Steven B. Fairchild

2.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
54 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Steven B. Fairchild is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, Steven B. Fairchild has authored 54 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 40 papers in Materials Chemistry, 19 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 12 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in Steven B. Fairchild's work include Carbon Nanotubes in Composites (24 papers), Graphene research and applications (17 papers) and Diamond and Carbon-based Materials Research (10 papers). Steven B. Fairchild is often cited by papers focused on Carbon Nanotubes in Composites (24 papers), Graphene research and applications (17 papers) and Diamond and Carbon-based Materials Research (10 papers). Steven B. Fairchild collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Canada. Steven B. Fairchild's co-authors include Matteo Pasquali, Benji Maruyama, Tyson C. Back, J. B. Ferguson, Colin C. Young, Natnael Behabtu, Dmitri E. Tsentalovich, Junichiro Kono, M. Otto and Yachin Cohen and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Applied Physics Letters and Journal of Applied Physics.

In The Last Decade

Steven B. Fairchild

50 papers receiving 1.7k citations

Hit Papers

Strong, Light, Multifunctional Fibers of Carbon Nanotubes... 2013 2026 2017 2021 2013 250 500 750 1000
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.

  1. Strong, Light, Multifunctional Fibers of Carbon Nanotubes with Ultrahigh Conductivity
    2013 1.1k citations Natnael Behabtu, Colin C. Young et al. profile →

Peers

Steven B. Fairchild
E. Amram Bengio United States
Naesung Lee South Korea
Guoan Cheng China
M. Sennett United States
Siu Hon Tsang Singapore
Kaixuan Li China
Jie Liang China
M. Nowak Poland
Shuai Ren China
Kate L. Klein United States
E. Amram Bengio United States
Steven B. Fairchild
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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Steven B. Fairchild

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Steven B. Fairchild. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Steven B. Fairchild based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Steven B. Fairchild. Steven B. Fairchild is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Fairchild, Steven B., Thiago A. de Assis, P. T. Murray, et al.. (2023). Field emission cathodes made from knitted carbon nanotube fiber fabrics. Journal of Applied Physics. 133(9). 6 indexed citations
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Fairchild, Steven B., Thiago A. de Assis, M. Cahay, et al.. (2021). Strongly anisotropic field emission from highly aligned carbon nanotube films. Journal of Applied Physics. 129(12). 11 indexed citations
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Assis, Thiago A. de, et al.. (2020). Looped carbon nanotube fibers as cathodes with giant field enhancement factors. Applied Physics Letters. 117(25). 12 indexed citations
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Fairchild, Steven B., Peng Zhang, Jeong-Ho Park, et al.. (2019). Carbon Nanotube Fiber Field Emission Array Cathodes. IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science. 47(5). 2032–2038. 42 indexed citations
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Iqbal, Asif, Steven B. Fairchild, M. Cahay, et al.. (2019). Empirical modeling and Monte Carlo simulation of secondary electron yield reduction of laser drilled microporous gold surfaces. Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology B Nanotechnology and Microelectronics Materials Processing Measurement and Phenomena. 38(1). 21 indexed citations
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Berger, Marie‐Hélène, Tyson C. Back, P. Soukiassian, et al.. (2018). Correction to: Local investigation of the emissive properties of LaB6–ZrB2 eutectics. Journal of Materials Science. 53(13). 9877–9877. 1 indexed citations
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Coutu, Ronald A., et al.. (2017). Modeling micro-porous surfaces for secondary electron emission control to suppress multipactor. Journal of Applied Physics. 122(5). 39 indexed citations
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Back, Tyson C., Andreas K. Schmid, Steven B. Fairchild, et al.. (2017). Work function characterization of directionally solidified LaB6–VB2 eutectic. Ultramicroscopy. 183. 67–71. 21 indexed citations
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Zhu, Wei, M. Cahay, Kevin L. Jensen, et al.. (2017). Development of a multiscale model for the field electron emission properties of carbon-nanotube-based carbon fibers. 8. 1–2. 1 indexed citations
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Berger, Marie‐Hélène, Tyson C. Back, P. Soukiassian, et al.. (2017). Local investigation of the emissive properties of LaB6–ZrB2 eutectics. Journal of Materials Science. 52(10). 5537–5543. 12 indexed citations
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Zhang, Peng, et al.. (2017). Field emission from carbon nanotube fibers in varying anode-cathode gap with the consideration of contact resistance. AIP Advances. 7(12). 125203–125203. 38 indexed citations
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Cahay, M., Wei Zhu, Steven B. Fairchild, et al.. (2016). A platform to optimize the field emission properties of carbon-nanotube-based fibers. 105. 1–2. 2 indexed citations
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Murray, P. T., et al.. (2016). Laser surface melting of stainless steel anodes for reduced hydrogen outgassing. Apollo (University of Cambridge). 1–1. 1 indexed citations
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Park, Jeong-Ho, Tyson C. Back, W. C. Mitchel, et al.. (2015). Approach to multifunctional device platform with epitaxial graphene on transition metal oxide. Scientific Reports. 5(1). 14374–14374. 41 indexed citations
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Fairchild, Steven B., John Boeckl, Tyson C. Back, et al.. (2015). Morphology dependent field emission of acid-spun carbon nanotube fibers. Nanotechnology. 26(10). 105706–105706. 35 indexed citations
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Islam, Ahmad E., Steven B. Fairchild, & Benji Maruyama. (2015). Thermal instability of field emission from carbon nanotubes studied using multi-physics simulation by considering space charge effect. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 9552. 95520B–95520B. 2 indexed citations
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Binh, Vu Thien, et al.. (2010). Nanopatchwork cathodes: Patch-fields and field emission of nanosize parallel e-beams. Journal of Applied Physics. 108(4). 2 indexed citations
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Pachter, Ruth, et al.. (1998). Biomolecular structure prediction at a low resolution using a neural network and the double-iterated kalman filter technique. Biopolymers. 39(3). 377–386. 1 indexed citations

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