2026 David G. Cahill: Materials Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Materials Science	111	675	643	235	216	503	55884

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

3801
Citations
Lower limit to the thermal conductivity of disordered crystals

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

2849
Citations
Thermal conductivity measurement from 30 to 750 K: the 3ω method

David G. Cahill

2652
Citations
Nanoscale thermal transport. II. 2003–2012

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

1955
Citations
Analysis of heat flow in layered structures for time-domain thermoreflectance

David G. Cahill

1778
Citations
Interfacial heat flow in carbon nanotube suspensions

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

1396
Citations
Nanofluids for thermal transport

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

1171
Citations
Thermal conductivity of amorphous solids above the plateau.

David G. Cahill;R. O. Pohl

1097
Citations
Ultralow Thermal Conductivity in Disordered, Layered WSe2 Crystals

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

1045
Citations
Heat transport in thin dielectric films

S.-M. Lee;David G. Cahill

1036
Citations
Thermal conductivity of Si–Ge superlattices

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

962
Citations
Thermometry and Thermal Transport in Micro/Nanoscale Solid-State Devices and Structures

David G. Cahill;Kenneth Goodson;Arunava Majumdar

811
Citations
Effects of chemical bonding on heat transport across interfaces

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

788
Citations
Thermal conductivity of a -Si:H thin films

David G Cahill;M. Katiyar;John R Abelson

714
Citations
Thermal conductance of interfaces between highly dissimilar materials

Ho Ki Lyeo;David G Cahill

697
Citations
Role of thermal boundary resistance on the heat flow in carbon-nanotube composites

Sergei Shenogin;Liping Xue;Rahmi Ozisik;Pawel Keblinski

649
Citations
Thermal conductance of epitaxial interfaces

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

624
Citations
Thermal Conductance of Hydrophilic and Hydrophobic Interfaces

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

566
Citations
High thermal conductivity in cubic boron arsenide crystals.

Sheng Li;Qiye Zheng;Yinchuan Lv;Xiaoyuan Liu

563
Citations
Lattice Vibrations and Heat Transport in Crystals and Glasses

David G. Cahill;R. O. Pohl

537
Citations
Ultrafast Flash Thermal Conductance of Molecular Chains

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

535
Citations
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

1
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