Bobby To

8.8k total citations · 4 hit papers
140 papers, 7.6k citations indexed

About

Bobby To is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials Chemistry and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, Bobby To has authored 140 papers receiving a total of 7.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 127 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 97 papers in Materials Chemistry and 23 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in Bobby To's work include Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films (70 papers), Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties (55 papers) and Copper-based nanomaterials and applications (35 papers). Bobby To is often cited by papers focused on Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films (70 papers), Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties (55 papers) and Copper-based nanomaterials and applications (35 papers). Bobby To collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Japan. Bobby To's co-authors include R. Noufi, Ingrid Repins, Clay DeHart, Craig L. Perkins, Miguel Á. Contreras, Brian Egaas, John Scharf, K. M. Jones, Mowafak Al‐Jassim and Scott Ward and has published in prestigious journals such as Advanced Materials, Nature Communications and Nano Letters.

In The Last Decade

Bobby To

140 papers receiving 7.4k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

19·9%‐efficient ZnO/CdS/CuInGaSe² solar cell with 81·2% fill factor

2008 1.7k citations Ingrid Repins, Miguel Á. Contreras et al. profile →
Crystalline WO₃ Nanoparticles for Highly Improved Electrochromic Applications

2006 546 citations K. M. Jones, Bobby To et al. profile →
Co-evaporated Cu2ZnSnSe4 films and devices

2012 532 citations Ingrid Repins, Carolyn Beall et al. profile →
Enabling Flexible All-Perovskite Tandem Solar Cells

2019 398 citations Axel F. Palmstrom, Giles E. Eperon et al. Joule profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Bobby To	6.4k	5.4k	1.2k	987	846	140	7.6k
Zachary C. Holman	8.1k 1.3×	4.3k 0.8×	1.6k 1.3×	1.7k 1.7×	1.3k 1.5×	171	9.1k
Jef Poortmans	9.1k 1.4×	4.6k 0.9×	1.8k 1.5×	1.7k 1.7×	1.6k 1.9×	562	10.2k
Franz‐Josef Haug	8.1k 1.3×	4.7k 0.9×	1.0k 0.9×	1.3k 1.3×	1.5k 1.8×	181	8.9k
Donghwan Kim	3.6k 0.6×	2.3k 0.4×	754 0.6×	553 0.6×	645 0.8×	243	4.6k
Takashi Minemoto	9.5k 1.5×	7.3k 1.4×	1.8k 1.5×	984 1.0×	207 0.2×	302	10.4k
Ayodhya N. Tiwari	14.3k 2.2×	12.2k 2.3×	1.4k 1.2×	2.6k 2.6×	596 0.7×	328	15.2k
Viresh Dutta	3.8k 0.6×	3.8k 0.7×	1.0k 0.8×	312 0.3×	594 0.7×	177	5.6k
Wenzhong Shen	4.5k 0.7×	4.5k 0.8×	597 0.5×	1.2k 1.2×	1.6k 1.9×	351	7.5k
Hans‐Werner Schock	9.6k 1.5×	8.7k 1.6×	429 0.4×	2.1k 2.2×	450 0.5×	176	10.3k
Rutger Schlatmann	4.8k 0.7×	2.7k 0.5×	812 0.7×	595 0.6×	304 0.4×	210	5.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Bobby To

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20 of 20 papers shown

Stetson, Caleb, Zhifei Li, Bobby To, et al.. (2020). Three-Dimensional Mapping of Resistivity and Microstructure of Composite Electrodes for Lithium-Ion Batteries. Nano Letters. 20(11). 8081–8088. 11 indexed citations

Huang, Di, Chaiwat Engtrakul, Sanjini U. Nanayakkara, et al.. (2020). Cathode electrolyte diagnostics based on scanning probe microscopy. 12–12. 1 indexed citations

Gaulding, E. Ashley, Xihan Chen, Ye Yang, et al.. (2020). Embedding PbS Quantum Dots (QDs) in Pb-Halide Perovskite Matrices: QD Surface Chemistry and Antisolvent Effects on QD Dispersion and Confinement Properties. ACS Materials Letters. 2(11). 1464–1472. 25 indexed citations

Palmstrom, Axel F., Giles E. Eperon, Tomas Leijtens, et al.. (2019). Enabling Flexible All-Perovskite Tandem Solar Cells. Joule. 3(9). 2193–2204. 398 indexed citations breakdown →

Jiang, Chun‐Sheng, Helio Moutinho, Bobby To, et al.. (2019). Decay of Electrostatic Force of Dust Particles on Photovoltaic Modules. 3119–3123. 1 indexed citations

Jiang, Chun‐Sheng, Mengjin Yang, Yuanyuan Zhou, et al.. (2015). Carrier separation and transport in perovskite solar cells studied by nanometre-scale profiling of electrical potential. Nature Communications. 6(1). 8397–8397. 224 indexed citations

Xiao, Chuanxiao, Helio Moutinho, Chun‐Sheng Jiang, et al.. (2015). Development of scanning capacitance spectroscopy of CIGS solar cells. 82. 1–4. 3 indexed citations

Mansfield, Lorelle M., Darius Kuciauskas, P. Dippo, et al.. (2015). Optoelectronic investigation of Sb-doped Cu(In,Ga)Se2. 1–4. 3 indexed citations

Choi, Sukgeun, Christophe Lefèvre, F. Roulland, et al.. (2012). Optical transitions in magnetoelectric Ga0.6Fe1.4O3 from 0.73 to 6.45 eV. Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology B Nanotechnology and Microelectronics Materials Processing Measurement and Phenomena. 30(4). 9 indexed citations

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Repins, Ingrid, Nirav Vora, Carolyn Beall, et al.. (2011). Kesterites and Chalcopyrites: A Comparison of Close Cousins. MRS Proceedings. 1324. 58 indexed citations

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Miller, David C., Lynn Gedvilas, Bobby To, Cheryl Kennedy, & Sarah Kurtz. (2010). Durability of Poly (Methyl Methacrylate) Lenses Used in Concentrating Photovoltaics. University of North Texas Digital Library (University of North Texas). 3 indexed citations

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Johnston, Steve, et al.. (2010). Applications of imaging techniques to Si, Cu(In,Ga)Se₂, and CdTe and correlation to solar cell parameters. 1727–1732. 8 indexed citations

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Pern, F. J., Bobby To, S. H. Glick, et al.. (2010). Variations in damp heat-induced degradation behavior of sputtered ZnO window layer for CIGS solar cells. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 7773. 77730R–77730R. 11 indexed citations

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Pern, F. J., Lorelle M. Mansfield, Stephen Glynn, et al.. (2010). All-laser scribing for thin-film CuInGaSe<inf>2</inf> solar cells. 3479–3484. 7 indexed citations

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Branz, Howard M., et al.. (2009). Nanostructured black silicon and the optical reflectance of graded-density surfaces. Applied Physics Letters. 94(23). 275 indexed citations

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Young, David L., Howard M. Branz, Fude Liu, et al.. (2009). Electron transport and band structure in phosphorus-doped polycrystalline silicon films. Journal of Applied Physics. 105(3). 13 indexed citations

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Reese, Matthew O., John D. Perkins, Maikel F. A. M. van Hest, et al.. (2008). Transparent conducting contacts based on zinc oxide substitutionally doped with gallium. Conference record of the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference. 21. 1–3. 1 indexed citations

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Dillon, Anne C., Rohit Deshpande, Se-Hee Lee, et al.. (2007). Hot-wire Chemical Vapor Deposition of WO3 and MoO3 Nanoparticles and the Performance of Nanostructured WO3 Electrochromic Films. ECS Transactions. 2(20). 25–32. 1 indexed citations

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Ramanathan, K., R. N. Bhattacharya, Miguel Á. Contreras, et al.. (2005). High Performance CIGS Thin-Film Solar Cells: A Laboratory Perspective. University of North Texas Digital Library (University of North Texas). 2 indexed citations

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Ginley, David S., Maikel F. A. M. van Hest, David L. Young, et al.. (2005). Combinatorial Exploration of Novel Transparent Conducting Oxide Materials. Zootaxa. 3682. 240–8. 4 indexed citations

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