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Materials Science

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46
Citations
9479
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11359
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2667

Chemistry

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Citations
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Engineering and Technology

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Bojan Ilic publication distribution in Engineering and Technology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Engineering and Technology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Bojan Ilic sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 804+

This scientist: 159 publications — 31st percentile

31% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 804 publications or more.

Bojan Ilic D-index placement in Engineering and Technology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Engineering and Technology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Bojan Ilic sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index: 59 scientists 31 D-Index: 114 scientists 32 D-Index: 129 scientists 33 D-Index: 189 scientists 34 D-Index: 200 scientists 35 D-Index: 262 scientists 36 D-Index: 311 scientists 37 D-Index: 312 scientists 38 D-Index: 350 scientists 39 D-Index: 385 scientists 40 D-Index: 348 scientists 41 D-Index: 362 scientists 42 D-Index: 426 scientists 43 D-Index: 380 scientists 44 D-Index: 310 scientists 45 D-Index: 341 scientists 46 D-Index: 301 scientists 47 D-Index: 306 scientists 48 D-Index: 271 scientists 49 D-Index: 246 scientists 50 D-Index: 210 scientists 51 D-Index: 253 scientists 52 D-Index: 213 scientists 53 D-Index: 221 scientists 54 D-Index: 195 scientists 55 D-Index: 186 scientists 56 D-Index: 170 scientists 57 D-Index: 167 scientists 58 D-Index: 166 scientists 59 D-Index: 144 scientists 60 D-Index: 152 scientists 61 D-Index: 141 scientists 62 D-Index: 138 scientists 63 D-Index: 131 scientists 64 D-Index: 118 scientists 65 D-Index: 114 scientists 66 D-Index: 119 scientists 67 D-Index: 95 scientists 68 D-Index: 87 scientists 69 D-Index: 77 scientists 70 D-Index: 89 scientists 71 D-Index: 69 scientists 72 D-Index: 54 scientists 73 D-Index: 46 scientists 74 D-Index: 55 scientists 75 D-Index: 54 scientists 76 D-Index: 49 scientists 77 D-Index: 53 scientists 78 D-Index: 46 scientists 79 D-Index: 28 scientists 80 D-Index: 39 scientists 81 D-Index: 36 scientists 82 D-Index: 24 scientists 83 D-Index: 26 scientists 84 D-Index: 36 scientists 85 D-Index: 18 scientists 86 D-Index: 25 scientists 87 D-Index: 19 scientists 88 D-Index: 26 scientists 89 D-Index: 27 scientists 90 D-Index: 23 scientists 91 D-Index: 15 scientists 92 D-Index: 12 scientists 93 D-Index: 9 scientists 94 D-Index: 15 scientists 95 D-Index: 10 scientists 96 D-Index: 13 scientists 97 D-Index: 13 scientists 98 D-Index: 9 scientists 99 D-Index: 7 scientists 100 D-Index: 7 scientists 101 D-Index: 8 scientists 102 D-Index: 7 scientists 103 D-Index: 7 scientists 104 D-Index: 9 scientists 105 D-Index: 6 scientists 106 D-Index: 9 scientists 107+ D-Index: 99 scientists
30 D-Index 107+

This scientist: 46 D-Index — 49th percentile

49% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 107 D-Index or more.

Overview

Bojan Ilic is affiliated with the National Institute of Standards and Technology in the United States. Their research spans several fields including engineering, materials science, and physics and astronomy. With a focus on subfields such as electrical and electronic engineering, atomic and molecular physics and optics, materials chemistry, biomedical engineering, and polymers and plastics, their work covers a broad range of scientific domains.

Their research topics include:

  • Mechanical and Optical Resonators
  • Force Microscopy Techniques and Applications
  • Advanced MEMS and NEMS Technologies
  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • Conducting polymers and applications
  • Photonic and Optical Devices

Bojan Ilic has published in a variety of scientific venues, with multiple contributions to The Cambridge Structural Database, Nature Nanotechnology, Nano Letters, Advanced Functional Materials, and IEEE Sensors Journal.

Recent papers include:

  • Charge disproportionate molecular redox for discrete memristive and memcapacitive switching, 2020, Nature Nanotechnology
  • High Throughput Nanoimaging of Thermal Conductivity and Interfacial Thermal Conductance, 2022, Nano Letters
  • Frequency Stabilization of Nanomechanical Resonators Using Thermally Invariant Strain Engineering, 2020, Nano Letters
  • Single Electrode Bidirectional Switching of Latchable Prestressed Bistable Micromechanical Beams, 2021, IEEE Sensors Journal
  • Comparable Enhancement of TERS Signals from WSe2 on Chromium and Gold, 2020, The Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Bojan Ilic include:

  • Santi Prasad Rath
  • Damien Thompson
  • Svante Hedström
  • Meenakshi Annamalai
  • Rajib Pramanick

Best Publications

  • Attogram detection using nanoelectromechanical oscillators

    B. Ilic;Harold G. Craighead;S. Krylov;W. Senaratne

  • Label-free biomarker detection from whole blood.

    Eric Stern;Aleksandar Vacic;Nitin K. Rajan;Jason M. Criscione

  • Mechanical resonant immunospecific biological detector

    B. Ilic;D. Czaplewski;Harold G. Craighead;P. Neuzil

  • Single cell detection with micromechanical oscillators

    B. Ilic;D. Czaplewski;M. Zalalutdinov;Harold G. Craighead

  • Virus detection using nanoelectromechanical devices

    B. Ilic;Y. Yang;Harold G. Craighead

  • Observation of Locked Intrinsic Localized Vibrational Modes in a Micromechanical Oscillator Array

    Masayuki Sato;B.E. Hubbard;A.J. Sievers;B. Ilic

  • The pull-in behavior of electrostatically actuated bistable microstructures

    Slava Krylov;Bojan R. Ilic;David Schreiber;Shimon Seretensky

  • Enumeration of DNA molecules bound to a nanomechanical oscillator.

    B. Ilic;Y. Yang;K. Aubin;R. Reichenbach

  • High, size-dependent quality factor in an array of graphene mechanical resonators.

    Robert A. Barton;B. Ilic;Arend M. van der Zande;William S. Whitney

  • Experimental Observation of Strong Photon Localization in Disordered Photonic Crystal Waveguides

    J. Topolancik;B. Ilic;F. Vollmer

  • Photothermal Self-Oscillation and Laser Cooling of Graphene Optomechanical Systems

    Robert A. Barton;Isaac R. Storch;Vivekananda P. Adiga;Reyu Sakakibara

  • An electrospray ionization source for integration with microfluidics.

    Jun Kameoka;Reid Orth;Bojan Ilic;David Czaplewski

  • On-Chip Manipulation of Protein-Coated Magnetic Beads via Domain-Wall Conduits

    Marco Donolato;Paolo Vavassori;Marco Gobbi;Maria Deryabina

  • Bistability of curved microbeams actuated by fringing electrostatic fields

    Slava Krylov;Bojan R. Ilic;Stella Lulinsky

  • Topographical patterning of chemically sensitive biological materials using a polymer-based dry lift off

    B. Ilic;Harold G. Craighead

  • Optical excitation of nanoelectromechanical oscillators

    B. Ilic;S. Krylov;K. Aubin;R. Reichenbach

  • Optically pumped parametric amplification for micromechanical oscillators

    M. Zalalutdinov;A. Olkhovets;A. Zehnder;B. Ilic

  • Interstitial flux phases in a superconducting niobium film with a square lattice of artificial pinning centers

    V. Metlushko;U. Welp;G. W. Crabtree;R. Osgood

  • Autoparametric optical drive for micromechanical oscillators

    M. Zalalutdinov;A. Zehnder;A. Olkhovets;S. Turner

  • Study of intrinsic localized vibrational modes in micromechanical oscillator arrays.

    Masayuki Sato;B.E. Hubbard;L.Q. English;A.J. Sievers

  • Label-free biomarker detection from whole blood

    Eric Stern;Aleksandar Vacic;Nitin K. Rajan;Jason M. Criscione

Frequent Co-Authors

Harold G. Craighead
Harold G. Craighead Cornell University
David A. Czaplewski
David A. Czaplewski Argonne National Laboratory
Peter Grutter
Peter Grutter McGill University
Alan T. Zehnder
Alan T. Zehnder Cornell University
Ulrich Welp
Ulrich Welp Argonne National Laboratory
Brian H. Houston
Brian H. Houston United States Naval Research Laboratory
John W. Freeland
John W. Freeland Argonne National Laboratory
Paul L. McEuen
Paul L. McEuen Cornell University

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