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Researcher · FH Aachen · Germany

Pieter Balk

Pieter Balk publishes mostly in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Materials Chemistry, on topics such as Semiconductor materials and devices, Semiconductor Quantum Structures and Devices and Semiconductor materials and interfaces.

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World rank
#1,255,536
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Germany
#61,881
of 364,343
Works
205
Citations
4.8k
Citations per work
23.5
h-index
37
i10-index 118Top 4.2% in Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Pieter Balk

What does Pieter Balk research?

Pieter Balk's work is mostly in Engineering (53%), Physics and Astronomy (27%), Materials Science (12%).

Physical Sciences: 186 works · 90.8% of their workEngineering: 108 works · 52.6% of their workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 98 works · 47.6% of their workBiomedical Engineering: 5 works · 2.5% of their workComputational Mechanics: 5 works · 2.5% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 55 works · 26.6% of their workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 46 works · 22.3% of their workCondensed Matter Physics: 9 works · 4.3% of their workMaterials Science: 24 works · 11.6% of their workMaterials Chemistry: 24 works · 11.6% of their workEverything else: 19 works · 9.2% of their workTHEIR WORKPieter Balk205works
Physical Sciences91%

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. Engineering10852.6%
    2. Physics and Astronomy5526.6%
    3. Materials Science2411.6%
  2. Everything else199.2%
  1. 1Electrical and Electronic Engineering48% of their works
  2. 2Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics22% of their works
  3. 3Materials Chemistry12% of their works
  4. 4Condensed Matter Physics4% of their works
  5. 5Biomedical Engineering2% of their works
  6. 6Computational Mechanics2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Pieter Balk's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Atomic Layer Deposition, High-k Dielectrics, Band Parameters, Nanowires, Photovoltaics, Solar Cells, Quantum Dots and Semiconductor.

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 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Atomic Layer Deposition1321 topic
  2. High-k Dielectrics1321 topic
  3. Band Parameters1002 topics
  4. Nanowires1002 topics
  5. Photovoltaics992 topics
  6. Solar Cells863 topics
  7. Quantum Dots741 topic
  8. Semiconductor741 topic
  9. Metal-Semiconductor Contacts401 topic
  10. Schottky Barrier401 topic
  11. Nanoparticles321 topic
  12. Porous Silicon321 topic
  13. Nanowire Transistors311 topic
  14. Tunnel Field-Effect Transistors311 topic
  15. III-Nitrides261 topic
  16. Semiconductors261 topic
  17. Efficiency251 topic
  18. Silicon251 topic
  19. Plasmonics211 topic
  20. Thin-Film Transistors211 topic

Where does Pieter Balk work?

Pieter Balk's main affiliation in the publication record is FH Aachen, Germany.

How many publications and citations does Pieter Balk have?

OpenAlex counts 205 works and 4,813 citations for Pieter Balk, an h-index of 37, ranking #1,255,536 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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