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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. 14.1% 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%
10k
per year above
Top-10% rate
14.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
-8%
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Which countries lead Advancements in Semiconductor Devices and Circuit Design research?

By volume, China and India publish the most (1.9k and 1.8k works in 2022–2025).

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 China 1.9k works
  2. 2 India 1.8k works
  3. 3 United States 1.1k works
  4. 4 South Korea 429 works
  5. 5 Japan 352 works
  6. 6 Germany 329 works
  7. 7 Taiwan 269 works
  8. 8 France 238 works
  9. 9 Italy 199 works
  10. 10 United Kingdom 156 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: 28.0%India: 26.3%United States: 16.1%South Korea: 6.4%6 others listed: 23.1%28%largest
China1,870 · 28.0%India1,755 · 26.3%United States1,076 · 16.1%South Korea429 · 6.4%6 others listed1,543 · 23.1%

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 2022–2025, Xidian University publishes the most Advancements in Semiconductor Devices and Circuit Design research, followed by Chinese Academy of Sciences and Peking University.

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Xidian University China 91 works
  2. 2 Chinese Academy of Sciences China 77 works
  3. 3 Peking University China 72 works
  4. 4 IMEC Belgium 68 works
  5. 5 University of Electronic Science and Technology of China China 66 works
  6. 6 Delhi Technological University India 66 works
  7. 7 Samsung (South Korea) South Korea 64 works
  8. 8 National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University Taiwan 60 works
  9. 9 Institute of Microelectronics China 58 works
  10. 10 Zhejiang University China 57 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 Georg Kresse, M. Garcia-Sciveres and V. Cindro.

  1. 1 Georg Kresse 24k citations
  2. 2 M. Garcia-Sciveres 8.2k citations
  3. 3 V. Cindro 7.1k citations

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

Where is Advancements in Semiconductor Devices and Circuit Design research done?

The largest centres of Advancements in Semiconductor Devices and Circuit Design research in 2022–2025 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, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Beijing China 495 works
  2. 2 Seoul South Korea 236 works
  3. 3 Shanghai China 204 works
  4. 4 New Delhi India 183 works
  5. 5 Xi'an China 174 works
  6. 6 Tokyo Japan 138 works
  7. 7 Hsinchu Taiwan 132 works
  8. 8 Chengdu China 118 works
  9. 9 Nanjing China 108 works
  10. 10 Leuven Belgium 94 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Guntur21.1 works36×
  2. Santa ClaraUS · 56.9 works27×
  3. SilcharIN · 42.7 works21×
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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, Delhi Technological University, SRM University and Malaviya National Institute of Technology Jaipur 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%10%20%mean 8.49%fractional works in this node (log) →share in the world top 10% →Delhi Technological University: 66, 5.5%SRM University: 22, 16.6%Malaviya National Institute of Technology Jaipur: 24, 8.3%Xidian University: 91, 6.1%VIT-AP University: 21, 15.9%Jaypee Institute of Information Technology: 30, 4.2%Dr. B. R. Ambedkar National Institute of Technology Jalandhar: 25, 5.7%National Institute of Technology Warangal: 24, 9.3%National Institute Of Technology Silchar: 41, 4.7%Dr. Hari Singh Gour University: 14, 8.6%SRM UniversityMalaviya National In…Xidian UniversityDelhi Technological …
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One dot per university in the table below. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1Delhi Technological University India 63.65.5%29.4×66 +211.0%
2SRM University India 61.116.6%14.4×22 +72.5%
3Malaviya National Institute of Technology Jaipur India 59.48.3%18.8×24 +226.7%
4Xidian University China 59.06.1%15.3×91 +42.9%
5VIT-AP University ?? 58.115.9%36.2×21
6Jaypee Institute of Information Technology India 56.64.2%31.4×30 +460.5%
7Dr. B. R. Ambedkar National Institute of Technology Jalandhar India 56.35.7%22.6×25 +684.7%
8National Institute of Technology Warangal India 56.09.3%13.5×24 +129.1%
9National Institute Of Technology Silchar India 55.74.7%30.3×41 +137.3%
10Dr. Hari Singh Gour University India 55.78.6%9.9×14 +670.8%

Universities only. Score blends excellence (30%), specialisation (25%), size (20%), growth (15%) and international reach (10%), 2015–2022; growth compares 2010–14 with 2015–19.

Is Advancements in Semiconductor Devices and Circuit Design research growing?

Output in 2018–2022 was 8% lower than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2002.

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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.

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.