Takashi Taniguchi

Professor 路 The University of Tokyo

The University of Tokyo

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Publications5,505
Last 5y3136
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Research focus

Recurring themes across recent publications include Magic-Angle Graphene, Graphene Superlattices, Boron Nitride, Hofstadter Butterfly. Work appears regularly in Nature, Nature Nanotechnology, Nature Materials. See the publication list below for the most-cited works compiled from OpenAlex.

Recent publications

  1. Unconventional superconductivity in magic-angle graphene superlattices2018 路 Nature 路 8170 citationsDOI
  2. Boron nitride substrates for high-quality graphene electronics2010 路 Nature Nanotechnology 路 7001 citationsDOI
  3. Correlated insulator behaviour at half-filling in magic-angle graphene superlattices2018 路 Nature 路 4816 citationsDOI
  4. Direct-bandgap properties and evidence for ultraviolet lasing of hexagonal boron nitride single crystal2004 路 Nature Materials 路 2984 citationsDOI
  5. Hofstadter鈥檚 butterfly and the fractal quantum Hall effect in moir茅 superlattices2013 路 Nature 路 1726 citationsDOI
  6. Massive Dirac Fermions and Hofstadter Butterfly in a van der Waals Heterostructure2013 路 Science 路 1683 citationsDOI
  7. Light-emitting diodes by band-structure engineering in van der Waals heterostructures2015 路 Nature Materials 路 1671 citationsDOI
  8. Electrically tunable excitonic light-emitting diodes based on monolayer WSe2 p鈥搉 junctions2014 路 Nature Nanotechnology 路 1663 citationsDOI
  9. Superconductors, orbital magnets and correlated states in magic-angle bilayer graphene2019 路 Nature 路 1622 citationsDOI
  10. Multi-terminal transport measurements of MoS2 using a van der Waals heterostructure device platform2015 路 Nature Nanotechnology 路 1329 citationsDOI

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