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Acoustic Wave Resonator Technologies

Acoustic Wave Resonator Technologies is a research topic within Biomedical Engineering. Science Explorer counts 55k research works in it since 1950. 10.0% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the development, applications, and characterization of acoustic wave biosensors and thin film resonators, particularly emphasizing piezoelectric response, quartz crystal microbalance, surface acoustic wave sensors, MEMS resonators, and aluminum nitride thin films. The research covers a wide range of topics including biosensor applications, high-frequency sensing, and biological detection.

  • Acoustic Wave Biosensors
  • Thin Film Resonators
  • Piezoelectric Response
  • Quartz Crystal Microbalance
  • Surface Acoustic Wave Sensors
  • Biosensor Applications
  • MEMS Resonators
  • Aluminum Nitride Thin Films
  • High-Frequency Applications
  • Biological Detection
Research works
55k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
5.5k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+10%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
49% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Acoustic Wave Resonator Technologies

Which countries lead Acoustic Wave Resonator Technologies research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (2.7k and 797 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 2.7k works
  2. 2 United States 797 works
  3. 3 India 494 works
  4. 4 Japan 344 works
  5. 5 Germany 242 works
  6. 6 France 237 works
  7. 7 Russia 233 works
  8. 8 South Korea 162 works
  9. 9 Italy 129 works
  10. 10 United Kingdom 125 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

China: 49.1%United States: 14.7%India: 9.1%Japan: 6.3%6 others listed: 20.8%49%largest
China2,667 · 49.1%United States797 · 14.7%India494 · 9.1%Japan344 · 6.3%6 others listed1,127 · 20.8%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Acoustic Wave Resonator Technologies research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Sciences publishes the most Acoustic Wave Resonator Technologies research, followed by University of Electronic Science and Technology of China and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 238 works
  2. 2 University of Electronic Science and Technology of ChinaChina 103 works
  3. 3 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 102 works
  4. 4 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 83 works
  5. 5 Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityChina 80 works
  6. 6 Tsinghua UniversityChina 60 works
  7. 7 Xidian UniversityChina 52 works
  8. 8 Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 47 works
  9. 9 Zhejiang UniversityChina 46 works
  10. 10 Agency for Science, Technology and ResearchSingapore 44 works

Who are the leading researchers in Acoustic Wave Resonator Technologies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Acoustic Wave Resonator Technologies include Zhong Lin Wang, Michaël Grätzel and Georg Kresse.

  1. 1 Zhong Lin Wang United States 491k citations
  2. 2 Michaël Grätzel Switzerland 458k citations
  3. 3 Georg Kresse Austria 431k citations
  4. 4 Kostya S. Novoselov United Kingdom 331k citations
  5. 5 Wei Huang China 267k citations
  6. 6 Xiaogang Wang China 260k citations
  7. 7 Tien Yin Wong Singapore 237k citations
  8. 8 Kenji Watanabe Japan 237k citations
  9. 9 Donald G. Truhlar United States 230k citations
  10. 10 Takashi Taniguchi Japan 227k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Acoustic Wave Resonator Technologies?

The most cited paper in Acoustic Wave Resonator Technologies is "An improved technique for determining hardness and elastic modulus using load and displacement sensing indentation experiments" (W. C. Oliver, George M. Pharr, 1992), with 27,030 citations. Next come "Phonons and related crystal properties from density-functional perturbation theory" (10,098) and "Theory of polarization of crystalline solids" (4,494).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 An improved technique for determining hardness and elastic modulus using load and displacement sensing indentation experiments W. C. Oliver, George M. Pharr · Journal of materials research/Pratt's guide to venture capital sources Jun 1992 27,030
2 Phonons and related crystal properties from density-functional perturbation theory Stefano Baroni, Stefano de Gironcoli, Andrea Dal Corso et al. · Reviews of Modern Physics Open access 6 Jul 2001 10,098
3 Theory of polarization of crystalline solids R. D. King-Smith, David Vanderbilt · Physical review. B, Condensed matter 15 Jan 1993 4,494
4 Ultrahigh strain and piezoelectric behavior in relaxor based ferroelectric single crystals Seung-Eek Park, Thomas R. Shrout · Journal of Applied Physics 15 Aug 1997 4,158
5 Ferroelectric Ceramics: History and Technology Gene H. Haertling · Journal of the American Ceramic Society Apr 1999 4,057
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Acoustic Wave Resonator Technologies research done?

The largest centres of Acoustic Wave Resonator Technologies research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Shanghai (China), Xi'an (China) and Chengdu (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Hsinchu and Rostov-on-Don.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 448 works
  2. 2 ShanghaiChina 238 works
  3. 3 Xi'anChina 215 works
  4. 4 ChengduChina 185 works
  5. 5 NanjingChina 154 works
  6. 6 WuhanChina 130 works
  7. 7 HangzhouChina 110 works
  8. 8 TokyoJapan 102 works
  9. 9 MoscowRussia 89 works
  10. 10 GuangzhouChina 81 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. HsinchuTW · 48.6 works8.7×
  2. Rostov-on-DonRU · 25.0 works8.1×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Acoustic Wave Resonator Technologies than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Acoustic Wave Resonator Technologies?

Among universities, judged by research, Sichuan University, Xi'an Jiaotong University and Tsinghua University score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%20%40%mean 23.3%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Sichuan UniversityTsinghua UniversityHangzhou Dianzi Univ…Xi'an Jiaotong Unive…
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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1Sichuan UniversityChina 68.032.6%2.7×35 +29.5%
2Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityChina 67.516.5%7.8×80 +23.4%
3Tsinghua UniversityChina 66.121.8%4.5×60 +24.2%
4Hangzhou Dianzi UniversityChina 61.421.0%12.7×25 +78.2%
5University of MichiganUnited States 61.323.9%3.4×30 +12.3%
6University of Electronic Science and Technology of ChinaChina 59.08.3%15.8×103 +71.6%
7University of Science and Technology BeijingChina 59.028.4%4.0×18 +67.9%
8University of PennsylvaniaUnited States 58.634.8%1.8×11 +160.4%
9Guilin University of TechnologyChina 58.328.3%7.9×10 +73.7%
10University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 56.117.4%4.2×40 +22.3%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Acoustic Wave Resonator Technologies, country by country

Is Acoustic Wave Resonator Technologies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 10% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2002. The fastest-growing topics are Acoustic Wave Resonator Technologies.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Acoustic Wave Resonator Technologies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.033% in 2024.

still counting0.050%0.10%0.15%Acoustic Wave Resonator Technologies0.028% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Acoustic Wave Resonator Technologies over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Acoustic Wave Resonator Technologies9.8% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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