Kunling Peng

2.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
74 papers, 2.5k citations indexed

About

Kunling Peng is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. According to data from OpenAlex, Kunling Peng has authored 74 papers receiving a total of 2.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 68 papers in Materials Chemistry, 39 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 10 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. Recurrent topics in Kunling Peng's work include Advanced Thermoelectric Materials and Devices (62 papers), Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films (35 papers) and Thermal properties of materials (22 papers). Kunling Peng is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Thermoelectric Materials and Devices (62 papers), Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films (35 papers) and Thermal properties of materials (22 papers). Kunling Peng collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Japan. Kunling Peng's co-authors include Guoyu Wang, Xu Lu, Xiaoyuan Zhou, Ctirad Uher, Xiaoyuan Zhou, Hong Wu, Jiyan Dai, Xiaodan Tang, Si Hui and Heng Zhan and has published in prestigious journals such as Advanced Materials, Nano Letters and Energy & Environmental Science.

In The Last Decade

Kunling Peng

71 papers receiving 2.4k 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.

Broad temperature plateau for high ZTs in heavily doped p-type SnSe single crystals

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Kunling Peng China	26	2.3k	1.4k	379	276	228	74	2.5k
Manisha Samanta India	19	2.0k 0.9×	1.2k 0.8×	251 0.7×	305 1.1×	240 1.1×	27	2.1k
Subhajit Roychowdhury India	27	2.8k 1.2×	1.7k 1.2×	369 1.0×	421 1.5×	404 1.8×	53	3.0k
Tristan Day United States	21	3.0k 1.3×	2.1k 1.5×	420 1.1×	400 1.4×	123 0.5×	24	3.0k
Tanmoy Ghosh India	25	2.6k 1.2×	1.7k 1.2×	292 0.8×	397 1.4×	247 1.1×	47	2.8k
Yanyuan Zhao Singapore	16	2.1k 0.9×	1.0k 0.7×	214 0.6×	181 0.7×	567 2.5×	18	2.4k
Fivos Drymiotis United States	20	1.3k 0.6×	533 0.4×	293 0.8×	212 0.8×	148 0.6×	46	1.5k
Huaizhou Zhao China	22	1.4k 0.6×	505 0.4×	420 1.1×	328 1.2×	157 0.7×	50	1.6k
Dipanshu Bansal United States	17	1.3k 0.6×	780 0.6×	259 0.7×	134 0.5×	160 0.7×	49	1.6k
Jesse Maassen Canada	20	1.5k 0.7×	685 0.5×	111 0.3×	157 0.6×	337 1.5×	46	1.8k
Pai‐Chun Wei Taiwan	19	1.3k 0.6×	919 0.7×	207 0.5×	141 0.5×	111 0.5×	44	1.4k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Peng, Kunling, Sikang Zheng, Meng Tian, et al.. (2025). Enhancing Thermoelectric Performance of Cd₃P₂ by Alloying with Dirac Material Cd₃As₂. Advanced Electronic Materials. 11(12). 1 indexed citations

Peng, Kunling, Sikang Zheng, Zhengbin Gu, et al.. (2025). Enhancement of Thermoelectric Performance in a Cd₃P₂-Based Systems: Cd₃P_1.4As_0.6. ACS Applied Energy Materials. 8(15). 11652–11660.

Peng, Kunling, et al.. (2024). Thermal conductivity in MoSi₂N₄(MoN)ₙ: Insights into phonon scattering and transport. International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer. 159. 108361–108361. 1 indexed citations

Chen, Peng, Hong Wu, Bin Zhang, et al.. (2023). Intrinsically Low Lattice Thermal Conductivity and Anisotropic Thermoelectric Performance in In‐doped GeSb₂Te₄ Single Crystals. Advanced Functional Materials. 33(11). 27 indexed citations

Wu, Peng, Ryoichi Kajimoto, Mitsutaka Nakamura, et al.. (2023). Experimental evidence for the significance of optical phonons in thermal transport of tin monosulfide. New Journal of Physics. 25(1). 13032–13032. 2 indexed citations

Gui, Zhigang, Guiwen Wang, Honghui Wang, et al.. (2023). Large Improvement of Thermoelectric Performance by Magnetism in Co‐Based Full‐Heusler Alloys. Advanced Science. 10(28). e2303967–e2303967. 16 indexed citations

Zhou, Zizhen, Kunling Peng, Yiqing Wei, et al.. (2022). Anomalous Thermoelectric Performance in Asymmetric Dirac Semimetal BaAgBi. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 13(10). 2291–2298. 24 indexed citations

Peng, Kunling, Zizhen Zhou, Yanci Yan, et al.. (2022). Exceptional Thermoelectric Performance Enabled by High Carrier Mobility and Intrinsically Low Lattice Thermal Conductivity in Phosphide Cd₃P₂. Chemistry of Materials. 34(4). 1620–1626. 16 indexed citations

Peng, Kunling, Yuling Huang, Jian Li, et al.. (2022). Enhanced thermoelectric performance of Cu ₂ SnSe ₃ via synergistic effects of Cd‐doping and CuGaTe ₂ alloying. Rare Metals. 41(10). 3466–3474. 15 indexed citations

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Lu, Xiu Fang, Yishu Zhang, Naizhou Wang, et al.. (2021). Exploring Low Power and Ultrafast Memristor on p-Type van der Waals SnS. Nano Letters. 21(20). 8800–8807. 116 indexed citations

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Peng, Kunling, Zizhen Zhou, Honghui Wang, et al.. (2021). Thermoelectric performance of binary lithium-based compounds: Li3Sb and Li3Bi. Applied Physics Letters. 119(3). 10 indexed citations

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Zhang, De, Zizhen Zhou, Kunling Peng, et al.. (2021). Ultralow Lattice Thermal Conductivity of Cubic CuFeS₂ Induced by Atomic Disorder. Chemistry of Materials. 33(24). 9795–9802. 22 indexed citations

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Peng, Kunling, Bo Zhang, Hong Wu, et al.. (2020). The unique evolution of transport bands and thermoelectric performance enhancement by extending low-symmetry phase to high temperature in tin selenide. Journal of Materials Chemistry C. 8(27). 9345–9351. 9 indexed citations

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Wu, Peng, Feng‐Ren Fan, Masato Hagihala, et al.. (2020). Strong lattice anharmonicity exhibited by the high-energy optical phonons in thermoelectric material. New Journal of Physics. 22(8). 83083–83083. 15 indexed citations

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Li, Chengjun, Kunling Peng, Hong Wu, et al.. (2020). Boosting the thermoelectric performance of p-type polycrystalline SnSe with high doping efficiency via precipitation design. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 9(5). 2991–2998. 18 indexed citations

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Wang, Si, Si Hui, Kunling Peng, et al.. (2018). Low temperature thermoelectric properties of p-type doped single-crystalline SnSe. Applied Physics Letters. 112(14). 28 indexed citations

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Peng, Kunling, Hong Wu, Lijie Guo, et al.. (2017). Grain size optimization for high-performance polycrystalline SnSe thermoelectrics. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 5(27). 14053–14060. 54 indexed citations

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Wang, Si, Si Hui, Kunling Peng, et al.. (2017). Grain boundary scattering effects on mobilities in p-type polycrystalline SnSe. Journal of Materials Chemistry C. 5(39). 10191–10200. 55 indexed citations

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Guo, Lijie, Guiwen Wang, Kunling Peng, et al.. (2016). Melt spinning synthesis of p-type skutterudites: Drastically speed up the process of high performance thermoelectrics. Scripta Materialia. 116. 26–30. 29 indexed citations

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Wang, Guiwen, Aijuan Zhang, Dingfeng Yang, et al.. (2015). Colloidal synthesis of Cu_2−xAg_xCdSnSe₄ nanocrystals: microstructures facilitate high performance thermoelectricity. Journal of Materials Chemistry C. 3(47). 12273–12280. 25 indexed citations

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