William D. Cowan

71 total papers · 826 total citations
45 papers, 632 citations indexed

About

William D. Cowan is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, William D. Cowan has authored 45 papers receiving a total of 632 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 39 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 24 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 21 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in William D. Cowan's work include Advanced MEMS and NEMS Technologies (22 papers), Adaptive optics and wavefront sensing (14 papers) and Photonic and Optical Devices (11 papers). William D. Cowan is often cited by papers focused on Advanced MEMS and NEMS Technologies (22 papers), Adaptive optics and wavefront sensing (14 papers) and Photonic and Optical Devices (11 papers). William D. Cowan collaborates with scholars based in United States and Germany. William D. Cowan's co-authors include Victor M. Bright, Steven T. Patton, J.S. Zabinski, David A. Czaplewski, Kalathil C. Eapen, Christopher W. Dyck, Gary A. Patrizi, Christopher Nordquist, Garth M. Kraus and Byron M. Welsh and has published in prestigious journals such as Optics Letters, Journal of Lightwave Technology and Sensors and Actuators A Physical.

In The Last Decade

William D. Cowan

41 papers receiving 600 citations

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
William D. Cowan	473	378	244	116	68	45	632
F. Rudolf	675 1.4×	383 1.0×	301 1.2×	64 0.6×	67 1.0×	31	765
Desheng Ding	303 0.6×	244 0.6×	283 1.2×	94 0.8×	67 1.0×	57	676
H. Kück	606 1.3×	181 0.5×	331 1.4×	68 0.6×	149 2.2×	44	773
Eugene S. Meieran	497 1.1×	181 0.5×	126 0.5×	80 0.7×	50 0.7×	30	710
Anle Wang	277 0.6×	287 0.8×	63 0.3×	140 1.2×	91 1.3×	60	592
Weileun Fang	601 1.3×	296 0.8×	384 1.6×	43 0.4×	99 1.5×	79	727
Ylva Bäcklund	538 1.1×	146 0.4×	317 1.3×	35 0.3×	55 0.8×	46	756
Joachim Janes	452 1.0×	140 0.4×	153 0.6×	66 0.6×	75 1.1×	36	582
John H. Comtois	528 1.1×	259 0.7×	226 0.9×	80 0.7×	97 1.4×	34	587
K.B. Klaassen	364 0.8×	423 1.1×	107 0.4×	118 1.0×	100 1.5×	67	725

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of William D. Cowan

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