Yu Nishitani

2.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
26 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Yu Nishitani is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials Chemistry and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Yu Nishitani has authored 26 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 14 papers in Materials Chemistry and 7 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Yu Nishitani's work include Advanced Memory and Neural Computing (9 papers), ZnO doping and properties (8 papers) and Ferroelectric and Negative Capacitance Devices (7 papers). Yu Nishitani is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Memory and Neural Computing (9 papers), ZnO doping and properties (8 papers) and Ferroelectric and Negative Capacitance Devices (7 papers). Yu Nishitani collaborates with scholars based in Japan, Poland and United States. Yu Nishitani's co-authors include Hideo Ohno, F. Matsukura, Daichi Chiba, Yukihiro Kaneko, M. Sawicki, Michihito Ueda, Y. Nakatani, Eiji Fujii, T. Dietl and Motoki Ueda and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Physical Review Letters and Applied Physics Letters.

In The Last Decade

Yu Nishitani

26 papers receiving 1.6k citations

Hit Papers

Magnetization vector manipulation by electric fields 2008 2026 2014 2020 2008 100 200 300 400 500
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. Magnetization vector manipulation by electric fields
    2008 519 citations Daichi Chiba, M. Sawicki et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Yu Nishitani Japan 16 818 811 595 467 235 26 1.6k
Chong Bi China 19 1.0k 1.2× 670 0.8× 477 0.8× 596 1.3× 222 0.9× 41 1.6k
А. В. Ситников Russia 19 562 0.7× 575 0.7× 427 0.7× 510 1.1× 142 0.6× 214 1.3k
Cécile Carrétéro France 12 816 1.0× 593 0.7× 433 0.7× 217 0.5× 152 0.6× 22 1.2k
Sayani Majumdar Finland 23 1.1k 1.4× 668 0.8× 674 1.1× 195 0.4× 244 1.0× 73 1.9k
Guillaume Agnus France 17 927 1.1× 849 1.0× 482 0.8× 454 1.0× 112 0.5× 60 1.6k
Hao Fu China 20 572 0.7× 796 1.0× 476 0.8× 208 0.4× 118 0.5× 131 1.5k
P. Meuffels Germany 25 1.0k 1.2× 838 1.0× 498 0.8× 113 0.2× 233 1.0× 63 1.7k
Étienne Janod France 23 986 1.2× 736 0.9× 782 1.3× 314 0.7× 195 0.8× 98 2.1k
Marie‐Paule Besland France 22 1.2k 1.5× 842 1.0× 262 0.4× 202 0.4× 137 0.6× 92 1.6k
A. Zenkevich Russia 24 1.6k 1.9× 1.3k 1.5× 370 0.6× 262 0.6× 160 0.7× 97 2.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Yu Nishitani

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Fields of papers citing papers by Yu Nishitani

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Yu Nishitani. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Yu Nishitani. The network helps show where Yu Nishitani may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yu Nishitani

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Yu Nishitani. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Yu Nishitani 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 Yu Nishitani. Yu Nishitani 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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Tsuruoka, Tohru, Jin Su, Yu Nishitani, et al.. (2020). Fabrication of a magnesium-ion-conducting magnesium phosphate electrolyte film using atomic layer deposition. Japanese Journal of Applied Physics. 59(SI). SIIG08–SIIG08. 7 indexed citations
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Miyamoto, Y., Tomoyasu Yokoyama, Yu Nishitani, et al.. (2020). High Current Density Sn-Based Perovskite Solar Cells via Enhanced Electron Extraction in Nanoporous Electron Transport Layers. ACS Applied Nano Materials. 3(11). 11650–11657. 27 indexed citations
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Yokoyama, Tomoyasu, Yu Nishitani, Y. Miyamoto, et al.. (2020). Improving the Open-Circuit Voltage of Sn-Based Perovskite Solar Cells by Band Alignment at the Electron Transport Layer/Perovskite Layer Interface. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 12(24). 27131–27139. 58 indexed citations
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Su, Jin, et al.. (2019). Atomic Layer Deposition of a Magnesium Phosphate Solid Electrolyte. Chemistry of Materials. 31(15). 5566–5575. 35 indexed citations
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Nishitani, Yu, et al.. (2017). Evaluation of magnesium ion migration in inorganic oxides by the bond valence site energy method. Solid State Ionics. 315. 111–115. 41 indexed citations
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Ueda, Michihito, et al.. (2015). Battery-less shock-recording device consisting of a piezoelectric sensor and a ferroelectric-gate field-effect transistor. Sensors and Actuators A Physical. 232. 75–83. 8 indexed citations
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Nishitani, Yu, Yukihiro Kaneko, & Michihito Ueda. (2015). Supervised Learning Using Spike-Timing-Dependent Plasticity of Memristive Synapses. IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems. 26(12). 2999–3008. 38 indexed citations
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Ueda, Michihito, et al.. (2014). Back-Propagation Operation for Analog Neural Network Hardware with Synapse Components Having Hysteresis Characteristics. PLoS ONE. 9(11). e112659–e112659. 5 indexed citations
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Nishitani, Yu, Yukihiro Kaneko, & Motoki Ueda. (2014). Artificial synapses using ferroelectric memristors embedded with CMOS Circuit for image recognition. 12. 297–298. 2 indexed citations
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Kaneko, Yukihiro, Yu Nishitani, & Michihito Ueda. (2014). Ferroelectric Artificial Synapses for Recognition of a Multishaded Image. IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices. 61(8). 2827–2833. 129 indexed citations
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Ueda, Motoki, Yukihiro Kaneko, Yu Nishitani, Takashi Morie, & Eiji Fujii. (2012). Biologically-inspired learning device using three-terminal ferroelectric memristor. 275–276. 3 indexed citations
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Nishitani, Yu, Yukihiro Kaneko, Motoki Ueda, Takashi Morie, & Eiji Fujii. (2012). Three-terminal ferroelectric synapse device with concurrent learning function for artificial neural networks. Journal of Applied Physics. 111(12). 176 indexed citations
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Ueda, Michihito, Yukihiro Kaneko, Yu Nishitani, & Eiji Fujii. (2011). A neural network circuit using persistent interfacial conducting heterostructures. Journal of Applied Physics. 110(8). 8 indexed citations
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Kaneko, Yukihiro, Yu Nishitani, Michihito Ueda, Eisuke Tokumitsu, & Eiji Fujii. (2011). A 60 nm channel length ferroelectric-gate field-effect transistor capable of fast switching and multilevel programming. Applied Physics Letters. 99(18). 33 indexed citations
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Kaneko, Yukihiro, Yu Nishitani, Hirohisa Tanaka, et al.. (2011). Correlated motion dynamics of electron channels and domain walls in a ferroelectric-gate thin-film transistor consisting of a ZnO/Pb(Zr,Ti)O3 stacked structure. Journal of Applied Physics. 110(8). 39 indexed citations
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Chiba, Daichi, M. Endo, Yu Nishitani, et al.. (2010). Anomalous Hall Effect in Field-Effect Structures of (Ga,Mn)As. Physical Review Letters. 104(10). 106601–106601. 60 indexed citations
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Nishitani, Yu, Daichi Chiba, M. Endo, et al.. (2010). Curie temperature versus hole concentration in field-effect structures ofGa1−xMnxAs. Physical Review B. 81(4). 56 indexed citations
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Sawicki, M., Daichi Chiba, Yu Nishitani, et al.. (2009). Experimental probing of the interplay between ferromagnetism and localization in (Ga, Mn)As. Nature Physics. 6(1). 22–25. 170 indexed citations
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Chiba, Daichi, M. Sawicki, Yu Nishitani, et al.. (2008). Magnetization vector manipulation by electric fields. Nature. 455(7212). 515–518. 519 indexed citations breakdown →
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Chiba, Daichi, Yu Nishitani, F. Matsukura, & Hideo Ohno. (2007). Properties of Ga1−xMnxAs with high Mn composition (x>0.1). Applied Physics Letters. 90(12). 60 indexed citations

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