Harald Brune
Nationality: German
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Expertise
Sa recherche porte sur les propriétés physiques (en particulier le magnétisme et la structure électronique) de nouvelles formes de la matière condensée comme des nanostructures et des couches ultra-minces. Il s'intéresse également à la catalyse hétérogène sur des systèmes inspirés dans leur composition et taille par celle des sites actives dans les enzymes en biologie.
Il enseigne la Physique Générale pour ingénieurs, la Physique des matériaux solides pour physiciens, les méthodes expérimentales pour physiciens, ainsi que la Physique des surfaces, interfaces et nanostrcutures à l'école doctorale.
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
PhD Students
Nicolas Weiss, Sarah Longwitz, Laurent Claude, Philipp Buluschek, Ismaël Palaci, Marta Canas Ventura, Géraud Moulas, Régis Decker, Anne Lehnert, Samuel Thomas Stolz, https://people.epfl.ch/282006?lang=en, https://people.epfl.ch/360744?lang=en, https://people.epfl.ch/360750?lang=en, https://people.epfl.ch/360763?lang=en, https://people.epfl.ch/368757?lang=en, https://people.epfl.ch/377802?lang=en, https://people.epfl.ch/385377?lang=en
Past EPFL PhD Students
Quentin Dubout, Fabian Natterer, Sergio Vlaic, Alberto Cavallin, Jan Prinz, Giulia Pacchioni, Edgar Fernandes, Aparajita Singha, Dimitrios Mousadakos, Romana Baltic, Jean-Guillaume De Groot, Tobias Bilgeri, Darius Constantin Merk, Sébastien Reynaud, Dante Philippe Sblendorio, Clément Marie Soulard
Simon Bonanni, Chongqi Yu, Hamed Achour, Simone Borroni, Boris Sorokin
Courses
Solid state physics
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.