Kenji Watanabe

Employment

• National Institute for Materials Science Senior Scientist
  2023 - Present
• National Institute for Materials Science Chief Researcher
  2016 - Present
• National Institute for Materials Science Chief Researcher
  2013 - 2016
• National Institute for Materials Science Principal Researcher
  2008 - 2013
• National Institute for Materials Science Senior Researcher
  2001 - 2008
• National Institute for Research in Inorganic Materials Senior Researcher
  1998 - 2001
• National Institute for Research in Inorganic Materials Researcher
  1994 - 1998
• Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd. Researcher
  1990 - 1994

Education

• Hokkaido University Ph. D
  1987 - 1990
• Hokkaido University Master course
  1985 - 1987
• Shizuoka University Bachelor
  1981 - 1985

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (2466)

• Suppressed band-edge emission and polymorph-dependent low-temperature luminescence in HT-GeS2
  Journal of Solid State Chemistry 2027 DOI: 10.1016/j.jssc.2026.126378
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• Graphene Josephson diodes from asymmetric disorder
  2D Materials 2026 DOI: 10.1088/2053-1583/aeb60e
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• High-energy interlayer exciton ensembles in MoSe 2 /WSe 2 heterostructures by Laguerre–Gaussian excitation
  2D Materials 2026 DOI: 10.1088/2053-1583/aea31d
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• Lateral edge-tunneling spectroscopy of the superconducting gap in thin 2M-WS2
  2D Materials 2026 DOI: 10.1088/2053-1583/aeaa6a
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• Fractional quantum Hall states and oscillatory Landau charge squeezing in Bernal tetralayer graphene
  Nature Communications 2026 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-026-79149-6
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• Atomically resolved exciton emission from single defects in MoS2
  Nature Nanotechnology 2026 DOI: 10.1038/s41565-026-02314-x
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• Correlated insulating states in twisted double bilayer graphene on CrOCl enhanced by interfacial charge transfer effect
  Physical Review B 2026 DOI: 10.1103/4klk-mgwy
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• Dual-Mode Exciton Coupling in Epitaxially Registered Organic–Inorganic 2D Heterocrystals
  Journal of the American Chemical Society 2026 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.6c15961
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• Spin-Resolved Topology of Mem-Emitter Response
  ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 2026 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.6c15285
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• Self‐Assembled hBN Wrinkles as Planar Optofluidic Channels
  Small 2026 DOI: 10.1002/smll.76515
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• Emergence of Chern metal in a moiré Kondo lattice
  Science 2026 DOI: 10.1126/science.adv9181
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• Odd-Even Parity of Nonlinear Hall Effects in Bilayer Graphene
  Physical Review Letters 2026 DOI: 10.1103/3x42-zb9r
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• Probing spin order via magnon transmission across quantum Hall ferromagnet heterojunctions
  Nature Communications 2026 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-026-79281-3
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• Excitonic Stark Response Induced by Quantum Capacitance in van der Waals Heterostructures
  Physical Review Letters 2026 DOI: 10.1103/3jqj-6ldy
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• Hidden valley dynamics behind vanishing circular polarization in moiré excitons
  Physical Review B 2026 DOI: 10.1103/jtzc-x4cq
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• Alloy engineering of excitonic properties in TMD monolayers
  Physical Review Materials 2026 DOI: 10.1103/m7kc-8q5v
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• Electrically reconfigurable dipolar polaritons with highly tunable nonlinearity in a homobilayer microcavity
  Science Advances 2026 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aeh5101
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• Spectroscopic Identification of Dimensionality-Driven Anticorrelation between Charge-Density-Wave Order and Superconductivity in Ultrathin NbSe2
  ACS Nano 2026 DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.6c13780
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• Optically Tunable Chiral Magnetic States and Exchange Engineering via Charge‐Transfer Excitation in a van der Waals Antiferromagnet CrPS4
  Advanced Materials 2026 DOI: 10.1002/adma.75391
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• Visualizing symmetry-broken Chern insulators and their quantum melting
  Science 2026 DOI: 10.1126/science.aef0940
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