Kaifei Kang

2.4k total citations · 4 hit papers
15 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Kaifei Kang is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Materials Chemistry and Condensed Matter Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Kaifei Kang has authored 15 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 11 papers in Materials Chemistry and 5 papers in Condensed Matter Physics. Recurrent topics in Kaifei Kang's work include Topological Materials and Phenomena (8 papers), 2D Materials and Applications (7 papers) and Quantum and electron transport phenomena (7 papers). Kaifei Kang is often cited by papers focused on Topological Materials and Phenomena (8 papers), 2D Materials and Applications (7 papers) and Quantum and electron transport phenomena (7 papers). Kaifei Kang collaborates with scholars based in United States, Japan and China. Kaifei Kang's co-authors include Kin Fai Mak, Jie Shan, Egon Sohn, Tingxin Li, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Yihang Zeng, Patrick Knüppel, Jiacheng Zhu and Chirag Vaswani and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Physical Review Letters and Nature Materials.

In The Last Decade

Kaifei Kang

15 papers receiving 1.6k citations

Hit Papers

4 papers align trajectories

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.

Nonlinear anomalous Hall effect in few-layer WTe2

2019 402 citations Kaifei Kang, Tingxin Li et al. Nature Materials profile →
Enhanced valley splitting in monolayer WSe2 due to magnetic exchange field

2017 380 citations Chuan Zhao, Tenzin Norden et al. Nature Nanotechnology profile →
Thermodynamic evidence of fractional Chern insulator in moiré MoTe2

2023 287 citations Yihang Zeng, Kaifei Kang et al. Nature profile →
Evidence of the fractional quantum spin Hall effect in moiré MoTe2

2024 108 citations Kaifei Kang, Bowen Shen et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Kaifei Kang United States	14	1.2k	1.0k	380	270	257	15	1.7k
Timothy Lovorn United States	7	1.3k 1.1×	939 0.9×	521 1.4×	280 1.0×	179 0.7×	9	1.7k
Jeong Min Park Japan	8	1.4k 1.1×	1.2k 1.2×	208 0.5×	358 1.3×	186 0.7×	19	1.8k
Mohammed Ali Aamir India	10	959 0.8×	876 0.9×	184 0.5×	256 0.9×	118 0.5×	12	1.3k
Eli Fox United States	10	1.2k 1.0×	1.1k 1.1×	192 0.5×	347 1.3×	122 0.5×	12	1.5k
Ipsita Das Japan	5	1.0k 0.9×	951 0.9×	157 0.4×	300 1.1×	126 0.5×	7	1.3k
Wen‐Yu He China	19	720 0.6×	1.0k 1.0×	174 0.5×	419 1.6×	323 1.3×	39	1.4k
Fanming Qu China	18	1.3k 1.0×	1.4k 1.3×	262 0.7×	578 2.1×	303 1.2×	48	1.8k
Sota Kitamura Japan	16	378 0.3×	612 0.6×	479 1.3×	192 0.7×	103 0.4×	49	1.1k
J. Milton Pereira Brazil	20	1.6k 1.3×	1.4k 1.3×	403 1.1×	67 0.2×	128 0.5×	65	1.8k
Joseph Sklenar United States	21	297 0.2×	1.0k 1.0×	369 1.0×	621 2.3×	417 1.6×	50	1.3k

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15 of 15 papers shown

Kang, Kaifei, Bowen Shen, Yihang Zeng, et al.. (2024). Evidence of the fractional quantum spin Hall effect in moiré MoTe2. Nature. 628(8008). 522–526. 108 indexed citations breakdown →

Zhao, Wenjin, Kaifei Kang, Yichi Zhang, et al.. (2024). Realization of the Haldane Chern insulator in a moiré lattice. Nature Physics. 20(2). 275–280. 39 indexed citations

Kang, Kaifei, et al.. (2024). Double Quantum Spin Hall Phase in Moiré WSe₂. Nano Letters. 24(46). 14901–14907. 15 indexed citations

Zhao, Wenjin, Bowen Shen, Zui Tao, et al.. (2023). Gate-tunable heavy fermions in a moiré Kondo lattice. Nature. 616(7955). 61–65. 70 indexed citations

Kang, Kaifei, Wenjin Zhao, Yihang Zeng, et al.. (2023). Switchable moiré potentials in ferroelectric WTe2/WSe2 superlattices. Nature Nanotechnology. 18(8). 861–866. 36 indexed citations

Zeng, Yihang, Kaifei Kang, Jiacheng Zhu, et al.. (2023). Thermodynamic evidence of fractional Chern insulator in moiré MoTe2. Nature. 622(7981). 69–73. 287 indexed citations breakdown →

Xu, Yang, Kaifei Kang, Benyamin Davaji, et al.. (2023). Quantum Oscillations in Graphene Using Surface Acoustic Wave Resonators. Physical Review Letters. 130(24). 246201–246201. 13 indexed citations

Kang, Kaifei, H. Berger, Kenji Watanabe, et al.. (2022). van der Waals π Josephson Junctions. Nano Letters. 22(13). 5510–5515. 20 indexed citations

Xu, Yang, Kaifei Kang, Kenji Watanabe, et al.. (2022). A tunable bilayer Hubbard model in twisted WSe2. Nature Nanotechnology. 17(9). 934–939. 95 indexed citations

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Stiehl, Gregory M., Arnab Bose, Kaifei Kang, et al.. (2020). Manipulation of the van der Waals Magnet Cr₂Ge₂Te₆ by Spin–Orbit Torques. Nano Letters. 20(10). 7482–7488. 59 indexed citations

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Stiehl, Gregory M., Arnab Bose, Kaifei Kang, et al.. (2019). Current-induced torques in heterostructures of 2D van der Waals magnets. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 2019. 1 indexed citations

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Kang, Kaifei, Tingxin Li, Egon Sohn, Jie Shan, & Kin Fai Mak. (2019). Nonlinear anomalous Hall effect in few-layer WTe2. Nature Materials. 18(4). 324–328. 402 indexed citations breakdown →

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Sohn, Egon, Xiaoxiang Xi, Wen‐Yu He, et al.. (2018). An unusual continuous paramagnetic-limited superconducting phase transition in 2D NbSe 2. Nature Materials. 17(6). 504–508. 106 indexed citations

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Zhao, Chuan, Tenzin Norden, Peiyao Zhang, et al.. (2017). Enhanced valley splitting in monolayer WSe2 due to magnetic exchange field. Nature Nanotechnology. 12(8). 757–762. 380 indexed citations breakdown →

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Taheri, Payam, Jieqiong Wang, Hui Xing, et al.. (2016). Growth mechanism of largescale MoS₂monolayer by sulfurization of MoO₃film. Materials Research Express. 3(7). 75009–75009. 42 indexed citations

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