Patrick Back

1.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
11 papers, 832 citations indexed

About

Patrick Back is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Patrick Back has authored 11 papers receiving a total of 832 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Materials Chemistry, 6 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 4 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Patrick Back's work include 2D Materials and Applications (8 papers), Graphene research and applications (6 papers) and Perovskite Materials and Applications (3 papers). Patrick Back is often cited by papers focused on 2D Materials and Applications (8 papers), Graphene research and applications (6 papers) and Perovskite Materials and Applications (3 papers). Patrick Back collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, Japan and Germany. Patrick Back's co-authors include Ataç Îmamoğlu, Martin Kroner, Ovidiu Cotleţ, Meinrad Sidler, Ajit Srivastava, Thomas Fink, Eugene Demler, Sina Zeytinoǧlu, Takashi Taniguchi and Kenji Watanabe and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Nano Letters and Nature Physics.

In The Last Decade

Patrick Back

11 papers receiving 816 citations

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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.

Fermi polaron-polaritons in charge-tunable atomically thin semiconductors

2016 409 citations Meinrad Sidler, Patrick Back et al. Nature Physics profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Patrick Back Switzerland	8	532	444	374	142	64	11	832
Ovidiu Cotleţ Switzerland	9	413 0.8×	525 1.2×	295 0.8×	99 0.7×	38 0.6×	13	797
Yuya Shimazaki Japan	9	702 1.3×	561 1.3×	303 0.8×	73 0.5×	48 0.8×	11	888
Kentaro Yumigeta United States	14	611 1.1×	355 0.8×	348 0.9×	63 0.4×	101 1.6×	24	809
Rezlind Bushati United States	10	319 0.6×	241 0.5×	287 0.8×	155 1.1×	101 1.6×	15	565
Habib Rostami Sweden	16	856 1.6×	592 1.3×	405 1.1×	187 1.3×	132 2.1×	44	1.1k
Matthias Wurdack Australia	12	239 0.4×	266 0.6×	186 0.5×	93 0.7×	96 1.5×	22	522
Erh‐Chen Lin Taiwan	4	507 1.0×	578 1.3×	436 1.2×	391 2.8×	100 1.6×	7	944
Y. Lee United States	8	568 1.1×	454 1.0×	161 0.4×	139 1.0×	42 0.7×	9	695
Bernat Terrés Germany	12	449 0.8×	309 0.7×	355 0.9×	181 1.3×	58 0.9×	21	656
Benedikt Scharf Germany	16	616 1.2×	564 1.3×	278 0.7×	58 0.4×	65 1.0×	37	867

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Patrick Back

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11 of 11 papers shown

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Parzefall, Markus, Patrick Back, Takashi Taniguchi, et al.. (2021). Resonant Light Emission from Graphene/Hexagonal Boron Nitride/Graphene Tunnel Junctions. Nano Letters. 21(19). 8332–8339. 31 indexed citations

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Cotleţ, Ovidiu, Andrea Bergschneider, Richard Schmidt, et al.. (2020). Interacting Polaron-Polaritons. Repository for Publications and Research Data (ETH Zurich). 30 indexed citations

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Back, Patrick, Nikolaus Flöry, Takashi Taniguchi, et al.. (2020). Coupling Interlayer Excitons to Whispering Gallery Modes in van der Waals Heterostructures. Nano Letters. 20(8). 6155–6161. 28 indexed citations

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Smoleński, T., Pavel E. Dolgirev, Yuya Shimazaki, et al.. (2020). Observation of Wigner crystal of electrons in a monolayer semiconductor. arXiv (Cornell University). 1 indexed citations

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Smoleński, T., Ovidiu Cotleţ, Patrick Back, et al.. (2019). Interaction-Induced Shubnikov–de Haas Oscillations in Optical Conductivity of Monolayer MoSe2. Physical Review Letters. 123(9). 97403–97403. 54 indexed citations

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Pisoni, Riccardo, Andor Kormányos, Matthew Brooks, et al.. (2018). Interactions and Magnetotransport through Spin-Valley Coupled Landau Levels in Monolayer MoS2. Physical Review Letters. 121(24). 247701–247701. 81 indexed citations

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Back, Patrick, et al.. (2018). Realization of an Electrically Tunable Narrow-Bandwidth Atomically Thin Mirror Using MonolayerMoSe2. Physical Review Letters. 120(3). 37401–37401. 107 indexed citations

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Back, Patrick, Meinrad Sidler, Ovidiu Cotleţ, et al.. (2017). Giant Paramagnetism-Induced Valley Polarization of Electrons in Charge-Tunable Monolayer MoSe2. Physical Review Letters. 118(23). 83 indexed citations

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Back, Patrick, et al.. (2017). Giant Paramagnetism-Induced Valley Polarization of Electrons in Charge-Tunable Monolayer MoSe2. Repository for Publications and Research Data (ETH Zurich). 2017. 7 indexed citations

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Sidler, Meinrad, Patrick Back, Ovidiu Cotleţ, et al.. (2016). Fermi polaron-polaritons in charge-tunable atomically thin semiconductors. Nature Physics. 13(3). 255–261. 409 indexed citations breakdown →

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Back, Patrick, et al.. (1990). Nuclear orientation of136Cs: Reorientation in the 0.3S 7-isomer of136Ba. Hyperfine Interactions. 60(1-4). 929–932. 1 indexed citations

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