T. Sands

11.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
236 papers, 9.3k citations indexed

About

T. Sands is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, T. Sands has authored 236 papers receiving a total of 9.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 107 papers in Materials Chemistry, 105 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 95 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in T. Sands's work include Semiconductor materials and devices (61 papers), Semiconductor materials and interfaces (47 papers) and GaN-based semiconductor devices and materials (47 papers). T. Sands is often cited by papers focused on Semiconductor materials and devices (61 papers), Semiconductor materials and interfaces (47 papers) and GaN-based semiconductor devices and materials (47 papers). T. Sands collaborates with scholars based in United States, Sweden and Germany. T. Sands's co-authors include R. Gronsky, V. G. Keramidas, N.W. Cheung, Angelica M. Stacy, Bivas Saha, William S. Wong, Amy L. Prieto, J. Washburn, J. P. Harbison and Marisol Martín‐González 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

T. Sands

234 papers receiving 8.8k 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.

Titanium nitride as a plasmonic material for visible and near-infrared wavelengths

2012 558 citations Jeremy L. Schroeder, T. Sands et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
T. Sands United States	52	4.5k	4.0k	3.2k	2.3k	1.9k	236	9.3k
James H. Edgar United States	46	5.0k 1.1×	3.1k 0.8×	2.5k 0.8×	3.1k 1.3×	2.8k 1.4×	315	9.9k
E. Snoeck France	40	5.9k 1.3×	2.6k 0.6×	3.0k 0.9×	1.2k 0.5×	1.7k 0.9×	182	9.5k
Edward T. Yu United States	53	4.3k 1.0×	6.7k 1.7×	3.2k 1.0×	2.8k 1.2×	3.6k 1.9×	258	10.8k
Carsten Ronning Germany	52	6.5k 1.4×	5.0k 1.2×	1.7k 0.5×	1.0k 0.5×	2.4k 1.3×	331	9.8k
Bernard Gil France	43	4.9k 1.1×	2.6k 0.7×	3.5k 1.1×	3.6k 1.5×	1.5k 0.8×	301	8.7k
K. M. Yu United States	61	8.7k 1.9×	8.4k 2.1×	7.1k 2.2×	6.5k 2.8×	2.2k 1.1×	543	16.9k
Susanne Stemmer United States	60	9.7k 2.1×	7.2k 1.8×	2.6k 0.8×	2.0k 0.9×	1.8k 1.0×	367	14.1k
B Clemens United States	41	3.6k 0.8×	2.9k 0.7×	2.0k 0.6×	700 0.3×	1.5k 0.8×	195	7.2k
Tadaaki Nagao Japan	58	4.5k 1.0×	2.7k 0.7×	4.4k 1.4×	1.2k 0.5×	2.5k 1.3×	283	11.0k
Toh‐Ming Lu United States	52	4.9k 1.1×	5.8k 1.4×	2.3k 0.7×	1.0k 0.4×	1.6k 0.8×	386	10.5k

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Sands, T., et al.. (2023). Novel learning for control of nonlinear spacecraft dynamics. 1(1). 6 indexed citations

Saha, Bivas, Yee Rui Koh, Joseph P. Feser, et al.. (2017). Phonon wave effects in the thermal transport of epitaxial TiN/(Al,Sc)N metal/semiconductor superlattices. Journal of Applied Physics. 121(1). 37 indexed citations

Saha, Bivas, Sammy Saber, Eric A. Stach, E. P. Kvam, & T. Sands. (2016). Understanding the Rocksalt-to-Wurtzite phase transformation through microstructural analysis of (Al,Sc)N epitaxial thin films. Applied Physics Letters. 109(17). 16 indexed citations

Garbrecht, Magnus, Jeremy L. Schroeder, Lars Hultman, et al.. (2016). Microstructural evolution and thermal stability of HfN/ScN, ZrN/ScN, and Hf0.5Zr0.5N/ScN metal/semiconductor superlattices. Journal of Materials Science. 51(17). 8250–8258. 26 indexed citations

Saha, Bivas, T. Sands, & Umesh V. Waghmare. (2012). Thermoelectric properties of HfN/ScN metal/semiconductor superlattices: a first-principles study. Journal of Physics Condensed Matter. 24(41). 415303–415303. 32 indexed citations

Choi, Woong, Sunkook Kim, Yong Jin, Sangyoon Lee, & T. Sands. (2011). Capacitance-voltage modeling of metal-ferroelectric-semiconductor capacitors based on epitaxial oxide heterostructures. Applied Physics Letters. 98(10). 102901–102901. 21 indexed citations

Colby, Robert, Zhiwen Liang, Dmitri N. Zakharov, et al.. (2010). III-nitride nanopyramid light emitting diodes grown by organometallic vapor phase epitaxy. Journal of Applied Physics. 108(4). 25 indexed citations

Schneider, Matthew M., et al.. (2009). The Use of Polyethyleneimine to Control the Growth‐Front Morphology of Electrochemically Deposited Gold Nanowires for Engineered Nanogap Electrodes. Small. 5(21). 2387–2391. 3 indexed citations

Kim, Sangho, Jeremy L. Schroeder, & T. Sands. (2008). Pulsed selective epitaxial growth of hexagonal GaN microprisms. Journal of Crystal Growth. 310(6). 1107–1111. 1 indexed citations

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Chang, Wonsuk, Jin-Won Park, Vijay Rawat, T. Sands, & Gil U. Lee. (2006). Templated synthesis of gold–iron alloy nanoparticles using pulsed laser deposition. Nanotechnology. 17(20). 5131–5135. 13 indexed citations

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Maschmann, Matthew R., Aaron D. Franklin, Placidus B. Amama, et al.. (2006). Vertical single- and double-walled carbon nanotubes grown from modified porous anodic alumina templates. Nanotechnology. 17(15). 3925–3929. 44 indexed citations

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Dougherty, George, T. Sands, & Albert P. Pisano. (2001). The Materials Science of “Permeable Polysilicon” Thin Films. MRS Proceedings. 687. 1 indexed citations

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Salleo, Alberto, T. Sands, & François Y. Génin. (2000). Machining of transparent materials using an IR and UV nanosecond pulsed laser. Applied Physics A. 71(6). 601–608. 47 indexed citations

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Bandaru, Prabhakar R., T. Sands, Yukiko Kubota, & Ernesto E. Marinero. (1998). Decoupling the structural and magnetic phase transformations in magneto-optic MnBi thin films by the partial substitution of Cr for Mn. Applied Physics Letters. 72(18). 2337–2339. 20 indexed citations

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Sands, T.. (1994). 1994 Electronic Materials Conference: Technical Program: University of Colorado: Boulder, Colorado: June 22–24, 1994. Journal of Electronic Materials. 23(7). 1–65. 2 indexed citations

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Sands, T.. (1993). Nanoscale engineering of metal/semiconductor interfaces. JOM. 45(2). 61–64. 1 indexed citations

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Sands, T.. (1988). Compound semiconductor contact metallurgy. Materials Science and Engineering B. 1(3-4). 289–312. 53 indexed citations

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Wang, L. C., F. Fang, E. D. Marshall, et al.. (1988). An investigation of a nonspiking Ohmic contact to n-GaAs using the Si/Pd system. Journal of materials research/Pratt's guide to venture capital sources. 3(5). 922–930. 58 indexed citations

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Sands, T., et al.. (1987). Ni-InP reaction: Formation of amorphous and crystalline ternary phases. Applied Physics Letters. 50(19). 1346–1348. 48 indexed citations

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Sands, T., J. Washburn, Edward R. Myers, & D. K. Sadana. (1985). On the origins of structural defects in BF 2+-implanted and rapid-thermally-annealed silicon: Conditions for defect-free regrowth. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms. 7-8. 337–341. 32 indexed citations

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