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Electronics and Electrical Engineering

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72
Citations
63086
World Ranking
783
National Ranking
339

Materials Science

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76
Citations
68771
World Ranking
3203
National Ranking
891

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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