Kenji Watanabe

Research interests

Publications

• Quantum-metric-induced nonlinear transport in a topological antiferromagnet

  Nature · 2023 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06363-3

• UItra-low friction and edge-pinning effect in large-lattice-mismatch van der Waals heterostructures

  Nature Materials · 2021 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-021-01058-4

• Unconventional ferroelectricity in moiré heterostructures

  Nature · 2020 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2970-9

• Correlated electronic phases in twisted bilayer transition metal dichalcogenides

  Nature Materials · 2020 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-020-0708-6

• Measurement of the spin-forbidden dark excitons in MoS2 and MoSe2 monolayers

  Nature Communications · 2020 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17608-4

• Nearly room temperature ferromagnetism in a magnetic metal-rich van der Waals metal

  Science Advances · 2020 · https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aay8912

• Maximized electron interactions at the magic angle in twisted bilayer graphene

  Nature · 2019 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-1431-9

• Superconductors, orbital magnets and correlated states in magic-angle bilayer graphene

  Nature · 2019 · 10.1038/s41586-019-1695-0

• Evidence for moiré excitons in van der Waals heterostructures

  Nature · 2019 · 10.1038/s41586-019-0975-z

• Observation of moiré excitons in WSe2/WS2 heterostructure superlattices

  Nature · 2019 · 10.1038/s41586-019-0976-y

• High thermal conductivity of high-quality monolayer boron nitride and its thermal expansion

  Science Advances · 2019 · https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aav0129

• Charge-tuneable biexciton complexes in monolayer WSe2.

  NIMS Materials Data Repository · 2018 · https://doi.org/10.17863/cam.30539

• Giant tunneling magnetoresistance in spin-filter van der Waals heterostructures

  Science · 2018 · 10.1126/science.aar4851

• Air-Stable Room-Temperature Mid-Infrared Photodetectors Based on hBN/Black Arsenic Phosphorus/hBN Heterostructures

  Nano Letters · 2018 · https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.8b00835

• Unconventional superconductivity in magic-angle graphene superlattices

  Nature · 2018 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nature26160

• Correlated insulator behaviour at half-filling in magic-angle graphene superlattices

  Nature · 2018 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nature26154

• Mechanical properties of atomically thin boron nitride and the role of interlayer interactions

  Nature Communications · 2017 · https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15815

• A MoTe2-based light-emitting diode and photodetector for silicon photonic integrated circuits.

  PubMed · 2017 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nnano.2017.209

• Quality Heterostructures from Two-Dimensional Crystals Unstable in Air by Their Assembly in Inert Atmosphere

  Nano Letters · 2015 · https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.5b00648

• Light-emitting diodes by band-structure engineering in van der Waals heterostructures

  Nature Materials · 2015 · 10.1038/nmat4205

• Multi-terminal transport measurements of MoS2 using a van der Waals heterostructure device platform

  Nature Nanotechnology · 2015 · 10.1038/nnano.2015.70

• Electrically tunable excitonic light-emitting diodes based on monolayer WSe2 p–n junctions

  Nature Nanotechnology · 2014 · 10.1038/nnano.2014.26

• Hierarchy of Hofstadter states and replica quantum Hall ferromagnetism in graphene superlattices

  Nature Physics · 2014 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys2979

• Tunable Phonon Polaritons in Atomically Thin van der Waals Crystals of Boron Nitride

  Science · 2014 · 10.1126/science.1246833

• Strong Oxidation Resistance of Atomically Thin Boron Nitride Nanosheets

  ACS Nano · 2014 · https://doi.org/10.1021/nn500059s

• Highly confined low-loss plasmons in graphene–boron nitride heterostructures

  Nature Materials · 2014 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat4169

• Hofstadter’s butterfly and the fractal quantum Hall effect in moiré superlattices

  Nature · 2013 · 10.1038/nature12186

• One-Dimensional Electrical Contact to a Two-Dimensional Material

  Science · 2013 · https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1244358

• Massive Dirac Fermions and Hofstadter Butterfly in a van der Waals Heterostructure

  Science · 2013 · 10.1126/science.1237240

• Understanding and controlling the substrate effect on graphene electron-transfer chemistry via reactivity imprint lithography

  Nature Chemistry · 2012 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nchem.1421

• Emergence of superlattice Dirac points in graphene on hexagonal boron nitride

  Nature Physics · 2012 · 10.1038/nphys2272

• Scanning tunnelling microscopy and spectroscopy of ultra-flat graphene on hexagonal boron nitride

  Nature Materials · 2011 · 10.1038/nmat2968

• Boron nitride substrates for high-quality graphene electronics

  Nature Nanotechnology · 2010 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nnano.2010.172

• Deep Ultraviolet Light-Emitting Hexagonal Boron Nitride Synthesized at Atmospheric Pressure

  Science · 2007 · 10.1126/science.1144216

• Vibrational Properties of Hexagonal Boron Nitride: Inelastic X-Ray Scattering andAb InitioCalculations

  Physical Review Letters · 2007 · https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.98.095503

• Direct-bandgap properties and evidence for ultraviolet lasing of hexagonal boron nitride single crystal

  Nature Materials · 2004 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat1134

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