Beng Kang Tay

27.2k total citations · 4 hit papers
486 papers, 22.7k citations indexed

About

Beng Kang Tay is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Mechanics of Materials. According to data from OpenAlex, Beng Kang Tay has authored 486 papers receiving a total of 22.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 386 papers in Materials Chemistry, 188 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 175 papers in Mechanics of Materials. Recurrent topics in Beng Kang Tay's work include Diamond and Carbon-based Materials Research (202 papers), Metal and Thin Film Mechanics (169 papers) and Carbon Nanotubes in Composites (85 papers). Beng Kang Tay is often cited by papers focused on Diamond and Carbon-based Materials Research (202 papers), Metal and Thin Film Mechanics (169 papers) and Carbon Nanotubes in Composites (85 papers). Beng Kang Tay collaborates with scholars based in Singapore, China and France. Beng Kang Tay's co-authors include Shu Ping Lau, Edwin Hang Tong Teo, Hong Li, Chin Chong Yap, A. Olivier, Qing Zhang, Xingli Wang, Zheng Liu, X. Shi and Xingbin Yan and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Advanced Materials and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Beng Kang Tay

479 papers receiving 22.2k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

From Bulk to Monolayer MoS₂: Evolution of Raman Scattering

2012 3.7k citations Hong Li, Qing Zhang et al. Advanced Functional Materials profile →
Vertical and in-plane heterostructures from WS2/MoS2 monolayers

2014 1.9k citations Xingli Wang, Beng Kang Tay et al. profile →
Chemical Vapor Deposition Growth of Crystalline Monolayer MoSe₂

2014 713 citations Xingli Wang, Zheng Liu et al. profile →
Highly Sensitive Detection of Polarized Light Using Anisotropic 2D ReS₂

2016 461 citations Xingli Wang, Qundong Fu et al. Advanced Functional Materials profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Beng Kang Tay Singapore	67	17.3k	10.1k	4.1k	3.8k	3.4k	486	22.7k
Shu Ping Lau Singapore	78	19.9k 1.1×	11.7k 1.1×	4.1k 1.0×	2.0k 0.5×	5.1k 1.5×	435	25.8k
S. Ravi P. Silva United Kingdom	72	13.8k 0.8×	10.5k 1.0×	2.5k 0.6×	3.5k 0.9×	5.4k 1.6×	666	22.1k
Cinzia Casiraghi United Kingdom	55	22.7k 1.3×	10.9k 1.1×	4.4k 1.1×	2.0k 0.5×	8.8k 2.6×	143	28.6k
Li–Chyong Chen Taiwan	72	13.1k 0.8×	9.2k 0.9×	6.0k 1.4×	1.8k 0.5×	4.6k 1.4×	528	21.7k
Jianyu Huang China	88	13.7k 0.8×	16.0k 1.6×	5.2k 1.2×	1.9k 0.5×	2.8k 0.8×	415	28.3k
Mikko Ritala Finland	77	17.0k 1.0×	19.1k 1.9×	3.7k 0.9×	1.6k 0.4×	2.4k 0.7×	563	25.5k
Alexander A. Balandin United States	85	35.4k 2.0×	12.7k 1.3×	5.4k 1.3×	2.7k 0.7×	8.9k 2.6×	416	43.8k
Li Shi United States	66	19.0k 1.1×	4.9k 0.5×	1.6k 0.4×	1.6k 0.4×	4.0k 1.2×	242	23.7k
Xiaoding Wei China	33	16.0k 0.9×	5.3k 0.5×	2.6k 0.6×	1.5k 0.4×	6.9k 2.0×	87	21.1k
Scott X. Mao United States	67	8.5k 0.5×	10.8k 1.1×	3.9k 1.0×	2.0k 0.5×	1.8k 0.5×	202	20.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Beng Kang Tay

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Ge, Junyu, Pengru Huang, Yi Yu, et al.. (2025). Deterministic formation of carbon-functionalized quantum emitters in hexagonal boron nitride. Nature Communications. 16(1). 11450–11450.

Tan, Dunlin, et al.. (2024). Electromagnetic crosstalk isolation with transferred vertically aligned carbon nanotube arrays through thermocompression bonding. Carbon. 221. 118943–118943. 1 indexed citations

Fu, Qundong, Xingli Wang, Ruihuan Duan, et al.. (2024). 2D‐Penta‐PdPS: Gate‐Tunable and Thickness‐Dependent Thermoelectric Transport. Small. 21(1). e2405645–e2405645. 2 indexed citations

Wang, Xingli, et al.. (2024). High Efficiency Multiply-Accumulator Using Ternary Logic and Ternary Approximate Algorithm. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I Regular Papers. 72(7). 3258–3271.

Fu, Qundong, Jing Wu, Kedar Hippalgaonkar, et al.. (2024). Few-layer Bi₂O₂Se: a promising candidate for high-performance near-room-temperature thermoelectric applications. Nanotechnology. 35(46). 465401–465401. 1 indexed citations

Zheng, Zhenyi, Tao Zeng, Tieyang Zhao, et al.. (2024). Effective electrical manipulation of a topological antiferromagnet by orbital torques. Nature Communications. 15(1). 745–745. 33 indexed citations

Sun, Kaixuan, Qingrui Wang, Long Zhou, et al.. (2023). 2D-3D perovskite memristor with low energy consumption and high stability for neural morphology calculation. Science China Materials. 66(5). 2013–2022. 20 indexed citations

Shiau, Li Lynn, Chong Wei Tan, Edwin Hang Tong Teo, et al.. (2023). 2.5D Technology based on Vertically Aligned Carbon Nanotubes for MM-Waves Passive Devices. SPIRE - Sciences Po Institutional REpository. 767–770. 1 indexed citations

Zeng, Zhiwei, Xingli Wang, Philippe Coquet, et al.. (2023). Efficient Ternary Logic Circuits Optimized by Ternary Arithmetic Algorithms. IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing. 12(3). 826–839. 9 indexed citations

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Jia, Xiaotong, et al.. (2022). Flexible Ferroelectric Devices: Status and Applications. Advanced Functional Materials. 32(45). 57 indexed citations

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Chen, Nan, et al.. (2019). Deposited poly-Si as on-demand linewidth compensator for on-chip Fabry–Perot interferometer and vertical linear variable optical filter bandpass and passband manipulation. Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering. 29(4). 47001–47001. 5 indexed citations

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Tan, Chong Wei, Yu Dian Lim, Boris Vaisband, et al.. (2019). Assembly Process and Electrical Properties of Top-Transferred Graphene on Carbon Nanotubes for Carbon-Based 3-D Interconnects. IEEE Transactions on Components Packaging and Manufacturing Technology. 10(3). 516–524. 5 indexed citations

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Bodelot, Laurence, Bérengère Lebental, Yu Dian Lim, et al.. (2018). Novel three-dimensional carbon nanotube networks as high performance thermal interface materials. Carbon. 132. 359–369. 34 indexed citations

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Lim, Yu Dian, Liangxing Hu, Xin Xia, et al.. (2017). Field emission properties of SiO₂-wrapped CNT field emitter. Nanotechnology. 29(1). 15202–15202. 10 indexed citations

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Lim, Yu Dian, et al.. (2017). Enhanced Carbon Nanotubes Growth Using Nickel/Ferrocene-Hybridized Catalyst. ACS Omega. 2(9). 6063–6071. 28 indexed citations

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Lim, Yu Dian, Liangxing Hu, Beng Kang Tay, et al.. (2017). Enhanced field emission properties of carbon nanotube bundles confined in SiO₂pits. Nanotechnology. 29(7). 75205–75205. 11 indexed citations

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Châtelet, M., Guillaume Giudicelli, Yi Yan Yang, et al.. (2016). Graphitization and amorphization of textured carbon using high-energy nanosecond laser pulses. Carbon. 105. 227–232. 8 indexed citations

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Li, Hong, Qing Zhang, Chin Chong Yap, et al.. (2012). From Bulk to Monolayer MoS₂: Evolution of Raman Scattering. Advanced Functional Materials. 22(7). 1385–1390. 3675 indexed citations breakdown →

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Tay, Beng Kang, G. McFiggans, M. W. Gallagher, et al.. (2010). Linking urban aerosol fluxes in street canyons to larger scale emissions. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 10(5). 2475–2490. 4 indexed citations

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Xu, Xiulai, Xiulai Xu, Xiaohui Yang, et al.. (2000). Blue electroluminescence from tris-(8-hydroxyquinoline) aluminum thin film. Chemical Physics Letters. 325(4). 420–424. 36 indexed citations

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