Qing Ma

3.4k citations

40 papers · 2.8k indexed · 2 hit papers · h-index 18

Impact in

Ceramics and Composites top 1%
- Advanced ceramic materials synthesis
Mechanics of Materials top 0.5%
- Metal and Thin Film Mechanics
- Numerical methods in engineering

Papers in ⓘ

Ceramics and Composites 9
- Advanced ceramic materials synthesis 8
Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials 14
- Copper Interconnects and Reliability 13

Co-authors: David R. Clarke (10 shared papers)Michael Lane (4 shared papers)Reinhold H. Dauskardt (2 shared papers)Nety Krishna (3 shared papers)Zhigang Suo (8 shared papers)H. Fujimoto (12 shared papers)Valluri Rao (7 shared papers)Min Huang (1 shared paper)
Journals: Journal of materials research/Pratt's guide to venture capital sources (3 papers)Applied Physics Letters (2 papers)Engineering Fracture Mechanics (2 papers)Journal of the American Ceramic Society (2 papers)Journal of Applied Physics (2 papers)
Partner nations: United States China South Korea

In The Last Decade

Qing Ma

39 papers receiving 2.7k citations

Hit Papers

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Adhesion and debonding of multi-layer thin film structures 1998 · 510 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.

1998 Engineering Fracture Mechanics
1995 Journal of materials research/Pratt's guide to venture capital sources

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1	Size dependent hardness of silver single crystals Journal of materials research/Pratt's guide to venture capital sources ·Qing Ma, David R. Clarke Hit paper breakdown →	1995	1123
2	Adhesion and debonding of multi-layer thin film structures Engineering Fracture Mechanics ·Reinhold H. Dauskardt, Michael Lane, Qing Ma, Nety Krishna Hit paper breakdown →	1998	510
3	Stress Measurement in Single‐Crystal and Polycrystalline Ceramics Using Their Optical Fluorescence Journal of the American Ceramic Society ·Qing Ma, David R. Clarke	1993	287
4	Piezospectroscopic Determination of Residual Stresses in Polycrystalline Alumina Journal of the American Ceramic Society ·Qing Ma, David R. Clarke	1994	178
5	A four-point bending technique for studying subcritical crack growth in thin films and at interfaces Journal of materials research/Pratt's guide to venture capital sources ·Qing Ma	1997	117
6	Thin Film Cracking and Ratcheting Caused by Temperature Cycling Journal of materials research/Pratt's guide to venture capital sources ·Min Huang, Zhigang Suo, Qing Ma, H. Fujimoto	2000	56
7	Measurement of residual stresses in sapphire fiber composites using optical fluorescence Acta Metallurgica et Materialia ·Qing Ma, David R. Clarke	1993	55
8	High-resolution determination of the stress in individual interconnect lines and the variation due to electromigration Journal of Applied Physics ·Qing Ma, S. Chiras, David R. Clarke, Zhigang Suo	1995	48
9	Split singularities: stress field near the edge of a silicon die on a polymer substrate Acta Materialia ·X.H. Liu, Zhigang Suo, Qing Ma	1998	46
10	Metal contact reliability of RF MEMS switches Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE ·Qing Ma, Quan Tran, Tsung-Kuan A. Chou, John Heck, Hanan Bar, Rishi Kant, Valluri Rao	2007	37
11	Mechanics of the push-out process from in situ measurement of the stress distribution along embedded sapphire fibers Acta Metallurgica et Materialia ·Qing Ma, Lei Liang, David R. Clarke, John W. Hutchinson	1994	31
12	Optical fluorescence from chromium ions in sapphire: A probe of the image stress Acta Metallurgica et Materialia ·Qing Ma, David R. Clarke	1993	31
13	Exploration of the static softening behavior and dislocation density evolution of TA15 titanium alloy during double-pass hot compression deformation Journal of Materials Research and Technology ·Qing Ma, Wei Ke, Xu Yong, Lijuan Zhao, Xiang Zhang	2022	30
14	Crack-free 60 wt% WC reinforced FeCoNiCr high-entropy alloy composite coating fabricated by laser cladding Materials Letters ·Qing Ma, Bingwen Lu, Yanmei Zhang, Yueliang Wang, Xingchen Yan, Min Liu, Guorui Zhao	2022	30
15	Stress redistribution in ceramic/metal multilayers containing cracks Acta Metallurgica et Materialia ·Qing Ma, M.C. Shaw, Mingyuan He, B.J. Dalgleish, David R. Clarke, A.G. Evans	1995	27
16	An Ultraclean Tip-Wear Reduction Scheme for Ultrahigh Density Scanning Probe-Based Data Storage ACS Nano ·Noureddine Tayebi, Yuegang Zhang, Robert J. Chen, Quan Tran, Rong Chen, Yoshio Nishi, Qing Ma, Valluri Rao	2010	23
17	Precipitate drifting and coarsening caused by electromigration Journal of Applied Physics ·Qing Ma, Zhigang Suo	1993	22
18	Developing design rules to avert cracking and debonding in integrated circuit structures Engineering Fracture Mechanics ·X.H. Liu, Zhigang Suo, Qing Ma, H. Fujimoto	2000	21
19	Tuning the Built-in Electric Field in Ferroelectric Pb(Zr_0.2Ti_0.8)O₃ Films for Long-Term Stability of Single-Digit Nanometer Inverted Domains Nano Letters ·Noureddine Tayebi, Sunkook Kim, Robert J. Chen, Quan Tran, Nathan Franklin, Yoshio Nishi, Qing Ma, Valluri Rao	2012	15
20	Channel Cracking Technique for Toughness Measurement of Brittle Dielectric Thin Films on Silicon Substrates MRS Proceedings ·Qing Ma, Joseph Z. Xie, Sam Chao, Safaa El-Mansy, R.S. McFadden, H. Fujimoto	1998	13

About Qing Ma

Qing Ma is a scholar working on Ceramics and Composites, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Mechanics of Materials, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Surfaces, Coatings and Films, having authored 40 papers that have together received 2.8k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Copper Interconnects and Reliability (13 papers), Electronic Packaging and Soldering Technologies (11 papers), Advanced ceramic materials synthesis (8 papers), Metal and Thin Film Mechanics (7 papers), Semiconductor materials and devices (7 papers), Acoustic Wave Resonator Technologies (6 papers), 3D IC and TSV technologies (5 papers) and Mechanical Behavior of Composites (5 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Ceramics and Composites (455 citations), Mechanics of Materials (1.6k citations), Materials Chemistry (1.4k citations), Mechanical Engineering (726 citations) and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials (355 citations). Qing Ma has collaborated with scholars based in United States, China and South Korea. Frequent co-authors include David R. Clarke, Michael Lane, Reinhold H. Dauskardt, Nety Krishna, Zhigang Suo, H. Fujimoto, Valluri Rao, Min Huang, John W. Hutchinson and Kevin W. McElhaney. Their work appears in journals such as Journal of materials research/Pratt's guide to venture capital sources, Applied Physics Letters, Engineering Fracture Mechanics, Journal of the American Ceramic Society and Journal of Applied Physics.

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