David L. Young

7.2k total citations · 3 hit papers
178 papers, 6.0k citations indexed

About

David L. Young is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials Chemistry and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, David L. Young has authored 178 papers receiving a total of 6.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 162 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 80 papers in Materials Chemistry and 58 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in David L. Young's work include Silicon and Solar Cell Technologies (84 papers), Thin-Film Transistor Technologies (72 papers) and Semiconductor materials and interfaces (42 papers). David L. Young is often cited by papers focused on Silicon and Solar Cell Technologies (84 papers), Thin-Film Transistor Technologies (72 papers) and Semiconductor materials and interfaces (42 papers). David L. Young collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Switzerland. David L. Young's co-authors include T. J. Coutts, Timothy J. Coutts, R. Noufi, Paul Stradins, K. Ramanathan, Miguel Á. Contreras, Falah S. Hasoon, Jas S. Ward, Xiaonan Li and Craig L. Perkins and has published in prestigious journals such as Advanced Materials, Energy & Environmental Science and Applied Physics Letters.

In The Last Decade

David L. Young

170 papers receiving 5.9k 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.

Properties of 19.2% efficiency ZnO/CdS/CuInGaSe₂thin‐film solar cells

2003 840 citations Miguel Á. Contreras, Craig L. Perkins et al. profile →
SHORT COMMUNICATION: ACCELERATED PUBLICATION: Diode characteristics in state-of-the-art ZnO/CdS/Cu(In1?xGax)Se2 solar cells

2005 511 citations Miguel Á. Contreras, David L. Young et al. profile →
Raising the one-sun conversion efficiency of III–V/Si solar cells to 32.8% for two junctions and 35.9% for three junctions

2017 438 citations Stephanie Essig, Christophe Allebé et al. Nature Energy profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
David L. Young United States	36	5.3k	4.0k	1.3k	558	446	178	6.0k
K. Durose United Kingdom	42	4.7k 0.9×	4.3k 1.1×	1.1k 0.9×	466 0.8×	301 0.7×	191	5.4k
Kosuke Nagashio Japan	35	3.0k 0.6×	3.4k 0.8×	853 0.7×	781 1.4×	389 0.9×	224	5.0k
Paul K. Hurley Ireland	34	3.5k 0.7×	2.4k 0.6×	881 0.7×	488 0.9×	311 0.7×	263	4.5k
Ryan M. France United States	28	4.3k 0.8×	2.0k 0.5×	1.6k 1.2×	550 1.0×	294 0.7×	113	5.0k
Wyatt K. Metzger United States	46	6.5k 1.2×	6.2k 1.5×	1.9k 1.5×	822 1.5×	337 0.8×	165	7.7k
R. M. Ribeiro Portugal	23	2.2k 0.4×	4.0k 1.0×	736 0.6×	820 1.5×	528 1.2×	54	4.8k
K. K. Tiong Taiwan	32	2.6k 0.5×	2.7k 0.7×	748 0.6×	370 0.7×	500 1.1×	211	3.8k
Tariq Mohiuddin Oman	12	1.9k 0.4×	5.2k 1.3×	1.2k 0.9×	1.3k 2.4×	539 1.2×	28	5.8k
Alexei Zakharov Sweden	34	2.1k 0.4×	4.1k 1.0×	1.4k 1.1×	1.1k 2.0×	472 1.1×	154	4.9k
Kaupo Kukli Estonia	48	5.7k 1.1×	4.4k 1.1×	532 0.4×	277 0.5×	949 2.1×	240	6.6k

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Young, David L., et al.. (2024). Towards Polymer-Free, Femto-Second Laser-Welded Glass/Glass Solar Modules. IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics. 14(3). 497–502. 1 indexed citations

France, Ryan M., William Nemeth, Matthew Page, et al.. (2023). High-voltage monocrystalline Si photovoltaic minimodules based on poly-Si/SiO passivating contacts for high-power laser power conversion. Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells. 255. 112286–112286. 2 indexed citations

Young, David L.. (2023). High throughput semiconductor deposition system. OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information).

Chen, Kejun, Alexandra Bothwell, Harvey Guthrey, et al.. (2021). Measurement of poly-Si film thickness on textured surfaces by X-ray diffraction in poly-Si/SiO passivating contacts for monocrystalline Si solar cells. Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells. 236. 111510–111510. 15 indexed citations

Hollemann, Christina, Nils Folchert, Steven P. Harvey, et al.. (2021). Changes in hydrogen concentration and defect state density at the poly-Si/SiOx/c-Si interface due to firing. Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells. 231. 111297–111297. 22 indexed citations

Young, David L., et al.. (2021). Electrical energy storage using compressed gas in depleted hydraulically fractured wells. iScience. 24(12). 103459–103459. 3 indexed citations

Leick, Noémi, et al.. (2021). Chemical Passivation of Crystalline Si by Al₂O₃ Deposited Using Atomic Layer Deposition: Implications for Solar Cells. ACS Applied Nano Materials. 4(7). 6629–6636. 10 indexed citations

Nemeth, William, Harvey Guthrey, Andrew G. Norman, et al.. (2019). Understanding the charge transport mechanisms through ultrathin SiOx layers in passivated contacts for high-efficiency silicon solar cells. Applied Physics Letters. 114(8). 45 indexed citations

Park, Sang-Hyun, John Simon, Kevin L. Schulte, et al.. (2019). Germanium-on-Nothing for Epitaxial Liftoff of GaAs Solar Cells. Joule. 3(7). 1782–1793. 50 indexed citations

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Schnabel, Manuel, Bas W. H. van de Loo, William Nemeth, et al.. (2018). Hydrogen passivation of poly-Si/SiOx contacts for Si solar cells using Al2O3 studied with deuterium. Applied Physics Letters. 112(20). 89 indexed citations

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Jain, Nikhil, John Simon, Steve Johnston, et al.. (2018). III–V Solar Cells Grown on Unpolished and Reusable Spalled Ge Substrates. IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics. 8(5). 1384–1389. 9 indexed citations

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Essig, Stephanie, Christophe Allebé, Timothy Remo, et al.. (2017). Raising the one-sun conversion efficiency of III–V/Si solar cells to 32.8% for two junctions and 35.9% for three junctions. Nature Energy. 2(9). 438 indexed citations breakdown →

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Nemeth, Bill, Steven P. Harvey, Jian V. Li, et al.. (2017). Effect of the SiO2 interlayer properties with solid-source hydrogenation on passivated contact performance and surface passivation. Energy Procedia. 124. 295–301. 21 indexed citations

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Essig, Stephanie, Scott Ward, Myles A. Steiner, et al.. (2015). Progress Towards a 30% Efficient GaInP/Si Tandem Solar Cell. Energy Procedia. 77. 464–469. 71 indexed citations

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Schiff, E. A., et al.. (2012). Electron drift-mobility measurements in polycrystalline CuIn1−xGaxSe2 solar cells. Applied Physics Letters. 100(10). 25 indexed citations

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Teplin, Charles W., M. Paranthaman, Thomas R. Fanning, et al.. (2011). Heteroepitaxial film crystal silicon on Al2O3 for solar cells on cube-textured metal foil. Advanced Materials. 4(9). 1 indexed citations

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Bobela, David C., Charles W. Teplin, David L. Young, Howard M. Branz, & Paul Stradins. (2011). Epitaxial crystal silicon absorber layers and solar cells grown at 1.8 microns per minute. OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information). 403. 2982–2986. 6 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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Noufi, R., David L. Young, T. J. Coutts, et al.. (2003). Toward a 25%-efficient polycrystalline thin-film tandem solar cell: practical issues. 3rd World Conference onPhotovoltaic Energy Conversion, 2003. Proceedings of. 1. 12–14. 6 indexed citations

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Young, David L., Miguel Á. Contreras, S. Asher, et al.. (2003). Interconnect junctions for thin-film tandem solar cells. 3rd World Conference onPhotovoltaic Energy Conversion, 2003. Proceedings of. 1. 27–30. 4 indexed citations

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