Yu Saito

3.9k total citations · 3 hit papers
47 papers, 2.9k citations indexed

About

Yu Saito is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, Yu Saito has authored 47 papers receiving a total of 2.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 26 papers in Materials Chemistry, 15 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 8 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in Yu Saito's work include Electronic and Structural Properties of Oxides (8 papers), 2D Materials and Applications (8 papers) and Surfactants and Colloidal Systems (5 papers). Yu Saito is often cited by papers focused on Electronic and Structural Properties of Oxides (8 papers), 2D Materials and Applications (8 papers) and Surfactants and Colloidal Systems (5 papers). Yu Saito collaborates with scholars based in Japan, United States and Hong Kong. Yu Saito's co-authors include Yoshihiro Iwasa, Tsutomu Nojima, Jianting Ye, Y. Kasahara, Masaru Onga, Yuki M. Itahashi, Sunao Shimizu, Toshiya Ideue, Yuji Nakagawa and Fangyuan Yang and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Nano Letters.

In The Last Decade

Yu Saito

46 papers receiving 2.9k citations

Hit Papers

Superconductivity protected by spin–valley locking in ion... 2015 2026 2018 2022 2015 2022 2021 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. Superconductivity protected by spin–valley locking in ion-gated MoS2
    2015 436 citations Yu Saito, Jianting Ye et al. profile →
  2. Isospin magnetism and spin-polarized superconductivity in Bernal bilayer graphene
    2022 248 citations Haoxin Zhou, Ludwig Holleis et al. Science profile →
  3. Isospin Pomeranchuk effect in twisted bilayer graphene
    2021 165 citations Yu Saito, Fangyuan Yang et al. Nature profile →

Peers

Yu Saito
Vicky Süß Germany
Günter Reiss Germany
Vincent Bouchiat France
Nicholas D. M. Hine United Kingdom
Chris Van Haesendonck Belgium
Kai Liu China
Aric W. Sanders United States
Olivia Pulci Italy
Hugh Churchill United States
Marco Gobbi Spain
Vicky Süß Germany
Yu Saito
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Fields of papers citing papers by Yu Saito

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yu Saito

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Yu Saito. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Yu Saito 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 Saito. Yu Saito 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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Zhou, Haoxin, Ludwig Holleis, Yu Saito, et al.. (2022). Isospin magnetism and spin-polarized superconductivity in Bernal bilayer graphene. Science. 375(6582). 774–778. 248 indexed citations breakdown →
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Saito, Yu, Fangyuan Yang, Xiaoxue Liu, et al.. (2021). Isospin Pomeranchuk effect in twisted bilayer graphene. Nature. 592(7853). 220–224. 165 indexed citations breakdown →
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Saito, Yu, et al.. (2020). A Different Silica Surface: Radical Oxidation of Poly(methylsilsesquioxane) Thin Films and Particles (Tospearl). Langmuir. 36(34). 10110–10119. 5 indexed citations
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Itahashi, Yuki M., Toshiya Ideue, Yu Saito, et al.. (2020). Nonreciprocal transport in gate-induced polar superconductor SrTiO 3. Science Advances. 6(13). eaay9120–eaay9120. 107 indexed citations
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Nakano, Kazuya, et al.. (2020). Design of Multiband Switching Illumination With Low-Concentration Lugol Stain for Esophageal Cancer Detection. IEEE Access. 8. 216043–216054. 2 indexed citations
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Saito, Yu, et al.. (2020). Challenges in Extremely Low Specific On-Resistance with SiC SJ-VMOSFETs. Materials science forum. 1004. 758–763. 1 indexed citations
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Saito, Yu, Kei Terayama, Masaru Onga, et al.. (2019). Deep-learning-based quality filtering of mechanically exfoliated 2D crystals. npj Computational Materials. 5(1). 57 indexed citations
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Qin, Feng, Toshiya Ideue, Wu Shi, et al.. (2018). Electric-field Control of Electronic States in WS<sub>2</sub> Nanodevices by Electrolyte Gating. Journal of Visualized Experiments. 2 indexed citations
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Qin, Feng, Toshiya Ideue, Shi Wu, et al.. (2018). Electric-field Control of Electronic States in WS<sub>2</sub> Nanodevices by Electrolyte Gating. Journal of Visualized Experiments. 1 indexed citations
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Iwasa, Yoshihiro, Yu Saito, Y. Kasahara, Jianting Ye, & Tsutomu Nojima. (2015). Metallic ground state in an ion-gated two- dimensional superconductor. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 2015. 11 indexed citations
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Shi, Wu, Jianting Ye, Yijin Zhang, et al.. (2015). Superconductivity Series in Transition Metal Dichalcogenides by Ionic Gating. Scientific Reports. 5(1). 12534–12534. 230 indexed citations
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Saito, Yu, et al.. (2010). Cholinergic activation of hippocampal neural stem cells in aged dentate gyrus. Hippocampus. 21(4). 446–459. 88 indexed citations
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Miyamaru, Fumiaki, Yu Saito, Kohji Yamamoto, et al.. (2010). Dependence of emission of terahertz radiation on geometrical parameters of dipole photoconductive antennas. Applied Physics Letters. 96(21). 49 indexed citations
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Kamimura, Masao, Daisuke Miyamoto, Yu Saito, Kohei Soga, & Yukio Nagasaki. (2008). Preparation of PEG and Protein Co-immobilized Upconversion Nanophosphors as Near-infrared Biolabeling Materials. Journal of Photopolymer Science and Technology. 21(2). 183–187. 13 indexed citations
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Saito, Yu, et al.. (2008). Rheological behavior of silica suspensions in aqueous solutions of associating polymer. Colloid & Polymer Science. 286(13). 1537–1544. 23 indexed citations
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Kamimura, Masao, Daisuke Miyamoto, Yu Saito, Kohei Soga, & Yukio Nagasaki. (2008). Design of Poly(ethylene glycol)/Streptavidin Coimmobilized Upconversion Nanophosphors and Their Application to Fluorescence Biolabeling. Langmuir. 24(16). 8864–8870. 100 indexed citations
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Francis, Howard W., Alejandro Rivas, Mohamed Lehar, et al.. (2005). Efficient quantification of afferent cochlear ultrastructure using design-based stereology. Journal of Neuroscience Methods. 150(2). 150–158. 9 indexed citations
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Tsuge, Takeharu, Yu Saito, Yahaya M. Normi, et al.. (2004). Mutation Effects of a Conserved Alanine (Ala510) in Type I Polyhydroxyalkanoate Synthase from Ralstonia eutropha on Polyester Biosynthesis. Macromolecular Bioscience. 4(10). 963–970. 24 indexed citations
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Tsuge, Takeharu, Yu Saito, Yoshihiro Kikkawa, Tomohiro Hiraishi, & Yoshiharu Doi. (2004). Biosynthesis and Compositional Regulation of Poly[(3‐hydroxybutyrate)‐co‐(3‐hydroxyhexanoate)] in Recombinant Ralstonia eutropha Expressing Mutated Polyhydroxyalkanoate Synthase Genes. Macromolecular Bioscience. 4(3). 238–242. 57 indexed citations
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Kasaba, Toshiharu, Yu Saito, Shinichi Sakura, & Y Kosaka. (1990). [The effects of thiamylal, ketamine and nicardipine on the hippocampal theta waves produced by cerebral ischemia in cats].. PubMed. 39(7). 870–6.

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