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Hongtao Yuan

Hongtao Yuan

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Materials Science

D-Index
56
Citations
17754
World Ranking
8125
National Ranking
2359

Overview

Hongtao Yuan is affiliated with Nanjing University in China, contributing primarily in the fields of Materials Science, Physics and Astronomy, and Engineering. Their work spans several subfields, with significant publication counts in Materials Chemistry, Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, and Condensed Matter Physics.

Their research topics focus extensively on advanced materials and related phenomena. Key areas include 2D Materials and Applications, Graphene research and applications, Topological Materials and Phenomena, Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism, MXene and MAX Phase Materials, Electronic and Structural Properties of Oxides, and Iron-based superconductors research.

Hongtao Yuan has frequently collaborated with several researchers. The most common coauthors include Junwei Huang, Zeya Li, Caiyu Qiu, Feng Qin, and Xiangyu Bi, with collaboration counts ranging from over twenty to nearly fifty publications.

The scientist has published in a variety of prominent venues, with the highest number of articles appearing in arXiv (Cornell University), followed by Nature Communications, Nano Research, Nature Nanotechnology, and ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Hongtao Yuan highlight work on two-dimensional materials and superconductivity. Selected publications include:

  • A van der Waals interface that creates in-plane polarization and a spontaneous photovoltaic effect, 2021, Science
  • Tunable room-temperature ferromagnetism in Co-doped two-dimensional van der Waals ZnO, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Simultaneous Nodal Superconductivity and Time-Reversal Symmetry Breaking in the Noncentrosymmetric Superconductor CaPtAs, 2020, Physical Review Letters
  • An anisotropic van der Waals dielectric for symmetry engineering in functionalized heterointerfaces, 2023, Nature Communications
  • Continuous manipulation of magnetic anisotropy in a van der Waals ferromagnet via electrical gating, 2022, Nature Electronics

Best Publications

  • A phosphorene–graphene hybrid material as a high-capacity anode for sodium-ion batteries

    Jie Sun;Hyun-Wook Lee;Mauro Pasta;Hongtao Yuan

  • Polarization-sensitive broadband photodetector using a black phosphorus vertical p–n junction

    Hongtao Yuan;Xiaoge Liu;Farzaneh Afshinmanesh;Wei Li

  • Controlled growth of high-quality monolayer WS2 layers on sapphire and imaging its grain boundary.

    Yu Zhang;Yanfeng Zhang;Qingqing Ji;Jing Ju

  • Physical and chemical tuning of two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides

    Haotian Wang;Hongtao Yuan;Hongtao Yuan;Seung Sae Hong;Yanbin Li

  • Rapid water disinfection using vertically aligned MoS2 nanofilms and visible light

    Chong Liu;Desheng Kong;Po Chun Hsu;Hongtao Yuan

  • High electron mobility and quantum oscillations in non-encapsulated ultrathin semiconducting Bi2O2Se.

    Jinxiong Wu;Hongtao Yuan;Mengmeng Meng;Cheng Chen

  • Liquid-gated interface superconductivity on an atomically flat film

    Justin Ye;S. Inoue;K. Kobayashi;Y. Kasahara

  • High‐Density Carrier Accumulation in ZnO Field‐Effect Transistors Gated by Electric Double Layers of Ionic Liquids

    Hongtao Yuan;Hidekazu Shimotani;Atsushi Tsukazaki;Akira Ohtomo

  • Integrated digital inverters based on two-dimensional anisotropic ReS2 field-effect transistors.

    Erfu Liu;Yajun Fu;Yaojia Wang;Yanqing Feng

  • Zeeman-type spin splitting controlled by an electric field

    Hongtao Yuan;Hongtao Yuan;Mohammad Saeed Bahramy;Mohammad Saeed Bahramy;Kazuhiro Morimoto;Sanfeng Wu

  • Electrically induced ferromagnetism at room temperature in cobalt-doped titanium dioxide.

    Y. Yamada;K. Ueno;K. Ueno;T. Fukumura;T. Fukumura;H. T. Yuan

  • Discovery of superconductivity in KTaO 3 by electrostatic carrier doping

    K. Ueno;S. Nakamura;H. Shimotani;H. T. Yuan

  • 2D materials advances: From large scale synthesis and controlled heterostructures to improved characterization techniques, defects and applications

    Zhong Lin;Amber McCreary;Natalie Briggs;Shruti Subramanian

  • Generation and electric control of spin–valley-coupled circular photogalvanic current in WSe2

    Hongtao Yuan;Hongtao Yuan;Xinqiang Wang;Biao Lian;Haijun Zhang

  • Accessing the transport properties of graphene and its multilayers at high carrier density

    Jianting Ye;Monica F. Craciun;Mikito Koshino;Saverio Russo

  • Spatially controlled doping of two-dimensional SnS 2 through intercalation for electronics

    Yongji Gong;Yongji Gong;Hongtao Yuan;Hongtao Yuan;Hongtao Yuan;Chun-Lan Wu;Peizhe Tang

  • High Responsivity Phototransistors Based on Few-Layer ReS2 for Weak Signal Detection

    Erfu Liu;Mingsheng Long;Junwen Zeng;Wei Luo;Wei Luo

  • Electrostatic and Electrochemical Nature of Liquid-Gated Electric-Double-Layer Transistors Based on Oxide Semiconductors

    Hongtao Yuan;Hidekazu Shimotani;Jianting Ye;Sungjae Yoon

  • Ultrafast and highly sensitive infrared photodetectors based on two-dimensional oxyselenide crystals.

    Jianbo Yin;Zhenjun Tan;Hao Hong;Jinxiong Wu

  • Pressure induced metallization with absence of structural transition in layered molybdenum diselenide

    Zhao Zhao;Haijun Zhang;Hongtao Yuan;Shibing Wang

  • Ultrafast, highly-sensitive infrared photodetectors based on two-dimensional oxyselenide crystals

    Jianbo Yin;Zhenjun Tan;Hao Hong;Jinxiong Wu

Frequent Co-Authors

Harold Y. Hwang
Harold Y. Hwang Stanford University
Yi Cui
Yi Cui Stanford University
Yoshihiro Iwasa
Yoshihiro Iwasa University of Tokyo
Hidekazu Shimotani
Hidekazu Shimotani Tohoku University
Yulin Chen
Yulin Chen University of Oxford
Masashi Kawasaki
Masashi Kawasaki University of Tokyo
Qi-Kun Xue
Qi-Kun Xue Southern University of Science and Technology
Jin-Feng Jia
Jin-Feng Jia Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Xiaolong Du
Xiaolong Du Chinese Academy of Sciences
Feng Miao
Feng Miao Nanjing University

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