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Vacuum and Surface Science
H-index 3

Vacuum and Surface Science

2433-5835

Published by: Surface Science Society Japan

https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/browse/vss/-char/en

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Materials Science 827 48 53 2

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 83
Documents by Best Scientists*: 94
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 2
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Top Publications

  • Development of Spatiotemporal Measurement and Analysis Techniques in X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy ∼From NAP-HARPES to 4D-XPS∼

    Satoshi Toyoda;Tomoki Yamamoto;Masashi Yoshimura;Hirosuke Sumida

    (2021)
    3 Citations
  • Laboratory-based Hard X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy for Fundamental and Industrial Research

    Takahiro Hashimoto;Peter Amann;Anna Regoutz;Nick Barrett

    (2021)
    3 Citations
  • Automatic Threshold Prediction of Photoelectron Yield Spectroscopy (PYS) by Machine Learning

    Shinjiro Yagyu;Michiko Yoshitake;Toyohiro Chikyow;Takahiro Nagata

    (2020)
    2 Citations
  • Overview of High-efficiency Multi-junction Solar Cells and Discussion about Roles of Surface, Interface and Defects

    (2023)
    1 Citations
  • Direct Identification of Bulk Defects in Low-temperature GaAs Using First-principles STM Simulation for Efficient Terahertz Device Development

    (2023)
    1 Citations
  • Chemical Vapor Deposition of Atomically-thin Layered and Wired Transition Metal Chalcogenides

    (2022)
    0 Citations
  • Seeing is Believing : Illuminate Quantum Phenomena with a Momentum Microscope

    (2021)
    0 Citations
  • Nanoarchitectonics at Surfaces : Reaction, Adsorption, and Assembly

    (2023)
    0 Citations
  • Direct Observation of Distinctive Electronic States and Mechanical Function of Ferrocene Moieties in Ferrocene-bridged Trisporphyrin Using Scanning Tunneling Microscopy/Spectroscopy

    Hiroyuki Tanaka;Masateru Taniguchi

    (2021)
    0 Citations
  • Extracting Order within Disorder in Glassy Materials

    (2022)
    0 Citations

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