Linyou Cao

14.3k total citations · 3 hit papers
72 papers, 7.9k citations indexed

About

Linyou Cao is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Linyou Cao has authored 72 papers receiving a total of 7.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 48 papers in Materials Chemistry, 47 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 33 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Linyou Cao's work include 2D Materials and Applications (37 papers), Nanowire Synthesis and Applications (23 papers) and MXene and MAX Phase Materials (17 papers). Linyou Cao is often cited by papers focused on 2D Materials and Applications (37 papers), Nanowire Synthesis and Applications (23 papers) and MXene and MAX Phase Materials (17 papers). Linyou Cao collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Switzerland. Linyou Cao's co-authors include Yifei Yu, Mark L. Brongersma, Yiling Yu, Liqin Su, Yong Zhang, Pengyu Fan, Chun Li, Joon‐Shik Park, B Clemens and Jon A. Schuller and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Physical Review Letters and Advanced Materials.

In The Last Decade

Linyou Cao

72 papers receiving 7.8k 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.

Controlled Scalable Synthesis of Uniform, High-Quality Monolayer and Few-layer MoS2 Films

2013 777 citations Yifei Yu, Chun Li et al. profile →
All The Catalytic Active Sites of MoS₂ for Hydrogen Evolution

2016 735 citations Guoqing Li, Yifei Yu et al. profile →
Engineering light absorption in semiconductor nanowire devices

2009 714 citations Linyou Cao, Mark L. Brongersma et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Linyou Cao United States	43	5.1k	4.3k	2.8k	1.4k	1.3k	72	7.9k
Yuen Hong Tsang Hong Kong	59	6.7k 1.3×	7.1k 1.7×	2.1k 0.7×	1.7k 1.2×	2.5k 1.9×	232	11.7k
Yuerui Lu Australia	51	6.5k 1.3×	4.4k 1.0×	2.4k 0.9×	1.1k 0.8×	609 0.5×	167	8.9k
L. Britnell United Kingdom	20	9.5k 1.9×	4.6k 1.1×	3.2k 1.1×	1.6k 1.2×	602 0.5×	26	11.6k
Ageeth A. Bol Netherlands	46	6.6k 1.3×	4.8k 1.1×	1.6k 0.6×	849 0.6×	803 0.6×	120	8.1k
Benjamin T. Diroll United States	47	5.7k 1.1×	4.4k 1.0×	1.2k 0.4×	1.4k 1.0×	707 0.5×	174	7.2k
Alfonso Reina United States	21	9.8k 1.9×	4.4k 1.0×	4.2k 1.5×	1.4k 1.1×	510 0.4×	30	11.6k
Stephen T. Connor United States	17	3.1k 0.6×	4.2k 1.0×	3.4k 1.2×	1.4k 1.0×	490 0.4×	20	6.7k
Qingsheng Zeng China	45	5.1k 1.0×	3.6k 0.9×	1.3k 0.5×	1.0k 0.7×	850 0.6×	129	6.9k
Po‐Wen Chiu Taiwan	46	5.8k 1.1×	3.6k 0.8×	1.8k 0.6×	1.2k 0.9×	514 0.4×	134	7.2k
A. K. Geim United Kingdom	5	8.1k 1.6×	3.3k 0.8×	1.5k 0.5×	1.1k 0.8×	638 0.5×	5	9.3k

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Su, Liqin, Yifei Yu, Linyou Cao, & Yong Zhang. (2023). Correlative spectroscopic investigations of the mechanisms of inhomogeneity in CVD-grown monolayer WS2. Science China Materials. 66(10). 3949–3957. 5 indexed citations

Aslan, Burak, et al.. (2021). Excitons in strained and suspended monolayer WSe ₂. 2D Materials. 9(1). 15002–15002. 24 indexed citations

Cheng, Zhihui, et al.. (2019). New Observations in Contact Scaling for 2D FETs. 16. 227–228. 1 indexed citations

Cheng, Zhihui, Yifei Yu, Shreya Singh, et al.. (2019). Immunity to Contact Scaling in MoS₂ Transistors Using in Situ Edge Contacts. Nano Letters. 19(8). 5077–5085. 103 indexed citations

Su, Liqin, Yiling Yu, Yifei Yu, et al.. (2019). Surface-enhanced Raman scattering of monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides on Ag nanorod arrays. Optics Letters. 44(22). 5493–5493. 8 indexed citations

Su, Liqin, Yifei Yu, Linyou Cao, & Yong Zhang. (2017). In Situ Monitoring of the Thermal-Annealing Effect in a Monolayer of MoS2. Physical Review Applied. 7(3). 25 indexed citations

Yu, Yifei, Yiling Yu, Chao Xu, et al.. (2016). Engineering Substrate Interactions for High Luminescence Efficiency of Transition‐Metal Dichalcogenide Monolayers. Advanced Functional Materials. 26(26). 4733–4739. 169 indexed citations

Gürarslan, Alper, Shuping Jiao, Tai‐De Li, et al.. (2016). Van der Waals Force Isolation of Monolayer MoS₂. Advanced Materials. 28(45). 10055–10060. 43 indexed citations

Cao, Linyou. (2015). Two-dimensional transition-metal dichalcogenide materials: Toward an age of atomic-scale photonics. MRS Bulletin. 40(7). 592–599. 55 indexed citations

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Mai, Cong, Yuriy G. Semenov, Andrew Barrette, et al.. (2014). Exciton valley relaxation in a single layer ofWS2measured by ultrafast spectroscopy. Physical Review B. 90(4). 108 indexed citations

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Fu, Kun, Yanpeng Li, Mahmut Dirican, et al.. (2014). Sulfur gradient-distributed CNF composite: a self-inhibiting cathode for binder-free lithium–sulfur batteries. Chemical Communications. 50(71). 10277–10280. 72 indexed citations

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Fan, Pengyu, Kevin Huang, Linyou Cao, & Mark L. Brongersma. (2013). Redesigning Photodetector Electrodes as an Optical Antenna. Nano Letters. 13(2). 392–396. 47 indexed citations

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Yu, Yiling & Linyou Cao. (2013). Leaky mode engineering: A general design principle for dielectric optical antenna solar absorbers. Optics Communications. 314. 79–85. 23 indexed citations

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Li, Chun, Yifei Yu, Miaofang Chi, & Linyou Cao. (2013). Epitaxial Nanosheet–Nanowire Heterostructures. Nano Letters. 13(3). 948–953. 52 indexed citations

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Li, Chun, et al.. (2012). Role of Boundary Layer Diffusion in Vapor Deposition Growth of Chalcogenide Nanosheets: The Case of GeS. ACS Nano. 6(10). 8868–8877. 147 indexed citations

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Cao, Linyou, Sonia Conesa‐Boj, Sònia Estradé, et al.. (2009). Single crystalline and core–shell indium-catalyzed germanium nanowires—a systematic thermal CVD growth study. Nanotechnology. 20(24). 245608–245608. 23 indexed citations

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Cao, Linyou, David N. Barsic, Alex R. Guichard, & Mark L. Brongersma. (2007). Plasmon-Assisted Local Temperature Control to Pattern Individual Semiconductor Nanowires and Carbon Nanotubes. Nano Letters. 7(11). 3523–3527. 225 indexed citations

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Cao, Linyou, Bahram Nabet, & Jonathan E. Spanier. (2006). Enhanced Raman Scattering from Individual Semiconductor Nanocones and Nanowires. Physical Review Letters. 96(15). 157402–157402. 148 indexed citations

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Cao, Linyou, Bora Gari̇pcan, Jennifer S. Atchison, et al.. (2006). Instability and Transport of Metal Catalyst in the Growth of Tapered Silicon Nanowires. Nano Letters. 6(9). 1852–1857. 60 indexed citations

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Cao, Linyou, Peng Diao, Lianming Tong, Tao Zhu, & Zhongfan Liu. (2005). Surface‐Enhanced Raman Scattering of p‐Aminothiophenol on a Au(core)/Cu(shell) Nanoparticle Assembly. ChemPhysChem. 6(5). 913–918. 80 indexed citations

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