Michael F. Crommie

43.9k total citations · 22 hit papers
240 papers, 32.4k citations indexed

About

Michael F. Crommie is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael F. Crommie has authored 240 papers receiving a total of 32.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 163 papers in Materials Chemistry, 141 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 85 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Michael F. Crommie's work include Graphene research and applications (131 papers), Quantum and electron transport phenomena (89 papers) and Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures (61 papers). Michael F. Crommie is often cited by papers focused on Graphene research and applications (131 papers), Quantum and electron transport phenomena (89 papers) and Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures (61 papers). Michael F. Crommie collaborates with scholars based in United States, Japan and China. Michael F. Crommie's co-authors include Alex Zettl, Çağlar Girit, Christopher P. Lutz, D. M. Eigler, Feng Wang, Yuanbo Zhang, Steven G. Louie, Y. R. Shen, William Regan and T. Jamneala and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Michael F. Crommie

235 papers receiving 31.8k 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.

Direct observation of a widely tunable bandgap in bilayer graphene

2009 2.9k citations Alex Zettl, Michael F. Crommie et al. Nature profile →
Gate-Variable Optical Transitions in Graphene

2008 1.3k citations Feng Wang, Alex Zettl et al. Science profile →
Strain-Induced Pseudo–Magnetic Fields Greater Than 300 Tesla in Graphene Nanobubbles

2010 1.3k citations Alex Zettl, Michael F. Crommie et al. Science profile →
Confinement of Electrons to Quantum Corrals on a Metal Surface

1993 1.2k citations Michael F. Crommie et al. Science profile →
Graphene at the Edge: Stability and Dynamics

2009 1.0k citations Michael F. Crommie, Steven G. Louie et al. Science profile →
Imaging standing waves in a two-dimensional electron gas

1993 964 citations Michael F. Crommie et al. Nature profile →
Direct Imaging of Lattice Atoms and Topological Defects in Graphene Membranes

2008 930 citations Michael F. Crommie, Alex Zettl et al. Nano Letters profile →
High-Resolution EM of Colloidal Nanocrystal Growth Using Graphene Liquid Cells

2012 911 citations Michael F. Crommie, Alex Zettl et al. Science profile →
Tunneling into a Single Magnetic Atom: Spectroscopic Evidence of the Kondo Resonance

1998 789 citations Michael F. Crommie et al. Science profile →
Graphene as a Long-Term Metal Oxidation Barrier: Worse Than Nothing

2013 624 citations Michael F. Crommie, Alex Zettl et al. ACS Nano profile →
Origin of spatial charge inhomogeneity in graphene

2009 576 citations Alex Zettl, Michael F. Crommie et al. Nature Physics profile →
Characterization of collective ground states in single-layer NbSe2

2015 555 citations Yi Chen, Wei Ruan et al. Nature Physics profile →
Spatially resolving edge states of chiral graphene nanoribbons

2011 531 citations Alex Zettl, Steven G. Louie et al. Nature Physics profile →
Grain Boundary Mapping in Polycrystalline Graphene

2011 526 citations Michael F. Crommie, Alex Zettl et al. ACS Nano profile →
Local Electronic Properties of Graphene on a BN Substrate via Scanning Tunneling Microscopy

2011 501 citations Hsin‐Zon Tsai, Alex Zettl et al. Nano Letters profile →
Raman Spectroscopy Study of Rotated Double-Layer Graphene: Misorientation-Angle Dependence of Electronic Structure

2012 481 citations Michael F. Crommie, Steven G. Louie et al. profile →
Direct Imaging of Covalent Bond Structure in Single-Molecule Chemical Reactions

2013 475 citations Dimas G. de Oteyza, Yen-Chia Chen et al. Science profile →
Tuning the Band Gap of Graphene Nanoribbons Synthesized from Molecular Precursors

2013 470 citations Dimas G. de Oteyza, Zahra Pedramrazi et al. ACS Nano profile →
Controlling inelastic light scattering quantum pathways in graphene

2011 453 citations Alex Zettl, Michael F. Crommie et al. Nature profile →
Topological band engineering of graphene nanoribbons

2018 445 citations Steven G. Louie, Michael F. Crommie et al. Nature profile →
Molecular bandgap engineering of bottom-up synthesized graphene nanoribbon heterojunctions

2015 396 citations Zahra Pedramrazi, Dimas G. de Oteyza et al. profile →
Imaging two-dimensional generalized Wigner crystals

2021 254 citations Hongyuan Li, Shaowei Li et al. Nature profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Coupling of Nondegenerate Topological Modes in Nitrogen Core-Doped Graphene Nanoribbons 2025 ·ACS Nano ·Peter H. Jacobse, Michele Pizzochero, (unknown), Gabriela Borin Barin, (unknown), Zafer Mutlu, Kläus Müllen, Efthimios Kaxiras, Michael F. Crommie, Felix R. Fischer	1
2	Competition between excitonic insulators and quantum Hall states in correlated electron–hole bilayers 2025 ·Nature Materials ·Ruishi Qi, (unknown), Zuocheng Zhang, (unknown), (unknown), Zhiyuan Cui, (unknown), (unknown), Su-Di Chen, (unknown), Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Michael F. Crommie, A. H. MacDonald, Feng Wang	0
3	Charge density waves in two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides 2024 ·Reports on Progress in Physics ·Jinwoong Hwang, Wei Ruan, Yi Chen, Shujie Tang, Michael F. Crommie, Zhi‐Xun Shen, Sung‐Kwan Mo	10
4	Gate-Switchable Molecular Diffusion on a Graphene Field-Effect Transistor 2024 ·ACS Nano ·Franklin Liou, Hsin‐Zon Tsai, Zachary A. H. Goodwin, Yiming Yang, Andrew S. Aikawa, (unknown), Sergio Pezzini, (unknown), (unknown), Zhichao Cheng, (unknown), (unknown), Xiaomin Xu, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, V. Bellani, Feng Wang, Johannes Lischner, Michael F. Crommie	0
5	Regioselective On-Surface Synthesis of [3]Triangulene Graphene Nanoribbons 2024 ·Journal of the American Chemical Society ·Michael C. Daugherty, Peter H. Jacobse, Jingwei Jiang, Joaquim Jornet-Somoza, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Ryan D. McCurdy, Weichen Tang, Ángel Rubio, Steven G. Louie, Michael F. Crommie, Felix R. Fischer	9
6	Imaging tunable Luttinger liquid systems in van der Waals heterostructures 2024 ·Nature ·Hongyuan Li, (unknown), (unknown), Mit H. Naik, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Yunbo Ou, (unknown), Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Sefaattin Tongay, Alex Zettl, Steven G. Louie, Michael P. Zaletel, Michael F. Crommie, Feng Wang	13
7	Engineering correlated insulators in bilayer graphene with a remote Coulomb superlattice 2024 ·Nature Materials ·Zuocheng Zhang, (unknown), Wenyu Zhao, Ruishi Qi, (unknown), Shaoxin Wang, Salman Kahn, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Alex Zettl, Michael F. Crommie, Feng Wang	13
8	Controlling structure and interfacial interaction of monolayer TaSe2 on bilayer graphene 2024 ·Nano Convergence ·(unknown), (unknown), Byoung Ki Choi, (unknown), Yi Chen, Wei Ruan, Yong Zhong, (unknown), Hyejin Ryu, Michael F. Crommie, Zhi‐Xun Shen, Choongyu Hwang, Sung‐Kwan Mo, Jinwoong Hwang	5
9	Thermodynamic behavior of correlated electron-hole fluids in van der Waals heterostructures 2023 ·Nature Communications ·Ruishi Qi, Andrew Y. Joe, Zuocheng Zhang, Yongxin Zeng, (unknown), Q. Feng, (unknown), Emma C. Regan, (unknown), Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Sefaattin Tongay, Michael F. Crommie, A. H. MacDonald, Feng Wang	17
10	Imaging gate-tunable Tomonaga–Luttinger liquids in 1H-MoSe2 mirror twin boundaries 2022 ·Nature Materials ·Tiancong Zhu, Wei Ruan, Yanqi Wang, Hsin‐Zon Tsai, Shuopei Wang, (unknown), (unknown), Franklin Liou, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Jeffrey B. Neaton, Alexander Weber‐Bargioni, Alex Zettl, Z. Q. Qiu, Guangyu Zhang, Feng Wang, Joel E. Moore, Michael F. Crommie	40
11	Gate-Tunable Resonance State and Screening Effects for Proton-Like Atomic Charge in Graphene 2022 ·Nano Letters ·Mykola Telychko, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Zhaolong Chen, Pin Lyu, Jing Li, Hsin‐Zon Tsai, Hanyan Fang, Zhizhan Qiu, (unknown), Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Jing Wu, Kian Ping Loh, Michael F. Crommie, Aleksandr Rodin, Jiong Lu	5
12	Correlated interlayer exciton insulator in heterostructures of monolayer WSe2 and moiré WS2/WSe2 2022 ·Nature Physics ·Zuocheng Zhang, Emma C. Regan, Danqing Wang, Wenyu Zhao, Shaoxin Wang, Mohammed Sayyad, Kentaro Yumigeta, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Sefaattin Tongay, Michael F. Crommie, Alex Zettl, Michael P. Zaletel, Feng Wang	89
13	Imaging two-dimensional generalized Wigner crystals breakdown → 2021 ·Nature ·Hongyuan Li, Shaowei Li, Emma C. Regan, Danqing Wang, Wenyu Zhao, Salman Kahn, Kentaro Yumigeta, Mark Blei, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Sefaattin Tongay, Alex Zettl, Michael F. Crommie, Feng Wang	254
14	Visualizing delocalized correlated electronic states in twisted double bilayer graphene 2021 ·Nature Communications ·(unknown), Tiancong Zhu, Salman Kahn, Shaowei Li, (unknown), Charlotte Herbig, (unknown), Hongyuan Li, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Stefano Cabrini, Alex Zettl, Michael P. Zaletel, Feng Wang, Michael F. Crommie	38
15	Evidence for quantum spin liquid behaviour in single-layer 1T-TaSe2 from scanning tunnelling microscopy 2021 ·Nature Physics ·Wei Ruan, Yi Chen, Shujie Tang, Jinwoong Hwang, Hsin‐Zon Tsai, Ryan L. Lee, Meng Wu, Hyejin Ryu, Salman Kahn, Franklin Liou, Caihong Jia, Andrew S. Aikawa, Choongyu Hwang, Feng Wang, Yongseong Choi, Steven G. Louie, (unknown), Zhi‐Xun Shen, Sung‐Kwan Mo, Michael F. Crommie	114
16	Ultrahigh-resolution scanning microwave impedance microscopy of moiré lattices and superstructures 2020 ·Science Advances ·Kyunghoon Lee, M. Iqbal Bakti Utama, Salman Kahn, S. Appalakondaiah, Nicolas Leconte, (unknown), Shuopei Wang, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, (unknown), Guangyu Zhang, Alexander Weber‐Bargioni, Michael F. Crommie, Paul D. Ashby, Jeil Jung, Feng Wang, Alex Zettl	10
17	Reversible writing of high-mobility and high-carrier-density doping patterns in two-dimensional van der Waals heterostructures 2020 ·Nature Electronics ·Wu Shi, Salman Kahn, Lili Jiang, Shengyu Wang, Hsin‐Zon Tsai, Dillon Wong, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Feng Wang, Michael F. Crommie, Alex Zettl	81
18	Tunneling Spectroscopy in Carbon Nanotube-Hexagonal Boron Nitride-Carbon Nanotube Heterojunctions 2020 ·Nano Letters ·Sihan Zhao, SeokJae Yoo, Sheng Wang, Bosai Lyu, Salman Kahn, Fanqi Wu, Zhiyuan Zhao, Dingzhou Cui, Wenyu Zhao, Yoseob Yoon, M. Iqbal Bakti Utama, Wu Shi, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Michael F. Crommie, Zhiwen Shi, Chongwu Zhou, Feng Wang	7
19	Observation of ultralong valley lifetime in WSe ₂ /MoS ₂ heterostructures 2017 ·Science Advances ·Jonghwan Kim, Chenhao Jin, Bin Chen, Hui Cai, Tao Zhao, (unknown), Salman Kahn, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Sefaattin Tongay, Michael F. Crommie, Feng Wang	237
20	Direct Imaging of Covalent Bond Structure in Single-Molecule Chemical Reactions breakdown → 2013 ·Science ·Dimas G. de Oteyza, (unknown), Yen-Chia Chen, Sebastian Wickenburg, Alexander Riss, D. J. Mowbray, (unknown), Zahra Pedramrazi, Hsin‐Zon Tsai, Ángel Rubio, Michael F. Crommie, Felix R. Fischer	475

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