2026 Oleg V. Yazyev: 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	60	6913	6681	105	100	239	25740

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Materials Science

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Overview

Oleg V. Yazyev is affiliated with the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland. Their research spans multiple facets of materials science and physics, with a primary focus on two-dimensional materials and quantum phenomena.

Their published work covers a range of topics within materials science and physics and astronomy, specifically:

Materials Science
Physics and Astronomy

Subfields of study in Yazyev's research include:

Materials Chemistry
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Condensed Matter Physics
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials

The main topics investigated in their research are:

Graphene research and applications
Topological Materials and Phenomena
2D Materials and Applications
Quantum and electron transport phenomena
Advanced Condensed Matter Physics
Magnetic and transport properties of perovskites and related materials
Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism

Key recent papers authored by Yazyev include:

"Correlated states in twisted double bilayer graphene," 2020, Nature Physics
"Moiré Flat Bands in Twisted Double Bilayer Graphene," 2020, Nano Letters
"Artificial Neural Network Approach to the Analytic Continuation Problem," 2020, Physical Review Letters
"Probing magnetism in atomically thin semiconducting PtSe2," 2020, Nature Communications
"Electrical spectroscopy of defect states and their hybridization in monolayer MoS2," 2023, Nature Communications

Yazyev frequently collaborates with other researchers, including:

Quansheng Wu
Kristia̅ns Čerņevičs
Yifei Guan
Michele Pizzochero
Kenji Watanabe

Their publications have appeared in various well-known venues such as:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Physical Review B
Nature Communications
Physical Review Letters
Nano Letters

Best Publications

2D transition metal dichalcogenides

Sajedeh Manzeli;Dmitry Ovchinnikov;Diego Pasquier;Oleg V. Yazyev

5823
Citations
Defect-induced magnetism in graphene

Oleg V. Yazyev;Lothar Helm

1706
Citations
Magnetism in Graphene Induced by Single-Atom Defects

Oleg V. Yazyev;Lothar Helm

1505
Citations
Emergence of magnetism in graphene materials and nanostructures

Oleg V Yazyev;Oleg V Yazyev

1102
Citations
Electronic transport in polycrystalline graphene

Oleg V. Yazyev;Oleg V. Yazyev;Steven G. Louie;Steven G. Louie

994
Citations
Topological defects in graphene: Dislocations and grain boundaries

Oleg V. Yazyev;Steven G. Louie

896
Citations
Magnetic Correlations at Graphene Edges : Basis for Novel Spintronics Devices

Oleg V. Yazyev;M. I. Katsnelson

844
Citations
Spatially resolving edge states of chiral graphene nanoribbons

Chenggang Tao;Chenggang Tao;Liying Jiao;Oleg V. Yazyev;Oleg V. Yazyev;Yen-Chia Chen;Yen-Chia Chen

808
Citations
Polycrystalline graphene and other two-dimensional materials.

Oleg V. Yazyev;Yong P. Chen

569
Citations
Spin polarization and transport of surface states in the topological insulators Bi2Se3 and Bi2Te3 from first principles.

Oleg V. Yazyev;Oleg V. Yazyev;Joel E. Moore;Joel E. Moore;Steven G. Louie;Steven G. Louie

565
Citations
Correlated states in twisted double bilayer graphene

Cheng Shen;Yanbang Chu;QuanSheng Wu;Na Li

537
Citations
Magnetism in disordered graphene and irradiated graphite.

Oleg V. Yazyev

506
Citations
Z2Pack: Numerical Implementation of Hybrid Wannier Centers for Identifying Topological Materials

Dominik Gresch;Gabriel Autès;Oleg V. Yazyev;Matthias Troyer

398
Citations
Observation of Weyl nodes and Fermi arcs in tantalum phosphide

N. Xu;H. M. Weng;B. Q. Lv;B. Q. Lv;C. E. Matt

352
Citations
Topological frustration in graphene nanoflakes: magnetic order and spin logic devices.

Wei L. Wang;Oleg V. Yazyev;Sheng Meng;Efthimios Kaxiras

325
Citations
Identifying substitutional oxygen as a prolific point defect in monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides.

Sara Barja;Sivan Refaely-Abramson;Sivan Refaely-Abramson;Sivan Refaely-Abramson;Bruno Schuler;Diana Y. Qiu;Diana Y. Qiu

302
Citations
Effect of metal elements in catalytic growth of carbon nanotubes

Oleg V. Yazyev;Alfredo Pasquarello

271
Citations
Atomic Scale Microstructure and Properties of Se-Deficient Two-Dimensional MoSe2

Ossi Lehtinen;Hannu-Pekka Komsa;Artem Pulkin;Michael Brian Whitwick

263
Citations
A guide to the design of electronic properties of graphene nanoribbons.

Oleg V. Yazyev

248
Citations
MoS2 and semiconductors in the flatland

Oleg V. Yazyev;Andras Kis

248
Citations