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76
Citations
20555
World Ranking
3287
National Ranking
923

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2018 - Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers

Overview

Patrick E. Hopkins is affiliated with the University of Virginia in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of materials science and engineering, with a significant number of publications in materials chemistry and electrical and electronic engineering subfields. Their work also covers key areas such as mechanical engineering, mechanics of materials, and atomic and molecular physics, and optics.

Their research topics include thermal properties of materials, semiconductor materials and devices, advanced thermoelectric materials and devices, thermal radiation and cooling technologies, electronic and structural properties of oxides, GaN-based semiconductor devices and materials, and advanced ceramic materials synthesis.

The scientist has contributed to several recent papers, including:

  • Thermally conductive ultra-low-k dielectric layers based on two-dimensional covalent organic frameworks, 2021, Nature Materials
  • A few-layer covalent network of fullerenes, 2023, Nature
  • Dual-phase high-entropy ultra-high temperature ceramics, 2020, Journal of the European Ceramic Society
  • Monolayer Vanadium-Doped Tungsten Disulfide: A Room-Temperature Dilute Magnetic Semiconductor, 2020, Advanced Science
  • Observation of reduced thermal conductivity in a metal-organic framework due to the presence of adsorbates, 2020, Nature Communications

Frequent co-authors of Patrick E. Hopkins include John A. Tomko, John T. Gaskins, Md Shafkat Bin Hoque, Eric R. Hoglund, and Ashutosh Giri.

Common publication venues where Hopkins has contributed extensively are:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Applied Physics Letters
  • ECS Meeting Abstracts
  • Acta Materialia
  • Nature Communications

Among their professional recognitions, Patrick E. Hopkins was named a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 2018.

Best Publications

  • Chemically Exfoliated MoS2 as Near-Infrared Photothermal Agents

    Stanley S. Chou;Bryan Kaehr;Bryan Kaehr;Jaemyung Kim;Brian M. Foley

  • Phase stability and mechanical properties of novel high entropy transition metal carbides

    Tyler J. Harrington;Joshua Gild;Pranab Sarker;Cormac Toher

  • High-entropy fluorite oxides

    Joshua Gild;Mojtaba Samiee;Jeffrey L. Braun;Tyler Harrington

  • Crossover from incoherent to coherent phonon scattering in epitaxial oxide superlattices

    Jayakanth Ravichandran;Ajay K. Yadav;Ramez Cheaito;Pim B. Rossen

  • Reduction in the Thermal Conductivity of Single Crystalline Silicon by Phononic Crystal Patterning

    Patrick E. Hopkins;Charles M. Reinke;Mehmet F. Su;Roy H. Olsson

  • Charge-Induced Disorder Controls the Thermal Conductivity of Entropy-Stabilized Oxides

    Jeffrey L. Braun;Christina M. Rost;Mina Lim;Ashutosh Giri

  • Effects of surface roughness and oxide layer on the thermal boundary conductance at aluminum/silicon interfaces

    Patrick Edward Hopkins;Leslie Mary Phinney;Justin Raymond Serrano;Thomas Edwin Beechem Iii

  • A Review of Experimental and Computational Advances in Thermal Boundary Conductance and Nanoscale Thermal Transport across Solid Interfaces

    Ashutosh Giri;Patrick E. Hopkins

  • A high-entropy silicide: (Mo0.2Nb0.2Ta0.2Ti0.2W0.2)Si2

    Joshua Gild;Jeffrey Braun;Kevin Kaufmann;Eduardo Marin

  • Thermal Transport across Solid Interfaces with Nanoscale Imperfections: Effects of Roughness, Disorder, Dislocations, and Bonding on Thermal Boundary Conductance

    Patrick E. Hopkins

  • Manipulating thermal conductance at metal-graphene contacts via chemical functionalization.

    Patrick E. Hopkins;Mira Baraket;Edward V. Barnat;Thomas E. Beechem

  • A few-layer covalent network of fullerenes

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  • Thin film thermoelectric metal-organic framework with high seebeck coefficient and low thermal conductivity

    Kristopher J. Erickson;François Léonard;Vitalie Stavila;Michael E. Foster

  • Thermally conductive ultra-low-k dielectric layers based on two-dimensional covalent organic frameworks.

    Austin M. Evans;Ashutosh Giri;Ashutosh Giri;Vinod K. Sangwan;Sangni Xun;Sangni Xun

  • Dysprosium-doped cadmium oxide as a gateway material for mid-infrared plasmonics

    Edward Sachet;Christopher T. Shelton;Joshua S. Harris;Benjamin E. Gaddy

  • Criteria for Cross-Plane Dominated Thermal Transport in Multilayer Thin Film Systems During Modulated Laser Heating

    Patrick E. Hopkins;Justin R. Serrano;Leslie M. Phinney;Sean P. Kearney

  • Experimental investigation of size effects on the thermal conductivity of silicon-germanium alloy thin films.

    Ramez Cheaito;John C. Duda;John C. Duda;Thomas E. Beechem;Khalid Hattar

  • Effects of electron scattering at metal-nonmetal interfaces on electron-phonon equilibration in gold films

    Patrick E. Hopkins;Jared L. Kassebaum;Pamela M. Norris

  • Controlling the metal to semiconductor transition of MoS2 and WS2 in solution

    Stanley S. Chou;Yi Kai Huang;Jaemyung Kim;Bryan Kaehr

  • Room-temperature voltage tunable phonon thermal conductivity via reconfigurable interfaces in ferroelectric thin films.

    Jon F. Ihlefeld;Brian M. Foley;David A. Scrymgeour;Joseph R. Michael

  • High Conductivity and Electron-Transfer Validation in an n-Type Fluoride-Anion-Doped Polymer for Thermoelectrics in Air.

    Xingang Zhao;Deepa Madan;Deepa Madan;Yan Cheng;Jiawang Zhou

Frequent Co-Authors

Pamela M. Norris
Pamela M. Norris University of Virginia
Jon-Paul Maria
Jon-Paul Maria Pennsylvania State University
Samuel Graham
Samuel Graham Georgia Institute of Technology
Tengfei Luo
Tengfei Luo University of Notre Dame
Donald W. Brenner
Donald W. Brenner North Carolina State University
Mark S. Goorsky
Mark S. Goorsky University of California, Los Angeles
Oleg V. Prezhdo
Oleg V. Prezhdo University of Southern California
Jian Luo
Jian Luo University of California, San Diego
Kenneth S. Vecchio
Kenneth S. Vecchio University of California, San Diego
C. Jeffrey Brinker
C. Jeffrey Brinker University of New Mexico

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