Zhiwen Shi

9.4k total citations · 6 hit papers
91 papers, 7.2k citations indexed

About

Zhiwen Shi is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Zhiwen Shi has authored 91 papers receiving a total of 7.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 61 papers in Materials Chemistry, 48 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 35 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Zhiwen Shi's work include Graphene research and applications (47 papers), Quantum and electron transport phenomena (21 papers) and Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research (18 papers). Zhiwen Shi is often cited by papers focused on Graphene research and applications (47 papers), Quantum and electron transport phenomena (21 papers) and Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research (18 papers). Zhiwen Shi collaborates with scholars based in China, Japan and United States. Zhiwen Shi's co-authors include Lianchang Zhang, Guangyu Zhang, Rong Yang, Feng Wang, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Dongxia Shi, Wei Yang, Dongxia Shi and Enge Wang and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

Zhiwen Shi

85 papers receiving 7.0k 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.

Epitaxial growth of single-domain graphene on hexagonal boron nitride

2013 835 citations Guorui Chen, Zhiwen Shi et al. Nature Materials profile →
Direct observation of the layer-dependent electronic structure in phosphorene

2016 649 citations Zhiwen Shi, Zuocheng Zhang et al. Nature Nanotechnology profile →
Super-Elastic Graphene Ripples for Flexible Strain Sensors

2011 598 citations Zhiwen Shi et al. profile →
Topological valley transport at bilayer graphene domain walls

2015 509 citations Zhiwen Shi, Hans A. Bechtel et al. profile →
Signatures of tunable superconductivity in a trilayer graphene moiré superlattice

2019 485 citations Guorui Chen, Aaron L. Sharpe et al. profile →
Observation of Integer and Fractional Quantum Anomalous Hall Effects in Twisted Bilayer MoTe2

2023 203 citations Fan Xu, Zheng Sun et al. Physical Review X profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Zhiwen Shi China	35	4.8k	2.5k	2.3k	2.2k	818	91	7.2k
Ricardo Ruiz United States	33	3.5k 0.7×	2.6k 1.0×	1.5k 0.7×	1.2k 0.6×	562 0.7×	74	5.7k
Gary A. Steele Netherlands	36	7.9k 1.7×	4.6k 1.8×	1.8k 0.8×	3.2k 1.5×	767 0.9×	88	10.2k
Stephen Ducharme United States	47	4.0k 0.8×	3.3k 1.3×	3.8k 1.7×	1.9k 0.9×	1.6k 1.9×	186	7.9k
Roger K. Lake United States	48	4.4k 0.9×	4.3k 1.7×	1.2k 0.5×	3.0k 1.4×	815 1.0×	212	7.7k
Christoph Stampfer Germany	46	6.8k 1.4×	3.6k 1.4×	1.8k 0.8×	4.1k 1.9×	513 0.6×	215	8.6k
Zhongyuan Sun China	19	4.1k 0.8×	3.7k 1.5×	3.0k 1.3×	2.9k 1.3×	1.2k 1.5×	37	7.5k
Xu Du United States	21	3.3k 0.7×	2.0k 0.8×	1.7k 0.7×	1.5k 0.7×	432 0.5×	55	4.9k
Yuerui Lu Australia	51	6.5k 1.4×	4.4k 1.7×	2.4k 1.0×	1.6k 0.7×	1.1k 1.3×	167	8.9k
Yu-Ming Lin United States	36	9.8k 2.1×	6.2k 2.4×	3.2k 1.4×	3.2k 1.5×	836 1.0×	103	12.0k
Hailong Zhou China	40	6.2k 1.3×	4.6k 1.8×	2.5k 1.1×	1.6k 0.8×	1.1k 1.4×	160	9.3k

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Xu, Fan, Feng Liu, Ning Mao, et al.. (2025). Interplay between topology and correlations in the second moiré band of twisted bilayer MoTe2. Nature Physics. 21(4). 542–548. 18 indexed citations

Xu, Kunqi, et al.. (2025). High-precision AFM cutting of graphene via improved electrode-free local anodic oxidation for electronic band engineering. Nanoscale. 17(44). 25657–25663.

Zheng, Jian, Si Wu, Bosai Lyu, et al.. (2025). Switchable Chern Insulators and Competing Quantum Phases in Rhombohedral Graphene Moiré Superlattices. Physical Review Letters. 135(13). 136302–136302.

Chen, Jiajun, Xinyue Huang, Zhichun Zhang, et al.. (2024). Collapse of carbon nanotubes due to local high-pressure from van der Waals encapsulation. Nature Communications. 15(1). 3486–3486. 9 indexed citations

Zhang, Xingxing, Ye Zhang, Xinwei Tao, et al.. (2024). Scalable Synthesis of High‐Quality Ultrathin Ferroelectric Magnesium Molybdenum Oxide. Advanced Materials. 36(24). e2308550–e2308550. 6 indexed citations

Watanabe, Kenji, Takashi Taniguchi, Jinfeng Jia, et al.. (2024). Observation of a Chern insulator in crystalline ABCA-tetralayer graphene with spin-orbit coupling. Science. 384(6694). 414–419. 29 indexed citations

Chen, Guorui, Ya-Hui Zhang, Ya-Hui Zhang, et al.. (2023). Magnetic Field-Stabilized Wigner Crystal States in a Graphene Moiré Superlattice. Nano Letters. 23(15). 7023–7028. 10 indexed citations

Shi, Zhiwen, Han Liu, Tao Wen, et al.. (2023). Cr3+ doping-controlled magnetic and dielectric properties of polycrystalline Y-type BaSrCo2Fe11-xCrxAlO22 hexaferrite. Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials. 586. 171166–171166. 5 indexed citations

Shen, Peiyue, Jiajun Chen, Bosai Lyu, et al.. (2023). Quick identification of ABC trilayer graphene at nanoscale resolution via a near-field optical route. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(1). 15301–15301. 5 indexed citations

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Xu, Fan, Zheng Sun, Tongtong Jia, et al.. (2023). Observation of Integer and Fractional Quantum Anomalous Hall Effects in Twisted Bilayer MoTe2. Physical Review X. 13(3). 203 indexed citations breakdown →

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Zheng, Jian, Bosai Lyu, Fengping Li, et al.. (2023). Spontaneous broken-symmetry insulator and metals in tetralayer rhombohedral graphene. Nature Nanotechnology. 19(2). 188–195. 48 indexed citations

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Bai, Peng, Zhiwen Shi, Wenzhong Shen, et al.. (2023). Bi-Functional High-Speed and Ultrabroad Bandwidth Detector. ACS Photonics. 10(8). 2816–2824. 2 indexed citations

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Zhang, Jianing, et al.. (2022). Moiré-induced band-gap opening in one-dimensional superlattices of carbon nanotubes on hexagonal boron nitride. Physical review. B.. 105(11). 5 indexed citations

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Li, Yunfei, Yuxi Guo, Dan Liu, et al.. (2021). Physical Vapor Deposition Growth of Ultrathin Molybdenum Dioxide Nanosheets with Excellent Conductivity. Advanced Engineering Materials. 24(7). 8 indexed citations

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Huangfu, Geng, Hongyuan Xiao, Lin Guan, et al.. (2020). Visible or Near-Infrared Light Self-Powered Photodetectors Based on Transparent Ferroelectric Ceramics. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 12(30). 33950–33959. 70 indexed citations

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Wang, Sheng, Sihan Zhao, Zhiwen Shi, et al.. (2020). Nonlinear Luttinger liquid plasmons in semiconducting single-walled carbon nanotubes. Nature Materials. 19(9). 986–991. 36 indexed citations

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Zhao, Sihan, SeokJae Yoo, Sheng Wang, et al.. (2020). Tunneling Spectroscopy in Carbon Nanotube-Hexagonal Boron Nitride-Carbon Nanotube Heterojunctions. Nano Letters. 20(9). 6712–6718. 7 indexed citations

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Bai, Peng, Yueheng Zhang, Tianmeng Wang, et al.. (2020). Cryogenic characteristics of GaAs-based near-infrared light emitting diodes. Semiconductor Science and Technology. 35(3). 35021–35021. 12 indexed citations

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Shi, Zhiwen, Xiaoping Hong, Hans A. Bechtel, et al.. (2015). Observation of a Luttinger-liquid plasmon in metallic single-walled carbon nanotubes. Nature Photonics. 9(8). 515–519. 115 indexed citations

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Lin, Wenhua, et al.. (1992). Total internal reflection optical switches by carrier injection in GaAlAs/GaAs. Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics. 1 indexed citations

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