Yip-Wah Chung

4.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
102 papers, 3.4k citations indexed

About

Yip-Wah Chung is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Mechanics of Materials and Mechanical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Yip-Wah Chung has authored 102 papers receiving a total of 3.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 57 papers in Materials Chemistry, 56 papers in Mechanics of Materials and 39 papers in Mechanical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Yip-Wah Chung's work include Metal and Thin Film Mechanics (40 papers), Diamond and Carbon-based Materials Research (33 papers) and Lubricants and Their Additives (15 papers). Yip-Wah Chung is often cited by papers focused on Metal and Thin Film Mechanics (40 papers), Diamond and Carbon-based Materials Research (33 papers) and Lubricants and Their Additives (15 papers). Yip-Wah Chung collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Brazil. Yip-Wah Chung's co-authors include Ming‐Show Wong, William D. Sproul, Wei-Chen Lo, Gábor A. Somorjai, Vinayak P. Dravid, Yao Du, Xinjie Chen, Ming Y. Chen, Dong Li and Eric C. Cutiongco and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Physical review. B, Condensed matter and Applied Physics Letters.

In The Last Decade

Yip-Wah Chung

101 papers receiving 3.3k citations

Hit Papers

Commentary on using H/E and H/E as proxies for fracture t... 2019 2026 2021 2023 2019 50 100 150 200
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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.

  1. Commentary on using H/E and H/E as proxies for fracture toughness of hard coatings
    2019 227 citations Yip-Wah Chung et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Yip-Wah Chung United States 32 2.4k 2.0k 1.2k 783 312 102 3.4k
Jörg Patscheider Switzerland 31 2.9k 1.2× 2.6k 1.3× 977 0.8× 1.1k 1.4× 165 0.5× 89 3.7k
J. Esteve Spain 33 2.3k 0.9× 1.8k 0.9× 731 0.6× 871 1.1× 209 0.7× 135 3.1k
Esteban Broitman Sweden 31 2.6k 1.1× 2.0k 1.0× 789 0.7× 981 1.3× 220 0.7× 115 3.4k
L. Hultman Sweden 39 2.8k 1.2× 2.0k 1.0× 995 0.8× 882 1.1× 129 0.4× 76 3.5k
J.C. Sánchez-López Spain 37 3.8k 1.6× 2.5k 1.2× 1.5k 1.3× 765 1.0× 532 1.7× 138 4.8k
Gary L. Doll United States 38 2.9k 1.2× 2.2k 1.1× 2.0k 1.7× 1.0k 1.3× 449 1.4× 155 5.0k
Zsolt Czigány Hungary 32 2.4k 1.0× 1.4k 0.7× 640 0.5× 905 1.2× 257 0.8× 145 3.1k
F. Alvarez Brazil 30 2.7k 1.1× 1.5k 0.8× 480 0.4× 1.3k 1.7× 211 0.7× 180 3.4k
P.B. Barna Hungary 19 2.0k 0.9× 1.7k 0.9× 540 0.5× 1.1k 1.4× 344 1.1× 79 3.1k
J. Vlček Czechia 38 2.9k 1.2× 2.9k 1.5× 866 0.7× 2.2k 2.9× 354 1.1× 152 4.6k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yip-Wah Chung

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Eskandari, Mohammad Reza, Shuangbiao Liu, Yip-Wah Chung, et al.. (2024). Tribological Analysis of Steels in Fuel Environments: Impact of Alloy Content and Hardness. Applied Sciences. 14(5). 1898–1898. 5 indexed citations
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Rodríguez, L. A., Victoria Coverstone, Jian Cao, et al.. (2020). Stable membrane candidate for deployable membrane space telescopes. Journal of Astronomical Telescopes Instruments and Systems. 6(3). 1–1. 1 indexed citations
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Gao, Yanshan, Jiazhen Chen, Alessandro Motta, et al.. (2019). Highly branched polyethylene oligomers via group IV-catalysed polymerization in very nonpolar media. Nature Catalysis. 2(3). 236–242. 73 indexed citations
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He, Xingliang, Jie Lü, Massimiliano Delferro, et al.. (2017). Alkyl-Cyclens as Effective Sulfur- and Phosphorus-Free Friction Modifiers for Boundary Lubrication. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 9(10). 9118–9125. 62 indexed citations
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Wang, Chen, et al.. (2014). Toughness enhancement of nanostructured hard coatings: Design strategies and toughness measurement techniques. Surface and Coatings Technology. 257. 206–212. 43 indexed citations
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Marks, Tobin J., et al.. (2013). Modeling Polysiloxane Volume and Viscosity Variations With Molecular Structure and Thermodynamic State. Journal of Tribology. 136(1). 13 indexed citations
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Trava-Airoldi, V.J., et al.. (2011). Surface modification of 6150 steel substrates for the deposition of thick and adherent diamond-like carbon coatings. Surface and Coatings Technology. 205(12). 3703–3707. 24 indexed citations
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To, Albert C., Wing Kam Liu, Gregory B. Olson, et al.. (2008). Materials integrity in microsystems: a framework for a petascale predictive-science-based multiscale modeling and simulation system. Computational Mechanics. 42(4). 485–510. 14 indexed citations
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Liu, Shanliangzi, et al.. (2004). Influence of Temperature-Dependent Yield Strength on Thermomechanical Asperity Contacts. Tribology Letters. 17(2). 155–164. 12 indexed citations
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Chung, Yip-Wah & William D. Sproul. (2003). Superhard Coating Materials. MRS Bulletin. 28(3). 164–168. 29 indexed citations
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Chung, Yip-Wah, et al.. (2002). Nanolayer coatings for hard disk and demanding tribological applications. JOM. 54(9). 49–52. 5 indexed citations
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Zhou, Boru, et al.. (1999). Synthesis of hard TiN coatings with suppressed columnar growth and reduced stress. Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology A Vacuum Surfaces and Films. 17(5). 2915–2919. 24 indexed citations
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Wu, Mei-Ling, et al.. (1998). Synthesis of Coatings With Hardness Exceeding 40 GPa by Magnetron Sputtering. Journal of Tribology. 120(2). 179–183. 11 indexed citations
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Cheng, Herbert S., et al.. (1993). The Contact Between Rough Surfaces With Longitudinal Texture—Part II: Flash Temperature. Journal of Tribology. 115(3). 425–431. 10 indexed citations
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Georgopoulos, P., et al.. (1993). GISAXS - Glancing incidence small angle X-ray scattering. Journal de Physique IV (Proceedings). 3(C8). C8–411. 3 indexed citations
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Miyoshi, Kazuhisa & Yip-Wah Chung. (1993). Surface Diagnostics in Tribology. WORLD SCIENTIFIC eBooks. 45 indexed citations
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Chen, Ming Y., Xi Lin, Vinayak P. Dravid, et al.. (1993). Analytical electron microscopy and Raman spectroscopy studies of carbon nitride thin films. Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology A Vacuum Surfaces and Films. 11(3). 521–524. 200 indexed citations
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Majumdar, Debasis & Yip-Wah Chung. (1983). Surface deformation and crack initiation during fatigue of vacuum melted iron: Environmental effects. Metallurgical Transactions A. 14(7). 1421–1425. 9 indexed citations
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Chung, Yip-Wah, et al.. (1980). Deformation enhanced photoemission from oriented aluminum single crystal surfaces. Surface Science. 99(2). 373–383. 7 indexed citations

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