
Dr. Mats Fahlman &
Dr. William Salaneck
January 2008 |
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According to our Special
Topics analysis of Organic Thin-Film Transistors
research over the past decade, the scientist at #10 is
Professor William Salaneck, with 6 papers cited a total
of 1,891 times. Professor Salaneck is Vice Rektor of
Linköping University and Professor of Surface Physics
and Chemistry Group at Linköping. In this interview,
Professor Salaneck’s colleague, Professor Mats Fahlman,
about their work in organic thin-film transistors.
Professor Fahlman is a Professor in the Departments of
Science and Technology and Physics, Chemistry and
Biology at Linköping.
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Dr. Carlo Taliani
December 2007 |
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In this interview, Special
Topics talks with Dr. Carlo Taliani about his highly
cited work on organic thin-film transistors. Dr. Taliani
ranks at #9 on our list of the top 20 scientists in this
field, with five papers cited a total of 1,895 times.
His record in
Essential
Science IndicatorsSM includes 61 papers,
mostly classified in the field of Chemistry, cited a
total of 2,532 times to date. Dr. Taliani is the
Director of the CNR-Institute of Molecular Spectroscopy
in Bologna, Italy.
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Dr. William Salaneck & Dr. Mats Fahlman |
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Professor Zhenan Bao
November 2007 |
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According to our analysis
of Organic Thin-Film Transistors research over the past
decade, the work of Professor Zhenan Bao ranks at #4,
with 49 papers cited a total of 2,226 times. Four of
these papers are included in our list of the top 20
papers over the past decade, and two more are on the
list of the top 20 papers from the past two years.
Professor Bao is an Associate Professor in the
Department of Chemical Engineering at Stanford
University. In this interview, she talks with Special
Topics about her highly cited work.
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Dr. Christos Dimitrakopoulos
October 2007 |
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According to our Special
Topics analysis of organic thin-film transistors, the
work of Dr. Christos Dimitrakopoulos ranks at #6, with
13 papers cited a total of 2,152 times. Dr.
Dimitrakopoulos is a Research Staff Member of the IBM
Research Division, working out of the Thomas J. Watson
Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York. In the
interview below, we talk with Dr. Dimitrakopoulos about
his highly cited work.
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Dr. Ananth Dodabalapur
September 2007 |
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According to our Special
Topics analysis of organic thin-film transistors
research published over the past decade, the work of Dr.
Ananth Dodabalapur ranks at #5, with 43 papers cited a
total of 2,203 times. In
Essential
Science IndicatorsSM. Dr. Dodabalapur heads
the Organic Electronics and Chem/Bio Sensors Group,
which is part of the Microelectronics Research Center of
the University of Texas at Austin. In this interview, he
talks about his highly cited work.
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Dr. Jean-Luc Brédas
August 2007 |
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In our analysis of the
field over the past decade, Dr. Brédas has 23 papers
cited a total of 2,583 times, placing him at #3 on our
list of the top 20 scientists. In
Essential
Science IndicatorsSM, his record includes
331 papers cited a total of 9,658 times to date, the
majority of which are classified in the fields of
Chemistry and Materials Science. Dr. Brédas is Professor
and Chair in Molecular Design and a Georgia Research
Alliance Eminent Scholar at Georgia Tech.
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John E. Anthony
July 2007 |
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Dr. John Anthony talks
with us about his paper, "Functional pentacene: Improved electronic properties from
control of solid-state order (J. Amer. Chem. Soc.
123[38]: 9482-3, September 26, 2001). This paper is among
the core papers in the Research Front on
N-Type Thin-Film Transistors,
which is part of our Special Topic on Organic Thin-Film
Transistors. Dr. Anthony is the Gill Professor of Chemistry at
the University of Kentucky.
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Dr. Thomas Jackson
July 2007 |
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In our Special Topics
analysis on Organic Thin-Film Transistors, the work of
Dr. Thomas Jackson ranks at #8, with 22 papers cited a
total of 1,968 times to date. His most-cited paper,
"Temperature-independent transport in high-mobility
pentacene transistors" (Nelson SF, et al., Applied
Physics Letters 72[15]: 1854-6, 13 April 1998), is
ranked at #4 among the top 20 papers in this topic. Dr.
Jackson is the Kirby Chair Professor of Electrical
Engineering at the Pennsylvania State University in
University Park.
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Michael D. McGehee
July 2007 |
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We
talk with Professor Michael McGehee
about his paper, "Controlling the field-effect mobility of
regioregular polythiophene by changing the molecular
weight"(Kline RJ, et al., Advan. Mater. 15[18]: 1519-+, 16 September
2003), which is a core paper in the
Regioregular Polythiophene Research Front in our Special
Topics analysis of Organic Thin-Film Transistors. Professor McGehee’s record includes 41 papers cited a total
of 1,707 times to date. Professor McGehee is an
Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at
Stanford University.
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Professor Vitaly Podzorov
July 2007 |
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In this interview, we talk with
Professor Vitaly Podzorov about his paper, "Field-effect
transistors on rubrene single crystals with parylene
gate insulator" (Applied Physics Letters 82[11]:
1739-41, 17 March 2003), which is a core paper in the
Front on Single-Crystal Thin-Film Transistors. Professor Podzorov is currently Assistant Professor in the Physics
Department of Rutgers University in Piscataway, New
Jersey.
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Professor John A. Rogers
July 2007 |
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Professor John Rogers
discusses his paper, "Elastomeric transistor stamps: reversible
probing of charge transport in organic crystals" (Sundar VC,
et al., Science 303[5664]: 1644-6, 12 March 2004).
This paper is a core paper in the Research Front on
Single-Crystal Thin-Film
Transistors in our Special Topic on Organic Thin-Film
Transistors, and currently has 156 citations to its
credit.
Professor Rogers is a Founder Professor of Engineering,
Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, and
Professor of Chemistry at the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign.
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