Topic · Surface and Thin Film Phenomena
Most cited papers in Surface and Thin Film Phenomena
What are the most cited papers in Surface and Thin Film Phenomena?
The most cited paper in Surface and Thin Film Phenomena is "Optical Constants of the Noble Metals" (P. B. Johnson, R. W. Christy, 1972), with 20,103 citations. Next come "Density-functional approximation for the correlation energy of the inhomogeneous electron gas" (18,902) and "Atomic Force Microscope" (14,628).
Showing 50 of 100 papers. Every paper with more than 1,311 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Optical Constants of the Noble Metals P. B. Johnson, R. W. Christy · Physical review. B, Solid state | 15 Dec 1972 | 20,103 |
| 2 | Density-functional approximation for the correlation energy of the inhomogeneous electron gas John P. Perdew · Physical review. B, Condensed matter | 15 Jun 1986 | 18,902 |
| 3 | Atomic Force Microscope Gerd K. Binnig, C. F. Quate, Ch. Gerber · Physical Review Letters | 3 Mar 1986 | 14,628 |
| 4 | Theory of Superconductivity J. Bardeen, Leon N. Cooper, J. R. Schrieffer · Physical Review | Dec 1957 | 13,231 |
| 5 | Giant Magnetoresistance of (001)Fe/(001)Cr Magnetic Superlattices M. N. Baibich, J.M. Broto, ALBERT FERT et al. · Physical Review Letters | 21 Nov 1988 | 9,354 |
| 6 | WSXM : A software for scanning probe microscopy and a tool for nanotechnology Ignacio Horcas, Robert Fernandez, José María Gómez‐Rodríguez et al. · Review of Scientific Instruments | 2007 | 7,765 |
| 7 | Electronic properties of two-dimensional systems Tsuneya Ando, Alan B. Fowler, Frank B. Stern · Reviews of Modern Physics | Apr 1982 | 7,467 |
| 8 | Electron correlations in narrow energy bands John P. Hubbard · Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A Mathematical and Physical Sciences | 26 Nov 1963 | 6,753 |
| 9 | High-Resolution X-Ray Photoemission Spectrum of the Valence Bands of Gold D. A. Shirley · Physical review. B, Solid state | 15 Jun 1972 | 6,232 |
| 10 | Scaling Theory of Localization: Absence of Quantum Diffusion in Two Dimensions Elihu Abrahams, Philip Warren Anderson, Donald C. Licciardello et al. · Physical Review Letters | 5 Mar 1979 | 6,169 |
| 11 | A local exchange-correlation potential for the spin polarized case. i Ulf von Barth, Lars Hedin · Journal of Physics C Solid State Physics | 10 Jul 1972 | 5,447 |
| 12 | Percolation and Conduction Scott Kirkpatrick · Reviews of Modern Physics | Oct 1973 | 5,252 |
| 13 | Energy Band-Gap Engineering of Graphene Nanoribbons Melinda Y. Han, Barbaros Özyilmaz, Yuanbo Zhang et al. · Physical Review Letters | 16 May 2007 | 5,237 |
| 14 | Simplified LCAO Method for the Periodic Potential Problem Joseph C. Slater, G. F. Koster · Physical Review | 15 Jun 1954 | 5,224 |
| 15 | A Simplification of the Hartree-Fock Method Joseph C. Slater · Physical Review | Feb 1951 | 4,580 |
| 16 | Gwyddion: an open-source software for SPM data analysis David Nečas, Petr Klapetek · Open Physics | 16 Nov 2011 | 4,514 |
| 17 | Theory of the scanning tunneling microscope J. Tersoff, Donald R. Hamann · Physical review. B, Condensed matter | 15 Jan 1985 | 4,385 |
| 18 | Extremely Low Frequency Plasmons in Metallic Mesostructures John Brian Pendry, A.J. Holden, Will Stewart et al. · Physical Review Letters | 17 Jun 1996 | 4,347 |
| 19 | Generalized Formula for the Electric Tunnel Effect between Similar Electrodes Separated by a Thin Insulating Film John G. Simmons · Journal of Applied Physics | Jun 1963 | 4,170 |
| 20 | Electron correlation in semiconductors and insulators: Band gaps and quasiparticle energies Mark S. Hybertsen, Steven G. Louie · Physical review. B, Condensed matter | 15 Oct 1986 | 4,011 |
| 21 | Special quasirandom structures Alex Zunger, Su‐Huai Wei, L. G. Ferreira et al. · Physical Review Letters | 16 Jul 1990 | 3,968 |
| 22 | Band structure of indium antimonide Evan O'Neill Kane · Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids | 1957 | 3,703 |
| 23 | A dimer method for finding saddle points on high dimensional potential surfaces using only first derivatives Graeme Henkelman, Hannes Jónsson · The Journal of Chemical Physics | 15 Oct 1999 | 3,545 |
| 24 | Electronic transport in two-dimensional graphene Sankar Das Sarma, Shaffique Adam, E. H. Hwang et al. · Reviews of Modern Physics | 16 May 2011 | 3,466 |
| 25 | Atomic charges derived from semiempirical methods Brent H. Besler, Kenneth M. Merz, Peter A. Kollman · Journal of Computational Chemistry | May 1990 | 3,355 |
| 26 | Maximally localized Wannier functions: Theory and applications Nicola Marzari, Arash A. Mostofi, Jonathan R. Yates et al. · Reviews of Modern Physics | 10 Oct 2012 | 3,351 |
| 27 | Superlattice and Negative Differential Conductivity in Semiconductors L. Esaki, Raphael Tsu · IBM Journal of Research and Development | 1970 | 3,327 |
| 28 | A simple empirical N-body potential for transition metals Michael W. Finnis, J. E. Sinclair · Philosophical magazine. A/Philosophical magazine. A. Physics of condensed matter. Structure, defects and mechanical properties | Jul 1984 | 3,163 |
| 29 | Positioning single atoms with a scanning tunnelling microscope D. M. Eigler, E. K. Schweizer · Nature | Apr 1990 | 3,155 |
| 30 | Plasmons in Strongly Coupled Metallic Nanostructures Naomi J. Halas, Surbhi Lal, Wei‐Shun Chang et al. · Chemical Reviews | 4 May 2011 | 3,129 |
| 31 | Density-Functional Theory for Fractional Particle Number: Derivative Discontinuities of the Energy John P. Perdew, Robert G. Parr, Mel Levy et al. · Physical Review Letters | 6 Dec 1982 | 3,074 |
| 32 | Periodic boundary conditions in ab initio calculations Guy Makov, Mike C. Payne · Physical review. B, Condensed matter | 15 Feb 1995 | 2,998 |
| 33 | Wave-Number-Dependent Dielectric Function of Semiconductors David R. Penn · Physical Review | Dec 1962 | 2,969 |
| 34 | Adsorbate-substrate and adsorbate-adsorbate interactions of Na and K adlayers on Al(111) Jörg Neugebauer, Matthias Scheffler · Physical review. B, Condensed matter | 15 Dec 1992 | 2,861 |
| 35 | Calculations of electron inelastic mean free paths. V. Data for 14 organic compounds over the 50–2000 eV range Shigeo Tanuma, C. J. Powell, David R. Penn · Surface and Interface Analysis | Mar 1994 | 2,761 |
| 36 | Towards wafer-size graphene layers by atmospheric pressure graphitization of silicon carbide K. V. Emtsev, Aaron Bostwick, K. Horn et al. · Nature Materials | 8 Feb 2009 | 2,658 |
| 37 | Structure and growth of self-assembling monolayers Frank Schreiber · Progress in Surface Science | Nov 2000 | 2,486 |
| 38 | The Monte Carlo method for the solution of charge transport in semiconductors with applications to covalent materials Carlo Jacoboni, Lino Reggiani · Reviews of Modern Physics | Jul 1983 | 2,305 |
| 39 | Maximally localized Wannier functions for entangled energy bands Ivo Souza, Nicola Marzari, David Vanderbilt · Physical review. B, Condensed matter | 19 Dec 2001 | 2,272 |
| 40 | Structural stability and lattice defects in copper: Ab initio , tight-binding, and embedded-atom calculations Yuri M. Mishin, Michael J. Mehl, D. A. Papaconstantopoulos et al. · Physical review. B, Condensed matter | 21 May 2001 | 2,163 |
| 41 | Intensity of Optical Absorption by Excitons Roger James Elliott · Physical Review | 15 Dec 1957 | 2,139 |
| 42 | Full-potential self-consistent linearized-augmented-plane-wave method for calculating the electronic structure of molecules and surfaces: O2 molecule E. Wimmer, Henry Krakauer, M. Weinert et al. · Physical review. B, Condensed matter | 15 Jul 1981 | 2,129 |
| 43 | Energy band gaps and lattice parameters evaluated with the Heyd-Scuseria-Ernzerhof screened hybrid functional Jochen Heyd, Juan E. Peralta, Gustavo E. Scuseria et al. · The Journal of Chemical Physics | 26 Oct 2005 | 2,069 |
| 44 | Thin Film Phenomena K. L. Chopra, Julius Klerrer · Journal of The Electrochemical Society | 1970 | 2,014 |
| 45 | Dislocation-free Stranski-Krastanow growth of Ge on Si(100) David J Eaglesham, M. Cerullo · Physical Review Letters | 16 Apr 1990 | 1,982 |
| 46 | Exchange bias in nanostructures Josep Nogués, Jordi Sort, V. Langlais et al. · Physics Reports | 28 Oct 2005 | 1,930 |
| 47 | Hopping Conductivity in Disordered Systems Vinay Ambegaokar, B. I. Halperin, James S. Langer · Physical review. B, Solid state | 15 Oct 1971 | 1,922 |
| 48 | 7 × 7 Reconstruction on Si(111) Resolved in Real Space Gerd K. Binnig, Heinrich Rohrer, Ch. Gerber et al. · Physical Review Letters | 10 Jan 1983 | 1,904 |
| 49 | Optimization methods for finding minimum energy paths Daniel Sheppard, Rye Terrell, Graeme Henkelman · The Journal of Chemical Physics | 2 Apr 2008 | 1,890 |
| 50 | Advances in Electronics and Electron Physics Ladislaus Marton, Robert L. Sproull · Physics Today | Mar 1960 | 1,836 |
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