S. A. McDonald

2.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
5 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

S. A. McDonald is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials Chemistry and Polymers and Plastics. According to data from OpenAlex, S. A. McDonald has authored 5 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 5 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 3 papers in Materials Chemistry and 1 paper in Polymers and Plastics. Recurrent topics in S. A. McDonald's work include Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties (3 papers), Silicon and Solar Cell Technologies (2 papers) and Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films (2 papers). S. A. McDonald is often cited by papers focused on Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties (3 papers), Silicon and Solar Cell Technologies (2 papers) and Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films (2 papers). S. A. McDonald collaborates with scholars based in Canada. S. A. McDonald's co-authors include Edward H. Sargent, Larissa Levina, Gerasimos Konstantatos, Paul W. Cyr, Ethan J. D. Klem, Shiguo Zhang, Ken Cadien, Thomas Mueller, Jia Ge and Johnson Wong and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Materials and Applied Physics Letters.

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S. A. McDonald

5 papers receiving 1.9k citations

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Solution-processed PbS quantum dot infrared photodetectors and photovoltaics

2005 1.7k citations S. A. McDonald, Gerasimos Konstantatos et al. Nature Materials profile →

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Citations

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of S. A. McDonald

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

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	High Speed Infrared Probe for Doped Layers Characterization: Experiment and Ray Tracing Study 2018 ·Johnson Wong, (unknown), S. A. McDonald, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Jia Ge, (unknown), Thomas Mueller	2
2	Solar wafer emitter measurement by infrared reflectometry for process control: Implementation and results 2014 ·(unknown), S. A. McDonald, (unknown), Ken Cadien	4
3	Solution-processed PbS quantum dot infrared photodetectors and photovoltaics breakdown → 2005 ·Nature Materials ·S. A. McDonald, Gerasimos Konstantatos, Shiguo Zhang, Paul W. Cyr, Ethan J. D. Klem, Larissa Levina, Edward H. Sargent	1704
4	Enhanced infrared photovoltaic efficiency in PbS nanocrystal/semiconducting polymer composites: 600-fold increase in maximum power output via control of the ligand barrier 2005 ·Applied Physics Letters ·(unknown), (unknown), S. A. McDonald, Gerasimos Konstantatos, Edward H. Sargent	104
5	Photoconductivity from PbS-nanocrystal∕semiconducting polymer composites for solution-processible, quantum-size tunableinfrared photodetectors 2004 ·Applied Physics Letters ·S. A. McDonald, (unknown), Larissa Levina, Edward H. Sargent	133

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