Manfred Beckers

1.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
9 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Manfred Beckers is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Mechanics of Materials and Mechanical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Manfred Beckers has authored 9 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 8 papers in Materials Chemistry, 6 papers in Mechanics of Materials and 2 papers in Mechanical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Manfred Beckers's work include Metal and Thin Film Mechanics (6 papers), MXene and MAX Phase Materials (4 papers) and Semiconductor materials and devices (2 papers). Manfred Beckers is often cited by papers focused on Metal and Thin Film Mechanics (6 papers), MXene and MAX Phase Materials (4 papers) and Semiconductor materials and devices (2 papers). Manfred Beckers collaborates with scholars based in Sweden, Germany and Hungary. Manfred Beckers's co-authors include Lars Hultman, Hans Högberg, Ulf Jansson, Per Eklund, Jens Birch, A. Flink, Matthias Wuttig, Thomas Lange, Walter K. Njoroge and Per O. Å. Persson and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review B, Thin Solid Films and Journal of materials research/Pratt's guide to venture capital sources.

In The Last Decade

Manfred Beckers

9 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.

The M+1AX phases: Materials science and thin-film processing

2009 973 citations Per Eklund, Manfred Beckers et al. Thin Solid Films profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Manfred Beckers Sweden	7	1.1k	519	336	313	260	9	1.2k
O. Wilhelmsson Sweden	21	1.7k 1.5×	1.1k 2.1×	737 2.2×	503 1.6×	260 1.0×	31	1.9k
J.-P. Palmquist Sweden	16	1.5k 1.3×	934 1.8×	486 1.4×	539 1.7×	279 1.1×	23	1.6k
Nils Nedfors Sweden	19	916 0.8×	331 0.6×	631 1.9×	93 0.3×	274 1.1×	27	1.1k
Matthieu Diserens Switzerland	7	948 0.8×	323 0.6×	1.0k 3.0×	113 0.4×	321 1.2×	10	1.2k
M.J. Zhuo China	12	647 0.6×	397 0.8×	139 0.4×	222 0.7×	61 0.2×	22	746
N. Tzenov Bulgaria	13	1.2k 1.1×	571 1.1×	80 0.2×	350 1.1×	455 1.8×	30	1.3k
Luchao Sun China	21	1.0k 0.9×	519 1.0×	68 0.2×	703 2.2×	210 0.8×	52	1.5k
L.M. Peng China	16	551 0.5×	802 1.5×	69 0.2×	160 0.5×	120 0.5×	40	1.1k
Delin Pu China	16	871 0.8×	506 1.0×	112 0.3×	104 0.3×	146 0.6×	16	1.0k
Yasuhiro Kodera United States	15	427 0.4×	416 0.8×	57 0.2×	463 1.5×	156 0.6×	28	733

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Manfred Beckers

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Manfred Beckers. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Manfred Beckers 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 Manfred Beckers. Manfred Beckers is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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9 of 9 papers shown

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Höglund, Carina, Björn Alling, Jens Birch, et al.. (2010). Effects of volume mismatch and electronic structure on the decomposition of ScAlN and TiAlN solid solutions. Physical Review B. 81(22). 42 indexed citations

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Eklund, Per, Manfred Beckers, Ulf Jansson, Hans Högberg, & Lars Hultman. (2009). The M+1AX phases: Materials science and thin-film processing. Thin Solid Films. 518(8). 1851–1878. 973 indexed citations breakdown →

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Ghafoor, Naureen, Fredrik Eriksson, A. S. Mikhaylushkin, et al.. (2009). Effects of O and N impurities on the nanostructural evolution during growth of Cr/Sc multilayers. Journal of materials research/Pratt's guide to venture capital sources. 24(1). 79–95. 11 indexed citations

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Flink, A., Manfred Beckers, J. Sjölén, et al.. (2009). The location and effects of Si in (Ti_1–_xSi_x)N_y thin films. Journal of materials research/Pratt's guide to venture capital sources. 24(8). 2483–2498. 55 indexed citations

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Martins, R.M.S., Manfred Beckers, A. Mücklich, et al.. (2008). The Interfacial Diffusion Zone in Magnetron Sputtered Ni-Ti Thin Films Deposited on Different Si Substrates Studied by HR-TEM. Materials science forum. 587-588. 820–823. 4 indexed citations

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Höglund, Carina, Jens Birch, Manfred Beckers, et al.. (2008). Sc₃AlN – A New Perovskite. European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry. 2008(8). 1193–1195. 29 indexed citations

7.

Söderberg, Hans, Magnus Odén, A. Flink, et al.. (2007). Growth and characterization of TiN/SiN(001) superlattice films. Journal of materials research/Pratt's guide to venture capital sources. 22(11). 3255–3264. 45 indexed citations

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Martins, R.M.S., Francisco Manuel Braz Fernandes, Rui J. C. Silva, Manfred Beckers, & Norbert Schell. (2006). In Situ Observation of Ni-Ti Thin Film Growth by Synchrotron Radiation Scattering. Materials science forum. 514-516. 1588–1592. 2 indexed citations

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Lange, Thomas, et al.. (2000). Physical properties of thin GeO2 films produced by reactive DC magnetron sputtering. Thin Solid Films. 365(1). 82–89. 62 indexed citations

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