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Researcher · Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft · Germany

Hermann Sigmund

Hermann Sigmund publishes mostly in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials Chemistry and Computational Mechanics, on topics such as Semiconductor materials and devices, Silicon and Solar Cell Technologies and Silicon Nanostructures and Photoluminescence.

OpenAlex
World rank
#5,801,656
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Germany
#297,893
of 364,343
Works
21
Citations
202
Citations per work
9.6
h-index
8
i10-index 8Top 66% in Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Hermann Sigmund

What does Hermann Sigmund research?

Hermann Sigmund's work is mostly in Engineering (57%), Materials Science (20%).

Physical Sciences: 16 works · 77.1% of their workEngineering: 12 works · 57.4% of their workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 8 works · 37.7% of their workComputational Mechanics: 2 works · 8.2% of their workBiomedical Engineering: 1 works · 6.6% of their workMechanics of Materials: 1 works · 4.9% of their workMaterials Science: 4 works · 19.7% of their workMaterials Chemistry: 3 works · 14.8% of their workElectronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials: 1 works · 4.9% of their workEverything else: 5 works · 22.9% of their workTHEIR WORKHermann Sigmund21works
Physical Sciences77%

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. Engineering1257.4%
    2. Materials Science419.7%
  2. Everything else522.9%
  1. 1Electrical and Electronic Engineering38% of their works
  2. 2Materials Chemistry15% of their works
  3. 3Computational Mechanics8% of their works
  4. 4Biomedical Engineering7% of their works
  5. 5Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials5% of their works
  6. 6Mechanics of Materials5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Hermann Sigmund's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Solar Cells, Atomic Layer Deposition, High-k Dielectrics, Efficiency, Nanoparticles, Porous Silicon, Silicon and Femtosecond Laser.

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 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Solar Cells82 topics
  2. Atomic Layer Deposition61 topic
  3. High-k Dielectrics61 topic
  4. Efficiency51 topic
  5. Nanoparticles51 topic
  6. Porous Silicon51 topic
  7. Silicon51 topic
  8. Femtosecond Laser31 topic
  9. Material Analysis31 topic
  10. Micromachining31 topic
  11. Plasmonics31 topic
  12. Spectroscopy31 topic
  13. Thin-Film Transistors31 topic
  14. Chemical Mechanical Planarization21 topic
  15. Material Removal Mechanism21 topic
  16. Roughness Measurement21 topic
  17. Surface Characterization21 topic

Where does Hermann Sigmund work?

Hermann Sigmund's main affiliation in the publication record is Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, Germany.

How many publications and citations does Hermann Sigmund have?

OpenAlex counts 21 works and 202 citations for Hermann Sigmund, an h-index of 8, ranking #5,801,656 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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