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FISBA OPTIK (Switzerland)

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Research works
85
▼ 56% vs 2018-21
Citations
324
3.8 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
0.0%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
10%
world 40%
International
25%
world 18%
FISBA OPTIK (Switzerland)

Not ranked overall: FISBA OPTIK (Switzerland) is under the volume floor below which an excellence rate is noise. Not ranked is not the same as ranked last.

Which fields of science does FISBA OPTIK (Switzerland) work in?

In all years, 94% of research at FISBA OPTIK (Switzerland) is in Physical Sciences, 3% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Engineering (78%), Materials Science (6%), Physics and Astronomy (4%). It does 2.2× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 80 fractional works · 93.8% of its workEngineering: 67 fractional works · 78.4% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 19 fractional works · 22.6% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 17 fractional works · 19.6% of its workMechanical Engineering: 15 fractional works · 17.3% of its workComputational Mechanics: 8 fractional works · 9.7% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 2 fractional works · 2.9% of its workAerospace Engineering: 1 fractional works · 1.7% of its workMedia Technology: 1 fractional works · 1.6% of its workBuilding and Construction: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workMechanics of Materials: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workOcean Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMaterials Science: 5 fractional works · 5.9% of its workSurfaces, Coatings and Films: 3 fractional works · 3.0% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workPolymers and Plastics: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workCeramics and Composites: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 4 fractional works · 4.3% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 4 fractional works · 4.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workComputer Science: 3 fractional works · 3.5% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 2 fractional works · 2.3% of its workInformation Systems: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSoftware: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnvironmental Science: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workEcological Modeling: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workChemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workAnalytical Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSocial Sciences: 3 fractional works · 3.5% of its workArts and Humanities: 1 fractional works · 1.4% of its workVisual Arts and Performing Arts: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workDecision Sciences: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workAccounting: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSociology and Political Science: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 1 fractional works · 1.7% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPlant Science: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workMolecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHealth Sciences: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workMedicine: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workALL ITS WORKFISBA OPTIK(Switzerland)85fractional works, all years
Life Sciences2%Physical Sciences94%Health Sciences1%Social Sciences3%

Each ring splits the one inside it: the four domains of science, their fields, their subfields. Size is fractional works in all years. Every slice is a page; the interactive view zooms down to single topics and colours each by how much more of it this institution does than the world.

Its 4 domains and 14 fields, with their numbers
    1. Engineering6778.4%
    2. Materials Science55.9%
    3. Physics and Astronomy44.3%
    4. Computer Science33.5%
    5. Environmental Science10.9%
    6. Chemistry10.7%
    1. Arts and Humanities11.4%
    2. Decision Sciences11.2%
    3. Business, Management and Accounting00.4%
    4. Social Sciences00.4%
    5. Economics, Econometrics and Finance00.1%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences10.9%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology10.8%
    1. Medicine11.1%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

Field profile

Location quotient across every field it publishes in: outside the ring is more than an institution of this size would be expected to publish, inside it is less.

Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1.16× its world share, 0 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Computer Science: 1.33× its world share, 1 worksComputer ScienceEngineering: 3.57× its world share, 4 worksEngineeringMaterials Science: 2.66× its world share, 1 worksMaterials SciencePhysics and Astronomy: 7.42× its world share, 1 worksPhysics and AstronomySocial Sciences: 0.33× its world share, 0 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Physics and Astronomy, 7.4×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 6 fields, with their numbers
  1. Physics and Astronomy7.42×1 works
  2. Engineering3.57×4 works
  3. Materials Science2.66×1 works
  4. Computer Science1.33×1 works
  5. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology1.16×0 works
  6. Social Sciences0.33×0 works

Who are the top researchers at FISBA OPTIK (Switzerland)?

Ranked on the quality score, Mark Meeder, Hansruedi Moser and Eckhard Langenbach lead among researchers whose main affiliation is FISBA OPTIK (Switzerland).

  1. 1 Mark Meeder Switzerland · #4,678,707 worldwide 179 citations · 30 works
  2. 2 Hansruedi Moser Switzerland · #4,743,627 worldwide 39 citations · 16 works
  3. 3 Eckhard Langenbach Switzerland · #5,023,006 worldwide 29 citations · 20 works
  4. 4 Andreas Kunz Switzerland · #5,167,075 worldwide 208 citations · 26 works
  5. 5 Oliver Fähnle Switzerland · #6,148,816 worldwide 458 citations · 59 works
  6. 6 Oliver W. Faehnle Switzerland · #6,748,067 worldwide 201 citations · 55 works
All ranked researchers at FISBA OPTIK (Switzerland)

What are the most cited papers from FISBA OPTIK (Switzerland)?

The most cited paper from FISBA OPTIK (Switzerland) is "High-power cw neodymium-doped fiber laser operating at 92 W with high beam quality" (Holger Zellmer, Sonja Unger, P. Albers et al., 1995), with 124 citations. Next come "A Fabry–Perot interferometer for micrometer-sized cantilevers" (92) and "The correlation between mechanical stress, thermal shift and refractive index in HfO2, Nb2O5, Ta2O5 and SiO2 layers and its relation to the layer porosity" (81).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 High-power cw neodymium-doped fiber laser operating at 92 W with high beam quality Holger Zellmer, Sonja Unger, P. Albers et al. · Optics Letters 15 Mar 1995 124
2 A Fabry–Perot interferometer for micrometer-sized cantilevers Bart W. Hoogenboom, Patrick L T M Frederix, Jinling Yang et al. · Applied Physics Letters Open access 7 Feb 2005 92
3 The correlation between mechanical stress, thermal shift and refractive index in HfO2, Nb2O5, Ta2O5 and SiO2 layers and its relation to the layer porosity O. Stenzel, Steffen Wilbrandt, Norbert Kaiser et al. · Thin Solid Films 16 May 2009 81
4 iTIRM as a tool for qualifying polishing processes Oliver Fähnle, Torsten Wons, Evelyn Koch et al. · Applied Optics Jul 2002 29
5 Stochastic modeling of light scattering with fluorescence using a Monte Carlo-based multiscale approach Miloš Šormaz, Tobias Stamm, Safer Mourad et al. · Journal of the Optical Society of America A 20 May 2009 28
All 59 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at FISBA OPTIK (Switzerland)?

By fractional works in all years, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Tool Wear, Compound Eyes, Freeform Optics, Chemical Mechanical Planarization, Material Removal Mechanism, Surface Roughness, Composite Materials and Machining.

▲ more of its work than of the world's◆ about the world's share▼ less than the world's

Size is fractional works in all years in the topics tagged with each word; colour is the word's share of this institution's work against its share of the world's. The 40 words are chosen for being large and distinctive. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 40 words, with their numbers
  1. Tool Wear15▲ 128×3 topics
  2. Compound Eyes10▲ 856×1 topic
  3. Freeform Optics10▲ 856×1 topic
  4. Chemical Mechanical Planarization9▲ 178×1 topic
  5. Material Removal Mechanism9▲ 178×1 topic
  6. Surface Roughness7▲ 64×4 topics
  7. Composite Materials7▲ 35×2 topics
  8. Machining6▲ 132×1 topic
  9. Surface Integrity6▲ 132×1 topic
  10. Frequency Conversion5▲ 63×3 topics
  11. Machine Vision5▲ 31×3 topics
  12. Micromachining5▲ 115×2 topics
  13. Femtosecond Laser5▲ 85×1 topic
  14. Machine Tools5▲ 73×2 topics
  15. Transparent Materials5▲ 183×1 topic
  16. Dimensional Metrology4▲ 147×1 topic
  17. Error Compensation4▲ 147×1 topic
  18. Raman Lasers4▲ 30×2 topics
  19. Fractal Analysis4▲ 118×2 topics
  20. Image Processing4▲ 14×2 topics
  21. Roughness Measurement4▲ 138×1 topic
  22. Surface Characterization4▲ 100×1 topic
  23. Optical Interconnects3▲ 46×1 topic
  24. Semiconductor Lasers3▲ 38×1 topic
  25. Photonic Crystals3▲ 23×3 topics
  26. Solid-State Lasers3▲ 113×1 topic
  27. Ytterbium3▲ 113×1 topic
  28. Laser3▲ 133×1 topic
  29. Nanofabrication3▲ 36×2 topics
  30. Semiconductor3▲ 10×1 topic
  31. Solar Cells2▲ 9.4×2 topics
  32. Spectroscopy2▲ 9.0×2 topics
  33. Antireflective Coatings2▲ 98×1 topic
  34. Nanostructures2▲ 5.9×1 topic
  35. Free-Space Optical Communication2▲ 143×1 topic
  36. Visible Light Communication2▲ 143×1 topic
  37. Structured Light2▲ 40×2 topics
  38. Camera Calibration2▲ 59×1 topic
  39. Fringe Projection2▲ 59×1 topic
  40. Optical Modulators2▲ 12×2 topics

Which research topics does FISBA OPTIK (Switzerland) publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Advanced optical system design, Color Science and Applications, Optical Coatings and Gratings and Building Energy and Comfort Optimization.

Advanced optical system …2Advanced optical system design: 2 fractional worksColor Science and Applic…1Color Science and Applications: 1 fractional worksOptical Coatings and Gra…1Optical Coatings and Gratings: 1 fractional worksBuilding Energy and Comfort Optimization: 0 fractional worksLaser Material Processing Techniques: 0 fractional worksScientific Research and …0Scientific Research and Philosophical Inquiry: 0 fractional worksFractal and DNA sequence analysis: 0 fractional worksSemiconductor Lasers and Optical Devices: 0 fractional worksAdvanced Optical Imaging Technologies: 0 fractional worksAdvanced Measurement and Metrology Techniques: 0 fractional works
Biomedical EngineeringAtomic and Molecular Physics, and OpticsSurfaces, Coatings and FilmsBuilding and Construction6 others

Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.

  1. 1 Advanced optical system design Biomedical Engineering 2 works
  2. 2 Color Science and Applications Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics 1 works
  3. 3 Optical Coatings and Gratings Surfaces, Coatings and Films 1 works
  4. 4 Building Energy and Comfort Optimization Building and Construction 0 works
  5. 5 Laser Material Processing Techniques Computational Mechanics 0 works
  6. 6 Scientific Research and Philosophical Inquiry Information Systems 0 works
  7. 7 Fractal and DNA sequence analysis Molecular Biology 0 works
  8. 8 Semiconductor Lasers and Optical Devices Electrical and Electronic Engineering 0 works
  9. 9 Advanced Optical Imaging Technologies Media Technology 0 works
  10. 10 Advanced Measurement and Metrology Techniques Mechanical Engineering 0 works

How open and international is its research?

Against the world's own shares: the tick on each track. Both are shares of its output, so they sit on one scale and can be read against each other as well as against the world.

openly available10.5%not open89.5%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors25.2%domestic only74.8%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has FISBA OPTIK (Switzerland)'s research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 56% lower than in 2018-2021.

200020102020
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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is FISBA OPTIK (Switzerland) as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.000023% in 2023.

0.00020%0.00040%FISBA OPTIK (Switzerland)0.000027% in 2024200020102020

Fractional works of FISBA OPTIK (Switzerland) over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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