Roland Schmechel

4.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
127 papers, 3.8k citations indexed

About

Roland Schmechel is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Polymers and Plastics. According to data from OpenAlex, Roland Schmechel has authored 127 papers receiving a total of 3.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 78 papers in Materials Chemistry, 73 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 28 papers in Polymers and Plastics. Recurrent topics in Roland Schmechel's work include Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (40 papers), Advanced Thermoelectric Materials and Devices (27 papers) and Conducting polymers and applications (22 papers). Roland Schmechel is often cited by papers focused on Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (40 papers), Advanced Thermoelectric Materials and Devices (27 papers) and Conducting polymers and applications (22 papers). Roland Schmechel collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Japan and Sweden. Roland Schmechel's co-authors include Heinz von Seggern, Marcus Ahles, H. Werheit, Aline Hepp, H. Heil, Gabi Schierning, Wieland Weise, J. Steiger, Holger Winkler and Roland A. Fischer and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Advanced Materials and Physical review. B, Condensed matter.

In The Last Decade

Roland Schmechel

126 papers receiving 3.7k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

  1. Light-Emitting Field-Effect Transistor Based on a Tetracene Thin Film
    2003 493 citations Aline Hepp, H. Heil et al. Physical Review Letters profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Roland Schmechel Germany 34 2.2k 2.2k 830 363 308 127 3.8k
Alessandro Mattoni Italy 38 3.5k 1.6× 3.1k 1.4× 746 0.9× 668 1.8× 288 0.9× 117 4.4k
Savaş Berber Türkiye 28 985 0.4× 4.3k 2.0× 533 0.6× 695 1.9× 991 3.2× 89 5.1k
Chunxiao Gao China 29 1.4k 0.6× 2.0k 0.9× 505 0.6× 477 1.3× 441 1.4× 172 3.1k
T. J. Coutts United States 38 3.4k 1.6× 2.8k 1.3× 346 0.4× 1.2k 3.2× 409 1.3× 165 4.6k
C. M. Aldao Argentina 28 1.7k 0.8× 1.4k 0.6× 340 0.4× 834 2.3× 704 2.3× 209 3.0k
V. R. Deline United States 39 3.0k 1.4× 2.6k 1.2× 718 0.9× 1.1k 3.1× 433 1.4× 108 4.9k
Joshua D. Wood United States 24 2.2k 1.0× 5.5k 2.5× 224 0.3× 638 1.8× 1.1k 3.7× 46 6.3k
Hisao Suzuki Japan 29 919 0.4× 2.1k 1.0× 304 0.4× 177 0.5× 793 2.6× 278 3.5k
Cary Y. Yang United States 28 1.4k 0.6× 1.4k 0.7× 93 0.1× 614 1.7× 427 1.4× 147 2.7k
S. K. Deb United States 24 2.3k 1.1× 1.6k 0.7× 2.0k 2.4× 322 0.9× 244 0.8× 94 3.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Roland Schmechel

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Fields of papers citing papers by Roland Schmechel

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Roland Schmechel

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

All Works

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Lobe, Sandra, et al.. (2022). Study of thermal material properties for Ta- and Al-substituted Li7La3Zr2O12 (LLZO) solid-state electrolyte in dependency of temperature and grain size. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 10(22). 12177–12186. 33 indexed citations
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Schmechel, Roland, et al.. (2020). Influence of the cathode microstructure on the stability of inverted planar perovskite solar cells. RSC Advances. 10(40). 23653–23661. 13 indexed citations
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Fettkenhauer, Christian, Daichi Okada, Yohei Yamamoto, et al.. (2019). Spatially resolved investigation of the defect states in methylammonium lead iodide perovskite bicrystals. Journal of Materials Chemistry C. 7(42). 13156–13160. 2 indexed citations
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Schmechel, Roland, et al.. (2019). Ultra-fast measurement circuit for transient space charge limited current in organic semiconductor thin films. Measurement Science and Technology. 31(1). 15901–15901. 2 indexed citations
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Liu, Dongmei, Xinzhong Li, Pedro Borlido, et al.. (2017). Anisotropic layered Bi2Te3-In2Te3 composites: control of interface density for tuning of thermoelectric properties. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 43611–43611. 25 indexed citations
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Schierning, Gabi, Roland Schmechel, Nils Petermann, et al.. (2016). Silicon‐based nanocomposites for thermoelectric application. physica status solidi (a). 213(3). 497–514. 18 indexed citations
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Kiefer, Fabian, Hans Orthner, Nils Petermann, et al.. (2013). Excimer laser doping using highly doped silicon nanoparticles. physica status solidi (a). 210(11). 2456–2462. 12 indexed citations
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Schierning, Gabi, et al.. (2012). Influence of annealing atmospheres and synthetic air treatment on solution processed zinc oxide thin film transistors. Journal of Applied Physics. 112(3). 3 indexed citations
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Benson, Niels, Andrea Gassmann, Eric Mankel, et al.. (2008). The role of Ca traces in the passivation of silicon dioxide dielectrics for electron transport in pentacene organic field effect transistors. Journal of Applied Physics. 104(5). 11 indexed citations
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Heil, H., et al.. (2005). Sunlight stability of organic light-emitting diodes. Journal of Applied Physics. 97(12). 26 indexed citations
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Hepp, Aline, H. Heil, Wieland Weise, et al.. (2003). Light-Emitting Field-Effect Transistor Based on a Tetracene Thin Film. Physical Review Letters. 91(15). 157406–157406. 493 indexed citations breakdown →
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Hepp, Aline, et al.. (2003). Effects of process parameters on trap distributions in organic semiconductors. Synthetic Metals. 138(1-2). 201–207. 15 indexed citations
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Schmechel, Roland. (2002). Gaussian disorder model for high carrier densities: Theoretical aspects and application to experiments. Physical review. B, Condensed matter. 66(23). 56 indexed citations
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Zerr, Andreas, et al.. (2002). New high pressure nitrides. Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations of Crystallography. 58(s1). c47–c47. 6 indexed citations
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Schmechel, Roland & H. Werheit. (2000). Structural Defects of Some Icosahedral Boron-Rich Solids and Their Correlation with the Electronic Properties. Journal of Solid State Chemistry. 154(1). 61–67. 49 indexed citations
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Schmechel, Roland, et al.. (1997). IR Active Phonon Spectra of B–C–Al Compounds with Boron Carbide Structure. Journal of Solid State Chemistry. 133(1). 254–259. 8 indexed citations
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Werheit, H., et al.. (1997). On the electronic properties of β-rhombohedral boron interstitially doped with 3d transition metal atoms. Journal of Alloys and Compounds. 262-263. 372–380. 41 indexed citations

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