Charles M. Lieber

138.5k total citations · 68 hit papers
426 papers, 113.0k citations indexed

About

Charles M. Lieber is a scholar working on Biomedical Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Charles M. Lieber has authored 426 papers receiving a total of 113.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 194 papers in Biomedical Engineering, 190 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 172 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Charles M. Lieber's work include Nanowire Synthesis and Applications (148 papers), Carbon Nanotubes in Composites (63 papers) and Advancements in Semiconductor Devices and Circuit Design (61 papers). Charles M. Lieber is often cited by papers focused on Nanowire Synthesis and Applications (148 papers), Carbon Nanotubes in Composites (63 papers) and Advancements in Semiconductor Devices and Circuit Design (61 papers). Charles M. Lieber collaborates with scholars based in United States, South Korea and China. Charles M. Lieber's co-authors include Yi Cui, Xiangfeng Duan, Yu Huang, Alfredo Morales, Eric W. M. Wong, Mark S. Gudiksen, Jianfang Wang, Teri W. Odom, Gengfeng Zheng and Wei Lü and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Chemical Reviews.

In The Last Decade

Charles M. Lieber

422 papers receiving 110.3k citations

Hit Papers

Nanowire Nanosensors for Highly Sensitive and Selective D... 1993 2026 2004 2015 2001 1997 1998 1999 2001 1000 2.0k 3.0k 4.0k
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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.

  1. Nanowire Nanosensors for Highly Sensitive and Selective Detection of Biological and Chemical Species
    2001 4.8k citations Charles M. Lieber et al. Science profile →
  2. Nanobeam Mechanics: Elasticity, Strength, and Toughness of Nanorods and Nanotubes
    1997 3.9k citations Charles M. Lieber et al. Science profile →
  3. A Laser Ablation Method for the Synthesis of Crystalline Semiconductor Nanowires
    1998 3.7k citations Charles M. Lieber et al. Science profile →
  4. Chemistry and Physics in One Dimension:  Synthesis and Properties of Nanowires and Nanotubes
    1999 2.9k citations Charles M. Lieber et al. profile →
  5. Indium phosphide nanowires as building blocks for nanoscale electronic and optoelectronic devices
    2001 2.9k citations Jianfang Wang, Charles M. Lieber et al. Nature profile →
  6. Functional Nanoscale Electronic Devices Assembled Using Silicon Nanowire Building Blocks
    2001 2.7k citations Charles M. Lieber et al. Science profile →
  7. Coaxial silicon nanowires as solar cells and nanoelectronic power sources
    2007 2.5k citations Bozhi Tian, Xiaolin Zheng et al. Nature profile →
  8. Growth of nanowire superlattice structures for nanoscale photonics and electronics
    2002 2.3k citations Mark S. Gudiksen, Lincoln J. Lauhon et al. Nature profile →
  9. Single-nanowire electrically driven lasers
    2003 2.1k citations Ritesh Agarwal, Charles M. Lieber et al. Nature profile →
  10. Atomic structure and electronic properties of single-walled carbon nanotubes
    1998 2.0k citations Charles M. Lieber et al. Nature profile →
  11. Multiplexed electrical detection of cancer markers with nanowire sensor arrays
    2005 1.9k citations Charles M. Lieber et al. profile →
  12. Directed Assembly of One-Dimensional Nanostructures into Functional Networks
    2001 1.8k citations Charles M. Lieber et al. Science profile →
  13. High Performance Silicon Nanowire Field Effect Transistors
    2003 1.7k citations Deli Wang, Charles M. Lieber et al. Nano Letters profile →
  14. Logic Gates and Computation from Assembled Nanowire Building Blocks
    2001 1.7k citations Lincoln J. Lauhon, Charles M. Lieber et al. Science profile →
  15. Epitaxial core–shell and core–multishell nanowire heterostructures
    2002 1.7k citations Lincoln J. Lauhon, Mark S. Gudiksen et al. Nature profile →
  16. Highly Polarized Photoluminescence and Photodetection from Single Indium Phosphide Nanowires
    2001 1.6k citations Jianfang Wang, Mark S. Gudiksen et al. Science profile →
  17. Carbon Nanotube-Based Nonvolatile Random Access Memory for Molecular Computing
    2000 1.3k citations Chin Li Cheung, Charles M. Lieber et al. Science profile →
  18. Nanoelectronics from the bottom up
    2007 1.3k citations Charles M. Lieber et al. Nature Materials profile →
  19. Structural (n,m) Determination of Isolated Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes by Resonant Raman Scattering
    2001 1.2k citations Jason H. Hafner, Charles M. Lieber et al. profile →
  20. General Synthesis of Compound Semiconductor Nanowires
    2000 1.2k citations Charles M. Lieber et al. profile →
  21. Ge/Si nanowire heterostructures as high-performance field-effect transistors
    2006 1.2k citations Yongjie Hu, Charles M. Lieber et al. Nature profile →
  22. Nanowire electronic and optoelectronic devices
    2006 1.1k citations Yat Li, Fang Qian et al. profile →
  23. Covalently functionalized nanotubes as nanometre- sized probes in chemistry and biology
    1998 1.1k citations Stanislaus S. Wong, Adam T. Woolley et al. Nature profile →
  24. Direct Ultrasensitive Electrical Detection of DNA and DNA Sequence Variations Using Nanowire Nanosensors
    2003 1.0k citations Charles M. Lieber et al. Nano Letters profile →
  25. Synthesis and characterization of carbide nanorods
    1995 1.0k citations Charles M. Lieber et al. Nature profile →
  26. Electrical detection of single viruses
    2004 959 citations Oliver Hayden, Charles M. Lieber et al. profile →
  27. Diameter-controlled synthesis of single-crystal silicon nanowires
    2001 920 citations Lincoln J. Lauhon, Mark S. Gudiksen et al. profile →
  28. Probing Electrical Transport in Nanomaterials: Conductivity of Individual Carbon Nanotubes
    1996 857 citations Charles M. Lieber et al. Science profile →
  29. Nanotube Nanotweezers
    1999 855 citations Charles M. Lieber et al. Science profile →
  30. Functional Nanowires
    2007 845 citations Charles M. Lieber et al. profile →
  31. Single-crystal metallic nanowires and metal/semiconductor nanowire heterostructures
    2004 829 citations Charles M. Lieber et al. Nature profile →
  32. Experimental Realization of the Covalent Solid Carbon Nitride
    1993 798 citations Charles M. Lieber et al. Science profile →
  33. Functional Group Imaging by Chemical Force Microscopy
    1994 779 citations Charles M. Lieber et al. Science profile →
  34. One-dimensional nanostructures: Chemistry, physics & applications
    1998 769 citations Charles M. Lieber profile →
  35. Gallium Nitride Nanowire Nanodevices
    2002 767 citations Charles M. Lieber et al. Nano Letters profile →
  36. Doping and Electrical Transport in Silicon Nanowires
    2000 763 citations Charles M. Lieber et al. profile →
  37. Controlled Growth and Structures of Molecular-Scale Silicon Nanowires
    2004 763 citations Charles M. Lieber et al. Nano Letters profile →
  38. Core/Multishell Nanowire Heterostructures as Multicolor, High-Efficiency Light-Emitting Diodes
    2005 721 citations Fang Qian, Yat Li et al. Nano Letters profile →
  39. Laser-Assisted Catalytic Growth of Single Crystal GaN Nanowires
    1999 685 citations Charles M. Lieber et al. profile →
  40. Large-Scale Hierarchical Organization of Nanowire Arrays for Integrated Nanosystems
    2003 675 citations Charles M. Lieber et al. Nano Letters profile →
  41. Nanoscale Science and Technology: Building a Big Future from Small Things
    2003 670 citations Charles M. Lieber profile →
  42. Diameter-Controlled Synthesis of Carbon Nanotubes
    2002 657 citations Chin Li Cheung, Charles M. Lieber et al. profile →
  43. Detection, Stimulation, and Inhibition of Neuronal Signals with High-Density Nanowire Transistor Arrays
    2006 656 citations Guihua Yu, Ying Fang et al. Science profile →
  44. Three-Dimensional, Flexible Nanoscale Field-Effect Transistors as Localized Bioprobes
    2010 646 citations Bozhi Tian, Charles M. Lieber et al. Science profile →
  45. Controlled growth and electrical properties of heterojunctions of carbon nanotubes and silicon nanowires
    1999 626 citations Charles M. Lieber et al. Nature profile →
  46. Multi-quantum-well nanowire heterostructures for wavelength-controlled lasers
    2008 616 citations Fang Qian, Yat Li et al. Nature Materials profile →
  47. Semiconductor nanowires
    2006 613 citations Charles M. Lieber et al. profile →
  48. Fabrication of silicon nanowire devices for ultrasensitive, label-free, real-time detection of biological and chemical species
    2006 594 citations Charles M. Lieber et al. profile →
  49. Observation of metastable Aβ amyloid protofibrils by atomic force microscopy
    1997 574 citations James D. Harper, Stanislaus S. Wong et al. Chemistry & Biology profile →
  50. Nanowire nanosensors
    2005 563 citations Charles M. Lieber et al. profile →
  51. Nanowire-Based Biosensors
    2006 560 citations Charles M. Lieber et al. profile →
  52. Nanowires for Integrated Multicolor Nanophotonics
    2004 560 citations Charles M. Lieber et al. profile →
  53. Energy Gaps in "Metallic" Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes
    2001 554 citations Jinlin Huang, Chin Li Cheung et al. Science profile →
  54. Syringe-injectable electronics
    2015 537 citations Tian-Ming Fu, Guosong Hong et al. Nature Nanotechnology profile →
  55. Gallium Nitride-Based Nanowire Radial Heterostructures for Nanophotonics
    2004 527 citations Fang Qian, Yat Li et al. Nano Letters profile →
  56. Nano-Bioelectronics
    2015 517 citations Anqi Zhang, Charles M. Lieber profile →
  57. Macroporous Nanowire Nanoelectronic Scaffolds for Synthetic Tissues
    2012 508 citations Charles M. Lieber, Bozhi Tian et al. profile →
  58. Layer-by-Layer Assembly of Nanowires for Three-Dimensional, Multifunctional Electronics
    2007 492 citations Robin S. Friedman, Charles M. Lieber et al. Nano Letters profile →
  59. Nanowire Crossbar Arrays as Address Decoders for Integrated Nanosystems
    2003 482 citations Deli Wang, Charles M. Lieber et al. Science profile →
  60. Nanorod-Superconductor Composites: A Pathway to Materials with High Critical Current Densities
    1996 478 citations Charles M. Lieber et al. Science profile →
  61. Subthreshold Regime has the Optimal Sensitivity for Nanowire FET Biosensors
    2009 474 citations Charles M. Lieber et al. Nano Letters profile →
  62. Novel electrode technologies for neural recordings
    2019 472 citations Guosong Hong, Charles M. Lieber profile →
  63. Single nanowire photovoltaics
    2008 458 citations Bozhi Tian, Thomas J. Kempa et al. Chemical Society Reviews profile →
  64. Programmable nanowire circuits for nanoprocessors
    2011 433 citations Yongjie Hu, Charles M. Lieber et al. Nature profile →
  65. Chemical Force Microscopy: Exploiting Chemically-Modified Tips To Quantify Adhesion, Friction, and Functional Group Distributions in Molecular Assemblies
    1995 425 citations Charles M. Lieber et al. profile →
  66. Spin-resolved Andreev levels and parity crossings in hybrid superconductor–semiconductor nanostructures
    2013 424 citations Xiaocheng Jiang, Charles M. Lieber et al. Nature Nanotechnology profile →
  67. Single-Cell Profiles of Retinal Ganglion Cells Differing in Resilience to Injury Reveal Neuroprotective Genes
    2019 380 citations Guosong Hong, Dingchang Lin et al. profile →
  68. Bioinspired neuron-like electronics
    2019 296 citations Xiao Yang, Tao Zhou et al. Nature Materials profile →

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Charles M. Lieber
Comparison fields: 5 of 181
  • Materials Chemistry 59.7k
  • Biomedical Engineering 58.1k
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering 53.3k
  • Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics 26.0k
  • Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials 12.0k
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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
# Work Indexed citations
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Stitching Flexible Electronics into the Brain
2023 ·Advanced Science ·Jung Min Lee, Dingchang Lin, (unknown), (unknown), Hong‐Gyu Park, Charles M. Lieber
10
2
Nanowire-enabled bioelectronics
2021 ·Nano Today ·Anqi Zhang, Jae‐Hyun Lee, Charles M. Lieber
38
3
Highly Transparent Contacts to the 1D Hole Gas in Ultrascaled Ge/Si Core/Shell Nanowires
2019 ·ACS Nano ·Masiar Sistani, (unknown), R. B. G. Kramer, Nicolas Roch, Minh Anh Luong, M. den Hertog, Éric Robin, J. Smoliner, Jun Yao, Charles M. Lieber, Cécile Naud, Alois Lugstein, O. Buisson
15
4
A method for single-neuron chronic recording from the retina in awake mice
2018 ·Science ·Guosong Hong, Tian-Ming Fu, Mu Qiao, Robert D. Viveros, Xiao Yang, Tao Zhou, (unknown), Hong‐Gyu Park, Joshua R. Sanes, Charles M. Lieber
137
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Electrochemical Deposition of Conformal and Functional Layers on High Aspect Ratio Silicon Micro/Nanowires
2017 ·Nano Letters ·Tuncay Özel, Benjamin A. Zhang, Ruixuan Gao, Robert W. Day, Charles M. Lieber, Daniel G. Nocera
55
6
A room temperature low-threshold ultraviolet plasmonic nanolaser
2014 ·Nature Communications ·Qing Zhang, Guangyuan Li, Xinfeng Liu, Fang Qian, Yat Li, Tze Chien Sum, Charles M. Lieber, Qihua Xiong
278
7
Probing single- to multi-cell level charge transport in Geobacter sulfurreducens DL-1
2013 ·Nature Communications ·Xiaocheng Jiang, Jin‐Song Hu, (unknown), Lisa A. Fitzgerald, (unknown), Alexander M. Lieber, Bradley R. Ringeisen, Charles M. Lieber, Justin C. Biffinger
74
8
Hole spin relaxation in Ge–Si core–shell nanowire qubits
2011 ·Nature Nanotechnology ·Yongjie Hu, Ferdinand Kuemmeth, Charles M. Lieber, C. M. Marcus
152
9
Single nanowire photovoltaics breakdown →
2008 ·Chemical Society Reviews ·Bozhi Tian, Thomas J. Kempa, Charles M. Lieber
458
10
Coaxial silicon nanowires as solar cells and nanoelectronic power sources breakdown →
2007 ·Nature ·Bozhi Tian, Xiaolin Zheng, Thomas J. Kempa, Ying Fang, Nanfang Yu, Guihua Yu, Jinlin Huang, Charles M. Lieber
2475
11
Large-area blown bubble films of aligned nanowires and carbon nanotubes
2007 ·Nature Nanotechnology ·Guihua Yu, Anyuan Cao, Charles M. Lieber
439
12
Nanoscale avalanche photodiodes for highly sensitive and spatially resolved photon detection
2006 ·Nature Materials ·Oliver Hayden, Ritesh Agarwal, Charles M. Lieber
347
13
High-speed integrated nanowire circuits
2005 ·Nature ·Robin S. Friedman, Michael C. McAlpine, David S. Ricketts, Donhee Ham, Charles M. Lieber
268
14
Growth of nanowire superlattice structures for nanoscale photonics and electronics breakdown →
2002 ·Nature ·Mark S. Gudiksen, Lincoln J. Lauhon, Jianfang Wang, David C. Smith, Charles M. Lieber
2253
15
Direct Visualization of a DNA Glycosylase Searching for Damage
2002 ·Chemistry & Biology ·Liwei Chen, Karl A. Haushalter, Charles M. Lieber, Gregory L. Verdine
87
16
Epitaxial core–shell and core–multishell nanowire heterostructures breakdown →
2002 ·Nature ·Lincoln J. Lauhon, Mark S. Gudiksen, Deli Wang, Charles M. Lieber
1729
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Structural and functional imaging with carbon nanotube AFM probes
2001 ·Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology ·Jason H. Hafner, Chin Li Cheung, Adam T. Woolley, Charles M. Lieber
240
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Structural Stability of the Square Flux Line Lattice in YNi_2B_2C and LuNi_2B_2C Studied with Small Angle Neutron Scattering
1998 ·APS March Meeting Abstracts ·M. R. Eskildsen, P. L. Gammel, Bradley P. Barber, A. P. Ramirez, D. J. Bishop, N.H. Andersen, Kell Mortensen, C. A. Bolle, Charles M. Lieber, P. C. Canfield
2
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Nanotube Derived Materials
1997 ·APS ·Charles M. Lieber
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Observation of metastable Aβ amyloid protofibrils by atomic force microscopy breakdown →
1997 ·Chemistry & Biology ·James D. Harper, Stanislaus S. Wong, Charles M. Lieber, Peter T. Lansbury
574

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