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Silicon and Solar Cell Technologies

Silicon and Solar Cell Technologies is a research topic within Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Science Explorer counts 45k 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 advancements in silicon solar cell technology, particularly in improving efficiency, passivation techniques, and the use of heterojunction and interdigitated back contacts. It also explores the influence of aluminum oxide, surface recombination, and the potential of crystalline silicon for photovoltaic applications.

  • Silicon
  • Solar Cells
  • Efficiency
  • Passivation
  • Heterojunction
  • Aluminum Oxide
  • Interdigitated Back Contacts
  • Photovoltaics
  • Surface Recombination
  • Crystalline
Research works
45k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
4.4k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
0%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
35% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Silicon and Solar Cell Technologies

Which countries lead Silicon and Solar Cell Technologies research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (1k and 508 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 1k works
  2. 2 United States 508 works
  3. 3 Germany 293 works
  4. 4 India 274 works
  5. 5 Japan 247 works
  6. 6 South Korea 186 works
  7. 7 France 165 works
  8. 8 Russia 109 works
  9. 9 United Kingdom 93 works
  10. 10 Australia 77 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: 34.6%United States: 17.0%Germany: 9.8%India: 9.2%6 others listed: 29.4%35%largest
China1,034 · 34.6%United States508 · 17.0%Germany293 · 9.8%India274 · 9.2%6 others listed876 · 29.4%

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

Which institutions lead Silicon and Solar Cell Technologies research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Sciences publishes the most Silicon and Solar Cell Technologies research, followed by Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 98 works
  2. 2 Fraunhofer-GesellschaftGermany 72 works
  3. 3 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 63 works
  4. 4 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 41 works
  5. 5 UNSW SydneyAustralia 37 works
  6. 6 National Laboratory of the RockiesUnited States 37 works
  7. 7 Helmholtz Association of German Research CentresGermany 36 works
  8. 8 Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies AlternativesFrance 33 works
  9. 9 Sungkyunkwan UniversitySouth Korea 31 works
  10. 10 Zhejiang UniversityChina 28 works

Who are the leading researchers in Silicon and Solar Cell Technologies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Silicon and Solar Cell Technologies include Michaël Grätzel, Georg Kresse and Yury G. Gogotsi.

  1. 1 Michaël Grätzel Switzerland 458k citations
  2. 2 Georg Kresse Austria 431k citations
  3. 3 Yury G. Gogotsi United States 313k citations
  4. 4 Wei Huang China 267k citations
  5. 5 Yi Ping Cui United States 261k citations
  6. 6 Kenji Watanabe Japan 237k citations
  7. 7 Matthew James Page Australia 235k citations
  8. 8 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  9. 9 Lei Jiang China 214k citations
  10. 10 Frede Blaabjerg Denmark 203k 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 Silicon and Solar Cell Technologies?

The most cited paper in Silicon and Solar Cell Technologies is "Raman Spectrum of Graphite" (Fokke Tuinstra, Jack L. Koenig, 1970), with 10,728 citations. Next come "Single-Junction Organic Solar Cell with over 15% Efficiency Using Fused-Ring Acceptor with Electron-Deficient Core" (5,900) and "Metal-semiconductor Contacts" (3,976).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Raman Spectrum of Graphite Fokke Tuinstra, Jack L. Koenig · The Journal of Chemical Physics Aug 1970 10,728
2 Single-Junction Organic Solar Cell with over 15% Efficiency Using Fused-Ring Acceptor with Electron-Deficient Core Jun Yuan, Yunqiang Zhang, Liuyang Zhou et al. · Joule Open access 17 Jan 2019 5,900
3 Metal-semiconductor Contacts Mingsheng Li, Ming Li · Kluwer Academic Publishers eBooks Book chapter 19 Dec 2005 3,976
4 Optical properties and electronic structure of amorphous Ge and Si J. Tauc · Materials Research Bulletin 1968 3,604
5 General Relationship for the Thermal Oxidation of Silicon B. E. Deal, Andrew S. Grove · Journal of Applied Physics Dec 1965 3,448
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Where is Silicon and Solar Cell Technologies research done?

The largest centres of Silicon and Solar Cell Technologies research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Seoul (South Korea), Shanghai (China) and Tokyo (Japan). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Golden and Freiburg.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 214 works
  2. 2 SeoulSouth Korea 110 works
  3. 3 ShanghaiChina 92 works
  4. 4 TokyoJapan 78 works
  5. 5 FreiburgGermany 67 works
  6. 6 Xi'anChina 54 works
  7. 7 GoldenUnited States 45 works
  8. 8 HangzhouChina 42 works
  9. 9 SydneyAustralia 42 works
  10. 10 TianjinChina 41 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. GoldenUS · 44.9 works45×
  2. FreiburgDE · 67.1 works27×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Silicon and Solar Cell Technologies than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Silicon and Solar Cell Technologies?

Among universities, judged by research, UNSW Sydney, Delft University of Technology and Sungkyunkwan 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%20%40%mean 20.26%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →King Abdullah Univer…UNSW SydneySungkyunkwan Univers…Delft University of …
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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
1UNSW SydneyAustralia 75.023.3%11.6×37 -45.9%
2Delft University of TechnologyNetherlands 66.011.9%10.9×26 +61.5%
3Sungkyunkwan UniversitySouth Korea 63.912.3%12.8×31 +25.6%
4King Abdullah University of Science and TechnologySaudi Arabia 63.431.2%9.0×9 -10.8%
5University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 61.821.9%3.8×22 +17.5%
6Soochow UniversityChina 61.530.7%3.9×14 +38.9%
7Zhejiang UniversityChina 58.518.2%2.9×28 +38.0%
8Australian National UniversityAustralia 54.117.0%9.2×17 -51.5%
9Kunming University of Science and TechnologyChina 54.013.5%9.9×20 +15.0%
10Shandong UniversityChina 50.622.6%3.2×15 +206.1%

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 Silicon and Solar Cell Technologies, country by country

Is Silicon and Solar Cell Technologies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 0% 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 Silicon and Solar Cell Technologies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.017% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Silicon and Solar Cell Technologies 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%Silicon and Solar Cell Technologies9.9% 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.

Questions people ask

Who leads silicon solar cell research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Sciences publishes the most Silicon and Solar Cell Technologies research, followed by Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique. By volume, China and the United States publish the most (1k and 508 works in 2022-now).

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