F.K. Yam

4.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
235 papers, 3.9k citations indexed

About

F.K. Yam is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. According to data from OpenAlex, F.K. Yam has authored 235 papers receiving a total of 3.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 160 papers in Materials Chemistry, 111 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 102 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. Recurrent topics in F.K. Yam's work include ZnO doping and properties (114 papers), GaN-based semiconductor devices and materials (101 papers) and Ga2O3 and related materials (99 papers). F.K. Yam is often cited by papers focused on ZnO doping and properties (114 papers), GaN-based semiconductor devices and materials (101 papers) and Ga2O3 and related materials (99 papers). F.K. Yam collaborates with scholars based in Malaysia, Nigeria and Iraq. F.K. Yam's co-authors include Z. Hassan, Peverga R. Jubu, Khi Poay Beh, S.S. Ng, V. M. Igba, Khaled M. Chahrour, Y. Yusof, O.S. Obaseki, M. Bououdina and Q.N. Abdullah and has published in prestigious journals such as Applied Physics Letters, PLoS ONE and Journal of Applied Physics.

In The Last Decade

F.K. Yam

228 papers receiving 3.8k citations

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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.

Tauc-plot scale and extrapolation effect on bandgap estimation from UV–vis–NIR data – A case study of β-Ga2O3

2020 341 citations Peverga R. Jubu, F.K. Yam et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
F.K. Yam Malaysia	32	2.5k	1.8k	1.3k	955	927	235	3.9k
Jikang Jian China	33	2.1k 0.8×	1.7k 0.9×	667 0.5×	584 0.6×	303 0.3×	136	3.0k
S. K. De India	34	2.2k 0.9×	1.1k 0.6×	1.2k 1.0×	598 0.6×	470 0.5×	137	3.4k
Cailei Yuan China	36	2.2k 0.9×	2.7k 1.5×	915 0.7×	1.3k 1.4×	292 0.3×	201	4.3k
Hongliang Ge China	32	1.7k 0.7×	1.5k 0.8×	1.6k 1.3×	548 0.6×	289 0.3×	299	4.0k
Jianbo Liang Japan	32	2.4k 0.9×	2.3k 1.3×	732 0.6×	604 0.6×	198 0.2×	137	3.7k
Anders Bentien Denmark	35	1.6k 0.6×	1.5k 0.8×	957 0.8×	492 0.5×	473 0.5×	101	3.4k
R. Awad Lebanon	34	2.3k 0.9×	763 0.4×	1.6k 1.3×	379 0.4×	1.5k 1.7×	287	4.1k
A.Z. Simões Brazil	41	5.1k 2.0×	2.8k 1.5×	2.1k 1.7×	727 0.8×	169 0.2×	252	5.9k
Manoranjan Kar India	40	4.1k 1.6×	1.5k 0.8×	3.3k 2.7×	621 0.7×	412 0.4×	239	5.3k
C. Sudakar India	38	2.9k 1.2×	1.6k 0.9×	1.5k 1.2×	1.1k 1.1×	239 0.3×	166	4.2k

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Yam, F.K., et al.. (2025). Recent development in metal phosphate-based electrode materials for supercapacitor application: A review. Journal of Solid State Electrochemistry. 29(10). 4249–4280. 2 indexed citations

Adedokun, Oluwaseun, et al.. (2025). Reaction duration impact on morphological, optical, structural and photoelectrochemical properties of hydrothermally synthesized TiO₂ nanorods. Zeitschrift für Physikalische Chemie. 2 indexed citations

Yam, F.K., et al.. (2025). A review of TiO2 nanostructured materials for hydrogen generation through photocatalytic and photoelectrochemical water splitting. Physica B Condensed Matter. 714. 417466–417466. 5 indexed citations

Ramizy, Asmiet, et al.. (2024). Characteristics of aluminium nitride thin film prepared by pulse laser deposition with varying laser pulses. Optical Materials. 153. 115622–115622. 5 indexed citations

Jubu, Peverga R., O.S. Obaseki, Eli Danladi, et al.. (2024). Considerations about the determination of optical bandgap from diffuse reflectance spectroscopy using the tauc plot. Journal of Optics. 53(5). 5054–5064. 47 indexed citations

Yam, F.K., et al.. (2024). Modulation of the morphological and optical properties of CVD grown non-Stochiometric Ga2O3−x nanostructures by various substrate angles. Physica B Condensed Matter. 695. 416491–416491. 3 indexed citations

Yam, F.K., et al.. (2024). Structural parameters of CVD synthesized Ga2O3 nanostructures from X-ray diffraction analysis derived by Scherrer, Williamson-Hall, Size-Strain Plot and Halder-Wagner methods–A comparative study. Physica B Condensed Matter. 699. 416798–416798. 13 indexed citations

Yam, F.K., et al.. (2023). The influence of hydrothermal treatment on TiO2 nanostructure films transformed from titanates and their photoelectrochemical water splitting properties. Surfaces and Interfaces. 38. 102767–102767. 20 indexed citations

Yam, F.K., et al.. (2023). Influence of thermal treatment duration on the morphological and optical properties of a-IGZO. Journal of Materials Science Materials in Electronics. 34(16). 7 indexed citations

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Ahmed, Naser M., Araa Mebdir Holi, F.K. Yam, et al.. (2022). Some Distinct Attributes of ZnO Nanorods Arrays: Effects of Varying Hydrothermal Growth Time. Materials. 15(17). 5827–5827. 6 indexed citations

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Yam, F.K., et al.. (2021). Characteristics and Sensing of Sol-gel derived Titanium Dioxide-based Ultraviolet Photodetector on Flame Retardant-4 Board. Sensors and Actuators A Physical. 323. 112654–112654. 16 indexed citations

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Jubu, Peverga R., et al.. (2021). Structural, optical and electrochemical transient photoresponse properties of ZnO/Ga2O3 nanocomposites prepared by two-step CVD method. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy. 46(66). 33087–33097. 21 indexed citations

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Alshammari, Anoud Saud, et al.. (2021). The effect of spray cycles on the morphological, structural, and optical properties of rGO thin film deposited using spray pyrolysis technique. Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing. 127. 105655–105655. 8 indexed citations

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Jubu, Peverga R., et al.. (2020). Deposition of Gallium Oxide Nanostructures at Low Substrate Temperature by Chemical Vapor Deposition. ECS Journal of Solid State Science and Technology. 9(3). 35006–35006. 17 indexed citations

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Jubu, Peverga R., et al.. (2020). Feasibility study on synthesis of gallium oxide nanostructures on glass substrate by chemical vapor deposition. Thin Solid Films. 710. 138257–138257. 14 indexed citations

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Chahrour, Khaled M., et al.. (2019). High-performance UV photodetector of anodic rutile TiO2 nanotube arrays. Materials Letters. 248. 161–164. 39 indexed citations

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Samuel, Joshua & F.K. Yam. (2019). Photocatalytic degradation of methylene blue under visible light by dye sensitized titania. Materials Research Express. 7(1). 15051–15051. 35 indexed citations

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Samuel, Joshua & F.K. Yam. (2019). Rapid synthesis of lithium titanate as an anode material. Materials Research Express. 6(10). 105511–105511. 7 indexed citations

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Yam, F.K., Ibrahim Abdul Razak, H. S. Lim, et al.. (2019). Effect of Ni and Cu catalysts on graphene growth under different ethanol flow rates using atmospheric pressure chemical vapor deposition. Materials Research Express. 6(8). 85627–85627.

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Ng, Siowwoon, et al.. (2018). Photoelectrochemical ultraviolet photodetector by anodic titanium dioxide nanotube layers. Sensors and Actuators A Physical. 279. 263–271. 22 indexed citations

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