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. 16.7% 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%
- 8.4k per year above
- Top-10% rate
- 16.7% share of its works in the world top 10%
- Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
- -6% the tick is no change
Which countries lead Plasma Diagnostics and Applications research?
By volume, China and the United States publish the most (1.3k and 803 works in 2022–2025).
By volume, 2022–2025
- 1 China 1.3k works
- 2 United States 803 works
- 3 Russia 471 works
- 4 Japan 267 works
- 5 France 230 works
- 6 Germany 216 works
- 7 South Korea 207 works
- 8 India 182 works
- 9 Italy 114 works
- 10 United Kingdom 101 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.
Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.
Which institutions lead Plasma Diagnostics and Applications research?
By volume in 2022–2025, Xi'an Jiaotong University publishes the most Plasma Diagnostics and Applications research, followed by Dalian University of Technology and Harbin Institute of Technology.
By volume, 2022–2025
- 1 Xi'an Jiaotong University China 78 works
- 2 Dalian University of Technology China 63 works
- 3 Harbin Institute of Technology China 54 works
- 4 Huazhong University of Science and Technology China 48 works
- 5 Chinese Academy of Sciences China 41 works
- 6 Tsinghua University China 34 works
- 7 Ruhr University Bochum Germany 33 works
- 8 University of Science and Technology of China China 29 works
- 9 University of Michigan United States 28 works
- 10 Xidian University China 28 works
Who are the leading researchers in Plasma Diagnostics and Applications?
The most-cited researchers publishing on Plasma Diagnostics and Applications include Xiaogang Wang and Takashi Taniguchi.
- 1 Xiaogang Wang 13k citations
- 2 Takashi Taniguchi 6.2k citations
Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.
Where is Plasma Diagnostics and Applications research done?
The largest centres of Plasma Diagnostics and Applications research in 2022–2025 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 Greifswald.
Largest cities, 2022–2025
Where it is the local speciality
- GreifswaldDE · 21.1 works25×
Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Plasma Diagnostics and Applications than the world average.
Where is the best place to study Plasma Diagnostics and Applications?
Among universities, judged by research, University of Antwerp, Xi'an Jiaotong University and École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne 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.
One dot per university in the table below. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.
| # | University | Score | Top 10% | Specialisation | Works | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | University of Antwerp Belgium | 71.5 | 56.9% | 11.1× | 14 | +61.2% |
| 2 | Xi'an Jiaotong University China | 60.1 | 11.1% | 10.7× | 78 | +73.1% |
| 3 | École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne Switzerland | 55.2 | 28.6% | 9.8× | 18 | -20.0% |
| 4 | Universidad Carlos III de Madrid Spain | 54.0 | 9.0% | 13.4× | 14 | +267.9% |
| 5 | Dalian University of Technology China | 53.0 | 7.8% | 14.7× | 63 | +16.0% |
| 6 | Eindhoven University of Technology Netherlands | 51.6 | 25.5% | 11.1× | 18 | -34.4% |
| 7 | Nagoya University Japan | 50.8 | 16.6% | 11.9× | 26 | +29.5% |
| 8 | Ruhr University Bochum Germany | 50.4 | 13.9% | 18.6× | 33 | -12.9% |
| 9 | Xidian University China | 50.3 | 7.8% | 8.6× | 28 | +157.3% |
| 10 | Bauman Moscow State Technical University Russia | 49.4 | 5.1% | 19.6× | 16 | +221.3% |
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 Plasma Diagnostics and Applications research growing?
Output in 2018–2022 was 6% lower than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2002. The fastest-growing topics are Plasma Diagnostics and Applications.
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.