W. E. Spear

184 total papers · 10.1k total citations
154 papers, 7.5k 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 154 papers receiving a total of 7.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 121 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 100 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 (96 papers), Silicon Nanostructures and Photoluminescence (71 papers) and Silicon and Solar Cell Technologies (52 papers). W. E. Spear is often cited by papers focused on Thin-Film Transistor Technologies (96 papers), Silicon Nanostructures and Photoluminescence (71 papers) and Silicon and Solar Cell Technologies (52 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, D. I. Jones and J. Mort and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Physical Review Letters and Applied Physics Letters.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of W. E. Spear

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

W. E. Spear

150 papers receiving 6.6k citations

Fields of papers citing papers by W. E. Spear

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Countries citing papers authored by W. E. Spear

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