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Qorvo (United States)

In research, Qorvo (United States) stands highest in Physical Sciences (#8,601 of 10,670 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Electrical and Electronic Engineering (Electrical and Electronic Engineering is 13.4× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#22,189
of 22,385 · #21,008 all time
Rank in United States
#3,296
of 3,332
Research works
273
▼ 38% vs 2018-21
Citations
2.7k
10.0 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
6.6%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
1.04×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
11%
world 40%
International
13%
world 18%
Qorvo (United States)

What is Qorvo (United States) known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, 2022-now, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorksAll time
Physical SciencesDomain #8,601 of 10,670 6.6%61 #5047

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Qorvo (United States) 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 Qorvo (United States) work in?

In 2022-now, 97% of research at Qorvo (United States) is in Physical Sciences, 1% in Health Sciences. Its largest fields are Engineering (71%), Physics and Astronomy (14%), Materials Science (5%). It does 2.3× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 65 fractional works · 96.9% of its workEngineering: 48 fractional works · 71.4% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 32 fractional works · 47.8% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 8 fractional works · 11.4% of its workMedia Technology: 2 fractional works · 2.7% of its workAerospace Engineering: 1 fractional works · 2.2% of its workMechanical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 2.0% of its workMechanics of Materials: 1 fractional works · 1.5% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workComputational Mechanics: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workOcean Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 10 fractional works · 14.2% of its workCondensed Matter Physics: 5 fractional works · 7.8% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 4 fractional works · 6.2% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMaterials Science: 3 fractional works · 5.0% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 2.0% of its workGeneral Materials Science: 1 fractional works · 1.5% of its workElectronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials: 1 fractional works · 1.5% of its workComputer Science: 2 fractional works · 3.7% of its workSignal Processing: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workHardware and Architecture: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workInformation Systems: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEnvironmental Science: 2 fractional works · 2.4% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 2 fractional works · 2.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGeophysics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHealth Sciences: 1 fractional works · 1.5% of its workHealth Professions: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workMedical Laboratory Technology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workRadiological and Ultrasound Technology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMedicine: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSocial Sciences: 1 fractional works · 1.3% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workStrategy and Management: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workDecision Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSocial Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workLife Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNeuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKQorvo (UnitedStates)67fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences0%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 2022-now. 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. Engineering4871.4%
    2. Physics and Astronomy1014.2%
    3. Materials Science35.0%
    4. Computer Science23.7%
    5. Environmental Science22.4%
    6. Earth and Planetary Sciences00.3%
    1. Health Professions00.7%
    2. Medicine00.7%
    1. Business, Management and Accounting00.5%
    2. Decision Sciences00.3%
    3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance00.3%
    4. Social Sciences00.3%
    1. Neuroscience00.3%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology00.1%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Qorvo (United States) specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Electrical and Electronic Engineering takes 13.4× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Electrical and Electronic EngineeringSubfield · 31.9 works13×
← 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.

Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Neuroscience: 0.19× its world share, 0 worksNeuroscienceComputer Science: 0.47× its world share, 2 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.16× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Engineering: 4.76× its world share, 48 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.49× its world share, 2 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 1.43× its world share, 3 worksMaterials SciencePhysics and Astronomy: 6.40× its world share, 10 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 0.28× its world share, 0 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksMedicineBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.15× its world share, 0 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.26× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.12× its world share, 0 worksEconomics, Econometr…Social Sciences: 0.02× 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, 6.4×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 14 fields, with their numbers
  1. Physics and Astronomy6.40×10 works
  2. Engineering4.76×48 works
  3. Materials Science1.43×3 works
  4. Environmental Science0.49×2 works
  5. Computer Science0.47×2 works
  6. Health Professions0.28×0 works
  7. Decision Sciences0.26×0 works
  8. Neuroscience0.19×0 works
  9. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.16×0 works
  10. Business, Management and Accounting0.15×0 works
  11. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.12×0 works
  12. Medicine0.04×0 works
  13. Social Sciences0.02×0 works
  14. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.01×0 works

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

Ranked on the quality score, Cathy Lee, Andy Xie and Gernot Fattinger lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Qorvo (United States).

  1. 1 Cathy Lee United States · #882,945 worldwide 3.6k citations · 186 works
  2. 2 Andy Xie United States · #1,422,244 worldwide 905 citations · 35 works
  3. 3 Gernot Fattinger United States · #1,663,093 worldwide 1k citations · 29 works
  4. 4 Shuoqi Chen United States · #1,708,928 worldwide 1.3k citations · 56 works
  5. 5 Manyam Pilla United States · #1,708,984 worldwide 514 citations · 21 works
  6. 6 Ralph Rothemund United States · #1,808,475 worldwide 644 citations · 18 works
  7. 7 Charles Forrest Campbell United States · #2,656,700 worldwide 1.4k citations · 72 works
  8. 8 Gergana I. Drandova United States · #3,829,569 worldwide 63 citations · 17 works
  9. 9 Alfred Giménez United States · #3,836,911 worldwide 221 citations · 20 works
  10. 10 Nathaniel Peachey United States · #3,947,229 worldwide 511 citations · 45 works
All ranked researchers at Qorvo (United States)

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

The most cited paper from Qorvo (United States) is "The 2018 GaN power electronics roadmap" (Hiroshi Amano et al., 2018), with 1,322 citations. Next come "From Microwave Acoustic Filters to Millimeter-Wave Operation and New Applications" (230) and "Low Thermal Boundary Resistance Interfaces for GaN-on-Diamond Devices" (171).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The 2018 GaN power electronics roadmap Hiroshi Amano et al. · Journal of Physics D Applied Physics Open access 26 Mar 2018 1,322
2 From Microwave Acoustic Filters to Millimeter-Wave Operation and New Applications Amelie Hagelauer, Rich Ruby, Shogo Inoue et al. · IEEE Journal of Microwaves Open access 20 Dec 2022 230
3 Low Thermal Boundary Resistance Interfaces for GaN-on-Diamond Devices Luke Yates, Jonathan Anderson, Xing Gu et al. · ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 25 Jun 2018 171
4 Microwave Acoustic Wave Devices: Recent Advances on Architectures, Modeling, Materials, and Packaging Amelie Hagelauer, Gernot Fattinger, C.C.W. Ruppel et al. · IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques 31 Jul 2018 165
5 Barrier-Layer Optimization for Enhanced GaN-on-Diamond Device Cooling Yan Zhou, J. Anaya, James W. Pomeroy et al. · ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 13 Sep 2017 160
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Which keywords describe research at Qorvo (United States)?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Integrated Circuits, Frequency Synthesizer, CMOS, Oscillators, Nanowires, High-Frequency Applications, Band Parameters and Acoustic Wave Biosensors.

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

Size is fractional works in 2022-now 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. Integrated Circuits9▲ 93×3 topics
  2. Frequency Synthesizer8▲ 321×2 topics
  3. CMOS8▲ 242×1 topic
  4. Oscillators8▲ 430×1 topic
  5. High-Frequency Applications7▲ 241×2 topics
  6. Nanowires7▲ 77×4 topics
  7. Band Parameters7▲ 199×2 topics
  8. Acoustic Wave Biosensors7▲ 368×1 topic
  9. Thin Film Resonators7▲ 368×1 topic
  10. Semiconductors5▲ 27×2 topics
  11. III-Nitrides5▲ 258×1 topic
  12. Light-Emitting Diodes5▲ 52×1 topic
  13. Reliability4▲ 83×2 topics
  14. Digital Predistortion4▲ 547×1 topic
  15. RF Power Amplifiers4▲ 547×1 topic
  16. Thermal Management4▲ 18×4 topics
  17. High-Temperature Electronics3▲ 84×2 topics
  18. Power Devices3▲ 73×2 topics
  19. Power Electronics3▲ 15×5 topics
  20. Artificial Neural Networks3▲ 9.0×2 topics
  21. Silicon Carbide3▲ 85×1 topic
  22. Wide Bandgap Semiconductors3▲ 99×1 topic
  23. Microwave Filters3▲ 75×1 topic
  24. Resonators3▲ 87×2 topics
  25. Sensors3▲ 33×2 topics
  26. Substrate Integrated Waveguide3▲ 75×1 topic
  27. Semiconductor2▲ 12×2 topics
  28. CMOS Technology2▲ 39×3 topics
  29. EMI2▲ 165×1 topic
  30. Electromagnetic Compatibility2▲ 165×1 topic
  31. Metamaterial2▲ 36×2 topics
  32. Thermal Behavior2▲ 77×2 topics
  33. Quantum Dots2▲ 32×1 topic
  34. Single-Photon Source2▲ 123×1 topic
  35. 5G2▲ 45×2 topics
  36. Broadcasting2▲ 168×1 topic
  37. Layered Division Multiplexing2▲ 168×1 topic
  38. Microfabrication2▲ 56×2 topics
  39. Soil Moisture2▲ 30×1 topic
  40. Wireless Communications2▲ 13×2 topics

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

By volume in 2022-now: Radio Frequency Integrated Circuit Design, Acoustic Wave Resonator Technologies, GaN-based semiconductor devices and materials and Advanced Power Amplifier Design.

Radio Frequency Integrat…8Radio Frequency Integrated Circuit Design: 8 fractional worksAcoustic Wave Resonator Technologies: 7 fractional worksGaN-based semiconductor devices and materials: 5 fractional worksAdvanced Power Amplifier Design: 4 fractional worksSilicon Carbide Semiconductor Technologies: 3 fractional worksMicrowave Engineering an…3Microwave Engineering and Waveguides: 3 fractional worksElectromagnetic Compatibility and Noise Suppression: 2 fractional worksSemiconductor Quantum Structures and Devices: 2 fractional worksTelecommunications and Broadcasting Technologies: 2 fractional worksSoil Moisture and Remote Sensing: 2 fractional works
Electrical and Electronic EngineeringBiomedical EngineeringCondensed Matter PhysicsAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics2 others

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

  1. 1 Radio Frequency Integrated Circuit Design Electrical and Electronic Engineering 8 works
  2. 2 Acoustic Wave Resonator Technologies Biomedical Engineering 7 works
  3. 3 GaN-based semiconductor devices and materials Condensed Matter Physics 5 works
  4. 4 Advanced Power Amplifier Design Electrical and Electronic Engineering 4 works
  5. 5 Silicon Carbide Semiconductor Technologies Electrical and Electronic Engineering 3 works
  6. 6 Microwave Engineering and Waveguides Electrical and Electronic Engineering 3 works
  7. 7 Electromagnetic Compatibility and Noise Suppression Electrical and Electronic Engineering 2 works
  8. 8 Semiconductor Quantum Structures and Devices Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics 2 works
  9. 9 Telecommunications and Broadcasting Technologies Media Technology 2 works
  10. 10 Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing Environmental Engineering 2 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 available11.4%not open88.6%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors12.7%domestic only87.3%

World: 18% is written across borders.

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

Output in 2022-2025 was 38% lower than in 2018-2021.

still counting2010201520202025
grewheldshrank

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 Qorvo (United States) as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00032% in 2024.

still counting0.00050%0.0010%0.0015%Qorvo (United States)0.00018% in 202520102020

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

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year, against all institutions in the same year.

10%20%30%all institutions10.0% in 2021Qorvo (United States)6.2% in 20212020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 20.6% in 2018.

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