| Diamond thin films: a 21st-century material PW May Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series A …, 2000 | 1036 | 2000 |
| Raman and conductivity studies of boron-doped microcrystalline diamond, facetted nanocrystalline diamond and cauliflower diamond films PW May, WJ Ludlow, M Hannaway, PJ Heard, JA Smith, KN Rosser Diamond and Related Materials 17 (2), 105-117, 2008 | 361 | 2008 |
| XPS and laser Raman analysis of hydrogenated amorphous carbon films J Filik, PW May, SRJ Pearce, RK Wild, KR Hallam Diamond and related Materials 12 (3-7), 974-978, 2003 | 343 | 2003 |
| Thin film diamond by chemical vapour deposition methods MNR Ashfold, PW May, CA Rego, NM Everitt Chemical Society Reviews 23 (1), 21-30, 1994 | 343 | 1994 |
| Nitrogen in diamond MNR Ashfold, JP Goss, BL Green, PW May, ME Newton, CV Peaker Chemical reviews 120 (12), 5745-5794, 2020 | 238 | 2020 |
| CVD diamond: a new technology for the future? PW May Endeavour 19 (3), 101-106, 1995 | 204 | 1995 |
| Microcrystalline, nanocrystalline, and ultrananocrystalline diamond chemical vapor deposition: Experiment and modeling of the factors controlling growth rate, nucleation, and … PW May, MNR Ashfold, YA Mankelevich Journal of Applied Physics 101 (5), 2007 | 184 | 2007 |
| Porous boron-doped diamond/carbon nanotube electrodes H Zanin, PW May, DJ Fermin, D Plana, SMC Vieira, WI Milne, EJ Corat ACS applied materials & interfaces 6 (2), 990-995, 2014 | 165 | 2014 |
| The new diamond age? PW May Science 319 (5869), 1490-1491, 2008 | 150 | 2008 |
| Production of nanocrystalline diamond by laser ablation at the solid/liquid interface SRJ Pearce, SJ Henley, F Claeyssens, PW May, KR Hallam, JA Smith, ... Diamond and Related Materials 13 (4-8), 661-665, 2004 | 150 | 2004 |
| 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 PW May, YA Mankelevich The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 112 (32), 12432-12441, 2008 | 146 | 2008 |
| Graphite-to-diamond transformation induced by ultrasound cavitation AK Khachatryan, SG Aloyan, PW May, R Sargsyan, VA Khachatryan, ... Diamond and Related Materials 17 (6), 931-936, 2008 | 146 | 2008 |
| Isolation and structural proof of the large diamond molecule, cyclohexamantane (C26H30) JEP Dahl, JM Moldowan, TM Peakman, JC Clardy, E Lobkovsky, ... Angewandte Chemie International Edition 42 (18), 2040-2044, 2003 | 144 | 2003 |
| Growth of diamond nanocrystals by pulsed laser ablation of graphite in liquid L Yang, PW May, L Yin, JA Smith, KN Rosser Diamond and related materials 16 (4-7), 725-729, 2007 | 141 | 2007 |
| Raman spectroscopy of nanocrystalline diamond: An ab initio approach J Filik, JN Harvey, NL Allan, PW May, JEP Dahl, S Liu, RMK Carlson Physical Review B—Condensed Matter and Materials Physics 74 (3), 035423, 2006 | 140 | 2006 |
| Reevaluation of the mechanism for ultrananocrystalline diamond deposition from Ar∕ CH4∕ H2 gas mixtures PW May, JN Harvey, JA Smith, YA Mankelevich Journal of applied physics 99 (10), 2006 | 137 | 2006 |
| Use of different excitation wavelengths for the analysis of CVD diamond by laser Raman spectroscopy SM Leeds, TJ Davis, PW May, CDO Pickard, MNR Ashfold Diamond and Related Materials 7 (2-5), 233-237, 1998 | 125 | 1998 |
| New insights into the mechanism of CVD diamond growth: Single crystal diamond in MW PECVD reactors YA Mankelevich, PW May Diamond and Related Materials 17 (7-10), 1021-1028, 2008 | 123 | 2008 |
| Diamond-coated ‘black silicon’as a promising material for high-surface-area electrochemical electrodes and antibacterial surfaces PW May, M Clegg, TA Silva, H Zanin, O Fatibello-Filho, V Celorrio, ... Journal of materials chemistry B 4 (34), 5737-5746, 2016 | 118 | 2016 |
| Diamond thin films: giving biomedical applications a new shine PA Nistor, PW May Journal of the royal society interface 14 (134), 20170382, 2017 | 117 | 2017 |