederer, and Klaus Kern
  Fabry-Pérot Resonances in One-Dimensional Plasmonic Nanostructures
  Nano Letters 9, 2372 (2009)
  Article
  
  

• Pietro Gambardella, Sebastian Stepanow, Alexander Dmitriev, Jan Honolka, Frank de Groot, Magalí Lingenfelder, Subhra Sen Gupta, D.D. Sarma, Peter Bencok, Stefan Stanescu, Sylvain Clair, Stefan Pons, Nian Lin, Ari P. Seitsonen, Harald Seitsonen, Johannes V. Barth and Klaus Kern
  Supramolecular control of the magnetic anisotropy in two-dimensional high-spin Fe arrays at a metal interface
  Nature Materials 8, 189 (2009)
  Article
  
  

• I. Brihuega, P. Mallet, C. Bena, S. Bose, C. Michaelis, L. Vitali, F. Varchon, L. Magaud, K. Kern, and J. Y. Veuillen
  Quasiparticle Chirality in Epitaxial Graphene Probed at the Nanometer Scale
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 206802 (2008)
  Article
  
  

• E. J. H. Lee, K. Balasubramanian, R.T. Weitz, M. Burghard and K. Kern
  Contact and edge effects in graphene devices
  Nature Nanotechnology 3, 486 (2008)
  Article
  
  

• C. Gómez-Navarro, R.T. Weitz, A.M. Bittner, M. Scolari, A. Mews, M. Burghard, and K. Kern
  Electronic transport properties of individual chemically reduced graphene oxide sheets
  Nano Letters 7, 3499 (2007)
  Article

• C. R. Ast, J. Henk, A. Ernst, L. Moreschini, M.C. Falub, D. Pacilé, P. Bruno, K. Kern, and M. Grioni
  Giant spin splitting through surface alloying
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 186807 (2007)
  Article

• P. Wahl, P. Simon, L. Diekhöner, V.S. Stepanyuk, P. Bruno, M.A. Schneider, and K. Kern
  Exchange interaction between single magnetic atoms
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 056601 (2007)
  Article

• M. Lingenfelder, G. Tomba, G. Costantini, L. Colombi Ciacchi, A. De Vita, and K. Kern
  Tracking the Chiral Recognition of Adsorbed Dipeptides at the Single Molecule Level
  Angew. Chem. Intl. Ed. 119, 4576 (2007)
  Article

• R. T. Weitz, U. Zschieschang, F. Effenberger, H. Klauk, M. Burghard and K. Kern
  High-performance carbon nanotube field effect transistors with a self-assembled monolayer gate dielectric
  Nano Letters 7, 22 (2007)
  Article

• G. Costantini, A. Rastelli, C. Manzano, P. Acosta-Diaz, R. Songmuang, G. Katsaros, O.G. Schmidt, and K. Kern
  Interplay between thermodynamics and kinetics in the capping of InAs/GaAs(001) quantum dots
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 226106 (2006)
  Article

• J.V. Barth, G. Costantini, and K. Kern,
  Engineering atomic and molecular nanostructures at surfaces,
  Nature 437, 671 (2005)
  Article

• P. Wahl, L. Diekhöner, G. Wittich, L. Vitali, M.A. Schneider, and K. Kern
  Kondo effect of molecular complexes at surfaces: Ligand control of the local spin coupling
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 166601 (2005)
  Article

• L. Vitali, M. Burghard, M.A. Schneider, L. Liu, S.Y. Wu, C.S. Jayanthi, and K. Kern,
  Phonon spectromicroscopy of carbon nanostructures with atomic resolution,
  Phys. Rev. Lett 93, 136103 (2004)
  Article

• S. Stepanow, M. Lingenfelder, A. Dmitriev, H. Spillmann, E. Delvigne, N. Lin, X. Deng, C. Cai, J.V. Barth, and K. Kern,
  Steering molecular organization and host-guest interactions using two-dimensional nanoporous coordination systems,
  Nature Materials 3, 229 (2004)
  Article

• M. Knez, A.M. Bittner, F. Boes, C. Wege, H. Jeske, E. Maiß, and K. Kern,
  Biotemplate synthesis of 3nm Nickel and Cobalt nanowires,
  Nano Letters 3, 1079 (2003)
  Article

• G. Costantini, C. Manzano, R. Songmuang, O.K. Schmidt, and K. Kern,
  InAs/GaAs(001) quantum dots close to thermodynamic equilibrium,
  Appl. Phys. Lett. 82, 3194 (2003)
  Article

• P. Gambardella, S. Rusponi, M. Veronese, S.S. Deshi, G. Grazioli, A. Dallmeyer, I. Cabria, R. Zeller, P.H. Dederichs, K. Kern, C. Carbone, and H. Brune
  Giant magnetic anisotropy of Co adatoms and nanoparticles on Pt(111),
  Science 300, 1130 (2003)
  Article

• S.E. Kooi, U. Schlecht, M. Burghard, and K. Kern,
  Electrochemical modification of single carbon nanotubes,
  Angew. Chem. Intl. Ed. 41, 1353 (2002)
  Article

• P. Gambardella, A. Dallmeyer, K. Maiti, M.C. Malagoli, W. Eberhard, K. Kern, and C. Carbone,
  Ferromagnetism in one-dimensional monatomic metal chains,
  Nature 416, 302 (2002)
  Article

• N. Knorr, H. Brune, M. Epple, A. Hirstein, M.A. Schneider, and K. Kern,
  Long-range adsorbate interactions mediated by a two-dimensional electron gas,
  Phys. Rev. B 65, 115420 (2002)
  Article

• L. Nilsson, O. Gröning, C. Emmenegger, O. Küttel, E. Schaller, L. Schlapbach, H. Kind, J.M. Bonard, and K. Kern,
  Scanning field emission from patterned carbon nanotube films,
  Appl. Phys. Lett. 76, 2071 (2000)
  Article

• J.V. Barth, J. Weckesser, C. Cai, P. Günter, L. Bürgi, O. Jeandupeux, and K. Kern,
  Building supramolecular nanostructures at surfaces by hydrogen bonding,
  Angew. Chem. Intl. Ed. 39, 1230 (2000)
  Article

• L. Bürgi, O. Jeandupeux, H. Brune, and K. Kern,
  Probing hot-electron dynamics at surfaces with a cold scanning tunneling microscope,
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 4516 (1999)
  Article

• H. Brune, M. Giovannini, K. Bromann, and K. Kern,
  Self-organized growth of nanostructure arrays on strain relief patterns,
  Nature 394, 451 (1998)
  Article

• K. Bromann, Ch. Félix, H. Brune, W. Harbich, R. Monot, J. Buttet, and K. Kern,
  Controlled deposition of size-selected Ag nanoclusters,
  Science 274, 956 (1996)
  Article

• H. Brune, H. Röder, C. Boragno and K. Kern,
  Microscopic view of nucleation on surfaces,
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 73, 1955 (1994)
  Article

• H. Röder, E. Hahn, H. Brune, J.-P. Bucher, and K. Kern,
  Building one- and two-dimensional nanostructures via diffusion controlled aggregation at surfaces,
  Nature 366, 141 (1993)
  Article

• K. Kern, H. Niehus, A. Schatz, P. Zeppenfeld, J. George, and G. Comsa,
  Long range spatial selforganization in the adsorbate induced restructuring of surfaces : Cu(110) - (2xl)O,
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 67, 855 (1991)
  Article