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Yoshihiro Iwasa

Yoshihiro Iwasa

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Materials Science
Japan
2022

D-Index & Metrics

Materials Science

D-Index
94
Citations
42650
World Ranking
1364
National Ranking
45

Physics

D-Index
94
Citations
42786
World Ranking
1963
National Ranking
51

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2022 - Research.com Materials Science in Japan Leader Award

Overview

Yoshihiro Iwasa is affiliated with the University of Tokyo in Japan and has an extensive research portfolio primarily focused on materials science and physics. Their work covers interdisciplinary fields at the intersection of materials chemistry, condensed matter physics, and electronic and optical properties of novel materials.

The main fields of study for Yoshihiro Iwasa include:

  • Materials Science
  • Physics and Astronomy

More specifically, their research delves into the following subfields:

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

Key scientific topics that prominently feature in Yoshihiro Iwasa's research are:

  • 2D Materials and Applications
  • Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism
  • Topological Materials and Phenomena
  • Iron-based superconductors research
  • Electronic and Structural Properties of Oxides
  • Quantum and electron transport phenomena
  • Perovskite Materials and Applications

They have contributed to several notable recent papers, including:

  • A van der Waals interface that creates in-plane polarization and a spontaneous photovoltaic effect, 2021, Science
  • Nonreciprocal transport in gate-induced polar superconductor SrTiO 3, 2020, Science Advances
  • Radial Spin Texture in Elemental Tellurium with Chiral Crystal Structure, 2020, Physical Review Letters
  • Giant bulk piezophotovoltaic effect in 3R-MoS2, 2022, Nature Nanotechnology
  • Spontaneous-polarization-induced photovoltaic effect in rhombohedrally stacked MoS2, 2022, Nature Photonics

Yoshihiro Iwasa frequently publishes in several high-profile scientific venues, such as:

  • Nature Communications
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Nano Letters
  • Physical Review Research
  • Science Advances

Collaboration is an important aspect of their research activities. Key frequent co-authors include:

  • Toshiya Ideue
  • Hideki Matsuoka
  • Yuki M. Itahashi
  • Masaki Nakano
  • Ricky Dwi Septianto

The body of work by Yoshihiro Iwasa reflects an integrated approach to understanding advanced materials, focusing on their electronic, optical, and magnetic behaviors at the atomic and molecular scale. Their contributions span experimental and theoretical studies related to novel layered compounds, superconductors, and photovoltaic effects.

Best Publications

  • Emergent phenomena at oxide interfaces

    H. Y. Hwang;Y. Iwasa;M. Kawasaki;B. Keimer

  • Superconducting Dome in a Gate-Tuned Band Insulator

    J. T. Ye;Y. J. Zhang;R. Akashi;M. S. Bahramy

  • Large-area synthesis of highly crystalline WSe2 monolayers and device applications

    Jing Kai Huang;Jiang Pu;Chang Lung Hsu;Ming Hui Chiu

  • Electric-field-induced superconductivity in an insulator

    K. Ueno;S. Nakamura;H. Shimotani;A. Ohtomo

  • Control of carrier density by self-assembled monolayers in organic field-effect transistors

    S. Kobayashi;T. Nishikawa;T. Nishikawa;T. Takenobu;S. Mori

  • Large-Area Aiming Synthesis of WSe2 Monolayers

    Jing-Kai Huang;Jiang Pu;Chih-Piao Chuu;Chang-Lung Hsu

  • Ambipolar MoS2 Thin Flake Transistors

    Yijin Zhang;Jianting Ye;Yusuke Matsuhashi;Yoshihiro Iwasa

  • Highly flexible MoS2 thin-film transistors with ion gel dielectrics.

    Jiang Pu;Yohei Yomogida;Keng Ku Liu;Lain Jong Li

  • Collective bulk carrier delocalization driven by electrostatic surface charge accumulation

    M. Nakano;K. Shibuya;D. Okuyama;T. Hatano

  • New Phases of C60 Synthesized at High Pressure

    Y. Iwasa;T. Arima;R. M. Fleming;T. Siegrist

  • Electrically Switchable Chiral Light-Emitting Transistor

    Y. J. Zhang;T. Oka;R. Suzuki;Justin Ye

  • Liquid-gated interface superconductivity on an atomically flat film

    Justin Ye;S. Inoue;K. Kobayashi;Y. Kasahara

  • High‐Density Carrier Accumulation in ZnO Field‐Effect Transistors Gated by Electric Double Layers of Ionic Liquids

    Hongtao Yuan;Hidekazu Shimotani;Atsushi Tsukazaki;Akira Ohtomo

  • Superconductivity protected by spin-valley locking in ion-gated MoS2

    Yu Saito;Yasuharu Nakamura;Yasuharu Nakamura;Mohammad Saeed Bahramy;Mohammad Saeed Bahramy;Yoshimitsu Kohama

  • Stable and controlled amphoteric doping by encapsulation of organic molecules inside carbon nanotubes.

    Taishi Takenobu;Takumi Takano;Masashi Shiraishi;Yousuke Murakami

  • Zeeman-type spin splitting controlled by an electric field

    Hongtao Yuan;Hongtao Yuan;Mohammad Saeed Bahramy;Mohammad Saeed Bahramy;Kazuhiro Morimoto;Sanfeng Wu

  • Electrically induced ferromagnetism at room temperature in cobalt-doped titanium dioxide.

    Y. Yamada;K. Ueno;K. Ueno;T. Fukumura;T. Fukumura;H. T. Yuan

  • Discovery of superconductivity in KTaO 3 by electrostatic carrier doping

    K. Ueno;S. Nakamura;H. Shimotani;H. T. Yuan

  • Endeavor of Iontronics: From Fundamentals to Applications of Ion-Controlled Electronics

    Satria Zulkarnaen Bisri;Sunao Shimizu;Masaki Nakano;Yoshihiro Iwasa;Yoshihiro Iwasa

  • Valley-dependent spin polarization in bulk MoS2 with broken inversion symmetry

    R. Suzuki;M. Sakano;Y. J. Zhang;R. Akashi

  • Highly crystalline 2D superconductors

    Yu Saito;Tsutomu Nojima;Yoshihiro Iwasa;Yoshihiro Iwasa

Frequent Co-Authors

Taishi Takenobu
Taishi Takenobu Nagoya University
Hidekazu Shimotani
Hidekazu Shimotani Tohoku University
Masashi Kawasaki
Masashi Kawasaki University of Tokyo
Hongtao Yuan
Hongtao Yuan Nanjing University
Yoshinori Tokura
Yoshinori Tokura University of Tokyo
Kosmas Prassides
Kosmas Prassides Osaka Metropolitan University
Hiromichi Kataura
Hiromichi Kataura National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
Konstantinos Papagelis
Konstantinos Papagelis Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Tadaoki Mitani
Tadaoki Mitani Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Masaki Takata
Masaki Takata Tohoku University

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