2026 Roland Kawakami: 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	59	7291	7053	1806	1680	309	14798

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Research.com Recognitions

2015 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For pioneering advances in understanding the magnetic properties of graphene, including mechanisms of spin lifetime and spin transport, and the role of adatoms in magnetic moment formation

Overview

Roland Kawakami is affiliated with The Ohio State University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on physics and materials science, with significant contributions to atomic and molecular physics, optics, materials chemistry, electronic, optical and magnetic materials, condensed matter physics, and electrical and electronic engineering.

The main topics of their work cover magnetic properties of thin films, topological materials and phenomena, 2D materials and applications, graphene research and applications, magnetic and transport properties of perovskites and related materials, physics of superconductivity and magnetism, and advanced condensed matter physics.

Kawakami has published numerous papers in various scientific venues. Frequent publication venues include:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Microscopy and Microanalysis
Physical Review B
Physical Review Letters
Nano Letters

Some of their recent papers are:

Van der Waals heterostructures for spintronics and opto-spintronics, 2021, Nature Nanotechnology
The 2020 magnetism roadmap, 2020, Journal of Physics D Applied Physics
Magneto-Optical Detection of the Orbital Hall Effect in Chromium, 2023, Physical Review Letters
Synthesis, Magnetic Properties, and Electronic Structure of Magnetic Topological Insulator MnBi₂Se₄, 2021, Nano Letters
Momentum-Resolved Exciton Coupling and Valley Polarization Dynamics in Monolayer WS₂, 2023, Physical Review Letters

The scientist frequently collaborates with several co-authors, including:

Shuyu Cheng
Jay Gupta
David W. McComb
Igor Lyalin
Ziling Li

In recognition of their work, Roland Kawakami was named a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) in 2015. The citation noted pioneering advances in understanding the magnetic properties of graphene, including mechanisms of spin lifetime and spin transport, and the role of adatoms in magnetic moment formation.

Best Publications

Graphene Spintronics

Wei Han;Roland K. Kawakami;Martin Gmitra;Jaroslav Fabian

2005
Citations
Room Temperature Intrinsic Ferromagnetism in Epitaxial Manganese Selenide Films in the Monolayer Limit

Dante J O'Hara;Tiancong Zhu;Amanda H Trout;Adam S Ahmed

758
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Tunneling spin injection into single layer graphene.

Wei Han;K. Pi;K. M. McCreary;Yan Li

566
Citations
Giant Planar Hall Effect in Epitaxial (Ga,Mn)As Devices

H. X. Tang;R. K. Kawakami;D. D. Awschalom;M. L. Roukes

532
Citations
Van der Waals heterostructures for spintronics and opto-spintronics.

Juan F. Sierra;Jaroslav Fabian;Roland K. Kawakami;Stephan Roche;Stephan Roche

527
Citations
Spin relaxation in single-layer and bilayer graphene

Wei Han;R. K. Kawakami

458
Citations
Control of Schottky Barriers in Single Layer MoS2 Transistors with Ferromagnetic Contacts

Jen-Ru Chen;Patrick M. Odenthal;Adrian G. Swartz;George Charles Floyd

446
Citations
2-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides with tunable direct band gaps: MoS₂(₁-x) Se₂x monolayers.

John Mann;Quan Ma;Patrick M. Odenthal;Miguel Isarraraz

433
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Electronic doping and scattering by transition metals on graphene

K. Pi;K. M. McCreary;W. Bao;Wei Han

342
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Magnetic moment formation in graphene detected by scattering of pure spin currents.

Kathleen M. McCreary;Adrian G. Swartz;Wei Han;Jaroslav Fabian

327
Citations
Symmetry-Induced Magnetic Anisotropy in Fe Films Grown on Stepped Ag(001).

R. K. Kawakami;Ernesto J. Escorcia-Aparicio;Z. Q. Qiu;Z. Q. Qiu

276
Citations
Observing Atomic Collapse Resonances in Artificial Nuclei on Graphene

Yang Wang;Dillon Wong;Dillon Wong;Andrey V. Shytov;Victor W. Brar;Victor W. Brar

274
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Impurity band conduction in a high temperature ferromagnetic semiconductor.

K. S. Burch;D. B. Shrekenhamer;E. J. Singley;J. Stephens

245
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Opto-Valleytronic Spin Injection in Monolayer MoS2/Few-Layer Graphene Hybrid Spin Valves

Yunqiu Kelly Luo;Jinsong Xu;Tiancong Zhu;Guanzhong Wu

233
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(Ga,Mn)As as a digital ferromagnetic heterostructure

R. K. Kawakami;E. Johnston-Halperin;L. F. Chen;M. Hanson

231
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The 2020 magnetism roadmap

Elena Yu Vedmedenko;Roland Kenji Kawakami;Denis D. Sheka;Pietro Gambardella

214
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Manipulation of spin transport in graphene by surface chemical doping.

K. Pi;Wei Han;K. M. McCreary;A. G. Swartz

207
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Integration of the ferromagnetic insulator EuO onto graphene.

Adrian G Swartz;Patrick M Odenthal;Yufeng Hao;Rodney S Ruoff

189
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Ferromagnetic Imprinting of Nuclear Spins in Semiconductors

R. K. Kawakami;Y. Kato;M. Hanson;I. Malajovich

181
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Spin-polarized Zener tunneling in (Ga,Mn)As

E. Johnston-Halperin;D. Lofgreen;R. K. Kawakami;D. K. Young

178
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Opto-Valleytronic Spin Injection in Monolayer MoS 2 /Few-Layer Graphene Hybrid Spin Valves

Yunqiu Luo;Jinsong Xu;Tiancong Zhu;Guanzhong Wu

4
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