Toru Irie

3.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
8 papers, 2.7k citations indexed

About

Toru Irie is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Polymers and Plastics. According to data from OpenAlex, Toru Irie has authored 8 papers receiving a total of 2.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 8 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 2 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 2 papers in Polymers and Plastics. Recurrent topics in Toru Irie's work include Silicon and Solar Cell Technologies (6 papers), Thin-Film Transistor Technologies (6 papers) and Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (2 papers). Toru Irie is often cited by papers focused on Silicon and Solar Cell Technologies (6 papers), Thin-Film Transistor Technologies (6 papers) and Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (2 papers). Toru Irie collaborates with scholars based in Japan and United States. Toru Irie's co-authors include Daisuke Adachi, Hisashi Uzu, Kenji Yamamoto, Masanori Kanematsu, Kunta Yoshikawa, Wataru Yoshida, Hayato Kawasaki, Toshihiko Uto, Kunihiro Nakano and Hirotaka Ishibashi and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Applied Physics, Nature Energy and Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells.

In The Last Decade

Toru Irie

8 papers receiving 2.6k 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.

Silicon heterojunction solar cell with interdigitated back contacts for a photoconversion efficiency over 26%

2017 2.2k citations Kunta Yoshikawa, Hayato Kawasaki et al. Nature Energy profile →
Exceeding conversion efficiency of 26% by heterojunction interdigitated back contact solar cell with thin film Si technology

2017 396 citations Kunta Yoshikawa, Wataru Yoshida et al. Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Toru Irie Japan	6	2.5k	989	674	323	303	8	2.7k
Masanori Kanematsu Japan	7	2.5k 1.0×	1.0k 1.0×	685 1.0×	310 1.0×	292 1.0×	9	2.7k
Kunta Yoshikawa Japan	5	2.5k 1.0×	1.0k 1.0×	700 1.0×	339 1.0×	286 0.9×	9	2.8k
Hayato Kawasaki Japan	7	2.5k 1.0×	996 1.0×	685 1.0×	309 1.0×	281 0.9×	10	2.7k
Toshihiko Uto Japan	7	2.1k 0.9×	854 0.9×	552 0.8×	284 0.9×	284 0.9×	11	2.5k
Hisashi Uzu Japan	11	2.9k 1.2×	1.1k 1.2×	749 1.1×	350 1.1×	370 1.2×	18	3.1k
Kunihiro Nakano Japan	9	2.1k 0.9×	907 0.9×	643 1.0×	299 0.9×	299 1.0×	11	2.5k
Andreas Fell Germany	23	3.1k 1.3×	786 0.8×	1.0k 1.5×	249 0.8×	270 0.9×	125	3.3k
Eiji Maruyama Japan	16	3.2k 1.3×	1.3k 1.3×	899 1.3×	430 1.3×	165 0.5×	40	3.4k
Yoonmook Kang South Korea	24	2.4k 1.0×	1.3k 1.3×	340 0.5×	216 0.7×	681 2.2×	150	2.6k
Thomas G. Allen Saudi Arabia	29	3.5k 1.4×	1.5k 1.6×	461 0.7×	214 0.7×	1.1k 3.6×	53	3.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Toru Irie

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Fields of papers citing papers by Toru Irie

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Toru Irie

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

All Works

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8 of 8 papers shown

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Hino, Masashi, Masanori Kanematsu, Hirotaka Ishibashi, et al.. (2022). 28.3% efficient perovskite-silicon tandem solar cells with mixed self-assembled monolayers. Applied Physics Express. 15(7). 76503–76503. 31 indexed citations

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Yoshikawa, Kunta, Wataru Yoshida, Toru Irie, et al.. (2017). Exceeding conversion efficiency of 26% by heterojunction interdigitated back contact solar cell with thin film Si technology. Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells. 173. 37–42. 396 indexed citations breakdown →

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Yoshikawa, Kunta, Hayato Kawasaki, Wataru Yoshida, et al.. (2017). Silicon heterojunction solar cell with interdigitated back contacts for a photoconversion efficiency over 26%. Nature Energy. 2(5). 2196 indexed citations breakdown →

4.

Yoshikawa, Kunta, Hayato Kawasaki, Kunihiro Nakano, et al.. (2016). 6 inch High efficiency back contact crystalline Si solar cell applying heterojunction and thinfilm technology. 3366–3369. 4 indexed citations

5.

Feltrin, A., Tomomi Meguro, Takashi Suezaki, et al.. (2013). Advanced light trapping designs for high efficiency thin film silicon solar cells. Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells. 119. 219–227. 25 indexed citations

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Meguro, Tomomi, A. Feltrin, Takashi Suezaki, et al.. (2012). Advanced Light Trapping of High-Efficiency Thin Film Silicon Solar Cells. Japanese Journal of Applied Physics. 51(10S). 10NB02–10NB02. 7 indexed citations

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Meguro, Tomomi, A. Feltrin, Takashi Suezaki, et al.. (2012). Advanced Light Trapping of High-Efficiency Thin Film Silicon Solar Cells. Japanese Journal of Applied Physics. 51(10S). 10NB02–10NB02. 3 indexed citations

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Sakanoue, Tomo, Toru Irie, & Chihaya Adachi. (2009). Charge separation and transport behavior of a two-dimensional charge sheet at organic donor-acceptor heterointerfaces. Journal of Applied Physics. 105(11). 19 indexed citations

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