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Semiconductor materials and interfaces

Semiconductor materials and interfaces is a research topic within Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Science Explorer counts 58k research works in it since 1950. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the physics and chemistry of Schottky barrier height, metal-semiconductor contacts, thin film reactions, barrier height inhomogeneities, nickel silicide technology, epitaxial growth, electrical and dielectric properties, and their applications in solar cells.

  • Schottky Barrier
  • Metal-Semiconductor Contacts
  • Semiconductor Physics
  • Thin Film Reaction
  • Barrier Height Inhomogeneities
  • Nickel Silicide
  • Epitaxial Growth
  • Electrical Properties
  • Dielectric Properties
  • Solar Cells
Research works
58k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
5.7k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-8%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
35% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Semiconductor materials and interfaces

Which countries lead Semiconductor materials and interfaces research?

By volume, China and India publish the most (1.2k and 415 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 1.2k works
  2. 2 India 415 works
  3. 3 United States 403 works
  4. 4 Japan 311 works
  5. 5 Russia 260 works
  6. 6 Türkiye 227 works
  7. 7 Germany 202 works
  8. 8 South Korea 175 works
  9. 9 France 154 works
  10. 10 Taiwan 98 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: 34.7%India: 12.1%United States: 11.7%Japan: 9.0%6 others listed: 32.4%35%largest
China1,194 · 34.7%India415 · 12.1%United States403 · 11.7%Japan311 · 9.0%6 others listed1,116 · 32.4%

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

Which institutions lead Semiconductor materials and interfaces research?

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

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 118 works
  2. 2 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 107 works
  3. 3 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 67 works
  4. 4 Gazi UniversityTürkiye 31 works
  5. 5 Fraunhofer-GesellschaftGermany 28 works
  6. 6 Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 27 works
  7. 7 Zhejiang UniversityChina 25 works
  8. 8 Helmholtz Association of German Research CentresGermany 23 works
  9. 9 National Academy of Sciences of UkraineUkraine 22 works
  10. 10 Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies AlternativesFrance 21 works

Who are the leading researchers in Semiconductor materials and interfaces?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Semiconductor materials and interfaces 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 Yury G. Gogotsi United States 313k citations
  6. 6 George M. Whitesides United States 267k citations
  7. 7 Wei Huang China 267k citations
  8. 8 Yi Ping Cui United States 261k citations
  9. 9 Xiaogang Wang China 260k citations
  10. 10 Kenji Watanabe Japan 237k 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 Semiconductor materials and interfaces?

The most cited paper in Semiconductor materials and interfaces is "Polymer Photovoltaic Cells: Enhanced Efficiencies via a Network of Internal Donor-Acceptor Heterojunctions" (Gang Yu, Jun Gao, Jan Cornelis Hummelen et al., 1995), with 10,356 citations. Next come "High-κ gate dielectrics: Current status and materials properties considerations" (5,918) and "Design Rules for Donors in Bulk‐Heterojunction Solar Cells—Towards 10 % Energy‐Conversion Efficiency" (5,207).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Polymer Photovoltaic Cells: Enhanced Efficiencies via a Network of Internal Donor-Acceptor Heterojunctions Gang Yu, Jun Gao, Jan Cornelis Hummelen et al. · Science Open access 15 Dec 1995 10,356
2 High-κ gate dielectrics: Current status and materials properties considerations Glen D. Wilk, Robert M. Wallace, J. Mark Anthony · Journal of Applied Physics 15 May 2001 5,918
3 Design Rules for Donors in Bulk‐Heterojunction Solar Cells—Towards 10 % Energy‐Conversion Efficiency Marcus Scharber, D. Mühlbacher, Markus Koppe et al. · Advanced Materials 22 Feb 2006 5,207
4 Two-layer organic photovoltaic cell C. W. Tang · Applied Physics Letters 13 Jan 1986 4,989
5 Maximally localized generalized Wannier functions for composite energy bands Nicola Marzari, David Vanderbilt · Physical review. B, Condensed matter Open access 15 Nov 1997 4,867
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Where is Semiconductor materials and interfaces research done?

The largest centres of Semiconductor materials and interfaces research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Shanghai (China), Seoul (South Korea) and Tokyo (Japan). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Tsukuba and Hsinchu.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 205 works
  2. 2 ShanghaiChina 86 works
  3. 3 SeoulSouth Korea 81 works
  4. 4 TokyoJapan 74 works
  5. 5 Xi'anChina 72 works
  6. 6 MoscowRussia 71 works
  7. 7 AnkaraTürkiye 52 works
  8. 8 Saint PetersburgRussia 52 works
  9. 9 NanjingChina 47 works
  10. 10 TsukubaJapan 46 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. TsukubaJP · 46.2 works9.1×
  2. HsinchuTW · 31.1 works8.0×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Semiconductor materials and interfaces than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Semiconductor materials and interfaces?

Among universities, judged by research, Gazi University, Harbin Institute of Technology and Zhejiang 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.

0%20%40%mean 22.51%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Gazi UniversityHarbin Institute of …Atatürk UniversityZhejiang University
above the meannear itbelow it

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
1Gazi UniversityTürkiye 83.736.0%16.3×31 -7.2%
2Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 69.825.5%4.0×27 +55.6%
3Zhejiang UniversityChina 57.418.0%2.3×25 +20.5%
4Atatürk UniversityTürkiye 50.925.4%9.8×14 -15.6%
5King Khalid UniversitySaudi Arabia 50.823.1%5.8×9 +1.4%
6Tsinghua UniversityChina 49.117.2%2.0×19 +160.2%
7Selçuk UniversityTürkiye 48.825.2%7.8×10 +10.2%
8University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 48.416.1%2.9×19 -1.4%
9Academy of Scientific and Innovative ResearchIndia 45.423.4%6.4×8 +92.6%
10Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 42.215.2%1.3×16 +39.1%

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 Semiconductor materials and interfaces, country by country

Is Semiconductor materials and interfaces research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 8% 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 Semiconductor materials and interfaces as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.022% in 2024.

still counting0.10%0.20%Semiconductor materials and interfaces0.020% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Semiconductor materials and interfaces 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%Semiconductor materials and interfaces10.0% 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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