Ping Fan

13.2k total citations · 6 hit papers
463 papers, 10.9k citations indexed

About

Ping Fan is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Civil and Structural Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Ping Fan has authored 463 papers receiving a total of 10.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 311 papers in Materials Chemistry, 249 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 48 papers in Civil and Structural Engineering. Recurrent topics in Ping Fan's work include Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films (149 papers), Advanced Thermoelectric Materials and Devices (110 papers) and Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties (93 papers). Ping Fan is often cited by papers focused on Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films (149 papers), Advanced Thermoelectric Materials and Devices (110 papers) and Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties (93 papers). Ping Fan collaborates with scholars based in China, France and Australia. Ping Fan's co-authors include Guangxing Liang, Zhuanghao Zheng, Jingting Luo, Shuo Chen, Xianghua Zhang, Zhenghua Su, Fu Li, Hongli Ma, Rong Tang and Xing‐Min Cai and has published in prestigious journals such as Advanced Materials, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Ping Fan

443 papers receiving 10.7k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

What are hit papers?

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.

Harvesting waste heat with flexible Bi2Te3 thermoelectric thin film

2022 351 citations Zhuanghao Zheng, Xiao‐Lei Shi et al. Nature Sustainability profile →
Device Postannealing Enabling over 12% Efficient Solution‐Processed Cu₂ZnSnS₄ Solar Cells with Cd²⁺ Substitution

2020 290 citations Zhenghua Su, Guangxing Liang et al. profile →
Heterojunction Annealing Enabling Record Open‐Circuit Voltage in Antimony Triselenide Solar Cells

2022 182 citations Rong Tang, Shuo Chen et al. profile →
Flexible power generators by Ag2Se thin films with record-high thermoelectric performance

2024 147 citations Dong Yang, Xiao‐Lei Shi et al. Nature Communications profile →
Carrier Transport Enhancement Mechanism in Highly Efficient Antimony Selenide Thin‐Film Solar Cell

2023 127 citations Guojie Chen, Shuo Chen et al. profile →
Mechanism of homocysteine-mediated endothelial injury and its consequences for atherosclerosis

2023 71 citations Ping Fan et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ping Fan China	55	8.0k	7.1k	1.2k	1.1k	943	463	10.9k
Yue Chen China	52	10.0k 1.2×	5.7k 0.8×	601 0.5×	1.3k 1.1×	1.9k 2.0×	444	13.6k
Yong‐Hyun Kim South Korea	51	6.9k 0.9×	4.1k 0.6×	711 0.6×	1.3k 1.2×	333 0.4×	208	10.3k
Tao Xu China	53	7.7k 1.0×	7.1k 1.0×	2.9k 2.4×	2.1k 1.9×	333 0.4×	373	13.4k
Kai Wang China	59	7.4k 0.9×	9.1k 1.3×	1.7k 1.4×	2.1k 1.9×	200 0.2×	495	12.7k
Ming Hu China	59	8.6k 1.1×	3.2k 0.5×	430 0.4×	1.7k 1.5×	1.3k 1.3×	333	11.4k
D. K. Aswal India	51	4.9k 0.6×	6.0k 0.8×	2.4k 2.0×	2.9k 2.6×	428 0.5×	432	9.9k
Wei Yang China	44	4.0k 0.5×	2.8k 0.4×	693 0.6×	1.2k 1.1×	436 0.5×	281	6.9k
Guorong Chen China	63	7.6k 0.9×	6.2k 0.9×	1.5k 1.2×	2.2k 2.0×	340 0.4×	506	14.6k
J.F. Fernández Spain	56	11.0k 1.4×	5.7k 0.8×	754 0.6×	2.8k 2.5×	617 0.7×	666	15.5k
In Jae Chung South Korea	56	6.9k 0.9×	5.7k 0.8×	3.9k 3.3×	1.0k 0.9×	563 0.6×	253	12.3k

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Liu, Xinbao, et al.. (2025). Influence of parameter uncertainty upon complexity of creep behavior of P91 steel. International Journal of Pressure Vessels and Piping. 214. 105436–105436. 2 indexed citations

Chen, Jie, et al.. (2025). A study of creep rupture life prediction for P91 steel with machine learning method: Model selection and sensitivity analysis. International Journal of Pressure Vessels and Piping. 216. 105494–105494. 2 indexed citations

Liu, Sheng, Te Zhu, Zhen Wang, et al.. (2024). He ion irradiation resistance of W-Ni-Fe alloys with variable Ni and Fe concentrations. Fusion Engineering and Design. 202. 114310–114310. 5 indexed citations

Chen, Xingye, Yunhai Zhao, Nafees Ahmad, et al.. (2024). Achieving high open-circuit voltage in efficient kesterite solar cells via lanthanide europium ion induced carrier lifetime enhancement. Nano Energy. 124. 109448–109448. 47 indexed citations

Yang, Dong, Dongliang Zhang, Dongwei Ao, et al.. (2023). High thermoelectric performance of aluminum-doped cuprous selenide thin films with exceptional flexibility for wearable applications. Nano Energy. 117. 108930–108930. 17 indexed citations

Wang, Lin, et al.. (2023). A creep life prediction model of P91 steel coupled with back-propagation artificial neural network (BP-ANN) and θ projection method. International Journal of Pressure Vessels and Piping. 206. 105039–105039. 20 indexed citations

Nisar, Mohammad, et al.. (2023). Effects of heavy bromine doping on the thermoelectric performance and dynamic stability of SnSe2 polycrystals. Journal of Alloys and Compounds. 959. 170566–170566. 5 indexed citations

Chen, Guojie, Nafees Ahmad, Muhammad Ishaq, et al.. (2023). Back contact interfacial modification mechanism in highly-efficient antimony selenide thin-film solar cells. Journal of Energy Chemistry. 80. 256–264. 34 indexed citations

Ye, Fan, et al.. (2023). Electrical and optical properties of nanocrystalline ZnSnN2. Thin Solid Films. 772. 139804–139804. 4 indexed citations

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Yang, Liyun, Jian Lü, Huanzhen Xie, et al.. (2023). Experimental study on uniaxial compressive properties and damage evolution of basalt fiber reinforced concrete after being subjected to high temperature. Structures. 54. 693–703. 13 indexed citations

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Chen, Mingdong, Muhammad Ishaq, Donglou Ren, et al.. (2023). Interface optimization and defects suppression via NaF introduction enable efficient flexible Sb2Se3 thin-film solar cells. Journal of Energy Chemistry. 90. 165–175. 18 indexed citations

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Liang, Guangxing, Zhidong Li, Muhammad Ishaq, et al.. (2023). Charge Separation Enhancement Enables Record Photocurrent Density in Cu₂ZnSn(S,Se)₄ Photocathodes for Efficient Solar Hydrogen Production. Advanced Energy Materials. 13(19). 70 indexed citations

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Chen, Guojie, Xiangye Li, Fu Chen, et al.. (2023). Tellurium Doping Inducing Defect Passivation for Highly Effective Antimony Selenide Thin Film Solar Cell. Nanomaterials. 13(7). 1240–1240. 11 indexed citations

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Wu, Tong, Juguang Hu, Shuo Chen, et al.. (2023). Energy Band Alignment by Solution-Processed Aluminum Doping Strategy toward Record Efficiency in Pulsed Laser-Deposited Kesterite Thin-Film Solar Cell. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 15(11). 14291–14303. 5 indexed citations

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Chen, Xingye, Muhammad Ishaq, Nafees Ahmad, et al.. (2022). Ag, Ti dual-cation substitution in Cu₂ZnSn(S,Se)₄ induced growth promotion and defect suppression for high-efficiency solar cells. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 10(42). 22791–22802. 62 indexed citations

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Zheng, Zhuanghao, Xiao‐Lei Shi, Dongwei Ao, et al.. (2022). Harvesting waste heat with flexible Bi2Te3 thermoelectric thin film. Nature Sustainability. 6(2). 180–191. 351 indexed citations breakdown →

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Jabar, Bushra, Fu Li, Zhuanghao Zheng, et al.. (2021). Homo-composition and hetero-structure nanocomposite Pnma Bi2SeS2 - Pnnm Bi2SeS2 with high thermoelectric performance. Nature Communications. 12(1). 7192–7192. 47 indexed citations

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Ao, Dongwei, Fu Li, Yuexing Chen, et al.. (2021). CoSb₃-Based Thin-Film Thermoelectric Devices with High Performance Via Electrode Optimization. ACS Applied Energy Materials. 4(5). 5265–5273. 10 indexed citations

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Sun, Li, et al.. (2017). 二酸化炭素捕獲のためのポリ(イオン液体)により官能化された酸化グラフェン【Powered by NICT】. Journal of Applied Polymer Science. 134(11). 44592. 4 indexed citations

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Fan, Ping, et al.. (2010). Preparation and characterization of Sb2Te3 thermoelectric thin films by ion beam sputtering. Acta Physica Sinica. 59(2). 1243–1243. 3 indexed citations

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