James H. Edgar

12.9k total citations · 7 hit papers
315 papers, 9.9k citations indexed

About

James H. Edgar is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Condensed Matter Physics and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, James H. Edgar has authored 315 papers receiving a total of 9.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 153 papers in Materials Chemistry, 100 papers in Condensed Matter Physics and 99 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in James H. Edgar's work include GaN-based semiconductor devices and materials (93 papers), Graphene research and applications (70 papers) and Boron and Carbon Nanomaterials Research (62 papers). James H. Edgar is often cited by papers focused on GaN-based semiconductor devices and materials (93 papers), Graphene research and applications (70 papers) and Boron and Carbon Nanomaterials Research (62 papers). James H. Edgar collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and France. James H. Edgar's co-authors include Danping Zhuang, L. Liu, Song Liu, Inspec, Guillaume Cassabois, Joshua D. Caldwell, Bernard Gil, D. N. Basov, Jiahan Li and Igor Aharonovich and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

James H. Edgar

301 papers receiving 9.7k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Substrates for gallium nitride epitaxy

2002 663 citations James H. Edgar et al. profile →
Wet etching of GaN, AlN, and SiC: a review

2005 650 citations James H. Edgar et al. profile →
Photonics with hexagonal boron nitride

2019 645 citations Joshua D. Caldwell, Guillaume Cassabois et al. profile →
Properties of group III nitrides

1994 397 citations James H. Edgar et al. profile →
Infrared hyperbolic metasurface based on nanostructured van der Waals materials

2018 376 citations Song Liu, James H. Edgar et al. Science profile →
Ultralow-loss polaritons in isotopically pure boron nitride

2017 325 citations Song Liu, M. M. Fogler et al. Nature Materials profile →
Deterministic switching of a perpendicularly polarized magnet using unconventional spin–orbit torques in WTe2

2022 140 citations Jiahan Li, James H. Edgar et al. Nature Materials profile →

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Ultrabroadband Spacetime Nanoscopy of Terahertz Polaritons in a van der Waals Cavity 2026 ·Small ·Lukas Wehmeier, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Jenny Hu, C. C. Homes, (unknown), James H. Edgar, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Mengkun Liu	0
2	Determining the optical and polaritonic properties of isotopically pure hBN using cryogenic FTIR micro-spectroscopy 2025 ·Applied Physics Letters ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), James H. Edgar, Thomas G. Folland	2
3	Ultrafast evanescent heat transfer across solid interfaces via hyperbolic phonon–polariton modes in hexagonal boron nitride 2025 ·Nature Materials ·William Hutchins, (unknown), (unknown), John A. Tomko, Joseph R. Matson, (unknown), (unknown), Mingze He, (unknown), Jiahan Li, James H. Edgar, Jon‐Paul Maria, Joshua D. Caldwell, Patrick E. Hopkins	5
4	Transmission line model for two-dimensional materials and van der Waals heterostructures 2025 ·Physical review. B. ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), James H. Edgar, Sefaattin Tongay, Yarden Mazor, Itai Epstein	2
5	Atomic-like UV emission generated in hexagonal boron nitride single crystals by thermal annealing 2024 ·Journal of Luminescence ·(unknown), Prachi Joshi, (unknown), James H. Edgar, (unknown), M. L. Nakarmi	2
6	Ultramicrotomy‐Assisted Fabrication of Nanochannels for Efficient Ion Transport and Energy Generation 2024 ·Advanced Functional Materials ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Evan Tillotson, Solleti Goutham, Yi You, Teruo Hashimoto, Eli Janzen, James H. Edgar, Sarah J. Haigh, Ashok Keerthi, Boya Radha	5
7	Electrical spectroscopy of polaritonic nanoresonators 2024 ·Nature Communications ·Sebastián Castilla, (unknown), Ioannis Vangelidis, Yu. V. Bludov, David Alcaraz Iranzo, (unknown), (unknown), M. I. Vasilevskiy, Roshan Krishna Kumar, Eli Janzen, James H. Edgar, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, N. M. R. Peres, Elefterios Lidorikis, Frank H. L. Koppens	2
8	Anomalous isotope effect on mechanical properties of single atomic layer Boron Nitride 2023 ·Nature Communications ·Alexey Falin, Haifeng Lv, Eli Janzen, James H. Edgar, Rui Zhang, Dong Qian, Hwo‐Shuenn Sheu, Qiran Cai, Wei Gan, Xiaojun Wu, Elton J. G. Santos, Lu Hua Li	6
9	Hexagonal Boron Nitride Slab Waveguides for Enhanced Spectroscopy of Encapsulated 2D Materials 2023 ·Advanced Materials ·(unknown), Nicholas V. Proscia, Cory D. Cress, José J. Fonseca, Paul D. Cunningham, Eli Janzen, James H. Edgar, Daniel J. Pennachio, James C. Culbertson, Maxim Zalalutdinov, Jeremy T. Robinson	4
10	Transverse Hypercrystals Formed by Periodically Modulated Phonon Polaritons 2023 ·ACS Nano ·Hanan Herzig Sheinfux, Minwoo Jung, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Iacopo Torre, (unknown), Eli Janzen, James H. Edgar, Valerio Pruneri, Gennady Shvets, Frank H. L. Koppens	6
11	Negative refraction in hyperbolic hetero-bicrystals 2023 ·Science ·Aaron Sternbach, Samuel Moore, (unknown), Shuai Zhang, Ran Jing, Yinming Shao, (unknown), Suheng Xu, (unknown), James H. Edgar, Ángel Rubio, Cory R. Dean, James Hone, M. M. Fogler, D. N. Basov	67
12	The thermal oxidation of hexagonal boron nitride single crystals: Dry and ambient air compared 2022 ·MRS Communications ·(unknown), Jiahan Li, James H. Edgar	5
13	Negative reflection of nanoscale-confined polaritons in a low-loss natural medium 2022 ·Science Advances ·Gonzalo Álvarez‐Pérez, Jiahua Duan, Javier Taboada‐Gutiérrez, Qingdong Ou, Elizaveta Nikulina, Song Liu, James H. Edgar, Qiaoliang Bao, Vincenzo Giannini, Rainer Hillenbrand, Javier Martín‐Sánchez, Alexey Y. Nikitin, Pablo Alonso‐González	41
14	Stacking-dependent deep level emission in boron nitride 2022 ·Physical Review Materials ·Adrien Rousseau, Pierre Valvin, Christine Elias, Lianjie Xue, (unknown), James H. Edgar, Bernard Gil, Guillaume Cassabois	8
15	Polaritonic Vortices with a Half-Integer Charge 2021 ·Nano Letters ·Lin Xiong, Yutao Li, Dorri Halbertal, M. Sammon, Zhiyuan Sun, Song Liu, James H. Edgar, Tony Low, M. M. Fogler, Cory R. Dean, Andrew J. Millis, D. N. Basov	24
16	Rhombohedral and turbostratic boron nitride: X-ray diffraction and photoluminescence signatures 2021 ·Applied Physics Letters ·M. Moret, Adrien Rousseau, Pierre Valvin, (unknown), (unknown), Henrik Pedersen, Hans Högberg, Guillaume Cassabois, (unknown), James H. Edgar, Bernard Gil	18
17	Hexagonal Boron Nitride Single Crystal Growth from Solution with a Temperature Gradient 2020 ·Chemistry of Materials ·Jiahan Li, Chao Yuan, Christine Elias, Junyong Wang, Xiaotian Zhang, Gaihua Ye, (unknown), Martin Kuball, Goki Eda, Joan M. Redwing, Rui He, Guillaume Cassabois, Bernard Gil, Pierre Valvin, Thomas Pelini, Bin Liu, James H. Edgar	35
18	Deep ultraviolet hyperspectral cryomicroscopy in boron nitride: Photoluminescence in crystals with an ultra-low defect density 2020 ·AIP Advances ·Pierre Valvin, Thomas Pelini, Guillaume Cassabois, Alberto Zobelli, Jiahan Li, James H. Edgar, Bernard Gil	21
19	Band structure and infrared optical transitions in ErN 2020 ·Applied Physics Letters ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), J. Li, James H. Edgar, J. Y. Lin, H. X. Jiang	6
20	Reconfigurable mid-infrared optical elements using phase change materials 2019 ·Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics ·Xinghui Yin, (unknown), Michele Tamagnone, Kundan Chaudhary, Stefano Luigi Oscurato, Jiahan Li, Ruoping Li, Noah A. Rubin, Luis A. Jauregui, Philip Kim, James H. Edgar, Antonio Ambrosio, Federico Capasso	0

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