Nicholas Trainor

1.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
25 papers, 1.0k citations indexed

About

Nicholas Trainor is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials Chemistry and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Nicholas Trainor has authored 25 papers receiving a total of 1.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 18 papers in Materials Chemistry and 4 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Nicholas Trainor's work include 2D Materials and Applications (17 papers), Advanced Memory and Neural Computing (10 papers) and Perovskite Materials and Applications (6 papers). Nicholas Trainor is often cited by papers focused on 2D Materials and Applications (17 papers), Advanced Memory and Neural Computing (10 papers) and Perovskite Materials and Applications (6 papers). Nicholas Trainor collaborates with scholars based in United States, South Korea and Saudi Arabia. Nicholas Trainor's co-authors include Joan M. Redwing, Saptarshi Das, Akhil Dodda, Darsith Jayachandran, Andrew Pannone, Saiphaneendra Bachu, Rahul Pendurthi, Amritanand Sebastian, Babak Anasori and Yury Gogotsi and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Advanced Materials and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Nicholas Trainor

23 papers receiving 1.0k citations

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Three-dimensional integration of two-dimensional field-effect transistors

2024 169 citations Darsith Jayachandran, Rahul Pendurthi et al. Nature profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Nicholas Trainor United States	13	683	627	216	84	71	25	1.0k
Andrew J. Arnold United States	9	661 1.0×	833 1.3×	191 0.9×	99 1.2×	59 0.8×	10	1.1k
Benjamin Grisafe United States	20	1.0k 1.5×	430 0.7×	117 0.5×	80 1.0×	84 1.2×	35	1.1k
Enxiu Wu China	20	864 1.3×	805 1.3×	247 1.1×	52 0.6×	37 0.5×	61	1.3k
Yongmo Park United States	10	576 0.8×	388 0.6×	120 0.6×	161 1.9×	73 1.0×	17	847
Yangbin Zhu China	16	770 1.1×	550 0.9×	216 1.0×	175 2.1×	75 1.1×	34	1.0k
Dongsheng Peng China	10	441 0.6×	406 0.6×	206 1.0×	112 1.3×	41 0.6×	30	858
Huiming Shang China	14	495 0.7×	497 0.8×	211 1.0×	45 0.5×	31 0.4×	16	753
Ertao Hu China	21	761 1.1×	532 0.8×	197 0.9×	116 1.4×	41 0.6×	78	1.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nicholas Trainor

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Song, Seunguk, Kwan‐Ho Kim, Nicholas Trainor, et al.. (2025). High Current and Carrier Densities in 2D MoS₂/AlScN Field-Effect Transistors via Ferroelectric Gating and Ohmic Contacts. ACS Nano. 19(9). 8985–8996. 8 indexed citations

Zhang, Xiaotian, Nicholas Trainor, Thomas V. Mc Knight, et al.. (2025). Metal–organic chemical vapour deposition for 2D chalcogenides. Nature Reviews Methods Primers. 5(1).

Trainor, Nicholas, et al.. (2025). Influence of metal-induced doping on different 2D MoS2 epilayers for field effect transistors. Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology A Vacuum Surfaces and Films. 44(1).

Bachu, Saiphaneendra, Benjamin Huet, Steffi Y. Woo, et al.. (2024). Quantum Confined Luminescence in Two Dimensions. ACS Photonics. 12(1). 364–374. 3 indexed citations

Lin, Yu‐Chuan, Chen Chen, Nicholas Trainor, et al.. (2024). Low-Frequency Raman Study of Large-Area Twisted Bilayers of WS₂ Stacked by an Etchant-Free Transfer Method. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 16(2). 2902–2911. 3 indexed citations

Jayachandran, Darsith, Rahul Pendurthi, Muhtasim Ul Karim Sadaf, et al.. (2024). Three-dimensional integration of two-dimensional field-effect transistors. Nature. 625(7994). 276–281. 169 indexed citations breakdown →

Kim, Kwan‐Ho, Seunguk Song, Bumho Kim, et al.. (2024). Tuning Polarity in WSe₂/AlScN FeFETs via Contact Engineering. ACS Nano. 18(5). 4180–4188. 41 indexed citations

Singh, Simrjit, Kwan‐Ho Kim, Kiyoung Jo, et al.. (2024). Nonvolatile Control of Valley Polarized Emission in 2D WSe₂-AlScN Heterostructures. ACS Nano. 18(27). 17958–17968. 5 indexed citations

Shen, Yaqing, Kaichen Zhu, Theresia Knobloch, et al.. (2024). Two-dimensional-materials-based transistors using hexagonal boron nitride dielectrics and metal gate electrodes with high cohesive energy. Nature Electronics. 7(10). 856–867. 14 indexed citations

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Schranghamer, Thomas F., Sergei P. Stepanoff, Nicholas Trainor, et al.. (2023). Ultra-scaled phototransistors based on monolayer MoS2. Device. 1(4). 100102–100102. 7 indexed citations

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Sayer, Thomas, Nicholas Trainor, Joan M. Redwing, et al.. (2023). Quantifying interfacial energetics of 2D semiconductor electrodes using in situ spectroelectrochemistry and many-body theory. Energy & Environmental Science. 16(10). 4522–4529. 5 indexed citations

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Ravichandran, Harikrishnan, Dipanjan Sen, Akshay Wali, et al.. (2023). A Peripheral-Free True Random Number Generator Based on Integrated Circuits Enabled by Atomically Thin Two-Dimensional Materials. ACS Nano. 17(17). 16817–16826. 9 indexed citations

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Sebastian, Amritanand, Rahul Pendurthi, Azimkhan Kozhakhmetov, et al.. (2022). Two-dimensional materials-based probabilistic synapses and reconfigurable neurons for measuring inference uncertainty using Bayesian neural networks. Nature Communications. 13(1). 6139–6139. 40 indexed citations

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Ravichandran, Harikrishnan, et al.. (2022). A Monolithic Stochastic Computing Architecture for Energy Efficient Arithmetic. Advanced Materials. 35(2). e2206168–e2206168. 15 indexed citations

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Dodda, Akhil, Darsith Jayachandran, Shiva Subbulakshmi Radhakrishnan, et al.. (2022). Bioinspired and Low-Power 2D Machine Vision with Adaptive Machine Learning and Forgetting. ACS Nano. 16(12). 20010–20020. 41 indexed citations

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Kim, Gwangwoo, Pawan Kumar, Mahfujur Rahaman, et al.. (2022). High-Density, Localized Quantum Emitters in Strained 2D Semiconductors. ACS Nano. 16(6). 9651–9659. 40 indexed citations

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Dodda, Akhil, Darsith Jayachandran, Andrew Pannone, et al.. (2022). Active pixel sensor matrix based on monolayer MoS2 phototransistor array. Nature Materials. 21(12). 1379–1387. 157 indexed citations

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Ravichandran, Harikrishnan, et al.. (2022). Hardware implementation of Bayesian network based on two-dimensional memtransistors. Nature Communications. 13(1). 5578–5578. 51 indexed citations

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Pendurthi, Rahul, Darsith Jayachandran, Azimkhan Kozhakhmetov, et al.. (2022). Heterogeneous Integration of Atomically Thin Semiconductors for Non‐von Neumann CMOS. Small. 18(33). e2202590–e2202590. 36 indexed citations

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Chubarov, Mikhail, Tanushree H. Choudhury, Danielle Reifsnyder Hickey, et al.. (2021). Wafer-Scale Epitaxial Growth of Unidirectional WS₂ Monolayers on Sapphire. ACS Nano. 15(2). 2532–2541. 193 indexed citations

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