Thomas J. Kempa

7.7k total citations · 3 hit papers
46 papers, 6.2k citations indexed

About

Thomas J. Kempa is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Biomedical Engineering and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Thomas J. Kempa has authored 46 papers receiving a total of 6.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 35 papers in Materials Chemistry, 19 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 17 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Thomas J. Kempa's work include Nanowire Synthesis and Applications (15 papers), 2D Materials and Applications (9 papers) and Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and Applications (7 papers). Thomas J. Kempa is often cited by papers focused on Nanowire Synthesis and Applications (15 papers), 2D Materials and Applications (9 papers) and Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and Applications (7 papers). Thomas J. Kempa collaborates with scholars based in United States, South Korea and Japan. Thomas J. Kempa's co-authors include Charles M. Lieber, Bozhi Tian, Xiaolin Zheng, Nanfang Yu, Jinlin Huang, Ying Fang, Guihua Yu, David C. Bell, Hong‐Gyu Park and Sun‐Kyung Kim and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Chemical Reviews and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Thomas J. Kempa

43 papers receiving 6.1k citations

Hit Papers

Coaxial silicon nanowires as solar cells and nanoelectron... 2007 2026 2013 2019 2007 2017 2008 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k
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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.

  1. Coaxial silicon nanowires as solar cells and nanoelectronic power sources
    2007 2.5k citations Bozhi Tian, Xiaolin Zheng et al. Nature profile →
  2. Influence of iron doping on tetravalent nickel content in catalytic oxygen evolving films
    2017 603 citations D. Kwabena Bediako, Thomas J. Kempa et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  3. Single nanowire photovoltaics
    2008 458 citations Bozhi Tian, Thomas J. Kempa et al. Chemical Society Reviews profile →

Peers

Thomas J. Kempa
Linyou Cao United States
A. Goldoni Italy
Jingzhi Shang China
Qingxiao Wang United States
Peter Sutter United States
Stephen T. Connor United States
Ruoxue Yan United States
Humberto R. Gutiérrez United States
Gyula Eres United States
Alf Mews Germany
Linyou Cao United States
Thomas J. Kempa
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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Thomas J. Kempa

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Hendon, Christopher H., et al.. (2025). Identification of Phase Changes in a Model 2D MOF through Polarization-Dependent Raman Spectroscopy. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 17(43). 59563–59570.
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Higo, Tomoya, et al.. (2024). Exfoliation and optical properties of S = 1 triangular lattice antiferromagnet NiGa2S4. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 28040–28040.
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Kempa, Thomas J., et al.. (2024). Excitons at the interface of 2D TMDs and molecular semiconductors. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 160(20). 3 indexed citations
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Hudak, Bethany M., et al.. (2023). Controlling Morphology and Excitonic Disorder in Monolayer WSe2 Grown by Salt-Assisted CVD Methods. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(6). 441–450. 9 indexed citations
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Wilson, Mark W. B., et al.. (2023). Photon Upconversion in a Vapor Deposited 2D Inorganic–Organic Semiconductor Heterostructure. Nano Letters. 23(11). 4837–4843. 15 indexed citations
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Chowdhury, Tomojit, Kiyoung Jo, Surendra B. Anantharaman, et al.. (2021). Anomalous Room-Temperature Photoluminescence from Nanostrained MoSe2 Monolayers. ACS Photonics. 8(8). 2220–2226. 21 indexed citations
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Hwang, J. I., et al.. (2021). Parallel Synthesis of Nanoscale Si Superlattices through Eutectic Confinement for Semiconductor p–n Junctions. ACS Applied Nano Materials. 4(2). 985–989. 2 indexed citations
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Chowdhury, Tomojit, et al.. (2020). Progress and Prospects in Transition-Metal Dichalcogenide Research Beyond 2D. Chemical Reviews. 120(22). 12563–12591. 245 indexed citations
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Kim, Jungkil, et al.. (2020). Structural and electronic switching of a single crystal 2D metal-organic framework prepared by chemical vapor deposition. Nature Communications. 11(1). 5524–5524. 56 indexed citations
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Zhang, Zhe, et al.. (2020). Harnessing host–guest interactions to control structure at the nanoscale. Pure and Applied Chemistry. 92(12). 1895–1900. 2 indexed citations
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Chowdhury, Tomojit, Jungkil Kim, Chenyang Li, et al.. (2019). Substrate-directed synthesis of MoS2 nanocrystals with tunable dimensionality and optical properties. Nature Nanotechnology. 15(1). 29–34. 104 indexed citations
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Siegler, Maxime A., et al.. (2018). Hierarchically Ordered Two-Dimensional Coordination Polymers Assembled from Redox-Active Dimolybdenum Clusters. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 140(34). 10673–10676. 21 indexed citations
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Kempa, Thomas J., D. Kwabena Bediako, Sun‐Kyung Kim, Hong‐Gyu Park, & Daniel G. Nocera. (2015). High-throughput patterning of photonic structures with tunable periodicity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 112(17). 5309–5313. 8 indexed citations
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Kempa, Thomas J., et al.. (2015). Facile, Rapid, and Large-Area Periodic Patterning of Semiconductor Substrates with Submicron Inorganic Structures. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 137(11). 3739–3742. 5 indexed citations
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Kempa, Thomas J., Sun‐Kyung Kim, Robert W. Day, et al.. (2013). Facet-Selective Growth on Nanowires Yields Multi-Component Nanostructures and Photonic Devices. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 135(49). 18354–18357. 39 indexed citations
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Tian, Bozhi, Ping Xie, Thomas J. Kempa, David C. Bell, & Charles M. Lieber. (2009). Single-crystalline kinked semiconductor nanowire superstructures. Nature Nanotechnology. 4(12). 824–829. 307 indexed citations
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Dong, Yajie, Bozhi Tian, Thomas J. Kempa, & Charles M. Lieber. (2009). Coaxial Group III−Nitride Nanowire Photovoltaics. Nano Letters. 9(5). 2183–2187. 320 indexed citations
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Tian, Bozhi, Thomas J. Kempa, & Charles M. Lieber. (2008). Single nanowire photovoltaics. Chemical Society Reviews. 38(1). 16–24. 458 indexed citations breakdown →
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Tian, Bozhi, Xiaolin Zheng, Thomas J. Kempa, et al.. (2007). Coaxial silicon nanowires as solar cells and nanoelectronic power sources. Nature. 449(7164). 885–889. 2475 indexed citations breakdown →
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Gregorczyk, Keith, Brian R. Kimball, Joel Carlson, et al.. (2006). The complex optical response of arrays of aligned multiwalled carbon nanotubes. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 6321. 63210G–63210G. 1 indexed citations

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