Xinfeng Tang

24.1k total citations · 8 hit papers
508 papers, 20.8k citations indexed

About

Xinfeng Tang is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Civil and Structural Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Xinfeng Tang has authored 508 papers receiving a total of 20.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 472 papers in Materials Chemistry, 223 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 92 papers in Civil and Structural Engineering. Recurrent topics in Xinfeng Tang's work include Advanced Thermoelectric Materials and Devices (437 papers), Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films (170 papers) and Thermal properties of materials (147 papers). Xinfeng Tang is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Thermoelectric Materials and Devices (437 papers), Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films (170 papers) and Thermal properties of materials (147 papers). Xinfeng Tang collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Japan. Xinfeng Tang's co-authors include Ctirad Uher, Qingjie Zhang, Xianli Su, Wei Liu, Yonggao Yan, Han Li, Wenjie Xie, Gangjian Tan, Hongyao Xie and Shanyu Wang and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Xinfeng Tang

478 papers receiving 20.3k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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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.

Convergence of Conduction Bands as a Means of Enhancing Thermoelectric Performance ofn-TypeMg2Si1−xSnxSolid Solutions

2012 1.1k citations Wei Liu, Xinfeng Tang et al. profile →
Superparamagnetic enhancement of thermoelectric performance

2017 554 citations Qingjie Zhang, Xianli Su et al. profile →
Unique nanostructures and enhanced thermoelectric performance of melt-spun BiSbTe alloys

2009 511 citations Wenjie Xie, Xinfeng Tang et al. profile →
Identifying the Specific Nanostructures Responsible for the High Thermoelectric Performance of (Bi,Sb)₂Te₃ Nanocomposites

2010 472 citations Wenjie Xie, Jian He et al. profile →
Power generation and thermoelectric cooling enabled by momentum and energy multiband alignments

2021 452 citations Jiangfan Luo, Wei Liu et al. profile →
Rhombohedral to Cubic Conversion of GeTe via MnTe Alloying Leads to Ultralow Thermal Conductivity, Electronic Band Convergence, and High Thermoelectric Performance

2018 360 citations Xianli Su, Hongyao Xie et al. profile →
High thermoelectric performance in Bi_0.46Sb_1.54Te₃ nanostructured with ZnTe

2018 333 citations Xianli Su, Shiqiang Hao et al. profile →
A comprehensive review on Bi₂Te₃‐based thin films: Thermoelectrics and beyond

2022 200 citations Xinfeng Tang, Ziwei Li et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Xinfeng Tang China	74	19.1k	8.1k	4.3k	3.3k	2.1k	508	20.8k
Jiaqing He China	95	33.8k 1.8×	18.0k 2.2×	7.3k 1.7×	5.4k 1.6×	2.0k 0.9×	349	37.1k
Jian He United States	55	10.4k 0.5×	4.1k 0.5×	2.1k 0.5×	2.5k 0.8×	1.1k 0.5×	221	11.6k
Li Shi United States	66	19.0k 1.0×	4.9k 0.6×	5.2k 1.2×	1.6k 0.5×	2.3k 1.1×	242	23.7k
Xiangfan Xu China	31	10.3k 0.5×	5.1k 0.6×	1.0k 0.2×	2.3k 0.7×	1.2k 0.6×	76	14.0k
Erik C. Garnett Netherlands	43	8.0k 0.4×	8.9k 1.1×	1.3k 0.3×	1.6k 0.5×	2.5k 1.2×	115	14.4k
Wenjie Liang China	32	5.9k 0.3×	3.6k 0.4×	1.0k 0.2×	1.3k 0.4×	2.5k 1.2×	113	9.1k
Seung‐Hyub Baek South Korea	42	7.1k 0.4×	2.9k 0.4×	364 0.1×	5.1k 1.5×	545 0.3×	198	9.1k
Jin‐Cheng Zheng China	49	5.6k 0.3×	3.3k 0.4×	448 0.1×	1.4k 0.4×	593 0.3×	215	8.1k
Qunqing Li China	51	6.5k 0.3×	5.0k 0.6×	471 0.1×	3.1k 0.9×	973 0.5×	208	11.6k
Ralf B. Wehrspohn Germany	54	6.7k 0.4×	6.3k 0.8×	412 0.1×	1.5k 0.5×	3.2k 1.5×	266	12.3k

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Wang, Yuting, Dongwang Yang, Dan Li, et al.. (2025). Thermally enhanced substrate design for flexible thermoelectric devices via ultrasonic welding. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 13(9). 6493–6501.

Xie, Hongyao, Zhi Yang, Weibin Xu, et al.. (2025). Rhombohedral GeSe Thermoelectric Breakthrough by Strategic Pb Alloying. Advanced Functional Materials. 36(9). 1 indexed citations

Tang, Xinfeng, et al.. (2024). Fine tuning of Mn/Co vacancies for optimized magnetocaloric performance in MnCoGe alloys. Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials. 603. 172224–172224. 5 indexed citations

Chen, Shuo, Tingting Luo, Xianli Su, et al.. (2024). Regulation of dynamic recrystallization in p-type Bi2Te3-based compounds leads to high thermoelectric performance and robust mechanical properties. Materials Today Physics. 46. 101524–101524. 4 indexed citations

Li, Songlin, et al.. (2024). Locally off-centered Ge atoms contribute to high thermoelectric performance of globally averaged cubic MnGeTe2 alloys. Acta Materialia. 285. 120694–120694. 10 indexed citations

Li, Junhao, Dongwang Yang, Yutian Liu, et al.. (2024). High efficient personal thermoregulatory device: Metallized interface layer between flexible polyimide substrate and foam copper heat sink enables thermal resistance reduction. Applied Materials Today. 37. 102139–102139. 8 indexed citations

Liu, Yutian, Dongwang Yang, Junhao Li, et al.. (2024). Integrated micro thermoelectric devices with self-power supply and temperature monitoring: Design and application in power grid early warning. Applied Thermal Engineering. 247. 122922–122922. 7 indexed citations

Liu, Keke, Tingting Luo, Jinsong Wu, et al.. (2024). Structural evolution and thermoelectric performance in (GeTe)m(Sb2Te3)n compounds. Materials Today Physics. 45. 101455–101455. 2 indexed citations

Li, Ziwei, Cheng Zhang, Jiangfan Luo, et al.. (2024). Weak interlayer interactions and nearly temperature independent electrical transport in p-type 1T′-MoTe2/Sb2Te3 superlattice-like films. Journal of Solid State Chemistry. 336. 124785–124785. 1 indexed citations

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Xie, Hongyao, Hao Luo, Songlin Li, et al.. (2024). Two-Dimensional-Like Phonons in Three-Dimensional-Structured Rhombohedral GeSe-Based Compounds with Excellent Thermoelectric Performance. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 16(30). 39656–39663. 11 indexed citations

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Luo, Tingting, Shi Liu, Fanjie Xia, et al.. (2023). Entropy-driven structural transition from Tetragonal to Cubic phase: High Thermoelectric Performance of CuCdInSe3 compound. Materials Today Physics. 37. 101211–101211. 2 indexed citations

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Liu, Keke, Hui Bai, Qingjie Zhang, et al.. (2023). Highly Deformable Ag2te1-Xsex-Based Thermoelectric Compounds. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations

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Liu, Keke, Yusong Duan, Qingjie Zhang, et al.. (2023). Phase boundary mapping for high thermoelectric performance β-Zn4Sb3 in Zn–In–Sb ternary system. Materials Today Physics. 37. 101201–101201. 2 indexed citations

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Zhang, Cheng, Zhe Chen, Hui Bai, et al.. (2023). Manipulating the Interfacial Band Bending For Enhancing the Thermoelectric Properties of 1T′‐MoTe₂/Bi₂Te₃ Superlattice Films. Small. 19(35). e2300745–e2300745. 5 indexed citations

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Li, Zhi, Hongyao Xie, Yi Xia, et al.. (2022). Weak-Bonding Elements Lead to High Thermoelectric Performance in BaSnS₃ and SrSnS₃: A First-Principles Study. Chemistry of Materials. 34(3). 1289–1301. 40 indexed citations

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Qiu, Junhao, Tingting Luo, Yonggao Yan, et al.. (2021). Enhancing the Thermoelectric and Mechanical Properties of Bi_0.5Sb_1.5Te₃ Modulated by the Texture and Dense Dislocation Networks. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 13(49). 58974–58981. 19 indexed citations

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Moses, Oyawale Adetunji, Malik Ihsanullah Khan, Qi Fang, et al.. (2018). PVP intercalated metallic WSe ₂ as NIR photothermal agents for efficient tumor ablation. Nanotechnology. 30(6). 65102–65102. 12 indexed citations

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Wong‐Ng, W., et al.. (2016). X-ray powder diffraction reference patterns for Bi _{1− x} Pb _x OCuSe. Powder Diffraction. 31(3). 223–228. 7 indexed citations

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Wong‐Ng, W., et al.. (2014). X-ray powder reference patterns of the Fe(Sb ₂₊ _x Te ₁₋ _x ) skutterudites for thermoelectric applications. Powder Diffraction. 29(3). 260–264. 2 indexed citations

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Xie, Wenjie, Jian He, Song Zhu, et al.. (2011). Investigation of the sintering pressure and thermal conductivity anisotropy of melt-spun spark-plasma-sintered (Bi,Sb)₂Te₃ thermoelectric materials. Journal of materials research/Pratt's guide to venture capital sources. 26(15). 1791–1799. 61 indexed citations

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