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Xavier Lafontan

Xavier Lafontan publishes mostly in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Mechanics of Materials and Mechanical Engineering, on topics such as Metal and Thin Film Mechanics, Adhesion, Friction, and Surface Interactions and Semiconductor Lasers and Optical Devices.

World rank
#936,477
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in France
#58,057
of 96,116
Works
20
Citations
16
Citations per work
0.8

What does Xavier Lafontan research?

Electrical and Electronic Engineering: 46.2%Mechanics of Materials: 38.5%Mechanical Engineering: 7.7%Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 7.7%46%top field
Electrical and Electronic Engineering46.2%Mechanics of Materials38.5%Mechanical Engineering7.7%Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics7.7%

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 Engineering46% of their works
  2. 2Mechanics of Materials38% of their works
  3. 3Mechanical Engineering8% of their works
  4. 4Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics8% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Xavier Lafontan's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Adhesion, Gecko, Nanoindentation, Thermal Behavior, Thin Films, Failure Analysis, Integrated Circuits and Interconnect.

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 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Adhesion21 topic
  2. Gecko21 topic
  3. Nanoindentation21 topic
  4. Thermal Behavior22 topics
  5. Thin Films21 topic
  6. Failure Analysis11 topic
  7. Integrated Circuits11 topic
  8. Interconnect11 topic
  9. Interfacial Reactions11 topic
  10. Lead-free Solders11 topic
  11. MEMS11 topic
  12. Nanowire Transistors11 topic
  13. Optical Interconnects11 topic
  14. Semiconductor Lasers11 topic
  15. Silicon11 topic
  16. Through-Silicon Via11 topic
  17. Tunnel Field-Effect Transistors11 topic

Where does Xavier Lafontan work?

Xavier Lafontan's main affiliation in the publication record is Centre National d'Études Spatiales, France.

How many publications and citations does Xavier Lafontan have?

Science Explorer counts 20 works and 16 citations for Xavier Lafontan, ranking #936,477 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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