P. Merkelbach

1.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
5 papers, 1000 citations indexed

About

P. Merkelbach is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Polymers and Plastics. According to data from OpenAlex, P. Merkelbach has authored 5 papers receiving a total of 1000 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 5 papers in Materials Chemistry, 4 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 2 papers in Polymers and Plastics. Recurrent topics in P. Merkelbach's work include Phase-change materials and chalcogenides (5 papers), Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films (3 papers) and Nonlinear Optical Materials Studies (2 papers). P. Merkelbach is often cited by papers focused on Phase-change materials and chalcogenides (5 papers), Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films (3 papers) and Nonlinear Optical Materials Studies (2 papers). P. Merkelbach collaborates with scholars based in Germany and United States. P. Merkelbach's co-authors include Matthias Wuttig, Carl Schlockermann, Theo Siegrist, Michael Woda, H Völker, Peter Jost, M. Kund, Martin Salinga, Thomas D. Happ and Gunnar Bruns and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Materials, Applied Physics Letters and Chemistry of Materials.

In The Last Decade

P. Merkelbach

5 papers receiving 971 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.

Disorder-induced localization in crystalline phase-change materials

2011 494 citations Theo Siegrist, Peter Jost et al. Nature Materials profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
P. Merkelbach Germany	5	920	783	206	198	174	5	1000
Peter Jost Germany	11	802 0.9×	674 0.9×	149 0.7×	168 0.8×	152 0.9×	13	911
Gunnar Bruns Germany	6	632 0.7×	586 0.7×	138 0.7×	185 0.9×	89 0.5×	8	731
Bas Ketelaars Netherlands	3	824 0.9×	768 1.0×	202 1.0×	217 1.1×	186 1.1×	5	946
Yegang Lü China	17	724 0.8×	709 0.9×	129 0.6×	197 1.0×	157 0.9×	72	868
Kun Ren China	22	1.2k 1.3×	1.2k 1.5×	298 1.4×	377 1.9×	253 1.5×	68	1.4k
W. J. Wang Singapore	6	635 0.7×	572 0.7×	210 1.0×	152 0.8×	170 1.0×	15	799
Hideki Horii South Korea	20	1.0k 1.1×	961 1.2×	244 1.2×	197 1.0×	194 1.1×	40	1.2k
Koeng Su Lim South Korea	23	1.1k 1.2×	1.4k 1.8×	131 0.6×	147 0.7×	144 0.8×	104	1.5k
Konstantinos Rogdakis Greece	14	353 0.4×	554 0.7×	99 0.5×	153 0.8×	181 1.0×	49	787
H Völker Germany	5	565 0.6×	468 0.6×	108 0.5×	112 0.6×	122 0.7×	18	655

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Fields of papers citing papers by P. Merkelbach

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of P. Merkelbach

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

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5 of 5 papers shown

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Siegrist, Theo, Peter Jost, H Völker, et al.. (2011). Disorder-induced localization in crystalline phase-change materials. Nature Materials. 10(3). 202–208. 494 indexed citations breakdown →

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Bensch, Wolfgang, et al.. (2011). Thin Films of Ge–Sb–Te-Based Phase Change Materials: Microstructure and in Situ Transformation. Chemistry of Materials. 23(17). 3871–3878. 32 indexed citations

3.

Siegrist, Theo, P. Merkelbach, & Matthias Wuttig. (2011). Phase Change Materials: Challenges on the Path to a Universal Storage Device. Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics. 3(1). 215–237. 80 indexed citations

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Subramaniam, Dinesh, C. Pauly, Marcus Liebmann, et al.. (2009). Scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy of the phase change alloy Ge1Sb2Te4. Applied Physics Letters. 95(10). 15 indexed citations

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Bruns, Gunnar, P. Merkelbach, Carl Schlockermann, et al.. (2009). Nanosecond switching in GeTe phase change memory cells. Applied Physics Letters. 95(4). 379 indexed citations

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