William L. Wilson

11.2k total citations · 5 hit papers
306 papers, 8.9k citations indexed

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William L. Wilson is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, William L. Wilson has authored 306 papers receiving a total of 8.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 120 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 89 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 53 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in William L. Wilson's work include Laser Design and Applications (45 papers), Solid State Laser Technologies (21 papers) and Spectroscopy and Laser Applications (21 papers). William L. Wilson is often cited by papers focused on Laser Design and Applications (45 papers), Solid State Laser Technologies (21 papers) and Spectroscopy and Laser Applications (21 papers). William L. Wilson collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Canada. William L. Wilson's co-authors include Louis E. Brus, Paul F. Szajowski, Moungi G. Bawendi, P. J. Carroll, Howard E. Katz, John H. Nelson, Mark S. Holt, Frank K. Tittel, Catherine J. Murphy and Marshall R. Brennan and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Chemical Reviews and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

William L. Wilson

287 papers receiving 8.4k 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.

Luminescence properties of CdSe quantum crystallites: Resonance between interior and surface localized states

1992 654 citations William L. Wilson et al. profile →
Quantum Confinement in Size-Selected, Surface-Oxidized Silicon Nanocrystals

1993 629 citations William L. Wilson et al. Science profile →
Electronic structure and photoexcited-carrier dynamics in nanometer-size CdSe clusters

1990 499 citations William L. Wilson et al. profile →
A mid-infrared biaxial hyperbolic van der Waals crystal

2019 296 citations Zebo Zheng, Ningsheng Xu et al. Science Advances profile →
Electronic Spectroscopy and Photophysics of Si Nanocrystals: Relationship to Bulk c-Si and Porous Si

1995 244 citations William L. Wilson et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
William L. Wilson	3.8k	3.3k	2.1k	2.1k	1.0k	306	8.9k
Takashi Yamamoto	4.1k 1.1×	2.8k 0.9×	1.2k 0.6×	930 0.4×	1.2k 1.1×	473	11.6k
Yongli Yan	4.6k 1.2×	4.3k 1.3×	2.0k 1.0×	2.7k 1.3×	838 0.8×	144	8.9k
Robert J. Meier	3.4k 0.9×	2.0k 0.6×	1.5k 0.7×	1.2k 0.6×	859 0.8×	217	8.3k
Robert B. Moore	2.5k 0.6×	7.7k 2.3×	3.8k 1.8×	1.5k 0.7×	736 0.7×	352	16.8k
Petr Král	5.1k 1.3×	2.1k 0.6×	2.8k 1.3×	1.8k 0.8×	1.1k 1.1×	191	10.8k
Ang Li	4.9k 1.3×	3.0k 0.9×	2.5k 1.2×	1.3k 0.6×	728 0.7×	350	12.0k
Takashi Yamashita	4.0k 1.0×	2.3k 0.7×	1.2k 0.6×	1.4k 0.7×	1.2k 1.2×	738	16.1k
Haibin Su	5.8k 1.5×	4.3k 1.3×	1.5k 0.7×	1.2k 0.6×	987 1.0×	314	11.5k
Charles F. Zukoski	6.5k 1.7×	1.1k 0.3×	3.1k 1.5×	1.1k 0.5×	971 1.0×	240	13.9k
Hui Wang	7.2k 1.9×	2.4k 0.7×	1.5k 0.7×	1.8k 0.9×	1.8k 1.7×	386	11.1k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Koshy, A., et al.. (2025). Geographical and Temporal Variation in Coronary Intravascular Imaging Utilisation and Barriers to Wider Adoption: A Systematic Review and Pooled Analysis. Heart Lung and Circulation. 34(11). 1179–1193.

Luo, Yue, Andrés M. Mier Valdivia, Daniel T. Larson, et al.. (2025). Observation of hyperbolic intersubband polaritons in native-dielectric-doped van der Waals semiconductor quantum wells. Nature Communications. 16(1). 10158–10158.

Abdelwahab, Ibrahim, Dushyant Kumar, Heng Gao, et al.. (2024). Two-dimensional chiral perovskites with large spin Hall angle and collinear spin Hall conductivity. Science. 385(6706). 311–317. 32 indexed citations

Abdelwahab, Ibrahim, Benjamin Tilmann, Xiaoxu Zhao, et al.. (2023). Highly Efficient Sum‐Frequency Generation in Niobium Oxydichloride NbOCl₂ Nanosheets. Advanced Optical Materials. 11(7). 28 indexed citations

Chiu, Ming‐Hui, Xiang Ji, Tianyi Zhang, et al.. (2023). Growth of Large‐Sized 2D Ultrathin SnSe Crystals with In‐Plane Ferroelectricity. Advanced Electronic Materials. 9(4). 35 indexed citations

Luo, Yue, Nannan Mao, Ming‐Hui Chiu, et al.. (2023). Electrically switchable anisotropic polariton propagation in a ferroelectric van der Waals semiconductor. Nature Nanotechnology. 18(4). 350–356. 27 indexed citations

Wilson, William L., et al.. (2020). Pyroglutamic Acidosis: A Painful Gap in the MUDPILE. Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. 31(10S). 825–825.

Luo, Yue, Rebecca Engelke, Marios Mattheakis, et al.. (2020). In situ nanoscale imaging of moiré superlattices in twisted van der Waals heterostructures. Nature Communications. 11(1). 4209–4209. 58 indexed citations

Zheng, Zebo, Ningsheng Xu, Stefano Luigi Oscurato, et al.. (2019). A mid-infrared biaxial hyperbolic van der Waals crystal. Science Advances. 5(5). eaav8690–eaav8690. 296 indexed citations breakdown →

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Tu, Haohua, Yuan Liu, Dmitry Turchinovich, et al.. (2016). Stain-free histopathology by programmable supercontinuum pulses. Nature Photonics. 10(8). 534–540. 174 indexed citations

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Wilson, William L., et al.. (2015). Fine fragmentation distribution from structural reactive material casings under explosive loading. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 1 indexed citations

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Wilson, William L.. (2013). Autism and Diet: Is There a Connection?. North American Journal of Medicine and Science. 6(3). 1 indexed citations

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Wall, Brian D., Stephen R. Diegelmann, Shuming Zhang, et al.. (2011). Aligned Macroscopic Domains of Optoelectronic Nanostructures Prepared via Shear‐Flow Assembly of Peptide Hydrogels. Advanced Materials. 23(43). 5009–5014. 128 indexed citations

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Hofmann, Thilo, et al.. (1991). Self-focusing effects in a high power, ultrashort pulse XeF(C→A) excimer amplifier. Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics.

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Lane, H. Clifford, Kathryn M. Zunich, William L. Wilson, et al.. (1990). Syngeneic Bone Marrow Transplantation and Adoptive Transfer of Peripheral Blood Lymphocytes Combined with Zidovudine in Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Infection. Annals of Internal Medicine. 113(7). 512–519. 60 indexed citations

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Szabó, G., et al.. (1990). Ultrashort-laser-pulse amplification in a XeF(C → A) excimer amplifier. Optics Letters. 15(24). 1461–1461. 11 indexed citations

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Beck, Barry F., et al.. (1987). Karst hydrogeology : engineering and environmental applications. A.A. Balkema eBooks. 35 indexed citations

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Wilson, William L. & Gene Oliphant. (1987). Isolation and Biochemical Characterization of the Subunits of the Rabbit Sperm Acrosome Stabilizing Factor1. Biology of Reproduction. 37(1). 159–169. 13 indexed citations

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Metter, Gerald E., et al.. (1976). Phase I evaluation of DTIC (NSC-45388) and other studies in malignant melanoma in the Central Oncology Group.. Munich Personal RePEc Archive (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich). 60(2). 183–7. 35 indexed citations

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Wilson, William L., et al.. (1976). Magnetic properties of bias-sputtered Gd/sub 1-x/Fe/sub x/ amorphous films. 34. 3 indexed citations

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