Xiaobo Lu

8.9k total citations · 4 hit papers
66 papers, 5.1k citations indexed

About

Xiaobo Lu is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Xiaobo Lu has authored 66 papers receiving a total of 5.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 55 papers in Materials Chemistry, 33 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 18 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Xiaobo Lu's work include Graphene research and applications (38 papers), 2D Materials and Applications (30 papers) and Quantum and electron transport phenomena (17 papers). Xiaobo Lu is often cited by papers focused on Graphene research and applications (38 papers), 2D Materials and Applications (30 papers) and Quantum and electron transport phenomena (17 papers). Xiaobo Lu collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Japan. Xiaobo Lu's co-authors include Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Guangyu Zhang, Li Yang, Dmitri K. Efetov, Wei Yang, Dongxia Shi, Ipsita Das, Petr Stepanov and A. H. MacDonald and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Xiaobo Lu

63 papers receiving 4.9k citations

Hit Papers

Superconductors, orbital ... 2017 2026 2020 2023 2019 2017 2020 2023 250 500 750 1000
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. Superconductors, orbital magnets and correlated states in magic-angle bilayer graphene
    2019 1.1k citations Xiaobo Lu, Petr Stepanov et al. Nature profile →
  2. Argon Plasma Induced Phase Transition in Monolayer MoS2
    2017 384 citations Hua Yu, Jing Zhang et al. profile →
  3. Large-scale flexible and transparent electronics based on monolayer molybdenum disulfide field-effect transistors
    2020 356 citations Cheng Shen, Xiaobo Lu et al. profile →
  4. Symmetry-broken Josephson junctions and superconducting diodes in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene
    2023 103 citations Jaime Díez-Mérida, S. Y. Yang et al. Nature Communications profile →

Author Peers

Peers are selected by citation overlap in the author's most active subfields. citations · hero ref

Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Xiaobo Lu 3.9k 1.8k 1.7k 804 558 66 5.1k
Hao Wu 2.4k 0.6× 2.3k 1.3× 2.3k 1.3× 619 0.8× 1.7k 3.0× 162 5.0k
Jonghwa Eom 3.4k 0.9× 2.4k 1.3× 1.3k 0.8× 808 1.0× 512 0.9× 142 4.8k
Yijin Zhang 4.0k 1.0× 2.1k 1.1× 737 0.4× 523 0.7× 687 1.2× 66 4.7k
Gianluca Fiori 5.9k 1.5× 3.9k 2.1× 1.2k 0.7× 1.6k 2.0× 501 0.9× 156 7.3k
Daniel Neumaier 4.2k 1.1× 2.8k 1.5× 1.3k 0.7× 1.3k 1.6× 467 0.8× 110 5.4k
Xu Du 3.3k 0.8× 2.0k 1.1× 1.5k 0.9× 1.7k 2.1× 432 0.8× 55 4.9k
Zhipeng Hou 1.8k 0.5× 1.2k 0.6× 2.0k 1.2× 457 0.6× 1.8k 3.2× 157 4.0k
Chuan‐Pu Liu 1.8k 0.4× 1.6k 0.9× 1.3k 0.8× 888 1.1× 932 1.7× 149 3.5k
Lei Yin 5.2k 1.3× 4.3k 2.3× 578 0.3× 749 0.9× 1.0k 1.8× 105 6.9k
Myung‐Ho Bae 2.1k 0.5× 1.4k 0.8× 768 0.4× 871 1.1× 300 0.5× 85 3.1k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Xiaobo Lu

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Xiaobo Lu

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Xiaobo Lu. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Xiaobo Lu 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 Xiaobo Lu. Xiaobo Lu is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Liang, Miao, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, et al.. (2025). Flat band and many-body gap in chirally twisted triple bilayer graphene. Physical review. B.. 112(24).
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Yang, Jingxin, Feng Zuo, Kenji Watanabe, et al.. (2025). Cascade of zero-field Chern insulators in magic-angle bilayer graphene. National Science Review. 13(4). nwaf265–nwaf265. 2 indexed citations
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Xie, Guibai, et al.. (2025). Room Temperature Spin Transport in Sub-50 nm Bilayer Graphene Nanoribbons. ACS Applied Electronic Materials. 7(4). 1392–1397.
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Wang, Yijie, et al.. (2024). Correlated insulators and charge density wave states in chirally twisted triple bilayer graphene. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4. 100015–100015.
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Li, Lingxiao, Min Wu, & Xiaobo Lu. (2023). Correlation, superconductivity and topology in graphene moiré superlattice. Frontiers of Physics. 18(4). 5 indexed citations
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Kisiel, Marcin, Xiaobo Lu, Urs Gysin, et al.. (2023). Energy dissipation on magic angle twisted bilayer graphene. Communications Physics. 6(1). 344–344. 3 indexed citations
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Díez-Mérida, Jaime, S. Y. Yang, Ying-Ming Xie, et al.. (2023). Symmetry-broken Josephson junctions and superconducting diodes in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene. Nature Communications. 14(1). 2396–2396. 103 indexed citations breakdown →
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Das, Ipsita, Giorgio Di Battista, Jaime Díez-Mérida, et al.. (2022). Quantum critical behaviour in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene. Nature Physics. 18(6). 633–638. 122 indexed citations
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Lu, Xiaobo, Linghan Zhu, & Li Yang. (2022). Multi-meron interactions and statistics in two-dimensional materials. Journal of Physics Condensed Matter. 34(27). 275802–275802. 1 indexed citations
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Thureja, Deepankur, Ataç Îmamoğlu, T. Smoleński, et al.. (2022). Electrically tunable quantum confinement of neutral excitons. Nature. 606(7913). 298–304. 58 indexed citations
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Chen, Chen, Xiaobo Lu, Bingchen Deng, et al.. (2020). Widely tunable mid-infrared light emission in thin-film black phosphorus. Science Advances. 6(7). eaay6134–eaay6134. 94 indexed citations
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Lu, Xiaobo, Petr Stepanov, José Ramón Durán Retamal, et al.. (2020). Magic-Angle Bilayer Graphene Nanocalorimeters: Toward Broadband, Energy-Resolving Single Photon Detection. Nano Letters. 20(5). 3459–3464. 35 indexed citations
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Lu, Xiaobo, Ruixiang Fei, Linghan Zhu, & Li Yang. (2020). Meron-like topological spin defects in monolayer CrCl3. Nature Communications. 11(1). 4724–4724. 94 indexed citations
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Stepanov, Petr, Ipsita Das, Xiaobo Lu, et al.. (2019). The interplay of insulating and superconducting orders in magic-angle graphene bilayers. arXiv (Cornell University). 21 indexed citations
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Wang, Shuopei, Congli He, Jian Tang, et al.. (2019). New Floating Gate Memory with Excellent Retention Characteristics. Advanced Electronic Materials. 5(4). 64 indexed citations
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Lu, Xiaobo, Petr Stepanov, Wei Yang, et al.. (2019). Superconductors, orbital magnets and correlated states in magic-angle bilayer graphene. Nature. 574(7780). 653–657. 1131 indexed citations breakdown →
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Liao, Xiangbiao, Hang Xiao, Xiaobo Lu, et al.. (2018). Closed-edged bilayer phosphorene nanoribbons producing from collapsing armchair phosphorene nanotubes. Nanotechnology. 29(8). 85707–85707. 10 indexed citations
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Moody, Galan, Kha Tran, Xiaobo Lu, et al.. (2018). Microsecond Valley Lifetime of Defect-Bound Excitons in Monolayer WSe2. Physical Review Letters. 121(5). 57403–57403. 138 indexed citations
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Chen, Xiaolong, Xiaobo Lu, Bingchen Deng, et al.. (2017). Widely tunable black phosphorus mid-infrared photodetector. Nature Communications. 8(1). 1672–1672. 332 indexed citations
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Chen, Peng, Tingting Zhang, Jing Zhang, et al.. (2016). Gate tunable WSe2–BP van der Waals heterojunction devices. Nanoscale. 8(6). 3254–3258. 68 indexed citations

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