Rainer Waser

59.2k total citations · 11 hit papers
852 papers, 49.2k citations indexed

About

Rainer Waser is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials Chemistry and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Rainer Waser has authored 852 papers receiving a total of 49.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 659 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 501 papers in Materials Chemistry and 156 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Rainer Waser's work include Advanced Memory and Neural Computing (352 papers), Ferroelectric and Piezoelectric Materials (343 papers) and Electronic and Structural Properties of Oxides (246 papers). Rainer Waser is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Memory and Neural Computing (352 papers), Ferroelectric and Piezoelectric Materials (343 papers) and Electronic and Structural Properties of Oxides (246 papers). Rainer Waser collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Poland. Rainer Waser's co-authors include Masakazu Aono, K. Szot, Regina Dittmann, G. Staikov, Ilia Valov, Stephan Menzel, Eike Linn, Susanne Hoffmann‐Eifert, U. Böttger and Theodor Schneller and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

Rainer Waser

836 papers receiving 48.1k citations

Hit Papers

Redox‐Based Resistive Swi... 1990 2026 2002 2014 2009 2007 2006 2010 2005 1000 2.0k 3.0k 4.0k
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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. Redox‐Based Resistive Switching Memories – Nanoionic Mechanisms, Prospects, and Challenges
    2009 4.3k citations Rainer Waser, Regina Dittmann et al. Advanced Materials profile →
  2. Nanoionics-based resistive switching memories
    2007 4.2k citations Rainer Waser et al. Nature Materials profile →
  3. Switching the electrical resistance of individual dislocations in single-crystalline SrTiO3
    2006 1.4k citations Rainer Waser et al. Nature Materials profile →
  4. Complementary resistive switches for passive nanocrossbar memories
    2010 1.0k citations R. Rosezin, C. Kügeler et al. Nature Materials profile →
  5. Resistive switching mechanism of TiO2 thin films grown by atomic-layer deposition
    2005 983 citations Cheol Seong Hwang, Rainer Waser et al. profile →
  6. Electrochemical metallization memories—fundamentals, applications, prospects
    2011 710 citations Ilia Valov, Rainer Waser et al. profile →
  7. Electrical properties of the grain boundaries of oxygen ion conductors: Acceptor-doped zirconia and ceria
    2005 606 citations Rainer Waser et al. profile →
  8. dc Electrical Degradation of Perovskite‐Type Titanates: I, Ceramics
    1990 604 citations Rainer Waser et al. profile →
  9. Electrochemical dynamics of nanoscale metallic inclusions in dielectrics
    2014 559 citations Rainer Waser, Ilia Valov et al. profile →
  10. Nanoscale cation motion in TaOx, HfOx and TiOx memristive systems
    2015 525 citations Katharina Skaja, Vikas Rana et al. profile →
  11. Nanobatteries in redox-based resistive switches require extension of memristor theory
    2013 457 citations Ilia Valov, Rainer Waser et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Rainer Waser 38.1k 25.2k 10.1k 8.5k 7.0k 852 49.2k
Cheol Seong Hwang 33.6k 0.9× 20.9k 0.8× 4.9k 0.5× 5.9k 0.7× 3.3k 0.5× 802 38.2k
Masakazu Aono 16.4k 0.4× 8.3k 0.3× 5.0k 0.5× 3.6k 0.4× 2.2k 0.3× 485 24.5k
Alberto Salleo 32.5k 0.9× 7.7k 0.3× 2.9k 0.3× 22.4k 2.6× 1.6k 0.2× 351 38.6k
Jong‐Hyun Ahn 19.0k 0.5× 23.2k 0.9× 1.3k 0.1× 6.4k 0.8× 5.2k 0.7× 293 39.6k
Tae‐Woo Lee 25.0k 0.7× 14.4k 0.6× 2.3k 0.2× 9.1k 1.1× 2.1k 0.3× 481 30.8k
Feng Miao 11.9k 0.3× 20.4k 0.8× 1.8k 0.2× 2.6k 0.3× 2.8k 0.4× 169 27.7k
C. Daniel Frisbie 23.5k 0.6× 8.5k 0.3× 911 0.1× 8.8k 1.0× 2.6k 0.4× 287 30.5k
Chongwu Zhou 24.7k 0.6× 23.0k 0.9× 729 0.1× 4.7k 0.5× 6.1k 0.9× 279 39.7k
Byung Hee Hong 15.7k 0.4× 25.8k 1.0× 765 0.1× 3.3k 0.4× 5.1k 0.7× 228 37.5k
Jeong Ho Cho 13.2k 0.3× 8.4k 0.3× 1.1k 0.1× 5.6k 0.7× 1.9k 0.3× 411 19.7k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Chen, Yang, et al.. (2025). Effect of Programming Schemes on Short-Term Instability in 1T1R Configuration. IEEE Access. 13. 44555–44564.
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Weber, Moritz L., Břetislav Šmíd, U. Breuer, et al.. (2024). Space charge governs the kinetics of metal exsolution. Nature Materials. 23(3). 406–413. 20 indexed citations
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Petracic, O., Valeria Lauter, Lei Cao, et al.. (2024). La0.6Sr0.4CoO3−δ Films Under Deoxygenation: Magnetic And Electronic Transitions Are Apart from The Structural Phase Transition. Advanced Functional Materials. 34(24). 6 indexed citations
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Wiefels, Stefan, et al.. (2023). Reliability Aspects of 28 nm BEOL‐Integrated Resistive Switching Random Access Memory. physica status solidi (a). 221(22). 11 indexed citations
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Grundmann, Annika, Zhaodong Wang, Susanne Hoffmann‐Eifert, et al.. (2023). The MoS2-Graphene-Sapphire Heterostructure: Influence of Substrate Properties on the MoS2 Band Structure. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 127(22). 10878–10887. 2 indexed citations
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Bengel, Christopher, Stefan Wiefels, Abhairaj Singh, et al.. (2022). Reliability aspects of binary vector-matrix-multiplications using ReRAM devices. Neuromorphic Computing and Engineering. 2(3). 34001–34001. 15 indexed citations
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Weber, Moritz L., Moritz Kindelmann, E. Wessel, et al.. (2022). Enhanced metal exsolution at the non-polar (001) surfaces of multi-faceted epitaxial thin films. Journal of Physics Energy. 5(1). 14002–14002. 3 indexed citations
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Karthäuser, Silvia, Annika Grundmann, Zhaodong Wang, et al.. (2022). Atomically resolved electronic properties in single layer graphene on α-Al2O3 (0001) by chemical vapor deposition. Scientific Reports. 12(1). 18743–18743. 13 indexed citations
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Baeumer, Christoph, Allen Yu-Lun Liang, Qiyang Lu, et al.. (2021). Carbonate formation lowers the electrocatalytic activity of perovskite oxides for water electrolysis. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 9(35). 19940–19948. 20 indexed citations
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Lübben, Michael, Felix Cüppers, Moritz von Witzleben, et al.. (2020). Design of defect-chemical properties and device performance in memristive systems. Science Advances. 6(19). eaaz9079–eaaz9079. 66 indexed citations
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Baeumer, Christoph, Vitaliy Feyer, Matteo Jugovac, et al.. (2019). Topotactic Phase Transition Driving Memristive Behavior. Advanced Materials. 31(40). e1903391–e1903391. 80 indexed citations
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Baeumer, Christoph, Katharina Skaja, F. Borgatti, et al.. (2018). Spectroscopic elucidation of ionic motion processes in tunnel oxide-based memristive devices. Faraday Discussions. 213(0). 215–230. 12 indexed citations
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Skaja, Katharina, et al.. (2018). Reduction of the forming voltage through tailored oxygen non-stoichiometry in tantalum oxide ReRAM devices. Scientific Reports. 8(1). 10861–10861. 46 indexed citations
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Zhang, Hehe, Sijung Yoo, Stephan Menzel, et al.. (2018). Understanding the Coexistence of Two Bipolar Resistive Switching Modes with Opposite Polarity in Pt/TiO2/Ti/Pt Nanosized ReRAM Devices. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 10(35). 29766–29778. 77 indexed citations
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Pan, Chengbin, Yanfeng Ji, Na Xiao, et al.. (2017). Coexistence of Grain‐Boundaries‐Assisted Bipolar and Threshold Resistive Switching in Multilayer Hexagonal Boron Nitride. Advanced Functional Materials. 27(10). 276 indexed citations
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Baeumer, Christoph, Nicolas Raab, Tobias Menke, et al.. (2016). Verification of redox-processes as switching and retention failure mechanisms in Nb:SrTiO3/metal devices. Nanoscale. 8(29). 13967–13975. 66 indexed citations
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Menzel, Stephan & Rainer Waser. (2013). Modeling and simulation of resistive switching devices. RWTH Publications (RWTH Aachen). 4 indexed citations
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Watanabe, Takayuki, Susanne Hoffmann‐Eifert, Lin Yang, et al.. (2007). Liquid Injection Atomic Layer Deposition of TiOx Films Using Ti[OCH(CH3)2]4. JuSER (Forschungszentrum Jülich). 1 indexed citations
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Kügeler, C. & Rainer Waser. (2006). Integration of ferroelectric thin films into silicon based microsystems. RWTH Publications (RWTH Aachen). 1 indexed citations
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Waser, Rainer, et al.. (2006). Design and analysis of future memories based on switchable resistive elements. RWTH Publications (RWTH Aachen). 13 indexed citations

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