Spencer A. Wells

3.5k total citations · 3 hit papers
22 papers, 3.1k citations indexed

About

Spencer A. Wells is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Spencer A. Wells has authored 22 papers receiving a total of 3.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Materials Chemistry, 15 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 3 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Spencer A. Wells's work include 2D Materials and Applications (16 papers), Perovskite Materials and Applications (8 papers) and Graphene research and applications (8 papers). Spencer A. Wells is often cited by papers focused on 2D Materials and Applications (16 papers), Perovskite Materials and Applications (8 papers) and Graphene research and applications (8 papers). Spencer A. Wells collaborates with scholars based in United States, Czechia and South Korea. Spencer A. Wells's co-authors include Mark C. Hersam, Joshua D. Wood, Christopher R. Ryder, Xiaolong Liu, Joohoon Kang, Tobin J. Marks, Deep Jariwala, Yang Yang, George C. Schatz and Hongting Pu and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

Spencer A. Wells

22 papers receiving 3.0k citations

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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.

Covalent functionalization and passivation of exfoliated black phosphorus via aryl diazonium chemistry

2016 708 citations Christopher R. Ryder, Joshua D. Wood et al. Nature Chemistry profile →
Ultrahigh sensitivity and layer-dependent sensing performance of phosphorene-based gas sensors

2015 664 citations Shumao Cui, Hongting Pu et al. Nature Communications profile →
Solvent Exfoliation of Electronic-Grade, Two-Dimensional Black Phosphorus

2015 637 citations Joohoon Kang, Joshua D. Wood et al. ACS Nano profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Spencer A. Wells United States	16	2.6k	1.6k	609	469	209	22	3.1k
Ahmad Nabil Abbas United States	14	2.8k 1.1×	1.9k 1.2×	641 1.1×	254 0.5×	247 1.2×	18	3.3k
Hae‐Wook Yoo South Korea	16	1.3k 0.5×	1.2k 0.8×	628 1.0×	256 0.5×	212 1.0×	30	2.0k
Chang-Lung Hsu Taiwan	12	2.4k 0.9×	1.5k 1.0×	417 0.7×	462 1.0×	135 0.6×	12	2.8k
Jusang Park South Korea	24	2.1k 0.8×	2.0k 1.3×	581 1.0×	232 0.5×	332 1.6×	48	2.8k
Juhong Park United States	13	2.6k 1.0×	2.1k 1.3×	401 0.7×	394 0.8×	150 0.7×	16	3.5k
Changting Wei China	29	2.0k 0.8×	2.6k 1.6×	327 0.5×	313 0.7×	455 2.2×	68	3.1k
Wonbong Choi United States	13	2.3k 0.9×	1.6k 1.0×	391 0.6×	363 0.8×	121 0.6×	16	3.0k
Jack R. Brent United Kingdom	15	1.5k 0.6×	968 0.6×	335 0.6×	339 0.7×	136 0.7×	17	1.9k
Arumugam Manikandan Taiwan	20	982 0.4×	1.1k 0.7×	295 0.5×	509 1.1×	201 1.0×	32	1.7k
Jiangtan Yuan United States	24	1.9k 0.7×	1.4k 0.9×	387 0.6×	656 1.4×	119 0.6×	34	2.6k

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Peng, Lintao, Spencer A. Wells, Jeffrey D. Cain, et al.. (2022). Field-effect conductivity scaling for two-dimensional materials with tunable impurity density. 2D Materials. 9(3). 31002–31002. 1 indexed citations

Islam, Saiful M., Vinod K. Sangwan, D. Bruce Buchholz, et al.. (2021). Amorphous to Crystal Phase Change Memory Effect with Two-Fold Bandgap Difference in Semiconducting K₂Bi₈Se₁₃. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 143(16). 6221–6228. 12 indexed citations

Li, Shaowei, Chengmei Zhong, Alex Henning, et al.. (2020). Molecular-Scale Characterization of Photoinduced Charge Separation in Mixed-Dimensional InSe–Organic van der Waals Heterostructures. ACS Nano. 14(3). 3509–3518. 18 indexed citations

Sangwan, Vinod K., Joohoon Kang, David Lam, et al.. (2020). Intrinsic carrier multiplication in layered Bi2O2Se avalanche photodiodes with gain bandwidth product exceeding 1 GHz. Nano Research. 14(6). 1961–1966. 20 indexed citations

Chang, Jingbo, Hongting Pu, Spencer A. Wells, et al.. (2018). Semi-quantitative design of black phosphorous field-effect transistor sensors for heavy metal ion detection in aqueous media. Molecular Systems Design & Engineering. 4(3). 491–502. 20 indexed citations

Liu, Zizhuo, Spencer A. Wells, Serkan Bütün, et al.. (2018). Extrinsic polarization-controlled optical anisotropy in plasmon-black phosphorus coupled system. Nanotechnology. 29(28). 285202–285202. 13 indexed citations

Peng, Lintao, Spencer A. Wells, Christopher R. Ryder, Mark C. Hersam, & M. Grayson. (2018). All-Electrical Determination of Crystal Orientation in Anisotropic Two-Dimensional Materials. Physical Review Letters. 120(8). 86801–86801. 16 indexed citations

Wells, Spencer A., et al.. (2018). Suppressing Ambient Degradation of Exfoliated InSe Nanosheet Devices via Seeded Atomic Layer Deposition Encapsulation. Nano Letters. 18(12). 7876–7882. 64 indexed citations

Liu, Xiaolong, Christopher R. Ryder, Spencer A. Wells, & Mark C. Hersam. (2017). Resolving the In‐Plane Anisotropic Properties of Black Phosphorus. Small Methods. 1(6). 1700143–1700143. 94 indexed citations

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Choi, Yongsuk, Junmo Kang, Deep Jariwala, et al.. (2017). Low-Voltage 2D Material Field-Effect Transistors Enabled by Ion Gel Capacitive Coupling. Chemistry of Materials. 29(9). 4008–4013. 15 indexed citations

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Ryder, Christopher R., Joshua D. Wood, Spencer A. Wells, et al.. (2016). Covalent functionalization and passivation of exfoliated black phosphorus via aryl diazonium chemistry. Nature Chemistry. 8(6). 597–602. 708 indexed citations breakdown →

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Ryder, Christopher R., Joshua D. Wood, Spencer A. Wells, & Mark C. Hersam. (2016). Chemically Tailoring Semiconducting Two-Dimensional Transition Metal Dichalcogenides and Black Phosphorus. ACS Nano. 10(4). 3900–3917. 228 indexed citations

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Liu, Xiaolong, Kan‐Sheng Chen, Spencer A. Wells, et al.. (2016). Scanning Probe Nanopatterning and Layer‐by‐Layer Thinning of Black Phosphorus. Advanced Materials. 29(1). 68 indexed citations

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Kang, Joohoon, Spencer A. Wells, Joshua D. Wood, et al.. (2016). Stable aqueous dispersions of optically and electronically active phosphorene. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 113(42). 11688–11693. 209 indexed citations

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Kang, Junmo, Deep Jariwala, Christopher R. Ryder, et al.. (2016). Probing Out-of-Plane Charge Transport in Black Phosphorus with Graphene-Contacted Vertical Field-Effect Transistors. Nano Letters. 16(4). 2580–2585. 121 indexed citations

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Wells, Spencer A., Joshua D. Wood, Deep Jariwala, et al.. (2015). Passivation of Exfoliated Black Phosphorus Transistors Against Ambient Degradation. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 2015. 3 indexed citations

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Cui, Shumao, Hongting Pu, Spencer A. Wells, et al.. (2015). Ultrahigh sensitivity and layer-dependent sensing performance of phosphorene-based gas sensors. Nature Communications. 6(1). 8632–8632. 664 indexed citations breakdown →

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Kang, Joohoon, et al.. (2015). Solvent Exfoliation of Electronic-Grade, Two-Dimensional Black Phosphorus. ACS Nano. 9(4). 3596–3604. 637 indexed citations breakdown →

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Wells, Spencer A., et al.. (2014). Phase Stability and Optoelectronic Properties of the Bixbyite Phase in the Gallium–Indium–Tin–Oxide System. Journal of the American Ceramic Society. 98(2). 669–674. 3 indexed citations

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Chung, Hyun‐Joong, Tae‐il Kim, Hoon‐Sik Kim, et al.. (2011). Electronic Devices on Various Substrates: Fabrication of Releasable Single‐Crystal Silicon–Metal Oxide Field‐Effect Devices and Their Deterministic Assembly on Foreign Substrates (Adv. Funct. Mater. 16/2011). Advanced Functional Materials. 21(16). 3001–3001. 3 indexed citations

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