Hitoshi Sakata

1.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
18 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Hitoshi Sakata is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials Chemistry and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, Hitoshi Sakata has authored 18 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 6 papers in Materials Chemistry and 4 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in Hitoshi Sakata's work include Silicon and Solar Cell Technologies (17 papers), Thin-Film Transistor Technologies (13 papers) and solar cell performance optimization (8 papers). Hitoshi Sakata is often cited by papers focused on Silicon and Solar Cell Technologies (17 papers), Thin-Film Transistor Technologies (13 papers) and solar cell performance optimization (8 papers). Hitoshi Sakata collaborates with scholars based in Japan. Hitoshi Sakata's co-authors include Mikio Taguchi, Eiji Maruyama, Takahiro Mishima, Yukihiro Yoshimine, Makoto Tanaka, Seiichi Kiyama, Toshiaki Baba, Hiroshi Kanno, Toshihiro Kinoshita and Toshiaki Baba and has published in prestigious journals such as Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids and Progress in Photovoltaics Research and Applications.

In The Last Decade

Hitoshi Sakata

18 papers receiving 1.2k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Development status of high-efficiency HIT solar cells

2010 378 citations Takahiro Mishima, Mikio Taguchi et al. Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Hitoshi Sakata Japan	12	1.2k	567	289	159	131	18	1.2k
Filip Duerinckx Belgium	17	1.1k 0.9×	437 0.8×	328 1.1×	198 1.2×	119 0.9×	114	1.1k
Kenta Matsuyama Japan	6	1.0k 0.9×	371 0.7×	276 1.0×	120 0.8×	125 1.0×	7	1.1k
Taiki Hashiguchi Japan	4	992 0.9×	329 0.6×	331 1.1×	138 0.9×	117 0.9×	9	1.1k
Shingo Okamoto Japan	10	1.2k 1.1×	531 0.9×	336 1.2×	153 1.0×	130 1.0×	18	1.3k
T. Sawada Japan	13	1.2k 1.0×	685 1.2×	206 0.7×	115 0.7×	134 1.0×	23	1.2k
Johnson Wong Singapore	21	1.1k 0.9×	366 0.6×	243 0.8×	122 0.8×	216 1.6×	70	1.1k
Daisuke Fujishima Japan	7	1.1k 1.0×	369 0.7×	365 1.3×	163 1.0×	134 1.0×	13	1.2k
P. Fath Germany	17	971 0.8×	263 0.5×	315 1.1×	189 1.2×	130 1.0×	106	1.0k
Tsuyoshi Takahama Japan	10	1.3k 1.1×	584 1.0×	348 1.2×	147 0.9×	130 1.0×	20	1.4k
D. Pysch Germany	12	877 0.8×	269 0.5×	301 1.0×	107 0.7×	169 1.3×	31	938

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Hitoshi Sakata

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Hitoshi Sakata. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Hitoshi Sakata based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Hitoshi Sakata. Hitoshi Sakata is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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18 of 18 papers shown

Fujishima, Daisuke, Kenta Matsuyama, Yuya Nakamura, et al.. (2012). Future directions for higher-efficiency HIT solar cells using a Thin Silicon Wafer. Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids. 358(17). 2219–2222. 60 indexed citations

Matsuyama, Kenta, Daisuke Fujishima, Takeshi Nishiwaki, et al.. (2011). The Study of Improving the Conversion Efficiency and Reducing the Thickness of the HIT Solar Cell. MRS Proceedings. 1288. 5 indexed citations

Fujishima, Daisuke, Toshihiro Kinoshita, Mikio Taguchi, et al.. (2011). High-efficiency HIT solar cells with a very thin structure enabling a high Voc. 57–61. 14 indexed citations

Kinoshita, Takumi, Kenta Matsuyama, Yuya Nakamura, et al.. (2011). The Approaches for High Efficiency HITTM Solar Cell with Very Thin (<100 µm) Silicon Wafer over 23%. EU PVSEC. 871–874. 21 indexed citations

Mishima, Takahiro, Mikio Taguchi, Hitoshi Sakata, & Eiji Maruyama. (2010). Development status of high-efficiency HIT solar cells. Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells. 95(1). 18–21. 378 indexed citations breakdown →

Fujishima, Daisuke, et al.. (2010). High-performance HIT solar cells for thinner silicon wafers. 3137–3140. 12 indexed citations

Sakata, Hitoshi, Toshiaki Baba, Hiroshi Kanno, et al.. (2010). R&D Progress of Next-Generation Very Thin HITtm Solar Cells. EU PVSEC. 1102–1105. 2 indexed citations

Fujishima, Daisuke, Takeshi Nishiwaki, Takeshi Nakashima, et al.. (2009). Improving the Conversion Efficiency and Decreasing the Thickness of the HIT Solar Cell. MRS Proceedings. 1210. 3 indexed citations

Taguchi, Mikio, et al.. (2009). High-Efficiency HIT Solar Cell on Thin (<100 μm) Silicon Wafer. EU PVSEC. 1690–1693. 18 indexed citations

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Kanno, Hiroshi, Toshiaki Baba, Yukihiro Yoshimine, et al.. (2008). Over 22% Efficient Hit Solar Cell. EU PVSEC. 1136–1139. 10 indexed citations

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Kinoshita, Toshihiro, Daisuke Ide, Toshiaki Baba, et al.. (2008). High-Efficiency HIT Solar Cells for Excellent Power Generating Properties. 1 indexed citations

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Taguchi, Mikio, Yukihiro Yoshimine, Toshiaki Baba, et al.. (2008). Excellent power-generating properties by using the HIT structure. Conference record of the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference. 1–5. 12 indexed citations

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Yoshimine, Yukihiro, Mikio Taguchi, Toshiaki Baba, et al.. (2008). Twenty-two percent efficiency HIT solar cell. Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells. 93(6-7). 670–673. 248 indexed citations

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Kinoshita, Toshihiro, Toshiaki Baba, Yukihiro Yoshimine, et al.. (2008). High-Efficiency HIT Solar Cells for Excellent Power Generating Properties. MRS Proceedings. 1123. 1 indexed citations

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Maruyama, Eiji, Akira Terakawa, Mikio Taguchi, et al.. (2006). Sanyo's Challenges to the Development of High-efficiency HIT Solar Cells and the Expansion of HIT Business. 1455–1460. 74 indexed citations

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Taguchi, Mikio, Hitoshi Sakata, Yukihiro Yoshimine, et al.. (2005). An approach for the higher efficiency in the HIT cells. 866–871. 30 indexed citations

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Sakata, Hitoshi, T. Nakai, Toshiaki Baba, et al.. (2002). 20.7% highest efficiency large area (100.5 cm2) HIT/sup TM/ cell. 7–12. 15 indexed citations

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Taguchi, Mikio, Sadaji Tsuge, Toshiaki Baba, et al.. (2000). HITTM cells?high-efficiency crystalline Si cells with novel structure. Progress in Photovoltaics Research and Applications. 8(5). 503–513. 327 indexed citations

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