Adrien Allain

5.5k total citations · 4 hit papers
15 papers, 4.4k citations indexed

About

Adrien Allain is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, Adrien Allain has authored 15 papers receiving a total of 4.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Materials Chemistry, 9 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 6 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in Adrien Allain's work include 2D Materials and Applications (9 papers), Graphene research and applications (8 papers) and Perovskite Materials and Applications (3 papers). Adrien Allain is often cited by papers focused on 2D Materials and Applications (9 papers), Graphene research and applications (8 papers) and Perovskite Materials and Applications (3 papers). Adrien Allain collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, France and India. Adrien Allain's co-authors include András Kis, Kaustav Banerjee, Jiahao Kang, Dominik Lembke, Ataç Îmamoğlu, Ajit Srivastava, Meinrad Sidler, Dmitry Ovchinnikov, Dumitru Dumcenco and Ying‐Sheng Huang and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Nature Materials and Nano Letters.

In The Last Decade

Adrien Allain

15 papers receiving 4.4k citations

Hit Papers

Electrical contacts to two-dimensional semiconductors 2014 2026 2018 2022 2015 2015 2014 2015 400 800 1.2k
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.

  1. Electrical contacts to two-dimensional semiconductors
    2015 1.5k citations Adrien Allain, Jiahao Kang et al. Nature Materials profile →
  2. Valley Zeeman effect in elementary optical excitations of monolayer WSe2
    2015 652 citations Ajit Srivastava, Meinrad Sidler et al. Nature Physics profile →
  3. Electrical Transport Properties of Single-Layer WS2
    2014 648 citations Dmitry Ovchinnikov, Adrien Allain et al. ACS Nano profile →
  4. Optically active quantum dots in monolayer WSe2
    2015 641 citations Ajit Srivastava, Meinrad Sidler et al. Nature Nanotechnology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Adrien Allain Switzerland 13 3.9k 2.1k 878 815 317 15 4.4k
Young Duck Kim South Korea 23 3.5k 0.9× 1.9k 0.9× 710 0.8× 630 0.8× 449 1.4× 61 4.1k
Ahmet Avşar Singapore 22 3.3k 0.9× 1.8k 0.8× 1.3k 1.5× 349 0.4× 297 0.9× 28 3.8k
Xiaolong Chen China 26 2.6k 0.7× 1.7k 0.8× 534 0.6× 536 0.7× 391 1.2× 90 3.1k
Rafael Roldán Spain 32 3.7k 0.9× 1.5k 0.7× 1.1k 1.3× 915 1.1× 526 1.7× 49 4.3k
Chul Ho Lee South Korea 3 5.0k 1.3× 1.7k 0.8× 1.4k 1.6× 1.1k 1.3× 520 1.6× 6 5.6k
Babak Fallahazad United States 19 3.4k 0.9× 1.5k 0.7× 1.1k 1.2× 772 0.9× 384 1.2× 31 3.9k
Kathleen M. McCreary United States 31 3.6k 0.9× 2.1k 1.0× 1.4k 1.6× 409 0.5× 308 1.0× 69 4.0k
O. Makarovsky United Kingdom 25 3.3k 0.8× 2.1k 1.0× 995 1.1× 529 0.6× 383 1.2× 91 4.1k
Ghidewon Arefe United States 10 4.4k 1.1× 2.4k 1.1× 639 0.7× 712 0.9× 380 1.2× 11 4.8k
Grant Aivazian United States 12 5.4k 1.4× 3.2k 1.5× 1.2k 1.3× 639 0.8× 508 1.6× 14 5.7k

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All Works

15 of 15 papers shown
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Arjmandi‐Tash, Hadi, Adrien Allain, Han Zheng, & Vincent Bouchiat. (2017). Large scale integration of CVD-graphene based NEMS with narrow distribution of resonance parameters. 2D Materials. 4(2). 25023–25023. 14 indexed citations
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Ovchinnikov, Dmitry, Fernando Gargiulo, Adrien Allain, et al.. (2016). Disorder engineering and conductivity dome in ReS2 with electrolyte gating. Nature Communications. 7(1). 12391–12391. 107 indexed citations
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Sánchez, Oriol López, Dmitry Ovchinnikov, Shikhar Misra, Adrien Allain, & András Kis. (2016). Valley Polarization by Spin Injection in a Light-Emitting van der Waals Heterojunction. Nano Letters. 16(9). 5792–5797. 124 indexed citations
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Allain, Adrien, et al.. (2016). Magneto-ballistic transport in GaN nanowires. Applied Physics Letters. 109(10). 8 indexed citations
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Srivastava, Ajit, Meinrad Sidler, Adrien Allain, et al.. (2015). Optically active quantum dots in monolayer WSe2. Nature Nanotechnology. 10(6). 491–496. 641 indexed citations breakdown →
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Allain, Adrien, Jiahao Kang, Kaustav Banerjee, & András Kis. (2015). Electrical contacts to two-dimensional semiconductors. Nature Materials. 14(12). 1195–1205. 1465 indexed citations breakdown →
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Lembke, Dominik, Adrien Allain, & András Kis. (2015). Thickness-dependent mobility in two-dimensional MoS2transistors. Nanoscale. 7(14). 6255–6260. 70 indexed citations
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Manzeli, Sajedeh, Adrien Allain, Amir H. Ghadimi, & András Kis. (2015). Piezoresistivity and Strain-induced Band Gap Tuning in Atomically Thin MoS2. Nano Letters. 15(8). 5330–5335. 321 indexed citations
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Srivastava, Ajit, Meinrad Sidler, Adrien Allain, et al.. (2015). Valley Zeeman effect in elementary optical excitations of monolayer WSe2. Nature Physics. 11(2). 141–147. 652 indexed citations breakdown →
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Ovchinnikov, Dmitry, Adrien Allain, Ying‐Sheng Huang, Dumitru Dumcenco, & András Kis. (2014). Electrical Transport Properties of Single-Layer WS2. ACS Nano. 8(8). 8174–8181. 648 indexed citations breakdown →
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Han, Zheng, Adrien Allain, Hadi Arjmandi‐Tash, et al.. (2014). Collapse of superconductivity in a hybrid tin–graphene Josephson junction array. Nature Physics. 10(5). 380–386. 97 indexed citations
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Ovchinnikov, Dmitry, Adrien Allain, Ying‐Sheng Huang, Dumitru Dumcenco, & András Kis. (2014). Electrical Transport Properties of Single-Layer WS2. arXiv (Cornell University). 25 indexed citations
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Han, Zheng, Amina Kimouche, Dipankar Kalita, et al.. (2013). Homogeneous Optical and Electronic Properties of Graphene Due to the Suppression of Multilayer Patches During CVD on Copper Foils. Advanced Functional Materials. 24(7). 964–970. 69 indexed citations
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Singh, Vibhor, Shamashis Sengupta, Hari S. Solanki, et al.. (2010). Probing thermal expansion of graphene and modal dispersion at low-temperature using graphene nanoelectromechanical systems resonators. Nanotechnology. 21(16). 165204–165204. 193 indexed citations
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Singh, Vibhor, Shamashis Sengupta, Hari S. Solanki, et al.. (2010). Probing thermal expansion of graphene and modal dispersion at low-temperature using graphene NEMS resonators. Nanotechnology. 21(20). 209801–209801. 7 indexed citations

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