Kai Litzius

4.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
31 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Kai Litzius is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Kai Litzius has authored 31 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 27 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 14 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials and 9 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Kai Litzius's work include Magnetic properties of thin films (26 papers), 2D Materials and Applications (7 papers) and Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism (6 papers). Kai Litzius is often cited by papers focused on Magnetic properties of thin films (26 papers), 2D Materials and Applications (7 papers) and Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism (6 papers). Kai Litzius collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and United Kingdom. Kai Litzius's co-authors include Mathias Kläui, Benjamin Krüger, Markus Weigand, Geoffrey S. D. Beach, Gisela Schütz, Ivan Lemesh, Felix Büttner, Karin Everschor‐Sitte, Robert M. Reeve and Hermann Stoll and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Advanced Materials and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Kai Litzius

30 papers receiving 1.6k citations

Hit Papers

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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. Skyrmion Hall effect revealed by direct time-resolved X-ray microscopy
    2016 593 citations Kai Litzius, Ivan Lemesh 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
Kai Litzius Germany 14 1.4k 663 590 471 310 31 1.7k
Aleš Hrabec Switzerland 19 1.6k 1.1× 755 1.1× 774 1.3× 552 1.2× 347 1.1× 44 1.9k
Ivan Lemesh United States 10 1.4k 1.0× 707 1.1× 639 1.1× 364 0.8× 243 0.8× 13 1.5k
Robert M. Reeve Germany 14 1.3k 0.9× 723 1.1× 603 1.0× 328 0.7× 282 0.9× 39 1.5k
К. А. Звездин Russia 21 1.8k 1.3× 727 1.1× 696 1.2× 810 1.7× 493 1.6× 116 2.2k
Henning Ulrichs Germany 17 1.8k 1.3× 588 0.9× 586 1.0× 792 1.7× 281 0.9× 30 2.0k
Jürgen Lindner Germany 20 1.2k 0.8× 413 0.6× 463 0.8× 492 1.0× 263 0.8× 80 1.5k
Romain Lebrun France 22 1.5k 1.0× 594 0.9× 514 0.9× 741 1.6× 324 1.0× 52 1.8k
Niklas Romming Germany 8 2.0k 1.4× 1.2k 1.8× 890 1.5× 350 0.7× 305 1.0× 8 2.2k
Kwang‐Su Ryu South Korea 13 1.9k 1.3× 910 1.4× 1.0k 1.7× 685 1.5× 447 1.4× 40 2.1k
Makoto Konoto Japan 17 987 0.7× 353 0.5× 475 0.8× 381 0.8× 237 0.8× 49 1.2k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Birch, Max T., Fehmi Sami Yasin, Kai Litzius, et al.. (2024). Influence of Magnetic Sublattice Ordering on Skyrmion Bubble Stability in 2D Magnet Fe5GeTe2. ACS Nano. 18(28). 18246–18256. 4 indexed citations
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Birch, Max T., Kai Litzius, Ondřej Hovorka, et al.. (2024). Control of stripe, skyrmion and skyrmionium formation in the 2D magnet Fe3−xGeTe2 by varying composition. 2D Materials. 11(2). 25008–25008. 3 indexed citations
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Litzius, Kai, Max T. Birch, R. A. Gallardo, et al.. (2023). Direct Observation of Propagating Spin Waves in the 2D van der Waals Ferromagnet Fe5GeTe2. Nano Letters. 23(22). 10126–10131. 7 indexed citations
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Birch, Max T., Kai Litzius, Sebastian Wintz, et al.. (2023). Seeding and Emergence of Composite Skyrmions in a van der Waals Magnet. Advanced Materials. 35(12). 31 indexed citations
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Birch, Max T., Kai Litzius, Sebastian Wintz, et al.. (2023). Skyrmion and skyrmionium formation in the two-dimensional magnet Cr2Ge2Te6. Physical review. B.. 108(21). 13 indexed citations
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Klose, Christopher, Felix Büttner, Wen Hu, et al.. (2023). Coherent correlation imaging for resolving fluctuating states of matter. Nature. 614(7947). 256–261. 5 indexed citations
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Joos, Jonas, et al.. (2023). Tutorial: Simulating modern magnetic material systems in mumax3. Journal of Applied Physics. 134(17). 17 indexed citations
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Birch, Max T., Sebastian Wintz, Ondřej Hovorka, et al.. (2022). History-dependent domain and skyrmion formation in 2D van der Waals magnet Fe3GeTe2. Nature Communications. 13(1). 3035–3035. 74 indexed citations
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Birch, Max T., Kai Litzius, Sebastian Wintz, et al.. (2022). Single Skyrmion Generation via a Vertical Nanocontact in a 2D Magnet-Based Heterostructure. Nano Letters. 22(23). 9236–9243. 4 indexed citations
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Hesjedal, T., et al.. (2022). Breathing mode dynamics of coupled three-dimensional chiral bobbers. APL Materials. 10(10). 3 indexed citations
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Birch, Max T., David Cortés‐Ortuño, Kai Litzius, et al.. (2022). Toggle-like current-induced Bloch point dynamics of 3D skyrmion strings in a room temperature nanowire. Nature Communications. 13(1). 3630–3630. 15 indexed citations
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Quessab, Yassine, Kai Litzius, Samiran Ganguly, et al.. (2021). Skyrmionics—Computing and memory technologies based on topological excitations in magnets. DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). 61 indexed citations
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Quessab, Yassine, Kai Litzius, Samiran Ganguly, et al.. (2021). Publisher’s Note: “Skyrmionics—Computing and memory technologies based on topological excitations in magnets” [J. Appl. Phys. 130, 070908 (2021)]. Journal of Applied Physics. 130(11). 2 indexed citations
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Kerber, Nico, Frank Freimuth, Flavio Capotondi, et al.. (2020). Faster chiral versus collinear magnetic order recovery after optical excitation revealed by femtosecond XUV scattering. Nature Communications. 11(1). 6304–6304. 42 indexed citations
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Zázvorka, Jakub, Florian Jakobs, Daniel Heinze, et al.. (2019). Thermal skyrmion diffusion used in a reshuffler device. Nature Nanotechnology. 14(7). 658–661. 230 indexed citations
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Filianina, Mariia, Lorenzo Baldrati, Tetsuya Hajiri, et al.. (2019). Piezo-electrical control of gyration dynamics of magnetic vortices. Applied Physics Letters. 115(6). 9 indexed citations
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Reeve, Robert M., Bertrand Dupé, Mohamad‐Assaad Mawass, et al.. (2019). Scaling of intrinsic domain wall magnetoresistance with confinement in electromigrated nanocontacts. Physical review. B.. 99(21). 6 indexed citations
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Lucia, Andrea De, Kai Litzius, Benjamin Krüger, Oleg A. Tretiakov, & Mathias Kläui. (2017). Multiscale simulations of topological transformations in magnetic-skyrmion spin structures. Physical review. B.. 96(2). 21 indexed citations
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Litzius, Kai. (2017). Wie funktioniert eigentlich ein Touchscreen?. Chemie in unserer Zeit. 51(1). 10–11. 1 indexed citations
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Jaiswal, Samridh, Kai Litzius, Ivan Lemesh, et al.. (2017). Investigation of the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction and room temperature skyrmions in W/CoFeB/MgO thin films and microwires. Applied Physics Letters. 111(2). 71 indexed citations

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