William D. Nix

54.2k citations

389 papers · 44.5k indexed · 23 hit papers · h-index 90

Impact in

Mechanics of Materials top 0.01%
- Metal and Thin Film Mechanics
Materials Chemistry top 0.05%
- Microstructure and mechanical properties
- Diamond and Carbon-based Materials Research

Papers in

Mechanics of Materials 191
- Metal and Thin Film Mechanics 145
Materials Chemistry 211
- Microstructure and mechanical properties 122
- Diamond and Carbon-based Materials Research 36

Co-authors: Huajian Gao M. Doerner Julia R. Greer Joost J. Vlassak Matthew T. McDowell Seok Woo Lee Ranjana Saha Yi Cui
Journals: Journal of materials research/Pratt's guide to venture capital sources (29 papers)Metallurgical Transactions A (21 papers)Acta Materialia (19 papers)Journal of Applied Physics (17 papers)Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids (11 papers)
Partner nations: United States Germany Australia

In The Last Decade

William D. Nix

386 papers receiving 43.0k citations

Hit Papers

15 papers align trajectories log scale

In Situ TEM of Two-Phase Lithiation of Amorphous Silicon Nanospheres 2013 · 746 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2013 Nano Letters
2013 Advanced Materials
2012 Advanced Materials
2012 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2011 Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids
2011 Nano Letters
2010 Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems
2006 Physical Review B
2005 Acta Materialia
2004 Science
2003 Journal of Applied Physics
2002 Acta Materialia
1999 Journal of materials research/Pratt's guide to venture capital sources
1999 Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids
1998 Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids
1998 Journal of materials research/Pratt's guide to venture capital sources
1994 Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids
1992 Journal of materials research/Pratt's guide to venture capital sources
1989 Metallurgical Transactions A
1988 International Journal of Solids and Structures
1988 Critical reviews in solid state and materials sciences
1987 IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices
1986 Journal of materials research/Pratt's guide to venture capital sources

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1	Intrinsic size dependent plasticity in BCC micro-pillars under uniaxial tension and pure torsion Extreme Mechanics Letters ·Ill Ryu, Luo Chengyao, Wei Cai, William D. Nix, Huajian Gao	2020	15
2	A Laboratory Experiment Using Nanoindentation to Demonstrate the Indentation Size Effect Bucknell Digital Commons (Bucknell University) ·Wendelin J. Wright, Gang Feng, William D. Nix	2013	4
3	Studying the Kinetics of Crystalline Silicon Nanoparticle Lithiation with In Situ Transmission Electron Microscopy Advanced Materials ·Matthew T. McDowell, L CHERRIE, Seok Woo Lee, Chongmin Wang, William D. Nix, Yi Cui Hit paper breakdown →	2012	558
4	Crystal plasticity in Cu damascene interconnect lines undergoing electromigration as revealed by synchrotron x-ray microdiffraction Applied Physics Letters ·Arief Suriadi Budiman, William D. Nix, Nobumichi Tamura, B. C. Valek, L Rademan, J. Maiz, Ralph Spolenak, J. R. Patel	2006	81
5	Studies of the driving force for room-temperature microstructure evolution in electroplated copper films Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology B Microelectronics and Nanometer Structures Processing Measurement and Phenomena ·J Chafale, William D. Nix, S.S. Wong	2004	44
6	Confined Capillary Stresses During the Initial Growth of Thin Films on Amorphous Substrates Journal of Applied Mechanics ·Simon P.A. Gill, Huajian Gao, Vidya Ramaswamy, William D. Nix	2002	11
7	SURFACE ROUGHENING OF HETEROEPITAXIAL THIN FILMS Annual Review of Materials Science ·Huajian Gao, William D. Nix	1999	217
8	Indentation size effects in crystalline materials: A law for strain gradient plasticity Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids ·William D. Nix, Huajian Gao Hit paper breakdown →	1998	3556
9	Stress Evolution During Growth of Sputtered Ni/Cu Multilayers MRS Proceedings ·Vidya Ramaswamy, B Clemens, William D. Nix	1998	3
10	Identification of precipitate phases in a mechanically alloyed rapidly solidified Al-Fe-Ce alloy Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A ·M. Lütfi Öveçoğlu, C. Suryanarayana, William D. Nix	1996	15
11	Thin films : stresses and mechanical properties III : symposium held December 2-5, 1991, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A. William D. Nix	1992	0
12	On void nucleation and growth in metal interconnect lines under electromigration conditions Publications of the UdS (Saarland University) ·William D. Nix, Eduard Arzt	1992	21
13	Structure and Mechanical Properties of Fe/Zr Multilayers. MRS Proceedings ·Joost J. Vlassak, Takenori Nakayama, Toyohiko J. Konno, William D. Nix	1991	1
14	Constrained cavity growth models of longitudinal creep deformation of oxide dispersion strengthened alloys Metallurgical Transactions A ·J.J. Stephens, William D. Nix	1986	20
15	Effects of capillarity on intergranular cavity growth controlled by diffusion and plasticity Scripta Metallurgica ·L. Martı́nez, William D. Nix	1982	2
16	A numerical study of long range internal stresses associated with subgrain boundaries Acta Metallurgica ·L. H. Williams, William D. Nix	1980	73
17	A numerical analysis of edge dislocation climb Philosophical magazine. A/Philosophical magazine. A. Physics of condensed matter. Structure, defects and mechanical properties ·Bhaadri S Sridutt, William D. Nix	1978	4
18	The coalescence of large grain boundary cavities in silver during tension creep Acta Metallurgica ·S.H. Goods, William D. Nix	1978	35
19	An Analysis of the Entropy of Thermally Activated Dislocation Motion Based on the Theory of Thermoelasticity physica status solidi (b) ·R.J. DiMelfi, William D. Nix, D. M. Barnett, John H. Holbrook, G. M. Pound	1976	7
20	Domain Configurations About Nonmagnetic Particles in Iron Physical Review ·William D. Nix, Robert A. Huggins	1961	4

About William D. Nix

William D. Nix is a scholar working on Mechanics of Materials, Materials Chemistry, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Mechanical Engineering and Ceramics and Composites, having authored 389 papers that have together received 44.5k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Metal and Thin Film Mechanics (145 papers), Microstructure and mechanical properties (122 papers), Copper Interconnects and Reliability (77 papers), High Temperature Alloys and Creep (72 papers), Semiconductor materials and devices (47 papers), Diamond and Carbon-based Materials Research (36 papers), Force Microscopy Techniques and Applications (33 papers) and Advanced materials and composites (32 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Mechanics of Materials (20.3k citations), Materials Chemistry (23.7k citations), Mechanical Engineering (16.7k citations), Ceramics and Composites (2.6k citations) and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials (6.1k citations). William D. Nix has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Germany and Australia. Frequent co-authors include Huajian Gao, M. Doerner, Julia R. Greer, Joost J. Vlassak, Matthew T. McDowell, Seok Woo Lee, Ranjana Saha, Yi Cui, Y. Huang and Thomas W. Kenny. Their work appears in journals such as Journal of materials research/Pratt's guide to venture capital sources, Metallurgical Transactions A, Acta Materialia, Journal of Applied Physics and Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids.

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