J. Meier

6.3k citations

137 papers · 5.3k · 2 hit papers · h-index 34

Impact in

Electrical and Electronic Engineering top 0.5%
- Thin-Film Transistor Technologies
- Silicon and Solar Cell Technologies
- Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films
- solar cell performance optimization
- Semiconductor materials and devices
Materials Chemistry top 1%
- Silicon Nanostructures and Photoluminescence
- ZnO doping and properties

Papers in

Electrical and Electronic Engineering 116
- Thin-Film Transistor Technologies 101
- Silicon and Solar Cell Technologies 92
- solar cell performance optimization 15
- Semiconductor materials and devices 4
- Plasma Diagnostics and Applications 3
Materials Chemistry 83
- Silicon Nanostructures and Photoluminescence 76

Co-authors: A. Shah (55 shared papers)U. Kroll (76 shared papers)H. Keppner (32 shared papers)E. Vallat‐Sauvain (24 shared papers)P. Torres (37 shared papers)C. Droz (11 shared papers)R. Flückiger (14 shared papers)N. Wyrsch (22 shared papers)
Journals: Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids (11 papers)Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells (9 papers)Thin Solid Films (7 papers)Journal of Applied Physics (5 papers)Applied Physics Letters (3 papers)
Partner nations: Switzerland Germany Czechia

In The Last Decade

J. Meier

123 papers receiving 4.9k citations

J. Meier's Hit Papers

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Thin‐film silicon solar cell technology 2004 · 584 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2004 Progress in Photovoltaics Research and Applications
1994 Applied Physics Letters

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1	Thin‐film silicon solar cell technology Progress in Photovoltaics Research and Applications ·A. Shah, H. Schade, M. Vaněček, J. Meier, E. Vallat‐Sauvain, N. Wyrsch, U. Kroll, C. Droz, J. Bailat Hit paper breakdown →	2004	584
2	Complete microcrystalline p-i-n solar cell—Crystalline or amorphous cell behavior? Applied Physics Letters ·J. Meier, R. Flückiger, H. Keppner, A. Shah Hit paper breakdown →	1994	511
3	Material and solar cell research in microcrystalline silicon Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells ·Akbar Shah, J. Meier, E. Vallat‐Sauvain, N. Wyrsch, U. Kroll, C. Droz, U. Graf	2003	343
4	Hydrogen in amorphous and microcrystalline silicon films prepared by hydrogen dilution Journal of Applied Physics ·U. Kroll, J. Meier, Aqeel Ahmed Shah, S. Mikhailov, J. Weber	1996	251
5	Microcrystalline silicon and micromorph tandem solar cells Applied Physics A ·H. Keppner, J. Meier, P. Torres, D. Fischer, A. Shah	1999	227
6	On the Way Towards High Efficiency Thin Film Silicon Solar Cells by the “Micromorph” Concept MRS Proceedings ·J. Meier, P. Torres, R. Platz, S. Dubail, U. Kroll, J. A. Anna Selvan, N. Pellaton Vaucher, Ch. Hof, D. Fischer, H. Keppner, A. Shah, K.‐D. Ufert, P. Giannoulès, J. R. Koehler	1996	218
7	Optical absorption and light scattering in microcrystalline silicon thin films and solar cells Journal of Applied Physics ·A. Poruba, A. Fejfar, Z. Remeš, J. Špringer, M. Vaněček, J. Kočka, J. Meier, P. Torres, A. Shah	2000	216
8	Relationship between Raman crystallinity and open-circuit voltage in microcrystalline silicon solar cells Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells ·C. Droz, E. Vallat‐Sauvain, J. Bailat, L. Feitknecht, J. Meier, A. Shah	2003	171
9	Potential of amorphous and microcrystalline silicon solar cells Thin Solid Films ·J. Meier, J. Spitznagel, U. Kroll, C. Bucher, S. Faÿ, T. Moriarty, A. Shah	2004	164
10	Device grade microcrystalline silicon owing to reduced oxygen contamination Applied Physics Letters ·P. Torres, J. Meier, R. Flückiger, U. Kroll, J. A. Anna Selvan, H. Keppner, A. Shah, S. D. Littelwood, I. Kelly, P. Giannoulès	1996	155
11	Evolution of the microstructure in microcrystalline silicon prepared by very high frequency glow-discharge using hydrogen dilution Journal of Applied Physics ·E. Vallat‐Sauvain, U. Kroll, J. Meier, Aqeel Ahmed Shah, J. Pohl	2000	128
12	Towards very low-cost mass production of thin-film silicon photovoltaic (PV) solar modules on glass Thin Solid Films ·A. Shah, J. Meier, A. Buechel, U. Kroll, J. Steinhauser, Fanny Meillaud, H. Schade, D. Dominé	2005	111
13	Microcrystalline/micromorph silicon thin-film solar cells prepared by VHF-GD technique Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells ·J. Meier, E. Vallat‐Sauvain, S. Dubail, U. Kroll, J. Dubail, S. Golay, L. Feitknecht, P. Torres, S. Faÿ, D. Fischer, A. Shah	2001	109
14	Microcrystalline silicon and the impact on micromorph tandem solar cells Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells ·J. Meier, S. Dubail, S. Golay, U. Kroll, S. Faÿ, E. Vallat‐Sauvain, L. Feitknecht, J. Dubail, Abdul Salam Shah	2002	97
15	Recent progress in micromorph solar cells Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids ·J. Meier, S. Dubail, J. Cuperus, U. Kroll, R. Platz, P. Torres, J. A. Anna Selvan, P. Pernet, N. Beck, N. Pellaton Vaucher, Ch. Hof, D. Fischer, H. Keppner, A. Shah	1998	95
16	Microcrystalline silicon and ‘micromorph’ tandem solar cells Thin Solid Films ·Arvind Shah, J. Meier, E. Vallat‐Sauvain, C. Droz, U. Kroll, N. Wyrsch, J. Guillet, U. Graf	2002	90
17	Nanostructured three-dimensional thin film silicon solar cells with very high efficiency potential Applied Physics Letters ·M. Vaněček, Oleg Babchenko, A. Purkrt, Jakub Holovský, Neda Neyková, A. Poruba, Z. Remeš, J. Meier, U. Kroll	2011	89
18	Basic efficiency limits, recent experimental results and novel light-trapping schemes in a-Si:H, μc-Si:H and `micromorph tandem' solar cells Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids ·Arvind Shah, M. Vaněček, J. Meier, Fanny Meillaud, J. Guillet, Diego Fischer, C. Droz, X. Niquille, S. Faÿ, E. Vallat‐Sauvain, V. Terrazzoni-Daudrix, J. Bailat	2004	88
19	Towards high-efficiency thin-film silicon solar cells with the “micromorph” concept Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells ·J. Meier, S. Dubail, R. Platz, P. Torres, U. Kroll, J. A. Anna Selvan, N. Pellaton Vaucher, Ch. Hof, D. Fischer, H. Keppner, R. Flückiger, A. Shah, Valery Shklover, K.‐D. Ufert	1997	84
20	The "micromorph" solar cell: extending a-Si:H technology towards thin film crystalline silicon Infoscience (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) ·D. Fischer, S. Dubail, J. A. Anna Selvan, N. Pellaton Vaucher, R. Platz, Ch. Hof, U. Kroll, J. Meier, P. Torres, H. Keppner, N. Wyrsch, M. Goetz, A. Shah, K.‐D. Ufert	1996	81

About J. Meier

J. Meier is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials Chemistry, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Biomedical Engineering and Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, having authored 137 papers that have together received 5.3k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Thin-Film Transistor Technologies (101 papers), Silicon and Solar Cell Technologies (92 papers), Silicon Nanostructures and Photoluminescence (76 papers), solar cell performance optimization (15 papers), Photovoltaic System Optimization Techniques (6 papers), Semiconductor materials and devices (4 papers), Ion-surface interactions and analysis (3 papers) and Plasma Diagnostics and Applications (3 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Electrical and Electronic Engineering (4.9k citations), Materials Chemistry (3.8k citations), Surfaces, Coatings and Films (153 citations), Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment (282 citations) and Biomedical Engineering (666 citations). J. Meier has collaborated with scholars based in Switzerland, Germany and Czechia. Frequent co-authors include A. Shah, U. Kroll, H. Keppner, E. Vallat‐Sauvain, P. Torres, C. Droz, R. Flückiger, N. Wyrsch, M. Vaněček and J. Bailat. Their work appears in journals such as Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids, Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, Thin Solid Films, Journal of Applied Physics and Applied Physics Letters.

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