Qimin Yan

5.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
97 papers, 4.8k citations indexed

About

Qimin Yan is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Condensed Matter Physics and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Qimin Yan has authored 97 papers receiving a total of 4.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 69 papers in Materials Chemistry, 29 papers in Condensed Matter Physics and 29 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Qimin Yan's work include GaN-based semiconductor devices and materials (23 papers), Graphene research and applications (19 papers) and 2D Materials and Applications (18 papers). Qimin Yan is often cited by papers focused on GaN-based semiconductor devices and materials (23 papers), Graphene research and applications (19 papers) and 2D Materials and Applications (18 papers). Qimin Yan collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Germany. Qimin Yan's co-authors include Chris G. Van de Walle, Matthias Scheffler, Wenhui Duan, Anderson Janotti, Audrius Alkauskas, Maosheng Miao, Emmanouil Kioupakis, Jian Wu, Bing Huang and Patrick Rinke and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Physical Review Letters and Advanced Materials.

In The Last Decade

Qimin Yan

93 papers receiving 4.7k citations

Hit Papers

Intrinsic Current−Voltage Characteristics of Graphene Nan... 2007 2026 2013 2019 2007 2014 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. Intrinsic Current−Voltage Characteristics of Graphene Nanoribbon Transistors and Effect of Edge Doping
    2007 490 citations Qimin Yan, Bing Huang et al. profile →
  2. First-principles theory of nonradiative carrier capture via multiphonon emission
    2014 321 citations Qimin Yan, Chris G. Van de Walle et al. profile →

Peers

Qimin Yan
D. O. Demchenko United States
I. Shih Canada
Li Lü China
Seung‐Hyun Chun South Korea
Mehmet Topsakal United States
E. Goering Germany
Jian‐Bai Xia China
Wenguang Zhu China
Junjie Shi China
María Losurdo Italy
D. O. Demchenko United States
Qimin Yan
Citations per year, relative to Qimin Yan Qimin Yan (= 1×) peers D. O. Demchenko

Countries citing papers authored by Qimin Yan

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Fields of papers citing papers by Qimin Yan

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Qimin Yan

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Qimin Yan. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Qimin Yan based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Qimin Yan. Qimin Yan is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Yan, Qimin, et al.. (2025). Crystal hypergraph convolutional networks. npj Computational Materials. 11(1).
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Fang, Zhenyao & Qimin Yan. (2025). Leveraging Persistent Homology Features for Accurate Defect Formation Energy Predictions via Graph Neural Networks. Chemistry of Materials. 37(4). 1531–1540. 9 indexed citations
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Wang, Zhongxuan, et al.. (2024). Lithiation bridged molecular conducting magnets. Applied Materials Today. 38. 102188–102188.
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Zhang, Xie, Mark E. Turiansky, M. Maciaszek, et al.. (2024). First-principles calculations of defects and electron–phonon interactions: Seminal contributions of Audrius Alkauskas to the understanding of recombination processes. Journal of Applied Physics. 135(15). 5 indexed citations
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Wang, Zhongxuan, Qian Wang, Amy Chen, et al.. (2024). Magnet-in-ferroelectric crystals exhibiting photomultiferroicity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(17). e2322361121–e2322361121. 1 indexed citations
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Kim, Gwangwoo, Benjamin Huet, Christopher E. Stevens, et al.. (2024). Confinement of excited states in two-dimensional, in-plane, quantum heterostructures. Nature Communications. 15(1). 6361–6361. 12 indexed citations
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Singh, Simrjit, Christopher E. Stevens, Jin Hou, et al.. (2023). Valley-Polarized Interlayer Excitons in 2D Chalcogenide–Halide Perovskite–van der Waals Heterostructures. ACS Nano. 17(8). 7487–7497. 17 indexed citations
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Gao, Qian, Qimin Yan, Zhenpeng Hu, & Lan Chen. (2023). Bilayer Kagome Borophene with Multiple van Hove Singularities. Advanced Science. 11(37). e2305059–e2305059. 12 indexed citations
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Huang, Yulong, Gengyi Zhang, Zheng Li, et al.. (2022). Dimensional Transformation of Molecular Magnetic Materials. ACS Nano. 16(8). 13232–13240. 1 indexed citations
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Becher, Christoph, Weibo Gao, Swastik Kar, et al.. (2022). 2023 roadmap for materials for quantum technologies. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(1). 12501–12501. 36 indexed citations
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Pan, Jinbo, et al.. (2022). Antisite defect qubits in monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides. Nature Communications. 13(1). 492–492. 48 indexed citations
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Hu, Feng, Sasitha C. Abeyweera, Jie Yu, et al.. (2020). Quantifying Electrocatalytic Reduction of CO2 on Twin Boundaries. Chem. 6(11). 3007–3021. 51 indexed citations
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Zeng, Jiang, Yanfang Zhang, Wei Qin, et al.. (2019). Varying topological properties of two-dimensional honeycomb lattices composed of endohedral fullerenes. Physical review. B.. 100(4). 5 indexed citations
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Li, Changning, Nicholas Ku, Yaohua Liu, et al.. (2019). Magnetically active transition metal cation-substituted alumina. Nanotechnology. 31(10). 105703–105703. 1 indexed citations
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Zhang, Wei, Yong Hu, Jinbo Pan, et al.. (2019). High current carrying and thermal conductive copper-carbon conductors. Nanotechnology. 30(18). 185701–185701. 8 indexed citations
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Wang, Jianfeng, Xuelei Sui, Wujun Shi, et al.. (2017). Prediction of Ideal Topological Semimetals with Triply Degenerate Points in theNaCu3Te2Family. Physical Review Letters. 119(25). 256402–256402. 33 indexed citations
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Freysoldt, Christoph, Björn Lange, Jörg Neugebauer, et al.. (2016). Electron and chemical reservoir corrections for point-defect formation energies. Physical review. B.. 93(16). 47 indexed citations
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Yan, Qimin. (2012). Theoretical Study of Material and Device Properties of Group-III Nitrides. MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society). 2 indexed citations
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Miao, Maosheng, Qimin Yan, Chris G. Van de Walle, et al.. (2012). Polarization-Driven Topological Insulator Transition in aGaN/InN/GaNQuantum Well. Physical Review Letters. 109(18). 186803–186803. 143 indexed citations

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