Klaus Kern

Klaus Kern ( born March 24, 1960 in Deesen ) is a German physicist and director at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart.

Life and work

Core studied chemistry and physics at the Rheinische Friedrich- Wilhelms- University of Bonn; in 1986, he was in Bonn for Dr. rer. nat. doctorate. He was then at the Forschungszentrum Jülich of the Helmholtz Association (1986-1990) and at Bell Laboratories ( 1988), the research and development department of Alcatel- Lucent in Murray Hill, New Jersey, USA, operates. In 1991 he was appointed as professor of experimental physics at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne ( EPFL), Switzerland. Since 1998 he has been Director and Scientific Member at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research. Since 2000 he is honorary professor at the University of Konstanz.

His research focuses on nanoscience, self- ordering phenomena, physics and chemistry of surfaces and interfaces, as well as scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy.

Prizes and awards

Writings

• With JV Barth, J. Weckesser, C. Cai, P. Günter, L. Bürgi, O. Jeandupeux: Building supramolecular nanostructures at surfaces by hydrogen bonding. In: Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 39, 2000, pp. 1230-1234.
• With P. Gambardella, A. Dallmeyer, K. Maiti, MC Malagoli, W. Eberhard, C. Carbone: Ferromagnetism in one- dimensional monatomic metal chains. In: Nature. 416, 2002, pp. 301-304.
• L. Vitali, M. Burghard, MA Schneider, L. Liu, SY Wu, CS Jayanthi: Phonon spectromicroscopy of carbon nanostructures with atomic resolution. In: Physical Review Letters. 93, 2004, 136103rd
• With P. election, L. Diekhöner, MA Schneider, L. Vitali, G. Wittich: Kondo temperature of magnetic Impurities at surfaces. In: Physical Review Letters. 93, 2004, 176603