Kevin Lukas

2.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
23 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

Kevin Lukas is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. According to data from OpenAlex, Kevin Lukas has authored 23 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Materials Chemistry, 6 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 6 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. Recurrent topics in Kevin Lukas's work include Advanced Thermoelectric Materials and Devices (18 papers), Thermal properties of materials (9 papers) and Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films (5 papers). Kevin Lukas is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Thermoelectric Materials and Devices (18 papers), Thermal properties of materials (9 papers) and Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films (5 papers). Kevin Lukas collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and United Kingdom. Kevin Lukas's co-authors include Cyril Opeil, Gang Chen, Zhifeng Ren, Weishu Liu, Qian Zhang, David Broido, Bo Yu, Shuo Chen, Keivan Esfarjani and Bolin Liao and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Nano Letters.

In The Last Decade

Kevin Lukas

23 papers receiving 2.3k 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.

High thermoelectric performance by resonant dopant indium in nanostructured SnTe

2013 672 citations Qian Zhang, Bolin Liao et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Enhancement of Thermoelectric Properties by Modulation-Doping in Silicon Germanium Alloy Nanocomposites

2012 462 citations Bo Yu, Mona Zebarjadi et al. Nano Letters profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Kevin Lukas United States	14	2.2k	1.1k	529	495	265	23	2.3k
Liangwei Fu China	27	2.4k 1.1×	1.3k 1.2×	300 0.6×	586 1.2×	141 0.5×	66	2.4k
Yunshan Tang China	10	2.7k 1.2×	1.0k 1.0×	667 1.3×	731 1.5×	172 0.6×	11	2.8k
Sim Loo United States	6	2.6k 1.1×	1.1k 1.0×	460 0.9×	790 1.6×	214 0.8×	17	2.7k
Subhajit Roychowdhury India	27	2.8k 1.2×	1.7k 1.6×	369 0.7×	421 0.9×	404 1.5×	53	3.0k
Pengfei Nan China	21	1.7k 0.8×	1.0k 1.0×	312 0.6×	307 0.6×	185 0.7×	64	2.0k
Max Wood United States	25	2.6k 1.2×	958 0.9×	760 1.4×	376 0.8×	237 0.9×	36	2.7k
Anek Charoenphakdee Thailand	12	3.8k 1.7×	1.9k 1.8×	684 1.3×	809 1.6×	385 1.5×	31	3.9k
Yinglu Tang United States	13	3.3k 1.5×	1.4k 1.3×	731 1.4×	656 1.3×	335 1.3×	20	3.3k
Songting Cai United States	25	2.0k 0.9×	1.2k 1.2×	255 0.5×	421 0.9×	127 0.5×	30	2.2k
Chen Chen China	32	2.5k 1.1×	868 0.8×	582 1.1×	473 1.0×	218 0.8×	122	2.7k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kevin Lukas

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Lukas, Kevin. (2013). Thermoelectric transport properties of novel nanoscaled materials via homemade and commercial apparatus measurements. PhDT. 1 indexed citations

Disseler, Steven, S. R. Giblin, Chetan Dhital, et al.. (2013). Magnetization and Hall effect studies on the pyrochlore iridate Nd2Ir2O7. Physical Review B. 87(6). 27 indexed citations

Chen, Shuo, Kevin Lukas, Weishu Liu, et al.. (2013). Effect of Hf Concentration on Thermoelectric Properties of Nanostructured N‐Type Half‐Heusler Materials Hf_xZr_1–xNiSn_0.99Sb_0.01. Advanced Energy Materials. 3(9). 1210–1214. 207 indexed citations

Zhang, Qian, Bolin Liao, Yucheng Lan, et al.. (2013). High thermoelectric performance by resonant dopant indium in nanostructured SnTe. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 110(33). 13261–13266. 672 indexed citations breakdown →

Lukas, Kevin, et al.. (2012). Experimental Determination of the Lorenz Number. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 2012. 3 indexed citations

Lukas, Kevin, Weishu Liu, Zhensong Ren, & Cyril Opeil. (2012). Transport properties of Ni, Co, Fe, Mn doped Cu0.01Bi2Te2.7Se0.3 for thermoelectric device applications. Journal of Applied Physics. 112(5). 16 indexed citations

Zhang, Qian, Feng Cao, Weishu Liu, et al.. (2012). Heavy Doping and Band Engineering by Potassium to Improve the Thermoelectric Figure of Merit in p-Type PbTe, PbSe, and PbTe_1–ySe_y. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 134(24). 10031–10038. 332 indexed citations

Zhao, Huaizhou, Shuo Chen, Bolin Liao, et al.. (2012). Figure-of-merit enhancement in nanostructured FeSb_2−xAg_xwith Ag_1−ySb_ynanoinclusions. Nanotechnology. 23(50). 505402–505402. 13 indexed citations

Lukas, Kevin, Weishu Liu, Giri Joshi, et al.. (2012). Experimental determination of the Lorenz number in Cu0.01Bi2Te2.7Se0.3and Bi0.88Sb0.12. Physical Review B. 85(20). 35 indexed citations

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Zhao, Huaizhou, et al.. (2012). Enhanced Thermoelectric Properties of FeSbx Nanocomposites Through Stoichiometric Adjustment. MRS Proceedings. 1456. 1 indexed citations

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Zhao, Huaizhou, Gaohua Zhu, Shuo Chen, et al.. (2012). Publisher’s Note: “Dramatic thermal conductivity reduction by nanostructures for large increase in thermoelectric figure-of-merit of FeSb2” [Appl. Phys. Lett. 99, 163101 (2011)]. Applied Physics Letters. 100(5). 1 indexed citations

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Lukas, Kevin, Huaizhou Zhao, Ryan L. Stillwell, Zhifeng Ren, & Cyril Opeil. (2012). Cerium Doped Bismuth Antimony. MRS Proceedings. 1456. 1 indexed citations

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Yu, Bo, Mona Zebarjadi, Hui Wang, et al.. (2012). Enhancement of Thermoelectric Properties by Modulation-Doping in Silicon Germanium Alloy Nanocomposites. Nano Letters. 12(4). 2077–2082. 462 indexed citations breakdown →

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Zhao, Huaizhou, et al.. (2012). Thermoelectric properties of Bi-FeSb₂ nanocomposites: Evidence for phonon-drag effect. MRS Proceedings. 1490. 115–120. 1 indexed citations

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Dhital, Chetan, Z. Yamani, Clarina dela Cruz, et al.. (2012). Spin ordering and electronic texture in the bilayer iridate Sr3Ir2O7. Physical Review B. 86(10). 36 indexed citations

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Lukas, Kevin, Weishu Liu, Jie Qi, Zhifeng Ren, & Cyril Opeil. (2012). Thermal stability of thermoelectric materials via in situ resistivity measurements. Review of Scientific Instruments. 83(11). 115114–115114. 5 indexed citations

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Liu, Weishu, Kevin Lukas, Kenneth McEnaney, et al.. (2012). Studies on the Bi₂Te₃–Bi₂Se₃–Bi₂S₃system for mid-temperature thermoelectric energy conversion. Energy & Environmental Science. 6(2). 552–560. 267 indexed citations

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Zhao, Huaizhou, Gaohua Zhu, Shuo Chen, et al.. (2011). Dramatic thermal conductivity reduction by nanostructures for large increase in thermoelectric figure-of-merit of FeSb2. Applied Physics Letters. 99(16). 44 indexed citations

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Zhang, Qian, Qinyong Zhang, Shuo Chen, et al.. (2011). Suppression of grain growth by additive in nanostructured p-type bismuth antimony tellurides. Nano Energy. 1(1). 183–189. 59 indexed citations

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Lukas, Kevin, et al.. (2009). Differential scanning calorimetry: Fundamental overview. Resonance. 14(8). 807–817. 16 indexed citations

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