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Researcher · Nelson Mandela University · South Africa

A.W.R. Leitch

A.W.R. Leitch publishes mostly in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials Chemistry and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, on topics such as Optical Network Technologies, Semiconductor Lasers and Optical Devices and Copper-based nanomaterials and applications.

OpenAlex
World rank
#1,252,267
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in South Africa
#4,286
of 5,570
Works
37
Citations
54
Citations per work
1.5

What does A.W.R. Leitch research?

Electrical and Electronic Engineering: 55.1%Materials Chemistry: 23.2%Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 8.7%Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials: 5.8%other fields: 7.2%55%top field
Electrical and Electronic Engineering55.1%Materials Chemistry23.2%Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics8.7%Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials5.8%other fields7.2%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1Electrical and Electronic Engineering55% of their works
  2. 2Materials Chemistry23% of their works
  3. 3Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics9% of their works
  4. 4Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials6% of their works
  5. 5Condensed Matter Physics3% of their works
  6. 6Computational Mechanics1% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe A.W.R. Leitch's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Nanostructures, Photodetectors, Coherent Detection, Optical Fiber, CuO, Nanocrystals, Optical Interconnects and Semiconductor Lasers.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Nanostructures112 topics
  2. Photodetectors92 topics
  3. Coherent Detection81 topic
  4. Optical Fiber81 topic
  5. CuO61 topic
  6. Nanocrystals61 topic
  7. Optical Interconnects61 topic
  8. Semiconductor Lasers61 topic
  9. Optical Modulators51 topic
  10. Semiconductors51 topic
  11. Silicon Photonics51 topic
  12. Zinc Oxide51 topic
  13. Gallium Oxide41 topic
  14. Microwave Photonics41 topic
  15. Photonic Signal Processing41 topic
  16. Semiconductor41 topic
  17. Silicon41 topic
  18. Solar Cells41 topic

Where does A.W.R. Leitch work?

A.W.R. Leitch's main affiliation in the publication record is Nelson Mandela University, South Africa.

How many publications and citations does A.W.R. Leitch have?

Science Explorer counts 37 works and 54 citations for A.W.R. Leitch, ranking #1,252,267 of 1,633,909 researchers worldwide on the composite score.

Ranked on field-normalised excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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