Stephen McDonnell

10.5k total citations · 4 hit papers
121 papers, 8.4k citations indexed

About

Stephen McDonnell is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, Stephen McDonnell has authored 121 papers receiving a total of 8.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 85 papers in Materials Chemistry, 82 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 21 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in Stephen McDonnell's work include Semiconductor materials and devices (54 papers), 2D Materials and Applications (42 papers) and MXene and MAX Phase Materials (31 papers). Stephen McDonnell is often cited by papers focused on Semiconductor materials and devices (54 papers), 2D Materials and Applications (42 papers) and MXene and MAX Phase Materials (31 papers). Stephen McDonnell collaborates with scholars based in United States, Ireland and China. Stephen McDonnell's co-authors include Robert M. Wallace, Christopher L. Hinkle, Rafik Addou, Angelica Azcatl, Luigi Colombo, Rodney S. Ruoff, Creighton Buie, Eric M. Vogel, Ali Javey and Adam Pirkle and has published in prestigious journals such as Advanced Materials, Nano Letters and ACS Nano.

In The Last Decade

Stephen McDonnell

119 papers receiving 8.2k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

The effect of chemical residues on the physical and electrical properties of chemical vapor deposited graphene transferred to SiO2

2011 828 citations Stephen McDonnell, Robert M. Wallace et al. Applied Physics Letters profile →
Defect-Dominated Doping and Contact Resistance in MoS₂

2014 694 citations Stephen McDonnell, Rafik Addou et al. ACS Nano profile →
MoS₂ P-type Transistors and Diodes Enabled by High Work Function MoO_x Contacts

2014 497 citations Angelica Azcatl, Stephen McDonnell et al. Nano Letters profile →
Hole Selective MoO_x Contact for Silicon Solar Cells

2014 470 citations Stephen McDonnell, Angelica Azcatl et al. Nano Letters profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Stephen McDonnell United States	42	6.5k	4.8k	1.3k	1.1k	813	121	8.4k
Hyungjun Kim South Korea	41	5.0k 0.8×	4.2k 0.9×	1.0k 0.8×	393 0.4×	743 0.9×	194	6.5k
Albert V. Davydov United States	46	4.0k 0.6×	3.8k 0.8×	1.7k 1.4×	1.3k 1.2×	1.3k 1.5×	235	7.3k
Ming‐Yen Lu Taiwan	38	4.0k 0.6×	3.7k 0.8×	2.4k 1.9×	776 0.7×	1.6k 1.9×	255	6.9k
Hyungbin Son South Korea	27	6.5k 1.0×	3.3k 0.7×	2.8k 2.2×	1.1k 1.0×	1.2k 1.4×	104	8.0k
Chunxiao Cong China	53	8.0k 1.2×	5.3k 1.1×	1.6k 1.3×	1.2k 1.0×	1.9k 2.3×	171	9.8k
Sangmin Lee South Korea	37	3.0k 0.5×	2.2k 0.5×	1.5k 1.2×	476 0.4×	896 1.1×	115	4.9k
Shisheng Lin China	39	3.2k 0.5×	2.0k 0.4×	2.0k 1.6×	566 0.5×	1.1k 1.3×	124	4.8k
Feng Huang China	42	5.5k 0.8×	3.9k 0.8×	648 0.5×	889 0.8×	414 0.5×	134	6.4k
Daniel Chenet United States	17	7.4k 1.1×	4.0k 0.8×	1.9k 1.5×	1.1k 1.0×	757 0.9×	21	8.6k
Bing Chen China	38	4.3k 0.7×	2.6k 0.5×	1.2k 1.0×	565 0.5×	413 0.5×	117	5.7k

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Zangari, Giovanni, et al.. (2025). Electrodeposition of amorphous molybdenum sulfo-selenide as a low-cost catalyst. Electrochimica Acta. 516. 145691–145691. 1 indexed citations

Zangari, Giovanni, et al.. (2025). Properties of Electrodeposited Molybdenum Disulfide on Zinc Oxide and Zinc Oxide/Zinc Sulfide Nanowires. JOM. 78(3). 2185–2196. 1 indexed citations

Romanovski, Valentin, Elena Romanovskaia, Carol Frances Glover, et al.. (2025). Cu and Cu‐30Ni Alloy as Anti‐Viral Materials for High‐Touch Surfaces: Efficacy in a Simulated Public Environment with Frequent Cleaning Practices. Advanced Materials Interfaces. 12(22). 1 indexed citations

McDonnell, Stephen, et al.. (2025). Environmental Control of Ferroelectricity in Hafnia Films. Advanced Materials. 37(42). e03852–e03852.

Zhou, Chuanzhen, Shelby S. Fields, Shihao Wang, et al.. (2025). Effect of Precursor Purge Time on Plasma-Enhanced Atomic Layer Deposition-Prepared Ferroelectric Hf_0.5Zr_0.5O₂ Phase and Performance. ACS Omega. 10(20). 20524–20535.

Lin, Qiyuan, et al.. (2023). Electrodeposited Heterostructures of Cobalt Sulfide/Molybdenum Sulfide Trigger both Acidic and Alkaline HER. Journal of The Electrochemical Society. 170(4). 42501–42501. 3 indexed citations

Krylyuk, Sergiy, et al.. (2022). Transport properties of few-layer NbSe2: From electronic structure to thermoelectric properties. Materials Today Physics. 27. 100789–100789. 10 indexed citations

Sales, Maria Gabriela, Shelby S. Fields, Samantha T. Jaszewski, et al.. (2021). WSe ₂ growth on hafnium zirconium oxide by molecular beam epitaxy: the effect of the WSe ₂ growth conditions on the ferroelectric properties of HZO. 2D Materials. 9(1). 15001–15001. 2 indexed citations

Olson, David H., Maria Gabriela Sales, John A. Tomko, et al.. (2021). Band alignment and defects influence the electron–phonon heat transport mechanisms across metal interfaces. Applied Physics Letters. 118(16). 10 indexed citations

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Zhang, Jie, Meng Jia, Maria Gabriela Sales, et al.. (2021). Impact of ZrO₂ Dielectrics Thickness on Electrical Performance of TiO₂ Thin Film Transistors with Sub-2 V Operation. ACS Applied Electronic Materials. 3(12). 5483–5495. 19 indexed citations

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Fields, Shelby S., Sean W. Smith, Chris M. Fancher, et al.. (2021). Metal Nitride Electrode Stress and Chemistry Effects on Phase and Polarization Response in Ferroelectric Hf_0.5Zr_0.5O₂ Thin Films. Advanced Materials Interfaces. 8(10). 28 indexed citations

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Singh, Akshay, Liqiu Yang, Subodh Tiwari, et al.. (2020). Growth Kinetics and Atomistic Mechanisms of Native Oxidation of ZrS_xSe_2–x and MoS₂ Crystals. Nano Letters. 20(12). 8592–8599. 19 indexed citations

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Gerard, Angela Y., Junsoo Han, Stephen McDonnell, et al.. (2020). Aqueous passivation of multi-principal element alloy Ni38Fe20Cr22Mn10Co10: Unexpected high Cr enrichment within the passive film. Acta Materialia. 198. 121–133. 84 indexed citations

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Freedy, Keren M., et al.. (2020). Interface chemistry and thermoelectric characterization of Ti and TiO _x contacts to MBE-grown WSe ₂. 2D Materials. 7(4). 45033–45033. 14 indexed citations

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Zhang, Jie, Maria Gabriela Sales, Guangyang Lin, et al.. (2019). Ultrathin-Body TiO₂ Thin Film Transistors With Record On-Current Density, ON/OFF Current Ratio, and Subthreshold Swing via O₂ Annealing. IEEE Electron Device Letters. 40(9). 1463–1466. 11 indexed citations

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Walsh, Lee A., Rafik Addou, Christopher R. Cormier, et al.. (2018). Fermi Level Manipulation through Native Doping in the Topological Insulator Bi₂Se₃. ACS Nano. 12(6). 6310–6318. 41 indexed citations

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McDonnell, Stephen, Daniel K. Schreiber, Angela Y. Gerard, et al.. (2018). Passivation of a corrosion resistant high entropy alloy in non-oxidizing sulfate solutions. Acta Materialia. 164. 362–376. 176 indexed citations

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Ballard, Joshua B., Don D. Dick, Stephen McDonnell, et al.. (2015). Atomically Traceable Nanostructure Fabrication. Journal of Visualized Experiments. e52900–e52900. 4 indexed citations

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Eichfeld, Sarah M., Lorraine Hossain, Yu‐Chuan Lin, et al.. (2015). Highly Scalable, Atomically Thin WSe₂ Grown via Metal–Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition. ACS Nano. 9(2). 2080–2087. 328 indexed citations

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McDonnell, Stephen, et al.. (2002). Examining the Relationship between Cancer Invasion / Metastasis and Drug Resistance. Current Cancer Drug Targets. 2(3). 257–277. 57 indexed citations

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