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Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Electronics and Electrical Engineering 72 783 747 340 313 300 63086
Materials Science 76 3201 3089 889 832 316 68771

Luigi Colombo publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Luigi Colombo between 1982 and 2025, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Luigi Colombo published across 44 years, from 1982 to 2025, averaging 8.3 papers a year. Output peaked at 24 publications in 2012. 15 of the 364 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
5 10 15 20
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1982 to 2025. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 24. Peak 24 publications in 2012. 1982: 2 publications 1983: 2 publications 1984: 2 publications 1985: 1 publication 1986: 1 publication 1987: 2 publications 1988: 2 publications 1989: 2 publications 1990: 2 publications 1991: 0 publications 1992: 3 publications 1993: 1 publication 1994: 6 publications 1995: 3 publications 1996: 1 publication 1997: 1 publication 1998: 4 publications 1999: 1 publication 2000: 3 publications 2001: 11 publications 2002: 19 publications 2003: 12 publications 2004: 7 publications 2005: 19 publications 2006: 6 publications 2007: 12 publications 2008: 7 publications 2009: 22 publications 2010: 12 publications 2011: 18 publications 2012: 24 publications 2013: 12 publications 2014: 22 publications 2015: 22 publications 2016: 14 publications 2017: 20 publications 2018: 15 publications 2019: 9 publications 2020: 8 publications 2021: 9 publications 2022: 5 publications 2023: 5 publications 2024: 10 publications 2025: 5 publications
1982 2025

364 publications in total across all disciplines

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Luigi Colombo: publications per year, 1982 to 2025
Year Publications
1982 2
1983 2
1984 2
1985 1
1986 1
1987 2
1988 2
1989 2
1990 2
1991 0
1992 3
1993 1
1994 6
1995 3
1996 1
1997 1
1998 4
1999 1
2000 3
2001 11
2002 19
2003 12
2004 7
2005 19
2006 6
2007 12
2008 7
2009 22
2010 12
2011 18
2012 24
2013 12
2014 22
2015 22
2016 14
2017 20
2018 15
2019 9
2020 8
2021 9
2022 5
2023 5
2024 10
2025 5
Total 364
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Luigi Colombo publication distribution in Electronics and Electrical Engineering in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Electronics and Electrical Engineering in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Luigi Colombo sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
100 200 300 400
Bar chart with 53 bars. Horizontal axis: publications, 34–53 to 1,065+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 445. Most scientists, 445, have 174–193 publications. The last bar groups every scientist with 1,065 publications or more. The highlighted bar, 294–313 publications, is where this scientist sits. 34–53 publications: 24 scientists 54–73 publications: 52 scientists 74–93 publications: 114 scientists 94–113 publications: 203 scientists 114–133 publications: 269 scientists 134–153 publications: 355 scientists 154–173 publications: 403 scientists 174–193 publications: 445 scientists 194–213 publications: 430 scientists 214–233 publications: 431 scientists 234–253 publications: 399 scientists 254–273 publications: 366 scientists 274–293 publications: 335 scientists 294–313 publications: 300 scientists 314–333 publications: 276 scientists 334–353 publications: 250 scientists 354–373 publications: 214 scientists 374–393 publications: 187 scientists 394–413 publications: 152 scientists 414–433 publications: 169 scientists 434–453 publications: 147 scientists 454–473 publications: 111 scientists 474–493 publications: 117 scientists 494–513 publications: 103 scientists 514–533 publications: 99 scientists 534–553 publications: 92 scientists 554–573 publications: 75 scientists 574–593 publications: 58 scientists 594–613 publications: 69 scientists 614–633 publications: 50 scientists 634–653 publications: 62 scientists 654–673 publications: 54 scientists 674–693 publications: 44 scientists 694–713 publications: 37 scientists 714–733 publications: 28 scientists 734–753 publications: 26 scientists 754–773 publications: 26 scientists 774–793 publications: 19 scientists 794–813 publications: 23 scientists 814–833 publications: 20 scientists 834–853 publications: 16 scientists 854–873 publications: 20 scientists 874–893 publications: 11 scientists 894–913 publications: 11 scientists 914–933 publications: 16 scientists 934–953 publications: 13 scientists 954–973 publications: 10 scientists 974–993 publications: 11 scientists 994–1,013 publications: 9 scientists 1,014–1,033 publications: 9 scientists 1,034–1,053 publications: 10 scientists 1,054–1,064 publications: 6 scientists 1,065+ publications: 99 scientists
34–53 publications 1,065+

This scientist: 300 publications — 57th percentile

57% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,065 publications or more.

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Number of Electronics and Electrical Engineering scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 6,875 ranked scientists.
Publications Scientists This scientist
34–53 24
54–73 52
74–93 114
94–113 203
114–133 269
134–153 355
154–173 403
174–193 445
194–213 430
214–233 431
234–253 399
254–273 366
274–293 335
294–313 300 300
314–333 276
334–353 250
354–373 214
374–393 187
394–413 152
414–433 169
434–453 147
454–473 111
474–493 117
494–513 103
514–533 99
534–553 92
554–573 75
574–593 58
594–613 69
614–633 50
634–653 62
654–673 54
674–693 44
694–713 37
714–733 28
734–753 26
754–773 26
774–793 19
794–813 23
814–833 20
834–853 16
854–873 20
874–893 11
894–913 11
914–933 16
934–953 13
954–973 10
974–993 11
994–1,013 9
1,014–1,033 9
1,034–1,053 10
1,054–1,064 6
1,065+ 99
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Luigi Colombo D-index placement in Electronics and Electrical Engineering in 2026

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

No. of scientists
50 100 150 200 250
Bar chart with 82 bars. Horizontal axis: D-Index, 30 to 111+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 263. Most scientists, 263, have 32 D-Index. The last bar groups every scientist with 111 D-Index or more. The highlighted bar, 72 D-Index, is where this scientist sits. 30 D-Index: 178 scientists 31 D-Index: 257 scientists 32 D-Index: 263 scientists 33 D-Index: 262 scientists 34 D-Index: 244 scientists 35 D-Index: 236 scientists 36 D-Index: 211 scientists 37 D-Index: 220 scientists 38 D-Index: 214 scientists 39 D-Index: 214 scientists 40 D-Index: 205 scientists 41 D-Index: 187 scientists 42 D-Index: 194 scientists 43 D-Index: 201 scientists 44 D-Index: 155 scientists 45 D-Index: 189 scientists 46 D-Index: 148 scientists 47 D-Index: 160 scientists 48 D-Index: 134 scientists 49 D-Index: 130 scientists 50 D-Index: 141 scientists 51 D-Index: 156 scientists 52 D-Index: 108 scientists 53 D-Index: 130 scientists 54 D-Index: 112 scientists 55 D-Index: 97 scientists 56 D-Index: 111 scientists 57 D-Index: 102 scientists 58 D-Index: 108 scientists 59 D-Index: 120 scientists 60 D-Index: 103 scientists 61 D-Index: 93 scientists 62 D-Index: 92 scientists 63 D-Index: 74 scientists 64 D-Index: 77 scientists 65 D-Index: 73 scientists 66 D-Index: 64 scientists 67 D-Index: 69 scientists 68 D-Index: 60 scientists 69 D-Index: 39 scientists 70 D-Index: 57 scientists 71 D-Index: 59 scientists 72 D-Index: 46 scientists 73 D-Index: 49 scientists 74 D-Index: 38 scientists 75 D-Index: 35 scientists 76 D-Index: 32 scientists 77 D-Index: 35 scientists 78 D-Index: 31 scientists 79 D-Index: 22 scientists 80 D-Index: 34 scientists 81 D-Index: 31 scientists 82 D-Index: 34 scientists 83 D-Index: 23 scientists 84 D-Index: 18 scientists 85 D-Index: 30 scientists 86 D-Index: 19 scientists 87 D-Index: 19 scientists 88 D-Index: 20 scientists 89 D-Index: 8 scientists 90 D-Index: 17 scientists 91 D-Index: 7 scientists 92 D-Index: 14 scientists 93 D-Index: 9 scientists 94 D-Index: 15 scientists 95 D-Index: 10 scientists 96 D-Index: 12 scientists 97 D-Index: 10 scientists 98 D-Index: 10 scientists 99 D-Index: 12 scientists 100 D-Index: 16 scientists 101 D-Index: 5 scientists 102 D-Index: 7 scientists 103 D-Index: 7 scientists 104 D-Index: 8 scientists 105 D-Index: 9 scientists 106 D-Index: 13 scientists 107 D-Index: 4 scientists 108 D-Index: 5 scientists 109 D-Index: 10 scientists 110 D-Index: 8 scientists 111+ D-Index: 96 scientists
30 D-Index 111+

This scientist: 72 D-Index — 89th percentile

89% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 111 D-Index or more.

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Number of Electronics and Electrical Engineering scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 6,875 ranked scientists.
D-Index Scientists This scientist
30 178
31 257
32 263
33 262
34 244
35 236
36 211
37 220
38 214
39 214
40 205
41 187
42 194
43 201
44 155
45 189
46 148
47 160
48 134
49 130
50 141
51 156
52 108
53 130
54 112
55 97
56 111
57 102
58 108
59 120
60 103
61 93
62 92
63 74
64 77
65 73
66 64
67 69
68 60
69 39
70 57
71 59
72 46 72
73 49
74 38
75 35
76 32
77 35
78 31
79 22
80 34
81 31
82 34
83 23
84 18
85 30
86 19
87 19
88 20
89 8
90 17
91 7
92 14
93 9
94 15
95 10
96 12
97 10
98 10
99 12
100 16
101 5
102 7
103 7
104 8
105 9
106 13
107 4
108 5
109 10
110 8
111+ 96
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2014 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For contributions in research, development, and production of many commerciallyimportant thinfilm materials including HgCdTe for infrared detectors, CVD BaSrTiO3 for integratedcircuit capacitors, HfSiON and SiON FET gatedielectric materials, and CVD graphene on Cu
  • 2012 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to infrared detectors and high-k gate dielectrics

Overview

Luigi Colombo is affiliated with The University of Texas at Dallas in the United States. The scientist's primary research fields are Materials Science and Engineering, with a focus on subfields including Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Mechanics of Materials, and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials.

The main research topics addressed by their work cover:

  • Graphene research and applications
  • Semiconductor materials and devices
  • Boron and Carbon Nanomaterials Research
  • 2D Materials and Applications
  • Diamond and Carbon-based Materials Research
  • MXene and MAX Phase Materials
  • Ferroelectric and Negative Capacitance Devices

Luigi Colombo has published research in various scientific venues, with frequent publications in:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Journal of Physics Materials
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Advanced Functional Materials
  • Nano Letters

Recent selected papers include:

  • Roadmap for Ferroelectric Domain Wall Nanoelectronics, 2021, Advanced Functional Materials
  • Polycrystalline Few-Layer Graphene as a Durable Anticorrosion Film for Copper, 2021, Nano Letters
  • Impact of COVID-19 epidemic on maxillofacial surgery in Italy, 2020, British Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
  • Atomic Layer Deposition of Layered Boron Nitride for Large-Area 2D Electronics, 2020, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
  • Emerging properties of non-crystalline phases of graphene and boron nitride based materials, 2021, Nano Materials Science

The scientist collaborates regularly with several coauthors, including:

  • Stephan Roche
  • Onurcan Kaya
  • Aleandro Antidormi
  • Mario Lanza
  • Ivan Cole

Luigi Colombo has received the following awards:

  • Fellow of American Physical Society (APS), 2014, recognized for contributions in research, development, and production of various commercially important thin-film materials including HgCdTe for infrared detectors, CVD BaSrTiO3 for integrated circuit capacitors, HfSiON and SiON FET gate dielectric materials, and CVD graphene on Cu
  • IEEE Fellow, 2012, for contributions to infrared detectors and high-k gate dielectrics

Best Publications

  • Large-Area Synthesis of High-Quality and Uniform Graphene Films on Copper Foils

    Xuesong Li;Weiwei Cai;Jinho An;Seyoung Kim

  • A roadmap for graphene

    K. S. Novoselov;Vladimir Falko;L. Colombo;P. R. Gellert

  • Transfer of large-area graphene films for high-performance transparent conductive electrodes

    Xuesong Li;Yanwu Zhu;Weiwei Cai;Mark Borysiak

  • Graphene, related two-dimensional crystals, and hybrid systems for energy conversion and storage

    Francesco Bonaccorso;Francesco Bonaccorso;Luigi Colombo;Guihua Yu;Meryl Stoller

  • Electronics based on two-dimensional materials

    Gianluca Fiori;Francesco Bonaccorso;Giuseppe Iannaccone;Tomás Palacios

  • Science and technology roadmap for graphene, related two-dimensional crystals, and hybrid systems

    Andrea C. Ferrari;Francesco Bonaccorso;Francesco Bonaccorso;Vladimir Fal'ko;Konstantin S. Novoselov

  • Evolution of Graphene Growth on Ni and Cu by Carbon Isotope Labeling

    Xuesong Li;Weiwei Cai;Luigi Colombo;Rodney S. Ruoff

  • Evolution of graphene growth on Cu and Ni studied by carbon isotope labeling

    Xuesong Li;Weiwei Cai;Luigi Colombo;Rodney S. Ruoff

  • Large-Area Graphene Single Crystals Grown by Low-Pressure Chemical Vapor Deposition of Methane on Copper

    Xuesong Li;Carl W. Magnuson;Archana Venugopal;Rudolf M. Tromp

  • Production and processing of graphene and 2d crystals

    Francesco Bonaccorso;Antonio Lombardo;Tawfique Hasan;Zhipei Sun

  • Graphene films with large domain size by a two-step chemical vapor deposition process.

    Xuesong Li;Carl W. Magnuson;Archana Venugopal;Jinho An

  • The Role of Surface Oxygen in the Growth of Large Single-Crystal Graphene on Copper

    Yufeng Hao;M. S. Bharathi;Lei Wang;Yuanyue Liu

  • The effect of chemical residues on the physical and electrical properties of chemical vapor deposited graphene transferred to SiO2

    A. Pirkle;J. Chan;A. Venugopal;D. Hinojos

  • Realization of a high mobility dual-gated graphene field-effect transistor with Al2O3 dielectric

    Seyoung Kim;Junghyo Nah;Insun Jo;Davood Shahrjerdi

  • Band alignment of two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides: Application in tunnel field effect transistors

    Cheng Gong;Hengji Zhang;Weihua Wang;Luigi Colombo

  • The Unusual Mechanism of Partial Fermi Level Pinning at Metal–MoS2 Interfaces

    Cheng Gong;Luigi Colombo;Robert M. Wallace;Kyeongjae Cho

  • Quantum engineering of transistors based on 2D materials heterostructures

    Giuseppe Iannaccone;Francesco Bonaccorso;Luigi Colombo;Gianluca Fiori

  • Application of HfSiON as a gate dielectric material

    M. R. Visokay;J. J. Chambers;A. L. P. Rotondaro;A. Shanware

  • Effect of nitrogen on band alignment in HfSiON gate dielectrics

    S. Sayan;N. V. Nguyen;J. Ehrstein;J. J. Chambers

  • Production and processing of graphene and related materials

    Claudia Backes;Claudia Backes;Amr M Abdelkader;Concepción Alonso;Amandine Andrieux-Ledier

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark R. Visokay
Mark R. Visokay Texas Instruments (United States)
Robert M. Wallace
Robert M. Wallace The University of Texas at Dallas
Rodney S. Ruoff
Rodney S. Ruoff Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology
Manuel Quevedo-Lopez
Manuel Quevedo-Lopez The University of Texas at Dallas
Sanjay K. Banerjee
Sanjay K. Banerjee The University of Texas at Austin
Eric M. Vogel
Eric M. Vogel Georgia Institute of Technology
Kyeongjae Cho
Kyeongjae Cho The University of Texas at Dallas
Emanuel Tutuc
Emanuel Tutuc The University of Texas at Austin
Scott R. Summerfelt
Scott R. Summerfelt Texas Instruments (United States)
Jiyoung Kim
Jiyoung Kim The University of Texas at Dallas

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