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  • 2020 - SPIE Fellow
  • 2015 - OSA Fellows Junichiro Kono Rice University, USA For pioneering contributions to fundamental optical studies of nanostructures, including carbon nanotubes and semiconductor heterostructures, and their optoelectronic device applications.
  • 2009 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For contributions to optical processes in semiconductor nanostructures, including magnetooptical studies of AharonovBohm physics in carbon nanotubes

Overview

Junichiro Kono is affiliated with Rice University in the United States and has made extensive contributions across several fields of study, including Physics and Astronomy, Materials Science, and Engineering. Their research spans numerous subfields such as Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics, Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, and Condensed Matter Physics.

The scientist's work prominently addresses topics including Topological Materials and Phenomena, Carbon Nanotubes in Composites, Graphene research and applications, Mechanical and Optical Resonators, Strong Light-Matter Interactions, Thermal Radiation and Cooling Technologies, and Terahertz technology and applications.

Kono has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Andrey Baydin (47 publications)
  • Natsumi Komatsu (27 publications)
  • Weilu Gao (27 publications)
  • Fuyang Tay (26 publications)
  • Jacques Doumani (22 publications)

The scientist has published in multiple venues, with the most frequent being:

  • arXiv (Cornell University) - 35 publications
  • Nature Communications - 11 publications
  • ECS Meeting Abstracts - 9 publications
  • Nano Letters - 8 publications
  • Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics - 6 publications

Recent publications include:

  • "Improved properties, increased production, and the path to broad adoption of carbon nanotube fibers" (2020, Carbon)
  • "Macroscopic weavable fibers of carbon nanotubes with giant thermoelectric power factor" (2021, Nature Communications)
  • "Banning carbon nanotubes would be scientifically unjustified and damaging to innovation" (2020, Nature Nanotechnology)
  • "Metamaterial-Free Flexible Graphene-Enabled Terahertz Sensors for Pesticide Detection at Bio-Interface" (2020, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces)
  • "Ultrahigh strength, modulus, and conductivity of graphitic fibers by macromolecular coalescence" (2022, Science Advances)

Junichiro Kono has authored a book published by Cambridge University Press titled Quantum Mechanics for Tomorrow's Engineers (2022).

The scientist has been recognized with several professional awards, including:

  • SPIE Fellow (2020)
  • OSA Fellow (2015) - For contributions to fundamental optical studies of nanostructures, including carbon nanotubes and semiconductor heterostructures, and their optoelectronic device applications
  • Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) (2009) - For contributions to optical processes in semiconductor nanostructures, including magnetooptical studies of Aharonov-Bohm physics in carbon nanotubes

Best Publications

  • Strong, Light, Multifunctional Fibers of Carbon Nanotubes with Ultrahigh Conductivity

    Natnael Behabtu;Colin C. Young;Dmitri E. Tsentalovich;Olga Kleinerman

  • Scaling law for excitons in 2D perovskite quantum wells.

    J.-C. Blancon;A. V. Stier;H. Tsai;H. Tsai;W. Nie

  • Wafer-scale monodomain films of spontaneously aligned single-walled carbon nanotubes

    Xiaowei He;Weilu Gao;Lijuan Xie;Bo Li

  • Exciton diamagnetic shifts and valley Zeeman effects in monolayer WS2 and MoS2 to 65 Tesla.

    Andreas V. Stier;Kathleen M. McCreary;Berend T. Jonker;Junichiro Kono

  • Optical signatures of the Aharonov-Bohm phase in single-walled carbon nanotubes.

    Sasa Zaric;Gordana N. Ostojic;Junichiro Kono;Jonah Shaver

  • Facile Synthesis of Single Crystal Vanadium Disulfide Nanosheets by Chemical Vapor Deposition for Efficient Hydrogen Evolution Reaction

    Jiangtan Yuan;Jingjie Wu;Will J. Hardy;Philip Loya

  • Tunable room-temperature single-photon emission at telecom wavelengths from sp3 defects in carbon nanotubes

    Xiaowei He;Nicolai F. Hartmann;Xuedan Ma;Younghee Kim

  • Interband recombination dynamics in resonantly excited single-walled carbon nanotubes.

    G. N. Ostojic;S. Zaric;J. Kono;M. S. Strano

  • An Atomically Layered InSe Avalanche Photodetector

    Sidong Lei;Fangfang Wen;Liehui Ge;Sina Najmaei

  • Magnetooptics of Exciton Rydberg States in a Monolayer Semiconductor.

    A. V. Stier;N. P. Wilson;K. A. Velizhanin;J. Kono

  • Carbon Nanotube Terahertz Polarizer

    Lei Ren;Cary L. Pint;Layla G. Booshehri;William D. Rice

  • Terahertz and Infrared Spectroscopy of Gated Large-Area Graphene

    Lei Ren;Qi Zhang;Jun Yao;Zhengzong Sun

  • Carbon Nanotube Terahertz Detector

    Xiaowei He;Naoki Fujimura;J Meagan Lloyd;Kristopher J Erickson

  • Excitation and Active Control of Propagating Surface Plasmon Polaritons in Graphene

    Weilu Gao;Gang Shi;Zehua Jin;Jie Shu

  • High-contrast terahertz wave modulation by gated graphene enhanced by extraordinary transmission through ring apertures.

    Weilu Gao;Jie Shu;Kimberly Reichel;Daniel V. Nickel

  • Terahertz science and technology of carbon nanomaterials

    Richard R. Hartmann;J. Kono;M.E. Portnoi;M.E. Portnoi

  • Large flake graphene oxide fibers with unconventional 100% knot efficiency and highly aligned small flake graphene oxide fibers.

    Changsheng Xiang;Colin C. Young;Xuan Wang;Zheng Yan

  • RESONANT TERAHERTZ OPTICAL SIDEBAND GENERATION FROM CONFINED MAGNETOEXCITONS

    J. Kono;M. Y. Su;T. Inoshita;T. Noda

  • Direct observation of dark excitons in individual carbon nanotubes: inhomogeneity in the exchange splitting.

    Ajit Srivastava;Han Htoon;Victor I. Klimov;Junichiro Kono

  • Extraordinary sensitivity enhancement by metasurfaces in terahertz detection of antibiotics

    Lijuan Xie;Weilu Gao;Jie Shu;Yibin Ying

  • Broadband terahertz polarizers with ideal performance based on aligned carbon nanotube stacks.

    Lei Ren;Cary L. Pint;Takashi Arikawa;Kei Takeya

  • Tunable room-temperature single-photon emission at telecom wavelengths from sp3 defects in carbon nanotubes

    Xiaowei He;Han Htoon;Stephen K. Doorn

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert H. Hauge
Robert H. Hauge Rice University
Robert Vajtai
Robert Vajtai Rice University
Matteo Pasquali
Matteo Pasquali Rice University
Masayoshi Tonouchi
Masayoshi Tonouchi Osaka University
Pulickel M. Ajayan
Pulickel M. Ajayan Rice University
Cary L. Pint
Cary L. Pint Iowa State University
Daniel M. Mittleman
Daniel M. Mittleman Brown University
Stephen K. Doorn
Stephen K. Doorn Los Alamos National Laboratory
Richard E. Smalley
Richard E. Smalley Rice University
Arthur C. Gossard
Arthur C. Gossard University of California, Santa Barbara

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