Harold Y. Hwang

37.5k total citations · 14 hit papers
283 papers, 27.7k citations indexed

About

Harold Y. Hwang is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Harold Y. Hwang has authored 283 papers receiving a total of 27.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 182 papers in Materials Chemistry, 168 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials and 99 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Harold Y. Hwang's work include Magnetic and transport properties of perovskites and related materials (147 papers), Electronic and Structural Properties of Oxides (145 papers) and Advanced Condensed Matter Physics (68 papers). Harold Y. Hwang is often cited by papers focused on Magnetic and transport properties of perovskites and related materials (147 papers), Electronic and Structural Properties of Oxides (145 papers) and Advanced Condensed Matter Physics (68 papers). Harold Y. Hwang collaborates with scholars based in United States, Japan and China. Harold Y. Hwang's co-authors include Akira Ohtomo, Yasuyuki Hikita, David A. Muller, Naoyuki Nakagawa, Christopher Bell, Yi Cui, Lena F. Kourkoutis, Naoto Nagaosa, Y. Tokura and M. Kawasaki and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Harold Y. Hwang

272 papers receiving 27.2k citations

Hit Papers

A high-mobility electron gas at the LaAlO3/SrTiO3 heteroi... 2004 2026 2011 2018 2004 2016 2012 2006 2015 1000 2.0k 3.0k
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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. A high-mobility electron gas at the LaAlO3/SrTiO3 heterointerface
    2004 3.7k citations Harold Y. Hwang et al. profile →
  2. A highly active and stable IrO x /SrIrO 3 catalyst for the oxygen evolution reaction
    2016 1.9k citations Yasuyuki Hikita, Harold Y. Hwang et al. Science profile →
  3. Emergent phenomena at oxide interfaces
    2012 1.9k citations Harold Y. Hwang et al. Nature Materials profile →
  4. Why some interfaces cannot be sharp
    2006 1.3k citations Harold Y. Hwang, David A. Muller et al. Nature Materials profile →
  5. Polarization-sensitive broadband photodetector using a black phosphorus vertical p–n junction
    2015 1.1k citations Hongtao Yuan, Gang Xu et al. Nature Nanotechnology profile →
  6. Terahertz-field-induced insulator-to-metal transition in vanadium dioxide metamaterial
    2012 1.1k citations Harold Y. Hwang et al. profile →
  7. Superconductivity in an infinite-layer nickelate
    2019 851 citations Danfeng Li, Kyuho Lee et al. profile →
  8. Controlled Growth of High-Quality Monolayer WS2 Layers on Sapphire and Imaging Its Grain Boundary
    2013 685 citations Hongtao Yuan, Harold Y. Hwang et al. ACS Nano profile →
  9. Direct imaging of the coexistence of ferromagnetism and superconductivity at the LaAlO3/SrTiO3 interface
    2011 682 citations Christopher Bell, Yasuyuki Hikita et al. profile →
  10. High electron mobility and quantum oscillations in non-encapsulated ultrathin semiconducting Bi2O2Se
    2017 608 citations Hongtao Yuan, Yi Cui et al. Nature Nanotechnology profile →
  11. Atomic-scale imaging of nanoengineered oxygen vacancy profiles in SrTiO3
    2004 571 citations David A. Muller, Harold Y. Hwang et al. profile →
  12. Synthesis of freestanding single-crystal perovskite films and heterostructures by etching of sacrificial water-soluble layers
    2016 492 citations Yasuyuki Hikita, Harold Y. Hwang et al. Nature Materials profile →
  13. Superconducting Dome in Nd1−xSrxNiO2 Infinite Layer Films
    2020 258 citations Danfeng Li, Bai Yang Wang et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  14. Nickelate Superconductivity without Rare‐Earth Magnetism: (La,Sr)NiO2
    2021 214 citations Motoki Osada, Bai Yang Wang et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Harold Y. Hwang United States 70 18.8k 14.7k 10.8k 7.2k 3.9k 283 27.7k
C. J. Humphreys United Kingdom 59 13.7k 0.7× 7.3k 0.5× 8.8k 0.8× 10.9k 1.5× 6.1k 1.5× 586 25.9k
Andrew M. Rappe United States 80 18.9k 1.0× 7.6k 0.5× 12.2k 1.1× 2.1k 0.3× 7.7k 2.0× 379 26.2k
Sokrates T. Pantelides United States 94 21.6k 1.1× 5.8k 0.4× 20.0k 1.8× 2.8k 0.4× 7.6k 1.9× 663 35.6k
Yoshihiro Iwasa Japan 80 20.6k 1.1× 7.8k 0.5× 12.9k 1.2× 4.9k 0.7× 5.5k 1.4× 514 30.2k
Tomoji Kawai Japan 65 11.6k 0.6× 6.3k 0.4× 5.8k 0.5× 3.7k 0.5× 1.9k 0.5× 362 17.4k
В. И. Анисимов Russia 63 13.6k 0.7× 14.3k 1.0× 4.8k 0.4× 13.3k 1.8× 5.4k 1.4× 302 27.8k
M. Stutzmann Germany 79 16.2k 0.9× 6.1k 0.4× 16.1k 1.5× 11.4k 1.6× 6.7k 1.7× 676 28.6k
F. Bechstedt Germany 84 17.3k 0.9× 6.1k 0.4× 11.5k 1.1× 6.7k 0.9× 11.3k 2.9× 611 28.3k
Chris G. Van de Walle United States 113 41.2k 2.2× 19.0k 1.3× 29.8k 2.8× 15.9k 2.2× 12.5k 3.2× 548 58.5k
M. I. Katsnelson Netherlands 51 25.8k 1.4× 5.7k 0.4× 9.2k 0.9× 3.7k 0.5× 13.1k 3.3× 230 33.6k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Hwang, Harold Y., Yoo Ri Kim, Sangwon Park, & Namho Chung. (2025). Effects of Weather and air quality on travel behavior. Tourism Management Perspectives. 57. 101366–101366. 1 indexed citations
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Jost, Daniel, Eder G. Lomeli, Woo Jin Kim, et al.. (2025). Orbital inversion and emergent lattice dynamics in infinite layer CaCoO2. npj Quantum Materials. 10(1).
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González, Martín, Catalin D. Spataru, Joshua D. Sugar, et al.. (2025). Dynamic Doping of Nickelates with Lithium Reveals a Widely Tunable Insulator–Metal Transition with Charge Filling and Band Renormalization Regimes. ACS Nano. 19(31). 28422–28431.
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Harvey, Shannon P., Bai Yang Wang, Jennifer Fowlie, et al.. (2025). Evidence for nodal superconductivity in infinite-layer nickelates. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(48). e2427243122–e2427243122. 1 indexed citations
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Reid, Alexander H., Varun Harbola, Duan Luo, et al.. (2025). Deviation from Debye-Waller behavior in single crystalline freestanding NiO membranes studied via ultrafast electron diffraction. Physical Review Applied. 23(3).
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Wang, Jiayue, Jing Yang, Jenna L. Wardini, et al.. (2025). Fermi Level Equilibration and Charge Transfer at the Exsolved Metal-Oxide Interface. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 147(4). 2991–2997. 5 indexed citations
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Xu, Ruijuan, Chenyu Zhang, S. A. Prosandeev, et al.. (2025). Electron ptychography reveals a ferroelectricity dominated by anion displacements. Nature Materials. 24(9). 1433–1440.
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Harikrishnan, K. P., S. A. Prosandeev, Ruijuan Xu, et al.. (2024). Separating Surface Relaxations from Bulk Structure with Multislice Ptychography. Microscopy and Microanalysis. 30(Supplement_1). 1 indexed citations
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Harbola, Varun, David Pesquera, Ruijuan Xu, et al.. (2024). Flexoelectric Enhancement of Strain Gradient Elasticity Across a Ferroelectric-to-Paraelectric Phase Transition. Nano Letters. 24(33). 10331–10336. 5 indexed citations
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Shao, Yu‐Tsun, Zhen Chen, Chenyu Zhang, et al.. (2023). Visualizing Polar Distortions and Interface Effects with Multislice Ptychography. Microscopy and Microanalysis. 29(Supplement_1). 1626–1627.
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Hotz, M., Nicholas J. Bacon, Niklas Dellby, et al.. (2023). Atomic Resolution SE Imaging in a 30-200 keV Aberration-corrected UHV STEM. Microscopy and Microanalysis. 29(Supplement_1). 2064–2065. 3 indexed citations
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Rout, P. K., Y. Dagan, Hyeok Yoon, et al.. (2022). Concomitant appearance of conductivity and superconductivity in (111) LaAlO3/SrTiO3 interface with metal capping. Physical Review Materials. 6(4). 3 indexed citations
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Lu, Haiyu, Matteo Rossi, Abhishek Nag, et al.. (2021). Magnetic excitations in infinite-layer nickelates. Science. 373(6551). 213–216. 1 indexed citations
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Yang, Ankun, Guangmin Zhou, Xian Kong, et al.. (2020). Electrochemical generation of liquid and solid sulfur on two-dimensional layered materials with distinct areal capacities. Nature Nanotechnology. 15(3). 231–237. 87 indexed citations
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Lee, Wei-Sheng, Harold Y. Hwang, Yi Cui, et al.. (2020). Theory of Rare-earth Infinite Layer Nickelates. arXiv (Cornell University). 7 indexed citations
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Emori, Satoru, Di Yi, Sam Crossley, et al.. (2018). Ultralow Damping in Nanometer-Thick Epitaxial Spinel Ferrite Thin Films. Nano Letters. 18(7). 4273–4278. 49 indexed citations
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Gunkel, Felix, Christopher Bell, Hisashi Inoue, et al.. (2016). Defect Control of Conventional and Anomalous Electron Transport at Complex Oxide Interfaces. Physical Review X. 6(3). 48 indexed citations
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Yuan, Hongtao, Harold Y. Hwang, & Yi Cui. (2015). Generation and electric control of spin--valley-coupled circular photogalvanic current in WSe$_{2}$. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 2015. 1 indexed citations
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Yuan, Hongtao, Xinqiang Wang, Biao Lian, et al.. (2014). Generation and electric control of spin–valley-coupled circular photogalvanic current in WSe2. Nature Nanotechnology. 9(10). 851–857. 289 indexed citations
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Takizawa, M., Yasushi Hotta, Tomofumi Susaki, et al.. (2009). 極性多層LaAlO 3 /LaVO 3 /LaAlO 3 における競合する再構成に対する分光による証拠. Physical Review Letters. 102(23). 1–236401. 30 indexed citations

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