Case study

 

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CASE STUDY: Semi-Conductor Research - Leo Esaki

Number of records: 237
Times Cited: 14,808
Avg Citations/Item: 62
h-index : 53

Co-Discoverer of electron tunneling and inventor of the Esaki Diode, Esaki’s seminal paper in 1958 led to him being awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1973. Esaki spent the bulk of his career at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center

 



At the Fraunhofer Institute:

Seventy-six papers written by researchers from the Fraunhofer Institute have cited one or more of Esaki’s papers, including one of the Most Cited articles by the Fraunhofer Institute, such as the example below by Waschke et. al.

 

Most cited articles by Leo Esaki in the Web of Science:

 

Esaki's Citation map: