Stephanie Essig

2.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
34 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Stephanie Essig is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Stephanie Essig has authored 34 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 31 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 11 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 9 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Stephanie Essig's work include solar cell performance optimization (16 papers), Silicon and Solar Cell Technologies (13 papers) and Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films (11 papers). Stephanie Essig is often cited by papers focused on solar cell performance optimization (16 papers), Silicon and Solar Cell Technologies (13 papers) and Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films (11 papers). Stephanie Essig collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Switzerland. Stephanie Essig's co-authors include Christophe Ballif, Frank Dimroth, Myles A. Steiner, John F. Geisz, David L. Young, Loris Barraud, Matthieu Despeisse, Christophe Allebé, Antoine Descoeudres and Adele C. Tamboli and has published in prestigious journals such as Nano Letters, Applied Physics Letters and Journal of Applied Physics.

In The Last Decade

Stephanie Essig

32 papers receiving 1.6k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

  1. Raising the one-sun conversion efficiency of III–V/Si solar cells to 32.8% for two junctions and 35.9% for three junctions
    2017 438 citations Stephanie Essig, Christophe Allebé et al. Nature Energy profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Stephanie Essig Germany 17 1.5k 530 398 393 107 34 1.6k
Can Han China 19 1.3k 0.9× 440 0.8× 595 1.5× 160 0.4× 110 1.0× 47 1.4k
Nagarajan Balaji South Korea 21 1.1k 0.8× 273 0.5× 498 1.3× 186 0.5× 121 1.1× 80 1.2k
Christophe Allebé Switzerland 17 1.7k 1.1× 490 0.9× 473 1.2× 201 0.5× 143 1.3× 61 1.8k
F. Smole Slovenia 21 1.6k 1.0× 338 0.6× 905 2.3× 210 0.5× 177 1.7× 80 1.7k
Francesca Ferrazza Italy 8 843 0.6× 221 0.4× 380 1.0× 245 0.6× 122 1.1× 24 984
Nobuaki Kojima Japan 18 1.0k 0.7× 431 0.8× 349 0.9× 145 0.4× 118 1.1× 118 1.2k
Alex J. Grede United States 12 907 0.6× 340 0.6× 533 1.3× 71 0.2× 70 0.7× 31 1.0k
Binesh Puthen Veettil Australia 19 863 0.6× 308 0.6× 713 1.8× 254 0.6× 35 0.3× 73 1.1k
Christian Samundsett Australia 19 1.5k 1.0× 775 1.5× 454 1.1× 123 0.3× 108 1.0× 42 1.6k
E. Pink Australia 8 947 0.6× 265 0.5× 743 1.9× 459 1.2× 98 0.9× 13 1.1k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Stephanie Essig

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Stephanie Essig

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Kanevce, Ana, Stephanie Essig, Stefan Paetel, et al.. (2022). Impact of Ag content on device properties of Cu(In,Ga)Se2 solar cells. EPJ Photovoltaics. 13. 28–28. 3 indexed citations
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Essig, Stephanie, Stefan Paetel, Theresa Magorian Friedlmeier, & Michael Powalla. (2020). Challenges in the deposition of (Ag,Cu)(In,Ga)Se2 absorber layers for thin-film solar cells. Journal of Physics Materials. 4(2). 24003–24003. 16 indexed citations
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Schnabel, Manuel, Agnes Merkle, Talysa R. Klein, et al.. (2019). III-V/Si Tandem Cells Utilizing Interdigitated Back Contact Si Cells and Varying Terminal Configurations. 1–5. 1 indexed citations
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Essig, Stephanie, et al.. (2018). Hole-Collection Mechanism in Passivating Metal-Oxide Contacts on Si Solar Cells: Insights From Numerical Simulations. IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics. 8(2). 473–482. 71 indexed citations
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Bullock, James, Yimao Wan, Zhaoran Xu, et al.. (2018). Stable Dopant-Free Asymmetric Heterocontact Silicon Solar Cells with Efficiencies above 20%. ACS Energy Letters. 3(3). 508–513. 180 indexed citations
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Essig, Stephanie, et al.. (2018). Numerical simulation of temperature dependence of MoOx based SHJ solar cell. AIP conference proceedings. 1999. 40002–40002. 2 indexed citations
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Essig, Stephanie, Julie Dréon, Esteban Rucavado, et al.. (2018). Toward Annealing‐Stable Molybdenum‐Oxide‐Based Hole‐Selective Contacts For Silicon Photovoltaics. Solar RRL. 2(4). 47 indexed citations
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Essig, Stephanie, Christophe Allebé, Timothy Remo, et al.. (2017). Raising the one-sun conversion efficiency of III–V/Si solar cells to 32.8% for two junctions and 35.9% for three junctions. Nature Energy. 2(9). 438 indexed citations breakdown →
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Bullock, James, Hiroki Ota, Hanchen Wang, et al.. (2017). Microchannel contacting of crystalline silicon solar cells. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 9085–9085. 7 indexed citations
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Essig, Stephanie, Christophe Allebé, John F. Geisz, et al.. (2017). Mechanically stacked 4-terminal III-V/Si tandem solar cells. 2017 IEEE 44th Photovoltaic Specialist Conference (PVSC). 4 indexed citations
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Schnabel, Manuel, John F. Geisz, J. Schmidt, et al.. (2017). III- V/Si Tandem Cells Utilizing Interdigitated Back Contact Si Cells and Varying Terminal Configurations. 2017 IEEE 44th Photovoltaic Specialist Conference (PVSC). 3371–3375. 6 indexed citations
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Essig, Stephanie, Julie Dréon, Jérémie Werner, et al.. (2017). MoOx and WOx based hole-selective contacts for wafer-based Si solar cells. 2017 IEEE 44th Photovoltaic Specialist Conference (PVSC). 55–58. 6 indexed citations
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Essig, Stephanie, Christophe Allebé, John F. Geisz, et al.. (2016). Boosting the efficiency of III-V/Si tandem solar cells. 2040–2042. 6 indexed citations
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Tamboli, Adele C., Maikel F. A. M. van Hest, Myles A. Steiner, et al.. (2015). III-V/Si wafer bonding using transparent, conductive oxide interlayers. Applied Physics Letters. 106(26). 21 indexed citations
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Essig, Stephanie, Scott Ward, Myles A. Steiner, et al.. (2015). Progress Towards a 30% Efficient GaInP/Si Tandem Solar Cell. Energy Procedia. 77. 464–469. 71 indexed citations
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Tamboli, Adele C., Stephanie Essig, Kelsey Horowitz, et al.. (2015). Indium zinc oxide mediated wafer bonding for III–V/Si tandem solar cells. 10 indexed citations
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Bett, Andreas W., Simon P. Philipps, Stephanie Essig, et al.. (2013). Overview about Technology Perspectives for High Efficiency Solar Cells for Space and Terrestrial Applications. Fraunhofer-Publica (Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft). 1–6. 27 indexed citations
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Essig, Stephanie & Frank Dimroth. (2013). Fast Atom Beam Activated Wafer Bonds between n-Si and n-GaAs with Low Resistance. ECS Journal of Solid State Science and Technology. 2(9). Q178–Q181. 40 indexed citations
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Essig, Stephanie, et al.. (2013). Fast atom beam-activated n-Si/n-GaAs wafer bonding with high interfacial transparency and electrical conductivity. Journal of Applied Physics. 113(20). 31 indexed citations
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Derendorf, Karen, Stephanie Essig, Eduard Oliva, et al.. (2013). Fabrication of GaInP/GaAs//Si Solar Cells by Surface Activated Direct Wafer Bonding. IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics. 3(4). 1423–1428. 108 indexed citations

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