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Plasma Diagnostics and Applications

Plasma Diagnostics and Applications is a research topic within Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Science Explorer counts 50k research works in it since 1950. 10.1% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers covers a wide range of topics related to plasma physics and its applications in the semiconductor industry, including plasma etching techniques, atomic layer etching, Hall thrusters for spacecraft propulsion, electron energy distribution function measurements, and ion-molecule collisions. It also explores the use of plasmas in electric propulsion for satellites and spacecraft.

  • Plasma Etching
  • Semiconductor Industry
  • Atomic Layer Etching
  • Hall Thrusters
  • Electric Propulsion
  • Low Temperature Plasmas
  • Electron Energy Distribution Function
  • Spacecraft Propulsion
  • Ion-Molecule Collisions
  • Langmuir Probe
Research works
50k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
5.1k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-1%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
33% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Plasma Diagnostics and Applications

Which countries lead Plasma Diagnostics and Applications research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (1.4k and 914 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 1.4k works
  2. 2 United States 914 works
  3. 3 Russia 487 works
  4. 4 Japan 296 works
  5. 5 Germany 249 works
  6. 6 France 244 works
  7. 7 South Korea 238 works
  8. 8 India 201 works
  9. 9 Italy 129 works
  10. 10 United Kingdom 113 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: 33.3%United States: 21.2%Russia: 11.3%Japan: 6.9%6 others listed: 27.3%33%largest
China1,433 · 33.3%United States914 · 21.2%Russia487 · 11.3%Japan296 · 6.9%6 others listed1,173 · 27.3%

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

Which institutions lead Plasma Diagnostics and Applications research?

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

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 196 works
  2. 2 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 127 works
  3. 3 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 114 works
  4. 4 Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityChina 91 works
  5. 5 Dalian University of TechnologyChina 69 works
  6. 6 Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 63 works
  7. 7 Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyChina 53 works
  8. 8 Princeton UniversityUnited States 41 works
  9. 9 Department of Atomic EnergyIndia 39 works
  10. 10 Tsinghua UniversityChina 37 works

Who are the leading researchers in Plasma Diagnostics and Applications?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Plasma Diagnostics and Applications include M. Shoji, M. Weber and Xiaogang Wang.

  1. 1 M. Shoji Japan 806k citations
  2. 2 M. Weber Israel 267k citations
  3. 3 Xiaogang Wang China 260k citations
  4. 4 Ralph B. D’Agostino United States 255k citations
  5. 5 Kenji Watanabe Japan 237k citations
  6. 6 Rodney S. Ruoff United States 231k citations
  7. 7 P. Jackson France 230k citations
  8. 8 Donald G. Truhlar United States 230k citations
  9. 9 Takashi Taniguchi Japan 227k citations
  10. 10 Kai You Wang China 224k 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 Plasma Diagnostics and Applications?

The most cited paper in Plasma Diagnostics and Applications is "Solving the Boltzmann equation to obtain electron transport coefficients and rate coefficients for fluid models" (Gerjan J. M. Hagelaar, Leanne C. Pitchford, 2005), with 3,405 citations. Next come "Dielectric-Barrier Discharges: Their History, Discharge Physics, and Industrial Applications" (3,173) and "Plasma Losses by Fast Electrons in Thin Films" (3,106).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Solving the Boltzmann equation to obtain electron transport coefficients and rate coefficients for fluid models Gerjan J. M. Hagelaar, Leanne C. Pitchford · Plasma Sources Science and Technology Open access 5 Oct 2005 3,405
2 Dielectric-Barrier Discharges: Their History, Discharge Physics, and Industrial Applications Ulrich Kogelschatz · Plasma Chemistry and Plasma Processing Mar 2003 3,173
3 Plasma Losses by Fast Electrons in Thin Films R. H. Ritchie · Physical Review Jun 1957 3,106
4 Metalorganic vapor phase epitaxial growth of a high quality GaN film using an AlN buffer layer Hiroshi Amano, Nobuhiko Sawaki, Isamu Akasaki et al. · Applied Physics Letters 3 Feb 1986 2,202
5 What do we need for a superhydrophobic surface? A review on the recent progress in the preparation of superhydrophobic surfaces Xuemei Li, David N. Reinhoudt, Mercedes Crego‐Calama · Chemical Society Reviews Review 2007 2,082
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Plasma Diagnostics and Applications research done?

The largest centres of Plasma Diagnostics and Applications research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Moscow (Russia), Xi'an (China) and Seoul (South Korea). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Plainsboro Center and Greifswald.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 314 works
  2. 2 MoscowRussia 214 works
  3. 3 Xi'anChina 169 works
  4. 4 SeoulSouth Korea 104 works
  5. 5 DalianChina 92 works
  6. 6 WuhanChina 88 works
  7. 7 TokyoJapan 85 works
  8. 8 HefeiChina 85 works
  9. 9 HarbinChina 78 works
  10. 10 DaejeonSouth Korea 64 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Plainsboro CenterUS · 20.9 works147×
  2. GreifswaldDE · 24.2 works26×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Plasma Diagnostics and Applications than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Plasma Diagnostics and Applications?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Antwerp, Ruhr University Bochum 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
1University of AntwerpBelgium 77.354.0%10.2×16 +22.2%
2Ruhr University BochumGermany 57.317.0%20.0×37 +17.2%
3Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityChina 56.612.9%11.7×91 +1.4%
4Dalian University of TechnologyChina 54.57.9%16.5×69 +15.8%
5Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyChina 53.412.9%6.6×53 +42.2%
6Princeton UniversityUnited States 53.117.4%20.6×41 +0.4%
7Eindhoven University of TechnologyNetherlands 52.424.1%12.8×20 +1.5%
8École Polytechnique Fédérale de LausanneSwitzerland 52.213.6%11.1×20 +143.0%
9Imperial College LondonUnited Kingdom 50.737.3%3.1×14 +273.2%
10Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 48.97.3%8.7×63 +11.7%

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 Plasma Diagnostics and Applications, country by country

Is Plasma Diagnostics and Applications research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 1% lower than in 2018-2021, 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.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Plasma Diagnostics and Applications as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.025% in 2024.

still counting0.050%0.10%0.15%Plasma Diagnostics and Applications0.020% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Plasma Diagnostics 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%Plasma Diagnostics and Applications9.9% 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.

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