Thomas Allen

2.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
34 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

Thomas Allen is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. According to data from OpenAlex, Thomas Allen has authored 34 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 30 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 17 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 4 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. Recurrent topics in Thomas Allen's work include Silicon and Solar Cell Technologies (23 papers), Thin-Film Transistor Technologies (20 papers) and Semiconductor materials and interfaces (17 papers). Thomas Allen is often cited by papers focused on Silicon and Solar Cell Technologies (23 papers), Thin-Film Transistor Technologies (20 papers) and Semiconductor materials and interfaces (17 papers). Thomas Allen collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United States and Saudi Arabia. Thomas Allen's co-authors include Andrés Cuevas, James Bullock, Yimao Wan, Ali Javey, Di Yan, Mark Hettick, Corsin Battaglia, Jie Cui, Stefaan De Wolf and Xinyu Zhang and has published in prestigious journals such as Applied Physics Letters, Journal of Applied Physics and IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence.

In The Last Decade

Thomas Allen

32 papers receiving 2.1k 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.

Efficient silicon solar cells with dopant-free asymmetric heterocontacts

2016 473 citations James Bullock, Mark Hettick et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Thomas Allen Australia	20	2.0k	1.1k	607	242	93	34	2.1k
Stephanie Essig Germany	17	1.5k 0.7×	530 0.5×	398 0.7×	393 1.6×	48 0.5×	34	1.6k
Jinde Yin China	25	1.4k 0.7×	1.1k 1.0×	330 0.5×	236 1.0×	69 0.7×	63	1.7k
Angelo Bozzola Italy	16	850 0.4×	349 0.3×	369 0.6×	435 1.8×	153 1.6×	33	1.2k
Alex J. Grede United States	12	907 0.5×	340 0.3×	533 0.9×	71 0.3×	60 0.6×	31	1.0k
P.G. Linares Spain	21	1.1k 0.5×	1.2k 1.0×	921 1.5×	448 1.9×	60 0.6×	66	1.6k
David Fuertes Marrón Spain	20	980 0.5×	425 0.4×	848 1.4×	107 0.4×	38 0.4×	73	1.2k
Nagarajan Balaji South Korea	21	1.1k 0.6×	273 0.2×	498 0.8×	186 0.8×	30 0.3×	80	1.2k
Hoseok Heo South Korea	19	1.1k 0.5×	269 0.2×	1.5k 2.5×	207 0.9×	185 2.0×	45	1.9k
Changyao Chen United States	10	940 0.5×	1.1k 1.0×	1.3k 2.1×	622 2.6×	105 1.1×	21	2.0k
Binesh Puthen Veettil Australia	19	863 0.4×	308 0.3×	713 1.2×	254 1.0×	37 0.4×	73	1.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Thomas Allen

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Thomas Allen

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20 of 20 papers shown

Mackridge, Adam, Derek T. O’Keeffe, Aileen Clarke, et al.. (2024). After the teleconsultation: getting medicines to patients when pharmacy services are not available. British Journal of General Practice. 74(746). 422–425.

Le, Anh Huy Tuan, Ruy S. Bonilla, Lachlan E. Black, et al.. (2023). Recombination in Passivating Contacts: Investigation Into the Impact of the Contact Work Function on the Obtained Passivation. Solar RRL. 7(11). 2 indexed citations

Seif, Johannes P., Thomas Allen, Rabin Basnet, et al.. (2021). Temperature- and Illumination-Dependent Characterization of Solar Cells Using Suns-V_OC(T) and I-V(T). ANU Open Research (Australian National University). 737–740. 5 indexed citations

Le, Anh Huy Tuan, Johannes P. Seif, Thomas Allen, et al.. (2019). On the impact of the metal work function on the recombination in passivating contacts using quasi-steady-state photoluminescence. UNSWorks (University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia). 113. 2691–2695. 2 indexed citations

Allen, Thomas, Ratan Kotipalli, Denis Flandre, et al.. (2018). Surface Passivation of CIGS Solar Cells Using Gallium Oxide. physica status solidi (a). 215(7). 41 indexed citations

Özdemir, Onur, et al.. (2017). Copula Based Classifier Fusion Under Statistical Dependence. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. 40(11). 2740–2748. 25 indexed citations

Allen, Thomas, James Bullock, Quentin Jeangros, et al.. (2017). A Low Resistance Calcium/Reduced Titania Passivated Contact for High Efficiency Crystalline Silicon Solar Cells. Advanced Energy Materials. 7(12). 105 indexed citations

McIntosh, Keith R., Thomas Allen, Simeon C. Baker‐Finch, & Malcolm Abbott. (2016). Light Trapping in Isotextured Silicon Wafers. IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics. 7(1). 110–117. 15 indexed citations

Wan, Yimao, Chris Samundsett, Di Yan, et al.. (2016). A magnesium/amorphous silicon passivating contact for n-type crystalline silicon solar cells. Applied Physics Letters. 109(11). 44 indexed citations

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Black, Lachlan E., Thomas Allen, Keith R. McIntosh, & Andrés Cuevas. (2016). Improved Silicon Surface Passivation of APCVD Al2O3 by Rapid Thermal Annealing. Energy Procedia. 92. 317–325. 7 indexed citations

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Allen, Thomas, Peiting Zheng, Benjamin Vaughan, et al.. (2016). Low resistance TiO<inf>2</inf>-passivated calcium contacts to for crystalline silicon solar cells. 230–233. 3 indexed citations

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Allen, Thomas, Yimao Wan, & Andrés Cuevas. (2016). Silicon Surface Passivation by Gallium Oxide Capped With Silicon Nitride. IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics. 6(4). 900–905. 20 indexed citations

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Bullock, James, Peiting Zheng, Quentin Jeangros, et al.. (2016). Lithium Fluoride Based Electron Contacts for High Efficiency n‐Type Crystalline Silicon Solar Cells. Advanced Energy Materials. 6(14). 144 indexed citations

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Bullock, James, Yimao Wan, Mark Hettick, et al.. (2016). Survey of dopant-free carrier-selective contacts for silicon solar cells. 210–214. 20 indexed citations

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Allen, Thomas & Andrés Cuevas. (2015). Plasma enhanced atomic layer deposition of gallium oxide on crystalline silicon: demonstration of surface passivation and negative interfacial charge. physica status solidi (RRL) - Rapid Research Letters. 9(4). 220–224. 40 indexed citations

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Bullock, James, Andrés Cuevas, Thomas Allen, & Corsin Battaglia. (2014). Molybdenum oxide MoOx: A versatile hole contact for silicon solar cells. Applied Physics Letters. 105(23). 287 indexed citations

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Allen, Thomas & A. Cuevas. (2014). Electronic passivation of silicon surfaces by thin films of atomic layer deposited gallium oxide. Applied Physics Letters. 105(3). 75 indexed citations

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Black, Lachlan E., Thomas Allen, Keith R. McIntosh, & Andrés Cuevas. (2014). Effect of boron concentration on recombination at the p-Si–Al2O3 interface. Journal of Applied Physics. 115(9). 36 indexed citations

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Allen, Thomas, James Bullock, Andrés Cuevas, Simeon C. Baker‐Finch, & F. Karouta. (2014). Reactive ion etched black silicon texturing: A comparative study. ANU Open Research (Australian National University). 8438. 562–566. 11 indexed citations

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Hunter, Dan, et al.. (2004). CADRE: continuous analysis and discovery from relational evidence. 555–561. 3 indexed citations

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