Louis E. Brus
Summary
My research has been in experimental chemical physics and nanoscience, coupled with a strong interest in theory. As a student the 1960s, I studied electronic structure and dynamics of small gas phase molecules. At Bell Laboratories, I worked initially on the electronic relaxation dynamics of small molecules trapped in rare gas matrices near 4 degrees K. I then developed time resolved Raman spectroscopy, and this led to an interest in colloidal metallic and semiconducting nanocrystals. The metallic nanocrystal research led to single molecule SERS and photocatalysis on silver particles. The semiconducting nanocrystal work led to quantum size effects and colloidal core/shell qdot chemical synthesis. At Columbia, I explored optical properties and Rayleigh scattering of single carbon nanotubes, and this led to optical characterization of charge transfer and Raman scattering by molecules adsorbed on few layer graphenes. Most recently, I explored the liquid-like relaxation dynamics of lead halide perovskite crystals at room temperature. The common thread in all this has been trying to understand what the electrons are doing.
Efros, Al., Brus, L. “Nanocrystal Quantum Dots: From Discovery to Modern Development” Review in ACS Nano (2021), 15, 6192-6210.
Brus, L. “The Rise of Computation” Perspective in Nano Letters (2020), 20, 801-802.
Dynamic emission Stokes shift and liquid-like dielectric solvation of band edge carriers in lead-halide perovskites
Yinsheng Guo, Omer Yaffe, Trevor D. Hull, Jonathan S. Owen, David R. Reichman, Louis E. Brus
Nature Communications 2019 10, 1175
Continuous‐Wave Lasing in Cesium Lead Bromide Perovskite Nanowires
Archana Raja, Malte Selig, Gunnar Berghäuser, Jaeeun Yu, Heather M. Hill, Albert F. Rigosi, Louis E. Brus, Andreas Knorr, Tony F. Heinz, Ermin Malic, and Alexey Chernikov
Advanced Optical Materials 2018 6, 1700982
Enhancement of Exciton–Phonon Scattering from Monolayer to Bilayer WS2
Tyler J. S. Evans, Andrew Schlaus, Yongping Fu, Xinjue Zhong, Timothy L. Atallah, Michael S. Spencer, Louis E. Brus, Song Jin, X.‐Y. Zhu
Nano Letters 2018 18 (10), 6135-6143
Controlled Electrochemical Intercalation of Graphene/h-BN van der Waals Heterostructures
S. Y. Frank Zhao, Giselle A. Elbaz, D. Kwabena Bediako, Cyndia Yu, Dmitri K. Efetov, Yinsheng Guo, Jayakanth Ravichandran, Kyung-Ah Min, Suklyun Hong, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Louis E. Brus, Xavier Roy, and Philip Kim
Nano Letters 2018 18 (1), 460-466
Chemical Synthesis and Luminescence Applications of Colloidal Semiconductor Quantum Dots
Jonathan Owen and Louis Brus
Journal of the American Chemical Society 2017 139 (32), 10939-10943
Interplay between organic cations and inorganic framework and incommensurability in hybrid lead-halide perovskite CH3 NH3 PbBr3
Yinsheng Guo, Omer Yaffe, Daniel W. Paley, Alexander N. Beecher, Trevor D. Hull, Guilherme Szpak, Jonathan S. Owen, Louis E. Brus, and Marcos A. Pimenta
Physical Review Materials, 1(4), 042401
Coulomb engineering of the bandgap and excitons in two-dimensional materials
Archana Raja, Andrey Chaves, Jaeeun Yu, Ghidewon Arefe, Heather M. Hill, Albert F. Rigosi, Timothy C. Berkelbach, Philipp Nagler, Christian Schüller, Tobias Korn, Colin Nuckolls, James Hone, Louis E. Brus, Tony F. Heinz, David R. Reichman & Alexey Chernikov
Nature Communications, 8, 15251
Li Intercalation into Graphite: Direct Optical Imaging and Cahn–Hilliard Reaction Dynamics
Yinsheng Guo, Raymond B. Smith, Zhonghua Yu, Dmitri K. Efetov, Junpu Wang, Philip Kim, Martin Z. Bazant, and Louis E. Brus
The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 2016 7 (11), 2151-2156
Plasmon-driven chemical synthesis: Growing gold nanoprisms with light
Louis E. Brus
Nature Materials 15, 824–825 (2016)
Energy Transfer from Quantum Dots to Graphene and MoS2: The Role of Absorption and Screening in Two-Dimensional Materials
Archana Raja, Andrés Montoya−Castillo, Johanna Zultak, Xiao-Xiao Zhang, Ziliang Ye, Cyrielle Roquelet, Daniel A. Chenet, Arend M. van der Zande, Pinshane Huang, Steffen Jockusch, James Hone, David R. Reichman, Louis E. Brus, and Tony F. Heinz
Nano Letters 2016 16 (4), 2328-2333
Observation of Excitonic Rydberg States in Monolayer MoS2 and WS2 by Photoluminescence Excitation Spectroscopy
Heather M. Hill, Albert F. Rigosi, Cyrielle Roquelet, Alexey Chernikov, Timothy C. Berkelbach, David R. Reichman, Mark S. Hybertsen, Louis E. Brus, and Tony F. Heinz
Nano Lett. 15(5), pp 2992-2997 (2015)
Ferromagnetic Ordering in Superatomic Solids
Chul-Ho Lee, Lian Liu, Christopher Bejger, Ari Turkiewicz, Tatsuo Goko, Carlos J. Arguello, Benjamin A. Frandsen, Sky C. Cheung, Teresa Medina, Timothy J. S. Munsie, Robert D’Ortenzio, Graeme M. Luke, Tiglet Besara, Roger A. Lalancette, Theo Siegrist, Peter W. Stephens, Andrew C. Crowther, Louis E. Brus, Yutaka Matsuo, Eiichi Nakamura, Yasutomo J. Uemura, Philip Kim, Colin Nuckolls, Michael L. Steigerwald, and Xavier Roy
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 136(48), pp 16926-16931 (2014)
Probing the Dynamics of the Metallic-to-Semiconducting Structural Phase Transformation in MoS2 Crystals
Yinsheng Guo, Dezheng Sun, Bin Ouyang, Archana Raja, Jun Song, Tony F. Heinz, and Louis E. Brus
Nano Lett. 15(8), pp 5081-5088 (2015)