Hiroshi Funakubo

15.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
741 papers, 12.9k citations indexed

About

Hiroshi Funakubo is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. According to data from OpenAlex, Hiroshi Funakubo has authored 741 papers receiving a total of 12.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 637 papers in Materials Chemistry, 382 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 297 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. Recurrent topics in Hiroshi Funakubo's work include Ferroelectric and Piezoelectric Materials (534 papers), Acoustic Wave Resonator Technologies (236 papers) and Multiferroics and related materials (228 papers). Hiroshi Funakubo is often cited by papers focused on Ferroelectric and Piezoelectric Materials (534 papers), Acoustic Wave Resonator Technologies (236 papers) and Multiferroics and related materials (228 papers). Hiroshi Funakubo collaborates with scholars based in Japan, United States and South Korea. Hiroshi Funakubo's co-authors include Takao Shimizu, Takayuki Watanabe, Keisuke Saito, Hiroshi Uchida, Minoru Osada, Osami Sakata, Takanori Kiguchi, Toyohiko J. Konno, Takahiro Oikawa and Takahisa Shiraishi and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Advanced Materials and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Hiroshi Funakubo

715 papers receiving 12.7k citations

Hit Papers

Stabilizing the ferroelectric phase in doped hafnium oxide 2015 2026 2018 2022 2015 100 200 300 400
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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. Stabilizing the ferroelectric phase in doped hafnium oxide
    2015 481 citations Takao Shimizu, Hiroshi Funakubo et al. Journal of Applied Physics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Hiroshi Funakubo Japan 49 10.9k 6.6k 5.2k 3.5k 997 741 12.9k
S. B. Krupanidhi India 52 8.3k 0.8× 6.3k 1.0× 3.5k 0.7× 2.8k 0.8× 1.1k 1.1× 444 10.8k
Ruyan Guo United States 43 9.4k 0.9× 5.8k 0.9× 4.7k 0.9× 3.5k 1.0× 345 0.3× 392 10.8k
Marin Alexe Germany 67 13.1k 1.2× 5.9k 0.9× 7.6k 1.4× 5.2k 1.5× 803 0.8× 333 16.3k
V. Avrutin United States 31 11.5k 1.1× 7.5k 1.1× 4.9k 0.9× 1.6k 0.4× 1.8k 1.8× 224 13.7k
Zuo‐Guang Ye Canada 65 15.1k 1.4× 7.7k 1.2× 9.2k 1.8× 7.0k 2.0× 535 0.5× 456 17.0k
V. Nagarajan Australia 59 13.7k 1.3× 3.2k 0.5× 11.3k 2.2× 4.1k 1.1× 1.7k 1.7× 301 16.3k
Nina Balke United States 57 8.2k 0.8× 4.4k 0.7× 5.9k 1.1× 2.9k 0.8× 676 0.7× 152 12.3k
Dietrich Hesse Germany 49 7.2k 0.7× 2.9k 0.4× 4.3k 0.8× 2.2k 0.6× 481 0.5× 162 8.6k
S. Doğan Türkiye 25 10.4k 1.0× 6.9k 1.0× 4.1k 0.8× 1.1k 0.3× 921 0.9× 72 11.8k
Junyong Kang China 38 6.1k 0.6× 3.4k 0.5× 2.4k 0.5× 2.0k 0.6× 1.2k 1.2× 372 8.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Hiroshi Funakubo

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Funakubo, Hiroshi, K. Okamoto, & Takanori Mimura. (2025). Advances and challenges in novel non-perovskite-based ferroelectrics film for memory device applications. Japanese Journal of Applied Physics. 64(3). 30001–30001. 1 indexed citations
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Biswas, Arpan, Rama K. Vasudevan, Rohit Pant, et al.. (2025). SANE: strategic autonomous non-smooth exploration for multiple optima discovery in multi-modal and non-differentiable black-box functions. Digital Discovery. 4(3). 853–867. 1 indexed citations
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Shimizu, Takao, et al.. (2024). Domain structures of PbTiO3 and Pb(Zr,Ti)O3 thin films controlled by tensile strain induced by a Sr(Zr,Ti)O3 buffer layer. Applied Physics Letters. 124(3). 1 indexed citations
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Yasuoka, Shinnosuke, Takahisa Shiraishi, Takao Shimizu, et al.. (2022). Tunable Ferroelectric Properties in Wurtzite (Al0.8Sc0.2)N via Crystal Anisotropy. ACS Applied Electronic Materials. 4(11). 5165–5170. 31 indexed citations
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Tateyama, Akinori, Yoshiharu Ito, Takahisa Shiraishi, Minoru Kurosawa, & Hiroshi Funakubo. (2022). Effect of film thickness on output power of a piezoelectric vibration energy harvester using hydrothermally synthesized (K,Na)NbO3 film. Japanese Journal of Applied Physics. 62(1). 16502–16502. 1 indexed citations
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Shiraishi, Takahisa, Toyohiko J. Konno, & Hiroshi Funakubo. (2022). Ferroelectric and piezoelectric properties of 100 nm-thick CeO2-HfO2 epitaxial films. Applied Physics Letters. 120(13). 9 indexed citations
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Teranishi, Takashi, et al.. (2021). Influence of orientation on the electro-optic effect in epitaxial Y-doped HfO 2 ferroelectric thin films. Japanese Journal of Applied Physics. 60(SF). SFFB13–SFFB13. 10 indexed citations
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Ehara, Yoshitaka, Daichi Ichinose, Takahisa Shiraishi, et al.. (2021). Influence of cooling rate on ferroelastic domain structure for epitaxial (100)/(001)-oriented Pb(Zr, Ti)O 3 thin films under tensile strain. Japanese Journal of Applied Physics. 60(SF). SFFB07–SFFB07. 9 indexed citations
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Ichinose, Daichi, Takao Shimizu, Osami Sakata, et al.. (2021). Domain structure transition in compressively strained (100)/(001) epitaxial tetragonal PZT film. Journal of Applied Physics. 129(2). 4 indexed citations
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Hiranaga, Yoshiomi, Takanori Mimura, Takao Shimizu, Hiroshi Funakubo, & Yasuo Cho. (2021). High-precision local C – V mapping for ferroelectrics using principal component analysis. Japanese Journal of Applied Physics. 60(SF). SFFB09–SFFB09. 3 indexed citations
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Mimura, Takanori, Takao Shimizu, Osami Sakata, & Hiroshi Funakubo. (2021). Thickness dependence of phase stability in epitaxial (HfxZr1−x)O2 films. Physical Review Materials. 5(11). 17 indexed citations
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Tateyama, Akinori, Yoshiharu Ito, Takao Shimizu, et al.. (2020). Dependency of direct and inverse transverse piezoelectric properties on composition in self-polarized epitaxial (K x Na 1− x )NbO 3 films grown via a hydrothermal method. Japanese Journal of Applied Physics. 59(SP). SPPC03–SPPC03. 11 indexed citations
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Tateyama, Akinori, Yoshiharu Ito, Takao Shimizu, et al.. (2020). Good piezoelectricity of self-polarized thick epitaxial (K,Na)NbO3 films grown below the Curie temperature (240 °C) using a hydrothermal method. Applied Physics Letters. 117(14). 8 indexed citations
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Okamoto, K., Tomoaki Yamada, Kentaro Nakamura, et al.. (2020). Enhanced intrinsic piezoelectric response in (001)-epitaxial single c-domain Pb(Zr,Ti)O3 nanorods. Applied Physics Letters. 117(4). 4 indexed citations
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Huang, Yu, Yoshiharu Ito, Akinori Tateyama, Minoru Kurosawa, & Hiroshi Funakubo. (2020). Crystal structure, ferroelectric and piezoelectric properties of epitaxial (1− x )(Bi 0.5 Na 0.5 )TiO 3 – x (Bi 0.5 K 0.5 )TiO 3 films grown by hydrothermal method. Japanese Journal of Applied Physics. 59(SP). SPPB10–SPPB10. 8 indexed citations
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Shimizu, Takao, et al.. (2019). Ferroelectric properties of epitaxial Bi 2 SiO 5 thin films grown on SrTiO 3 substrates with various orientations. Japanese Journal of Applied Physics. 58(SL). SLLB04–SLLB04. 6 indexed citations
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Tanaka, Hiroki, Kiyoshi Uchiyama, Takahiro Oikawa, Takao Shimizu, & Hiroshi Funakubo. (2018). Epitaxial growth of perovskite-type oxide thin film on (111)SrTiO3 substrate using (101)PdO as a buffer layer. Japanese Journal of Applied Physics. 57(11S). 11UF04–11UF04. 2 indexed citations
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Kimura, Junichi, et al.. (2014). Lead- and alkali-metal-free BaTiO. Japanese Journal of Applied Physics. 53(9). 2 indexed citations
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Shima, Hiromi, Takashi Yamamoto, Shintaro Yasui, et al.. (2014). Preparation and characterization of Ba(Zr. Japanese Journal of Applied Physics. 53(9). 3 indexed citations
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Akiyama, Kensuke, et al.. (2001). Growth of β-FeSi_2 Thin Film on Si (111) by Metal-Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition : Surfaces, Interfaces, and Films. Japanese Journal of Applied Physics. 40(5). 1 indexed citations

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