Alan Blake

3.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
34 papers, 2.4k citations indexed

About

Alan Blake is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Biomedical Engineering and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, Alan Blake has authored 34 papers receiving a total of 2.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 25 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 14 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 5 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in Alan Blake's work include Semiconductor materials and devices (11 papers), Advancements in Semiconductor Devices and Circuit Design (7 papers) and Nanowire Synthesis and Applications (5 papers). Alan Blake is often cited by papers focused on Semiconductor materials and devices (11 papers), Advancements in Semiconductor Devices and Circuit Design (7 papers) and Nanowire Synthesis and Applications (5 papers). Alan Blake collaborates with scholars based in Ireland, United Kingdom and France. Alan Blake's co-authors include Brendan McCarthy, Isabelle Ferain, B. O'Neill, Ran Yan, Pedram Razavi, Nima Dehdashti Akhavan, Aryan Afzalian, Richard Murphy, Anne-Marie Kelleher and Mary White and has published in prestigious journals such as Applied Physics Letters, Nature Nanotechnology and Analytical Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Alan Blake

30 papers receiving 2.3k citations

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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.

Nanowire transistors without junctions

2010 1.8k citations Jean-Pierre Colinge, Chi‐Woo Lee et al. Nature Nanotechnology profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alan Blake Ireland	13	2.1k	1.0k	209	167	98	34	2.4k
Feng Zhao United States	19	844 0.4×	147 0.1×	108 0.5×	159 1.0×	29 0.3×	108	1.0k
John Garra United States	11	268 0.1×	353 0.3×	117 0.6×	289 1.7×	36 0.4×	14	694
Yuping Zeng United States	17	932 0.4×	480 0.5×	216 1.0×	621 3.7×	105 1.1×	81	1.5k
Heungjoo Shin South Korea	21	556 0.3×	499 0.5×	169 0.8×	185 1.1×	362 3.7×	63	987
Irena Zubel Poland	19	924 0.4×	830 0.8×	195 0.9×	314 1.9×	17 0.2×	42	1.2k
Prashanth Makaram United States	10	314 0.1×	256 0.2×	66 0.3×	177 1.1×	49 0.5×	17	564
V. Tvarožek Slovakia	15	401 0.2×	178 0.2×	45 0.2×	282 1.7×	158 1.6×	75	696
Jared Burdick United States	14	248 0.1×	573 0.5×	36 0.2×	184 1.1×	64 0.7×	16	915
Ranveer Singh India	18	575 0.3×	106 0.1×	90 0.4×	466 2.8×	15 0.2×	63	903

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20 of 20 papers shown

Blake, Alan, et al.. (2024). Sidewall passivation of Al Ga1As homojunctions with wet chemicals and field-effect passivation by ALD oxides and nitrides. Surfaces and Interfaces. 52. 104876–104876.

Girkin, Christopher A., Gregory Grossman, Alan Blake, et al.. (2024). Acute ocular hypertension in the living human eye: Model description and initial cellular responses to elevated intraocular pressure. Vision Research. 223. 108465–108465. 3 indexed citations

Intonti, Kimberly, et al.. (2023). Role of interface and bulk traps on the capacitance–voltage characteristics of WS2/Al2O3/Si capacitors. Solid-State Electronics. 207. 108697–108697. 4 indexed citations

Boissier, G., Marco Grande, Alan Blake, et al.. (2023). Unlocking the monolithic integration scenario: optical coupling between GaSb diode lasers epitaxially grown on patterned Si substrates and passive SiN waveguides. Light Science & Applications. 12(1). 150–150. 31 indexed citations

O’Mahony, Conor, Derek Whelan, Andrea Bocchino, et al.. (2023). Hollow silicon microneedles, fabricated using combined wet and dry etching techniques, for transdermal delivery and diagnostics. International Journal of Pharmaceutics. 637. 122888–122888. 33 indexed citations

Murray, Richard, Eoghan Vaughan, Daniela Iacopino, et al.. (2022). Direct-write formation of integrated bottom contacts to laser-induced graphene-like carbon. Nanotechnology. 33(40). 405204–405204. 5 indexed citations

Cherkaoui, K., Alan Blake, Jun Lin, et al.. (2018). Investigating positive oxide charge in the SiO2/3C-SiC MOS system. AIP Advances. 8(8). 8 indexed citations

Olszewski, Oskar Z., et al.. (2015). Identification of the transient stress-induced leakage current in silicon dioxide films for use in microelectromechanical systems capacitive switches. Applied Physics Letters. 106(17). 1 indexed citations

Jackson, Nathan, Oskar Z. Olszewski, Lynette Keeney, Alan Blake, & A. Mathewson. (2015). A capacitive based piezoelectric AlN film quality test structure. 193–197. 10 indexed citations

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Cherkaoui, K., Joseph O’Brien, Alan Blake, et al.. (2015). Electrical characterisation of InGaAs on insulator structures. Microelectronic Engineering. 147. 63–66. 2 indexed citations

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Burke, Mícheál, Alan Blake, Ian M. Povey, et al.. (2014). Low sheet resistance titanium nitride films by low-temperature plasma-enhanced atomic layer deposition using design of experiments methodology. Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology A Vacuum Surfaces and Films. 32(3). 27 indexed citations

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Georgiev, Yordan M., Nikolay Petkov, Brendan McCarthy, et al.. (2014). Fully CMOS-compatible top-down fabrication of sub-50nm silicon nanowire sensing devices. Microelectronic Engineering. 118. 47–53. 12 indexed citations

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O’Mahony, Conor, et al.. (2012). Microneedle-based electrodes with integrated through-silicon via for biopotential recording. Sensors and Actuators A Physical. 186. 130–136. 84 indexed citations

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Blake, Alan, Cindy Colinge, Mícheál Burke, et al.. (2011). The Effects of Fabrication Process on the Performance of a CMOS Based Capacitive Humidity Sensor. ECS Transactions. 35(30). 71–78. 8 indexed citations

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Colinge, Jean-Pierre, Chi‐Woo Lee, Aryan Afzalian, et al.. (2010). Nanowire transistors without junctions. Nature Nanotechnology. 5(3). 225–229. 1844 indexed citations breakdown →

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Scanlon, Micheál D., Jörg Strutwolf, Alan Blake, et al.. (2010). Ion-Transfer Electrochemistry at Arrays of Nanointerfaces between Immiscible Electrolyte Solutions Confined within Silicon Nitride Nanopore Membranes. Analytical Chemistry. 82(14). 6115–6123. 52 indexed citations

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Arnold, Donna C., Alan Blake, John F. Quinn, et al.. (2010). Planarized and Nanopatterned Mesoporous Silica Thin Films by Chemical-Mechanical Polishing of Gap-Filled Topographically Patterned Substrates. IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology. 10(3). 451–461. 3 indexed citations

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Colinge, J.-P., Christopher Lee, Aryan Afzalian, et al.. (2009). SOI gated resistor: CMOS without junctions. 1–2. 115 indexed citations

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Kirby, P., et al.. (2009). Suitability of Liquid Crystal Polymer substrates for high frequency acoustic devices. Procedia Chemistry. 1(1). 72–75. 1 indexed citations

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Blake, Alan. (1963). A Mechanical Analog for Synchronous Machine Transient Stability. International Journal of Electrical Engineering Education. 1(1). 125–128.

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