2026 Gerhard Jakob: Materials Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Materials Science	49	10503	10146	583	565	304	9308

Overview

Gerhard Jakob is affiliated with Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz in Germany. Their research spans several interrelated fields including Physics and Astronomy, Engineering, and Materials Science, with significant contributions to Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Condensed Matter Physics, and Materials Chemistry.

The core topics of Jakob's work focus on the magnetic properties of thin films, quantum and electron transport phenomena, magneto-optical properties and applications, physics of superconductivity and magnetism, terahertz technology and applications, magnetic and transport properties of perovskites and related materials, and magnetic field sensors techniques.

Jakob's recent publications include:

"Harnessing Orbital-to-Spin Conversion of Interfacial Orbital Currents for Efficient Spin-Orbit Torques," 2020, Physical Review Letters
"Observation of time-reversal symmetry breaking in the band structure of altermagnetic RuO ₂," 2024, Science Advances
"Observation of the Orbital Rashba-Edelstein Magnetoresistance," 2022, Physical Review Letters
"Broadband Spintronic Terahertz Source with Peak Electric Fields Exceeding 1.5 MV/cm," 2023, Physical Review Applied
"Detection of long-range orbital-Hall torques," 2023, Physical Review B

The publication venues where Jakob frequently contributes include:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Applied Physics Letters
Physical Review B
Physical Review Applied
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Jakob has collaborated extensively with several co-authors, most notably Mathias Kläui, Maria-Andromachi Syskaki, Fabian Kammerbauer, Tobias Kampfrath, and Tom S. Seifert.

This profile reflects a career characterized by research on complex phenomena in condensed matter physics and advanced materials, with a specific concentration on spintronics, magnetism, and terahertz technologies.

Best Publications

Efficient metallic spintronic emitters of ultrabroadband terahertz radiation

Tom Seifert;S. Jaiswal;S. Jaiswal;U. Martens;J. Hannegan

930
Citations
Thermal skyrmion diffusion used in a reshuffler device

Jakub Zázvorka;Jakub Zázvorka;Florian Jakobs;Daniel Heinze;Niklas Keil

345
Citations
Pulsed laser deposition of epitaxial yttrium iron garnet films with low Gilbert damping and bulk-like magnetization

M. C. Onbasli;Andreas Kehlberger;D. H. Kim;Gerhard Jakob

308
Citations
Observation of time-reversal symmetry breaking in the band structure of altermagnetic RuO2

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286
Citations
Large negative magnetoresistance effects in Co2Cr0.6Fe0.4Al

T. Block;C. Felser;G. Jakob;J. Ensling

254
Citations
Length Scale of the Spin Seebeck Effect.

Andreas Kehlberger;Ulrike Ritzmann;Denise Hinzke;Er-Jia Guo

237
Citations
Origin of the spin Seebeck effect in compensated ferrimagnets

Stephan Geprägs;Andreas Kehlberger;Francesco Della Coletta;Zhiyong Qiu

232
Citations
Magnetism of Co-doped ZnO thin films

Milan Gacic;Gerhard Jakob;Christian Herbort;Hermann Adrian

230
Citations
XMCD studies on Co and Li doped ZnO magnetic semiconductors

Thomas Tietze;Milan Gacic;Gisela Schütz;Gerhard Jakob

184
Citations
Thermal skyrmion diffusion applied in probabilistic computing

Jakub Zázvorka;Florian Jakobs;Daniel Heinze;Niklas Keil

181
Citations
Element-specific magnetic moments from core-absorption magnetic circular dichroism of the doped Heusler alloy Co2Cr0.6Fe0.4Al

H. J. Elmers;G. H. Fecher;D. Valdaitsev;S. A. Nepijko

177
Citations
Observation of the Orbital Rashba-Edelstein Magnetoresistance

Shilei Ding;Zhongyu Liang;Dongwook Go;Chao Yun

160
Citations
Influence of Thickness and Interface on the Low-Temperature Enhancement of the Spin Seebeck Effect in YIG Films

Er-Jia Guo;Er-Jia Guo;Joel Cramer;Andreas Kehlberger;Ciaran A. Ferguson

155
Citations
Effect of precursor concentration on size evolution of iron oxide nanoparticles

Hamed Sharifi Dehsari;Anielen Halda Ribeiro;Bora Ersöz;Wolfgang Tremel

142
Citations
Ultrabroadband single-cycle terahertz pulses with peak fields of 300 kV cm−1 from a metallic spintronic emitter

Tom Seifert;S. Jaiswal;S. Jaiswal;Mohsen Sajadi;G. Jakob

124
Citations
Enhanced Magneto-optic Kerr Effect and Magnetic Properties of CeY 2 Fe 5 O 12 Epitaxial Thin Films

Andreas Kehlberger;Kornel Richter;Mehmet C. Onbasli;Gerhard Jakob

123
Citations
Epitaxy and magnetotransport of Sr 2 FeMoO 6 thin films

W. Westerburg;D. Reisinger;G. Jakob

122
Citations
Huge quadratic magneto-optical Kerr effect and magnetization reversal in the Co2FeSi Heusler compound

Jaroslav Hamrle;S. Blomeier;O. Gaier;B. Hillebrands

119
Citations
Epitaxial film growth and magnetic properties of Co2FeSi

H. Schneider;G. Jakob;M. Kallmayer;H. J. Elmers

114
Citations
Origin of the thickness-dependent low-temperature enhancement of spin Seebeck effect in YIG films

Er-Jia Guo;Andreas Kehlberger;Joel Cramer;Gerhard Jakob

112
Citations
Terahertz spectroscopy for all-optical spintronic characterization of the spin-Hall-effect metals Pt, W and Cu80Ir20

Tom S. Seifert;Tom S. Seifert;N.M. Tran;O. Gueckstock;S.M. Rouzegar

111
Citations
Correlation of electronic structure and martensitic transition in epitaxialNi2MnGafilms

G. Jakob;T. Eichhorn;M. Kallmayer;H. J. Elmers

105
Citations
Investigation of the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction and room temperature skyrmions in W/CoFeB/MgO thin films and microwires

S. Jaiswal;S. Jaiswal;Kai Litzius;Kai Litzius;I. Lemesh;F. Büttner

104
Citations
Individual skyrmion manipulation by local magnetic field gradients

Arianna Casiraghi;Héctor Corte-León;Mehran Vafaee;Felipe Garcia-Sanchez

84
Citations
Suppression of martensitic phase transition at the Ni2MnGa film surface

P. Pörsch;M. Kallmayer;T. Eichhorn;G. Jakob

18
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