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IQE (United States)

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Research works
80
▼ 5% vs 2018-21
Citations
1.6k
20.5 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
6.8%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
10%
world 40%
International
18%
world 18%
IQE (United States)

Not ranked overall: IQE (United States) 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 IQE (United States) work in?

In all years, 98% of research at IQE (United States) is in Physical Sciences, 1% in Life Sciences. Its largest fields are Engineering (60%), Physics and Astronomy (29%), Chemistry (4%). It does 2.3× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 79 fractional works · 97.8% of its workEngineering: 48 fractional works · 60.1% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 43 fractional works · 53.2% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 4 fractional works · 5.0% of its workAerospace Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workMechanics of Materials: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 23 fractional works · 28.8% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 20 fractional works · 24.7% of its workCondensed Matter Physics: 3 fractional works · 3.2% of its workInstrumentation: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workRadiation: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workChemistry: 3 fractional works · 3.8% of its workSpectroscopy: 3 fractional works · 3.8% of its workMaterials Science: 3 fractional works · 3.6% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 2 fractional works · 2.7% of its workElectronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workComputer Science: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workInformation Systems: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workAtmospheric Science: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workChemical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBioengineering: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workLife Sciences: 1 fractional works · 1.5% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workMolecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workNeuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHealth Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workMedicine: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workALL ITS WORKIQE (UnitedStates)80fractional works, all years
Life Sciences1%Physical Sciences98%Health Sciences1%

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 3 domains and 10 fields, with their numbers
    1. Engineering4860.1%
    2. Physics and Astronomy2328.8%
    3. Chemistry33.8%
    4. Materials Science33.6%
    5. Computer Science00.6%
    6. Earth and Planetary Sciences00.5%
    7. Chemical Engineering00.3%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology11.2%
    2. Neuroscience00.2%
    1. Medicine10.7%
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.

Chemical Engineering: 5.30× its world share, 0 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 7.08× its world share, 1 worksChemistryEarth and Planetary Sciences: 1.18× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Engineering: 3.54× its world share, 5 worksEngineeringMaterials Science: 1.59× its world share, 0 worksMaterials SciencePhysics and Astronomy: 10.82× its world share, 2 worksPhysics and AstronomyMedicine: 0.13× its world share, 0 worksMedicine1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Physics and Astronomy, 10.8×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 7 fields, with their numbers
  1. Physics and Astronomy10.82×2 works
  2. Chemistry7.08×1 works
  3. Chemical Engineering5.30×0 works
  4. Engineering3.54×5 works
  5. Materials Science1.59×0 works
  6. Earth and Planetary Sciences1.18×0 works
  7. Medicine0.13×0 works

Who are the top researchers at IQE (United States)?

Ranked on the quality score, W. K. Liu, Joel M. Fastenau and Dmitri Loubychev lead among researchers whose main affiliation is IQE (United States).

  1. 1 W. K. Liu United States · #1,117,773 worldwide 972 citations · 17 works
  2. 2 Joel M. Fastenau United States · #1,335,603 worldwide 3.7k citations · 151 works
  3. 3 Dmitri Loubychev United States · #1,803,386 worldwide 668 citations · 29 works
  4. 4 W.K. Liu United States · #1,949,665 worldwide 310 citations · 16 works
  5. 5 Amy W. K. Liu United States · #2,295,390 worldwide 1.4k citations · 53 works
  6. 6 Dmitri Lubyshev United States · #3,049,923 worldwide 3.4k citations · 187 works
  7. 7 Xiao-Ming Fang United States · #3,403,933 worldwide 520 citations · 36 works
  8. 8 Scott A. Nelson United States · #5,501,671 worldwide 503 citations · 40 works
All ranked researchers at IQE (United States)

What are the most cited papers from IQE (United States)?

The most cited paper from IQE (United States) is "Fabrication, characterization, and physics of III–V heterojunction tunneling Field Effect Transistors (H-TFET) for steep sub-threshold swing" (Gilbert Dewey, B. Chu-Kung, J. Boardman et al., 2011), with 339 citations. Next come "High performance continuous wave 1.3 μ m quantum dot lasers on silicon" (338) and "Significantly improved minority carrier lifetime observed in a long-wavelength infrared III-V type-II superlattice comprised of InAs/InAsSb" (315).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Fabrication, characterization, and physics of III–V heterojunction tunneling Field Effect Transistors (H-TFET) for steep sub-threshold swing Gilbert Dewey, B. Chu-Kung, J. Boardman et al. Conference paper Dec 2011 339
2 High performance continuous wave 1.3 μ m quantum dot lasers on silicon Alan Y. Liu, Chong Zhang, Justin Norman et al. · Applied Physics Letters 27 Jan 2014 338
3 Significantly improved minority carrier lifetime observed in a long-wavelength infrared III-V type-II superlattice comprised of InAs/InAsSb Elizabeth H. Steenbergen, Blair C. Connelly, Grace D. Metcalfe et al. · Applied Physics Letters 19 Dec 2011 315
4 Advanced high-K gate dielectric for high-performance short-channel In0.7Ga0.3As quantum well field effect transistors on silicon substrate for low power logic applications M. Radosavljević, B. Chu-Kung, Sean F. Corcoran et al. Conference paper Dec 2009 137
5 Electrostatics improvement in 3-D tri-gate over ultra-thin body planar InGaAs quantum well field effect transistors with high-K gate dielectric and scaled gate-to-drain/gate-to-source separation M. Radosavljević, Gilbert Dewey, Dipanjan Basu et al. Conference paper Dec 2011 136
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at IQE (United States)?

By fractional works in all years, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Semiconductor, Photovoltaics, Nanowires, Band Parameters, Quantum Dots, Excitons, Single-Photon Source and Atomic Layer Deposition.

▲ 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. Semiconductor23▲ 88×5 topics
  2. Photovoltaics21▲ 106×4 topics
  3. Nanowires20▲ 109×3 topics
  4. Band Parameters20▲ 206×2 topics
  5. Quantum Dots18▲ 144×2 topics
  6. Excitons18▲ 281×1 topic
  7. Single-Photon Source18▲ 281×1 topic
  8. Atomic Layer Deposition10▲ 90×1 topic
  9. High-k Dielectrics10▲ 90×1 topic
  10. Integrated Circuits8▲ 46×3 topics
  11. Radiation Detection8▲ 152×2 topics
  12. Infrared Detectors8▲ 393×1 topic
  13. Semiconductor Materials8▲ 393×1 topic
  14. Biosensors7▲ 15×5 topics
  15. Semiconductor Lasers6▲ 83×2 topics
  16. Optical Interconnects6▲ 98×1 topic
  17. Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers (VCSELs)6▲ 98×1 topic
  18. Solar Cells5▲ 22×5 topics
  19. Millimeter-Wave4▲ 89×2 topics
  20. Nanowire Transistors4▲ 74×1 topic
  21. Tunnel Field-Effect Transistors4▲ 74×1 topic
  22. Optical Modulators4▲ 22×2 topics
  23. CMOS4▲ 60×2 topics
  24. Low-Noise Amplifiers4▲ 110×1 topic
  25. Microcavities4▲ 28×1 topic
  26. Oscillators4▲ 110×1 topic
  27. Silicon Photonics4▲ 28×1 topic
  28. Spectroscopic Databases3▲ 67×1 topic
  29. Terahertz Quantum-Cascade Lasers3▲ 67×1 topic
  30. Efficiency3▲ 14×3 topics
  31. Semiconductors3▲ 14×4 topics
  32. Energy Conversion3▲ 23×2 topics
  33. Light-Emitting Diodes3▲ 25×2 topics
  34. Nanosensors3▲ 100×1 topic
  35. Nanowire3▲ 100×1 topic
  36. GaN2▲ 61×1 topic
  37. III-Nitrides2▲ 71×1 topic
  38. Nanocrystals2▲ 12×2 topics
  39. Epitaxial Growth2▲ 35×2 topics
  40. CZTS2▲ 42×1 topic

Which research topics does IQE (United States) publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Semiconductor Quantum Structures and Devices, Semiconductor Lasers and Optical Devices, Advanced Semiconductor Detectors and Materials and Spectroscopy and Laser Applications.

Semiconductor Quantum St…2Semiconductor Quantum Structures and Devices: 2 fractional worksSemiconductor Lasers and Optical Devices: 1 fractional worksAdvanced Semiconductor Detectors and Materials: 1 fractional worksSpectroscopy and Laser A…1Spectroscopy and Laser Applications: 1 fractional worksPhotonic and Optical Dev…1Photonic and Optical Devices: 1 fractional worksSemiconductor materials and devices: 0 fractional worksGaN-based semiconductor devices and materials: 0 fractional worksZnO doping and properties: 0 fractional worksChalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films: 0 fractional worksAtmospheric Ozone and Climate: 0 fractional works
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and OpticsElectrical and Electronic EngineeringSpectroscopyCondensed Matter Physics2 others

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

  1. 1 Semiconductor Quantum Structures and Devices Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics 2 works
  2. 2 Semiconductor Lasers and Optical Devices Electrical and Electronic Engineering 1 works
  3. 3 Advanced Semiconductor Detectors and Materials Electrical and Electronic Engineering 1 works
  4. 4 Spectroscopy and Laser Applications Spectroscopy 1 works
  5. 5 Photonic and Optical Devices Electrical and Electronic Engineering 1 works
  6. 6 Semiconductor materials and devices Electrical and Electronic Engineering 0 works
  7. 7 GaN-based semiconductor devices and materials Condensed Matter Physics 0 works
  8. 8 ZnO doping and properties Materials Chemistry 0 works
  9. 9 Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films Electrical and Electronic Engineering 0 works
  10. 10 Atmospheric Ozone and Climate Atmospheric Science 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 available10.3%not open89.7%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors17.9%domestic only82.1%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has IQE (United States)'s research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 5% lower than in 2018-2021.

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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 IQE (United States) as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.000027% in 2024.

still counting0.00020%0.00040%0.00060%IQE (United States)0.000045% in 2025200020102020

Fractional works of IQE (United States) over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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