Steve Johnston

6.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
264 papers, 5.2k citations indexed

About

Steve Johnston is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Steve Johnston has authored 264 papers receiving a total of 5.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 245 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 96 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 88 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Steve Johnston's work include Silicon and Solar Cell Technologies (111 papers), Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films (95 papers) and Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties (68 papers). Steve Johnston is often cited by papers focused on Silicon and Solar Cell Technologies (111 papers), Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films (95 papers) and Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties (68 papers). Steve Johnston collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Australia. Steve Johnston's co-authors include R. K. Ahrenkiel, Sarah Kurtz, Wyatt K. Metzger, Peter Hacke, Kaiwen Sun, Jialiang Huang, Martin A. Green, John A. Stride, Aobo Pu and Xiaojing Hao and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Nature Communications and Applied Physics Letters.

In The Last Decade

Steve Johnston

245 papers receiving 5.1k 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.

Cu2ZnSnS4 solar cells with over 10% power conversion efficiency enabled by heterojunction heat treatment

2018 730 citations Chang Yan, Jialiang Huang et al. Nature Energy profile →
Compositional texture engineering for highly stable wide-bandgap perovskite solar cells

2022 265 citations Qi Jiang, Jinhui Tong et al. Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Steve Johnston United States	33	4.7k	2.6k	1.4k	743	333	264	5.2k
Helio Moutinho United States	36	4.3k 0.9×	3.6k 1.4×	1.2k 0.9×	365 0.5×	380 1.1×	240	4.9k
Bram Hoex Australia	39	6.5k 1.4×	2.6k 1.0×	2.0k 1.4×	635 0.9×	887 2.7×	232	7.1k
Dean H. Levi United States	34	6.1k 1.3×	4.1k 1.6×	1.5k 1.1×	636 0.9×	584 1.8×	138	6.9k
Myles A. Steiner United States	36	4.7k 1.0×	1.3k 0.5×	1.8k 1.3×	1.1k 1.5×	919 2.8×	189	5.8k
N.H. Karam United States	28	4.0k 0.8×	951 0.4×	1.8k 1.3×	557 0.7×	732 2.2×	136	4.4k
Gerald Siefer Germany	35	5.6k 1.2×	1.8k 0.7×	1.3k 1.0×	1.2k 1.6×	1.5k 4.5×	147	6.3k
Nuggehalli M. Ravindra United States	29	2.5k 0.5×	2.1k 0.8×	721 0.5×	539 0.7×	589 1.8×	175	4.3k
Pietro P. Altermatt Germany	40	5.1k 1.1×	1.2k 0.5×	1.9k 1.4×	972 1.3×	556 1.7×	179	5.5k
A. Shah Switzerland	31	5.3k 1.1×	4.0k 1.5×	465 0.3×	486 0.7×	664 2.0×	148	5.9k
Karsten Bothe Germany	39	6.4k 1.4×	1.9k 0.7×	2.0k 1.4×	1.0k 1.4×	391 1.2×	166	6.9k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Steve Johnston

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Johnson, S., Daniel Morales, Isaac E. Gould, et al.. (2025). How non-ohmic contact-layer diodes in perovskite pinholes affect abrupt low-voltage reverse-bias breakdown and destruction of solar cells. Joule. 9(10). 102102–102102. 1 indexed citations

Nardone, Marco, Steve Johnston, Eric Colegrove, et al.. (2025). Comprehensive model for evaluating voltage losses and performance improvements in thin-film photovoltaic devices. Physical Review Applied. 23(3). 4 indexed citations

McGott, Deborah L., Steve Johnston, Chun‐Sheng Jiang, et al.. (2024). Investigation of Sub‐Bandgap Emission and Unexpected n‐Type Behavior in Undoped Polycrystalline CdSe_xTe_1‐x. Advanced Science. 11(29). e2309264–e2309264. 6 indexed citations

Johnston, Steve, et al.. (2024). Elucidating the Role of InGaAs and InAlAs Buffers on Carrier Dynamics of Tensile-Strained Ge Double Heterostructures. ACS Applied Electronic Materials. 6(6). 4247–4256.

Johnston, Steve, Dirk Jordan, Dana B. Kern, et al.. (2023). Degradation-related defect level in weathered silicon heterojunction modules characterized by deep level transient spectroscopy. Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells. 262. 112527–112527. 2 indexed citations

Guthrey, Harvey, Steve Johnston, Andrew G. Norman, et al.. (2023). Optoelectronic and structural characterization of trapezoidal defects in 4H-SiC epilayers and the effect on MOSFET reliability. Journal of Applied Physics. 134(7). 5 indexed citations

Schulte, Kevin L., Steve Johnston, William E. McMahon, et al.. (2023). GaAs solar cells grown on acoustically spalled GaAs substrates with 27% efficiency. Joule. 7(7). 1529–1542. 27 indexed citations

VanSant, Kaitlyn T., Ahmad R. Kirmani, Severin N. Habisreutinger, et al.. (2023). Post-Flight Analysis of Perovskite Solar Cells for NASA Materials International Space Station Experiment (MISSE). 1–1.

Mangum, John S., Anthony D. Rice, Jie Chen, et al.. (2022). High‐Efficiency Solar Cells Grown on Spalled Germanium for Substrate Reuse without Polishing. Advanced Energy Materials. 12(29). 16 indexed citations

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Jiang, Qi, Jinhui Tong, Rebecca A. Scheidt, et al.. (2022). Compositional texture engineering for highly stable wide-bandgap perovskite solar cells. Science. 378(6626). 1295–1300. 265 indexed citations breakdown →

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Guthrey, Harvey, et al.. (2022). Nondestructive microstructural investigation of defects in 4H-SiC epilayers using a multiscale luminescence analysis approach. Journal of Applied Physics. 131(18). 4 indexed citations

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Sinha, Archana, Dana B. Kern, Michael Owen‐Bellini, et al.. (2021). Glass/glass photovoltaic module reliability and degradation: a review. Journal of Physics D Applied Physics. 54(41). 413002–413002. 59 indexed citations

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Moot, Taylor, Jay B. Patel, Eli J. Wolf, et al.. (2021). Temperature Coefficients of Perovskite Photovoltaics for Energy Yield Calculations. ACS Energy Letters. 6(5). 2038–2047. 81 indexed citations

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Johnston, Steve, et al.. (2021). Deep level transient spectroscopy and photoluminescence studies of hole and electron traps in ZnSnP ₂ bulk crystals. Japanese Journal of Applied Physics. 61(2). 20905–20905. 2 indexed citations

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Metaferia, Wondwosen, Kevin L. Schulte, John Simon, Steve Johnston, & Aaron J. Ptak. (2019). Gallium arsenide solar cells grown at rates exceeding 300 µm h−1 by hydride vapor phase epitaxy. Nature Communications. 10(1). 3361–3361. 62 indexed citations

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Yan, Chang, Jialiang Huang, Kaiwen Sun, et al.. (2018). Cu2ZnSnS4 solar cells with over 10% power conversion efficiency enabled by heterojunction heat treatment. Nature Energy. 3(9). 764–772. 730 indexed citations breakdown →

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Harvey, Steven P., John Moseley, Andrew G. Norman, et al.. (2018). Investigating PID shunting in polycrystalline silicon modules via multiscale, multitechnique characterization. Progress in Photovoltaics Research and Applications. 26(6). 377–384. 27 indexed citations

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Xiao, Chuanxiao, Chun‐Sheng Jiang, John Moseley, et al.. (2017). Near-field transport imaging applied to photovoltaic materials. Solar Energy. 153. 134–141. 5 indexed citations

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Yan, Chang, Kaiwen Sun, Jialiang Huang, et al.. (2017). Beyond 11% Efficient Sulfide Kesterite Cu₂Zn_xCd_1–xSnS₄Solar Cell: Effects of Cadmium Alloying. ACS Energy Letters. 2(4). 930–936. 271 indexed citations

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Gessert, T. A., M.J. Romero, R. G. Dhere, Steve Johnston, & A. Duda. (2003). Cross-sectional, spectroscopic cathodoluminescence studies of the ZnTe:Cu contact process for CdS/CdTe solar cells. 3rd World Conference onPhotovoltaic Energy Conversion, 2003. Proceedings of. 1. 348–351. 3 indexed citations

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