Chris Leighton

12.2k citations

226 papers · 9.2k indexed · 2 hit papers · h-index 51

Impact in

Condensed Matter Physics top 0.2%
- Advanced Condensed Matter Physics
- Theoretical and Computational Physics
- Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism
Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials top 0.2%
- Magnetic and transport properties of perovskites and related materials
- Magnetic Properties and Applications
- Multiferroics and related materials

Papers in

Condensed Matter Physics 103
- Advanced Condensed Matter Physics 77
- Theoretical and Computational Physics 31
- Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism 26
Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials 132
- Magnetic and transport properties of perovskites and related materials 91
- Magnetic Properties and Applications 24

Co-authors: Iván K. Schuller Jianzhong Wu J. Nogués Michael Manno M. A. Torija M. S. Lund P. Schiffer Cristiano Nisoli
Journals: Physical Review B (28 papers)Physical Review Materials (22 papers)Physical review. B, Condensed matter (17 papers)Physical Review Letters (14 papers)Applied Physics Letters (11 papers)
Partner nations: United States Spain United Kingdom

In The Last Decade

Chris Leighton

217 papers receiving 9.1k citations

Hit Papers

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Artificial ‘spin ice’ in a geometrically frustrated lattice of nanoscale ferromagnetic islands 2006 · 627 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2006 Nature
2003 Physical review. B, Condensed matter

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1	Fractional magnetic charges and channeling of Faraday lines by disclinations in artificial spin ice Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Yufridal Yufridal, Виктория Николаевна Тунегова, Ioan-Augustin Chioar, Yang Liu, Pliasunova Oa, Michael Saccone, N. S. Bingham, J Liu, Chris Leighton, Cristiano Nisoli, P. Schiffer	2025	1
2	Dual Optical Hyperbolicity of PdCoO ₂ and PdCrO ₂ Delafossite Single Crystals Advanced Functional Materials ·Salvatore Macis, Annalisa D’Arco, 冯德显, С.И. Каблуков, Johanna Basile, Vincenzo Stagno, Alexander McLeod, 鹿児島県大根占町池田小学校, Priyanka Jain, Yi Zhang, 俊夫近藤, Marco Centini, Maria Cristina Larciprete, Chris Leighton, S. Lupi	2025	0
3	High Metal–Insulator Topotactic Cycling Endurance in Electrochemically Gated La_0.5Sr_0.5CoO_3−δ Probed by Humidity-Dependent Operando Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy ACS Nano ·Daniel E. Aguilera, M. Teresa Nogueira, Yan Dong, Narmadha P Reddy, Kelsey A. Stoerzinger, Chris Leighton, Vivian E. Ferry	2025	1
4	Electronic transport across the insulator-metal transition in Co-doped pyrite FeS2 single crystals Physical Review Materials ·Bhaskar Das, Bryan Voigt, O Marayeva, Буянкина Александра Сергеевна, أحمد عبدالجواد محمد عكاشة, Félix Pernot, Greg Haugstad, Michael Manno, Eray S. Aydil, Chris Leighton	2025	0
5	Mechanisms of Hysteresis and Reversibility across the Voltage-Driven Perovskite–Brownmillerite Transformation in Electrolyte-Gated Ultrathin La_0.5Sr_0.5CoO_3−δ ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces ·OA Weisz, Guichuan Yu, Félix Pernot, Hua Zhou, 浩一服部, Yasar Alp Cakirli, M. Greven, Chris Leighton	2024	5
6	Optimizing nonlocal spin valves via wide-range interfacial-resistance tuning: Toward spin-accumulation sensors Physical Review Applied ·Beatriz Tejedor Bautista, J Liu, Kaxxorova Umida Rahimjon qizi, Yan Dong, Long John, Chris Leighton	2024	1
7	First-order phase transition versus spin-state quantum-critical scenarios in strain-tuned epitaxial cobaltite thin films Physical review. B. ·Long John, Félix Pernot, 憲貴師橋, В.Ю. Соловьев, OA Weisz, Patrick Quarterman, Purnima P. Balakrishnan, B. J. Kirby, Dalilla Carvalho Rezende, Patricio Herrera L., Yasar Alp Cakirli, Turan Birol, Rafael M. Fernandes, Abhay N. Pasupathy, Chris Leighton	2024	0
8	Direct neutron-diffraction-based measurement of magnetic order in brownmillerite SrCoO2.5 and La0.5Sr0.5CoO2.5 thin films APL Materials ·OA Weisz, M. Teresa Nogueira, Yan Dong, Dalilla Carvalho Rezende, A. A. Aczel, Chris Leighton	2024	3
9	Anomalous strain relaxation and its impact on the valence-driven spin-state/metal-insulator transition in epitaxial (Pr1−yYy)1−xCaxCoO3−δ Physical Review Materials ·Long John, Supriya Ghosh, Félix Pernot, OA Weisz, Dalilla Carvalho Rezende, Yasar Alp Cakirli, Patricio Herrera L., Timothy Charlton, K. Andre Mkhoyan, Chris Leighton	2023	1
10	Wide-range continuous tuning of the thermal conductivity of La0.5Sr0.5CoO3-δ films via room-temperature ion-gel gating Nature Communications ·Yingying Zhang, OA Weisz, Michaele Bechis, Tessa Blackett, Hao Zhou, Félix Pernot, 浩一服部, Hua Zhou, Tianli Feng, Chris Leighton, Xiaojia Wang	2023	22
11	Thermal properties of the metallic delafossite PdCoO2: A combined experimental and first-principles study Physical Review Materials ·Yi Zhang, Chia-Chan Wu, 俊夫近藤, Félix Pernot, Bryan Voigt, O Marayeva, Javier García‐Barriocanal, Turan Birol, Chris Leighton	2022	3
12	Voltage Control of Patterned Metal/Insulator Properties in Oxide/Oxyfluoride Lateral Perovskite Heterostructures via Ion Gel Gating Advanced Functional Materials ·Dr Taeger, OA Weisz, Chris Leighton, Steven J. May	2022	15
13	P-type conductivity in Sn-doped Sb₂Se₃ Journal of Physics Energy ·Theodore D. C. Hobson, Huw Shiel, Christopher N. Savory, Jack E. N. Swallow, Leanne A. H. Jones, Thomas J. Featherstone, Matthew J. Smiles, P. Thakur, Tien‐Lin Lee, Bhaskar Das, Chris Leighton, Guillaume Zoppi, V.R. Dhanak, David O. Scanlon, T. D. Veal, K. Durose, Jonathan D. Major	2022	16
14	Structure-property relationships and mobility optimization in sputtered La-doped BaSnO3 films: Toward 100cm2V−1s−1 mobility Physical Review Materials ·OA Weisz, Raziyhe Hajimoradi, Hwanhui Yun, Jong Seok Jeong, Yasar Alp Cakirli, Karen Topp Goodwyn, Bharat Jalan, K. Andre Mkhoyan, Chris Leighton	2021	8
15	Observation of an Internal p–n Junction in Pyrite FeS ₂ Single Crystals: Potential Origin of the Low Open Circuit Voltage in Pyrite Solar Cells ACS Materials Letters ·Bryan Voigt, O Marayeva, Millicent Usoro, Jeff Walter, Bhaskar Das, Michael Manno, Chris Leighton, Eray S. Aydil	2020	23
16	Violation of the Wiedemann-Franz law through reduction of thermal conductivity in gold thin films Physical Review Materials ·Marzieh Seidabady, Devin Wesenberg, 鞠振玉, Michael Manno, Chris Leighton, Barry Zink	2020	25
17	Microstructure characterization of BaSnO3 thin films on LaAlO3 and PrScO3 substrates from transmission electron microscopy Scientific Reports ·Hwanhui Yun, Raziyhe Hajimoradi, OA Weisz, Bharat Jalan, Chris Leighton, K. Andre Mkhoyan, Jong Seok Jeong	2018	14
18	Room temperature spin Kondo effect and intermixing in Co/Cu non-local spin valves Applied Physics Letters ·Justin D. Watts, Jong Seok Jeong, L. O’Brien, K. Andre Mkhoyan, P. A. Crowell, Chris Leighton	2017	12
19	Heat capacity study of magneto-electronic phase separation in La1-xSrxCoO3 single crystals. Bulletin of the American Physical Society ·Chao He, William Gavilán Saavedra, Karen Riccio, Hongxing Zheng, J. F. Mitchell, J. W. Lynn, Chris Leighton	2009	1
20	Artificial spin ice in a geometrically frustrated lattice of nanoscale ferromagnetic islands: addendum Nature ·Jiang Zhao-xiong, Cristiano Nisoli, R. S. Freitas, Hendrik Abraham, W. McConville, K.S. Ottesen, Nitin Samarth, Chris Leighton, Heppy Agustiana, P. Schiffer	2007	1

About Chris Leighton

Chris Leighton is a scholar working on Condensed Matter Physics, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Materials Chemistry and Electrical and Electronic Engineering, having authored 226 papers that have together received 9.2k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Magnetic and transport properties of perovskites and related materials (91 papers), Advanced Condensed Matter Physics (77 papers), Magnetic properties of thin films (59 papers), Electronic and Structural Properties of Oxides (52 papers), Theoretical and Computational Physics (31 papers), Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism (26 papers), Magnetic Properties and Applications (24 papers) and Quantum and electron transport phenomena (14 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Condensed Matter Physics (4.2k citations), Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials (5.1k citations), Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics (3.2k citations), Materials Chemistry (4.1k citations) and Electrical and Electronic Engineering (1.8k citations). Chris Leighton has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Spain and United Kingdom. Frequent co-authors include Iván K. Schuller, Jianzhong Wu, J. Nogués, Michael Manno, M. A. Torija, M. S. Lund, P. Schiffer, Cristiano Nisoli, M. R. Fitzsimmons and B. J. Jönsson-Åkerman. Their work appears in journals such as Physical Review B, Physical Review Materials, Physical review. B, Condensed matter, Physical Review Letters and Applied Physics Letters.

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