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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. 16.1% 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%
7.8k
per year above
Top-10% rate
16.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
-24%
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Which countries lead Thin-Film Transistor Technologies research?

By volume, China and South Korea publish the most (1.4k and 573 works in 2022–2025).

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 China 1.4k works
  2. 2 South Korea 573 works
  3. 3 United States 374 works
  4. 4 India 288 works
  5. 5 Japan 264 works
  6. 6 Germany 196 works
  7. 7 Taiwan 166 works
  8. 8 France 100 works
  9. 9 United Kingdom 80 works
  10. 10 Russia 72 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: 40.7%South Korea: 16.1%United States: 10.5%India: 8.1%6 others listed: 24.6%41%largest
China1,448 · 40.7%South Korea573 · 16.1%United States374 · 10.5%India288 · 8.1%6 others listed878 · 24.6%

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

Which institutions lead Thin-Film Transistor Technologies research?

By volume in 2022–2025, Sungkyunkwan University publishes the most Thin-Film Transistor Technologies research, followed by Chinese Academy of Sciences and Peking University.

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

The most-cited researchers publishing on Thin-Film Transistor Technologies include Y. Arai and Wei Huang.

  1. 1 Y. Arai Japan 6k citations
  2. 2 Wei Huang China 5.5k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

Where is Thin-Film Transistor Technologies research done?

The largest centres of Thin-Film Transistor Technologies research in 2022–2025 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, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Beijing China 354 works
  2. 2 Seoul South Korea 328 works
  3. 3 Shanghai China 119 works
  4. 4 Guangzhou China 84 works
  5. 5 Tokyo Japan 77 works
  6. 6 Shenzhen China 72 works
  7. 7 Nanjing China 64 works
  8. 8 Xi'an China 63 works
  9. 9 Hsinchu Taiwan 62 works
  10. 10 Daejeon South Korea 61 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. HsinchuTW · 61.9 works17×
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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, Hanyang University, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and Sungkyunkwan 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%10%20%mean 16.24%fractional works in this node (log) →share in the world top 10% →Hanyang University: 39, 20.3%Hong Kong University of Science and Technology: 16, 19.0%Sungkyunkwan University: 59, 12.0%South China University of Technology: 37, 15.5%Korea University: 22, 19.8%Kyung Hee University: 37, 10.4%University of Chinese Academy of Sciences: 33, 21.4%Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology: 11, 18.3%Pohang University of Science and Technology: 16, 16.1%Peking University: 47, 9.6%Hanyang UniversityHong Kong University…South China Universi…Sungkyunkwan Univers…
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One dot per university in the table below. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1 Hanyang UniversitySouth Korea 64.320.3%22.0×39 -10.0%
2 Hong Kong University of Science and TechnologyHong Kong 60.919.0%9.9×16 -10.2%
3 Sungkyunkwan UniversitySouth Korea 59.912.0%25.0×59 -28.8%
4 South China University of TechnologyChina 59.415.5%7.9×37 +111.4%
5 Korea UniversitySouth Korea 57.419.8%9.8×22 -31.9%
6 Kyung Hee UniversitySouth Korea 56.010.4%23.6×37 +1.1%
7 University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 55.321.4%4.6×33 +124.0%
8 Ulsan National Institute of Science and TechnologySouth Korea 54.218.3%16.8×11 +62.6%
9 Pohang University of Science and TechnologySouth Korea 52.316.1%17.3×16 +5.3%
10 Peking UniversityChina 51.89.6%7.0×47 +55.1%

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 Thin-Film Transistor Technologies research growing?

Output in 2018–2022 was 24% lower than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2012. The fastest-growing topics are Thin-Film Transistor Technologies.

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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.

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.