2026 Young-Woo Son: 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	55	8425	8140	356	353	201	29149

Overview

Young-Woo Son is affiliated with the Korea Institute for Advanced Study in South Korea. Their research primarily focuses on interdisciplinary studies within materials science and physics, addressing complex phenomena in low-dimensional materials and quantum systems.

The main fields of study for Young-Woo Son include:

Materials Science
Physics and Astronomy

Within these areas, the scientist's subfields of study cover:

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

Their work addresses several key topics:

2D Materials and Applications
Topological Materials and Phenomena
Graphene research and applications
Quantum and electron transport phenomena
Electronic and Structural Properties of Oxides
Advanced Condensed Matter Physics
Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism

Young-Woo Son has published numerous scholarly articles across a range of venues. Notable recent publications include:

"Coherent many-body exciton in van der Waals antiferromagnet NiPS3," 2020, Nature
"Anomalous optical excitations from arrays of whirlpooled lattice distortions in moiré superlattices," 2022, Nature Materials
"Anomalous Dimensionality-Driven Phase Transition of MoTe₂ in Van der Waals Heterostructure," 2021, Advanced Functional Materials
"Multiferroic-Enabled Magnetic-Excitons in 2D Quantum-Entangled Van der Waals Antiferromagnet NiI₂," 2021, Advanced Materials
"First-principles study of two-dimensional ferroelectrics using self-consistent Hubbard parameters," 2020, Physical Review B

Frequent publication venues for this scientist include:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Physical Review B
Nature
Advanced Materials
Nano Letters

Young-Woo Son collaborates regularly with several researchers, including:

Hyeonsik Cheong
Wooil Yang
Jae Hoon Kim
Je-Geun Park
Beom Hyun Kim

Best Publications

Energy Gaps in Graphene Nanoribbons

Young-Woo Son;Young-Woo Son;Marvin L. Cohen;Marvin L. Cohen;Steven G. Louie;Steven G. Louie

5953
Citations
Half-metallic graphene nanoribbons

Young-Woo Son;Marvin L. Cohen;Marvin L. Cohen;Steven G. Louie;Steven G. Louie

4856
Citations
Recent Advances in Two-Dimensional Materials beyond Graphene

Ganesh R. Bhimanapati;Zhenqiu Lin;Vincent Meunier;Vincent Meunier;Yeonwoong Jung

2760
Citations
Quasiparticle energies and band gaps in graphene nanoribbons.

Li Yang;Li Yang;Cheol-Hwan Park;Cheol-Hwan Park;Young-Woo Son;Marvin L. Cohen;Marvin L. Cohen

1458
Citations
Negative thermal expansion coefficient of graphene measured by Raman spectroscopy.

Duhee Yoon;Young-Woo Son;Hyeonsik Cheong

1166
Citations
Gate-tunable phase transitions in thin flakes of 1T-TaS2

Yijun Yu;Fangyuan Yang;Xiu Fang Lu;Ya Jun Yan

823
Citations
Anisotropic behaviours of massless Dirac fermions in graphene under periodic potentials

Cheol-Hwan Park;Cheol-Hwan Park;Li Yang;Li Yang;Young-Woo Son;Marvin L. Cohen;Marvin L. Cohen

822
Citations
Effects of strain on electronic properties of graphene

Seon-Myeong Choi;Seung-Hoon Jhi;Young-Woo Son

718
Citations
Bandgap modulation of carbon nanotubes by encapsulated metallofullerenes.

Jhinhwan Lee;H. Kim;S.-J. Kahng;G. Kim

607
Citations
Magnetic ordering at the edges of graphitic fragments: Magnetic tail interactions between the edge-localized states

Hosik Lee;Young-Woo Son;Noejung Park;Seungwu Han

566
Citations
New generation of massless Dirac fermions in graphene under external periodic potentials.

Cheol-Hwan Park;Cheol-Hwan Park;Li Yang;Li Yang;Young-Woo Son;Young-Woo Son;Marvin L. Cohen;Marvin L. Cohen

478
Citations
Origin of Anomalous Electronic Structures of Epitaxial Graphene on Silicon Carbide

Seungchul Kim;Jisoon Ihm;Hyoung Joon Choi;Young Woo Son

460
Citations
Interference effect on Raman spectrum of graphene on SiO 2 / Si

Duhee Yoon;Hyerim Moon;Young Woo Son;Jin Sik Choi

399
Citations
Strain-dependent splitting of the double-resonance Raman scattering band in graphene.

Duhee Yoon;Young-Woo Son;Hyeonsik Cheong

376
Citations
Friction anisotropy-driven domain imaging on exfoliated monolayer graphene.

Jin Sik Choi;Jin-Soo Kim;Ik-Su Byun;Duk Hyun Lee

361
Citations
Electron beam supercollimation in graphene superlattices.

Cheol-Hwan Park;Young-Woo Son;Li Yang;Marvin L. Cohen

349
Citations
Lipid Exchange Envelope Penetration (LEEP) of Nanoparticles for Plant Engineering: A Universal Localization Mechanism

Min Hao Wong;Rahul P. Misra;Juan P. Giraldo;Juan P. Giraldo;Seon-Yeong Kwak

324
Citations
Tuning On–Off Current Ratio and Field-Effect Mobility in a MoS2–Graphene Heterostructure via Schottky Barrier Modulation

Chih Jen Shih;Qing Hua Wang;Youngwoo Son;Zhong Jin

293
Citations
A metallic mosaic phase and the origin of Mott-insulating state in 1T-TaS2.

Liguo Ma;Cun Ye;Yijun Yu;Xiu Fang Lu

291
Citations
Coherent many-body exciton in van der Waals antiferromagnet NiPS3.

Soonmin Kang;Kangwon Kim;Beom Hyun Kim;Jonghyeon Kim

289
Citations
Dirac electrons in a dodecagonal graphene quasicrystal.

Sung Joon Ahn;Pilkyung Moon;Tae Hoon Kim;Hyun Woo Kim

161
Citations
Erratum: Half-metallic graphene nanoribbons

Young-Woo Son;Marvin L. Cohen;Steven G. Louie

42
Citations