W. E. Spear

10.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
155 papers, 7.6k citations indexed

About

W. E. Spear is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials Chemistry and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, W. E. Spear has authored 155 papers receiving a total of 7.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 122 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 101 papers in Materials Chemistry and 39 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in W. E. Spear's work include Thin-Film Transistor Technologies (97 papers), Silicon Nanostructures and Photoluminescence (72 papers) and Silicon and Solar Cell Technologies (53 papers). W. E. Spear is often cited by papers focused on Thin-Film Transistor Technologies (97 papers), Silicon Nanostructures and Photoluminescence (72 papers) and Silicon and Solar Cell Technologies (53 papers). W. E. Spear collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Germany. W. E. Spear's co-authors include P. G. Le Comber, David Anderson, A. Madan, A.J. Snell, P. G. LeComber, Kenneth D. Mackenzie, L. S. Miller, R.A.G. Gibson, J. Mort and D. I. Jones and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Physical Review Letters and Applied Physics Letters.

In The Last Decade

W. E. Spear

152 papers receiving 7.1k 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.

Electronic properties of substitutionally doped amorphous Si and Ge

1976 541 citations W. E. Spear, P. G. Le Comber profile →
Electrical and optical properties of amorphous silicon carbide, silicon nitride and germanium carbide prepared by the glow discharge technique

1977 377 citations W. E. Spear et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
W. E. Spear United Kingdom	43	6.1k	5.2k	1.7k	815	488	155	7.6k
M. H. Brodsky United States	38	4.9k 0.8×	4.4k 0.8×	1.5k 0.9×	939 1.2×	211 0.4×	102	6.4k
P. G. Le Comber United Kingdom	30	4.1k 0.7×	3.4k 0.7×	897 0.5×	544 0.7×	305 0.6×	72	4.8k
R. A. Street United States	42	6.2k 1.0×	6.1k 1.2×	1.5k 0.9×	1.5k 1.8×	536 1.1×	140	8.5k
J. C. Knights United States	33	4.3k 0.7×	3.8k 0.7×	546 0.3×	628 0.8×	238 0.5×	70	4.9k
T. S. Moss United States	25	4.1k 0.7×	3.5k 0.7×	2.5k 1.5×	240 0.3×	409 0.8×	90	6.2k
H. Fritzsche United States	50	7.1k 1.2×	7.9k 1.5×	2.5k 1.5×	2.1k 2.6×	755 1.5×	204	10.5k
L. L. Chase United States	35	3.8k 0.6×	3.4k 0.7×	2.8k 1.7×	1.2k 1.5×	255 0.5×	106	6.2k
M. DiDomenico United States	29	3.5k 0.6×	3.9k 0.7×	2.0k 1.2×	678 0.8×	716 1.5×	52	6.0k
T. Tiedje Canada	38	5.3k 0.9×	3.7k 0.7×	3.1k 1.9×	258 0.3×	279 0.6×	122	7.0k
O. F. Schirmer Germany	37	3.0k 0.5×	2.9k 0.6×	2.7k 1.6×	690 0.8×	654 1.3×	132	5.2k

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Spear, W. E.. (1994). Peter George Lecomber, 19 February 1941 - 9 September 1992. Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 213–225. 1 indexed citations

Spear, W. E., et al.. (1991). An investigation of the phosphorous doping mechanism in a-Si by sweep-out experiments. Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids. 137-138. 167–170. 6 indexed citations

Baker, S. H., W. E. Spear, & R.A.G. Gibson. (1990). Electronic and optical properties of a-Si _1-x C _x films prepared from a H ₂ -diluted mixture of SiH ₄ and CH ₄. Philosophical Magazine B. 62(2). 213–223. 82 indexed citations

Spear, W. E., et al.. (1989). A new approach to sweep-out experiments of band-tail carriers in a-Si. Philosophical Magazine Letters. 60(6). 283–288. 2 indexed citations

Spear, W. E.. (1988). The Bakerian Lecture, 1988 - Amorphous semiconductors: a new generation of electronic materials. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A Mathematical and Physical Sciences. 420(1859). 201–218. 3 indexed citations

Spear, W. E., et al.. (1988). The extended-state hole mobility in amorphous silicon. Philosophical Magazine Letters. 57(2). 135–141. 9 indexed citations

Comber, P. G. Le, et al.. (1988). Substitutional and interstitial doping of amorphous silicon nitride. Philosophical Magazine B. 57(4). 483–492. 6 indexed citations

LeComber, P. G., G. Willeke, & W. E. Spear. (1983). Some new results on transport and density of state distribution in glow discharge microcrystalline silicon. Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids. 59-60. 795–798. 58 indexed citations

Mackenzie, Kenneth D., A.J. Snell, I. D. French, P. G. LeComber, & W. E. Spear. (1983). The characteristics and properties of optimised amorphous silicon field effect transistors. Applied Physics A. 31(2). 87–92. 70 indexed citations

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Spear, W. E., P. G. Le Comber, A.J. Snell, & R.A.G. Gibson. (1982). Recent applied developments in the amorphous silicon field. Thin Solid Films. 90(4). 359–370. 11 indexed citations

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Demond, F.J., Gerhard Müller, H. Mannsperger, et al.. (1981). HYDROGEN PROFILING IN GAS PHASE DOPED AND ION IMPLANTED AMORPHOUS SILICON FILMS. Le Journal de Physique Colloques. 42(C4). C4–779. 7 indexed citations

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Spear, W. E., et al.. (1981). Photoconductivity studies of the mobility edge in amorphous silicon. Philosophical Magazine B. 43(5). 781–796. 17 indexed citations

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Spear, W. E., G. Willeke, P. G. Le Comber, & A. G. Fitzgerald. (1981). ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES OF MICROCRYSTALLINE SILICON FILMS PREPARED IN A GLOW DISCHARGE PLASMA. Le Journal de Physique Colloques. 42(C4). C4–257. 13 indexed citations

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Spear, W. E., et al.. (1981). Qualitative differences in manifest object representations: Implications for a multidimensional model of psychological functioning.. Journal of Abnormal Psychology. 90(2). 157–167. 17 indexed citations

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Snell, A.J., W. E. Spear, P. G. Le Comber, & Katrin Mackenzie. (1981). Application of amorphous silicon field effect transistors in integrated circuits. Applied Physics A. 26(2). 83–86. 42 indexed citations

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Snell, A.J., W. E. Spear, & P. G. Le Comber. (1981). The lifetime of injected carriers in amorphous silicon p–n junctions. Philosophical Magazine B. 43(3). 407–417. 14 indexed citations

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Spear, W. E., et al.. (1980). The interpretation of transport results in amorphous silicon. Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids. 35-36. 357–362. 37 indexed citations

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Gibson, R.A.G., P. G. Le Comber, & W. E. Spear. (1978). Doped amorphous silicon and its application in photovoltaic devices. 2(3). 2 indexed citations

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Bradberry, G.W. & W. E. Spear. (1964). Electron mobility and edge emission in CdS crystals. British Journal of Applied Physics. 15(9). 1127–1129. 13 indexed citations

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Spear, W. E.. (1961). Carrier mobility and charge transport in monoclinic Se crystals. Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids. 21(1-2). 110–114. 35 indexed citations

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