Ludwig Bartels

Ludwig Bartels photo

Dr. Bartels is a Professor of Chemistry and Graduate Advisor of Materials Science and Engineering, at the University of California, Riverside (UCR). From 2000-2006, he was an assistant professor at UCR, and was promoted to associated professor in 2006 and full professor in 2010. He performed his post-doctoral research at Columbia University and the Paul Drude Inst. of. Solid State Electronics in Berlin, Germany. His postdoctoral advisors were T. F. Heinz (1998-2000), and Klaus Ploog (1997-1998). He received the Ph.D. in Physics, from Free University Berlin, under the supervision of K.H. Rieder (1995-1997). Dr. Bartels has made numerous pioneering and innovative contributions including the first demonstration of low temperature MoS2 growth on copper [1,2]; controlled growth of other MoSx structures [3]; various contribution to control of adsorbate dynamics and ordering [4-6], understanding of electronic effects in monolayer confinement [7-9].


1. D. Kim, D. Sun, W. Lu, Z. Cheng, Y. Zhu, D. Le, T. S. Rahman, and L. Bartels, “Toward the growth of an aligned single-layer MoS2 film,” Langmuir 27, 11650 (2011).
2. D. Le, D. Sun, W. Lu, L. Bartels, and T. S. Rahman, “Single layer MoS2 on the Cu(111) surface: First-principles electronic structure calculations,” Phys. Rev. B 85, 075429 (2012).
3. D. Sun, W. Lu, D. Le, Q. Ma, M. Aminpour, M. Alcántara Ortigoza, S. Bobek, J. Mann, J. Wyrick, T. S. Rahman, and L. Bartels, “A novel MoSx structure with high affinity for adsorbate interaction,” Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Engl., in press (2012).
4. L. Bartels, F. Wang, D. Moller, E. Knoesel, and T. Heinz, “Real-space observation of molecular motion induced by femtosecond laser pulses,” Science 305, 648 (2004).
5. G. Pawin, K. L. Wong, K. Y. Kwon, and L. Bartels, “A homomolecular porous network at a Cu(111) surface,” Science 313, 961 (2006).
6. K. L. Wong, G. Pawin, K. Y. Kwon, X. Lin, T. Jiao, R. Fawcett, U. Solanki, L. Bartels, S. Stolbov, and T. S. Rahman, “A molecule carrier,” Science 315, 1391 (2007).
7. L. Bartels, J. Wyrick, D. H. Kim, D. Z. Sun, Z. H. Cheng, W. H. Lu, Y. M. Zhu, K. Berland, Y. S. Kim, E. Rotenberg, M. M. Luo, P. Hyldgaard, and T. L. Einstein, “Do two-dimensional ‘noble gas atoms’ produce molecular honeycombs at a metal surface?” Nano Lett. 11, 2944 (2011).
8. Z. Cheng, M. Luo, J. Wyrick, D. Sun, D. Kim, Y. Zhu, W. Lu, K. Kim, T. L. Einstein, and L. Bartels, “The power of confinement: adsorbate dynamics on nanometer-scale exposed facets,” Nano Lett. 10, 1022018 (2010).
9. Z. Cheng, J. Wyrick, M. Luo, D. Sun, D. Kim, Y. Zhu, W. Lu, K. Kim, T. L. Einstein, and L. Bartels, “Adsorbates in a box: titration of substrate electronic states,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 066104 (2010).