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MCNC Research and Development Institute

In research, MCNC Research and Development Institute stands highest in Physical Sciences (#6,046 of 17,446 worldwide), Electrical and Electronic Engineering (#1,651 of 3,725 worldwide) and Engineering (#4,954 of 9,532 worldwide), over all time. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics (Electrical and Electronic Engineering is 11.9× its share of world research).

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World rank, all time
#22,745
of 34,923
Rank in United States
#4,728
of 7,310
Research works
326
▼ 81% vs 2018-21
Citations
5.6k
17.3 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
10.0%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
1.10×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
5%
world 40%
International
5%
world 18%
MCNC Research and Development Institute

What is MCNC Research and Development Institute known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, over all time, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorks
Physical SciencesDomain #6,046 of 17,446 9.3%315
Electrical and Electronic EngineeringSubfield #1,651 of 3,725 11.2%141
EngineeringField #4,954 of 9,532 9.9%190

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where MCNC Research and Development Institute sits in it, in the colour of the band that rank falls in. The track under the rate is the rate itself: it carries no average mark, because the average differs by field (from about 6% in Dentistry to 21% in Economics).

Which fields of science does MCNC Research and Development Institute work in?

In all years, 97% of research at MCNC Research and Development Institute is in Physical Sciences, 1% in Life Sciences. Its largest fields are Engineering (58%), Computer Science (15%), Materials Science (12%). It does 2.3× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 315 fractional works · 96.8% of its workEngineering: 190 fractional works · 58.3% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 141 fractional works · 43.3% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 16 fractional works · 5.0% of its workComputational Mechanics: 9 fractional works · 2.7% of its workMechanics of Materials: 8 fractional works · 2.5% of its workMechanical Engineering: 7 fractional works · 2.2% of its workAerospace Engineering: 3 fractional works · 0.8% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workMedia Technology: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComputer Science: 50 fractional works · 15.2% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 17 fractional works · 5.3% of its workHardware and Architecture: 16 fractional works · 4.9% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 5 fractional works · 1.6% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 5 fractional works · 1.6% of its workSoftware: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSignal Processing: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workInformation Systems: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHuman-Computer Interaction: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMaterials Science: 39 fractional works · 11.9% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 21 fractional works · 6.5% of its workElectronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials: 7 fractional works · 2.2% of its workSurfaces, Coatings and Films: 5 fractional works · 1.5% of its workPolymers and Plastics: 3 fractional works · 0.9% of its workCeramics and Composites: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 27 fractional works · 8.3% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 23 fractional works · 7.1% of its workCondensed Matter Physics: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workRadiation: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workChemistry: 5 fractional works · 1.5% of its workOrganic Chemistry: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSpectroscopy: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPhysical and Theoretical Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAnalytical Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workEnvironmental Science: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workAtmospheric Science: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workChemical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBioengineering: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workEnergy: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workLife Sciences: 5 fractional works · 1.4% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 3 fractional works · 0.8% of its workMolecular Biology: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNeuroscience: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workParasitology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workSocial Sciences: 3 fractional works · 1.0% of its workDecision Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workSocial Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workManagement Information Systems: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPsychology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workArts and Humanities: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workHealth Sciences: 3 fractional works · 0.8% of its workMedicine: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHealth Professions: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKMCNC Research andDevelopment…326fractional works, all years
Life Sciences1%Physical Sciences97%Health Sciences1%Social 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 4 domains and 21 fields, with their numbers
    1. Engineering19058.3%
    2. Computer Science5015.2%
    3. Materials Science3911.9%
    4. Physics and Astronomy278.3%
    5. Chemistry51.5%
    6. Environmental Science20.6%
    7. Earth and Planetary Sciences20.5%
    8. Chemical Engineering10.3%
    9. Energy00.1%
    10. Mathematics00.0%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology30.8%
    2. Neuroscience10.3%
    3. Immunology and Microbiology10.2%
    1. Decision Sciences10.3%
    2. Social Sciences10.3%
    3. Business, Management and Accounting10.2%
    4. Psychology00.2%
    5. Economics, Econometrics and Finance00.1%
    6. Arts and Humanities00.1%
    1. Medicine20.7%
    2. Health Professions00.1%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does MCNC Research and Development Institute specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Electrical and Electronic Engineering takes 11.9× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Electrical and Electronic EngineeringSubfield · 140.9 works12×
  2. Atomic and Molecular Physics, and OpticsSubfield · 23.1 works5.1×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient, a volume reading rather than an impact one. It surfaces small, lopsided specialities.

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.

Who are the top researchers at MCNC Research and Development Institute?

Ranked on the quality score, Krzysztof Koźmiński, Gary E. McGuire and William D. Palmer lead among researchers whose main affiliation is MCNC Research and Development Institute.

  1. 1 Krzysztof Koźmiński United States · #1,185,278 worldwide 2.7k citations · 29 works
  2. 2 Gary E. McGuire United States · #1,854,678 worldwide 4k citations · 190 works
  3. 3 William D. Palmer United States · #3,006,963 worldwide 1.5k citations · 118 works
  4. 4 Mark D. Kellam United States · #3,040,210 worldwide 520 citations · 28 works
  5. 5 W.D. Dettloff United States · #3,262,596 worldwide 536 citations · 15 works
  6. 6 P. L. Smith United States · #3,669,459 worldwide 570 citations · 57 works
  7. 7 M. Berry United States · #3,761,454 worldwide 216 citations · 17 works
  8. 8 Gretchen M. Adema United States · #3,771,115 worldwide 246 citations · 19 works
  9. 9 Michael K. Lamvik United States · #3,824,742 worldwide 208 citations · 16 works
  10. 10 David G. Vellenga United States · #4,174,601 worldwide 210 citations · 20 works
All ranked researchers at MCNC Research and Development Institute

What are the most cited papers from MCNC Research and Development Institute?

The most cited paper from MCNC Research and Development Institute is "Thin-Film Permeation-Barrier Technology for Flexible Organic Light-Emitting Devices" (John S. Lewis, Michael S. Weaver, 2004), with 503 citations. Next come "Rotary traveling-wave oscillator arrays: a new clock technology" (298) and "MOCVD of Bi2Te3, Sb2Te3 and their superlattice structures for thin-film thermoelectric applications" (287).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Thin-Film Permeation-Barrier Technology for Flexible Organic Light-Emitting Devices John S. Lewis, Michael S. Weaver · IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics 2004 503
2 Rotary traveling-wave oscillator arrays: a new clock technology John Wood, Terry C. Edwards, Steve Lipa · IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits 2001 298
3 MOCVD of Bi2Te3, Sb2Te3 and their superlattice structures for thin-film thermoelectric applications R. Venkatasubramanian, T.S. Colpitts, E. Watko et al. · Journal of Crystal Growth 1997 287
4 Highly flexible transparent electrodes for organic light-emitting diode-based displays Jay S. Lewis, Sonia Grego, Babu R. Chalamala et al. · Applied Physics Letters 18 Oct 2004 267
5 A VLSI fuzzy logic controller with reconfigurable, cascadable architecture Hiroyuki Watanabe, W.D. Dettloff, K.E. Yount · IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits Apr 1990 262
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at MCNC Research and Development Institute?

By fractional works in all years, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Solar Cells, Nanoelectronics, Atomic Layer Deposition, High-k Dielectrics, Silicon, Integrated Circuits, Photovoltaics and Efficiency.

▲ 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. Solar Cells40▲ 39×6 topics
  2. Nanoelectronics24▲ 49×2 topics
  3. Atomic Layer Deposition22▲ 52×1 topic
  4. High-k Dielectrics22▲ 52×1 topic
  5. Silicon19▲ 79×2 topics
  6. Integrated Circuits18▲ 24×3 topics
  7. Photovoltaics18▲ 22×4 topics
  8. Efficiency17▲ 20×3 topics
  9. Heterojunction16▲ 121×1 topic
  10. Passivation16▲ 121×1 topic
  11. Fault Localization15▲ 55×2 topics
  12. Failure Analysis15▲ 34×1 topic
  13. Photon Emission Microscopy15▲ 89×1 topic
  14. Thin Films14▲ 17×8 topics
  15. Dielectric Properties14▲ 29×4 topics
  16. Electrical Properties14▲ 26×3 topics
  17. Epitaxial Growth14▲ 53×2 topics
  18. Nanoparticles14▲ 3.2×11 topics
  19. Metal-Semiconductor Contacts14▲ 80×1 topic
  20. Schottky Barrier14▲ 80×1 topic
  21. Process Variation12▲ 40×2 topics
  22. Thermal Management12▲ 13×3 topics
  23. Electromigration12▲ 69×2 topics
  24. Thermal Behavior10▲ 45×2 topics
  25. Flexible Electronics10▲ 21×2 topics
  26. High-Temperature Electronics10▲ 40×2 topics
  27. Nanostructures9▲ 5.9×7 topics
  28. FPGA9▲ 34×2 topics
  29. Interconnect9▲ 117×1 topic
  30. Through-Silicon Via9▲ 117×1 topic
  31. Nanowire Transistors9▲ 43×1 topic
  32. Tunnel Field-Effect Transistors9▲ 43×1 topic
  33. Embedded Cores9▲ 94×1 topic
  34. Test Data Compression9▲ 94×1 topic
  35. Distributed Systems8▲ 11×6 topics
  36. X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy8▲ 18×2 topics
  37. Plasmonics8▲ 32×1 topic
  38. Thin-Film Transistors8▲ 57×1 topic
  39. CMOS Technology8▲ 21×5 topics
  40. Nanowires8▲ 10×4 topics

Which research topics does MCNC Research and Development Institute publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Integrated Circuits and Semiconductor Failure Analysis, Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs) and Hardware Security and Neuroscience and Neural Engineering.

Integrated Circuits and …0Integrated Circuits and Semiconductor Failure Analysis: 0 fractional worksPhysical Unclonable Func…0Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs) and Hardware Security: 0 fractional worksNeuroscience and Neural …0Neuroscience and Neural Engineering: 0 fractional works
Electrical and Electronic EngineeringHardware and ArchitectureCellular and Molecular Neuroscience

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

  1. 1 Integrated Circuits and Semiconductor Failure Analysis Electrical and Electronic Engineering 0 works
  2. 2 Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs) and Hardware Security Hardware and Architecture 0 works
  3. 3 Neuroscience and Neural Engineering Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience 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 available5.2%not open94.8%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors4.9%domestic only95.1%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has MCNC Research and Development Institute's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 81% lower than in 2018-2021.

1990200020102020
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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 MCNC Research and Development Institute as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.000023% in 2019.

0.0020%0.0040%MCNC Research and Development Institute0.0000038% in 202219801990200020102020

Fractional works of MCNC Research and Development Institute over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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