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Researcher · U.S. Air Force Institute of Technology · United States

William D. Cowan

William D. Cowan publishes mostly in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Biomedical Engineering, on topics such as Advanced MEMS and NEMS Technologies, Photonic and Optical Devices and Adaptive optics and wavefront sensing.

OpenAlex
World rank
#1,081,661
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#277,315
of 358,040
Works
20
Citations
21
Citations per work
1.1

What does William D. Cowan research?

Electrical and Electronic Engineering: 48.1%Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 14.8%Biomedical Engineering: 11.1%Mechanical Engineering: 11.1%other fields: 14.9%48%top field
Electrical and Electronic Engineering48.1%Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics14.8%Biomedical Engineering11.1%Mechanical Engineering11.1%other fields14.9%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1Electrical and Electronic Engineering48% of their works
  2. 2Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics15% of their works
  3. 3Biomedical Engineering11% of their works
  4. 4Mechanical Engineering11% of their works
  5. 5Astronomy and Astrophysics7% of their works
  6. 6Statistical and Nonlinear Physics4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe William D. Cowan's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: MEMS, Silicon, Adaptive Optics, Optical Modulators, Silicon Photonics, Wavefront Sensing, Compound Eyes and Dimensional Metrology.

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 16 words, with their numbers
  1. MEMS41 topic
  2. Silicon41 topic
  3. Adaptive Optics31 topic
  4. Optical Modulators31 topic
  5. Silicon Photonics31 topic
  6. Wavefront Sensing31 topic
  7. Compound Eyes21 topic
  8. Dimensional Metrology21 topic
  9. Error Compensation21 topic
  10. Freeform Optics21 topic
  11. Laser21 topic
  12. Optical Interconnects21 topic
  13. Semiconductor21 topic
  14. Semiconductor Lasers21 topic
  15. Chemical Mechanical Planarization11 topic
  16. Material Removal Mechanism11 topic

Where does William D. Cowan work?

William D. Cowan's main affiliation in the publication record is U.S. Air Force Institute of Technology, United States.

How many publications and citations does William D. Cowan have?

Science Explorer counts 20 works and 21 citations for William D. Cowan, ranking #1,081,661 of 1,633,909 researchers worldwide on the composite 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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