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Electronics and Electrical Engineering
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2026

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Electronics and Electrical Engineering

D-Index
98
Citations
35141
World Ranking
208
National Ranking
100

Materials Science

D-Index
104
Citations
40463
World Ranking
880
National Ranking
292

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Overview

Eric Pop is a researcher affiliated with Stanford University in the United States, whose work focuses primarily on materials science and engineering. Their research spans a diverse set of subfields including materials chemistry, electrical and electronic engineering, biomedical engineering, polymers and plastics, and atomic and molecular physics and optics.

Their main research topics include:

  • 2D Materials and Applications
  • Advanced Memory and Neural Computing
  • Graphene Research and Applications
  • Phase-change Materials and Chalcogenides
  • Semiconductor Materials and Devices
  • Ferroelectric and Negative Capacitance Devices
  • Thermal Properties of Materials

Eric Pop has contributed to several recent publications, notable for their focus on innovative semiconductor and photonic technologies. Some of these papers include:

  • "Transistors based on two-dimensional materials for future integrated circuits" (2021), published in Nature Electronics
  • "Approaching the quantum limit in two-dimensional semiconductor contacts" (2023), published in Nature
  • "Electrically driven reprogrammable phase-change metasurface reaching 80% efficiency" (2022), published in Nature Communications
  • "Nonvolatile Electrically Reconfigurable Integrated Photonic Switch Enabled by a Silicon PIN Diode Heater" (2020), published in Advanced Materials
  • "Ultra-low-energy programmable non-volatile silicon photonics based on phase-change materials with graphene heaters" (2022), published in Nature Nanotechnology

Their frequent co-authors include several researchers with whom they have collaborated extensively:

  • Krishna C. Saraswat
  • Asir Intisar Khan
  • H.-S. Philip Wong
  • Kathryn M. Neilson
  • Alwin Daus

Eric Pop's work appears frequently in well-regarded scientific venues, reflecting a consistent presence in both prepublication repositories and peer-reviewed journals. These frequent publication venues include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Nano Letters
  • ACS Nano
  • IEEE Electron Device Letters
  • ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Best Publications

  • Thermal Conductance of an Individual Single-Wall Carbon Nanotube above Room Temperature

    Eric Pop;David Mann;Qian Wang;Kenneth Goodson

  • Thermal properties of graphene: Fundamentals and applications

    Eric Pop;Vikas Varshney;Ajit K. Roy

  • Nanoscale thermal transport. II. 2003–2012

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

  • Energy dissipation and transport in nanoscale devices

    Eric Pop

  • Transistors based on two-dimensional materials for future integrated circuits

    Saptarshi Das;Amritanand Sebastian;Eric Pop;Connor J. McClellan

  • Heat Generation and Transport in Nanometer-Scale Transistors

    E. Pop;S. Sinha;K.E. Goodson

  • Recommended Methods to Study Resistive Switching Devices

    Mario Lanza;H.-S. Philip Wong;Eric Pop;Daniele Ielmini

  • Electronic synapses made of layered two-dimensional materials

    Yuanyuan Shi;Yuanyuan Shi;Xianhu Liang;Bin Yuan;Victoria Chen

  • Mobility and saturation velocity in graphene on SiO2

    Vincent E. Dorgan;Myung-Ho Bae;Eric Pop

  • Low-Power Switching of Phase-Change Materials with Carbon Nanotube Electrodes

    Feng Xiong;Albert D. Liao;David Estrada;Eric Pop

  • Phase change materials and phase change memory

    Simone Raoux;Feng Xiong;Matthias Wuttig;Eric Pop

  • Effects of Polycrystalline Cu Substrate on Graphene Growth by Chemical Vapor Deposition

    Joshua D. Wood;Scott W. Schmucker;Austin S. Lyons;Eric Pop

  • Approaching the quantum limit in two-dimensional semiconductor contacts

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  • Improved Contacts to MoS2 Transistors by Ultra-High Vacuum Metal Deposition

    Chris D. English;Gautam Shine;Vincent E. Dorgan;Krishna C. Saraswat

  • Negative differential conductance and hot phonons in suspended nanotube molecular wires.

    Eric Pop;David Mann;Jien Cao;Qian Wang

  • Electrical and thermal transport in metallic single-wall carbon nanotubes on insulating substrates

    Eric Pop;David A. Mann;Kenneth E. Goodson;Hongjie Dai

  • Impact of phonon-surface roughness scattering on thermal conductivity of thin si nanowires.

    Pierre Martin;Zlatan Aksamija;Eric Pop;Umberto Ravaioli

  • Nanoscale Joule heating, Peltier cooling and current crowding at graphene–metal contacts

    Kyle L. Grosse;Myung Ho Bae;Feifei Lian;Eric Pop

  • Li Intercalation in MoS2: In Situ Observation of Its Dynamics and Tuning Optical and Electrical Properties

    Feng Xiong;Haotian Wang;Xiaoge Liu;Jie Sun

  • Heat conduction across monolayer and few-layer graphenes.

    Yee Kan Koh;Yee Kan Koh;Myung Ho Bae;David G. Cahill;Eric Pop

  • Stretchable, Transparent Graphene Interconnects for Arrays of Microscale Inorganic Light Emitting Diodes on Rubber Substrates

    Rak Hwan Kim;Myung Ho Bae;Dae Gon Kim;Huanyu Cheng

Frequent Co-Authors

Kenneth E. Goodson
Kenneth E. Goodson Stanford University
H.-S. Philip Wong
H.-S. Philip Wong Stanford University
Joseph W. Lyding
Joseph W. Lyding University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Hongjie Dai
Hongjie Dai University of Hong Kong
Tony F. Heinz
Tony F. Heinz Stanford University
Rashid Bashir
Rashid Bashir University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
William P. King
William P. King University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Robert W. Dutton
Robert W. Dutton Stanford University
David G. Cahill
David G. Cahill University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Davide Donadio
Davide Donadio University of California, Davis

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