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Wilfried Vandervorst

Wilfried Vandervorst

D-Index & Metrics

Electronics and Electrical Engineering

D-Index
64
Citations
16778
World Ranking
1289
National Ranking
29

Materials Science

D-Index
67
Citations
18471
World Ranking
5048
National Ranking
50

Overview

Wilfried Vandervorst is affiliated with Imec in Belgium, specializing in research at the intersection of engineering and materials science. Their work spans a variety of subfields including electrical and electronic engineering, materials chemistry, biomedical engineering, atomic and molecular physics and optics, and computational mechanics.

Their research prominently involves topics such as ion-surface interactions and analysis, semiconductor materials and devices, advanced materials characterization techniques, integrated circuits and semiconductor failure analysis, diamond and carbon-based materials research, electronic and structural properties of oxides, and force microscopy techniques and applications.

Vandervorst's publication record includes contributions to several scientific journals, with frequent appearances in:

  • Microscopy and Microanalysis
  • Journal of Applied Physics
  • Scientific Reports
  • Optics Express
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Vandervorst include:

  • Grain-Boundary-Induced Strain and Distortion in Epitaxial Bilayer MoS2 Lattice, 2020, The Journal of Physical Chemistry C
  • Unravelling stacking order in epitaxial bilayer MX2 using 4D-STEM with unsupervised learning, 2020, Nanotechnology
  • The impact of focused ion beam induced damage on scanning spreading resistance microscopy measurements, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • A Correlative ToF-SIMS/SPM Methodology for Probing 3D Devices, 2020, Analytical Chemistry
  • Source/Drain Materials for Ge nMOS Devices: Phosphorus Activation in Epitaxial Si, Ge, Ge1−xSnx and SiyGe1−x−ySnx, 2020, ECS Journal of Solid State Science and Technology

Collaborators who frequently co-author with Vandervorst include Claudia Fleischmann, Paul van der Heide, Geoffrey Pourtois, R. J. H. Morris, and Johan Meersschaut, indicating active cooperation within a network of researchers.

Best Publications

  • Island growth as a growth mode in atomic layer deposition: A phenomenological model

    Riikka L. Puurunen;Wilfried Vandervorst

  • Three-dimensional observation of the conductive filament in nanoscaled resistive memory devices.

    Umberto Celano;Ludovic Goux;Attilio Belmonte;Karl Opsomer

  • High-k dielectrics for future generation memory devices (Invited Paper)

    J. A. Kittl;K. Opsomer;M. Popovici;N. Menou

  • Nucleation and growth of atomic layer deposited HfO2 gate dielectric layers on chemical oxide (Si–O–H) and thermal oxide (SiO2 or Si–O–N) underlayers

    Martin Green;M.Y Ho;B Busch;G.D Wilk

  • Characterization of ALCVD-Al2O3 and ZrO2 layer using X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy

    H. Nohira;W. Tsai;W. Besling;E. Young

  • Undoped and in-situ B doped GeSn epitaxial growth on Ge by atmospheric pressure-chemical vapor deposition

    Benjamin Vincent;Federica Gencarelli;Hugo Bender;Clement Merckling

  • Crystalline Properties and Strain Relaxation Mechanism of CVD Grown GeSn

    F. Gencarelli;B. Vincent;J. Demeulemeester;A. Vantomme

  • Island growth in the atomic layer deposition of zirconium oxide and aluminum oxide on hydrogen-terminated silicon: Growth mode modeling and transmission electron microscopy

    Riikka L. Puurunen;Wilfried Vandervorst;Wim F. A. Besling;Olivier Richard

  • Imaging the Three-Dimensional Conductive Channel in Filamentary-Based Oxide Resistive Switching Memory

    Umberto Celano;Ludovic Goux;Robin Degraeve;Andrea Fantini

  • Status and review of two-dimensional carrier and dopant profiling using scanning probe microscopy

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  • Thickness dependence of the resistivity of platinum-group metal thin films

    Shibesh Dutta;Kiroubanand Sankaran;Kristof Moors;Geoffrey Pourtois

  • Diffusion, activation and recrystallization of boron implanted in preamorphized and crystalline germanium

    A. Satta;E. Simoen;T. Clarysse;T. Janssens

  • Cellulose Nanofiber Paper as an Ultra Flexible Nonvolatile Memory

    Kazuki Nagashima;Hirotaka Koga;Umberto Celano;Fuwei Zhuge

  • Scanning spreading resistance microscopy and spectroscopy for routine and quantitative two-dimensional carrier profiling

    Pierre Eyben;Mingwei Xu;Natasja Duhayon;Trudo Clarysse

  • Ion-implantation issues in the formation of shallow junctions in germanium

    Eddy Simoen;Alessandra Satta;Antonio D'Amore;Tom Janssens

  • P implantation doping of Ge: Diffusion, activation, and recrystallization

    A. Satta;T. Janssens;T. Clarysse;E. Simoen

  • Evolution of metastable phases in silicon during nanoindentation: mechanism analysis and experimental verification

    Kausala Mylvaganam;Liangchi Zhang;Pierre Eyben;Jay Mody

  • Atomic layer deposition of hafnium oxide on germanium substrates

    Annelies Delabie;Riikka L. Puurunen;Bert Brijs;Matty Caymax

  • Evidence on the mechanism of boron deactivation in Ge-preamorphized ultrashallow junctions

    Bartek Pawlak;Radu Surdeanu;B Colombeau;A.J Smith

  • Site Selective Integration of III–V Materials on Si for Nanoscale Logic and Photonic Devices

    Mohanchand Paladugu;Clement Merckling;Roger Loo;Olivier Richard

  • Thickness dependence of the resistivity of Platinum group metal thin films

    Shibesh Dutta;Kiroubanand Sankaran;Kristof Moors;Geoffrey Pourtois

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