Lei Liao

39.5k citations

593 papers · 32.3k indexed · 13 hit papers · h-index 92

Impact in

Materials Chemistry top 0.05%
- 2D Materials and Applications
- Graphene research and applications
- MXene and MAX Phase Materials
- ZnO doping and properties
Electrical and Electronic Engineering top 0.05%
- Perovskite Materials and Applications
- Gas Sensing Nanomaterials and Sensors
- Advanced Memory and Neural Computing

Papers in

Materials Chemistry 327
- 2D Materials and Applications 132
- Graphene research and applications 98
- ZnO doping and properties 87
- MXene and MAX Phase Materials 43
Electrical and Electronic Engineering 312
- Perovskite Materials and Applications 59
- Advanced Memory and Neural Computing 45
- Thin-Film Transistor Technologies 40

Co-authors: Xiangfeng Duan Yu Huang Yuan Liu Xuming Zou Weida Hu Jingwei Bai Rui Cheng Yongquan Qu
Journals: Nano Letters (35 papers)Applied Physics Letters (26 papers)Advanced Materials (26 papers)Nanotechnology (25 papers)Small (18 papers)
Partner nations: China United States Hong Kong

In The Last Decade

Lei Liao

560 papers receiving 31.5k citations

Hit Papers

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Monolithic three-dimensional tier-by-tier integration via van der Waals lamination 2024 · 71 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2024 Nature
2021 Advanced Science
2020 Nature Communications
2018 Nature
2017 Advanced Materials
2016 Nature Communications
2016 Advanced Materials
2015 Nano Letters
2015 Advanced Materials
2012 Advanced Materials
2011 Chemistry of Materials
2011 Nature Communications
2010 Nature

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Co-authors

The 25 scholars most cited alongside Lei Liao, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.

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1	CO2 adsorption behavior and mechanism of bifunctionalized amine-based protic ionic liquid/KIT-6 composites Colloids and Surfaces A Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects ·Shuting Zhang, Jianwen Wei, Linlin Geng, Ge Lin, Lei Liao	2025	1
2	Monolithic three-dimensional tier-by-tier integration via van der Waals lamination Nature ·Donglin Lu, Yang Chen, Zheyi Lu, Likuan Ma, Quanyang Tao, Zhiwei Li, Lingan Kong, Liting Liu, Xiaokun Yang, Shuimei Ding, Xiao Liu, Yunxin Li, Ruixia Wu, Yiliu Wang, Yuanyuan Hu, Xidong Duan, Lei Liao, Yuan Liu Hit paper breakdown →	2024	71
3	Large-scale sub-5-nm vertical transistors by van der Waals integration Nature Communications ·Xiaokun Yang, Rui He, Zheyi Lu, Yang Chen, Liting Liu, Donglin Lu, Likuan Ma, Quanyang Tao, Lingan Kong, Zhaojing Xiao, Songlong Liu, Zhiwei Li, Shuimei Ding, Xiao Liu, Yunxin Li, Yiliu Wang, Lei Liao, Yuan Liu	2024	11
4	Two-Dimensional Ultrathin Fe₃Sn₂ Kagome Metal with Defect-Dependent Magnetic Property Nano Letters ·Manli Zhu, Qiuqiu Li, Kaiwen Guo, B. H. Chen, Kun He, Yi Chen, Ping Lü, Xingyun Li, Jiwu Lu, Jia Li, Ruixia Wu, Xingqiang Liu, Yuan Liu, Lei Liao, Bo Li, Xidong Duan	2024	9
5	Ultra‐Stable and Sensitive Ultraviolet Photodetectors Based on Monocrystalline Perovskite Thin Films Advanced Functional Materials ·Xu Li, Chang Liu, Feng Ding, Zheyi Lu, Peng Gao, Ziwei Huang, Weiqi Dang, Liqiang Zhang, Xiaohui Lin, Shuimei Ding, Bailing Li, Ying Huangfu, Xiaohua Shen, Bo Li, Xuming Zou, Yuan Liu, Lei Liao, Yiliu Wang, Xidong Duan	2023	45
6	Highly reproducible van der Waals integration of two-dimensional electronics on the wafer scale Nature Nanotechnology ·Yang Xiang-Dong, Jia Li, Rong Song, Bei Zhao, Jingmei Tang, Lingan Kong, Hao Huang, Zhengwei Zhang, Lei Liao, Yuan Liu, Xiangfeng Duan, Xidong Duan	2023	111
7	Lattice-mismatch-free construction of III-V/chalcogenide core-shell heterostructure nanowires Nature Communications ·Fengjing Liu, Xinming Zhuang, Mingxu Wang, Dongqing Qi, Shengpan Dong, SenPo Yip, Yanxue Yin, Jie Zhang, Zixu Sa, Kepeng Song, Longbing He, Yang Tan, You Meng, Johnny C. Ho, Lei Liao, Feng Chen, Zaixing Yang	2023	53
8	Bridging Synthesis and Controllable Doping of Monolayer 4 in. Length Transition‐Metal Dichalcogenides Single Crystals with High Electron Mobility Advanced Materials ·Hui Li, Junbo Yang, Xiaohui Li, Quankun Luo, Mo Cheng, Feng Wang, Ruofan Du, Yuzhu Wang, Luying Song, Xia Wen, Yao Wen, Mengmeng Xiao, Lei Liao, Yanfeng Zhang, Jianping Shi, Jun He	2023	20
9	Target-initiated triplex signal amplification cascades for non-label and sensitive fluorescence sensing of microRNA The Analyst ·Lei Liao, Tingting Gong, Bingying Jiang, Ruo Yuan, Yun Xiang	2023	3
10	Bilayer tungsten diselenide transistors with on-state currents exceeding 1.5 milliamperes per micrometre Nature Electronics ·Ruixia Wu, Quanyang Tao, Jia Li, Wei Li, Yang Chen, Zheyi Lu, Zhiwen Shu, Bei Zhao, Huifang Ma, Zhengwei Zhang, Yang Xiang-Dong, Bo Li, Huigao Duan, Lei Liao, Yuan Liu, Xidong Duan, Xiangfeng Duan	2022	103
11	ISAR Imaging for a Composite Target-Layered Rough Surface Scene Based on the Accelerated Time-Domain Scattering Algorithm IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation ·Rui Wang, Lei Liao, Guangbin Guo, Lixin Guo	2022	3
12	Transferred metal gate to 2D semiconductors for sub-1 V operation and near ideal subthreshold slope Science Advances ·Jingli Wang, Lejuan Cai, Jiewei Chen, Xuyun Guo, Yuting Liu, Zichao Ma, Zhengdao Xie, Hao Huang, Mansun Chan, Ye Zhu, Lei Liao, Qiming Shao, Yang Chai	2021	61
13	Transferred van der Waals metal electrodes for sub-1-nm MoS2 vertical transistors Nature Electronics ·Liting Liu, Lingan Kong, Qianyuan Li, Chenglin He, Liwang Ren, Quanyang Tao, Yang Xiang-Dong, Jun Lin, Bei Zhao, Zhiwei Li, Yang Chen, Wanying Li, Wenjing Song, Zheyi Lu, Guoli Li, Siyu Li, Xidong Duan, Anlian Pan, Lei Liao, Yuan Liu	2021	214
14	Non-Linear Output-Conductance Function for Robust Analysis of Two-Dimensional Transistors IEEE Electron Device Letters ·Guoli Li, Zizheng Fan, Nicolás André, Yongye Xu, Ying Xia, Benjamı́n Iñı́guez, Lei Liao, Denis Flandre	2020	5
15	Efficient Gate Modulation in a Screening-Engineered MoS₂/Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Network Heterojunction Vertical Field-Effect Transistor ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces ·Thanh Luan Phan, Quoc An Vu, Young Rae Kim, Yong Seon Shin, Il Min Lee, Minh Dao Tran, Jinbao Jiang, Dinh Hoa Luong, Lei Liao, Young Hee Lee, Woo Jong Yu	2019	23
16	Air-stable n-doped black phosphorus transistor by thermal deposition of metal adatoms Nanotechnology ·Zhongzheng Wang, Lu Jiang, Jiahong Wang, Jia Li, Zheng Du, Hong Wu, Lei Liao, Paul K. Chu, Xue‐Feng Yu	2019	21
17	Enhanced ultraviolet photoresponse in a graphene-gated ultra-thin Si-based photodiode Journal of Physics D Applied Physics ·Guoli Li, Nicolás André, Benjamin Huet, Thibault Delhaye, Nicolas Reckinger, Laurent A. Francis, Lei Liao, Jean‐Pierre Raskin, Yun Zeng, Denis Flandre	2019	15
18	Metallic Vanadium Disulfide Nanosheets as a Platform Material for Multifunctional Electrode Applications Nano Letters ·Qingqing Ji, Cong Li, Jingli Wang, Jingjing Niu, Yue Gong, Zhepeng Zhang, Qiyi Fang, Yu Zhang, Jianping Shi, Lei Liao, Xiaosong Wu, Lin Gu, Zhongfan Liu, Yanfeng Zhang	2017	255
19	Selectively enhanced photocurrent generation in twisted bilayer graphene with van Hove singularity Nature Communications ·Jianbo Yin, Huan Wang, Han Peng, Zhenjun Tan, Lei Liao, Li Lin, Xiao Sun, Ai Leen Koh, Yulin Chen, Hailin Peng, Zhongfan Liu	2016	160
20	Highly sensitive phototransistor based on GaSe nanosheets Applied Physics Letters ·Hai Huang, Peng Wang, Yanqing Gao, Xudong Wang, Tie Lin, Jianlu Wang, Lei Liao, Jinglan Sun, Xiangjian Meng, Zhiming Huang, Xiaohong Chen, Junhao Chu	2015	72

About Lei Liao

Lei Liao is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Biomedical Engineering and Polymers and Plastics, having authored 593 papers that have together received 32.3k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include 2D Materials and Applications (132 papers), Graphene research and applications (98 papers), ZnO doping and properties (87 papers), Nanowire Synthesis and Applications (74 papers), Perovskite Materials and Applications (59 papers), Advanced Memory and Neural Computing (45 papers), MXene and MAX Phase Materials (43 papers) and Thin-Film Transistor Technologies (40 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Materials Chemistry (22.5k citations), Electrical and Electronic Engineering (17.6k citations), Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials (4.3k citations), Biomedical Engineering (8.9k citations) and Polymers and Plastics (2.6k citations). Lei Liao has collaborated with scholars based in China, United States and Hong Kong. Frequent co-authors include Xiangfeng Duan, Yu Huang, Yuan Liu, Xuming Zou, Weida Hu, Jingwei Bai, Rui Cheng, Yongquan Qu, Xiaohong Chen and Yung‐Chen Lin. Their work appears in journals such as Nano Letters, Applied Physics Letters, Advanced Materials, Nanotechnology and Small.

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