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Perovskite Materials and Applications

Perovskite Materials and Applications is a research topic within Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Science Explorer counts 61k research works in it since 1952. 9.7% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the advancements in perovskite solar cell technology, including the use of organometal halide perovskites as light sensitizers for photovoltaic cells, achieving high efficiency and stability, improving charge carrier transport, and exploring applications in light-emitting diodes. The research covers topics such as crystal growth, semiconductor properties, and optoelectronic materials.

  • Perovskite Solar Cells
  • Organometal Halide Perovskites
  • Photovoltaic Cells
  • Efficiency
  • Stability
  • Semiconductors
  • Light-Emitting Diodes
  • Crystal Growth
  • Charge Carrier Transport
  • Optoelectronic Materials
Research works
61k
fractional, since 1952
In the world top 10%
6k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.7%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+38%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
61% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Perovskite Materials and Applications

Which countries lead Perovskite Materials and Applications research?

By volume, China and India publish the most (13k and 2.1k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 13k works
  2. 2 India 2.1k works
  3. 3 United States 1.8k works
  4. 4 South Korea 1.2k works
  5. 5 Germany 729 works
  6. 6 Japan 724 works
  7. 7 United Kingdom 496 works
  8. 8 Saudi Arabia 461 works
  9. 9 Taiwan 432 works
  10. 10 France 414 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: 61.0%India: 9.7%United States: 8.3%South Korea: 5.8%6 others listed: 15.2%61%largest
China13k · 61.0%India2,073 · 9.7%United States1,772 · 8.3%South Korea1,246 · 5.8%6 others listed3,255 · 15.2%

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

Which institutions lead Perovskite Materials and Applications research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Sciences publishes the most Perovskite Materials and Applications research, followed by Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and University of Chinese Academy of Sciences.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 1.2k works
  2. 2 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 215 works
  3. 3 University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 195 works
  4. 4 Jilin UniversityChina 179 works
  5. 5 Soochow UniversityChina 179 works
  6. 6 South China University of TechnologyChina 173 works
  7. 7 Helmholtz Association of German Research CentresGermany 173 works
  8. 8 Shandong UniversityChina 155 works
  9. 9 Zhejiang UniversityChina 149 works
  10. 10 Tianjin UniversityChina 129 works

Who are the leading researchers in Perovskite Materials and Applications?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Perovskite Materials and Applications include Zhong Lin Wang, Michaël Grätzel and Georg Kresse.

  1. 1 Zhong Lin Wang United States 491k citations
  2. 2 Michaël Grätzel Switzerland 458k citations
  3. 3 Georg Kresse Austria 431k citations
  4. 4 Kostya S. Novoselov United Kingdom 331k citations
  5. 5 Andre K. Geim United Kingdom 315k citations
  6. 6 Yury G. Gogotsi United States 313k citations
  7. 7 Sudhir Kumar United States 295k citations
  8. 8 Heng Li United States 270k citations
  9. 9 Wei Huang China 267k citations
  10. 10 Yi Ping Cui United States 261k 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 Perovskite Materials and Applications?

The most cited paper in Perovskite Materials and Applications is "Organometal Halide Perovskites as Visible-Light Sensitizers for Photovoltaic Cells" (Akihiro Kojima, Kenjiro Teshima, Yasuo Shirai et al., 2009), with 23,141 citations. Next come "Efficient Hybrid Solar Cells Based on Meso-Superstructured Organometal Halide Perovskites" (10,671) and "Electron-Hole Diffusion Lengths Exceeding 1 Micrometer in an Organometal Trihalide Perovskite Absorber" (10,415).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Organometal Halide Perovskites as Visible-Light Sensitizers for Photovoltaic Cells Akihiro Kojima, Kenjiro Teshima, Yasuo Shirai et al. · Journal of the American Chemical Society 14 Apr 2009 23,141
2 Efficient Hybrid Solar Cells Based on Meso-Superstructured Organometal Halide Perovskites Michael M. Lee, Joël Teuscher, Tsutomu Miyasaka et al. · Science 5 Oct 2012 10,671
3 Electron-Hole Diffusion Lengths Exceeding 1 Micrometer in an Organometal Trihalide Perovskite Absorber Samuel D. Stranks, Giles E. Eperon, Giulia Grancini et al. · Science 17 Oct 2013 10,415
4 Sequential deposition as a route to high-performance perovskite-sensitized solar cells Julian Burschka, Norman Pellet, Soo‐Jin Moon et al. · Nature Open access Jul 2013 9,542
5 Nanocrystals of Cesium Lead Halide Perovskites (CsPbX 3 , X = Cl, Br, and I): Novel Optoelectronic Materials Showing Bright Emission with Wide Color Gamut Loredana Proteşescu, Sergii Yakunin, Maryna I. Bodnarchuk et al. · Nano Letters Open access 29 Jan 2015 9,186
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Where is Perovskite Materials and Applications research done?

The largest centres of Perovskite Materials and Applications research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Shanghai (China), Nanjing (China) and Wuhan (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Jinan, Siping and Changchun.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 2k works
  2. 2 ShanghaiChina 726 works
  3. 3 NanjingChina 676 works
  4. 4 WuhanChina 592 works
  5. 5 SeoulSouth Korea 587 works
  6. 6 Xi'anChina 559 works
  7. 7 GuangzhouChina 559 works
  8. 8 TianjinChina 430 works
  9. 9 HangzhouChina 395 works
  10. 10 ShenzhenChina 372 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Jinan31.4 works22×
  2. SipingCN · 27.4 works19×
  3. Changchun34.3 works15×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Perovskite Materials and Applications than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Perovskite Materials and Applications?

Among universities, judged by research, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Polytechnic University and Nankai 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%10%20%30%mean 20.38%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →City University of H…Hong Kong Polytechni…Nankai UniversitySouth China Universi…
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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
1City University of Hong KongChina 88.426.1%8.5×110 +65.2%
2Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityChina 77.923.1%3.9×77 +41.1%
3Nankai UniversityChina 75.019.1%8.2×128 +74.6%
4South China University of TechnologyChina 73.418.9%7.0×173 +14.5%
5Southern University of Science and TechnologyChina 73.118.0%9.3×112 +27.8%
6University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 73.015.8%5.2×195 +24.7%
7Hong Kong University of Science and TechnologyChina 69.818.7%5.5×51 +30.5%
8Begum Rokeya UniversityBangladesh 69.827.0%37.1×20 +1298.3%
9Shaanxi Normal UniversityChina 68.821.7%9.3×59 +39.6%
10Soochow UniversityChina 68.415.4%8.1×179 +4.1%

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 Perovskite Materials and Applications, country by country

Is Perovskite Materials and Applications research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 38% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2024. The fastest-growing topics are Perovskite Materials and Applications.

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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 Perovskite Materials and Applications as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.12% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Perovskite Materials and Applications 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%Perovskite Materials and Applications9.6% 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

Which institutions lead perovskite solar cell research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Sciences publishes the most Perovskite Materials and Applications research, followed by Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and University of Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Which institutions lead Perovskite Materials and Applications research?
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