S. C. Gau

4.9k total citations · 3 hit papers
16 papers, 3.7k citations indexed

About

S. C. Gau is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Polymers and Plastics and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, S. C. Gau has authored 16 papers receiving a total of 3.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 7 papers in Polymers and Plastics and 5 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in S. C. Gau's work include Conducting polymers and applications (6 papers), Silicon and Solar Cell Technologies (5 papers) and Thin-Film Transistor Technologies (4 papers). S. C. Gau is often cited by papers focused on Conducting polymers and applications (6 papers), Silicon and Solar Cell Technologies (5 papers) and Thin-Film Transistor Technologies (4 papers). S. C. Gau collaborates with scholars based in United States. S. C. Gau's co-authors include Alan G. MacDiarmid, C. K. Chiang, Alan J. Heeger, Hideki Shirakawa, E. J. Louis, C. R. Fincher, Y. W. Park, A. J. Heeger, Mark A. Druy and B. R. Weinberger and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Physical Review Letters and Applied Physics Letters.

In The Last Decade

S. C. Gau

16 papers receiving 3.4k citations

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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.

Electrical Conductivity in Doped Polyacetylene

1977 2.5k citations C. K. Chiang, C. R. Fincher et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
Synthesis of highly conducting films of derivatives of polyacetylene, (CH)x

1978 541 citations C. K. Chiang, Mark A. Druy et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
Polyacetylene, (CH)x: n-type and p-type doping and compensation

1978 229 citations C. K. Chiang, S. C. Gau et al. Applied Physics Letters profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
S. C. Gau United States	12	2.6k	2.5k	767	714	494	16	3.7k
Y. W. Park South Korea	7	2.0k 0.8×	1.9k 0.8×	664 0.9×	609 0.9×	352 0.7×	8	2.8k
L. W. Shacklette United States	36	3.0k 1.1×	3.2k 1.3×	802 1.0×	808 1.1×	466 0.9×	98	4.8k
Małgorzata Zagórska Poland	35	2.8k 1.1×	3.1k 1.3×	1.4k 1.8×	545 0.8×	608 1.2×	165	4.5k
E. J. Louis United States	9	4.5k 1.7×	4.0k 1.6×	1.3k 1.7×	1.4k 1.9×	848 1.7×	15	6.3k
G. Froyer France	20	1.6k 0.6×	1.4k 0.6×	541 0.7×	595 0.8×	175 0.4×	100	2.3k
Mark A. Druy United States	16	1.6k 0.6×	1.3k 0.5×	410 0.5×	415 0.6×	322 0.7×	46	2.2k
W. R. Salaneck Sweden	28	1.6k 0.6×	2.0k 0.8×	581 0.8×	488 0.7×	159 0.3×	75	2.7k
Subhas Chandra India	29	1000 0.4×	1.6k 0.6×	1.3k 1.7×	588 0.8×	155 0.3×	88	2.8k
A. Dodabalapur United States	20	2.1k 0.8×	4.8k 2.0×	1.1k 1.5×	836 1.2×	444 0.9×	24	5.5k
S. Hotta Japan	32	2.1k 0.8×	2.9k 1.2×	1.1k 1.4×	437 0.6×	440 0.9×	75	3.8k

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Chiang, C. K., Alan J. Heeger, Hideki Shirakawa, et al.. (2001). Electrical Conductivity in Doped Polyacetylene : Phys. Rev. Lett. 39 (1977) 1098 ( The Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Dr. Hideki Shirakawa). 56(8). 572–575. 3 indexed citations

Ramos, F. Javier, et al.. (1987). Long-term stability of amorphous silicon solar cells and modules. Solar Cells. 21(1-4). 25–39. 4 indexed citations

Böhm, Marcus L., et al.. (1985). Single chamber manufacturing process for amorphous silicon solar cells. Photovoltaic Specialists Conference. 888–893. 2 indexed citations

Appleby, A.J., et al.. (1985). An amorphous silicon-based one-unit photovoltaic electrolyzer. Energy. 10(7). 871–876. 15 indexed citations

Gau, S. C., et al.. (1985). Manufacturing process for interconnected submodules of hydrogenated amorphous silicon photovoltaic panels. Applied Physics Letters. 47(12). 1317–1319. 6 indexed citations

Delahoy, A. E., et al.. (1985). A one-unit photovoltaic electrolysis system based on a triple stack of amorphous silicon (pin) cells. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy. 10(2). 113–116. 25 indexed citations

Weinberger, B. R., M. Shaheer Akhtar, & S. C. Gau. (1982). Polyacetylene photovoltaic devices. Synthetic Metals. 4(3). 187–197. 61 indexed citations

Akhtar, M. Kamal, et al.. (1982). Electronic and optical properties of amorphous Si:H films deposited by chemical vapor deposition. Applied Physics Letters. 41(12). 1146–1148. 22 indexed citations

Gau, S. C., B. R. Weinberger, M. Kamal Akhtar, Z. Kiss, & A. G. MacDiarmid. (1981). Preparation of amorphous silicon films by chemical vapor deposition from higher silanes SinH2n+2(n≳1). Applied Physics Letters. 39(5). 436–438. 37 indexed citations

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Weinberger, B. R., S. C. Gau, & Z. Kiss. (1981). A polyacetylene:aluminum photodiode. Applied Physics Letters. 38(7). 555–557. 45 indexed citations

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Heeger, Alan J., et al.. (1980). Polyacetylene, (CH)x: Photoelectrochemical solar cell. Applied Physics Letters. 36(1). 96–98. 82 indexed citations

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Gau, S. C., JoAnn Milliken, Adam Proń, Alan G. MacDiarmid, & Alan J. Heeger. (1979). ‘Organic metals’. New classes of p-type dopants for converting polyacetylene, (CH)_xinto the ‘metallic’ state. Journal of the Chemical Society Chemical Communications. 662–663. 37 indexed citations

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Ozaki, Makiko, D. Peebles, B. R. Weinberger, et al.. (1979). Junction formation with pure and doped polyacetylene. Applied Physics Letters. 35(1). 83–85. 85 indexed citations

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Chiang, C. K., et al.. (1978). Polyacetylene, (CH)x: n-type and p-type doping and compensation. Applied Physics Letters. 33(1). 18–20. 229 indexed citations breakdown →

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Chiang, C. K., Mark A. Druy, S. C. Gau, et al.. (1978). Synthesis of highly conducting films of derivatives of polyacetylene, (CH)x. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 100(3). 1013–1015. 541 indexed citations breakdown →

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Chiang, C. K., C. R. Fincher, Y. W. Park, et al.. (1977). Electrical Conductivity in Doped Polyacetylene. Physical Review Letters. 39(17). 1098–1101. 2462 indexed citations breakdown →

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