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Advanced Semiconductor Detectors and Materials

Advanced Semiconductor Detectors and Materials is a research topic within Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Science Explorer counts 29k research works in it since 1950. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers covers advances in infrared detector technologies, focusing on materials such as HgCdTe and CdZnTe, superlattice photodetectors, compound semiconductors, and their applications in radiation detection and focal plane arrays.

  • Infrared Detectors
  • Semiconductor Materials
  • HgCdTe
  • CdZnTe
  • Superlattice Photodetectors
  • Radiation Detection
  • Focal Plane Arrays
  • Compound Semiconductors
  • Gamma-Ray Detectors
  • Detector Performance
Research works
29k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.9k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+21%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
39% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Advanced Semiconductor Detectors and Materials

Which countries lead Advanced Semiconductor Detectors and Materials research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (855 and 464 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 855 works
  2. 2 United States 464 works
  3. 3 Russia 198 works
  4. 4 India 185 works
  5. 5 Japan 116 works
  6. 6 France 91 works
  7. 7 United Kingdom 79 works
  8. 8 South Korea 78 works
  9. 9 Germany 77 works
  10. 10 Poland 70 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: 38.7%United States: 21.0%Russia: 9.0%India: 8.4%6 others listed: 23.1%39%largest
China855 · 38.7%United States464 · 21.0%Russia198 · 9.0%India185 · 8.4%6 others listed510 · 23.1%

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

Which institutions lead Advanced Semiconductor Detectors and Materials research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Sciences publishes the most Advanced Semiconductor Detectors and Materials research, followed by Russian Academy of Sciences and University of Chinese Academy of Sciences.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 151 works
  2. 2 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 92 works
  3. 3 University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 32 works
  4. 4 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 32 works
  5. 5 Military University of Technology in WarsawPoland 20 works
  6. 6 Northwestern Polytechnical UniversityChina 20 works
  7. 7 Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies AlternativesFrance 17 works
  8. 8 Polish Academy of SciencesPoland 17 works
  9. 9 University of Electronic Science and Technology of ChinaChina 16 works
  10. 10 United States Department of DefenseUnited States 16 works

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

The most-cited researchers publishing on Advanced Semiconductor Detectors and Materials include Zhong Lin Wang, Michaël Grätzel and Kostya S. Novoselov.

  1. 1 Zhong Lin Wang United States 491k citations
  2. 2 Michaël Grätzel Switzerland 458k citations
  3. 3 Kostya S. Novoselov United Kingdom 331k citations
  4. 4 Wei Huang China 267k citations
  5. 5 M. Weber Israel 267k citations
  6. 6 Kenji Watanabe Japan 237k citations
  7. 7 Takashi Taniguchi Japan 227k citations
  8. 8 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  9. 9 Albert-Ĺaszló Barabási United States 223k citations
  10. 10 E. Rossi France 221k 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 Semiconductor Detectors and Materials?

The most cited paper in Advanced Semiconductor Detectors and Materials is "The Long-Wavelength Edge of Photographic Sensitivity and of the Electronic Absorption of Solids" (Franz Urbach, 1953), with 6,047 citations. Next come "Anomalous Optical Absorption Limit in InSb" (3,970) and "Defects in epitaxial multilayers I. Misfit dislocations" (3,096).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The Long-Wavelength Edge of Photographic Sensitivity and of the Electronic Absorption of Solids Franz Urbach · Physical Review Dec 1953 6,047
2 Anomalous Optical Absorption Limit in InSb Elias Burstein · Physical Review Feb 1954 3,970
3 Defects in epitaxial multilayers I. Misfit dislocations Jacqueline M. Matthews · Journal of Crystal Growth Dec 1974 3,096
4 Band lineups and deformation potentials in the model-solid theory Chris G. Van de Walle · Physical review. B, Condensed matter 15 Jan 1989 2,230
5 The Interpretation of the Properties of Indium Antimonide T. S. Moss · Proceedings of the Physical Society Section B Oct 1954 1,915
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Where is Advanced Semiconductor Detectors and Materials research done?

The largest centres of Advanced Semiconductor Detectors and Materials research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Shanghai (China), Xi'an (China) and Moscow (Russia).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 218 works
  2. 2 ShanghaiChina 94 works
  3. 3 Xi'anChina 57 works
  4. 4 MoscowRussia 57 works
  5. 5 Saint PetersburgRussia 46 works
  6. 6 WarsawPoland 42 works
  7. 7 WuhanChina 40 works
  8. 8 ChengduChina 38 works
  9. 9 SeoulSouth Korea 36 works
  10. 10 NanjingChina 33 works
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Where is the best place to study Advanced Semiconductor Detectors and Materials?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing Institute of Technology and University of Electronic Science and Technology of China 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 19.53%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Beijing Institute of…Huazhong University …University of Electr…University of Chines…
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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
1University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 67.014.0%7.9×32 +31.9%
2Beijing Institute of TechnologyChina 66.536.0%4.2×12 +336.4%
3University of Electronic Science and Technology of ChinaChina 61.722.7%5.7×16 +300.8%
4Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyChina 58.223.7%3.2×14 +145.6%
5University of SheffieldUnited Kingdom 55.819.0%8.1×11 +55.8%
6Military University of Technology in WarsawPoland 53.017.3%86.4×20 -19.0%
7Central South UniversityChina 47.829.1%1.7×8 +572.0%
8ShanghaiTech UniversityChina 47.410.2%25.2×12 +78.9%
9California Institute of TechnologyUnited States 46.215.9%14.2×13 -25.4%
10The University of Western AustraliaAustralia 42.87.4%8.8×9 +24.1%

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 Advanced Semiconductor Detectors and Materials, country by country

Is Advanced Semiconductor Detectors and Materials research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 21% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2024. The fastest-growing topics are Advanced Semiconductor Detectors and Materials.

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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 Semiconductor Detectors and Materials as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.015% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Advanced Semiconductor Detectors and Materials 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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