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Researcher · AT&T (United States) · United States

William S. Hobson

William S. Hobson publishes mostly in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Condensed Matter Physics, on topics such as Semiconductor materials and devices, Semiconductor Quantum Structures and Devices and Semiconductor Lasers and Optical Devices.

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World rank
#4,840,975
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#1,266,236
of 1,627,098
Works
332
Citations
5k
Citations per work
15.2
h-index
33
i10-index 128Top 5.7% in Electrical and Electronic Engineering
William S. Hobson

What does William S. Hobson research?

William S. Hobson's work is mostly in Engineering (61%), Physics and Astronomy (26%), Materials Science (8%).

Physical Sciences: 314 works · 94.6% of their workEngineering: 203 works · 61.1% of their workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 191 works · 57.4% of their workBiomedical Engineering: 12 works · 3.7% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 86 works · 26.0% of their workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 68 works · 20.4% of their workCondensed Matter Physics: 19 works · 5.6% of their workMaterials Science: 25 works · 7.5% of their workMaterials Chemistry: 17 works · 5.0% of their workElectronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials: 8 works · 2.5% of their workEverything else: 18 works · 5.4% of their workTHEIR WORKWilliam S. Hobson332works
Physical Sciences95%

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. Engineering20361.1%
    2. Physics and Astronomy8626.0%
    3. Materials Science257.5%
  2. Everything else185.4%
  1. 1Electrical and Electronic Engineering57% of their works
  2. 2Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics20% of their works
  3. 3Condensed Matter Physics6% of their works
  4. 4Materials Chemistry5% of their works
  5. 5Biomedical Engineering4% of their works
  6. 6Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe William S. Hobson's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Band Parameters, Nanowires, Atomic Layer Deposition, High-k Dielectrics, Quantum Dots, Semiconductor, 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. Band Parameters1902 topics
  2. Nanowires1902 topics
  3. Atomic Layer Deposition1871 topic
  4. High-k Dielectrics1871 topic
  5. Quantum Dots1351 topic
  6. Semiconductor1351 topic
  7. Optical Interconnects861 topic
  8. Semiconductor Lasers861 topic
  9. Optical Modulators771 topic
  10. Silicon Photonics771 topic
  11. III-Nitrides551 topic
  12. Semiconductors551 topic
  13. Plasma Etching451 topic
  14. Semiconductor Industry451 topic
  15. Metal-Semiconductor Contacts331 topic
  16. Schottky Barrier331 topic
  17. Nanowire Transistors311 topic
  18. Tunnel Field-Effect Transistors311 topic

Where does William S. Hobson work?

William S. Hobson's main affiliation in the publication record is AT&T (United States), United States.

How many publications and citations does William S. Hobson have?

OpenAlex counts 332 works and 5,041 citations for William S. Hobson, an h-index of 33, ranking #4,840,975 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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