Zhitang Song

14.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
716 papers, 12.4k citations indexed

About

Zhitang Song is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials Chemistry and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Zhitang Song has authored 716 papers receiving a total of 12.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 613 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 606 papers in Materials Chemistry and 170 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Zhitang Song's work include Phase-change materials and chalcogenides (502 papers), Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films (366 papers) and Transition Metal Oxide Nanomaterials (144 papers). Zhitang Song is often cited by papers focused on Phase-change materials and chalcogenides (502 papers), Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films (366 papers) and Transition Metal Oxide Nanomaterials (144 papers). Zhitang Song collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Hong Kong. Zhitang Song's co-authors include Sannian Song, Songlin Feng, Liangcai Wu, Bo Liu, Feng Rao, Min Zhu, Weili Liu, Shilong Lv, Yan Cheng and Kun Ren and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Advanced Materials.

In The Last Decade

Zhitang Song

678 papers receiving 12.1k 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.

Reducing the stochasticity of crystal nucleation to enable subnanosecond memory writing

2017 516 citations Feng Rao, Shilong Lv et al. Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Zhitang Song China	53	10.2k	9.9k	2.9k	2.8k	1.7k	716	12.4k
Tseung‐Yuen Tseng Taiwan	58	7.2k 0.7×	11.4k 1.1×	2.8k 0.9×	1.6k 0.6×	2.6k 1.5×	497	14.2k
Gwan‐Hyoung Lee South Korea	47	13.7k 1.3×	7.3k 0.7×	657 0.2×	3.0k 1.1×	1.1k 0.6×	156	15.9k
Yoshio Nishi United States	58	4.5k 0.4×	10.1k 1.0×	1.3k 0.4×	1.9k 0.7×	1.2k 0.7×	344	12.2k
Shriram Ramanathan United States	55	5.7k 0.6×	7.3k 0.7×	4.7k 1.6×	1.2k 0.5×	4.4k 2.6×	302	12.4k
J. Judy United States	55	8.3k 0.8×	12.4k 1.2×	1.2k 0.4×	2.4k 0.9×	2.6k 1.5×	169	19.3k
Deep Jariwala United States	47	11.6k 1.1×	6.9k 0.7×	644 0.2×	2.7k 1.0×	1.4k 0.8×	169	14.1k
Sung‐Yool Choi South Korea	55	5.2k 0.5×	6.9k 0.7×	1.7k 0.6×	3.1k 1.1×	1.4k 0.8×	217	10.3k
Stanford R. Ovshinsky United States	41	7.8k 0.8×	6.2k 0.6×	1.0k 0.3×	953 0.3×	1.4k 0.8×	146	9.6k
Houk Jang South Korea	19	9.3k 0.9×	6.0k 0.6×	1.6k 0.6×	5.8k 2.1×	2.0k 1.2×	42	13.0k
Xiangfan Xu China	31	10.3k 1.0×	5.1k 0.5×	1.2k 0.4×	5.0k 1.8×	2.3k 1.3×	76	14.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Zhitang Song

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20 of 20 papers shown

Song, Zhitang, et al.. (2025). Numerical modeling of reversible solid oxide cells and optimization of the interconnector structure. Journal of Solid State Electrochemistry. 29(12). 5055–5078.

Liu, Xiaolin, Jie Zhang, Bingbing Zhang, et al.. (2024). High performance antimony-rich RexSb3Te for phase-change random access memory applications. Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids. 635. 122987–122987. 4 indexed citations

Yu, Lei, et al.. (2024). Subthreshold read operations in 3D PCM: 1S1R device modeling and memory array analysis. Microelectronic Engineering. 292. 112211–112211. 2 indexed citations

Song, Zhitang, et al.. (2024). Polishing Mechanism of CMP 4H-SiC Crystal Substrate (0001) Si Surface Based on an Alumina (Al2O3) Abrasive. Materials. 17(3). 679–679. 10 indexed citations

Ding, Xing, et al.. (2024). A Low-Cost Quadruple-Node-Upsets Resilient Latch Design. IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems. 32(10). 1930–1939. 2 indexed citations

Wang, Fang, et al.. (2024). Mechanism and Barrier Modulation of Pt/TaOₓ/HfO₂/TiN Self- Rectifying Devices. IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices. 71(10). 5980–5985. 1 indexed citations

Liu, Jin, Jiarui Zhang, Yuqing Chen, et al.. (2024). Understanding the mechanism of plasma etching of carbon-doped GeSbTe phase change material. Applied Surface Science. 671. 160696–160696.

Liu, Ruirui, Jiayue Xu, Jiwei Zhai, et al.. (2023). Ultrafast phase change speed and high thermal stability of scandium doped SnSb4 thin film for PCRAM applications. Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids. 613. 122395–122395. 5 indexed citations

Wang, Fang, Xin Shan, Yupeng Zhang, et al.. (2023). Titanium oxide memristors driven by oxygen diffusion dynamics and 1S1M biomimetic system. Vacuum. 210. 111844–111844. 4 indexed citations

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Qian, Xingyu, et al.. (2023). A Streaming Data Processing Architecture Based on Lookup Tables. Electronics. 12(12). 2725–2725. 3 indexed citations

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Liu, Weili, et al.. (2022). Effect of Particle Size and pH Value of Slurry on Chemical Mechanical Polishing of SiO ₂ Film. ECS Journal of Solid State Science and Technology. 11(1). 13004–13004. 11 indexed citations

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Zhang, Lifang, Fang Wang, Yemei Han, et al.. (2022). High Conductivity Update Linearity MoS₂ Memtransistors Array Based on Lithium‐Ion Modulation. Advanced Materials Interfaces. 9(32). 3 indexed citations

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Xue, Yuan, Sannian Song, Xiao-Gang Chen, et al.. (2022). Enhanced performance of phase change memory by grain size reduction. Journal of Materials Chemistry C. 10(9). 3585–3592. 20 indexed citations

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Cao, Xiyuan, Sannian Song, Longsheng Wu, et al.. (2022). Ultracompact High‐Extinction‐Ratio Nonvolatile On‐Chip Switches Based on Structured Phase Change Materials. Laser & Photonics Review. 16(6). 20 indexed citations

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Cai, Daolin, et al.. (2021). Investigation of the effect of blade electrode width on performance of phase change memory. Semiconductor Science and Technology. 36(10). 105003–105003. 1 indexed citations

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Shen, Jiabin, Shujing Jia, Nannan Shi, et al.. (2021). Elemental electrical switch enabling phase segregation–free operation. Science. 374(6573). 1390–1394. 107 indexed citations

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Ren, Kun, Yong Wang, Shilong Lv, et al.. (2019). Reducing structural change in the phase transition of Ge-doped Bi_0.5Sb_1.5Te₃to enable high-speed and low-energy memory switching. Journal of Materials Chemistry C. 7(38). 11813–11823. 10 indexed citations

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Shen, Jiabin, Shilong Lv, Xin Chen, et al.. (2019). Thermal Barrier Phase Change Memory. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 11(5). 5336–5343. 75 indexed citations

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Zhao, Zihan, Weihua Wu, Bo Shen, et al.. (2019). Improvement of phase change speed and thermal stability in Ge ₅ Sb ₉₅ /ZnSb multilayer thin films for phase change memory application. Semiconductor Science and Technology. 34(10). 105022–105022. 7 indexed citations

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Zhou, Xilin, Liangcai Wu, Zhitang Song, et al.. (2009). Si_2Sb_2Te_6 Phase Change Material for Low-Power Phase Change Memory Application. Applied Physics Express. 2(9). 1 indexed citations

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