Chaowei Xue

1.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
25 papers, 585 citations indexed

About

Chaowei Xue is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials Chemistry and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, Chaowei Xue has authored 25 papers receiving a total of 585 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 15 papers in Materials Chemistry and 7 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in Chaowei Xue's work include Silicon and Solar Cell Technologies (12 papers), Thin-Film Transistor Technologies (10 papers) and Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties (8 papers). Chaowei Xue is often cited by papers focused on Silicon and Solar Cell Technologies (12 papers), Thin-Film Transistor Technologies (10 papers) and Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties (8 papers). Chaowei Xue collaborates with scholars based in Australia, China and United States. Chaowei Xue's co-authors include Xiaojing Hao, Kaiwen Sun, Jialiang Huang, Chang Yan, Xixiang Xu, Martin A. Green, Yuanfang Zhang, Junxiong Lu, Zhenguo Li and Heng Sun and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nature Communications and Energy & Environmental Science.

In The Last Decade

Chaowei Xue

23 papers receiving 575 citations

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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.

Flexible silicon solar cells with high power-to-weight ratios

2024 156 citations Yang Li, Xiaoning Ru et al. Nature profile →

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Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Chaowei Xue Australia	12	500	359	85	80	49	25	585
Chengjian Hong China	4	523 1.0×	218 0.6×	111 1.3×	97 1.2×	93 1.9×	9	618
Depeng Qiu China	15	404 0.8×	234 0.7×	115 1.4×	77 1.0×	23 0.5×	28	498
Shi Yin China	5	533 1.1×	254 0.7×	104 1.2×	97 1.2×	92 1.9×	6	642
Yongcai He China	11	397 0.8×	182 0.5×	69 0.8×	57 0.7×	65 1.3×	21	449
A. A. Ojo United Kingdom	15	566 1.1×	506 1.4×	96 1.1×	43 0.5×	57 1.2×	39	679
A. M. S. Arulanantham Saudi Arabia	15	435 0.9×	483 1.3×	58 0.7×	35 0.4×	26 0.5×	48	538
Prakash Koirala United States	14	640 1.3×	600 1.7×	96 1.1×	109 1.4×	26 0.5×	52	744
Jagannath Panigrahi India	11	348 0.7×	191 0.5×	92 1.1×	44 0.6×	21 0.4×	23	420
Kumar Mallem Hong Kong	12	347 0.7×	229 0.6×	95 1.1×	38 0.5×	36 0.7×	41	415
M. Izzi Italy	13	466 0.9×	248 0.7×	97 1.1×	45 0.6×	61 1.2×	59	511

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Chaowei Xue

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20 of 20 papers shown

Lin, Hao, Mengjie Xu, Xiaoyu Deng, et al.. (2025). Contactless characterization of polarity boundary recombination on silicon heterojunction back contact solar cells. Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells. 291. 113738–113738. 1 indexed citations

Sun, Zhaoqing, Yongcai He, Jingjie Li, et al.. (2025). Optimization Strategies and Efficiency Prediction for Silicon Solar Cells with Hybrid Route of PERC and SHJ Passivation Contact. Advanced Science. 12(15). e2411965–e2411965. 2 indexed citations

Qian, Kang, Zhaoqing Sun, Yongcai He, et al.. (2024). Optimizing strategy of bifacial TOPCon solar cells with front-side local passivation contact realized by numerical simulation. Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells. 278. 113189–113189. 3 indexed citations

Su, Qiao, Hao Lin, Genshun Wang, et al.. (2024). Theoretical limiting‐efficiency assessment on advanced crystalline silicon solar cells with Auger ideality factor and wafer thickness modifications. Progress in Photovoltaics Research and Applications. 32(9). 587–598. 11 indexed citations

Li, Yang, Xiaoning Ru, Miao Yang, et al.. (2024). Flexible silicon solar cells with high power-to-weight ratios. Nature. 626(7997). 105–110. 156 indexed citations breakdown →

Wang, Genshun, Can Han, Chaowei Xue, et al.. (2024). Unveiling the mechanism of attaining high fill factor in silicon solar cells. Progress in Photovoltaics Research and Applications. 32(6). 359–371. 18 indexed citations

Lin, Hao, Hua Wu, Tingting Wang, et al.. (2024). Accurately quantifying the recombination pathways unique in back contact solar cells. Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells. 280. 113277–113277. 1 indexed citations

Su, Qiao, Can Han, Tingting Wang, et al.. (2024). 27.09%-efficiency silicon heterojunction back contact solar cell and going beyond. Nature Communications. 15(1). 8931–8931. 27 indexed citations

Zhao, Xiaowei, Hongbo Zhang, Lü Tian, et al.. (2024). GTDI: a game-theory-based integrated drought index implying hazard-causing and hazard-bearing impact change. Natural hazards and earth system sciences. 24(10). 3479–3495. 2 indexed citations

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Lin, Hao, Genshun Wang, Tingting Wang, et al.. (2024). Understanding Localized Current Leakage in Silicon‐Based Heterojunction Solar Cells. Progress in Photovoltaics Research and Applications. 33(4). 522–530.

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Zheng, Jianghui, Fa‐Jun Ma, Chwenhaw Liao, et al.. (2023). Efficient perovskite solar cell on steel enabled by diffusion barrier and surface passivation. Cell Reports Physical Science. 4(9). 101543–101543. 4 indexed citations

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Wang, Ao, Nathan L. Chang, Kaiwen Sun, et al.. (2021). Analysis of manufacturing cost and market niches for Cu₂ZnSnS₄(CZTS) solar cells. Sustainable Energy & Fuels. 5(4). 1044–1058. 39 indexed citations

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Zhang, Doudou, Yuexian Cao, Siva Krishna Karuturi, et al.. (2020). Enabling Unassisted Solar Water Splitting by Single-Junction Amorphous Silicon Photoelectrodes. ACS Applied Energy Materials. 3(5). 4629–4637. 15 indexed citations

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Xue, Chaowei, Jialiang Huang, Kaiwen Sun, et al.. (2020). Revealing Nanoscale Domains in Cu₂ZnSnS₄ Thin Films by Catalyzed Chemical Etching. physica status solidi (RRL) - Rapid Research Letters. 14(9). 2 indexed citations

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Li, Jianjun, Jialiang Huang, Kanghua Li, et al.. (2020). Defect‐Resolved Effective Majority Carrier Mobility in Highly Anisotropic Antimony Chalcogenide Thin‐Film Solar Cells. Solar RRL. 5(3). 29 indexed citations

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Cui, Xin, Kaiwen Sun, Jialiang Huang, et al.. (2019). Cd-Free Cu₂ZnSnS₄solar cell with an efficiency greater than 10% enabled by Al₂O₃passivation layers. Energy & Environmental Science. 12(9). 2751–2764. 144 indexed citations

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Sun, Kaiwen, Fangyang Liu, Jialiang Huang, et al.. (2018). Flexible kesterite Cu2ZnSnS4 solar cells with sodium-doped molybdenum back contacts on stainless steel substrates. Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells. 182. 14–20. 52 indexed citations

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Xue, Chaowei, et al.. (2016). Metal‐assisted chemical etching of CIGS thin films for grain size analysis. physica status solidi (RRL) - Rapid Research Letters. 10(9). 673–676. 3 indexed citations

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Li, Wei, Sergey Varlamov, & Chaowei Xue. (2014). The effect of rapid thermal annealed seed layer on the epitaxial poly-Si thin film solar cell׳s structure quality and performance. Materials Letters. 133. 75–79. 3 indexed citations

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Xue, Chaowei, Jialiang Huang, Jing Rao, & Sergey Varlamov. (2014). Fabrication of an ant-nest nanostructure in polycrystalline silicon thin films for solar cells. Scripta Materialia. 92. 27–30. 1 indexed citations

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