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Yoshichika Otani

Yoshichika Otani

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Physics

D-Index
76
Citations
23015
World Ranking
3311
National Ranking
118

Overview

Yoshichika Otani is a researcher affiliated with the University of Tokyo in Japan, with a primary focus on Physics and Astronomy as well as Materials Science. Their work includes extensive contributions to subfields such as Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics, Condensed Matter Physics, Electronic, Optical, and Magnetic Materials, Materials Chemistry, and Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

The scientist's research spans a variety of topics with significant outputs in Magnetic properties of thin films, Quantum and electron transport phenomena, Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism, Multiferroics and related materials, ZnO doping and properties, Advanced Condensed Matter Physics, and Topological Materials and Phenomena.

Among their recent papers are:

  • The 2021 Magnonics Roadmap (2021) published in Journal of Physics Condensed Matter
  • Advances in Magnetics Roadmap on Spin-Wave Computing (2022) published in IEEE Transactions on Magnetics
  • Electrical manipulation of a topological antiferromagnetic state (2020) published in Nature
  • Spintronic devices for energy-efficient data storage and energy harvesting (2020) published in Communications Materials
  • Perpendicular full switching of chiral antiferromagnetic order by current (2022) published in Nature

Yoshichika Otani collaborates frequently with a number of other researchers, including Kouta Kondou, Bivas Rana, Jorge Puebla, Satoru Nakatsuji, and Tomoya Higo. These professional relationships have resulted in multiple joint publications.

The scientist's work is regularly published in a variety of academic venues, showing a broad presence in respected journals and archives such as:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Physical Review B
  • Applied Physics Letters
  • Journal of Physics Condensed Matter
  • Science Advances

Yoshichika Otani's research contributions are grounded in interdisciplinary fields connecting physics, materials science, and electronic engineering, with a consistent focus on magnetic and quantum phenomena within condensed matter systems and advanced materials characterization.

Best Publications

  • Room-temperature reversible spin Hall effect.

    T. Kimura;Y. Otani;T. Sato;S. Takahashi

  • Eigenfrequencies of vortex state excitations in magnetic submicron-size disks

    K. Yu. Guslienko;B. A. Ivanov;V. Novosad;Y. Otani

  • Large anomalous Nernst effect at room temperature in a chiral antiferromagnet

    Muhammad Ikhlas;Takahiro Tomita;Takashi Koretsune;Takashi Koretsune;Michi To Suzuki

  • The 2021 Magnonics Roadmap.

    Anjan Barman;Gianluca Gubbiotti;S. Ladak;A. O. Adeyeye

  • Magnetization reversal due to vortex nucleation, displacement, and annihilation in submicron ferromagnetic dot arrays

    K. Yu. Guslienko;V. Novosad;Y. Otani;H. Shima

  • Indication of intrinsic spin Hall effect in 4d and 5d transition metals

    M. Morota;Y. Niimi;K. Ohnishi;D. H. Wei

  • Giant Spin Hall Effect Induced by Skew Scattering from Bismuth Impurities inside Thin Film CuBi Alloys

    Y. Niimi;Y. Kawanishi;D. H. Wei;C. Deranlot

  • Magnetic properties of a new series of rare-earth iron nitrides: R2Fe17Ny(y approximately 2.6)

    H. Hong Sun;J. M. D. Coey;Y. Otani;D. P. F. Hurley

  • Fermi-level-dependent charge-to-spin current conversion by Dirac surface states of topological insulators

    K. Kondou;R. Yoshimi;A. Tsukazaki;Y. Fukuma;Y. Fukuma

  • The 2014 Magnetism Roadmap

    Robert L. Stamps;Stephan Breitkreutz;Johan Åkerman;Johan Åkerman;Andrii V. Chumak

  • Magnetic and magnetic inverse spin Hall effects in a non-collinear antiferromagnet

    Motoi Kimata;Motoi Kimata;Hua Chen;Hua Chen;Kouta Kondou;Satoshi Sugimoto;Satoshi Sugimoto

  • Tuning the spin Hall effect of Pt from the moderately dirty to the superclean regime

    Edurne Sagasta;Yasumoto Omori;Miren Isasa;Martin Gradhand

  • Giant spin-accumulation signal and pure spin-current-induced reversible magnetization switching

    Tao Yang;Takashi Kimura;Yoshichika Otani

  • Field evolution of magnetic vortex state in ferromagnetic disks

    K. Yu. Guslienko;V. Novosad;Y. Otani;H. Shima

  • Estimation of spin-diffusion length from the magnitude of spin-current absorption: Multiterminal ferromagnetic/nonferromagnetic hybrid structures

    T. Kimura;J. Hamrle;Y. Otani

  • Extrinsic Spin Hall Effect Induced by Iridium Impurities in Copper

    Y. Niimi;M. Morota;D. H. Wei;Cyrile Deranlot

  • Evolution of the spin Hall effect in Pt nanowires: size and temperature effects.

    Laurent Vila;Takashi Kimura;YoshiChika Otani

  • Spin excitations of magnetic vortices in ferromagnetic nanodots.

    V. Novosad;M. Grimsditch;K. Yu. Guslienko;P. Vavassori

  • Giant enhancement of spin accumulation and long-distance spin precession in metallic lateral spin valves

    Yasuhiro Fukuma;Le Wang;Hiroshi Idzuchi;Saburo Takahashi

  • Eigenfrequencies of vortex state excitations in magnetic submicron-size disks.

    K. Y. Guslienko;B. A. Ivanov;V. Novosad;Y. Otani

Frequent Co-Authors

Anjan Barman
Anjan Barman S.N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences
Satoru Nakatsuji
Satoru Nakatsuji University of Tokyo
Sadamichi Maekawa
Sadamichi Maekawa Chinese Academy of Sciences
Kazuaki Fukamichi
Kazuaki Fukamichi Tohoku University
Albert Fert
Albert Fert University of Paris-Saclay
Yutaka Shimada
Yutaka Shimada Tohoku University
Ryotaro Arita
Ryotaro Arita University of Tokyo
Kazuhito Tsukagoshi
Kazuhito Tsukagoshi National Institute for Materials Science
Yoshinori Tokura
Yoshinori Tokura University of Tokyo
Seiji Mitani
Seiji Mitani National Institute for Materials Science

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