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Harald Brune

harald.brune@epfl.ch +41 21 693 54 51 https://www.epfl.ch/labs/lns/

Nationality: German

EPFL SB IPHYS LNS
PH A1 382 (Bâtiment PH)
Station 3
1015 Lausanne

Selected publications

Self-organized growth of nanostructure arrays on strain-relief patterns

H. Brune, M. Giovannini, K. Bromann, and K. Kern
Published in Nature in 1998

Microscopic view of epitaxial metal growth: nucleation and aggregation

H. Brune
Published in Surf. Sci. Rep. in 1998

Giant Magnetic Anisotropy of Single Co Atoms and Nanoparticles on Pt

P. Gambardella, S. Rusponi, M. Veronese, S. S. Dhesi, C. Grazioli, A. Dallmeyer, I. Cabria, R. Zeller, P. H. Dederichs, K. Kern, C. Carbone, and H. Brune
Published in Science in 2003

The remarkable difference between surface and perimeter atoms in the magnetic anisotropy of 2D nanostructures

S. Rusponi, T. Cren, N. Weiss, M. Epple, P. Buluschek, L. Claude, and H. Brune
Published in Nat. Mater. in 2003

Reaching the Magnetic Anisotropy Limit of a 3d Metal Atom

I. G. Rau, S. Baumann, S. Rusponi, F. Donati, S. Stepanow, L. Gragnaniello, J. Dreiser, C. Piamonteze, F. Nolting, S. Gangopadhyay, O. R. Albertini, R. M. Macfarlane, C. P. Lutz, B. A. Jones, P. Gambardella. A. J. Heinrich, and H. Brune
Published in Science in 2014

Magnetic remanence in single atoms

F. Donati, S. Rusponi, S. Stepanow, C. Wäckerlin, A. Singha, L. Persichetti, R. Baltic, K. Diller, F. Patthey, E. Fernandes, J. Dreiser, Z. Sljivancanin, K. Kummer, C. Nistor, P. Gambardella, and H. Brune
Published in Science in 2016

Molecular motor crossing the frontier of classical to quantum tunneling motion

S. Stolz, O. Gröning, J. Prinz, H. Brune, and R. Widmer
Published in PNAS in 2020

Engineering atomic-scale magnetic fields by dysprosium single atom magnets

A. Singha, P. Willke, T. Bilgeri, X. Zhang, H. Brune, F. Donati, A. J. Heinrich, and T. Choi
Published in Nat. Communic. in 2021

Electrically Driven Spin Resonance of 4f Electrons in a Single Atom on a Surface

S. Reale, J. Hwang, J. Oh, H. Brune, A. J. Heinrich, F. Donati, and Y. Bae
Published in Nat. Communic. in 2024

Direct Electrical Access to the Spin Manifolds of Individual Lanthanide Atoms

G. Czap, K. Noh, J. Valesco Jr., R. M. Macfarlane, H. Brune, and C. Lutz
Published in ACS Nano in 2025

Teaching & PhD

PhD Students

Aistis Grigas, Quy Hien Le, Pardis Naderasli, Serni Toda Cosi, Alexis Rary-Zinque, Jacob Garrett Wright, Shixuan Shan

Past EPFL PhD Students

Nicolas Weiss, Sarah Longwitz, Laurent Claude, Philipp Buluschek, Ismaël Palaci, Marta Canas Ventura, Géraud Moulas, Régis Decker, Anne Lehnert, Quentin Dubout, Fabian Natterer, Sergio Vlaic, Alberto Cavallin, Jan Prinz, Giulia Pacchioni, Edgar Fernandes, Aparajita Singha, Dimitrios Mousadakos, Romana Baltic, Samuel Thomas Stolz, Jean-Guillaume De Groot, Tobias Bilgeri, Darius Constantin Merk, Sébastien Reynaud, Dante Philippe Sblendorio, Clément Marie Soulard

Past EPFL PhD Students as codirector

Simon Bonanni, Chongqi Yu, Hamed Achour, Simone Borroni, Boris Sorokin

Courses

Solid state physics

PHYS-337

This lecture gives an introduction to Solid State Physics. We will treat crystal structure, lattice vibrations, electronic properties, electric and heat conductance, as well as magnetic properties. The level is the one of the book by Ashcroft & Mermin.