Klaus Kern

Klaus Kern
Klaus Kern
Born	24 March 1960(age 64); Deesen,Germany
Nationality	German
Awards	Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize,van't Hoff Prize
	Scientific career
Fields	Physical Chemistry
Institutions	Max Planck Institute for Solid State Researchand EPFL
Doctoral students	Magalí Lingenfelder

Klaus Kern(born 24 March 1960) is a German physical chemist. Kern received theGottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prizeof theDeutsche Forschungsgemeinschaftin 2008.

Biography

Kern studied at theUniversity of Bonn chemistryandphysics,and received hisPh.D.in 1986.

Research

He worked first at theJülich Research Centre(1986-1991) and atBell Labsas visiting research fellow in 1988.

He became professor at theÉcole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausannein 1991.

Since 1998, he is one of the directors of theMax Planck Institute for Solid State ResearchinStuttgart.^[1]

Through his research and publications, Kern has pioneered the bottom-up fabrication and characterization of nanostructures all the way down to molecular and atomic length scales.

He and his group have developed novel methods to control atomic and molecular interactions at surfaces which have provided the unique ability to engineer atomic and molecular architectures of well-defined size, shape, composition and functionality.

In 2008, he received theGottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prizeof theDeutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft,which is the highest honour awarded in German research. As of 2021^[update],hish-indexis 124 according toGoogle Scholar.^[2]

References

^Max Planck Society (2022-01-31)."Subfemtosecond imaging of quantum electronic coherences in molecules".phys.org.Retrieved2022-07-16.By cleverly combining established techniques of tunneling microscopy and laser spectroscopy, a team led by Klaus Kern, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart, has now overcome these obstacles. Using their atomic quantum microscope, they can make the movement of electrons in individual molecules visible.
^Klaus Kernpublications indexed byGoogle Scholar

External links

[1] Max Planck Society (2022-01-31)."Subfemtosecond imaging of quantum electronic coherences in molecules".phys.org.Retrieved2022-07-16.By cleverly combining established techniques of tunneling microscopy and laser spectroscopy, a team led by Klaus Kern, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart, has now overcome these obstacles. Using their atomic quantum microscope, they can make the movement of electrons in individual molecules visible.

[2] Klaus Kernpublications indexed byGoogle Scholar

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