Karin Söderström

2.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
36 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Karin Söderström is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Biomedical Engineering and Surfaces, Coatings and Films. According to data from OpenAlex, Karin Söderström has authored 36 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 36 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 16 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 11 papers in Surfaces, Coatings and Films. Recurrent topics in Karin Söderström's work include Thin-Film Transistor Technologies (34 papers), Silicon and Solar Cell Technologies (19 papers) and Nanowire Synthesis and Applications (13 papers). Karin Söderström is often cited by papers focused on Thin-Film Transistor Technologies (34 papers), Silicon and Solar Cell Technologies (19 papers) and Nanowire Synthesis and Applications (13 papers). Karin Söderström collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, United States and Denmark. Karin Söderström's co-authors include Christophe Ballif, Franz‐Josef Haug, Jordi Escarré, Corsin Battaglia, Matthieu Despeisse, Mathieu Boccard, Mathieu Charrière, Grégory Bugnon, Ching-Mei Hsu and Marco Cantoni and has published in prestigious journals such as Nano Letters, ACS Nano and Applied Physics Letters.

In The Last Decade

Karin Söderström

33 papers receiving 1.6k citations

Hit Papers

Light Trapping in Solar Cells: Can Periodic Beat Random? 2012 2026 2016 2021 2012 100 200 300
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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.

  1. Light Trapping in Solar Cells: Can Periodic Beat Random?
    2012 391 citations Corsin Battaglia, Ching-Mei Hsu et al. ACS Nano profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Karin Söderström Switzerland 19 1.5k 739 682 286 211 36 1.7k
Alain Fave France 18 1.0k 0.7× 493 0.7× 432 0.6× 255 0.9× 353 1.7× 64 1.3k
Valérie Depauw Belgium 19 974 0.6× 485 0.7× 535 0.8× 129 0.5× 245 1.2× 78 1.2k
Hubert Hauser Germany 17 1.1k 0.7× 245 0.3× 473 0.7× 176 0.6× 235 1.1× 62 1.2k
C. Droz Switzerland 14 1.7k 1.1× 1.3k 1.7× 313 0.5× 75 0.3× 178 0.8× 29 1.9k
Lirong Zeng United States 6 981 0.6× 363 0.5× 389 0.6× 349 1.2× 422 2.0× 9 1.1k
R.A.C.M.M. van Swaaij Netherlands 22 1.5k 1.0× 981 1.3× 282 0.4× 101 0.4× 214 1.0× 98 1.7k
F. Smole Slovenia 21 1.6k 1.0× 905 1.2× 210 0.3× 114 0.4× 338 1.6× 80 1.7k
S. Koynov Germany 12 666 0.4× 536 0.7× 486 0.7× 129 0.5× 110 0.5× 46 911
O. Kluth Germany 18 2.5k 1.7× 2.3k 3.1× 343 0.5× 163 0.6× 165 0.8× 55 2.9k
Mao‐Kuo Wei Taiwan 18 696 0.5× 231 0.3× 206 0.3× 157 0.5× 115 0.5× 49 967

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Karin Söderström

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Battaglia, Corsin, Karin Söderström, Jordi Escarré, et al.. (2013). Nanomoulding of Functional Materials, a Versatile Complementary Pattern Replication Method to Nanoimprinting. Journal of Visualized Experiments. 1 indexed citations
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Söderström, Karin. (2013). Coupling light into thin silicon layers for high-efficiency solar cells. Infoscience (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne). 3 indexed citations
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Haug, Franz‐Josef, Karin Söderström, Ali Naqavi, Jia Li, & Christophe Ballif. (2013). Super-Lambertian photocurrent-generation in solar cells with periodically textured interfaces. Applied Physics Letters. 103(13). 6 indexed citations
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Boccard, Mathieu, Peter Cuony, Corsin Battaglia, et al.. (2012). Nanometer- and Micrometer-Scale Texturing for High-Efficiency Micromorph Thin-Film Silicon Solar Cells. IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics. 2(2). 83–87. 23 indexed citations
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Battaglia, Corsin, Ching-Mei Hsu, Karin Söderström, et al.. (2012). Light Trapping in Solar Cells: Can Periodic Beat Random?. ACS Nano. 6(3). 2790–2797. 391 indexed citations breakdown →
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Naqavi, Ali, Franz‐Josef Haug, Karin Söderström, et al.. (2012). Geometrical Impact on Guided Mode Excitation in Solar Cells. JM5A.21–JM5A.21. 1 indexed citations
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Söderström, Karin, Grégory Bugnon, Franz‐Josef Haug, & Christophe Ballif. (2012). Electrically flat/optically rough substrates for efficiencies above 10% in n-i-p thin-film silicon solar cells. MRS Proceedings. 1426. 39–44. 2 indexed citations
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Boccard, Mathieu, Corsin Battaglia, Simon Hänni, et al.. (2012). Multiscale Transparent Electrode Architecture for Efficient Light Management and Carrier Collection in Solar Cells. Nano Letters. 12(3). 1344–1348. 119 indexed citations
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Haug, Franz‐Josef, Karin Söderström, Ali Naqavi, Corsin Battaglia, & Christophe Ballif. (2012). Excitation of plasmon and guided-mode resonances in thin film silicon solar cells. MRS Proceedings. 1391.
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Söderström, Karin, G. Bugnon, Franz‐Josef Haug, Sylvain Nicolay, & Christophe Ballif. (2012). Experimental study of flat light-scattering substrates in thin-film silicon solar cells. Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells. 101. 193–199. 32 indexed citations
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Escarré, Jordi, Corsin Battaglia, Karin Söderström, et al.. (2012). UV imprinting for thin film solar cell application. Journal of Optics. 14(2). 24009–24009. 18 indexed citations
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Naqavi, Ali, Karin Söderström, Franz‐Josef Haug, et al.. (2011). Enhanced light trapping in realistic thin film solar cells using one-dimensional gratings. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 8065. 80650A–80650A. 4 indexed citations
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Battaglia, Corsin, Jordi Escarré, Karin Söderström, et al.. (2011). Nanomoulding of transparent zinc oxide electrodes for efficient light trapping in solar cells. Nature Photonics. 5(9). 535–538. 238 indexed citations
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Boccard, Mathieu, Peter Cuony, Corsin Battaglia, et al.. (2011). Single to multi-scale texturing for high efficiency micromorph thin film silicon solar cell. 790–790. 2 indexed citations
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Biron, Rémi, Céline Pahud, Franz‐Josef Haug, et al.. (2011). Window layer with p doped silicon oxide for high Voc thin-film silicon n-i-p solar cells. Journal of Applied Physics. 110(12). 64 indexed citations
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Battaglia, Corsin, Karin Söderström, Franz‐Josef Haug, et al.. (2010). A New Approach to Light Scattering from Nanotextured Interfaces for Thin-Film Silicon Solar Cells. Materials Research Letters. 1245. 1 indexed citations
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Battaglia, Corsin, Jordi Escarré, Karin Söderström, et al.. (2010). Nanoimprint Lithography for High-Efficiency Thin-Film Silicon Solar Cells. Nano Letters. 11(2). 661–665. 153 indexed citations
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Naqavi, Ali, Karin Söderström, Franz‐Josef Haug, et al.. (2010). Understanding of photocurrent enhancement in real thin film solar cells: towards optimal one-dimensional gratings. Optics Express. 19(1). 128–128. 43 indexed citations
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Battaglia, Corsin, Jordi Escarré, Karin Söderström, et al.. (2010). A New Approach to Light Scattering from Nanotextured Interfaces For Silicon Thin-film Solar Cells. MRS Proceedings. 1245. 3 indexed citations
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Söderström, Karin, et al.. (2010). UV‐nano‐imprint lithography technique for the replication of back reflectors for n‐i‐p thin film silicon solar cells. Progress in Photovoltaics Research and Applications. 19(2). 202–210. 69 indexed citations

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