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2026

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Materials Science

D-Index
138
Citations
115479
World Ranking
244
National Ranking
100

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Materials Science in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Materials Science in United States Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Materials Science in United States Leader Award

Overview

Tony F. Heinz is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of Materials Science, Physics and Astronomy, and Engineering. Within these broad areas, their work delves into subfields such as Materials Chemistry, Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, and Civil and Structural Engineering.

The main topics Tony F. Heinz has contributed to include:

  • 2D Materials and Applications
  • Graphene research and applications
  • Perovskite Materials and Applications
  • MXene and MAX Phase Materials
  • Laser-Matter Interactions and Applications
  • Diamond and Carbon-based Materials Research
  • Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies

Throughout their career, the scientist has published extensively. Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Nano Letters
  • Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics
  • ACS Nano
  • Nature

Tony F. Heinz has collaborated frequently with various researchers, notable among them are:

  • Jenny Hu
  • Amalya C. Johnson
  • Takashi Taniguchi
  • Kenji Watanabe
  • Shambhu Ghimire

Some of their recent scientific papers include:

  • "Revealing multiple classes of stable quantum emitters in hexagonal boron nitride with correlated optical and electron microscopy," 2020, Nature Materials
  • "Signatures of moiré trions in WSe2/MoSe2 heterobilayers," 2021, Nature
  • "Direct observation of ultrafast hydrogen bond strengthening in liquid water," 2021, Nature
  • "Optical absorption of interlayer excitons in transition-metal dichalcogenide heterostructures," 2022, Science
  • "Structure of the moiré exciton captured by imaging its electron and hole," 2022, Nature

Best Publications

  • Atomically thin MoS2: a new direct-gap semiconductor

    Kin Fai Mak;Changgu Lee;James Hone;Jie Shan

  • Progress, Challenges, and Opportunities in Two-Dimensional Materials Beyond Graphene

    Sheneve Z. Butler;Shawna M. Hollen;Linyou Cao;Yi Cui;Yi Cui

  • Control of valley polarization in monolayer MoS2 by optical helicity

    Kin Fai Mak;Keliang He;Jie Shan;Tony F. Heinz

  • Anomalous lattice vibrations of single- and few-layer MoS2.

    Changgu Lee;Hugen Yan;Louis E. Brus;Tony F. Heinz

  • Tightly bound trions in monolayer MoS2

    Kin Fai Mak;Keliang He;Changgu Lee;Gwan Hyoung Lee

  • Spin and pseudospins in layered transition metal dichalcogenides

    Xiaodong Xu;Wang Yao;Di Xiao;Tony F. Heinz

  • Observation of tightly bound trions in monolayer MoS2

    Kin Fai Mak;Keliang He;Changgu Lee;Gwan Hyoung Lee

  • Exciton Binding Energy and Nonhydrogenic Rydberg Series in Monolayer WS 2

    Alexey Chernikov;Timothy C. Berkelbach;Heather M. Hill;Albert Rigosi

  • Atomically thin p–n junctions with van der Waals heterointerfaces

    Chul Ho Lee;Chul Ho Lee;Gwan Hyoung Lee;Arend M. Van Der Zande;Wenchao Chen

  • Grains and grain boundaries in highly crystalline monolayer molybdenum disulphide

    Arend M. Van Der Zande;Pinshane Y. Huang;Daniel A. Chenet;Timothy C. Berkelbach

  • Piezoelectricity of single-atomic-layer MoS2 for energy conversion and piezotronics.

    Wenzhuo Wu;Lei Wang;Yilei Li;Fan Zhang

  • Grains and grain boundaries in highly crystalline monolayer molybdenum disulfide

    Arend M. van der Zande;Pinshane Y. Huang;Daniel A. Chenet;Timothy C. Berkelbach

  • Measurement of the optical conductivity of graphene.

    Kin Fai Mak;Matthew Y. Sfeir;Yang Wu;Chun Hung Lui

  • Colloquium : Excitons in atomically thin transition metal dichalcogenides

    Gang Wang;Alexey Chernikov;Mikhail M. Glazov;Tony F. Heinz

  • The optical resonances in carbon nanotubes arise from excitons

    Feng Wang;Gordana Dukovic;Louis E. Brus;Tony F. Heinz

  • Carrier dynamics in semiconductors studied with time-resolved terahertz spectroscopy

    Ronald Ulbricht;Euan Hendry;Jie Shan;Tony F. Heinz

  • Polaritons in layered two-dimensional materials

    Tony Low;Andrey Chaves;Joshua D. Caldwell;Anshuman Kumar;Anshuman Kumar

  • Measurement of the optical dielectric function of monolayer transition-metal dichalcogenides: MoS 2 , Mo S e 2 , WS 2 , and WS e 2

    Yilei Li;Alexey Chernikov;Xian Zhang;Albert Rigosi

  • Chip-integrated ultrafast graphene photodetector with high responsivity

    Xuetao Gan;Ren-Jye Shiue;Yuanda Gao;Inanc Meric

  • Probing symmetry properties of few-layer MoS2 and h-BN by optical second-harmonic generation.

    Yilei Li;Yi Rao;Kin Fai Mak;Yumeng You

  • Performance of monolayer graphene nanomechanical resonators with electrical readout

    Changyao Chen;Sami Rosenblatt;Kirill I. Bolotin;William Kalb

Frequent Co-Authors

James Hone
James Hone Columbia University
Louis E. Brus
Louis E. Brus Columbia University
Feng Wang
Feng Wang University of California, Berkeley
Jie Shan
Jie Shan Cornell University
Kin Fai Mak
Kin Fai Mak Cornell University
Matthew Y. Sfeir
Matthew Y. Sfeir City University of New York
Philip Kim
Philip Kim Harvard University
Ajay Nahata
Ajay Nahata University of Utah
Mark S. Hybertsen
Mark S. Hybertsen Brookhaven National Laboratory
Mischa Bonn
Mischa Bonn Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research

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