2026 Paul W May: 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	59	7485	7236	294	278	232	10525

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Overview

Paul W May is affiliated with the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily revolves around materials science and engineering, with an emphasis on the chemistry, physics, and applications of diamond and carbon-based materials.

The scientist's main fields of study include:

Materials Science
Engineering

Within these fields, their subfields of specialization consist of:

Materials Chemistry
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Mechanics of Materials
Surfaces, Coatings and Films
Condensed Matter Physics

The primary research topics explored by Paul W May are:

Diamond and Carbon-based Materials Research
Electronic and Structural Properties of Oxides
Semiconductor materials and devices
Metal and Thin Film Mechanics
Electron and X-Ray Spectroscopy Techniques
Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism
High-pressure geophysics and materials

Paul W May has contributed to various academic publications, often collaborating with researchers such as Ramiz Zulkharnay, Neil L. Allan, Neil A. Fox, Gufei Zhang, and Jiaqi Zhu. Their frequent publication venues include:

Carbon
Functional Diamond
Applied Surface Science
SSRN Electronic Journal
physica status solidi (a)

Among the recent papers authored or co-authored by Paul W May are:

"Nitrogen in Diamond," 2020, published in Chemical Reviews
"Mixed-size diamond seeding for low-thermal-barrier growth of CVD diamond onto GaN and AlN," 2020, published in Carbon
"A review of surface functionalisation of diamond for thermionic emission applications," 2020, published in Carbon
"Thermal boundary resistance of direct van der Waals bonded GaN-on-diamond," 2020, published in Semiconductor Science and Technology
"Applications of diamond films: a review," 2024, published in Functional Diamond

Best Publications

Diamond thin films: a 21st-century material

Paul W. May

983
Citations
A planar refractive x-ray lens made of nanocrystalline diamond

L. Alianelli;K. J. S. Sawhney;A. Malik;O. J. L. Fox

389
Citations
Raman and conductivity studies of boron-doped microcrystalline diamond, facetted nanocrystalline diamond and cauliflower diamond films

Paul W May;WJ Ludlow;M Hannaway;Peter J Heard

376
Citations
XPS and Laser Raman Analysis of Hydrogenated Amorphous Carbon Films

J. Filik;P.W. May;S.R.J. Pearce;R.K. Wild

349
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Thin film diamond by chemical vapour deposition methods

Michael N R Ashfold;Paul W May;CA Rego;NM Everitt

308
Citations
Nitrogen in diamond

Michael N. R. Ashfold;Jonathan P. Goss;Ben L. Green;Paul W. May

249
Citations
CVD diamond : a new technology for the future ?

Paul W. May

195
Citations
Microcrystalline, nanocrystalline, and ultrananocrystalline diamond chemical vapor deposition: Experiment and modeling of the factors controlling growth rate, nucleation, and crystal size

Paul W May;Michael N R Ashfold;Yu A Mankelevich

181
Citations
The New Diamond Age

Paul W. May

171
Citations
Porous boron-doped diamond/carbon nanotube electrodes.

H. Zanin;Paul W May;David J Fermin;D. Plana

163
Citations
Reevaluation of the mechanism for ultrananocrystalline diamond deposition from Ar/CH4/H2 gas mixtures

Paul W May;JN Harvey;James A Smith;YA Mankelevich

152
Citations
Isolation and Structural Proof of the Large Diamond Molecule, Cyclohexamantane (C26H30)

Jeremy E. P. Dahl;Jeremy E. P. Dahl;J. Michael Moldowan;Torren M. Peakman;Jon C. Clardy

151
Citations
Production of nanocrystalline diamond by laser ablation at the solid/liquid interface

Sean Pearce;SJ Henley;F Claeyssens;Paul W May

149
Citations
Raman spectroscopy of nanocrystalline diamond : An ab initio approach

J Filik;Jeremy N. Harvey;N. L Allan;P. W May

136
Citations
From ultrananocrystalline diamond to single crystal diamond growth in hot filament and microwave plasma-enhanced CVD reactors: A unified model for growth rates and grain sizes

Paul W. May;Yuri A. Mankelevich

135
Citations
Growth of diamond nanocrystals by pulsed laser ablation of graphite in liquid

L Yang;Paul W May;L Yin;James A Smith

132
Citations
Graphite-to-diamond transformation induced by ultrasound cavitation

A.Kh. Khachatryan;S.G. Aloyan;P.W. May;R. Sargsyan

131
Citations
Use of different excitation wavelengths for the analysis of CVD diamond by laser Raman spectroscopy

S.M. Leeds;T.J. Davis;P.W. May;C.D.O. Pickard

127
Citations
Diamond thin films: giving biomedical applications a new shine.

Paul Nistor;Paul May

116
Citations
Unravelling aspects of the gas phase chemistry involved in diamond chemical vapour deposition

Michael N. R. Ashfold;Paul W. May;James R. Petherbridge;Keith N. Rosser

112
Citations
Deposition of NCD films using hot filament CVD and Ar/CH4/H2 gas mixtures

P.W. May;J.A. Smith;Yu. A. Mankelevich

111
Citations
Synthetic diamond: Emerging CVD science and technology: Edited by Harl E. Spear and John P. Dismuhes. Pp. 663. Wiley, Chichester, 1994. £74.00 ISBN 0 4715 3589 3

Paul May

16
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