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David G. Cahill 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 David G. Cahill sits on this spectrum.

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50 publications 1,163+

This scientist: 503 publications — 87th percentile

87% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

David G. Cahill 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 David G. Cahill sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 111 D-Index — 95th percentile

95% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2019 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2018 - Innovation in Materials Characterization Award, Materials Research Society “For developing transformative methods for characterizing the thermal transport properties of materials and their interfaces using time-domain thermoreflectance (TDTR) and related approaches
  • 2012 - Fellow of the Materials Research Society

Overview

David G. Cahill is affiliated with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the United States. Their research primarily resides in the fields of Engineering and Materials Science, with significant contributions to subfields such as Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics, Biomedical Engineering, and Mechanics of Materials.

The main topics of Cahill's work focus on the thermal properties of materials, magnetic properties of thin films, advancements in battery materials, thermography and photoacoustic techniques, physics of superconductivity and magnetism, graphene research and applications, and thermal radiation and cooling technologies.

Published papers by Cahill include:

  • Ultrahigh thermal conductivity in isotope-enriched cubic boron nitride, 2020, Science
  • Extremely anisotropic van der Waals thermal conductors, 2021, Nature
  • High thermal conductivity in wafer-scale cubic silicon carbide crystals, 2022, Nature Communications
  • Effect of Amine Hardener Molecular Structure on the Thermal Conductivity of Epoxy Resins, 2020, ACS Applied Polymer Materials
  • Highly efficient transverse thermoelectric devices with Re4Si7 crystals, 2021, Energy & Environmental Science

Frequent coauthors who have collaborated with Cahill include:

  • Paul V. Braun
  • Darshan Chalise
  • Guangxin Lv
  • Kisung Kang
  • André Schleife

Cahill's research appears often in publication venues such as arXiv (Cornell University), Physical Review B, ACS Applied Polymer Materials, Applied Physics Letters, and Physical Review Applied.

The scientist has been recognized with several awards, including being named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2019, receiving the Innovation in Materials Characterization Award from the Materials Research Society in 2018 for developments in characterizing thermal transport properties using time-domain thermoreflectance (TDTR) and related methods, and being named a Fellow of the Materials Research Society in 2012.

Best Publications

  • Nanoscale thermal transport

    David G. Cahill;Wayne K. Ford;Kenneth E. Goodson;Gerald D. Mahan

  • Lower limit to the thermal conductivity of disordered crystals

    David G. Cahill;S. K. Watson;R. O. Pohl

  • Thermal conductivity measurement from 30 to 750 K: the 3ω method

    David G. Cahill

  • Nanoscale thermal transport. II. 2003–2012

    David G. Cahill;Paul V. Braun;Gang Chen;David R. Clarke

  • Analysis of heat flow in layered structures for time-domain thermoreflectance

    David G. Cahill

  • Interfacial heat flow in carbon nanotube suspensions

    Scott T. Huxtable;David G. Cahill;Sergei Shenogin;Liping Xue

  • Nanofluids for thermal transport

    Pawel Keblinski;Jeffrey A. Eastman;David G. Cahill

  • Thermal conductivity of amorphous solids above the plateau.

    David G. Cahill;R. O. Pohl

  • Ultralow Thermal Conductivity in Disordered, Layered WSe2 Crystals

    Catalin Chiritescu;David G. Cahill;Ngoc Nguyen;David Johnson

  • Heat transport in thin dielectric films

    S.-M. Lee;David G. Cahill

  • Thermal conductivity of Si–Ge superlattices

    S.-M. Lee;David G. Cahill;Rama Venkatasubramanian

  • Thermometry and Thermal Transport in Micro/Nanoscale Solid-State Devices and Structures

    David G. Cahill;Kenneth Goodson;Arunava Majumdar

  • Effects of chemical bonding on heat transport across interfaces

    Mark D. Losego;Martha E. Grady;Nancy R. Sottos;David G. Cahill

  • Thermal conductivity of a -Si:H thin films

    David G Cahill;M. Katiyar;John R Abelson

  • Thermal conductance of interfaces between highly dissimilar materials

    Ho Ki Lyeo;David G Cahill

  • Role of thermal boundary resistance on the heat flow in carbon-nanotube composites

    Sergei Shenogin;Liping Xue;Rahmi Ozisik;Pawel Keblinski

  • Thermal conductance of epitaxial interfaces

    Ruxandra M. Costescu;Marcel A. Wall;David G. Cahill

  • Thermal Conductance of Hydrophilic and Hydrophobic Interfaces

    Zhenbin Ge;David G. Cahill;Paul V. Braun

  • High thermal conductivity in cubic boron arsenide crystals.

    Sheng Li;Qiye Zheng;Yinchuan Lv;Xiaoyuan Liu

  • Lattice Vibrations and Heat Transport in Crystals and Glasses

    David G. Cahill;R. O. Pohl

  • Ultrafast Flash Thermal Conductance of Molecular Chains

    Zhaohui Wang;Jeffrey A. Carter;Alexei Lagutchev;Yee Kan Koh

  • Thermometry and Thermal Transport in Micro/Nanoscale Solid-State Devices and Structures review recent advances in experimental methods for high spatial-resolution and high

    David G. Cahill;Kenneth Goodson;Arunava Majumdar

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert S Averback
Robert S Averback University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Paul V. Braun
Paul V. Braun University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Joseph E Greene
Joseph E Greene University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Ivan Petrov
Ivan Petrov University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Benito J. Mariñas
Benito J. Mariñas University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Ji-Cheng Zhao
Ji-Cheng Zhao University of Maryland, College Park
Pawel Keblinski
Pawel Keblinski Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Lane W. Martin
Lane W. Martin Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Eric Pop
Eric Pop Stanford University
William P. King
William P. King University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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