Ghidewon Arefe

5.8k total citations · 4 hit papers
11 papers, 4.8k citations indexed

About

Ghidewon Arefe is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Ghidewon Arefe has authored 11 papers receiving a total of 4.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Materials Chemistry, 3 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 2 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Ghidewon Arefe's work include 2D Materials and Applications (10 papers), Graphene research and applications (9 papers) and MXene and MAX Phase Materials (6 papers). Ghidewon Arefe is often cited by papers focused on 2D Materials and Applications (10 papers), Graphene research and applications (9 papers) and MXene and MAX Phase Materials (6 papers). Ghidewon Arefe collaborates with scholars based in United States, South Korea and Japan. Ghidewon Arefe's co-authors include James Hone, Xu Cui, Gwan‐Hyoung Lee, Chul‐Ho Lee, Philip Kim, Tony F. Heinz, Colin Nuckolls, Arend M. van der Zande, Yilei Li and Minyong Han and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Nature Communications and Nano Letters.

In The Last Decade

Ghidewon Arefe

11 papers receiving 4.7k citations

Hit Papers

Atomically thin p–n junctions with van der Waals heteroin... 2014 2026 2018 2022 2014 2015 2017 2014 500 1000 1.5k
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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. Atomically thin p–n junctions with van der Waals heterointerfaces
    2014 1.9k citations Chul‐Ho Lee, Gwan‐Hyoung Lee et al. Nature Nanotechnology profile →
  2. Multi-terminal transport measurements of MoS2 using a van der Waals heterostructure device platform
    2015 1.1k citations Xu Cui, Gwan‐Hyoung Lee et al. Nature Nanotechnology profile →
  3. Coulomb engineering of the bandgap and excitons in two-dimensional materials
    2017 568 citations Archana Raja, Andrey Chaves et al. Nature Communications profile →
  4. Valley Splitting and Polarization by the Zeeman Effect in MonolayerMoSe2
    2014 410 citations Yilei Li, Jonathan Ludwig et al. Physical Review Letters profile →

Peers

Ghidewon Arefe
Sujay B. Desai United States
Honglai Li China
Chao‐Hui Yeh Taiwan
Hyunyong Choi South Korea
Min Sup Choi South Korea
Bingchen Deng United States
Xiaolong Chen China
Young Duck Kim South Korea
Adrien Allain Switzerland
Minglin Toh Singapore
Sujay B. Desai United States
Ghidewon Arefe
Citations per year, relative to Ghidewon Arefe Ghidewon Arefe (= 1×) peers Sujay B. Desai

Countries citing papers authored by Ghidewon Arefe

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ghidewon Arefe

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ghidewon Arefe

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Ghidewon Arefe. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Ghidewon Arefe based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Ghidewon Arefe. Ghidewon Arefe is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

11 of 11 papers shown
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Zheng, Xiaorui, Annalisa Calò, Edoardo Albisetti, et al.. (2019). Patterning metal contacts on monolayer MoS2 with vanishing Schottky barriers using thermal nanolithography. Nature Electronics. 2(1). 17–25. 134 indexed citations
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Arefe, Ghidewon, Ya-Wen Sun, Po‐Chun Yeh, et al.. (2018). Layer dependence of third-harmonic generation in thick multilayer graphene. Physical Review Materials. 2(7). 8 indexed citations
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Zhu, Yibo, Yijun Li, Ghidewon Arefe, et al.. (2018). Monolayer Molybdenum Disulfide Transistors with Single-Atom-Thick Gates. Nano Letters. 18(6). 3807–3813. 107 indexed citations
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Raja, Archana, Andrey Chaves, Jaeeun Yu, et al.. (2017). Coulomb engineering of the bandgap and excitons in two-dimensional materials. Nature Communications. 8(1). 15251–15251. 568 indexed citations breakdown →
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Yeh, Po‐Chun, Wencan Jin, Nader Zaki, et al.. (2016). Direct Measurement of the Tunable Electronic Structure of Bilayer MoS2 by Interlayer Twist. Nano Letters. 16(2). 953–959. 108 indexed citations
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Cui, Xu, Gwan‐Hyoung Lee, Young Duck Kim, et al.. (2015). Multi-terminal transport measurements of MoS2 using a van der Waals heterostructure device platform. Nature Nanotechnology. 10(6). 534–540. 1086 indexed citations breakdown →
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Lee, Gwan‐Hyoung, Xu Cui, Young Duck Kim, et al.. (2015). Highly Stable, Dual-Gated MoS2Transistors Encapsulated by Hexagonal Boron Nitride with Gate-Controllable Contact, Resistance, and Threshold Voltage. ACS Nano. 9(7). 7019–7026. 361 indexed citations
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Jin, Wencan, Po‐Chun Yeh, Nader Zaki, et al.. (2015). Tuning the electronic structure of monolayer graphene/MoS2van der Waals heterostructures via interlayer twist. Physical Review B. 92(20). 56 indexed citations
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Lee, Chul‐Ho, Gwan‐Hyoung Lee, Arend M. van der Zande, et al.. (2014). Atomically thin p–n junctions with van der Waals heterointerfaces. Nature Nanotechnology. 9(9). 676–681. 1917 indexed citations breakdown →
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Li, Yilei, Jonathan Ludwig, Tony Low, et al.. (2014). Valley Splitting and Polarization by the Zeeman Effect in MonolayerMoSe2. Physical Review Letters. 113(26). 266804–266804. 410 indexed citations breakdown →
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Lee, Gwan‐Hyoung, Chul‐Ho Lee, Arend M. van der Zande, et al.. (2014). Heterostructures based on inorganic and organic van der Waals systems. APL Materials. 2(9). 57 indexed citations

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