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Researcher · Integrated Sensing Systems (United States) · United States

Douglas R. Sparks

Douglas R. Sparks publishes mostly in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Astronomy and Astrophysics, on topics such as Advanced MEMS and NEMS Technologies, Silicon and Solar Cell Technologies and Mechanical and Optical Resonators.

OpenAlex
World rank
#2,010,640
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#610,127
of 1,627,098
Works
39
Citations
866
Citations per work
22.2
h-index
15
i10-index 18Top 30% in Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Douglas R. Sparks

What does Douglas R. Sparks research?

Douglas R. Sparks's work is mostly in Engineering (63%), Physics and Astronomy (17%), Computer Science (2%).

Physical Sciences: 32 works · 82.0% of their workEngineering: 25 works · 63.1% of their workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 21 works · 53.2% of their workBiomedical Engineering: 2 works · 6.3% of their workComputational Mechanics: 1 works · 3.6% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 7 works · 17.1% of their workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 4 works · 9.9% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 3 works · 7.2% of their workComputer Science: 1 works · 1.8% of their workComputer Networks and Communications: 1 works · 1.8% of their workEverything else: 7 works · 18.0% of their workTHEIR WORKDouglas R. Sparks39works
Physical Sciences82%

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. Engineering2563.1%
    2. Physics and Astronomy717.1%
    3. Computer Science11.8%
  2. Everything else718.0%
  1. 1Electrical and Electronic Engineering53% of their works
  2. 2Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics10% of their works
  3. 3Astronomy and Astrophysics7% of their works
  4. 4Biomedical Engineering6% of their works
  5. 5Computational Mechanics4% of their works
  6. 6Computer Networks and Communications2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Douglas R. Sparks's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Silicon, MEMS, Microfabrication, Biosensors, Integrated Circuits, Efficiency, Solar Cells and Nanomechanical Systems.

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. The words come from the keyword list OpenAlex gives each topic, not from the text of the papers, so a word can appear that none of the papers uses.

All 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Silicon262 topics
  2. MEMS161 topic
  3. Microfabrication161 topic
  4. Biosensors122 topics
  5. Integrated Circuits112 topics
  6. Efficiency101 topic
  7. Solar Cells101 topic
  8. Nanomechanical Systems71 topic
  9. Optomechanics71 topic
  10. Failure Analysis61 topic
  11. Photon Emission Microscopy61 topic
  12. Optical Modulators51 topic
  13. Silicon Photonics51 topic
  14. Atomic Layer Deposition41 topic
  15. High-k Dielectrics41 topic
  16. Interconnect41 topic
  17. Nanowire Transistors41 topic
  18. Through-Silicon Via41 topic
  19. Tunnel Field-Effect Transistors41 topic

Where does Douglas R. Sparks work?

Douglas R. Sparks's main affiliation in the publication record is Integrated Sensing Systems (United States), United States.

How many publications and citations does Douglas R. Sparks have?

OpenAlex counts 39 works and 866 citations for Douglas R. Sparks, an h-index of 15, ranking #2,010,640 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised citation 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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