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137
Citations
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World Ranking
256
National Ranking
107

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Materials Science in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Materials Science in United States Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Materials Science in United States Leader Award
  • 2010 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Ali Javey is a researcher affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. Their research spans primarily the fields of Engineering and Materials Science, with notable contributions to subfields such as Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials Chemistry, and Biomedical Engineering. Additional areas of focus include Atomic and Molecular Physics, Optics, and Polymers and Plastics.

The scientist's research topics show considerable emphasis on the development and application of novel materials and sensor technologies. Main topics of work include:

  • 2D Materials and Applications
  • Perovskite Materials and Applications
  • Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials
  • Gas Sensing Nanomaterials and Sensors
  • Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties
  • Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films
  • Analytical Chemistry and Sensors

Ali Javey has authored numerous publications in prominent scientific venues. Frequent publication venues are:

  • Nano Letters
  • ACS Nano
  • Advanced Materials
  • Advanced Functional Materials
  • Nature Communications

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Javey include:

  • Technology Roadmap for Flexible Sensors, 2023, ACS Nano
  • A biomimetic eye with a hemispherical perovskite nanowire array retina, 2020, Nature
  • Temperature-adaptive radiative coating for all-season household thermal regulation, 2021, Science
  • A wearable patch for continuous analysis of thermoregulatory sweat at rest, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Actively variable-spectrum optoelectronics with black phosphorus, 2021, Nature

The researcher collaborates regularly with several co-authors. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Naoki Higashitarumizu
  • Hyung-Jin Kim
  • Shiekh Zia Uddin
  • Kenneth B. Crozier
  • James Bullock

Throughout their career, Ali Javey has been recognized for their contributions with the Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation award in 2010.

Best Publications

  • Fully integrated wearable sensor arrays for multiplexed in situ perspiration analysis

    Wei Gao;Wei Gao;Sam Emaminejad;Sam Emaminejad;Sam Emaminejad;Hnin Yin Yin Nyein;Hnin Yin Yin Nyein;Samyuktha Challa

  • Ballistic carbon nanotube field-effect transistors

    Ali Javey;Jing Guo;Qian Wang;Mark Lundstrom

  • High-performance single layered WSe₂ p-FETs with chemically doped contacts.

    Hui Fang;Steven Chuang;Steven Chuang;Ting Chia Chang;Kuniharu Takei;Kuniharu Takei

  • High Performance Single Layered WSe2 p-FETs with Chemically Doped Contacts

    Hui Fang;Steven Chuang;Ting Chia Chang;Kuniharu Takei

  • MoS2 transistors with 1-nanometer gate lengths

    Sujay B. Desai;Sujay B. Desai;Surabhi R. Madhvapathy;Surabhi R. Madhvapathy;Angada B. Sachid;Angada B. Sachid;Juan Pablo Llinas;Juan Pablo Llinas

  • Nanowire active-matrix circuitry for low-voltage macroscale artificial skin

    Kuniharu Takei;Toshitake Takahashi;Toshitake Takahashi;Johnny C. Ho;Johnny C. Ho;Hyunhyub Ko

  • High-κ dielectrics for advanced carbon- nanotube transistors and logic gates

    Ali Javey;Hyoungsub Kim;Markus Brink;Qian Wang

  • Toward Large Arrays of Multiplex Functionalized Carbon Nanotube Sensors for Highly Sensitive and Selective Molecular Detection

    Pengfei Qi;Ophir Vermesh;Mihai Grecu;Ali Javey

  • Wearable sweat sensors

    Mallika Bariya;Mallika Bariya;Hnin Yin Yin Nyein;Hnin Yin Yin Nyein;Ali Javey;Ali Javey

  • User-interactive electronic skin for instantaneous pressure visualization

    Chuan Wang;David Hwang;David Hwang;Zhibin Yu;Zhibin Yu;Kuniharu Takei;Kuniharu Takei

  • Near-unity photoluminescence quantum yield in MoS2

    Matin Amani;Der-Hsien Lien;Daisuke Kiriya;James Bullock

  • Hysteresis caused by water molecules in carbon nanotube field-effect transistors

    Woong Kim;Ali Javey;Ophir Vermesh;Qian Wang

  • Three-dimensional nanopillar-array photovoltaics on low-cost and flexible substrates

    Zhiyong Fan;Haleh Razavi;Haleh Razavi;Jae Won Do;Jae Won Do;Aimee Moriwaki;Aimee Moriwaki

  • Strong interlayer coupling in van der Waals heterostructures built from single-layer chalcogenides

    Hui Fang;Corsin Battaglia;Carlo Carraro;Slavomir Nemsak

  • Flexible Electronics toward Wearable Sensing

    Wei Gao;Hiroki Ota;Daisuke Kiriya;Kuniharu Takei

  • Degenerate n-doping of few-layer transition metal dichalcogenides by potassium.

    Hui Fang;Mahmut Tosun;Mahmut Tosun;Gyungseon Seol;Ting Chia Chang;Ting Chia Chang

  • High-field quasiballistic transport in short carbon nanotubes.

    Ali Javey;Jing Guo;Magnus Paulsson;Qian Wang

  • Polymer Functionalization for Air-Stable n-Type Carbon Nanotube Field-Effect Transistors

    Moonsub Shim;Ali Javey;Nadine Wong Shi Kam;Hongjie Dai

  • Field-Effect Transistors Built from All Two-Dimensional Material Components

    Tania Roy;Mahmut Tosun;Mahmut Tosun;Jeong Seuk Kang;Jeong Seuk Kang;Angada B. Sachid

  • Carbon Nanotube Field-Effect Transistors with Integrated Ohmic Contacts and High-κ Gate Dielectrics

    Ali Javey;Jing Guo;Damon B. Farmer;Qian Wang

  • Preferential Growth of Semiconducting Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes by a Plasma Enhanced CVD Method

    Yiming Li;David Mann;Marco Rolandi;Woong Kim

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark Hettick
Mark Hettick University of California, Berkeley
Kuniharu Takei
Kuniharu Takei Osaka Metropolitan University
Der-Hsien Lien
Der-Hsien Lien National Chiao Tung University
Joel W. Ager
Joel W. Ager Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Yu-Lun Chueh
Yu-Lun Chueh National Tsing Hua University
Zhiyong Fan
Zhiyong Fan Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Hongjie Dai
Hongjie Dai University of Hong Kong
Johnny C. Ho
Johnny C. Ho City University of Hong Kong
Wei Gao
Wei Gao California Institute of Technology
Hui Fang
Hui Fang Dartmouth College

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