2026 William I. Milne: 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	96	1256	1204	50	46	836	37667

Discipline name

D-Index

World Ranking

Current World Ranking

National Ranking

Current National Ranking

Publications

Citations

Materials Science

1256

1204

836

37667

Research.com Recognitions

2022 - Research.com Materials Science in United Kingdom Leader Award
2006 - Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (UK)
1941 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

William I. Milne is affiliated with the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom and works primarily in the fields of Engineering and Materials Science. Their research interests span various subfields including Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials Chemistry, Biomedical Engineering, and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics.

Their recent research has focused on topics such as ZnO doping and properties, Thin-Film Transistor Technologies, Semiconductor materials and devices, Silicon Nanostructures and Photoluminescence, Nanowire Synthesis and Applications, Semiconductor materials and interfaces, and Advancements in Semiconductor Devices and Circuit Design.

Low voltage thin film transistors based on solution-processed In2O3:W. A remarkably stable semiconductor under negative and positive bias stress (2020, Applied Physics Letters)
Comparative Study of Silicon Nanowires Grown From Ga, In, Sn, and Bi for Energy Harvesting (2020, IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics)
Solution-processed thin film transistors incorporating YSZ gate dielectrics processed at 400°C (2022, APL Materials)
Films Stoichiometry Effects on the Electronic Transport Properties of Solution-Processed Yttrium Doped Indium-Zinc Oxide Crystalline Semiconductors for Thin Film Transistor Applications (2020, Advanced Electronic Materials)

Frequent collaborators in their research include Arokia Nathan, George Adamopoulos, Giorgos Antoniou, Dimitrios Afouxenidis, and Nathan R. Halcovitch.

Applied Physics Letters
IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics
APL Materials
Advanced Electronic Materials

William I. Milne has been recognized as a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (UK) since 2006 and also holds fellowship with the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) since 1941.

Best Publications

Superhydrophobic Carbon Nanotube Forests

Kenneth K. S. Lau;José Bico;Kenneth B. K. Teo;Manish Chhowalla

2004
Citations
Growth process conditions of vertically aligned carbon nanotubes using plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition

M. Chhowalla;K. B. K. Teo;C. Ducati;N. L. Rupesinghe

1447
Citations
Flexible Electronics: The Next Ubiquitous Platform

A. Nathan;A. Ahnood;M. T. Cole;Sungsik Lee

1167
Citations
Properties of filtered-ion-beam-deposited diamondlike carbon as a function of ion energy

P. J. Fallon;V. S. Veerasamy;C. A. Davis;J. Robertson

1085
Citations
Nanomaterial polymer compositions and uses thereof

Oleksiy Rozhin;Andrea Ferrari;William Ireland Milne

831
Citations
Wideband-tuneable, nanotube mode-locked, fibre laser

F. Wang;A. G. Rozhin;V. Scardaci;Z. Sun

735
Citations
Advances in piezoelectric thin films for acoustic biosensors, acoustofluidics and lab-on-chip applications

Yong Qing Fu;Yong Qing Fu;Jack Luo;Nam-Trung Nguyen;Anthony Walton

649
Citations
A Critical Review of Glucose Biosensors Based on Carbon Nanomaterials: Carbon Nanotubes and Graphene

Zhigang Zhu;Luis Garcia-Gancedo;Andrew J. Flewitt;Huaqing Xie

634
Citations
Recent developments on ZnO films for acoustic wave based bio-sensing and microfluidic applications: a review

Yong Qing Fu;Yong Qing Fu;Jikui Luo;Jikui Luo;X. Du;Andrew Flewitt

539
Citations
Carbon nanotubes as field emission sources

W. I. Milne;K. B. K. Teo;G. A. J. Amaratunga;P. Legagneux

490
Citations
Uniform patterned growth of carbon nanotubes without surface carbon

K. B. K. Teo;M. Chhowalla;G. A. J. Amaratunga;W. I. Milne

465
Citations
Field emission from tetrahedral amorphous carbon

B.S. Satyanarayana;A. Hart;W.I. Milne;J. Robertson

464
Citations
Microwave devices: carbon nanotubes as cold cathodes.

Kenneth B. K. Teo;Eric Minoux;Ludovic Hudanski;Franck Peauger

454
Citations
Influence of ion energy and substrate temperature on the optical and electronic properties of tetrahedral amorphous carbon (ta-C) films

M. Chhowalla;J. Robertson;C. W. Chen;S. R. P. Silva

446
Citations
Properties of carbon ion deposited tetrahedral amorphous carbon films as a function of ion energy

Shi Xu;B. K. Tay;H. S. Tan;Li Zhong

409
Citations
Field emission from dense, sparse and patterned arrays of carbon nanofibers

K. B. K. Teo;M. Chhowalla;G. A. J. Amaratunga;W. I. Milne

365
Citations
Plasma enhanced chemical vapour deposition carbon nanotubes/nanofibres - How uniform do they grow?

K. B.K. Teo;S. B. Lee;Manishkumar Chhowalla;V. Semet

348
Citations
DIRECT OBSERVATION OF SP3 BONDING IN TETRAHEDRAL AMORPHOUS CARBON USING ULTRAVIOLET RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY

K. W. R. Gilkes;H. S. Sands;D. N. Batchelder;J. Robertson

334
Citations
Determination of mechanical properties of carbon nanotubes and vertically aligned carbon nanotube forests using nanoindentation

H.J. Qi;K.B.K. Teo;K.K.S. Lau;M.C. Boyce

315
Citations
Defect pool in amorphous-silicon thin-film transistors.

M. J. Powell;C. van Berkel;A. R. Franklin;S. C. Deane

313
Citations