Wei Cao

3.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
57 papers, 2.9k citations indexed

About

Wei Cao is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials Chemistry and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Wei Cao has authored 57 papers receiving a total of 2.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 42 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 33 papers in Materials Chemistry and 9 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Wei Cao's work include 2D Materials and Applications (23 papers), Semiconductor materials and devices (22 papers) and Graphene research and applications (21 papers). Wei Cao is often cited by papers focused on 2D Materials and Applications (23 papers), Semiconductor materials and devices (22 papers) and Graphene research and applications (21 papers). Wei Cao collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Singapore. Wei Cao's co-authors include Kaustav Banerjee, Jiahao Kang, Wei Liu, Deblina Sarkar, Xuejun Xie, Pulickel M. Ajayan, Yongji Gong, Stephan Kräemer, Junkai Jiang and Kamyar Parto and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Advanced Materials and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Wei Cao

55 papers receiving 2.8k citations

Hit Papers

A subthermionic tunnel field-effect transistor with an at... 2015 2026 2018 2022 2015 2023 250 500 750
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. A subthermionic tunnel field-effect transistor with an atomically thin channel
    2015 792 citations Deblina Sarkar, Xuejun Xie et al. Nature profile →
  2. The future transistors
    2023 288 citations Wei Cao, Huiming Bu et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Wei Cao United States 22 2.0k 1.9k 601 247 131 57 2.9k
Theresia Knobloch Austria 20 2.1k 1.1× 1.9k 1.0× 516 0.9× 182 0.7× 203 1.5× 64 2.9k
Chenguang Qiu China 22 1.9k 0.9× 1.5k 0.8× 744 1.2× 346 1.4× 133 1.0× 46 2.6k
Yu. Yu. Illarionov Austria 21 2.3k 1.2× 1.9k 1.0× 486 0.8× 198 0.8× 236 1.8× 71 3.0k
Ashish Verma Penumatcha United States 10 2.9k 1.4× 1.8k 0.9× 670 1.1× 279 1.1× 145 1.1× 18 3.3k
Angada B. Sachid United States 26 2.4k 1.2× 2.7k 1.4× 561 0.9× 185 0.7× 128 1.0× 58 3.8k
Matthew L. Chin United States 16 2.5k 1.3× 1.5k 0.8× 511 0.9× 205 0.8× 160 1.2× 36 2.9k
Faisal Ahmed Finland 18 1.8k 0.9× 1.1k 0.6× 446 0.7× 243 1.0× 140 1.1× 45 2.2k
Gregory Pitner United States 18 1.8k 0.9× 1.6k 0.8× 684 1.1× 209 0.8× 131 1.0× 47 2.6k
Connor J. McClellan United States 17 1.7k 0.8× 1.1k 0.6× 342 0.6× 133 0.5× 106 0.8× 33 2.1k
Donghyo Hahm South Korea 24 1.7k 0.8× 1.5k 0.8× 417 0.7× 419 1.7× 127 1.0× 49 2.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Wei Cao

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Fields of papers citing papers by Wei Cao

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Wei Cao

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Wei Cao. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Wei Cao 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 Wei Cao. Wei Cao is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Pal, Arnab, Junkai Jiang, Wei Cao, et al.. (2024). An ultra energy-efficient hardware platform for neuromorphic computing enabled by 2D-TMD tunnel-FETs. Nature Communications. 15(1). 3392–3392. 15 indexed citations
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Xu, Lin, et al.. (2024). Strain engineering in 2D FETs: Physics, status, and prospects. Journal of Applied Physics. 136(9). 8 indexed citations
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Cao, Wei, Huiming Bu, M. Vinet, et al.. (2023). The future transistors. Nature. 620(7974). 501–515. 288 indexed citations breakdown →
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Yeh, Chao‐Hui, et al.. (2021). 0.5T0.5R—An Ultracompact RRAM Cell Uniquely Enabled by van der Waals Heterostructures. IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices. 68(4). 2033–2040. 29 indexed citations
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Cao, Wei & Kaustav Banerjee. (2020). Is negative capacitance FET a steep-slope logic switch?. Nature Communications. 11(1). 196–196. 118 indexed citations
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Cao, Wei, Mengqi Huang, Chao‐Hui Yeh, Kamyar Parto, & Kaustav Banerjee. (2020). Impact of Transport Anisotropy on the Performance of van der Waals Materials-Based Electron Devices. IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices. 67(3). 1310–1316. 10 indexed citations
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Yeh, Chao‐Hui, Wei Cao, Arnab Pal, Kamyar Parto, & Kaustav Banerjee. (2019). Area-Selective-CVD Technology Enabled Top-Gated and Scalable 2D-Heterojunction Transistors with Dynamically Tunable Schottky Barrier. 23.4.1–23.4.4. 23 indexed citations
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Xie, Xuejun, Jiahao Kang, Wei Cao, et al.. (2017). Designing artificial 2D crystals with site and size controlled quantum dots. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 9965–9965. 18 indexed citations
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Hu, Yuanyuan, В. В. Брус, Wei Cao, et al.. (2017). Understanding the Device Physics in Polymer‐Based Ionic–Organic Ratchets. Advanced Materials. 29(15). 13 indexed citations
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Kang, Jiahao, Wei Cao, Arnab Pal, et al.. (2017). Computational study of gate-induced drain leakage in 2D-semiconductor field-effect transistors. 31.2.1–31.2.4. 7 indexed citations
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Zhang, Haojun, Wei Cao, Jiahao Kang, & Kaustav Banerjee. (2016). Effect of band-tails on the subthreshold performance of 2D tunnel-FETs. 30.3.1–30.3.4. 17 indexed citations
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Sarkar, Deblina, Xuejun Xie, Wei Liu, et al.. (2015). A subthermionic tunnel field-effect transistor with an atomically thin channel. Nature. 526(7571). 91–95. 792 indexed citations breakdown →
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Cao, Wei, Jiahao Kang, Deblina Sarkar, Wei Liu, & Kaustav Banerjee. (2015). 2D Semiconductor FETs—Projections and Design for Sub-10 nm VLSI. IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices. 62(11). 3459–3469. 258 indexed citations
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Cao, Wei, Jiahao Kang, Deblina Sarkar, Wei Liu, & Kaustav Banerjee. (2014). Performance evaluation and design considerations of 2D semiconductor based FETs for sub-10 nm VLSI. 30.5.1–30.5.4. 20 indexed citations
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Cao, Wei, Deblina Sarkar, Yasin Khatami, Jiahao Kang, & Kaustav Banerjee. (2014). Subthreshold-swing physics of tunnel field-effect transistors. AIP Advances. 4(6). 55 indexed citations
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Cao, Wei, Jiahao Kang, Wei Liu, et al.. (2013). 2D electronics: Graphene and beyond. 37–44. 22 indexed citations
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