Harold G. Craighead

21.3k total citations · 5 hit papers
206 papers, 17.2k citations indexed

About

Harold G. Craighead is a scholar working on Biomedical Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, Harold G. Craighead has authored 206 papers receiving a total of 17.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 107 papers in Biomedical Engineering, 76 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 58 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in Harold G. Craighead's work include Mechanical and Optical Resonators (37 papers), Microfluidic and Bio-sensing Technologies (36 papers) and Microfluidic and Capillary Electrophoresis Applications (34 papers). Harold G. Craighead is often cited by papers focused on Mechanical and Optical Resonators (37 papers), Microfluidic and Bio-sensing Technologies (36 papers) and Microfluidic and Capillary Electrophoresis Applications (34 papers). Harold G. Craighead collaborates with scholars based in United States, Israel and Australia. Harold G. Craighead's co-authors include J. M. Parpia, Paul L. McEuen, Scott S. Verbridge, Arend M. van der Zande, J. Scott Bunch, Jonathan S. Alden, Philip S. Waggoner, David M. Tanenbaum, Ian W. Frank and Stephen W. Turner and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Harold G. Craighead

206 papers receiving 16.7k 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.

Electromechanical Resonators from Graphene Sheets

2007 2.4k citations Scott S. Verbridge, J. M. Parpia et al. profile →
Impermeable Atomic Membranes from Graphene Sheets

2008 2.3k citations Scott S. Verbridge, J. M. Parpia et al. Nano Letters profile →
Brain responses to micro-machined silicon devices

2003 645 citations Harold G. Craighead et al. profile →
Micro- and nanomechanical sensors for environmental, chemical, and biological detection

2007 527 citations Philip S. Waggoner, Harold G. Craighead Lab on a Chip profile →
Future lab-on-a-chip technologies for interrogating individual molecules

2006 515 citations Harold G. Craighead Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Harold G. Craighead United States	63	8.7k	5.8k	5.5k	4.2k	2.5k	206	17.2k
James K. Gimzewski United States	74	6.2k 0.7×	12.6k 2.2×	5.2k 1.0×	10.4k 2.5×	2.6k 1.0×	283	22.6k
Fernando Patolsky Israel	58	8.0k 0.9×	7.3k 1.3×	4.2k 0.8×	1.8k 0.4×	6.3k 2.5×	156	15.7k
Peter C. Searson United States	75	6.3k 0.7×	6.7k 1.2×	9.7k 1.8×	3.2k 0.8×	3.4k 1.4×	332	22.3k
H. G. Craighead United States	52	4.6k 0.5×	5.2k 0.9×	2.0k 0.4×	5.0k 1.2×	1.0k 0.4×	156	11.2k
Enzo Di Fabrizio Italy	62	7.2k 0.8×	5.3k 0.9×	3.5k 0.6×	2.5k 0.6×	2.3k 0.9×	406	15.7k
Mark E. Welland United Kingdom	67	3.4k 0.4×	4.6k 0.8×	4.6k 0.8×	5.6k 1.3×	3.6k 1.5×	251	16.0k
Zhongze Gu China	70	7.8k 0.9×	4.0k 0.7×	4.7k 0.9×	4.0k 1.0×	2.5k 1.0×	358	17.1k
Andreas Offenhäusser Germany	55	5.4k 0.6×	4.5k 0.8×	1.6k 0.3×	1.4k 0.3×	3.5k 1.4×	422	11.4k
Lifeng Chi China	63	6.1k 0.7×	7.1k 1.2×	6.2k 1.1×	2.3k 0.5×	1.7k 0.7×	477	15.9k
Ch. Gerber Switzerland	55	8.4k 1.0×	10.7k 1.9×	4.9k 0.9×	19.3k 4.6×	2.2k 0.9×	109	27.8k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Craighead, Harold G., et al.. (2018). Microfluidic Device for Aptamer-Based Cancer Cell Capture and Genetic Mutation Detection. Analytical Chemistry. 90(4). 2601–2608. 39 indexed citations

Abhilash, T. S., et al.. (2018). Temperature-dependence of stress and elasticity in wet-transferred graphene membranes. Journal of Applied Physics. 123(9). 10 indexed citations

Abhilash, T. S., et al.. (2017). Low-Power Photothermal Self-Oscillation of Bimetallic Nanowires. Nano Letters. 17(7). 3995–4002. 11 indexed citations

Craighead, Harold G., et al.. (2015). Detection of DNA and Protein using CVD Graphene-channel FET Biosensors. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 2015. 1 indexed citations

Linzon, Yoav, Daniel J. Joe, B. Ilic, et al.. (2012). Synchronous imaging for rapid visualization of complex vibration profiles in electromechanical microresonators. Journal of Applied Physics. 111(2). 1 indexed citations

Kelly, Christopher V., Barbara Baird, & Harold G. Craighead. (2011). An Array of Planar Apertures for Near-Field Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy. Biophysical Journal. 100(7). L34–L36. 12 indexed citations

Moran‐Mirabal, Jose, et al.. (2011). Investigating Cellulase Synergistic Binding and Activity on Simple and Complex Cellulose Morphological Structures. Biophysical Journal. 100(3). 488a–489a. 1 indexed citations

Levy, Stephen L. & Harold G. Craighead. (2010). DNA manipulation, sorting, and mapping in nanofluidic systems. Chemical Society Reviews. 39(3). 1133–1133. 149 indexed citations

Park, Seung Min, Yun Suk Huh, Kylan Szeto, et al.. (2010). Rapid Prototyping of Nanofluidic Systems Using Size‐Reduced Electrospun Nanofibers for Biomolecular Analysis. Small. 6(21). 2420–2426. 13 indexed citations

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Tan, Christine P. & Harold G. Craighead. (2010). Surface Engineering and Patterning Using Parylene for Biological Applications. Materials. 3(3). 1803–1832. 126 indexed citations

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Waggoner, Philip S., Madhukar Varshney, & Harold G. Craighead. (2009). Detection of prostate specific antigen with nanomechanical resonators. Lab on a Chip. 9(21). 3095–3095. 66 indexed citations

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Verbridge, Scott S., Harold G. Craighead, & J. M. Parpia. (2008). A megahertz nanomechanical resonator with room temperature quality factor over a million. Applied Physics Letters. 92(1). 151 indexed citations

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Bhethanabotla, Venkat R., et al.. (2007). Removal of nonspecifically bound proteins on microsensors using surface acoustic waves.. 1 indexed citations

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Waggoner, Philip S. & Harold G. Craighead. (2007). Micro- and nanomechanical sensors for environmental, chemical, and biological detection. Lab on a Chip. 7(10). 1238–1238. 527 indexed citations breakdown →

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Craighead, Harold G.. (2006). Future lab-on-a-chip technologies for interrogating individual molecules. Nature. 442(7101). 387–393. 515 indexed citations breakdown →

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Li, Chen, Yanou Yang, Harold G. Craighead, & Kelvin H. Lee. (2005). Isoelectric focusing in cyclic olefin copolymer microfluidic channels coated by polyacrylamide using a UV photografting method. Electrophoresis. 26(9). 1800–1806. 82 indexed citations

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Moran‐Mirabal, Jose, et al.. (2004). Micropatterning of functional lipid domains for toxin detection. 249–251. 1 indexed citations

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England, P., T. Venkatesan, X. D. Wu, et al.. (1988). Intrinsic superconductor/normal-metal/superconductor-like weak links in Y1Ba2Cu3O7−x thin films. Applied Physics Letters. 53(23). 2336–2338. 31 indexed citations

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Worlock, J. M., J. A. Kash, Axel Scherer, Harold G. Craighead, & M. C. Tamargo. (1986). Optical Spectroscopy of Excitons in Semiconductor Microstructures. Journal of the Optical Society of America B. 3. 246. 6 indexed citations

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Skocpol, W. J., L. D. Jackel, Richard Howard, et al.. (1984). Magnetoconductance and quantized confinement in narrow silicon inversion layers. Surface Science. 142(1-3). 14–18. 33 indexed citations

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