Leigh Canham

23.5k total citations · 4 hit papers
170 papers, 18.3k citations indexed

About

Leigh Canham is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Biomedical Engineering and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Leigh Canham has authored 170 papers receiving a total of 18.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 145 papers in Materials Chemistry, 118 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 84 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Leigh Canham's work include Silicon Nanostructures and Photoluminescence (135 papers), Nanowire Synthesis and Applications (90 papers) and Semiconductor materials and devices (57 papers). Leigh Canham is often cited by papers focused on Silicon Nanostructures and Photoluminescence (135 papers), Nanowire Synthesis and Applications (90 papers) and Semiconductor materials and devices (57 papers). Leigh Canham collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and France. Leigh Canham's co-authors include P. D. J. Calcott, A. G. Cullis, A.G. Cullis, Inspec, A. Loni, K. J. Nash, T. I. Cox, D. Brumhead, Nicolas H. Voelcker and Michael J. Kane and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

Leigh Canham

170 papers receiving 17.6k citations

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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.

Silicon quantum wire array fabrication by electrochemical and chemical dissolution of wafers

1990 6.5k citations Leigh Canham profile →
The structural and luminescence properties of porous silicon

1997 2.0k citations Leigh Canham et al. profile →
Visible light emission due to quantum size effects in highly porous crystalline silicon

1991 1.1k citations Leigh Canham et al. profile →
Properties of Porous Silicon

1997 767 citations Leigh Canham et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Leigh Canham United Kingdom	46	16.2k	12.7k	11.1k	2.6k	731	170	18.3k
Philippe M. Fauchet United States	52	7.9k 0.5×	6.7k 0.5×	8.1k 0.7×	3.4k 1.3×	525 0.7×	316	12.2k
Hideki Masuda Japan	48	10.7k 0.7×	4.4k 0.3×	4.4k 0.4×	2.3k 0.9×	373 0.5×	292	13.7k
Julio Gómez‐Herrero Spain	47	9.5k 0.6×	4.2k 0.3×	6.2k 0.6×	5.4k 2.0×	1.3k 1.8×	165	16.9k
Arend M. van der Zande United States	39	16.4k 1.0×	5.4k 0.4×	8.7k 0.8×	4.3k 1.6×	622 0.9×	100	20.1k
Roya Maboudian United States	64	6.4k 0.4×	4.4k 0.3×	8.7k 0.8×	4.0k 1.5×	519 0.7×	325	15.1k
Moonsub Shim United States	58	11.2k 0.7×	4.9k 0.4×	7.0k 0.6×	2.0k 0.8×	848 1.2×	164	15.3k
E.W. Hill United Kingdom	32	10.9k 0.7×	4.6k 0.4×	6.7k 0.6×	2.9k 1.1×	664 0.9×	113	14.5k
Paul E. Sheehan United States	38	7.9k 0.5×	4.7k 0.4×	3.9k 0.4×	2.7k 1.0×	990 1.4×	78	12.1k
Byron D. Gates Canada	42	11.9k 0.7×	7.3k 0.6×	8.5k 0.8×	3.4k 1.3×	877 1.2×	160	20.5k
A. M. Baró Spain	42	5.2k 0.3×	3.7k 0.3×	5.1k 0.5×	6.5k 2.5×	1.5k 2.0×	145	13.3k

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Jin, Qihao, et al.. (2021). Localized Plasmon Field Effect of Gold Clusters Embedded in Nanoporous Silicon. Advanced Optical Materials. 9(9). 10 indexed citations

Kaplan, A., et al.. (2020). Communication—Supercritically-Dried Membranes and Powders of >90% Porosity Silicon with Pore Volumes Exceeding 4 cm ³ g ⁻¹. ECS Journal of Solid State Science and Technology. 9(2). 24016–24016. 4 indexed citations

Sola-Rabada, Anna, et al.. (2018). Biogenic porous silica and silicon sourced from Mexican Giant Horsetail (Equisetum myriochaetum) and their application as supports for enzyme immobilization. Colloids and Surfaces B Biointerfaces. 166. 195–202. 28 indexed citations

Kalluri, Jhansi R., Roberto González-Rodríguez, Phil S. Hartman, et al.. (2016). Single Plant Derived Nanotechnology for Synergistic Antibacterial Therapies. PLoS ONE. 11(9). e0163270–e0163270. 3 indexed citations

Park, Sung Jin, et al.. (2016). All-optical modulation in Mid-Wavelength Infrared using porous Si membranes. Scientific Reports. 6(1). 30211–30211. 20 indexed citations

Henstock, James R., Leigh Canham, & Susan Anderson. (2014). Silicon: The evolution of its use in biomaterials. Acta Biomaterialia. 11. 17–26. 159 indexed citations

Fan, Dongmei, Giridhar R. Akkaraju, Ernest F. Couch, Leigh Canham, & Jeffery L. Coffer. (2010). The role of nanostructured mesoporous silicon in discriminating in vitro calcification for electrospun composite tissue engineering scaffolds. Nanoscale. 3(2). 354–361. 37 indexed citations

Low, Suet P., Keryn A. Williams, Leigh Canham, & Nicolas H. Voelcker. (2009). Generation of reactive oxygen species from porous silicon microparticles in cell culture medium. Journal of Biomedical Materials Research Part A. 93A(3). 1124–1131. 35 indexed citations

Fan, Dongmei, et al.. (2008). High-Porosity Poly(ε-Caprolactone)/Mesoporous Silicon Scaffolds: Calcium Phosphate Deposition and Biological Response to Bone Precursor Cells. Tissue Engineering Part A. 14(1). 195–206. 43 indexed citations

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Fan, Dongmei, et al.. (2007). Accelerated calcification in electrically conductive polymer composites comprised of poly(ε‐caprolactone), polyaniline, and bioactive mesoporous silicon. Journal of Biomedical Materials Research Part A. 83A(1). 225–234. 29 indexed citations

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Mukherjee, Priyabrata, et al.. (2006). Biorelevant mesoporous silicon / polymer composites: directed assembly, disassembly, and controlled release. Biomedical Microdevices. 8(1). 9–15. 20 indexed citations

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Williams, K., et al.. (2006). Evaluation of mammalian cell adhesion on surface-modified porous silicon. Biomaterials. 27(26). 4538–4546. 221 indexed citations

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Squire, E.K., P. A. Snow, P. St. J. Russell, et al.. (2000). Light Emission from Highly Reflective Porous Silicon Multilayer Structures. Journal of Porous Materials. 7(1-3). 209–213. 10 indexed citations

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Canham, Leigh & S. C. Bayliss. (1999). Properties of porous silicon: EMIS Datareviews Series No. 18 [Book Review]. Engineering Science and Education Journal. 8(2). 58–58. 4 indexed citations

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Wainwright, Milton, et al.. (1999). Morphological changes (including filamentation) in Escherichia coli grown under starvation conditions on silicon wafers and other surfaces. Letters in Applied Microbiology. 29(4). 224–227. 34 indexed citations

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Bellet, Daniel & Leigh Canham. (1998). Controlled Drying: The Key to Better Quality Porous Semiconductors. Advanced Materials. 10(6). 487–490. 40 indexed citations

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Canham, Leigh & Daniel Bellet. (1997). New developments in porous silicon. Relation with other nanostructured porous materials : proceedings of Symposium L on New Developments in Porous Silicon : Relation with Other Nanostructured Porous Materials of the 1996 E-MRS Spring Conference, Strasbourg, France, June 4-7, 1996. Elsevier eBooks. 3 indexed citations

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Vial, Jean‐Claude, Leigh Canham, & Walter Lang. (1994). Light emission from silicon : proceedings of symposium E on light emission from silicon of the 1993 E-MRS Spring Conference, Strasbourg, France, May 4-7, 1993. North-Holland eBooks. 2 indexed citations

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Nash, Kelly & Leigh Canham. (1992). Visible Luminescence of Porous Silicon. Europhysics news. 23(10). 183–183. 6 indexed citations

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Canham, Leigh, et al.. (1989). A study of carbon-implanted silicon for light-emitting diode fabrication. Materials Science and Engineering B. 4(1-4). 95–99. 22 indexed citations

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