| Synchronization in chaotic systems | Physical Review Letters | 1990 | 7.1K |
| Atomistic mechanisms and dynamics of adhesion, nanoindentation, and fracture | Science | 1990 | 934 |
| Structural characteristics of alpha-helical peptide molecules containing Aib residues | Biochemistry | 1990 | 874 |
| Surface, interface, and thin-film magnetism | Journal of Materials Research | 1990 | 431 |
| Nonlinear theory of intense laser-plasma interactions | Physical Review Letters | 1990 | 402 |
| Use of ion beam assisted deposition to modify the microstructure and properties of thin films | International Materials Reviews | 1990 | 372 |
| Measurement of translational displacement probabilities by NMR: an indicator of compartmentation | Magnetic Resonance in Medicine | 1990 | 365 |
| Hybrid ferromagnetic-semiconductor structure | Science | 1990 | 358 |
| Accurate forces in a local-orbital approach to the local-density approximation | Physical Review B | 1990 | 325 |
| On the electrochemical etching of tips for scanning tunneling microscopy | Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology A: Vacuum, Surfaces and Films | 1990 | 290 |
| Probing the surface forces of monolayer films with an atomic-force microscope | Physical Review Letters | 1990 | 285 |
| Efficient, broadly tunable, laser-pumped Tm:YAG and Tm:YSGG cw lasers | Optics Letters | 1990 | 271 |
| Magnetic-resonance exchange scattering at the iron LII and LIII edges | Physical Review Letters | 1990 | 191 |
| An empirical model of total solar irradiance variation between 1874 and 1988 | Science | 1990 | 186 |
| Determination of peak positions and areas from wide-scan XPS spectra | Surface and Interface Analysis | 1990 | 180 |
| Electron-LO-phonon scattering rates in semiconductor quantum wells | Physical Review B | 1990 | 179 |
| Nanoindentation study of the mechanical properties of copper‐nickel multilayered thin films | Applied Physics Letters | 1990 | 161 |
| Iberian plate kinematics: a jumping plate boundary between Eurasia and Africa | Nature | 1990 | 160 |
| Learning sequential decision rules using simulation models and competition | Machine Learning | 1990 | 148 |
| Following steepest descent reaction paths. The use of higher energy derivatives with ab initio electronic structure methods | Journal of Chemical Physics | 1990 | 146 |
| Bainite viewed three different ways | Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A - Physical Metallurgy and Materials Science | 1990 | 141 |
| The effect of substrate on the elastic properties of films determined by the indentation test — axisymmetric boussinesq problem | Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids | 1990 | 139 |
| Evidence of Bragg scattering in microwave Doppler spectra of sea return | Journal of Geophysical Research | 1990 | 123 |
| Polarization of x-ray emission lines from heliumlike scandium as a probe of the hyperfine interaction | Physical Review Letters | 1990 | 121 |
| Basic considerations for scaling Z‐pinch x‐ray emission with atomic number | Journal of Applied Physics | 1990 | 114 |
