Kenneth E. Goodson

32.9k total citations · 8 hit papers
485 papers, 25.0k citations indexed

About

Kenneth E. Goodson is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Mechanical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Kenneth E. Goodson has authored 485 papers receiving a total of 25.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 263 papers in Materials Chemistry, 199 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 161 papers in Mechanical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Kenneth E. Goodson's work include Thermal properties of materials (199 papers), Heat Transfer and Optimization (122 papers) and Heat Transfer and Boiling Studies (100 papers). Kenneth E. Goodson is often cited by papers focused on Thermal properties of materials (199 papers), Heat Transfer and Optimization (122 papers) and Heat Transfer and Boiling Studies (100 papers). Kenneth E. Goodson collaborates with scholars based in United States, South Korea and Switzerland. Kenneth E. Goodson's co-authors include Mehdi Asheghi, Eric Pop, David G. Cahill, Arun Majumdar, Y. Sungtaek Ju, Simon R. Phillpot, Humphrey J. Maris, G. D. Mahan, Hongjie Dai and David J. Mann and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Physical Review Letters and Advanced Materials.

In The Last Decade

Kenneth E. Goodson

467 papers receiving 24.1k citations

Hit Papers

Nanoscale thermal transport 1999 2026 2008 2017 2003 2010 2005 2014 2006 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k
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.

  1. Nanoscale thermal transport
    2003 2.4k citations David G. Cahill, Kenneth E. Goodson et al. Journal of Applied Physics profile →
  2. Phase Change Memory
    2010 1.4k citations H.‐S. Philip Wong, Mehdi Asheghi et al. profile →
  3. Thermal Conductance of an Individual Single-Wall Carbon Nanotube above Room Temperature
    2005 1.4k citations Eric Pop, Kenneth E. Goodson et al. Nano Letters profile →
  4. Nanoscale thermal transport. II. 2003–2012
    2014 1.3k citations David G. Cahill, Kenneth E. Goodson et al. profile →
  5. Heat Generation and Transport in Nanometer-Scale Transistors
    2006 506 citations Eric Pop, Kenneth E. Goodson et al. profile →
  6. Phonon scattering in silicon films with thickness of order 100 nm
    1999 483 citations Kenneth E. Goodson et al. Applied Physics Letters profile →
  7. Thermal Conduction in Aligned Carbon Nanotube–Polymer Nanocomposites with High Packing Density
    2011 420 citations Kenneth E. Goodson et al. ACS Nano profile →
  8. Material and manufacturing cost considerations for thermoelectrics
    2014 413 citations Kenneth E. Goodson et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Kenneth E. Goodson United States 76 16.4k 8.8k 5.4k 4.8k 4.4k 485 25.0k
Chun Ning Lau United States 50 20.0k 1.2× 7.7k 0.9× 2.4k 0.4× 2.0k 0.4× 7.3k 1.6× 127 26.7k
Alexander A. Balandin United States 85 35.4k 2.2× 12.7k 1.4× 5.6k 1.0× 4.0k 0.8× 8.9k 2.0× 416 43.8k
Eric Pop United States 74 16.2k 1.0× 10.3k 1.2× 2.5k 0.5× 954 0.2× 4.5k 1.0× 368 21.8k
Feng Miao China 53 20.4k 1.2× 11.9k 1.3× 1.5k 0.3× 1.7k 0.4× 5.5k 1.2× 169 27.7k
Chris Wolverton United States 101 32.4k 2.0× 15.1k 1.7× 2.8k 0.5× 6.5k 1.4× 2.1k 0.5× 411 40.4k
Xiaobing Luo China 58 4.6k 0.3× 4.9k 0.6× 2.4k 0.5× 2.1k 0.4× 2.4k 0.5× 487 12.1k
Matthias Wuttig Germany 88 25.3k 1.5× 20.1k 2.3× 1.5k 0.3× 1.2k 0.2× 6.2k 1.4× 538 33.9k
B. N. J. Persson Germany 81 4.3k 0.3× 3.7k 0.4× 1.8k 0.3× 5.4k 1.1× 3.4k 0.8× 401 23.8k
Ali Shakouri United States 56 11.0k 0.7× 5.0k 0.6× 4.7k 0.9× 1.1k 0.2× 1.6k 0.4× 447 14.5k
Xianfan Xu United States 49 10.8k 0.7× 5.4k 0.6× 783 0.1× 827 0.2× 3.7k 0.8× 251 15.5k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Dede, Ercan M., Feng Zhou, Yuqing Zhou, et al.. (2025). Applications, Design Methods, and Challenges for Additive Manufacturing of Thermal Solutions for Heterogeneous Integration of Electronics. Journal of Electronic Packaging. 147(2). 4 indexed citations
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Kong, Daeyoung, Heungdong Kwon, James W. Palko, et al.. (2025). Development of a capillary-driven two-phase microcooler using copper wiremesh 3D manifold and silicon micropin fin wicks. International Journal of Mechanical Sciences. 305. 110781–110781.
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Kong, Daeyoung, Kiwan Kim, Bongho Jang, et al.. (2024). Boiling-induced thermal degradation of copper inverse opals and its mitigation. International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer. 151. 107250–107250. 8 indexed citations
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Dede, Ercan M., et al.. (2024). Porous mesh manifold for enhanced boiling performance. Applied Thermal Engineering. 260. 124918–124918. 3 indexed citations
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Kwon, Heungdong, et al.. (2024). Design of Manifolded 3-D μ-Coolers Enabling High Heat Flux Capillary-Driven Boiling Over Large Areas. IEEE Transactions on Components Packaging and Manufacturing Technology. 14(8). 1367–1373. 2 indexed citations
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Singh, Sagar, et al.. (2024). Virtual Testbed for Economical and Reliability Analysis of Battery Thermal Management Control Strategies. Journal of Electronic Packaging. 146(4). 8 indexed citations
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Perez, Christopher, Scott R. Ellis, Eric J. Smoll, et al.. (2024). Picosecond carrier dynamics in InAs and GaAs revealed by ultrafast electron microscopy. Science Advances. 10(20). eadn8980–eadn8980. 11 indexed citations
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Kong, Daeyoung, Heungdong Kwon, Bongho Jang, et al.. (2024). Extreme heat flux cooling from functional copper inverse opal-coated manifold microchannels. Energy Conversion and Management. 315. 118809–118809. 15 indexed citations
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Xiong, Feng, Eilam Yalon, Connor J. McClellan, et al.. (2021). Tuning electrical and interfacial thermal properties of bilayer MoS 2 via electrochemical intercalation. Nanotechnology. 32(26). 265202–265202. 5 indexed citations
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Perez, Christopher, Robert Knepper, Eric Forrest, et al.. (2021). Non‐Contact Mass Density and Thermal Conductivity Measurements of Organic Thin Films Using Frequency–Domain Thermoreflectance. Advanced Materials Interfaces. 9(2). 9 indexed citations
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Kodama, Takashi, Kiho Bae, Jun Young Jung, et al.. (2021). Thermal expansion characterization of thin films using harmonic Joule heating combined with atomic force microscopy. Applied Physics Letters. 118(19). 9 indexed citations
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Scott, Ethan A., Christopher Perez, Christopher B. Saltonstall, et al.. (2021). Simultaneous thickness and thermal conductivity measurements of thinned silicon from 100 nm to 17 μm. Applied Physics Letters. 118(20). 11 indexed citations
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Sood, Aditya, C. Sievers, Yong Cheol Shin, et al.. (2021). Engineering Thermal Transport across Layered Graphene–MoS2 Superlattices. ACS Nano. 15(12). 19503–19512. 31 indexed citations
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Sood, Aditya, Eilam Yalon, Christopher M. Neumann, et al.. (2019). Understanding the switching mechanism of interfacial phase change memory. Journal of Applied Physics. 125(18). 38 indexed citations
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Sood, Aditya, Feng Xiong, Shunda Chen, et al.. (2019). Quasi-Ballistic Thermal Transport Across MoS2 Thin Films. Nano Letters. 19(4). 2434–2442. 77 indexed citations
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Sood, Aditya, Ramez Cheaito, Tingyu Bai, et al.. (2018). Direct Visualization of Thermal Conductivity Suppression Due to Enhanced Phonon Scattering Near Individual Grain Boundaries. Nano Letters. 18(6). 3466–3472. 105 indexed citations
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Yalon, Eilam, Burak Aslan, Kirby K. H. Smithe, et al.. (2017). Temperature-Dependent Thermal Boundary Conductance of Monolayer MoS2 by Raman Thermometry. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 9(49). 43013–43020. 133 indexed citations
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Dunham, Marc T., Bruno Lorenzi, Sean C. Andrews, et al.. (2016). Enhanced phonon scattering by nanovoids in high thermoelectric power factor polysilicon thin films. Applied Physics Letters. 109(25). 18 indexed citations
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Fong, Scott W., Aditya Sood, Liang Chen, et al.. (2016). Thermal conductivity measurement of amorphous dielectric multilayers for phase-change memory power reduction. Journal of Applied Physics. 120(1). 26 indexed citations
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Sood, Aditya, Jungwan Cho, Karl D. Hobart, et al.. (2016). Anisotropic and inhomogeneous thermal conduction in suspended thin-film polycrystalline diamond. Journal of Applied Physics. 119(17). 87 indexed citations

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