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7716
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Corrado Bongiorno publication distribution in Materials Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Materials Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Corrado Bongiorno sits on this spectrum.

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50 publications 1,163+

This scientist: 330 publications — 66th percentile

66% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,163 publications or more.

Corrado Bongiorno D-index placement in Materials Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Materials Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Corrado Bongiorno sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 165+

This scientist: 47 D-Index — 15th percentile

15% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 165 D-Index or more.

Overview

Corrado Bongiorno is affiliated with the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on engineering and materials science, with significant contributions in the fields of electrical and electronic engineering, materials chemistry, atomic and molecular physics and optics, renewable energy, sustainability, and biomedical engineering.

The main topics of Bongiorno's work include semiconductor materials and devices, silicon carbide semiconductor technologies, semiconductor materials and interfaces, perovskite materials and applications, GaN-based semiconductor devices and materials, advanced photocatalysis techniques, and chalcogenide semiconductor thin films.

Some of their recent papers are:

  • New Approaches and Understandings in the Growth of Cubic Silicon Carbide, 2021, Materials
  • Preventing lead leakage in perovskite solar cells with a sustainable titanium dioxide sponge, 2023, Nature Sustainability
  • Development of Chitosan/Cyclodextrin Nanospheres for Levofloxacin Ocular Delivery, 2021, Pharmaceutics
  • Extended defects in 3C-SiC: Stacking faults, threading partial dislocations, and inverted domain boundaries, 2021, Acta Materialia
  • Genesis and evolution of extended defects: The role of evolving interface instabilities in cubic SiC, 2020, Applied Physics Reviews

Corrado Bongiorno has published extensively in the following venues:

  • Materials
  • Applied Surface Science
  • Nanomaterials
  • Diffusion and defect data, solid state data. Part B, Solid state phenomena/Solid state phenomena
  • Proceedings of the International Conference on Hybrid and Organic Photovoltaics

Frequent coauthors include:

  • Antonino La Magna
  • Alessandra Alberti
  • Giovanni Mannino
  • Fabrizio Roccaforte
  • Ioannis Deretzis

Best Publications

  • Formation and evolution of luminescent Si nanoclusters produced by thermal annealing of SiOx films

    Fabio Iacona;Corrado Bongiorno;Corrado Spinella;Simona Boninelli

  • Sensitizing properties of amorphous Si clusters on the 1.54-μm luminescence of Er in Si-rich SiO2

    G. Franzò;S. Boninelli;D. Pacifici;F. Priolo

  • Pb clustering and PbI 2 nanofragmentation during methylammonium lead iodide perovskite degradation

    Alessandra Alberti;Corrado Bongiorno;Emanuele Smecca;Ioannis Deretzis

  • Efficient Luminescence and Energy Transfer in Erbium Silicate Thin Films

    M. Miritello;R. Lo Savio;F. Iacona;G. Franzò

  • From thin film to bulk 3C-SiC growth: Understanding the mechanism of defects reduction

    F. La Via;A. Severino;R. Anzalone;C. Bongiorno

  • Optical and structural properties of Er2O3 films grown by magnetron sputtering

    M. Miritello;R. Lo Savio;A. M. Piro;G. Franzò

  • Si-based materials and devices for light emission in silicon

    Maria Eloisa Castagna;Salvatore Coffa;Mariantonietta Monaco;Liliana Caristia

  • Temperature dependence of the specific resistance in Ti∕Al∕Ni∕Au contacts on n-type GaN

    F. Iucolano;F. Roccaforte;A. Alberti;C. Bongiorno

  • Crystal nucleation and growth processes in Ge2Sb2Te5

    S. Privitera;C. Bongiorno;E. Rimini;R. Zonca

  • Microscopy study of the conductive filament in HfO2 resistive switching memory devices

    S. Privitera;G. Bersuker;B. Butcher;A. Kalantarian

  • Ambipolar MoS2 Transistors by Nanoscale Tailoring of Schottky Barrier Using Oxygen Plasma Functionalization

    Filippo Giannazzo;Gabriele Fisichella;Giuseppe Greco;Salvatore Di Franco

  • Crystallization and phase separation in Ge2+xSb2Te5 thin films

    S. Privitera;E. Rimini;C. Bongiorno;R. Zonca

  • Self-organization of gold nanoclusters on hexagonal SiC and SiO2 surfaces

    F. Ruffino;A. Canino;M. G. Grimaldi;F. Giannazzo

  • Origin and perspectives of the 1.54 μm luminescence from ion-beam-synthesized β-FeSi2 precipitates in Si

    C. Spinella;S. Coffa;C. Bongiorno;S. Pannitteri

  • Electroluminescence and transport properties in amorphous silicon nanostructures

    Alessia Irrera;Fabio Iacona;Isodiana Crupi;Calogero D Presti

  • Free-Standing Copper(II) Oxide Nanotube Arrays through an MOCVD Template Process

    Graziella Malandrino;Sebastiana T. Finocchiaro;Raffaella Lo Nigro;Corrado Bongiorno

  • Thin crystalline 3C-SiC layer growth through carbonization of differently oriented Si substrates

    A. Severino;G. D’Arrigo;C. Bongiorno;S. Scalese

  • Similar Structural Dynamics for the Degradation of CH3NH3PbI3 in Air and in Vacuum

    Alessandra Alberti;Ioannis Deretzis;Giovanna Pellegrino;Corrado Bongiorno

  • Inhibition of Aβ Amyloid Growth and Toxicity by Silybins: The Crucial Role of Stereochemistry

    Michele. F. M. Sciacca;Valeria Romanucci;Armando Zarrelli;Irene Monaco

  • Photochemical synthesis of copper nanoparticles incorporated in poly(vinyl pyrrolidone)

    Salvatore Giuffrida;Lucia L. Costanzo;Giorgio Ventimiglia;Corrado Bongiorno

Frequent Co-Authors

Fabrizio Roccaforte
Fabrizio Roccaforte National Research Council (CNR)
Filippo Giannazzo
Filippo Giannazzo National Research Council (CNR)
Vito Raineri
Vito Raineri National Research Council (CNR)
Patrick Fiorenza
Patrick Fiorenza National Research Council (CNR)
Emanuele Rimini
Emanuele Rimini National Research Council (CNR)
Francesco Priolo
Francesco Priolo University of Catania
Giorgia Franzò
Giorgia Franzò National Research Council (CNR)
Giuseppe Compagnini
Giuseppe Compagnini University of Catania
Ignazio L. Fragalà
Ignazio L. Fragalà University of Catania
Tsutomu Miyasaka
Tsutomu Miyasaka Toin University of Yokohama

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