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Clas Persson

Clas Persson

D-Index & Metrics

Materials Science

D-Index
53
Citations
12022
World Ranking
9132
National Ranking
8

Chemistry

D-Index
51
Citations
11200
World Ranking
13825
National Ranking
37

Clas Persson publication distribution in Materials Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Materials Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Clas Persson sits on this spectrum.

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50 publications 1,163+

This scientist: 288 publications — 57th percentile

57% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,163 publications or more.

Clas Persson D-index placement in Materials Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Materials Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Clas Persson sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 165+

This scientist: 53 D-Index — 30th percentile

30% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 165 D-Index or more.

Overview

Clas Persson is affiliated with the University of Oslo in Norway and has a research focus spanning materials science, engineering, and physics and astronomy. Their work covers a diverse range of fields including materials chemistry, atomic and molecular physics and optics, electrical and electronic engineering, civil and structural engineering, and atmospheric science.

The primary topics of Persson's research explore chalcogenide semiconductor thin films, quantum dots synthesis and properties, quantum electrodynamics and Casimir effect, copper-based nanomaterials and applications, thermal radiation and cooling technologies, semiconductor materials and interfaces, as well as nanoparticles nucleation surface interactions.

Persson's recent publications include:

  • Irvsp: To obtain irreducible representations of electronic states in the VASP (2020), published in Computer Physics Communications
  • Chemistry of Oxygen Ionosorption on SnO2 Surfaces (2021), published in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
  • Wide-gap (Ag,Cu)(In,Ga)Se2 solar cells with different buffer materials-A path to a better heterojunction (2020), published in Progress in Photovoltaics Research and Applications
  • Full-Spectrum High-Resolution Modeling of the Dielectric Function of Water (2020), published in UNICA IRIS Institutional Research Information System (University of Cagliari)
  • Surface studies of the chemical environment in gold nanorods supported by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and ab initio calculations (2021), published in Journal of Materials Research and Technology

Frequent collaborators in their research include M. Boström, Iver Brevik, Dan Huang, Oleksandr I. Malyi, and Changqing Lin.

The venues that frequently publish Persson's work include:

  • Physical Review B
  • ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
  • Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Journal of Materials Chemistry A

Best Publications

  • Electronic and optical properties of Cu2ZnSnS4 and Cu2ZnSnSe4

    Clas Persson

  • n -type doping of CuIn Se 2 and CuGa Se 2

    Clas Persson;Yu-Jun Zhao;Stephan Lany;Alex Zunger

  • Anomalous Grain Boundary Physics in Polycrystalline CuInSe2: The Existence of a Hole Barrier

    Clas Persson;Alex Zunger

  • Phosphorene as an anode material for Na-ion batteries: a first-principles study

    Vadym V. Kulish;Vadym V. Kulish;Oleksandr I. Malyi;Clas Persson;Clas Persson;Ping Wu

  • Relativistic band structure calculation of cubic and hexagonal SiC polytypes

    C Persson;Ulf Lindefelt

  • Optical band-gap determination of nanostructured WO3 film

    P. P. González-Borrero;F. Sato;A. N. Medina;Mauro Luciano Baesso

  • Adsorption of metal adatoms on single-layer phosphorene

    Vadym V. Kulish;Vadym V. Kulish;Oleksandr I. Malyi;Clas Persson;Clas Persson;Ping Wu

  • Strong valence-band offset bowing of ZnO1-xSx enhances p-type nitrogen doping of ZnO-like alloys.

    Clas Persson;Charlotte Platzer-Björkman;Jonas Malmström;Tobias Törndahl

  • The electronic structure of chalcopyrites—bands, point defects and grain boundaries

    Susanne Siebentritt;Malgorzata Igalson;Clas Persson;Stephan Lany

  • Electronic structure of nanostructured ZnO from x-ray absorption and emission spectroscopy and the local density approximation

    C. L. Dong;C. L. Dong;Clas Persson;L. Vayssieres;A. Augustsson;A. Augustsson

  • Cu–Zn disorder and band gap fluctuations in Cu2ZnSn(S,Se)4: Theoretical and experimental investigations

    Jonathan J. S. Scragg;Jes K. Larsen;Mukesh Kumar;Clas Persson

  • Metal-insulator transition and superconductivity in boron-doped diamond

    Thierry Klein;Thierry Klein;Philipp Achatz;Josef Kacmarcik;Josef Kacmarcik;C. Marcenat

  • Interlayer interactions in graphites

    Xiaobin Chen;Fuyang Tian;Fuyang Tian;Clas Persson;Clas Persson;Wenhui Duan

  • Detailed band structure for 3C-, 2H-, 4H-, 6H-SiC, and Si around the fundamental band gap.

    C Persson;Ulf Lindefelt

  • Compositionally induced valence-band offset at the grain boundary of polycrystalline chalcopyrites creates a hole barrier

    Clas Persson;Alex Zunger

  • Ambient dissolution–recrystallization towards large-scale preparation of V2O5 nanobelts for high-energy battery applications

    Xianhong Rui;Xianhong Rui;Xianhong Rui;Yuxin Tang;Oleksandr I. Malyi;Andriy Gusak

  • Comparative study of rutile and anatase SnO2 and TiO2: Band-edge structures, dielectric functions, and polaron effects

    Maofeng Dou;Clas Persson

  • Electronic and optical properties of lead iodide

    R. Ahuja;H. Arwin;A. Ferreira da Silva;C. Persson

  • Polarization-dependent soft-x-ray absorption of highly oriented ZnO microrod arrays

    J. H. Guo;J. H. Guo;L. Vayssieres;L. Vayssieres;Clas Persson;R. Ahuja

  • Determination of the electron effective-mass tensor in 4H SiC.

    D. Volm;B. K. Meyer;D. M. Hofmann;W. M. Chen

Frequent Co-Authors

Rajeev Ahuja
Rajeev Ahuja Uppsala University
Alex Zunger
Alex Zunger University of Colorado Boulder
Chung-Li Dong
Chung-Li Dong Tamkang University
Barry W. Ninham
Barry W. Ninham Australian National University
Yu-Jun Zhao
Yu-Jun Zhao South China University of Technology
Magnus Willander
Magnus Willander Linköping University
Stephan Lany
Stephan Lany National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Jinghua Guo
Jinghua Guo Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Hans Arwin
Hans Arwin Linköping University

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