William S. Whitney

3.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
9 papers, 2.5k citations indexed

About

William S. Whitney is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, William S. Whitney has authored 9 papers receiving a total of 2.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 5 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 4 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in William S. Whitney's work include Force Microscopy Techniques and Applications (2 papers), Graphene research and applications (2 papers) and Mechanical and Optical Resonators (2 papers). William S. Whitney is often cited by papers focused on Force Microscopy Techniques and Applications (2 papers), Graphene research and applications (2 papers) and Mechanical and Optical Resonators (2 papers). William S. Whitney collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and Japan. William S. Whitney's co-authors include Paul L. McEuen, Arend M. van der Zande, Jonathan S. Alden, Carlos Ruiz‐Vargas, Jiwoong Park, Ye Zhu, David A. Muller, Mark Levendorf, Pinshane Y. Huang and Joshua W. Kevek and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nature Materials and Nano Letters.

In The Last Decade

William S. Whitney

9 papers receiving 2.4k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Grains and grain boundaries in single-layer graphene atomic patchwork quilts

2011 1.7k citations Pinshane Y. Huang, Carlos Ruiz‐Vargas et al. Nature profile →

Peers

William S. Whitney

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A. N. Obraztsov Russia

Hirokazu Fukidome Japan

Atsushi Ogura Japan

Walter A. de Heer United States

Gong Gu United States

Caleb Hustedt United States

Oussama Moutanabbir Canada

P. Legagneux France

В. А. Володин Russia

Pierre Mallet France

A. N. Obraztsov Russia

William S. Whitney

2.7k ×1.4

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946 ×0.9

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690 ×0.9

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791 ×1.1

BE

233 ×1.1

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of William S. Whitney

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

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9 of 9 papers shown

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Biswas, Souvik, William S. Whitney, Meir Grajower, et al.. (2021). Tunable intraband optical conductivity and polarization-dependent epsilon-near-zero behavior in black phosphorus. Science Advances. 7(2). 42 indexed citations

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Atwater, Harry A., Artur R. Davoyan, Ognjen Ilic, et al.. (2018). Materials challenges for the Starshot lightsail. Nature Materials. 17(10). 861–867. 104 indexed citations

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Sherrott, Michelle C., William S. Whitney, Deep Jariwala, et al.. (2018). Anisotropic Quantum Well Electro-Optics in Few-Layer Black Phosphorus. Nano Letters. 19(1). 269–276. 46 indexed citations

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Fountaine, Katherine T., William S. Whitney, & Harry A. Atwater. (2014). Resonant absorption in semiconductor nanowires and nanowire arrays: Relating leaky waveguide modes to Bloch photonic crystal modes. Journal of Applied Physics. 116(15). 97 indexed citations

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Fountaine, Katherine T., William S. Whitney, & Harry A. Atwater. (2014). Achieving near-unity broadband absorption in sparse arrays of GaAs NWs via a fundamental understanding of localized radial modes. 6. 3507–3509. 1 indexed citations

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Huang, Pinshane Y., Carlos Ruiz‐Vargas, Arend M. van der Zande, et al.. (2011). Grains and grain boundaries in single-layer graphene atomic patchwork quilts. Nature. 469(7330). 389–392. 1653 indexed citations breakdown →

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Barton, Robert A., B. Ilic, Arend M. van der Zande, et al.. (2011). High, Size-Dependent Quality Factor in an Array of Graphene Mechanical Resonators. Nano Letters. 11(3). 1232–1236. 194 indexed citations

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Huang, Pinshane Y., Arend M. van der Zande, Carlos Ruiz‐Vargas, et al.. (2011). Imaging Grains and Grain Boundaries in Single-Layer Graphene: An Atomic Patchwork Quilt. Microscopy and Microanalysis. 17(S2). 1496–1497. 4 indexed citations

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Zande, Arend M. van der, Robert A. Barton, Jonathan S. Alden, et al.. (2010). Large-Scale Arrays of Single-Layer Graphene Resonators. Nano Letters. 10(12). 4869–4873. 339 indexed citations

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