Kaiming Cai

3.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
42 papers, 2.5k citations indexed

About

Kaiming Cai is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. According to data from OpenAlex, Kaiming Cai has authored 42 papers receiving a total of 2.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 33 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 26 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 17 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. Recurrent topics in Kaiming Cai's work include Magnetic properties of thin films (28 papers), Advanced Memory and Neural Computing (17 papers) and Ferroelectric and Negative Capacitance Devices (11 papers). Kaiming Cai is often cited by papers focused on Magnetic properties of thin films (28 papers), Advanced Memory and Neural Computing (17 papers) and Ferroelectric and Negative Capacitance Devices (11 papers). Kaiming Cai collaborates with scholars based in Singapore, China and Belgium. Kaiming Cai's co-authors include Hyunsoo Yang, Kaiyou Wang, Jong Min Lee, Rajagopalan Ramaswamy, Pan He, Shawn Pollard, Houzhi Zheng, Hailang Ju, Shuai Liu and Meiyin Yang and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Physical Review Letters and Advanced Materials.

In The Last Decade

Kaiming Cai

40 papers receiving 2.4k citations

Hit Papers

Electric field control of deterministic current-induced m... 2017 2026 2020 2023 2017 100 200 300 400
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.

  1. Electric field control of deterministic current-induced magnetization switching in a hybrid ferromagnetic/ferroelectric structure
    2017 428 citations Kaiming Cai, Meiyin Yang et al. Nature Materials profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Kaiming Cai Singapore 24 1.6k 1.2k 1.1k 871 446 42 2.5k
R. Sbiaa Singapore 25 2.1k 1.3× 986 0.8× 772 0.7× 1.3k 1.4× 616 1.4× 134 2.7k
Naizhou Wang China 20 1.1k 0.7× 1.1k 0.9× 2.7k 2.4× 1.0k 1.2× 407 0.9× 36 3.3k
Alexander Khitun United States 23 1.5k 0.9× 1.1k 0.9× 510 0.5× 620 0.7× 330 0.7× 94 2.2k
Shinji Miwa Japan 28 2.5k 1.6× 1.2k 1.0× 1.2k 1.0× 1.2k 1.4× 799 1.8× 118 3.3k
Yongjian Zhou China 22 1.3k 0.9× 680 0.6× 797 0.7× 742 0.9× 579 1.3× 59 2.0k
Maxwell Mann United States 16 1.9k 1.2× 1.0k 0.8× 472 0.4× 1.1k 1.3× 601 1.3× 20 2.1k
Can Onur Avci Switzerland 20 3.3k 2.1× 1.7k 1.4× 857 0.8× 1.6k 1.8× 1.1k 2.4× 45 3.7k
J. Langer United States 28 2.4k 1.5× 1.4k 1.1× 647 0.6× 1.1k 1.2× 677 1.5× 83 2.9k
Johan Swerts Belgium 25 872 0.6× 1.5k 1.3× 850 0.8× 649 0.7× 270 0.6× 158 2.1k
Yumeng Yang China 18 1.0k 0.7× 636 0.5× 669 0.6× 508 0.6× 350 0.8× 80 1.6k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kaiming Cai

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Carpenter, R., V.D. Nguyen, Kaiming Cai, et al.. (2024). Increasing spin–orbit torque efficiency by doping Pt: sub-monolayer insertions versus alloys. Journal of Physics D Applied Physics. 58(10). 105004–105004. 1 indexed citations
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Si, Jia, Shuhan Yang, Zhaoyang Yao, et al.. (2024). Energy-efficient superparamagnetic Ising machine and its application to traveling salesman problems. Nature Communications. 15(1). 3457–3457. 35 indexed citations
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Hoffmann, Marco, et al.. (2024). Pulse-shaping strategies for efficient switching of magnetic tunnel junctions by spin-orbit torque. Physical Review Applied. 22(3). 1 indexed citations
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Liu, Yakun, Dushyant Kumar, Shuyuan Shi, et al.. (2023). Field-free switching of perpendicular magnetization at room temperature using out-of-plane spins from TaIrTe4. Nature Electronics. 6(10). 732–738. 61 indexed citations
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Beek, S. Van, et al.. (2023). Impact of SOT & STT stress on MTJ degradation in SOT-MRAM. 1–2. 2 indexed citations
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Křižáková, Viola, Siddharth Rao, Kaiming Cai, et al.. (2023). Field-Free Spin–Orbit Torque Driven Switching of Perpendicular Magnetic Tunnel Junction through Bending Current. Nano Letters. 23(12). 5482–5489. 24 indexed citations
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Cai, Kaiming, Tianli Jin, & Wen Siang Lew. (2023). Spin-based magnetic random-access memory for high-performance computing. National Science Review. 11(3). nwad272–nwad272. 4 indexed citations
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Shi, Guoyi, Enlong Liu, Yang Qu, et al.. (2021). Composition dependence of spin–orbit torques in PtRh/ferromagnet heterostructures. APL Materials. 9(4). 11 indexed citations
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Couet, Sébastien, Siddharth Rao, S. Van Beek, et al.. (2021). BEOL compatible high retention perpendicular SOT-MRAM device for SRAM replacement and machine learning. Symposium on VLSI Technology. 1–2. 11 indexed citations
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Pollard, Shawn, Joseph A. Garlow, Kyoung‐Whan Kim, et al.. (2020). Bloch Chirality Induced by an Interlayer Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya Interaction in Ferromagnetic Multilayers. Physical Review Letters. 125(22). 227203–227203. 36 indexed citations
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Cai, Kaiming, Zhifeng Zhu, Jong Min Lee, et al.. (2020). Ultrafast and energy-efficient spin–orbit torque switching in compensated ferrimagnets. Nature Electronics. 3(1). 37–42. 188 indexed citations
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Liang, Shiheng, Shuyuan Shi, Chuang‐Han Hsu, et al.. (2020). Spin‐Orbit Torque Magnetization Switching in MoTe2/Permalloy Heterostructures. Advanced Materials. 32(37). e2002799–e2002799. 59 indexed citations
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Wang, Yi, Dapeng Zhu, Yumeng Yang, et al.. (2019). Magnetization switching by magnon-mediated spin torque through an antiferromagnetic insulator. Science. 366(6469). 1125–1128. 169 indexed citations
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Shi, Shuyuan, Shiheng Liang, Zhifeng Zhu, et al.. (2019). All-electric magnetization switching and Dzyaloshinskii–Moriya interaction in WTe2/ferromagnet heterostructures. Nature Nanotechnology. 14(10). 945–949. 202 indexed citations
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Mishra, Rahul, Farzad Mahfouzi, Dushyant Kumar, et al.. (2019). Electric-field control of spin accumulation direction for spin-orbit torques. Nature Communications. 10(1). 248–248. 60 indexed citations
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Yang, Meiyin, Yongcheng Deng, Kaiming Cai, et al.. (2019). Deterministic magnetic switching of perpendicular magnets by gradient current density. Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials. 489. 165474–165474. 17 indexed citations
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He, Pan, S. McKeown Walker, Steven S.-L. Zhang, et al.. (2018). Observation of Out-of-Plane Spin Texture in a SrTiO3(111) Two-Dimensional Electron Gas. Physical Review Letters. 120(26). 266802–266802. 65 indexed citations
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Cai, Kaiming, Meiyin Yang, Hailang Ju, et al.. (2017). Electric field control of deterministic current-induced magnetization switching in a hybrid ferromagnetic/ferroelectric structure. Nature Materials. 16(7). 712–716. 428 indexed citations breakdown →
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Yang, Meiyin, Kaiming Cai, Hailang Ju, et al.. (2016). Spin-orbit torque in Pt/CoNiCo/Pt symmetric devices. Scientific Reports. 6(1). 20778–20778. 89 indexed citations
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Cao, Yufei, Kaiming Cai, PingAn Hu, et al.. (2015). Strong enhancement of photoresponsivity with shrinking the electrodes spacing in few layer GaSe photodetectors. Scientific Reports. 5(1). 8130–8130. 110 indexed citations

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