Sanfeng Wu

12.4k total citations · 8 hit papers
38 papers, 7.8k citations indexed

About

Sanfeng Wu is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Sanfeng Wu has authored 38 papers receiving a total of 7.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 29 papers in Materials Chemistry, 22 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 13 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Sanfeng Wu's work include 2D Materials and Applications (21 papers), Graphene research and applications (17 papers) and Topological Materials and Phenomena (14 papers). Sanfeng Wu is often cited by papers focused on 2D Materials and Applications (21 papers), Graphene research and applications (17 papers) and Topological Materials and Phenomena (14 papers). Sanfeng Wu collaborates with scholars based in United States, Japan and Hong Kong. Sanfeng Wu's co-authors include Xiaodong Xu, Wang Yao, David Mandrus, Jiaqiang Yan, Grant Aivazian, Jason Ross, Aaron M. Jones, N. Ghimire, Di Xiao and Hongyi Yu and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

Sanfeng Wu

38 papers receiving 7.6k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Observation of long-lived interlayer excitons in monolayer MoSe2–WSe2 heterostructures

2015 1.3k citations Pasqual Rivera, John R. Schaibley et al. Nature Communications profile →
Electrical control of neutral and charged excitons in a monolayer semiconductor

2013 1.2k citations Jason Ross, Sanfeng Wu et al. Nature Communications profile →
Optical generation of excitonic valley coherence in monolayer WSe2

2013 1.1k citations Aaron M. Jones, Hongyi Yu et al. Nature Nanotechnology profile →
Monolayer semiconductor nanocavity lasers with ultralow thresholds

2015 689 citations Sanfeng Wu, Sonia Buckley et al. Nature profile →
Electrical tuning of valley magnetic moment through symmetry control in bilayer MoS2

2013 526 citations Sanfeng Wu, Jason Ross et al. Nature Physics profile →
Zeeman-type spin splitting controlled by an electric field

2013 457 citations Sanfeng Wu, Xiaodong Xu et al. Nature Physics profile →
Edge conduction in monolayer WTe2

2017 442 citations Sanfeng Wu, Xiaodong Xu et al. Nature Physics profile →
Electrical control of second-harmonic generation in a WSe2 monolayer transistor

2015 424 citations Kyle L. Seyler, John R. Schaibley et al. Nature Nanotechnology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sanfeng Wu United States	22	6.6k	3.9k	2.4k	993	789	38	7.8k
John R. Schaibley United States	18	5.6k 0.8×	3.6k 0.9×	2.2k 0.9×	986 1.0×	686 0.9×	35	6.7k
Jason Ross United States	12	8.0k 1.2×	4.6k 1.2×	1.9k 0.8×	1.0k 1.0×	817 1.0×	17	8.7k
Albert F. Rigosi United States	26	5.5k 0.8×	3.9k 1.0×	1.8k 0.7×	872 0.9×	573 0.7×	86	6.4k
Keliang He United States	15	6.9k 1.0×	4.3k 1.1×	1.7k 0.7×	1.1k 1.1×	657 0.8×	18	7.6k
Ermin Malić Germany	49	5.9k 0.9×	4.1k 1.1×	3.0k 1.3×	1.1k 1.1×	499 0.6×	203	7.4k
Pasqual Rivera United States	14	5.4k 0.8×	3.2k 0.8×	1.9k 0.8×	671 0.7×	632 0.8×	20	6.2k
Tobias Korn Germany	35	3.7k 0.6×	3.0k 0.8×	1.9k 0.8×	609 0.6×	445 0.6×	106	5.3k
Chenhao Jin United States	26	6.4k 1.0×	3.4k 0.9×	1.9k 0.8×	902 0.9×	780 1.0×	45	7.4k
Heather M. Hill United States	20	5.4k 0.8×	3.7k 1.0×	1.5k 0.6×	833 0.8×	566 0.7×	55	6.1k

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Jia, Yanyu, Tiancheng Song, Guangming Cheng, et al.. (2025). Anomalous superconductivity in twisted MoTe ₂ nanojunctions. Science Advances. 11(5). eadq5712–eadq5712. 4 indexed citations

Song, Tiancheng, Yanyu Jia, Guo Yu, et al.. (2024). Unconventional superconducting quantum criticality in monolayer WTe2. Nature Physics. 20(2). 269–274. 19 indexed citations

Wu, Sanfeng, Leslie M. Schoop, Inti Sodemann, et al.. (2024). Charge-neutral electronic excitations in quantum insulators. Nature. 635(8038). 301–310. 4 indexed citations

Wu, Sanfeng. (2024). The detection of unconventional quantum oscillations in insulating 2D materials. 2D Materials. 11(3). 33004–33004. 3 indexed citations

Song, Xiaoyu, Ratnadwip Singha, Grigorii Skorupskii, et al.. (2023). Acid-Assisted Soft Chemical Route for Preparing High-Quality Superconducting 2M-WS₂. Chemistry of Materials. 35(14). 5487–5496. 7 indexed citations

Yuan, Fang, Yanyu Jia, Guangming Cheng, et al.. (2023). Atomic Resolution Imaging of Highly Air-Sensitive Monolayer and Twisted-Bilayer WTe₂. Nano Letters. 23(15). 6868–6874. 8 indexed citations

Yu, Guo, Pengjie Wang, Yanyu Jia, et al.. (2023). Evidence for two dimensional anisotropic Luttinger liquids at millikelvin temperatures. Nature Communications. 14(1). 7025–7025. 11 indexed citations

Wang, Pengjie, Guo Yu, Yves H. Kwan, et al.. (2022). One-dimensional Luttinger liquids in a two-dimensional moiré lattice. Nature. 605(7908). 57–62. 78 indexed citations

Wang, Pengjie, Guo Yu, Yanyu Jia, et al.. (2021). Landau quantization and highly mobile fermions in an insulator. Nature. 589(7841). 225–229. 66 indexed citations

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Lei, Shiming, Jingjing Lin, Yanyu Jia, et al.. (2020). High mobility in a van der Waals layered antiferromagnetic metal. Science Advances. 6(6). eaay6407–eaay6407. 98 indexed citations

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Fatemi, Valla, Sanfeng Wu, Yuan Cao, et al.. (2018). Electrically tunable low-density superconductivity in a monolayer topological insulator. Science. 362(6417). 926–929. 284 indexed citations

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Wu, Sanfeng, Sonia Buckley, John R. Schaibley, et al.. (2015). Monolayer semiconductor nanocavity lasers with ultralow thresholds. Nature. 520(7545). 69–72. 689 indexed citations breakdown →

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Seyler, Kyle L., John R. Schaibley, Pu Gong, et al.. (2015). Electrical control of second-harmonic generation in a WSe2 monolayer transistor. Nature Nanotechnology. 10(5). 407–411. 424 indexed citations breakdown →

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Rivera, Pasqual, John R. Schaibley, Aaron M. Jones, et al.. (2015). Observation of long-lived interlayer excitons in monolayer MoSe2–WSe2 heterostructures. Nature Communications. 6(1). 6242–6242. 1261 indexed citations breakdown →

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Ross, Jason, Sanfeng Wu, Hongyi Yu, et al.. (2013). Electrical control of truly two-dimensional neutral and charged excitons in monolayer MoSe$_2$. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 2013. 1 indexed citations

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Jones, Aaron M., Hongyi Yu, N. Ghimire, et al.. (2013). Optical generation of excitonic valley coherence in monolayer WSe2. Nature Nanotechnology. 8(9). 634–638. 1143 indexed citations breakdown →

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Ross, Jason, Sanfeng Wu, Hongyi Yu, et al.. (2013). Electrical control of neutral and charged excitons in a monolayer semiconductor. Nature Communications. 4(1). 1474–1474. 1219 indexed citations breakdown →

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Ross, Jason, Sanfeng Wu, Hongyi Yu, et al.. (2012). Electrical Control of Truly Two-Dimensional Neutral and Charged Excitons in a Monolayer Semiconductor. arXiv (Cornell University). 2 indexed citations

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Du, Jiangfeng, Nanyang Xu, Xinhua Peng, et al.. (2010). NMR Implementation of a Molecular Hydrogen Quantum Simulation with Adiabatic State Preparation. Physical Review Letters. 104(3). 30502–30502. 163 indexed citations

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Peng, Xinhua, Sanfeng Wu, Jun Li, Dieter Suter, & Jiangfeng Du. (2010). Observation of the Ground-State Geometric Phase in a HeisenbergXYModel. Physical Review Letters. 105(24). 240405–240405. 40 indexed citations

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