2026 Hiroki Hibino: 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	42	12507	12098	786	749	327	8719

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D-Index

World Ranking

Current World Ranking

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Current National Ranking

Publications

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Materials Science

12507

12098

786

749

327

8719

Overview

Hiroki Hibino is affiliated with Kwansei Gakuin University in Japan and has a research focus primarily on materials science, physics and astronomy, and engineering. Their work encompasses multiple subfields including materials chemistry, atomic and molecular physics and optics, electrical and electronic engineering, biomedical engineering, and surfaces, coatings, and films.

Their research topics include graphene research and applications, 2D materials and applications, diamond and carbon-based materials research, quantum and electron transport phenomena, surface and thin film phenomena, semiconductor materials and interfaces, and advancements in semiconductor devices and circuit design.

Notable recent publications by Hibino consist of:

Isothermal Growth and Stacking Evolution in Highly Uniform Bernal-Stacked Bilayer Graphene, 2020, ACS Nano
Epitaxial Intercalation Growth of Scalable Hexagonal Boron Nitride/Graphene Bilayer Moiré Materials with Highly Convergent Interlayer Angles, 2021, ACS Nano
Observation of a flat band and bandgap in millimeter-scale twisted bilayer graphene, 2021, Communications Materials
Controlled CVD growth of lateral and vertical graphene/h-BN heterostructures, 2020, Applied Physics Express
Correlation between structures and vibration properties of germanene grown by Ge segregation, 2021, Applied Physics Express

Frequent coauthors in their research include Hiroyuki Kageshima, Shengnan Wang, Yoshitaka Taniyasu, Yoshiaki Sekine, and Katsuya Oguri.

Hibino's work is regularly published in journals such as the Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, Applied Physics Express, e-Journal of Surface Science and Nanotechnology, ACS Nano, and Communications Materials. The highest number of publications are found in the Japanese Journal of Applied Physics and Applied Physics Express.

Best Publications

Single-walled carbon nanotube growth from highly activated metal nanoparticles.

Daisuke Takagi;Yoshikazu Homma;Hiroki Hibino;Satoru Suzuki

571
Citations
Microscopic thickness determination of thin graphite films formed on SiC from quantized oscillation in reflectivity of low-energy electrons

H. Hibino;H. Kageshima;F. Maeda;M. Nagase

477
Citations
Direct Chemical Vapor Deposition Growth of WS2 Atomic Layers on Hexagonal Boron Nitride

Mitsuhiro Okada;Takumi Sawazaki;Kenji Watanabe;Takashi Taniguch

346
Citations
Dependence of electronic properties of epitaxial few-layer graphene on the number of layers investigated by photoelectron emission microscopy

H. Hibino;H. Kageshima;Masato Kotsugi;F. Maeda

315
Citations
Carbon Nanotube Growth from Semiconductor Nanoparticles

Daisuke Takagi;Hiroki Hibino;Satoru Suzuki;Yoshihiro Kobayashi

301
Citations
Domain Structure and Boundary in Single-Layer Graphene Grown on Cu(111) and Cu(100) Films

Yui Ogawa;Baoshan Hu;Baoshan Hu;Carlo M. Orofeo;Masaharu Tsuji

267
Citations
Quantum Faraday and Kerr rotations in graphene

R. Shimano;G. Yumoto;J. Y. Yoo;R. Matsunaga

248
Citations
Growth and Optical Properties of High-Quality Monolayer WS2 on Graphite

Yu Kobayashi;Shogo Sasaki;Shohei Mori;Hiroki Hibino

202
Citations
Catalytic Growth of Graphene: Toward Large-Area Single-Crystalline Graphene.

Hiroki Ago;Yui Ogawa;Masaharu Tsuji;Seigi Mizuno

198
Citations
Epitaxial few-layer graphene: towards single crystal growth

H Hibino;H Kageshima;M Nagase

162
Citations
DC-Resistive-Heating-Induced Step Bunching on Vicinal Si (111)

Yoshikazu Homma;Robert J. Mcclelland;Hiroki Hibino

161
Citations
Highly Uniform Bilayer Graphene on Epitaxial Cu–Ni(111) Alloy

Yuichiro Takesaki;Kenji Kawahara;Hiroki Hibino;Hiroki Hibino;Susumu Okada

150
Citations
Scalable synthesis of layer-controlled WS2 and MoS2 sheets by sulfurization of thin metal films

Carlo M. Orofeo;Satoru Suzuki;Yoshiaki Sekine;Hiroki Hibino

149
Citations
Mechanism of gold-catalyzed carbon material growth.

Daisuke Takagi;Yoshihiro Kobayashi;Hiroki Hibino;Satoru Suzuki

147
Citations
Growth and low-energy electron microscopy characterization of monolayer hexagonal boron nitride on epitaxial cobalt

Carlo M. Orofeo;Satoru Suzuki;Hiroyuki Kageshima;Hiroki Hibino

134
Citations
Anisotropic layer-by-layer growth of graphene on vicinal SiC(0001) surfaces

Satoru Tanaka;Kouhei Morita;Hiroki Hibino

129
Citations
Influence of Cu metal on the domain structure and carrier mobility in single-layer graphene

Carlo M. Orofeo;Hiroki Hibino;Kenji Kawahara;Yui Ogawa

119
Citations
Carrier transport mechanism in graphene on SiC(0001)

Shinichi Tanabe;Yoshiaki Sekine;Hiroyuki Kageshima;Masao Nagase

117
Citations
Stacking domains of epitaxial few-layer graphene on SiC(0001)

H. Hibino;Seigi Mizuno;H. Kageshima;M. Nagase

115
Citations
Characterization of doped single-wall carbon nanotubes by Raman spectroscopy

Satoru Suzuki;Hiroki Hibino

96
Citations
SUBLIMATION OF THE SI(111) SURFACE IN ULTRAHIGH VACUUM

Yoshikazu Homma;Hiroki Hibino;Toshio Ogino;Noriyuki Aizawa

95
Citations