William A. Friday

645 total citations · 1 hit paper
13 papers, 535 citations indexed

About

William A. Friday is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Ocean Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, William A. Friday has authored 13 papers receiving a total of 535 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 6 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 5 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 2 papers in Ocean Engineering. Recurrent topics in William A. Friday's work include Photorefractive and Nonlinear Optics (3 papers), Photonic and Optical Devices (2 papers) and Optical Systems and Laser Technology (2 papers). William A. Friday is often cited by papers focused on Photorefractive and Nonlinear Optics (3 papers), Photonic and Optical Devices (2 papers) and Optical Systems and Laser Technology (2 papers). William A. Friday collaborates with scholars based in United States and Mexico. William A. Friday's co-authors include M. D. Pashley, K. W. Haberern, P. D. Kirchner, J. M. Woodall, H. John Caulfield, Alejandro Cornejo-Rodrı́guez, John L. Johnson, Mary Lou Padgett, N. Kukhtarev and Benjamin G. Penn and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology A Vacuum Surfaces and Films and Optical Engineering.

In The Last Decade

William A. Friday

11 papers receiving 514 citations

Hit Papers

Structure of GaAs(001)(2×4)−c(2×8)Determined by Scanning ... 1988 2026 2000 2013 1988 100 200 300 400
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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.

  1. Structure of GaAs(001)(2×4)−c(2×8)Determined by Scanning Tunneling Microscopy
    1988 466 citations M. D. Pashley, K. W. Haberern et al. Physical Review Letters profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
William A. Friday United States 5 403 210 119 116 100 13 535
Gregory J. Whaley United States 7 302 0.7× 215 1.0× 79 0.7× 128 1.1× 87 0.9× 11 441
Kimihiro Ohta Poland 9 328 0.8× 259 1.2× 56 0.5× 108 0.9× 86 0.9× 22 428
V. Bressler-Hill United States 13 569 1.4× 343 1.6× 53 0.4× 158 1.4× 85 0.8× 25 617
E. Wikborg Sweden 15 345 0.9× 283 1.3× 91 0.8× 187 1.6× 146 1.5× 29 603
Y.-N. Yang United States 16 677 1.7× 256 1.2× 115 1.0× 194 1.7× 142 1.4× 31 827
Jiro Ōsaka Japan 13 498 1.2× 438 2.1× 40 0.3× 158 1.4× 112 1.1× 39 690
R. Knorren Germany 8 503 1.2× 212 1.0× 98 0.8× 102 0.9× 88 0.9× 9 579
J. L. Sudijono United Kingdom 15 743 1.8× 424 2.0× 58 0.5× 228 2.0× 104 1.0× 21 816
G. R. Bell United Kingdom 16 629 1.6× 522 2.5× 54 0.5× 358 3.1× 75 0.8× 29 782
Takahisa Doi Japan 14 336 0.8× 136 0.6× 135 1.1× 88 0.8× 34 0.3× 29 464

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All Works

13 of 13 papers shown
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Kukhtareva, T., Benjamin G. Penn, Donald O. Frazier, et al.. (2002). Photoinduced optical and electrical pulsations and pattern formation in photorefractive crystals. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 4803. 243–243. 1 indexed citations
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Kukhtarev, N., T. Kukhtareva, Matthew Edwards, et al.. (2002). PHOTOINDUCED OPTICAL AND ELECTRICAL HIGH-VOLTAGE PULSATIONS AND PATTERN FORMATION IN PHOTOREFRACTIVE CRYSTALS. Journal of Nonlinear Optical Physics & Materials. 11(4). 445–453. 6 indexed citations
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Johnson, John L., Mary Lou Padgett, & William A. Friday. (2002). Multiscale image factorization. Proceedings of International Conference on Neural Networks (ICNN'97). 3. 1465–1468. 8 indexed citations
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Kukhtareva, T., et al.. (2002). Photogalvanic pulsator. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 4803. 261–261. 1 indexed citations
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Sanghadasa, Mohan, et al.. (1994). Application of wavelet transform to synthetic aperture radar and its optical implementation. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 2242. 346–346. 1 indexed citations
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Friday, William A.. (1993). <title>TOPS visible/IR training video data collection</title>. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 1958. 2–6. 1 indexed citations
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Friday, William A., et al.. (1992). <title>M60A2 tank turntable and test range data collection and sensitivity study for the development of smart filters</title>. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 1701. 31–42. 2 indexed citations
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Pashley, M. D., K. W. Haberern, & William A. Friday. (1988). The effect of cooling rate on the surface reconstruction of annealed silicon(111) studied by scanning tunneling microscopy and low-energy electron diffraction. Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology A Vacuum Surfaces and Films. 6(2). 488–492. 32 indexed citations
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Pashley, M. D., K. W. Haberern, William A. Friday, J. M. Woodall, & P. D. Kirchner. (1988). Structure of GaAs(001)(2×4)−c(2×8)Determined by Scanning Tunneling Microscopy. Physical Review Letters. 60(21). 2176–2179. 466 indexed citations breakdown →
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Sung, C. C., et al.. (1982). Surface Characteristics Of Diamond-Turned Mirrors And Their Diffraction Patterns. Optical Engineering. 21(5).
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Cornejo-Rodrı́guez, Alejandro, H. John Caulfield, & William A. Friday. (1981). Testing of optical surfaces: a bibliography. Applied Optics. 20(24). 4148–4148. 12 indexed citations
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Caulfield, H. John & William A. Friday. (1981). Bibliography on optical testing. Applied Optics. 20(9). 1497–1497. 4 indexed citations
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Friday, William A., et al.. (1971). Continuous wave chemical laser modeling assuming instantaneous mixing. Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC). 1 indexed citations

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