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Advanced Materials and Semiconductor Technologies

Advanced Materials and Semiconductor Technologies is a research topic within Materials Chemistry. Science Explorer counts 2k research works in it since 1950. 10.4% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers covers a wide range of topics in materials science and engineering, including thin-film deposition, nanomaterial synthesis, polymer coatings, thermal conductivity, semiconductor devices, nanocomposite coatings, renewable energy sources, electric drive systems, and sensing properties. The research encompasses advancements in various materials and their applications across different fields.

  • Thin-Film Deposition
  • Nanomaterials Synthesis
  • Polymer Coatings
  • Thermal Conductivity
  • Semiconductor Devices
  • Nanocomposite Coatings
  • Renewable Energy Sources
  • Electric Drive Systems
  • Sensing Properties
  • Information Technology
Research works
2k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
205
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.4%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+13%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Russia
34% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Advanced Materials and Semiconductor Technologies

Which countries lead Advanced Materials and Semiconductor Technologies research?

By volume, Russia and China publish the most (148 and 64 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Russia 148 works
  2. 2 China 64 works
  3. 3 Ukraine 60 works
  4. 4 Uzbekistan 37 works
  5. 5 United States 36 works
  6. 6 Indonesia 28 works
  7. 7 India 27 works
  8. 8 Japan 14 works
  9. 9 Germany 13 works
  10. 10 Iraq 9 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.

Russia: 34.0%China: 14.7%Ukraine: 13.7%Uzbekistan: 8.4%6 others listed: 29.1%34%largest
Russia148 · 34.0%China64 · 14.7%Ukraine60 · 13.7%Uzbekistan37 · 8.4%6 others listed127 · 29.1%

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

Which institutions lead Advanced Materials and Semiconductor Technologies research?

By volume in 2022-now, Russian Academy of Sciences publishes the most Advanced Materials and Semiconductor Technologies research, followed by Tashkent State Technical University named after Islam Karimov and National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 25 works
  2. 2 Tashkent State Technical University named after Islam KarimovUzbekistan 7 works
  3. 3 National Academy of Sciences of UkraineUkraine 7 works
  4. 4 Moscow Power Engineering InstituteRussia 6 works
  5. 5 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 6 works
  6. 6 Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National UniversityUkraine 5 works
  7. 7 National Technical University "Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute"Ukraine 4 works
  8. 8 Saint Petersburg State Electrotechnical UniversityRussia 4 works
  9. 9 Weatherford CollegeUnited States 4 works
  10. 10 National Technical University of Ukraine “Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute”Ukraine 4 works

Who are the leading researchers in Advanced Materials and Semiconductor Technologies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Advanced Materials and Semiconductor Technologies include Takashi Taniguchi, Claude Leroy and Marvin L. Cohen.

  1. 1 Takashi Taniguchi Japan 227k citations
  2. 2 Claude Leroy Canada 132k citations
  3. 3 Marvin L. Cohen United States 110k 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 Advanced Materials and Semiconductor Technologies?

The most cited paper in Advanced Materials and Semiconductor Technologies is "On the Numerical Calculation of the Density of States and Related Properties" (Gerd Lehmann, M. Taut, 1972), with 1,258 citations. Next come "Materials Research Society" (1,011) and "Studies of the water adsorption on Zeolites and modified mesoporous materials for seasonal storage of solar heat" (320).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 On the Numerical Calculation of the Density of States and Related Properties Gerd Lehmann, M. Taut · physica status solidi (b) Dec 1972 1,258
2 Materials Research Society Rustum Roy, Harry J. Leamy, C. W. White et al. · Physics Today Feb 1984 1,011
3 Studies of the water adsorption on Zeolites and modified mesoporous materials for seasonal storage of solar heat J. Jänchen, D. Ackermann, H. Stach et al. · Solar Energy 11 Oct 2003 320
4 Theory of the first-order Raman effect in crystals R. Loudon · Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A Mathematical and Physical Sciences 24 Sep 1963 307
5 Negative capacitance effect in semiconductor devices M. Ershov, H.C. Liu, L. Li et al. · IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices Open access 1998 301
All 101 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Advanced Materials and Semiconductor Technologies research done?

The largest centres of Advanced Materials and Semiconductor Technologies research in 2022-now are Moscow (Russia), Tashkent (Uzbekistan), Saint Petersburg (Russia) and Kyiv (Ukraine). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Moscow.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 MoscowRussia 48 works
  2. 2 TashkentUzbekistan 18 works
  3. 3 Saint PetersburgRussia 17 works
  4. 4 KyivUkraine 14 works
  5. 5 BeijingChina 11 works
  6. 6 KharkivUkraine 10 works
  7. 7 BakuAzerbaijan 8 works
  8. 8 LvivUkraine 7 works
  9. 9 NovosibirskRussia 7 works
  10. 10 MinskBelarus 7 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. MoscowRU · 48.2 works8.5×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Advanced Materials and Semiconductor Technologies than the world average.

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Is Advanced Materials and Semiconductor Technologies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 13% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2026. The fastest-growing topics are Advanced Materials and Semiconductor 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 Advanced Materials and Semiconductor Technologies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0012% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Advanced Materials and Semiconductor 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.

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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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