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Advancements in Semiconductor Devices and Circuit Design

Advancements in Semiconductor Devices and Circuit Design is a research topic within Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Science Explorer counts 71k 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 explores the advancements in nanoelectronics, focusing on topics such as tunnel field-effect transistors, nanowire transistors, CMOS scaling limits, double-gate transistors, strained-silicon technology, quantum transport modeling, junctionless transistors, subthreshold swing, high-performance nanoscale devices, and process variation.

  • Tunnel Field-Effect Transistors
  • Nanowire Transistors
  • CMOS Scaling
  • Double-Gate Transistors
  • Strained-Silicon Technology
  • Quantum Transport Modeling
  • Junctionless Transistors
  • Subthreshold Swing
  • High-Performance Nanoscale Devices
  • Process Variation
Research works
71k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
7k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+9%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
29% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Advancements in Semiconductor Devices and Circuit Design

Which countries lead Advancements in Semiconductor Devices and Circuit Design research?

By volume, China and India publish the most (2.1k and 1.9k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 2.1k works
  2. 2 India 1.9k works
  3. 3 United States 1.2k works
  4. 4 South Korea 485 works
  5. 5 Japan 393 works
  6. 6 Germany 364 works
  7. 7 Taiwan 296 works
  8. 8 France 259 works
  9. 9 Italy 213 works
  10. 10 United Kingdom 171 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: 29.0%India: 25.9%United States: 15.7%South Korea: 6.5%6 others listed: 22.9%29%largest
China2,147 · 29.0%India1,919 · 25.9%United States1,167 · 15.7%South Korea485 · 6.5%6 others listed1,695 · 22.9%

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

Which institutions lead Advancements in Semiconductor Devices and Circuit Design research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Sciences publishes the most Advancements in Semiconductor Devices and Circuit Design research, followed by Xidian University and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 229 works
  2. 2 Xidian UniversityChina 100 works
  3. 3 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 86 works
  4. 4 Peking UniversityChina 84 works
  5. 5 University of Electronic Science and Technology of ChinaChina 78 works
  6. 6 Samsung (South Korea)South Korea 76 works
  7. 7 IMECBelgium 75 works
  8. 8 Zhejiang UniversityChina 74 works
  9. 9 National Yang Ming Chiao Tung UniversityTaiwan 68 works
  10. 10 Delhi Technological UniversityIndia 67 works

Who are the leading researchers in Advancements in Semiconductor Devices and Circuit Design?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Advancements in Semiconductor Devices and Circuit Design include Zhong Lin Wang, Georg Kresse and Kostya S. Novoselov.

  1. 1 Zhong Lin Wang United States 491k citations
  2. 2 Georg Kresse Austria 431k citations
  3. 3 Kostya S. Novoselov United Kingdom 331k citations
  4. 4 Andre K. Geim United Kingdom 315k citations
  5. 5 Matthias Ernzerhof Canada 276k citations
  6. 6 Wei Huang China 267k citations
  7. 7 M. Weber Israel 267k citations
  8. 8 Gordon Brent Mills United States 265k citations
  9. 9 Yi Ping Cui United States 261k citations
  10. 10 Kenji Watanabe Japan 237k 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 Advancements in Semiconductor Devices and Circuit Design?

The most cited paper in Advancements in Semiconductor Devices and Circuit Design is "Physics of Semiconductor Devices" (J.R. ABRAHAMS, Geoffrey Pridham, 1966), with 4,585 citations. Next come "Physics of Semiconductor Devices" (4,188) and "Matching properties of MOS transistors" (3,320).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Physics of Semiconductor Devices J.R. ABRAHAMS, Geoffrey Pridham · Elsevier eBooks Book chapter 1966 4,585
2 Physics of Semiconductor Devices Samarth Jain, S. Radhakrishna Conference paper 29 Aug 1987 4,188
3 Matching properties of MOS transistors Marcel J. M. Pelgrom, Aad C.J. Duinmaijer, A.P.G. Welbers · IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits Oct 1989 3,320
4 Functional Nanoscale Electronic Devices Assembled Using Silicon Nanowire Building Blocks Yi Ping Cui, Charles M. Lieber · Science 2 Feb 2001 3,260
5 Coherent Manipulation of Coupled Electron Spins in Semiconductor Quantum Dots J. R. Petta, Alex C. Johnson, Jacob M. Taylor et al. · Science 2 Sep 2005 3,219
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Where is Advancements in Semiconductor Devices and Circuit Design research done?

The largest centres of Advancements in Semiconductor Devices and Circuit Design research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Seoul (South Korea), Shanghai (China) and New Delhi (India). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Guntur, Santa Clara and Silchar.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 553 works
  2. 2 SeoulSouth Korea 266 works
  3. 3 ShanghaiChina 230 works
  4. 4 New DelhiIndia 193 works
  5. 5 Xi'anChina 192 works
  6. 6 TokyoJapan 151 works
  7. 7 HsinchuTaiwan 147 works
  8. 8 ChengduChina 130 works
  9. 9 NanjingChina 119 works
  10. 10 HangzhouChina 109 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Guntur21.7 works36×
  2. Santa ClaraUS · 61.8 works27×
  3. SilcharIN · 46.4 works21×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Advancements in Semiconductor Devices and Circuit Design than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Advancements in Semiconductor Devices and Circuit Design?

Among universities, judged by research, Delft University of Technology, Peking University and Xidian University score highest, combining citation 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 15.21%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Delft University of …University of MacauPeking UniversityXidian University
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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.

Citation 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
1Delft University of TechnologyNetherlands 58.831.9%5.6×30 +11.0%
2Peking UniversityChina 57.212.4%5.2×84 +67.9%
3Xidian UniversityChina 56.87.8%17.5×100 +50.1%
4University of MacauChina 54.325.4%5.9×15 +26.1%
5Zhejiang UniversityChina 53.310.3%3.5×74 +149.2%
6Delhi Technological UniversityIndia 52.58.4%30.9×67 +43.3%
7VIT-AP University 52.122.0%38.7×22 +602.2%
8University of Electronic Science and Technology of ChinaChina 51.96.7%8.8×78 +14.5%
9Fudan UniversityChina 51.812.0%5.0×62 +42.5%
10Tsinghua UniversityChina 51.815.2%3.1×56 +80.9%

Universities only. The score blends citation 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 Advancements in Semiconductor Devices and Circuit Design, country by country

Is Advancements in Semiconductor Devices and Circuit Design research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 9% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2002. The fastest-growing topics are Advancements in Semiconductor Devices and Circuit Design.

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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 Advancements in Semiconductor Devices and Circuit Design as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.042% in 2024.

still counting0.10%0.20%0.30%Advancements in Semiconductor Devices and Circuit Design0.037% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Advancements in Semiconductor Devices and Circuit Design 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%Advancements in Semiconductor Devices and Circuit Design9.6% 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.

Questions people ask

Who leads chip design research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Sciences publishes the most Advancements in Semiconductor Devices and Circuit Design research, followed by Xidian University and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique. By volume, China and India publish the most (2.1k and 1.9k works in 2022-now).

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