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Microwave and Dielectric Measurement Techniques

Microwave and Dielectric Measurement Techniques is a research topic within Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Science Explorer counts 15k 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 and application of microwave sensors for material characterization, dielectric measurements, and sensing in various fields such as microfluidics, biomedical engineering, and industrial monitoring. The research covers topics including metamaterial-inspired sensors, complex permittivity measurements, microstrip resonators, and noninvasive glucose monitoring.

  • Microwave
  • Sensors
  • Dielectric
  • Characterization
  • Metamaterial
  • Microfluidic
  • Permittivity
  • Resonators
  • Biosensing
  • Noninvasive
Research works
15k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.5k
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
37% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Microwave and Dielectric Measurement Techniques

Which countries lead Microwave and Dielectric Measurement Techniques research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (589 and 224 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 589 works
  2. 2 United States 224 works
  3. 3 India 178 works
  4. 4 Germany 121 works
  5. 5 Italy 93 works
  6. 6 France 89 works
  7. 7 Japan 88 works
  8. 8 Russia 75 works
  9. 9 United Kingdom 67 works
  10. 10 Canada 66 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: 37.1%United States: 14.1%India: 11.2%Germany: 7.6%6 others listed: 30.1%37%largest
China589 · 37.1%United States224 · 14.1%India178 · 11.2%Germany121 · 7.6%6 others listed478 · 30.1%

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

Which institutions lead Microwave and Dielectric Measurement Techniques research?

By volume in 2022-now, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique publishes the most Microwave and Dielectric Measurement Techniques research, followed by University of Electronic Science and Technology of China and Xi'an Jiaotong University.

Who are the leading researchers in Microwave and Dielectric Measurement Techniques?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Microwave and Dielectric Measurement Techniques include Takashi Taniguchi and C. Chen.

  1. 1 Takashi Taniguchi Japan 227k citations
  2. 2 C. Chen France 164k 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 Microwave and Dielectric Measurement Techniques?

The most cited paper in Microwave and Dielectric Measurement Techniques is "A Dielectric Resonator Method of Measuring Inductive Capacities in the Millimeter Range" (Basil W. Hakki, Paul D. Coleman, 1960), with 3,112 citations. Next come "Measurement of the Intrinsic Properties of Materials by Time-Domain Techniques" (2,930) and "Automatic measurement of complex dielectric constant and permeability at microwave frequencies" (2,235).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 A Dielectric Resonator Method of Measuring Inductive Capacities in the Millimeter Range Basil W. Hakki, Paul D. Coleman · IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques Jul 1960 3,112
2 Measurement of the Intrinsic Properties of Materials by Time-Domain Techniques Aaron Nicolson, G. Ross · IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement Nov 1970 2,930
3 Automatic measurement of complex dielectric constant and permeability at microwave frequencies W.B. Weir · Proceedings of the IEEE 1974 2,235
4 Optical stethoscopy: Image recording with resolution λ/20 Dieter Pohl, Winfried T. Denk, M. Lanz · Applied Physics Letters Apr 1984 2,031
5 Microwave Dielectric Behavior of Wet Soil-Part II: Dielectric Mixing Models Myron C. Dobson, Fawwaz T. Ulaby, Martti T. Hallikainen et al. · IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing 1985 2,006
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Where is Microwave and Dielectric Measurement Techniques research done?

The largest centres of Microwave and Dielectric Measurement Techniques research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Xi'an (China), Chengdu (China) and Nanjing (China).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 107 works
  2. 2 Xi'anChina 62 works
  3. 3 ChengduChina 53 works
  4. 4 NanjingChina 45 works
  5. 5 HangzhouChina 43 works
  6. 6 ShanghaiChina 32 works
  7. 7 TokyoJapan 29 works
  8. 8 MoscowRussia 27 works
  9. 9 GuangzhouChina 26 works
  10. 10 ParisFrance 23 works
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Where is the best place to study Microwave and Dielectric Measurement Techniques?

Among universities, judged by research, Hangzhou Dianzi University, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China and Xi'an Jiaotong 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.

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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
1Hangzhou Dianzi UniversityChina 80.132.0%28.6×19 +147.9%
2University of Electronic Science and Technology of ChinaChina 58.24.1%14.9×33 +35.6%
3Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityChina 56.115.9%6.1×21 +122.7%
4Xidian UniversityChina 54.218.3%10.8×16 +164.9%
5Southeast UniversityChina 50.19.5%6.6×20 +76.6%
6Zhejiang UniversityChina 44.816.7%2.5×14 +13.9%
7Ruhr University BochumGermany 41.33.7%15.0×12 +25.0%
8KU LeuvenBelgium 41.116.8%5.6×11 -11.9%
9Sapienza University of RomeItaly 37.47.2%4.3×10 +115.1%
10Beihang UniversityChina 37.013.0%5.2×12 -3.1%

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 Microwave and Dielectric Measurement Techniques, country by country

Is Microwave and Dielectric Measurement Techniques research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 10% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2002. The fastest-growing topics are Microwave and Dielectric Measurement Techniques.

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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 Microwave and Dielectric Measurement Techniques as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0073% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Microwave and Dielectric Measurement Techniques 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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