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Researcher · École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne · Switzerland

Christophe Ballif

Christophe Ballif publishes mostly in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials Chemistry and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, on topics such as Thin-Film Transistor Technologies, Silicon and Solar Cell Technologies and Silicon Nanostructures and Photoluminescence.

ORCID 0000-0001-8989-0545 OpenAlex
World rank
#197,336
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Switzerland
#3,940
of 80,918
Works
912
Citations
39k
Citations per work
43.1
h-index
98
i10-index 426Top 0.1% in Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Christophe Ballif

What does Christophe Ballif research?

Christophe Ballif's work is mostly in Engineering (61%), Materials Science (14%), Physics and Astronomy (5%).

Physical Sciences: 794 works · 87.1% of their workEngineering: 555 works · 60.9% of their workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 513 works · 56.2% of their workBiomedical Engineering: 43 works · 4.7% of their workMaterials Science: 124 works · 13.6% of their workMaterials Chemistry: 124 works · 13.6% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 49 works · 5.4% of their workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 49 works · 5.4% of their workEnergy: 47 works · 5.1% of their workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 47 works · 5.1% of their workEnvironmental Science: 19 works · 2.1% of their workEnvironmental Engineering: 19 works · 2.1% of their workEverything else: 118 works · 12.9% of their workTHEIR WORKChristophe Ballif912works
Physical Sciences87%

Their six largest subfields, inside their fields and domains; the grey slice is everything else they publish. The interactive view splits every one of their works down to single topics.

The fields and subfields, with their numbers
    1. Engineering55560.9%
    2. Materials Science12413.6%
    3. Physics and Astronomy495.4%
    4. Energy475.1%
    5. Environmental Science192.1%
  2. Everything else11812.9%
  1. 1Electrical and Electronic Engineering56% of their works
  2. 2Materials Chemistry14% of their works
  3. 3Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics5% of their works
  4. 4Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment5% of their works
  5. 5Biomedical Engineering5% of their works
  6. 6Environmental Engineering2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Christophe Ballif's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Solar Cells, Efficiency, Photovoltaics, Plasmonics, Thin-Film Transistors, Passivation, Silicon and Nanoparticles.

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 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Solar Cells1,0073 topics
  2. Efficiency6243 topics
  3. Photovoltaics5222 topics
  4. Plasmonics4591 topic
  5. Thin-Film Transistors4591 topic
  6. Passivation4461 topic
  7. Silicon4461 topic
  8. Nanoparticles1821 topic
  9. Porous Silicon1821 topic
  10. Metal-Semiconductor Contacts1021 topic
  11. Organometal Halide Perovskites1021 topic
  12. Perovskite Solar Cells1021 topic
  13. Schottky Barrier1021 topic
  14. High Efficiency981 topic
  15. Multijunction Solar Cells981 topic
  16. Maximum Power Point Tracking831 topic
  17. Photovoltaic Arrays831 topic
  18. CZTS761 topic
  19. Thin-Film Solar Cells761 topic

Where does Christophe Ballif work?

Christophe Ballif's main affiliation in the publication record is École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland.

How many publications and citations does Christophe Ballif have?

OpenAlex counts 912 works and 39,335 citations for Christophe Ballif, an h-index of 98, ranking #197,336 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality 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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