Paul Sonntag

1.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
23 papers, 759 citations indexed

About

Paul Sonntag is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials Chemistry and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, Paul Sonntag has authored 23 papers receiving a total of 759 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 13 papers in Materials Chemistry and 2 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in Paul Sonntag's work include Thin-Film Transistor Technologies (20 papers), Silicon and Solar Cell Technologies (19 papers) and Silicon Nanostructures and Photoluminescence (13 papers). Paul Sonntag is often cited by papers focused on Thin-Film Transistor Technologies (20 papers), Silicon and Solar Cell Technologies (19 papers) and Silicon Nanostructures and Photoluminescence (13 papers). Paul Sonntag collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Slovenia and Netherlands. Paul Sonntag's co-authors include Tariq Masood, Daniel Amkreutz, B. Rech, Debra Fox, Erol Digiusto, Jan Haschke, Rutger Schlatmann, Natalie Preissler, Klaus Jäger and Matevž Bokalič and has published in prestigious journals such as Applied Physics Letters, Scientific Reports and Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells.

In The Last Decade

Paul Sonntag

23 papers receiving 729 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.

Industry 4.0: Adoption challenges and benefits for SMEs

2020 403 citations Tariq Masood, Paul Sonntag Computers in Industry profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Paul Sonntag Germany	11	295	265	165	126	100	23	759
N. Ramachandran India	15	66 0.2×	302 1.1×	65 0.4×	147 1.2×	102 1.0×	64	785
Masayuki Matsui Japan	15	202 0.7×	68 0.3×	77 0.5×	120 1.0×	83 0.8×	87	755
M. Affan Badar United States	14	127 0.4×	74 0.3×	38 0.2×	143 1.1×	148 1.5×	72	638
Su Wu China	13	55 0.2×	63 0.2×	45 0.3×	62 0.5×	60 0.6×	31	413
Roy H. Kwon Canada	14	57 0.2×	100 0.4×	11 0.1×	139 1.1×	30 0.3×	67	744
Heng-Qing Ye Hong Kong	14	69 0.2×	159 0.6×	55 0.3×	166 1.3×	47 0.5×	63	491
Mehmet Güray Güler Türkiye	14	72 0.2×	96 0.4×	16 0.1×	264 2.1×	194 1.9×	37	537
Jinlin Li China	14	54 0.2×	99 0.4×	50 0.3×	36 0.3×	19 0.2×	70	616
Katsumi Morikawa Japan	15	259 0.9×	40 0.2×	8 0.0×	232 1.8×	226 2.3×	76	666

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Paul Sonntag

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20 of 20 papers shown

Masood, Tariq & Paul Sonntag. (2020). Industry 4.0: Adoption challenges and benefits for SMEs. Computers in Industry. 121. 103261–103261. 403 indexed citations breakdown →

Jäger, Klaus, Oleksandra Shargaieva, Paul Sonntag, et al.. (2017). Smooth anti-reflective three-dimensional textures for liquid phase crystallized silicon thin-film solar cells on glass. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 2658–2658. 23 indexed citations

Sonntag, Paul, Natalie Preissler, Matevž Bokalič, et al.. (2017). Silicon Solar Cells on Glass with Power Conversion Efficiency above 13% at Thickness below 15 Micrometer. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 873–873. 31 indexed citations

Preissler, Natalie, Paul Sonntag, M. Muske, et al.. (2017). Potential of interdigitated back-contact silicon heterojunction solar cells for liquid phase crystallized silicon on glass with efficiency above 14%. Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells. 174. 187–195. 40 indexed citations

Preissler, Natalie, Paul Sonntag, Daniel Abou‐Ras, et al.. (2017). Impact of Dielectric Layers on Liquid-Phase Crystallized Silicon Solar Cells. IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics. 8(1). 30–37. 15 indexed citations

Amkreutz, Daniel, et al.. (2017). Influence of the precursor layer composition and deposition processes on the electronic quality of liquid phase crystallized silicon absorbers. Progress in Photovoltaics Research and Applications. 26(8). 524–532. 9 indexed citations

Preissler, Natalie, et al.. (2017). Interface Engineering for Liquid‐Phase Crystallized‐Silicon Solar Cells on Glass. Solar RRL. 1(3-4). 11 indexed citations

Sonntag, Paul, Matevž Bokalič, Natalie Preissler, et al.. (2017). Liquid phase crystallized silicon – A holistic absorber quality assessment. Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells. 181. 2–8. 6 indexed citations

Sonntag, Paul, Matevž Bokalič, Miha Filipič, et al.. (2016). Analysis of Local Minority Carrier Diffusion Lengths in Liquid-Phase Crystallized Silicon Thin-Film Solar Cells. IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics. 7(1). 32–36. 8 indexed citations

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Amkreutz, Daniel, Paul Sonntag, Guangtao Yang, et al.. (2016). Periodic and Random Substrate Textures for Liquid-Phase Crystallized Silicon Thin-Film Solar Cells. IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics. 7(1). 85–90. 8 indexed citations

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Amkreutz, Daniel, Paul Sonntag, Guangtao Yang, et al.. (2016). Facing the challenge of liquid phase crystallizing silicon on textured glass substrates. 9140. 672–677. 1 indexed citations

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Sonntag, Paul, Matevž Bokalič, Miha Filipič, et al.. (2016). Analysis of local minority carrier diffusion lengths in liquid phase crystallized silicon thin-film solar cells. 1313–1316. 1 indexed citations

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Ring, Sven, Simon Kirner, Christof Schultz, et al.. (2016). Emitter Patterning for Back-Contacted Si Heterojunction Solar Cells Using Laser Written Mask Layers for Etching and Self-Aligned Passivation (LEAP). IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics. 6(4). 894–899. 13 indexed citations

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Preissler, Natalie, Jan Amaru Töfflinger, Onno Gabriel, et al.. (2016). Passivation at the interface between liquid‐phase crystallized silicon and silicon oxynitride in thin film solar cells. Progress in Photovoltaics Research and Applications. 25(7). 515–524. 6 indexed citations

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Amkreutz, Daniel, Paul Sonntag, Onno Gabriel, et al.. (2015). Liquid-Phase Crystallized Silicon Solar Cells on Glass: Increasing the Open-Circuit Voltage by Optimized Interlayers for n- and p-Type Absorbers. IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics. 5(6). 1757–1761. 13 indexed citations

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Sonntag, Paul, et al.. (2015). Properties of Liquid Phase Crystallized Interdigitated Back-contact Solar Cells on Glass. Energy Procedia. 77. 487–492. 8 indexed citations

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Sonntag, Paul, et al.. (2015). Interdigitated back‐contact heterojunction solar cell concept for liquid phase crystallized thin‐film silicon on glass. Progress in Photovoltaics Research and Applications. 24(5). 716–724. 18 indexed citations

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Amkreutz, Daniel, et al.. (2014). Silicon Thin-Film Solar Cells on Glass With Open-Circuit Voltages Above 620 mV Formed by Liquid-Phase Crystallization. IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics. 4(6). 1496–1501. 40 indexed citations

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Reinhard, Manuel, Paul Sonntag, Ralph Eckstein, et al.. (2013). Monolithic hybrid tandem solar cells comprising copper indium gallium diselenide and organic subcells. Applied Physics Letters. 103(14). 10 indexed citations

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Digiusto, Erol, et al.. (2008). Streaming by case complexity: Evaluation of a model for emergency department Fast Track. Emergency Medicine Australasia. 20(3). 241–249. 88 indexed citations

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