Rainer Backofen

1.2k total citations
40 papers, 965 citations indexed

About

Rainer Backofen is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Aerospace Engineering and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Rainer Backofen has authored 40 papers receiving a total of 965 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 28 papers in Materials Chemistry, 15 papers in Aerospace Engineering and 13 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Rainer Backofen's work include Solidification and crystal growth phenomena (27 papers), Aluminum Alloy Microstructure Properties (13 papers) and nanoparticles nucleation surface interactions (13 papers). Rainer Backofen is often cited by papers focused on Solidification and crystal growth phenomena (27 papers), Aluminum Alloy Microstructure Properties (13 papers) and nanoparticles nucleation surface interactions (13 papers). Rainer Backofen collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Italy and China. Rainer Backofen's co-authors include Axel Voigt, Marco Salvalaglio, Hartmut Löwen, Sven van Teeffelen, Francesco Montalenti, Andreas Rätz, Roberto Bergamaschini, K. R. Elder, Yanmei Yu and Katayun Barmak and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Physical Review Letters and Acta Materialia.

In The Last Decade

Rainer Backofen

40 papers receiving 919 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Rainer Backofen Germany 20 683 254 236 229 145 40 965
Marco Salvalaglio Germany 21 542 0.8× 110 0.4× 111 0.5× 176 0.8× 92 0.6× 67 986
R. Folch Spain 9 1.0k 1.5× 737 2.9× 231 1.0× 230 1.0× 484 3.3× 10 1.2k
S. H. Davis United States 16 469 0.7× 47 0.2× 115 0.5× 937 4.1× 189 1.3× 21 1.3k
Peter Stefanovic Canada 4 933 1.4× 536 2.1× 317 1.3× 123 0.5× 216 1.5× 4 1.0k
V.V. Kalaev Russia 20 821 1.2× 115 0.5× 52 0.2× 324 1.4× 399 2.8× 66 1.2k
J. P. Kermode Ireland 9 400 0.6× 36 0.1× 56 0.2× 78 0.3× 78 0.5× 11 622
K. Y. Cheng United States 19 358 0.5× 188 0.7× 27 0.1× 27 0.1× 394 2.7× 55 985
Victor Sofonea Romania 18 107 0.2× 169 0.7× 26 0.1× 818 3.6× 32 0.2× 50 1.0k
M.L. Hodgdon United States 8 203 0.3× 44 0.2× 24 0.1× 23 0.1× 218 1.5× 10 738
Shin–ichi Nishizawa Japan 18 250 0.4× 35 0.1× 20 0.1× 91 0.4× 138 1.0× 147 1.2k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Rainer Backofen

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Rainer Backofen

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Backofen, Rainer, et al.. (2024). Nonequilibrium hyperuniform states in active turbulence. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(24). e2320719121–e2320719121. 11 indexed citations
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Backofen, Rainer, Marco Salvalaglio, & Axel Voigt. (2023). Controlling Magnetic Anisotropy in Amplitude Expansion of Phase Field Crystal Model. Advanced Engineering Materials. 25(18). 2 indexed citations
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Backofen, Rainer & Axel Voigt. (2023). Magnetically Enhanced Thin‐Film Coarsening by a Magnetic XPFC Model Allowing to Decouple Magnetic Anisotropy and Magnetostriction. Advanced Engineering Materials. 25(18). 1 indexed citations
4.
Backofen, Rainer, K. R. Elder, & Axel Voigt. (2019). Controlling Grain Boundaries by Magnetic Fields. Physical Review Letters. 122(12). 126103–126103. 19 indexed citations
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Naffouti, Meher, Rainer Backofen, Marco Salvalaglio, et al.. (2017). Complex dewetting scenarios of ultrathin silicon films for large-scale nanoarchitectures. Science Advances. 3(11). eaao1472–eaao1472. 73 indexed citations
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Salvalaglio, Marco, Rainer Backofen, Axel Voigt, & Francesco Montalenti. (2017). Morphological Evolution of Pit-Patterned Si(001) Substrates Driven by Surface-Energy Reduction. Nanoscale Research Letters. 12(1). 554–554. 25 indexed citations
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Salvalaglio, Marco, Rainer Backofen, Axel Voigt, & K. R. Elder. (2017). Controlling the energy of defects and interfaces in the amplitude expansion of the phase-field crystal model. Physical review. E. 96(2). 23301–23301. 21 indexed citations
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Köhler, Christian, Rainer Backofen, & Axel Voigt. (2016). Stress Induced Branching of Growing Crystals on Curved Surfaces. Physical Review Letters. 116(13). 135502–135502. 26 indexed citations
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Tang, Sai, Simon Praetorius, Rainer Backofen, et al.. (2015). Two-dimensional liquid crystalline growth within a phase-field-crystal model. Physical Review E. 92(1). 12504–12504. 1 indexed citations
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Backofen, Rainer, Roberto Bergamaschini, & Axel Voigt. (2014). The interplay of morphological and compositional evolution in crystal growth: a phase-field model. The Philosophical Magazine A Journal of Theoretical Experimental and Applied Physics. 94(19). 2162–2169. 9 indexed citations
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Backofen, Rainer, et al.. (2012). The influence of membrane bound proteins on phase separation and coarsening in cell membranes. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 14(42). 14509–14509. 28 indexed citations
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Backofen, Rainer, et al.. (2010). Particles on curved surfaces: A dynamic approach by a phase-field-crystal model. Physical Review E. 81(2). 25701–25701. 30 indexed citations
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Teeffelen, Sven van, Rainer Backofen, Axel Voigt, & Hartmut Löwen. (2009). Derivation of the phase-field-crystal model for colloidal solidification. Physical Review E. 79(5). 51404–51404. 170 indexed citations
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Backofen, Rainer & Axel Voigt. (2009). Solid–liquid interfacial energies and equilibrium shapes of nanocrystals. Journal of Physics Condensed Matter. 21(46). 464109–464109. 15 indexed citations
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Yu, Yanmei, Rainer Backofen, & Axel Voigt. (2008). Phase-field simulation of stripe arrays on metal bcc(110) surfaces. Physical Review E. 77(5). 51605–51605. 8 indexed citations
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Backofen, Rainer, et al.. (2006). BaF2for microlithography applications: Modeling, simulation and optimization of the crystal growth process. Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics. 203(2). 362–375. 1 indexed citations
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Backofen, Rainer, et al.. (2004). Time Dependent 3D Heat Radiation CalculationIn High Temperature Furnaces. WIT transactions on engineering sciences. 46. 1 indexed citations
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Friedrich, Jochen, Rainer Backofen, & G. Müller. (2002). Numerical simulation of formation of grain structure and global heat transport during solidification of technical alloys in MSL inserts. Advances in Space Research. 29(4). 549–552. 2 indexed citations
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Backofen, Rainer, Matthias Kurz, & Gerd A. Müller. (2000). Process modeling of the industrial VGF growth process using the software package CrysVUN++. Journal of Crystal Growth. 211(1-4). 202–206. 29 indexed citations
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Müller, G., et al.. (1999). Study of oxygen transport in Czochralski growth of silicon. Microelectronic Engineering. 45(2-3). 135–147. 28 indexed citations

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