Kerstin Volz

8.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
388 papers, 6.7k citations indexed

About

Kerstin Volz is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Kerstin Volz has authored 388 papers receiving a total of 6.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 278 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 212 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 91 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Kerstin Volz's work include Semiconductor Quantum Structures and Devices (182 papers), Semiconductor materials and devices (121 papers) and GaN-based semiconductor devices and materials (70 papers). Kerstin Volz is often cited by papers focused on Semiconductor Quantum Structures and Devices (182 papers), Semiconductor materials and devices (121 papers) and GaN-based semiconductor devices and materials (70 papers). Kerstin Volz collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United Kingdom and United States. Kerstin Volz's co-authors include W. Stolz, Andreas Beyer, Bernardette Kunert, Peter Ludewig, Wolfgang Ensinger, I. Németh, Jürgen Janek, Jens Ohlmann, Shamail Ahmed and J. Koch and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Nature Communications and Nature Materials.

In The Last Decade

Kerstin Volz

373 papers receiving 6.5k 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.

Chemo-mechanical failure mechanisms of the silicon anode in solid-state batteries

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Kerstin Volz Germany	42	4.8k	3.5k	1.7k	1.2k	1.0k	388	6.7k
Paul M. Voyles United States	44	2.4k 0.5×	1.2k 0.3×	3.8k 2.2×	945 0.8×	750 0.7×	229	6.7k
Ulrich Starke Germany	50	4.9k 1.0×	3.3k 0.9×	7.1k 4.1×	542 0.4×	1.5k 1.5×	196	10.1k
Kunio Takayanagi Japan	28	2.6k 0.6×	3.0k 0.9×	2.3k 1.3×	242 0.2×	874 0.9×	103	5.3k
M. C. Reuter United States	34	3.9k 0.8×	3.0k 0.9×	2.7k 1.5×	445 0.4×	2.8k 2.8×	75	6.5k
Takahisa Ohno Japan	38	3.4k 0.7×	2.2k 0.6×	3.1k 1.8×	621 0.5×	809 0.8×	300	6.5k
H. Bender Belgium	42	5.9k 1.2×	2.5k 0.7×	2.8k 1.6×	557 0.4×	1.3k 1.3×	441	7.6k
Yukihito Kondo Japan	27	2.2k 0.5×	1.7k 0.5×	2.1k 1.2×	255 0.2×	697 0.7×	95	4.8k
Christian Elsässer Germany	46	2.1k 0.4×	1.3k 0.4×	4.7k 2.8×	683 0.5×	621 0.6×	173	6.5k
Oleg Shpyrko United States	32	1.5k 0.3×	848 0.2×	1.3k 0.7×	496 0.4×	417 0.4×	98	3.8k
Matthew Mecklenburg United States	30	2.1k 0.4×	655 0.2×	2.5k 1.4×	218 0.2×	592 0.6×	100	4.6k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kerstin Volz

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Balmer, Markus, Stefan R. Kachel, Jürgen Belz, et al.. (2025). Novel Ga-S-Compounds as Potential Single-Source MOCVD Precursors. ChemRxiv.

Winkler, F.K., Andreas Beyer, Jürgen Belz, et al.. (2025). Metal-Modulated Growth of Cubic, Red-Emitting InGaN Layers and Self-Assembled InGaN/GaN Quantum Wells by Molecular Beam Epitaxy. ACS Applied Electronic Materials. 7(5). 1891–1898. 1 indexed citations

Bergmann, Martin, Jürgen Belz, Andreas Beyer, et al.. (2025). Excitons in Epitaxially Grown WS ₂ on Graphene: A Nanometer-Resolved Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy and Density Functional Theory Study. ACS Nano. 19(50). 42107–42117. 1 indexed citations

Demuth, Thomas, et al.. (2025). Effect of a Two-Step Temperature-Swing Synthesis on Coarse-Grained LiNiO₂ Secondary Particles Characterized by Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy. Chemistry of Materials. 37(11). 3993–4004.

Belz, Jürgen, Max Bergmann, Sergej Pasko, et al.. (2024). A Small Step for Epitaxy, a Large Step Toward Twist Angle Control in 2D Heterostructures. Advanced Materials Interfaces. 11(23). 3 indexed citations

Schäfer, F. P., A. Trautmann, C. Y. Ngo, et al.. (2024). Optical Stark effect in type-II semiconductor heterostructures. Physical review. B.. 109(7). 1 indexed citations

Ahmed, Shamail, et al.. (2023). Kinking of GaP Nanowires Grown in an In Situ (S)TEM Gas Cell Holder. Advanced Materials Interfaces. 10(17). 3 indexed citations

Schäfer, F. P., C. Y. Ngo, J. T. Steiner, et al.. (2023). Gain recovery dynamics in active type-II semiconductor heterostructures. Applied Physics Letters. 122(8). 2 indexed citations

Auer, Henry, et al.. (2023). Probing the Interface Evolution in Co‐sintered All‐Phosphate Cathode‐Solid Electrolyte Composites. Advanced Materials Interfaces. 10(35). 4 indexed citations

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Weber, Daniel, Jing Lin, Anuj Pokle, et al.. (2022). Tracing Low Amounts of Mg in the Doped Cathode Active Material LiNiO₂. Journal of The Electrochemical Society. 169(3). 30540–30540. 22 indexed citations

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Bianchini, Matteo, Shamail Ahmed, Felix Walther, et al.. (2022). Deeper Understanding of the Lithiation Reaction during the Synthesis of LiNiO₂ Towards an Increased Production Throughput. Journal of The Electrochemical Society. 169(5). 50526–50526. 15 indexed citations

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Stolz, W., et al.. (2021). Dilute Bismuth Containing W-Type Heterostructures for Long-Wavelength Emission on GaAs Substrates. Crystal Growth & Design. 21(11). 6307–6313. 1 indexed citations

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Reinhard, S., et al.. (2021). Room‐temperature laser operation of a (Ga,In)As/Ga(As,Bi)/(Ga,In)As W‐type laser diode. Electronics Letters. 58(2). 70–72. 3 indexed citations

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Volz, Kerstin, et al.. (2021). Comparison of carrier-recombination in Ga(As,Bi)/Ga(N,As)-type-II quantum wells and W-type heterostructures. Applied Physics Letters. 118(5). 2 indexed citations

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Sweeney, Stephen J., et al.. (2019). Metalorganic vapor phase epitaxy growth and characterization of quaternary (Ga,In)(As,Bi) on GaAs substrates. Journal of Applied Physics. 126(8). 5 indexed citations

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Hille, Pascal, Felix Walther, Philip Klement, et al.. (2018). Influence of the atom source operating parameters on the structural and optical properties of InxGa1−xN nanowires grown by plasma-assisted molecular beam epitaxy. Journal of Applied Physics. 124(16). 2 indexed citations

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Beyer, Andreas, et al.. (2017). Atomic structure of ‘W’‐type quantum well heterostructures investigated by aberration‐corrected STEM. Journal of Microscopy. 268(3). 259–268. 8 indexed citations

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Stolz, W., et al.. (2017). 界面の定量的原子分解能 (Ga,In)P/GaAs構造の例によるSTEM像のバックグラウンド減算. Journal of Applied Physics. 121(2). 9. 2 indexed citations

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Shakfa, Mohammad Khaled, K. Jandieri, Peter Ludewig, et al.. (2017). Ga(NAsP)/GaP多重量子井戸におけるフォトルミネセンス線形の励起依存性:実験とモンテカルロシミュレーション. Journal of Physics D Applied Physics. 50(2). 7. 1 indexed citations

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Baur, C., Andreas W. Bett, Frank Dimroth, et al.. (2003). Development of a 1.0 eV (GaIn)(NAs) solar cell. Publikationsdatenbank der Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft (Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft). 1. 677–680. 5 indexed citations

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