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Thin-Film Transistor Technologies

Thin-Film Transistor Technologies is a research topic within Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Science Explorer counts 49k 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 application of plasmonics and advanced semiconductor technologies to improve the efficiency and performance of photovoltaic devices. It covers topics such as plasmonic light trapping, transparent flexible thin-film transistors, oxide semiconductor materials, and solution-processed metal oxides for solar cells and electronics.

  • Plasmonics
  • Thin-Film Transistors
  • Amorphous Oxide Semiconductors
  • Solar Cells
  • Light Trapping
  • Transparent Electronics
  • High-Mobility Transistors
  • Solution-Processed Metal Oxides
  • Nanoparticle Enhanced Absorption
  • Flexible Electronics
Research works
49k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
4.8k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-13%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
42% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Thin-Film Transistor Technologies

Which countries lead Thin-Film Transistor Technologies research?

By volume, China and South Korea publish the most (1.7k and 637 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 1.7k works
  2. 2 South Korea 637 works
  3. 3 United States 417 works
  4. 4 India 341 works
  5. 5 Japan 300 works
  6. 6 Germany 215 works
  7. 7 Taiwan 185 works
  8. 8 France 111 works
  9. 9 United Kingdom 91 works
  10. 10 Russia 79 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: 41.6%South Korea: 15.7%United States: 10.3%India: 8.4%6 others listed: 24.1%42%largest
China1,695 · 41.6%South Korea637 · 15.7%United States417 · 10.3%India341 · 8.4%6 others listed980 · 24.1%

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

Which institutions lead Thin-Film Transistor Technologies research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Sciences publishes the most Thin-Film Transistor Technologies research, followed by Sungkyunkwan University and Peking University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 173 works
  2. 2 Sungkyunkwan UniversitySouth Korea 66 works
  3. 3 Peking UniversityChina 53 works
  4. 4 Samsung (South Korea)South Korea 51 works
  5. 5 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 46 works
  6. 6 Hanyang UniversitySouth Korea 44 works
  7. 7 BOE Technology Group (China)China 43 works
  8. 8 South China University of TechnologyChina 42 works
  9. 9 Fraunhofer-GesellschaftGermany 42 works
  10. 10 Kyung Hee UniversitySouth Korea 39 works

Who are the leading researchers in Thin-Film Transistor Technologies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Thin-Film Transistor Technologies 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 Wei Huang China 267k citations
  5. 5 Yi Ping Cui United States 261k citations
  6. 6 Ben Zhong Tang China 261k citations
  7. 7 Kenji Watanabe Japan 237k citations
  8. 8 Matthew James Page Australia 235k citations
  9. 9 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  10. 10 Jürgen Furthmüller Germany 217k 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 Thin-Film Transistor Technologies?

The most cited paper in Thin-Film Transistor Technologies is "Optical Properties and Electronic Structure of Amorphous Germanium" (J. Tauc, Radu Grigorovici, Ana Vancu, 1966), with 11,059 citations. Next come "Plasmonics for improved photovoltaic devices" (8,341) and "Silicon quantum wire array fabrication by electrochemical and chemical dissolution of wafers" (7,986).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Optical Properties and Electronic Structure of Amorphous Germanium J. Tauc, Radu Grigorovici, Ana Vancu · physica status solidi (b) 1966 11,059
2 Plasmonics for improved photovoltaic devices Harry A. Atwater, Albert Polman · Nature Materials 19 Feb 2010 8,341
3 Silicon quantum wire array fabrication by electrochemical and chemical dissolution of wafers Leigh Canham · Applied Physics Letters 3 Sep 1990 7,986
4 Room-temperature fabrication of transparent flexible thin-film transistors using amorphous oxide semiconductors Kenji Nomura, Hiromichi Ohta, Akihiro Takagi et al. · Nature Nov 2004 7,534
5 Organic Thin Film Transistors for Large Area Electronics Christos D. Dimitrakopoulos, Patrick R. L. Malenfant · Advanced Materials 16 Jan 2002 4,882
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Thin-Film Transistor Technologies research done?

The largest centres of Thin-Film Transistor Technologies research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Seoul (South Korea), Shanghai (China) and Guangzhou (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Hsinchu.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 390 works
  2. 2 SeoulSouth Korea 366 works
  3. 3 ShanghaiChina 135 works
  4. 4 GuangzhouChina 94 works
  5. 5 TokyoJapan 89 works
  6. 6 ShenzhenChina 80 works
  7. 7 NanjingChina 74 works
  8. 8 Xi'anChina 74 works
  9. 9 HsinchuTaiwan 67 works
  10. 10 DaejeonSouth Korea 66 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. HsinchuTW · 67.1 works16×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Thin-Film Transistor Technologies than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Thin-Film Transistor Technologies?

Among universities, judged by research, Sungkyunkwan University, Hanyang University and University of Chinese Academy of Sciences 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 20.37%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →King Abdullah Univer…Hanyang UniversityUniversity of Chines…Sungkyunkwan Univers…
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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
1Sungkyunkwan UniversitySouth Korea 63.311.9%22.0×66 +24.9%
2Hanyang UniversitySouth Korea 61.119.9%22.9×44 +5.8%
3University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 59.919.5%5.2×37 +24.4%
4King Abdullah University of Science and TechnologySaudi Arabia 58.633.0%7.4×9 -42.7%
5Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityChina 55.321.5%3.9×30 +41.0%
6Hong Kong University of Science and TechnologyChina 53.015.5%10.5×19 +8.3%
7Ulsan National Institute of Science and TechnologySouth Korea 52.821.2%18.7×12 +97.9%
8Purdue University West LafayetteUnited States 51.230.4%3.4×14 +95.6%
9South China University of TechnologyChina 50.716.2%8.9×42 -24.4%
10Kyung Hee UniversitySouth Korea 50.514.6%21.7×39 -33.4%

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 Thin-Film Transistor Technologies, country by country

Is Thin-Film Transistor Technologies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 13% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2012.

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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 Thin-Film Transistor Technologies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.021% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Thin-Film Transistor 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.

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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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