Feng Rao

5.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
149 papers, 4.9k citations indexed

About

Feng Rao is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. According to data from OpenAlex, Feng Rao has authored 149 papers receiving a total of 4.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 133 papers in Materials Chemistry, 121 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 42 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. Recurrent topics in Feng Rao's work include Phase-change materials and chalcogenides (120 papers), Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films (98 papers) and Transition Metal Oxide Nanomaterials (35 papers). Feng Rao is often cited by papers focused on Phase-change materials and chalcogenides (120 papers), Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films (98 papers) and Transition Metal Oxide Nanomaterials (35 papers). Feng Rao collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Hong Kong. Feng Rao's co-authors include Zhitang Song, Liangcai Wu, Songlin Feng, Bo Liu, Keyuan Ding, Mengjiao Xia, Min Zhu, Xilin Zhou, Sannian Song and Kun Ren and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Advanced Materials and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Feng Rao

144 papers receiving 4.8k 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.

Reducing the stochasticity of crystal nucleation to enable subnanosecond memory writing

2017 516 citations Feng Rao, Keyuan Ding et al. Science profile →
Phase-change heterostructure enables ultralow noise and drift for memory operation

2019 328 citations Keyuan Ding, Jiangjing Wang et al. Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Feng Rao China	38	4.2k	4.0k	1.2k	863	746	149	4.9k
Sannian Song China	36	4.2k 1.0×	4.3k 1.1×	1.4k 1.1×	805 0.9×	803 1.1×	294	5.0k
Liangcai Wu China	37	4.0k 0.9×	3.7k 0.9×	1.1k 0.9×	899 1.0×	693 0.9×	199	4.3k
Xuhai Liu China	29	1.7k 0.4×	1.8k 0.5×	399 0.3×	469 0.5×	470 0.6×	85	2.8k
Kunji Chen China	38	3.7k 0.9×	4.6k 1.2×	374 0.3×	2.0k 2.3×	592 0.8×	438	6.0k
Haidong Lu United States	34	4.0k 1.0×	2.8k 0.7×	560 0.5×	1.1k 1.3×	1.3k 1.7×	75	5.1k
Jae Kyeong Jeong South Korea	52	7.0k 1.7×	9.8k 2.5×	2.4k 1.9×	1.0k 1.2×	705 0.9×	235	10.3k
Shi‐Jin Ding China	42	3.7k 0.9×	5.7k 1.4×	1.3k 1.0×	800 0.9×	906 1.2×	277	7.1k
Byung‐ki Cheong South Korea	29	2.3k 0.5×	2.0k 0.5×	486 0.4×	457 0.5×	640 0.9×	112	2.7k
Dengfeng Peng China	49	4.7k 1.1×	2.8k 0.7×	533 0.4×	2.9k 3.4×	464 0.6×	158	6.5k
Wenjing Jie China	36	3.0k 0.7×	2.9k 0.7×	440 0.4×	866 1.0×	816 1.1×	81	4.4k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Che, Yong, et al.. (2025). Low‐Voltage Driven High‐Speed and Low‐Energy Memory Operations by Novel TiTe ₂ /Sc _0.3 Sb ₂ Te ₃ Phase‐Change Heterostructure. Small. 21(45). e05264–e05264.

Jiang, Nan, Hua Li, Bo Wang, et al.. (2025). Influence of stilbene acrylate quaternary ammonium salt optical brighteners on the properties of ground calcium carbonate and HDPE composite materials. Journal of the Taiwan Institute of Chemical Engineers. 179. 106438–106438. 1 indexed citations

Ali, Anwar, Ismail Shahid, Muhammad Zia Ullah Shah, et al.. (2025). The BSe/GeNGaS van der Waals heterostructures for enhanced optoelectronic and thermoelectric applications: A first-principles perspective. Computational Materials Science. 258. 114080–114080. 2 indexed citations

Shahid, Ismail, Anwar Ali, En Li, et al.. (2025). Two-dimensional SiH/In2XY (X, Y S, Se) van der Waals heterostructures for efficient water splitting photocatalysis: A DFT approach. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy. 128. 523–533. 2 indexed citations

Wang, Xuepeng, Ismail Shahid, Anwar Ali, et al.. (2025). The van der Waals heterostructures of blue phosphorene with GaN/GeC for high-performance thermoelectric applications. APL Materials. 13(1). 2 indexed citations

Chen, Bin, Xu Wang, Tulai Sun, et al.. (2024). Insights into the Heterogeneous Nuclei of an Ultrafast‐Crystallizing Glassy Solid. Advanced Functional Materials. 34(18). 4 indexed citations

Du, Yangyang, Zhengyuan Jin, Ziyu Li, et al.. (2024). Tuning the 5d State of Pr³⁺ in Oxyhalides for Efficient Deep Ultraviolet Upconversion. Advanced Optical Materials. 12(30). 11 indexed citations

Wang, Xuepeng, et al.. (2024). Special kinetics features of scandium antimonide thin films conducive to swiftly embedded phase-change memory applications. Science China Materials. 67(11). 3684–3691. 1 indexed citations

Chen, Bin, Xuepeng Wang, Jiǎtāo Xiè, et al.. (2023). Suppressing Structural Relaxation in Nanoscale Antimony to Enable Ultralow‐Drift Phase‐Change Memory Applications. Advanced Science. 10(25). e2301043–e2301043. 28 indexed citations

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Ding, Keyuan, Jiangjing Wang, Yuxing Zhou, et al.. (2019). Phase-change heterostructure enables ultralow noise and drift for memory operation. Science. 366(6462). 210–215. 328 indexed citations breakdown →

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Liu, Ying, Wang Zhang, Ziwen Dai, et al.. (2019). Conjugated System of PEDOT:PSS-Induced Self-Doped PANI for Flexible Zinc-Ion Batteries with Enhanced Capacity and Cyclability. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 11(34). 30943–30952. 121 indexed citations

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Rao, Feng, Keyuan Ding, Yuxing Zhou, et al.. (2017). Reducing the stochasticity of crystal nucleation to enable subnanosecond memory writing. Science. 358(6369). 1423–1427. 516 indexed citations breakdown →

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Rao, Feng, Alan H. S. Chan, & Xifang Zhu. (2017). Effects of photopic and cirtopic illumination on steady state pupil sizes. Vision Research. 137. 24–28. 17 indexed citations

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Rao, Feng, Zhitang Song, Yan Cheng, et al.. (2015). Direct observation of titanium-centered octahedra in titanium–antimony–tellurium phase-change material. Nature Communications. 6(1). 10040–10040. 55 indexed citations

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Zhu, Min, Mengjiao Xia, Zhitang Song, et al.. (2015). Understanding the crystallization behavior of as-deposited Ti–Sb–Te alloys through real-time radial distribution functions. Nanoscale. 7(21). 9935–9944. 25 indexed citations

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Xia, Mengjiao, Keyuan Ding, Feng Rao, et al.. (2015). Aluminum-Centered Tetrahedron-Octahedron Transition in Advancing Al-Sb-Te Phase Change Properties. Scientific Reports. 5(1). 8548–8548. 27 indexed citations

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Rao, Feng, Zhitang Song, Kun Ren, et al.. (2011). Si–Sb–Te materials for phase change memory applications. Nanotechnology. 22(14). 145702–145702. 105 indexed citations

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Song, Sannian, Zhitang Song, Feng Rao, et al.. (2011). Ga-Sb-Se material for low-power phase change memory. Applied Physics Letters. 99(24). 48 indexed citations

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Zhou, Xilin, Liangcai Wu, Zhitang Song, et al.. (2009). Si_2Sb_2Te_6 Phase Change Material for Low-Power Phase Change Memory Application. Applied Physics Express. 2(9). 1 indexed citations

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Rao, Feng, et al.. (2008). Programming voltage reduction in phase change memory cells with tungsten trioxide bottom heating layer/electrode. Nanotechnology. 19(44). 445706–445706. 52 indexed citations

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