Xinbo Yang

3.6k total citations · 3 hit papers
66 papers, 3.0k citations indexed

About

Xinbo Yang is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Xinbo Yang has authored 66 papers receiving a total of 3.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 62 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 27 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 18 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Xinbo Yang's work include Silicon and Solar Cell Technologies (46 papers), Thin-Film Transistor Technologies (29 papers) and Semiconductor materials and interfaces (26 papers). Xinbo Yang is often cited by papers focused on Silicon and Solar Cell Technologies (46 papers), Thin-Film Transistor Technologies (29 papers) and Semiconductor materials and interfaces (26 papers). Xinbo Yang collaborates with scholars based in Australia, China and Saudi Arabia. Xinbo Yang's co-authors include Stefaan De Wolf, Klaus Weber, Qunyu Bi, Thomas G. Allen, James Bullock, Ali Javey, Wenzhu Liu, Erkan Aydın, Kristopher O. Davis and Haider Ali and has published in prestigious journals such as Advanced Materials, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Applied Physics Letters.

In The Last Decade

Xinbo Yang

63 papers receiving 3.0k 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.

Passivating contacts for crystalline silicon solar cells

2019 483 citations Thomas G. Allen, James Bullock et al. Nature Energy profile →
A Universal Double‐Side Passivation for High Open‐Circuit Voltage in Perovskite Solar Cells: Role of Carbonyl Groups in Poly(methyl methacrylate)

2018 459 citations Jun Peng, Wenzhu Liu et al. Advanced Energy Materials profile →
High‐Performance TiO₂‐Based Electron‐Selective Contacts for Crystalline Silicon Solar Cells

2016 324 citations Xinbo Yang, Qunyu Bi et al. Advanced Materials profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Xinbo Yang Australia	22	2.8k	1.1k	987	510	242	66	3.0k
Monica Morales‐Masis Netherlands	29	2.5k 0.9×	1.5k 1.4×	366 0.4×	571 1.1×	336 1.4×	81	2.8k
Bart Macco Netherlands	30	2.6k 0.9×	1.2k 1.1×	760 0.8×	299 0.6×	240 1.0×	65	2.8k
J. Poortmans Belgium	24	1.8k 0.6×	615 0.6×	380 0.4×	697 1.4×	287 1.2×	91	2.0k
Robby Peibst Germany	35	4.3k 1.5×	1.1k 1.0×	1.9k 2.0×	191 0.4×	344 1.4×	155	4.5k
Loris Barraud Switzerland	24	4.5k 1.6×	1.9k 1.8×	1.0k 1.1×	616 1.2×	550 2.3×	43	4.7k
Jian Mao China	26	2.3k 0.8×	1.3k 1.2×	378 0.4×	1.1k 2.1×	348 1.4×	68	3.1k
Ludovic Escoubas France	23	1.5k 0.5×	536 0.5×	358 0.4×	499 1.0×	566 2.3×	116	1.9k
Vincent Barrioz United Kingdom	21	1.3k 0.5×	1.1k 1.0×	295 0.3×	133 0.3×	72 0.3×	82	1.5k
Dengyuan Song China	27	2.0k 0.7×	1.9k 1.8×	429 0.4×	98 0.2×	739 3.1×	80	2.5k
Gangyi Zhu China	23	1.0k 0.4×	789 0.7×	436 0.4×	90 0.2×	347 1.4×	96	1.6k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Ma, Xiaoli, Xinbo Yang, & Zhiliang Jin. (2025). Bimetallic Sulfide Attached to Mn_0.2Cd_0.8S Induces Electron Transfer to Form S-Scheme Heterojunction to Promote Efficient Photocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution. Langmuir. 41(36). 24385–24397.

Li, Haicheng, Bo Gao, Yang Liu, et al.. (2025). Magnesium Oxide Buffer Layer for Over 32% Efficiency Four‐Terminal Perovskite/Silicon Tandem Solar Cells. Advanced Energy Materials. 15(48). 1 indexed citations

Chen, Xiang, Kun Gao, Xiaohua Xu, et al.. (2025). Biased Plasma Treated Nickel Oxide for High‐Efficiency Perovskite/Silicon Tandem Solar Cells. Advanced Materials. 37(37). e2504581–e2504581. 6 indexed citations

Li, Kun, et al.. (2024). High-performance SiOx/MgOx electron-selective contacts for crystalline silicon solar cells. Science China Materials. 67(9). 2866–2872. 3 indexed citations

Wang, Chang, Shibo Wang, Wei Shi, et al.. (2024). Solvent‐Assisted Surface Modification Using Metallocene‐Based Molecules for High‐Efficiency Perovskite/Silicon Tandem Solar Cells. Advanced Energy Materials. 14(31). 20 indexed citations

Gao, Kun, Wenhao Li, Xiang Chen, et al.. (2024). Neodymium oxide electron-selective contact for crystalline silicon solar cells. Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells. 282. 113363–113363. 2 indexed citations

Tai, Zige, Guotai Sun, Xiaohong Zhang, et al.. (2023). Embedding laser-generated CdTe nanocrystals into ultrathin ZnIn2S4 nanosheets with sulfur vacancies for boosted photocatalytic H2 evolution. Journal of Material Science and Technology. 166. 113–122. 27 indexed citations

Gao, Kun, Beibei Shao, Conghui Jiang, et al.. (2023). Electron‐Selective Strontium Oxide Contact for Crystalline Silicon Solar Cells with High Fill Factor. Solar RRL. 7(9). 16 indexed citations

Zhang, Cheng, Mohan Chen, Guan Wang, et al.. (2022). Variable Learning‐Memory Behavior from π‐Conjugated Ligand to Ligand‐Containing Cobalt(II) Complex^†. Chinese Journal of Chemistry. 40(19). 2296–2304. 13 indexed citations

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Li, Junjun, Yu Bai, Wenzhu Liu, et al.. (2022). One‐Step Formation of Low Work‐Function, Transparent and Conductive MgF_xO_y Electron Extraction for Silicon Solar Cells. Advanced Science. 9(23). e2202400–e2202400. 23 indexed citations

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Yu, Jian, Junjun Li, Andreas Lambertz, et al.. (2021). Copper metallization of electrodes for silicon heterojunction solar cells: Process, reliability and challenges. Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells. 224. 110993–110993. 62 indexed citations

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Xu, Fuzong, Jiang Liu, Anand S. Subbiah, et al.. (2021). Potassium Thiocyanate‐Assisted Enhancement of Slot‐Die‐Coated Perovskite Films for High‐Performance Solar Cells. Small Science. 1(5). 14 indexed citations

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Ji, Wenbo, Thomas G. Allen, Xinbo Yang, et al.. (2020). Polymeric Electron-Selective Contact for Crystalline Silicon Solar Cells with an Efficiency Exceeding 19%. ACS Energy Letters. 5(3). 897–902. 43 indexed citations

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Allen, Thomas G., James Bullock, Xinbo Yang, Ali Javey, & Stefaan De Wolf. (2019). Passivating contacts for crystalline silicon solar cells. Nature Energy. 4(11). 914–928. 483 indexed citations breakdown →

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Liu, Wenzhu, Xinbo Yang, Jingxuan Kang, et al.. (2019). Polysilicon Passivating Contacts for Silicon Solar Cells: Interface Passivation and Carrier Transport Mechanism. ACS Applied Energy Materials. 2(7). 4609–4617. 49 indexed citations

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Ali, Haider, Xinbo Yang, Klaus Weber, Winston V. Schoenfeld, & Kristopher O. Davis. (2017). Transmission Electron Microscopy Studies of Electron-Selective Titanium Oxide Contacts in Silicon Solar Cells. Microscopy and Microanalysis. 23(5). 900–904. 19 indexed citations

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Müller, Ralph, Christian Reichel, Xinbo Yang, et al.. (2017). Impact of the homogeneous junction breakdown in IBC solar cells on the passivation quality of Al2O3 and SiO2: degradation and regeneration behavior. Energy Procedia. 124. 365–370. 9 indexed citations

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Ali, Haider, Xinbo Yang, Kristopher O. Davis, Klaus Weber, & Winston V. Schoenfeld. (2016). TEM studies of TiO 2 -based passivated contacts in c-Si solar cells. Microscopy and Microanalysis. 22(S3). 1600–1601. 2 indexed citations

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Yang, Xinbo, James Bullock, Qunyu Bi, & Klaus Weber. (2015). High efficiency n-type silicon solar cells featuring passivated contact to laser doped regions. Applied Physics Letters. 106(11). 13 indexed citations

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Yang, Xinbo, Kozo Fujiwara, Kensaku Maeda, et al.. (2010). Effect of twin spacing on the growth velocity of Si faceted dendrites. Applied Physics Letters. 97(17). 17 indexed citations

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