Gabriel Bester

5.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
140 papers, 4.6k citations indexed

About

Gabriel Bester is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Gabriel Bester has authored 140 papers receiving a total of 4.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 91 papers in Materials Chemistry, 84 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 56 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Gabriel Bester's work include Semiconductor Quantum Structures and Devices (65 papers), Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties (62 papers) and Quantum and electron transport phenomena (48 papers). Gabriel Bester is often cited by papers focused on Semiconductor Quantum Structures and Devices (65 papers), Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties (62 papers) and Quantum and electron transport phenomena (48 papers). Gabriel Bester collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and China. Gabriel Bester's co-authors include Alex Zunger, Ranber Singh, Linas Vilčiauskas, Klaus‐Dieter Kreuer, Mark E. Tuckerman, Peng Han, Stephen J. Paddison, Sotirios Baskoutas, Selvakumar V. Nair and M. Fähnle and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Physical Review Letters and Advanced Materials.

In The Last Decade

Gabriel Bester

137 papers receiving 4.5k 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.

The mechanism of proton conduction in phosphoric acid

2012 488 citations Linas Vilčiauskas, Mark E. Tuckerman et al. Nature Chemistry profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Gabriel Bester Germany	36	2.9k	2.3k	2.3k	678	575	140	4.6k
John Kouvetakis United States	43	2.4k 0.8×	2.7k 1.1×	4.5k 2.0×	1.4k 2.1×	374 0.7×	233	6.3k
Jun‐Wei Luo China	35	2.0k 0.7×	2.8k 1.2×	2.0k 0.9×	933 1.4×	776 1.3×	143	4.5k
G. Bacher Germany	43	3.7k 1.2×	4.2k 1.8×	3.8k 1.7×	880 1.3×	594 1.0×	297	6.8k
Yang Xia China	23	1.6k 0.5×	4.1k 1.8×	1.7k 0.7×	652 1.0×	638 1.1×	57	5.5k
Oliver Warschkow Australia	27	1.2k 0.4×	1.8k 0.8×	1.6k 0.7×	359 0.5×	158 0.3×	83	3.0k
Jian‐Bai Xia China	44	3.4k 1.2×	5.3k 2.3×	3.5k 1.5×	801 1.2×	1.0k 1.8×	217	8.1k
Jeil Jung South Korea	39	3.7k 1.3×	5.5k 2.4×	1.5k 0.7×	669 1.0×	513 0.9×	105	7.0k
Hari C. Manoharan United States	27	2.8k 1.0×	3.1k 1.3×	2.1k 0.9×	537 0.8×	897 1.6×	52	5.9k
Chi‐Te Liang Taiwan	32	1.4k 0.5×	3.7k 1.6×	2.3k 1.0×	958 1.4×	557 1.0×	255	5.1k
Tomoyasu Taniyama Japan	40	2.2k 0.8×	2.4k 1.0×	1.7k 0.7×	328 0.5×	1.3k 2.3×	205	5.0k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Bester, Gabriel, et al.. (2025). Beyond the K-valley: exploring unique trion states in indirect band gap monolayer WSe2. npj 2D Materials and Applications. 9(1).

Garoufalis, Christos S., David B. Hayrapetyan, H.A. Sarkisyan, et al.. (2024). Optical gain and entanglement through dielectric confinement and electric field in InP quantum dots. Nanoscale. 16(17). 8447–8454. 8 indexed citations

Zito, Cecilia A., Francesco Caddeo, Jagadesh Kopula Kesavan, et al.. (2024). Utilizing High X-ray Energy Photon-In Photon-Out Spectroscopies and X-ray Scattering to Experimentally Assess the Emergence of Electronic and Atomic Structure of ZnS Nanorods. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 146(49). 33475–33484. 2 indexed citations

Basset, Francesco Basso, et al.. (2023). Effects of random alloy disorder, shape deformation, and substrate misorientation on the exciton lifetime and fine structure splitting of GaAs/AlxGa1−xAs(111) quantum dots. Physical review. B.. 107(20). 2 indexed citations

Bester, Gabriel, et al.. (2023). Accurate force-field methodology capturing atomic reconstructions in transition metal dichalcogenide moiré system. Physical review. B.. 108(4). 8 indexed citations

Heyn, Ch., et al.. (2022). Dot-Size Dependent Excitons in Droplet-Etched Cone-Shell GaAs Quantum Dots. Nanomaterials. 12(17). 2981–2981. 9 indexed citations

Dai, Liwei, Christian Strelow, Tobias Kipp, et al.. (2022). Role of Magnetic Coupling in Photoluminescence Kinetics of Mn²⁺-Doped ZnS Nanoplatelets. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 14(16). 18806–18815. 17 indexed citations

Müller, Tina, R. M. Stevenson, Sergio Bietti, et al.. (2022). Exciton Fine Structure in InAs Quantum Dots with Cavity-Enhanced Emission at Telecommunication Wavelength and Grown on a GaAs(111)A Vicinal Substrate. Physical Review Applied. 18(3). 5 indexed citations

Sarkisyan, H.A., et al.. (2021). Exciton-Related Raman Scattering, Interband Absorption and Photoluminescence in Colloidal CdSe/CdS Core/Shell Quantum Dots Ensemble. Nanomaterials. 11(5). 1274–1274. 8 indexed citations

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Dai, Liwei, et al.. (2019). From Wurtzite Nanoplatelets to Zinc Blende Nanorods: Simultaneous Control of Shape and Phase in Ultrathin ZnS Nanocrystals. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 10(14). 3828–3835. 28 indexed citations

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Zhang, Hui, Xinke Wang, Yansheng Sun, et al.. (2019). Effect of IT-M doping on charge transfer and ultrafast carrier dynamics of ternary organic solar cell materials. Journal of Physics D Applied Physics. 53(9). 95103–95103. 6 indexed citations

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Martín‐Sánchez, Javier, Giovanni Piredda, Vlastimil Křápek, et al.. (2018). Uniaxial stress flips the natural quantization axis of a quantum dot for integrated quantum photonics. Nature Communications. 9(1). 3058–3058. 34 indexed citations

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Vilčiauskas, Linas, Mark E. Tuckerman, Gabriel Bester, Stephen J. Paddison, & Klaus‐Dieter Kreuer. (2012). The mechanism of proton conduction in phosphoric acid. Nature Chemistry. 4(6). 461–466. 488 indexed citations breakdown →

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Peng, Jie & Gabriel Bester. (2010). Heterogeneous confinement in lateral quantum dot molecules. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 2010. 1 indexed citations

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Luo, Jun‐Wei, A. N. Chantis, Mark van Schilfgaarde, Gabriel Bester, & Alex Zunger. (2010). Discovery of a Novel Linear-in-kSpin Splitting for Holes in the 2DGaAs/AlAsSystem. Physical Review Letters. 104(6). 66405–66405. 42 indexed citations

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Singh, Ranber & Gabriel Bester. (2010). Lower Bound for the Excitonic Fine Structure Splitting in Self-Assembled Quantum Dots. Physical Review Letters. 104(19). 196803–196803. 73 indexed citations

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Luo, Jun‐Wei, Gabriel Bester, & Alex Zunger. (2009). Full-Zone Spin Splitting for Electrons and Holes in Bulk GaAs and GaSb. Physical Review Letters. 102(5). 56405–56405. 53 indexed citations

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Bester, Gabriel. (2008). Electronic excitations in nanostructures: an empirical pseudopotential based approach. Journal of Physics Condensed Matter. 21(2). 23202–23202. 90 indexed citations

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Bester, Gabriel & Alex Zunger. (2005). 円柱形をした閃亜鉛鉱型半導体量子ドットは円柱対称性を持たない原子レベルの対称性,原子緩和,そして圧電効果. Physical Review B. 71(4). 1–45318. 10 indexed citations

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Bester, Gabriel, John Shumway, & Alex Zunger. (2004). Theory of Excitonic Spectra and Entanglement Engineering in Dot Molecules. Physical Review Letters. 93(4). 47401–47401. 78 indexed citations

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