Douglas Tham

1.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
18 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Douglas Tham is a scholar working on Biomedical Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Douglas Tham has authored 18 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Biomedical Engineering, 8 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 8 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Douglas Tham's work include Nanowire Synthesis and Applications (11 papers), GaN-based semiconductor devices and materials (7 papers) and Ga2O3 and related materials (4 papers). Douglas Tham is often cited by papers focused on Nanowire Synthesis and Applications (11 papers), GaN-based semiconductor devices and materials (7 papers) and Ga2O3 and related materials (4 papers). Douglas Tham collaborates with scholars based in United States, Austria and Canada. Douglas Tham's co-authors include J. E. Fischer, Chang‐Yong Nam, James R. Heath, Jen-Kan Yu, Joseph O. Varghese, Slobodan Mitrović, Papot Jaroenapibal, David E. Luzzi, Stéphane Evoy and A. T. Charlie Johnson and has published in prestigious journals such as Advanced Materials, Nano Letters and Applied Physics Letters.

In The Last Decade

Douglas Tham

18 papers receiving 1.4k citations

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Reduction of thermal conductivity in phononic nanomesh structures

2010 552 citations Jen-Kan Yu, Slobodan Mitrović et al. Nature Nanotechnology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Douglas Tham United States	13	911	577	381	304	249	18	1.4k
Rongguo Xie Singapore	15	1.7k 1.9×	284 0.5×	362 1.0×	411 1.4×	46 0.2×	21	2.0k
Bivas Saha India	25	1.1k 1.2×	436 0.8×	627 1.6×	149 0.5×	626 2.5×	82	1.8k
Jessica L. Lensch-Falk United States	16	1.2k 1.3×	1.0k 1.8×	1.1k 3.0×	185 0.6×	82 0.3×	19	2.0k
David Bruce Burckel United States	20	410 0.5×	409 0.7×	588 1.5×	127 0.4×	73 0.3×	61	1.3k
Arun Bodapati United States	9	1.3k 1.4×	292 0.5×	281 0.7×	240 0.8×	35 0.1×	10	1.5k
Jen-Kan Yu United States	4	2.4k 2.6×	839 1.5×	715 1.9×	981 3.2×	58 0.2×	4	2.9k
Fengwen Mu Japan	24	944 1.0×	238 0.4×	971 2.5×	73 0.2×	302 1.2×	77	1.7k
Jung‐Hoon Song South Korea	20	861 0.9×	790 1.4×	502 1.3×	71 0.2×	300 1.2×	71	1.7k
Junseok Heo South Korea	24	904 1.0×	711 1.2×	1.2k 3.1×	158 0.5×	449 1.8×	74	2.1k
Kwangsik Jeong South Korea	22	1.3k 1.4×	231 0.4×	964 2.5×	87 0.3×	74 0.3×	101	1.7k

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Zaferani, Sadeq Hooshmand, et al.. (2023). Advancing personalized healthcare and entertainment: Progress in energy harvesting materials and techniques of self-powered wearable devices. Progress in Materials Science. 139. 101184–101184. 22 indexed citations

Deutschmann, Bernd, et al.. (2020). A Bipolar ±13 mV Self-Starting and 85% Peak Efficiency DC/DC Converter for Thermoelectric Energy Harvesting. Energies. 13(20). 5501–5501. 10 indexed citations

Tham, Douglas, Wei Wei, Young Shik Shin, et al.. (2012). Quantitating Cell–Cell Interaction Functions with Applications to Glioblastoma Multiforme Cancer Cells. Nano Letters. 12(12). 6101–6106. 67 indexed citations

Tham, Douglas, et al.. (2011). High performance ring oscillators from 10-nm wide silicon nanowire field-effect transistors. Nano Research. 4(10). 1005–1012. 18 indexed citations

Yu, Jen-Kan, Slobodan Mitrović, Douglas Tham, Joseph O. Varghese, & James R. Heath. (2010). Reduction of thermal conductivity in phononic nanomesh structures. Nature Nanotechnology. 5(10). 718–721. 552 indexed citations breakdown →

Tham, Douglas & James R. Heath. (2010). Ultradense, Deep Subwavelength Nanowire Array Photovoltaics As Engineered Optical Thin Films. Nano Letters. 10(11). 4429–4434. 11 indexed citations

Nam, Chang‐Yong, Douglas Tham, & J. E. Fischer. (2007). Self-branching in GaN Nanowires Induced by a Novel Vapor-Liquid-Solid Mechanism. MRS Proceedings. 1058. 2 indexed citations

Tham, Douglas, et al.. (2007). Evidence for the intergranular segregation of tin to grain boundaries of a Cu–Sn alloy and its consequences for dynamic embrittlement. Materials Science and Engineering A. 458(1-2). 123–125. 17 indexed citations

Tham, Douglas, et al.. (2007). Systematic study of contact annealing: Ambipolar silicon nanowire transistor with improved performance. Applied Physics Letters. 90(14). 47 indexed citations

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Nam, Chang‐Yong, Papot Jaroenapibal, Douglas Tham, et al.. (2006). Diameter-Dependent Electromechanical Properties of GaN Nanowires. Nano Letters. 6(2). 153–158. 233 indexed citations

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Tham, Douglas, Chang‐Yong Nam, & J. E. Fischer. (2006). Defects in GaN Nanowires. Advanced Functional Materials. 16(9). 1197–1202. 92 indexed citations

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Nam, Chang‐Yong, Douglas Tham, Papot Jaroenapibal, et al.. (2006). Gallium nitride nanowires: polar surface controlled growth, ohmic contact patterning by focused ion-beam-induced direct Pt deposition and disorder effects, variable range hopping, and resonant electromechanical properties. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 6370. 63701F–63701F. 3 indexed citations

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Tham, Douglas, et al.. (2006). Applications of electron microscopy to the characterization of semiconductor nanowires. Applied Physics A. 85(3). 227–231. 7 indexed citations

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Tham, Douglas, Chang‐Yong Nam, & J. E. Fischer. (2005). Microstructure and Composition of Focused‐Ion‐Beam‐Deposited Pt Contacts to GaN Nanowires. Advanced Materials. 18(3). 290–294. 62 indexed citations

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Tham, Douglas, et al.. (2005). Synthesis and postgrowth doping of silicon nanowires. Applied Physics Letters. 87(19). 37 indexed citations

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Nam, Chang‐Yong, Douglas Tham, & J. E. Fischer. (2005). Disorder Effects in Focused-Ion-Beam-Deposited Pt Contacts on GaN Nanowires. Nano Letters. 5(10). 2029–2033. 92 indexed citations

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Nam, Chang‐Yong, Douglas Tham, & J. E. Fischer. (2004). Effect of the polar surface on GaN nanostructure morphology and growth orientation. Applied Physics Letters. 85(23). 5676–5678. 78 indexed citations

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Xiong, Qihua, Rajeev Gupta, Kofi W. Adu, et al.. (2003). Raman Spectroscopy and Structure of Crystalline Gallium Phosphide Nanowires. Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology. 3(4). 335–339. 41 indexed citations

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