Zaiyao Fei

5.2k total citations · 5 hit papers
32 papers, 3.9k citations indexed

About

Zaiyao Fei is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Zaiyao Fei has authored 32 papers receiving a total of 3.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 24 papers in Materials Chemistry, 20 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 10 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Zaiyao Fei's work include Topological Materials and Phenomena (17 papers), 2D Materials and Applications (15 papers) and Graphene research and applications (14 papers). Zaiyao Fei is often cited by papers focused on Topological Materials and Phenomena (17 papers), 2D Materials and Applications (15 papers) and Graphene research and applications (14 papers). Zaiyao Fei collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Japan. Zaiyao Fei's co-authors include David Cobden, Xiaodong Xu, Bosong Sun, Wenjin Zhao, Tauno Palomaki, Jiaqiang Yan, Sanfeng Wu, Di Xiao, Zhiying Zhao and Moira K. Miller and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Zaiyao Fei

32 papers receiving 3.8k citations

Hit Papers

Ferroelectric switching of a two-dimensional metal 2013 2026 2017 2021 2018 2013 2017 2019 2013 250 500 750
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. Ferroelectric switching of a two-dimensional metal
    2018 761 citations Zaiyao Fei, Wenjin Zhao et al. Nature profile →
  2. Electrical tuning of valley magnetic moment through symmetry control in bilayer MoS2
    2013 526 citations Zaiyao Fei, Di Xiao et al. profile →
  3. Edge conduction in monolayer WTe2
    2017 442 citations Zaiyao Fei, Tauno Palomaki et al. profile →
  4. Switching 2D magnetic states via pressure tuning of layer stacking
    2019 424 citations Tiancheng Song, Zaiyao Fei et al. Nature Materials profile →
  5. Measurement of a solid-state triple point at the metal–insulator transition in VO2
    2013 394 citations Jae Hyung Park, Jim M. Coy 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
Zaiyao Fei United States 20 3.1k 1.5k 1.3k 962 532 32 3.9k
Young Jun Chang South Korea 28 2.5k 0.8× 528 0.3× 1.2k 0.9× 1.2k 1.2× 531 1.0× 115 3.1k
Jingwei Jiang China 21 1.7k 0.5× 1.3k 0.9× 968 0.8× 523 0.5× 321 0.6× 44 2.6k
Jia-Cai Nie China 28 1.9k 0.6× 780 0.5× 578 0.5× 587 0.6× 731 1.4× 152 2.5k
J. Geurts Germany 24 1.6k 0.5× 972 0.6× 1.8k 1.4× 451 0.5× 178 0.3× 134 2.8k
A. X. Gray United States 21 1.0k 0.3× 448 0.3× 554 0.4× 861 0.9× 450 0.8× 54 1.8k
Myung‐Geun Han United States 25 1.6k 0.5× 631 0.4× 750 0.6× 916 1.0× 401 0.8× 93 2.4k
Darshana Wickramaratne United States 25 2.5k 0.8× 516 0.3× 1.5k 1.2× 561 0.6× 445 0.8× 82 3.0k
Mariona Coll Spain 28 1.5k 0.5× 264 0.2× 941 0.7× 754 0.8× 1.1k 2.0× 78 2.4k
Yan Wen China 34 2.3k 0.7× 1.2k 0.8× 1.0k 0.8× 797 0.8× 425 0.8× 103 3.1k
Akihiro Wakahara Japan 27 2.0k 0.6× 1.2k 0.7× 2.0k 1.6× 839 0.9× 1.3k 2.5× 211 3.4k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Zaiyao Fei

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Zaiyao Fei

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Li, Yuhao, Minmin Xue, Takashi Taniguchi, et al.. (2025). Engineering Polar Vortices via Strain Soliton Interactions in Marginally Twisted Multilayer Graphene. Nano Letters. 25(4). 1584–1592. 2 indexed citations
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Li, Yuhao, Yifei Wang, Takashi Taniguchi, et al.. (2025). Unusual topological polar texture in moiré ferroelectrics. Nature Communications. 16(1). 5451–5451. 1 indexed citations
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Fei, Zaiyao, Zeyuan Sun, Yangfan Yi, et al.. (2023). Extrinsic Nonlinear Kerr Rotation in Topological Materials under a Magnetic Field. ACS Nano. 17(19). 18905–18913. 4 indexed citations
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Jing, Ran, Suheng Xu, Zaiyao Fei, et al.. (2023). Phase-resolved terahertz nanoimaging of WTe2 microcrystals. Physical review. B.. 107(15). 11 indexed citations
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Wu, Qi, Zixuan Fang, Haizeng Song, et al.. (2022). Controllable Edge Epitaxy of Helical GeSe/GeS Heterostructures. Nano Letters. 22(13). 5086–5093. 13 indexed citations
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Cai, Jiaqi, Dmitry Ovchinnikov, Zaiyao Fei, et al.. (2022). Electric control of a canted-antiferromagnetic Chern insulator. Nature Communications. 13(1). 1668–1668. 52 indexed citations
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Ovchinnikov, Dmitry, Jiaqi Cai, Zhong Lin, et al.. (2022). Topological current divider in a Chern insulator junction. Nature Communications. 13(1). 5967–5967. 20 indexed citations
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Jing, Ran, Yinming Shao, Zaiyao Fei, et al.. (2021). Terahertz response of monolayer and few-layer WTe2 at the nanoscale. Nature Communications. 12(1). 5594–5594. 45 indexed citations
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Lin, Zhong, Bevin Huang, Kyle Hwangbo, et al.. (2021). Magnetism and Its Structural Coupling Effects in 2D Ising Ferromagnetic Insulator VI3. Nano Letters. 21(21). 9180–9186. 38 indexed citations
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Zhao, Wenjin, Zaiyao Fei, Paul Malinowski, et al.. (2020). Determination of the helical edge and bulk spin axis in quantum spin Hall insulator WTe2. arXiv (Cornell University). 3 indexed citations
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Chen, Shao-Wen, Minhao He, Yahui Zhang, et al.. (2020). Electrically tunable correlated and topological states in twisted monolayer-bilayer graphene. arXiv (Cornell University). 13 indexed citations
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Ovchinnikov, Dmitry, Xiong Huang, Zhong Lin, et al.. (2020). Intertwined Topological and Magnetic Orders in Atomically Thin Chern Insulator MnBi2Te4. arXiv (Cornell University). 6 indexed citations
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Song, Tiancheng, Zaiyao Fei, Matthew Yankowitz, et al.. (2019). Switching 2D magnetic states via pressure tuning of layer stacking. Nature Materials. 18(12). 1298–1302. 424 indexed citations breakdown →
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Shi, Yanmeng, Joshua Kahn, Ben Niu, et al.. (2019). Imaging quantum spin Hall edges in monolayer WTe 2. Science Advances. 5(2). eaat8799–eaat8799. 122 indexed citations
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May, Andrew F., Dmitry Ovchinnikov, Qiang Zheng, et al.. (2019). Ferromagnetism Near Room Temperature in the Cleavable van der Waals Crystal Fe5GeTe2. ACS Nano. 13(4). 4436–4442. 334 indexed citations
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Sajadi, Ebrahim, Tauno Palomaki, Zaiyao Fei, et al.. (2018). Gate-induced superconductivity in monolayer WTe 2. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 2018. 1 indexed citations
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Fei, Zaiyao, Wenjin Zhao, Tauno Palomaki, et al.. (2018). Ferroelectric switching of a two-dimensional metal. Nature. 560(7718). 336–339. 761 indexed citations breakdown →
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Fei, Zaiyao, Tauno Palomaki, Wenjin Zhao, et al.. (2016). Topological insulator behavior in monolayer WTe2. arXiv (Cornell University). 1 indexed citations
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Park, Jae Hyung, Jim M. Coy, T. Serkan Kasırga, et al.. (2013). Measurement of a solid-state triple point at the metal–insulator transition in VO2. Nature. 500(7463). 431–434. 394 indexed citations breakdown →
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Kasırga, T. Serkan, Dong Sun, Jae Whan Park, et al.. (2012). Photoresponse of a strongly correlated material determined by scanning photocurrent microscopy. Nature Nanotechnology. 7(11). 723–727. 68 indexed citations

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