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52
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11369
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9479
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283

Daniel Macdonald 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 Daniel Macdonald sits on this spectrum.

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50 publications 1,163+

This scientist: 383 publications — 75th percentile

75% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Daniel Macdonald 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 Daniel Macdonald sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 165+

This scientist: 52 D-Index — 27th percentile

27% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Daniel Macdonald is affiliated with the Australian National University in Australia. Their scholarly activity is primarily focused on engineering, with particular expertise in electrical and electronic engineering, atomic and molecular physics and optics, as well as materials chemistry and biomedical engineering. Additionally, they contribute to the fields of renewable energy, sustainability, and the environment.

The main areas of research in Daniel Macdonald's work include:

  • Silicon and solar cell technologies
  • Semiconductor materials and interfaces
  • Thin-film transistor technologies
  • Integrated circuits and semiconductor failure analysis
  • Perovskite materials and applications
  • Semiconductor materials and devices
  • Silicon nanostructures and photoluminescence

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Hieu T. Nguyen
  • Thien N. Truong
  • Josua Stückelberger
  • Di Yan
  • Sieu Pheng Phang

Daniel Macdonald regularly publishes in several scientific venues, notably:

  • Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells
  • Solar RRL
  • IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics
  • Progress in Photovoltaics Research and Applications
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Some of their recent publications provide insights into various advanced materials and photovoltaic technologies, such as:

  • Stability challenges for the commercialization of perovskite-silicon tandem solar cells, 2023, Nature Reviews Materials
  • High Efficiency Perovskite-Silicon Tandem Solar Cells: Effect of Surface Coating versus Bulk Incorporation of 2D Perovskite, 2020, Advanced Energy Materials
  • Mechanisms and Applications of Steady-State Photoluminescence Spectroscopy in Two-Dimensional Transition-Metal Dichalcogenides, 2020, ACS Nano
  • Gettering in silicon photovoltaics: A review, 2021, Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells
  • Optimum Hydrogen Injection in Phosphorus-Doped Polysilicon Passivating Contacts, 2021, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Best Publications

  • Uncertainty analysis for the coefficient of band-to-band absorption of crystalline silicon

    Carsten Schinke;P. Christian Peest;Jan Schmidt;Rolf Brendel

  • Recombination activity of interstitial iron and other transition metal point defects in p- and n-type crystalline silicon

    Daniel Macdonald;L. J. Geerligs

  • Measuring and interpreting the lifetime of silicon wafers

    Andrés Cuevas;Daniel Macdonald

  • Texturing industrial multicrystalline silicon solar cells

    Daniel MacDonald;Andres Cuevas;Mark Kerr;Christian Samundsett

  • Iron detection in crystalline silicon by carrier lifetime measurements for arbitrary injection and doping

    D. H. Macdonald;Lambert Johan Geerligs;A Azzizi

  • Trapping of minority carriers in multicrystalline silicon

    Daniel MacDonald;Andres Cuevas

  • Transition-metal profiles in a multicrystalline silicon ingot

    Daniel MacDonald;Andres Cuevas;Atsushi Kinomura;Yukihiro Nakano

  • Imaging interstitial iron concentrations in boron-doped crystalline silicon using photoluminescence

    D. Macdonald;J. Tan;T. Trupke

  • Robust Excitons and Trions in Monolayer MoTe2.

    Jiong Yang;Tieyu Lü;Ye Win Myint;Jiajie Pei;Jiajie Pei

  • Lithium Fluoride Based Electron Contacts for High Efficiency n-Type Crystalline Silicon Solar Cells

    James Bullock;James Bullock;James Bullock;Peiting Zheng;Quentin Jeangros;Mahmut Tosun;Mahmut Tosun

  • Impact of Metal Contamination in Silicon Solar Cells

    Gianluca Coletti;Paula C. P. Bronsveld;Giso Hahn;Wilhelm Warta

  • Light-induced boron-oxygen defect generation in compensated p-type Czochralski silicon

    D. Macdonald;F. Rougieux;A. Cuevas;B. Lim

  • Structural engineering using rubidium iodide as a dopant under excess lead iodide conditions for high efficiency and stable perovskites

    Hemant Kumar Mulmudi;Heping Shen;Yi Liang Wu

  • Light and Electrically Induced Phase Segregation and Its Impact on the Stability of Quadruple Cation High Bandgap Perovskite Solar Cells.

    Hemant Kumar Mulmudi;Yiliang Wu;Xiao Fu

  • Doping dependence of the carrier lifetime crossover point upon dissociation of iron-boron pairs in crystalline silicon

    D. Macdonald;T. Roth;P. N. K. Deenapanray;T. Trupke

  • High Efficiency Perovskite-Silicon Tandem Solar Cells: Effect of Surface Coating versus Bulk Incorporation of 2D Perovskite

    Huyen Pham;Teng Choon Kho;Pheng Phang

  • Reduced fill factors in multicrystalline silicon solar cells due to injection‐level dependent bulk recombination lifetimes

    Daniel Macdonald;Andres Cuevas

  • Capture cross sections of the acceptor level of iron–boron pairs in p-type silicon by injection-level dependent lifetime measurements

    Daniel Macdonald;Andrés Cuevas;Jennifer Wong-Leung

  • Temperature dependence of the band-band absorption coefficient in crystalline silicon from photoluminescence

    Hieu T. Nguyen;Fiacre E. Rougieux;Bernhard Mitchell;Daniel Macdonald

  • Mechanisms and Applications of Steady-State Photoluminescence Spectroscopy in Two-Dimensional Transition-Metal Dichalcogenides.

    Mike Tebyetekerwa;Jian Zhang;Jian Zhang;Zhen Xu;Thien N. Truong

  • Direct comparison of boron, phosphorus, and aluminum gettering of iron in crystalline silicon

    S. P. Phang;D. Macdonald

Frequent Co-Authors

Andres Cuevas
Andres Cuevas Australian National University
Jan Schmidt
Jan Schmidt University of Hannover
Thorsten Trupke
Thorsten Trupke University of New South Wales
Yimao Wan
Yimao Wan Australian National University
Klaus Weber
Klaus Weber Australian National University
Keith R. McIntosh
Keith R. McIntosh University of Wollongong
Kylie R. Catchpole
Kylie R. Catchpole Australian National University
Mowafak Al-Jassim
Mowafak Al-Jassim National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Thomas P. White
Thomas P. White Australian National University
Yuerui Lu
Yuerui Lu Australian National University

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