D. D. Awschalom

58.1k total citations · 19 hit papers
343 papers, 44.4k citations indexed

About

D. D. Awschalom is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Materials Chemistry and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, D. D. Awschalom has authored 343 papers receiving a total of 44.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 269 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 166 papers in Materials Chemistry and 115 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in D. D. Awschalom's work include Quantum and electron transport phenomena (153 papers), Diamond and Carbon-based Materials Research (91 papers) and Semiconductor Quantum Structures and Devices (77 papers). D. D. Awschalom is often cited by papers focused on Quantum and electron transport phenomena (153 papers), Diamond and Carbon-based Materials Research (91 papers) and Semiconductor Quantum Structures and Devices (77 papers). D. D. Awschalom collaborates with scholars based in United States, Japan and Germany. D. D. Awschalom's co-authors include M. L. Roukes, S. von Molnár, Nitin Samarth, R. A. Buhrman, J.M. Daughton, Stefan Wolf, Daryl Treger, Almadena Chtchelkanova, A. C. Gossard and Yuichiro K. Kato and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

D. D. Awschalom

336 papers receiving 43.3k citations

Hit Papers

Spintronics: A Spin-Based Electronics Vision for the Future 1997 2026 2006 2016 2001 1999 2004 1999 2007 2.5k 5.0k 7.5k
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Spintronics: A Spin-Based Electronics Vision for the Future
    2001 9.3k citations D. D. Awschalom et al. Science profile →
  2. Electrical spin injection in a ferromagnetic semiconductor heterostructure
    1999 2.0k citations D. D. Awschalom et al. Nature profile →
  3. Observation of the Spin Hall Effect in Semiconductors
    2004 1.9k citations D. D. Awschalom et al. Science profile →
  4. Quantum Information Processing Using Quantum Dot Spins and Cavity QED
    1999 1.5k citations D. D. Awschalom, Guido Burkard et al. profile →
  5. Challenges for semiconductor spintronics
    2007 1.3k citations D. D. Awschalom et al. profile →
  6. Semiconductor Spintronics and Quantum Computation
    2002 1.2k citations D. D. Awschalom, Nitin Samarth et al. profile →
  7. Resonant Spin Amplification inn-Type GaAs
    1998 870 citations D. D. Awschalom et al. profile →
  8. Quantum technologies with optically interfaced solid-state spins
    2018 681 citations D. D. Awschalom et al. profile →
  9. Lateral drag of spin coherence in gallium arsenide
    1999 642 citations D. D. Awschalom et al. Nature profile →
  10. Room temperature coherent control of defect spin qubits in silicon carbide
    2011 616 citations F. Joseph Heremans, D. D. Awschalom et al. Nature profile →
  11. Quantum computing with defects
    2010 580 citations D. D. Awschalom et al. profile →
  12. Nanoscale Nuclear Magnetic Resonance with a Nitrogen-Vacancy Spin Sensor
    2013 533 citations D. D. Awschalom et al. Science profile →
  13. Quantum Spintronics: Engineering and Manipulating Atom-Like Spins in Semiconductors
    2013 505 citations D. D. Awschalom, Evelyn L. Hu et al. Science profile →
  14. Emergence of the persistent spin helix in semiconductor quantum wells
    2009 459 citations D. D. Awschalom et al. Nature profile →
  15. Nanomechanical coupling between microwave and optical photons
    2013 434 citations D. D. Awschalom, A. N. Cleland et al. profile →
  16. Room-Temperature Spin Memory in Two-Dimensional Electron Gases
    1997 417 citations Nitin Samarth, D. D. Awschalom et al. Science profile →
  17. Picosecond Coherent Optical Manipulation of a Single Electron Spin in a Quantum Dot
    2008 398 citations D. D. Awschalom et al. Science profile →
  18. Coherent manipulation of single spins in semiconductors
    2008 384 citations D. D. Awschalom et al. Nature profile →
  19. Quantum guidelines for solid-state spin defects
    2021 331 citations Gary Wolfowicz, F. Joseph Heremans et al. Nature Reviews Materials profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
D. D. Awschalom United States 92 30.4k 21.2k 14.8k 7.8k 7.5k 343 44.4k
Heng Fan China 60 15.2k 0.5× 11.1k 0.5× 7.4k 0.5× 4.0k 0.5× 3.4k 0.5× 411 29.7k
S. Das Sarma United States 113 56.2k 1.9× 29.1k 1.4× 15.0k 1.0× 6.7k 0.9× 22.7k 3.0× 1.0k 70.8k
F. M. Peeters Belgium 94 25.7k 0.8× 25.1k 1.2× 12.6k 0.8× 4.0k 0.5× 11.5k 1.5× 1.4k 45.8k
A. C. Gossard United States 117 45.1k 1.5× 12.4k 0.6× 28.6k 1.9× 5.4k 0.7× 10.2k 1.4× 1.0k 57.9k
A. H. MacDonald United States 121 47.6k 1.6× 32.8k 1.5× 12.2k 0.8× 10.1k 1.3× 19.6k 2.6× 763 63.0k
M. I. Katsnelson Netherlands 90 20.9k 0.7× 41.2k 1.9× 15.7k 1.1× 8.4k 1.1× 6.4k 0.9× 525 53.9k
F. Guinea Spain 98 32.6k 1.1× 47.4k 2.2× 14.8k 1.0× 7.1k 0.9× 5.3k 0.7× 458 61.4k
R. A. Buhrman United States 68 25.3k 0.8× 11.2k 0.5× 13.1k 0.9× 11.2k 1.4× 10.2k 1.4× 275 34.7k
Shengbai Zhang United States 112 26.4k 0.9× 40.9k 1.9× 21.2k 1.4× 10.0k 1.3× 12.7k 1.7× 737 60.6k
Alex Zunger United States 131 35.5k 1.2× 57.0k 2.7× 40.1k 2.7× 13.7k 1.8× 12.7k 1.7× 740 86.0k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Weiss, Leah R., Ryan A. Murphy, Bahman Golesorkhi, et al.. (2025). A high-resolution molecular spin-photon interface at telecommunication wavelengths. Science. 390(6768). 76–81. 1 indexed citations
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Feder, Joseph, Shihao Wang, Yeghishe Tsaturyan, et al.. (2025). A fluorescent-protein spin qubit. Nature. 645(8079). 73–79. 4 indexed citations
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DeVault, Clayton, Skylar Deckoff–Jones, Yuzi Liu, et al.. (2024). Silicon‐On‐Silicon Carbide Platform for Integrated Photonics. Advanced Optical Materials. 12(27). 2 indexed citations
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Grant, Gregory D., Sean E. Sullivan, Yuzi Liu, et al.. (2024). Optical and microstructural characterization of Er3+ doped epitaxial cerium oxide on silicon. APL Materials. 12(2). 8 indexed citations
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Grant, Gregory D., Jasleen K. Bindra, Jens Niklas, et al.. (2024). Optical and spin coherence of Er spin qubits in epitaxial cerium dioxide on silicon. npj Quantum Information. 10(1). 4 indexed citations
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Ahn, Jonghoon, Christina Wicker, Guido Burkard, et al.. (2024). Extended spin relaxation times of optically addressed vanadium defects in silicon carbide at telecommunication frequencies. Physical Review Applied. 22(4). 5 indexed citations
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Grant, Gregory D., Kōichi Tanaka, Jianguo Wen, et al.. (2024). Nanocavity-Mediated Purcell Enhancement of Er in TiO2 Thin Films Grown via Atomic Layer Deposition. ACS Nano. 18(14). 9929–9941. 12 indexed citations
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Laorenza, Daniel W., Leah R. Weiss, Sam L. Bayliss, et al.. (2024). Coherent spin-control of S = 1 vanadium and molybdenum complexes. Chemical Science. 15(34). 14016–14026. 4 indexed citations
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Xie, Mouzhe, Xiaofei Yu, Yuzi Liu, et al.. (2024). Direct-bonded diamond membranes for heterogeneous quantum and electronic technologies. Nature Communications. 15(1). 8788–8788. 22 indexed citations
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Delegan, Nazar, Samuel J. Whiteley, Tao Zhou, et al.. (2023). Deterministic nanoscale quantum spin-defect implantation and diffraction strain imaging. Nanotechnology. 34(38). 385001–385001. 7 indexed citations
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Wang, Yuxin, et al.. (2023). Detecting Spin-Bath Polarization with Quantum Quench Phase Shifts of Single Spins in Diamond. PRX Quantum. 4(4). 6 indexed citations
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Dibos, Alan, Sean E. Sullivan, Manish Kumar Singh, et al.. (2022). Purcell Enhancement of Erbium Ions in TiO2 on Silicon Nanocavities. Nano Letters. 22(16). 6530–6536. 20 indexed citations
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Anderson, Christopher P., Alexandre Bourassa, Yu Jin, et al.. (2022). Five-second coherence of a single spin with single-shot readout in silicon carbide. Science Advances. 8(5). eabm5912–eabm5912. 111 indexed citations
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Wolfowicz, Gary, F. Joseph Heremans, Christopher P. Anderson, et al.. (2021). Quantum guidelines for solid-state spin defects. Nature Reviews Materials. 6(10). 906–925. 331 indexed citations breakdown →
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Wolfowicz, Gary, F. Joseph Heremans, Christopher P. Anderson, et al.. (2021). Author Correction: Quantum guidelines for solid-state spin defects. Nature Reviews Materials. 6(12). 1191–1191. 2 indexed citations
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Whiteley, Samuel J., Gary Wolfowicz, Christopher P. Anderson, et al.. (2019). Spin–phonon interactions in silicon carbide addressed by Gaussian acoustics. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 151 indexed citations
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Andrich, Paolo, Jiajing Li, Xiaoying Liu, et al.. (2018). Microscale-Resolution Thermal Mapping Using a Flexible Platform of Patterned Quantum Sensors. Nano Letters. 18(8). 4684–4690. 35 indexed citations
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Pan, Yu, Andrew L. Yeats, Thomas C. Flanagan, et al.. (2017). Helicity dependent photocurrent in electrically gated (Bi1−x Sb x )2Te3 thin films. Nature Communications. 8(1). 70 indexed citations
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Yeats, Andrew L., Yu Pan, Anthony Richardella, et al.. (2015). Persistent optical gating of a topological insulator. Science Advances. 1(9). e1500640–e1500640. 26 indexed citations
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Lee, Jonathan C., David O. Bracher, Shanying Cui, et al.. (2014). Deterministic coupling of delta-doped nitrogen vacancy centers to a nanobeam photonic crystal cavity. UTS ePRESS (University of Technology Sydney). 63 indexed citations

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