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Electronics and Electrical Engineering

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Citations
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Edward H. Sargent publication distribution in Electronics and Electrical Engineering in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Electronics and Electrical Engineering in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Edward H. Sargent sits on this spectrum.

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34 publications 1,065+

This scientist: 825 publications — 96th percentile

96% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,065 publications or more.

Edward H. Sargent D-index placement in Electronics and Electrical Engineering in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Electronics and Electrical Engineering scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Edward H. Sargent sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index: 178 scientists 31 D-Index: 257 scientists 32 D-Index: 263 scientists 33 D-Index: 262 scientists 34 D-Index: 244 scientists 35 D-Index: 236 scientists 36 D-Index: 211 scientists 37 D-Index: 220 scientists 38 D-Index: 214 scientists 39 D-Index: 214 scientists 40 D-Index: 205 scientists 41 D-Index: 187 scientists 42 D-Index: 194 scientists 43 D-Index: 201 scientists 44 D-Index: 155 scientists 45 D-Index: 189 scientists 46 D-Index: 148 scientists 47 D-Index: 160 scientists 48 D-Index: 134 scientists 49 D-Index: 130 scientists 50 D-Index: 141 scientists 51 D-Index: 156 scientists 52 D-Index: 108 scientists 53 D-Index: 130 scientists 54 D-Index: 112 scientists 55 D-Index: 97 scientists 56 D-Index: 111 scientists 57 D-Index: 102 scientists 58 D-Index: 108 scientists 59 D-Index: 120 scientists 60 D-Index: 103 scientists 61 D-Index: 93 scientists 62 D-Index: 92 scientists 63 D-Index: 74 scientists 64 D-Index: 77 scientists 65 D-Index: 73 scientists 66 D-Index: 64 scientists 67 D-Index: 69 scientists 68 D-Index: 60 scientists 69 D-Index: 39 scientists 70 D-Index: 57 scientists 71 D-Index: 59 scientists 72 D-Index: 46 scientists 73 D-Index: 49 scientists 74 D-Index: 38 scientists 75 D-Index: 35 scientists 76 D-Index: 32 scientists 77 D-Index: 35 scientists 78 D-Index: 31 scientists 79 D-Index: 22 scientists 80 D-Index: 34 scientists 81 D-Index: 31 scientists 82 D-Index: 34 scientists 83 D-Index: 23 scientists 84 D-Index: 18 scientists 85 D-Index: 30 scientists 86 D-Index: 19 scientists 87 D-Index: 19 scientists 88 D-Index: 20 scientists 89 D-Index: 8 scientists 90 D-Index: 17 scientists 91 D-Index: 7 scientists 92 D-Index: 14 scientists 93 D-Index: 9 scientists 94 D-Index: 15 scientists 95 D-Index: 10 scientists 96 D-Index: 12 scientists 97 D-Index: 10 scientists 98 D-Index: 10 scientists 99 D-Index: 12 scientists 100 D-Index: 16 scientists 101 D-Index: 5 scientists 102 D-Index: 7 scientists 103 D-Index: 7 scientists 104 D-Index: 8 scientists 105 D-Index: 9 scientists 106 D-Index: 13 scientists 107 D-Index: 4 scientists 108 D-Index: 5 scientists 109 D-Index: 10 scientists 110 D-Index: 8 scientists 111+ D-Index: 96 scientists
30 D-Index 111+

This scientist: 199 D-Index — 100th percentile

100% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 111 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Electronics and Electrical Engineering in United States Leader Award
  • 2026 - Research.com Materials Science in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Best Scientists Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Electronics and Electrical Engineering in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Materials Science in United States Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Electronics and Electrical Engineering in Canada Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Materials Science in Canada Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Electronics and Electrical Engineering in Canada Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Materials Science in Canada Leader Award
  • 2020 - Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Prize, Canada Council
  • 2014 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Science
  • 2009 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • The Canadian Academy of Engineering
  • The Canadian Academy of Engineering
  • The Canadian Academy of Engineering
  • The Canadian Academy of Engineering
  • The Canadian Academy of Engineering
  • The Canadian Academy of Engineering
  • The Canadian Academy of Engineering
  • The Canadian Academy of Engineering
  • The Canadian Academy of Engineering
  • The Canadian Academy of Engineering
  • The Canadian Academy of Engineering
  • The Canadian Academy of Engineering
  • The Canadian Academy of Engineering

Overview

Edward H. Sargent is affiliated with Northwestern University in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields with a focus on Engineering and Materials Science, with a significant number of publications in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials Chemistry, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Catalysis, and Biomedical Engineering.

Their main research themes include Perovskite Materials and Applications, Quantum Dots Synthesis and Properties, CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts, Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films, Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion, Ionic Liquids properties and applications, and Advanced Battery Technologies Research.

Recent notable publications include the following:

  • Semiconductor quantum dots: Technological progress and future challenges, 2021, Science
  • Accelerated discovery of CO2 electrocatalysts using active machine learning, 2020, Nature
  • CO 2 electrolysis to multicarbon products at activities greater than 1 A cm −2, 2020, Science
  • Enhanced Nitrate-to-Ammonia Activity on Copper-Nickel Alloys via Tuning of Intermediate Adsorption, 2020, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Managing grains and interfaces via ligand anchoring enables 22.3%-efficiency inverted perovskite solar cells, 2020, Nature Energy

Frequent co-authors in their research include:

  • David Sinton
  • Bin Chen
  • Sjoerd Hoogland
  • F. Pelayo García de Arquer
  • Rui Kai Miao

The scientist has published extensively in the following venues:

  • Advanced Materials
  • Nature Communications
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • ACS Energy Letters
  • ECS Meeting Abstracts

Their work has been recognized through several awards, including the Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Prize from the Canada Council in 2020, fellowship in the Royal Society of Canada in 2014, fellowship of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2009, and membership in The Canadian Academy of Engineering.

Best Publications

  • Low trap-state density and long carrier diffusion in organolead trihalide perovskite single crystals

    Dong Shi;Valerio Adinolfi;Riccardo Comin;Mingjian Yuan

  • Perovskite light-emitting diodes with external quantum efficiency exceeding 20 per cent

    Kebin Lin;Jun Xing;Li Na Quan;F. Pelayo García de Arquer

  • What would it take for renewably powered electrosynthesis to displace petrochemical processes

    Phil De Luna;Phil De Luna;Phil De Luna;Christopher Hahn;Christopher Hahn;Drew Higgins;Drew Higgins;Drew Higgins;Shaffiq A. Jaffer

  • Homogeneously dispersed, multimetal oxygen-evolving catalysts

    Bo Zhang;Bo Zhang;Xueli Zheng;Xueli Zheng;Oleksandr Voznyy;Riccardo Comin

  • Efficient and stable solution-processed planar perovskite solar cells via contact passivation.

    Hairen Tan;Ankit Jain;Oleksandr Voznyy;Xinzheng Lan

  • Solution-processed PbS quantum dot infrared photodetectors and photovoltaics

    Steven A. McDonald;Gerasimos Konstantatos;Shiguo Zhang;Paul W. Cyr

  • CO2 electroreduction to ethylene via hydroxide-mediated copper catalysis at an abrupt interface

    Cao-Thang Dinh;Thomas Burdyny;Golam Kibria;Ali Seifitokaldani

  • Perovskite energy funnels for efficient light-emitting diodes

    Mingjian Yuan;Li Na Quan;Li Na Quan;Riccardo Comin;Grant Walters

  • Ultrasensitive solution-cast quantum dot photodetectors

    Gerasimos Konstantatos;Ian Howard;Armin Fischer;Sjoerd Hoogland

  • Efficient and stable emission of warm-white light from lead-free halide double perovskites

    Jiajun Luo;Xiaoming Wang;Shunran Li;Jing Liu

  • Challenges for commercializing perovskite solar cells.

    Yaoguang Rong;Yue Hu;Anyi Mei;Anyi Mei;Hairen Tan;Hairen Tan

  • Enhanced electrocatalytic CO2 reduction via field-induced reagent concentration

    Min Liu;Yuanjie Pang;Bo Zhang;Bo Zhang;Phil De Luna

  • Colloidal-quantum-dot photovoltaics using atomic-ligand passivation

    Jiang Tang;Kyle W. Kemp;Sjoerd H. Hoogland;Kwangseob Jeong

  • Perovskite photonic sources

    Brandon R. Sutherland;Edward H. Sargent

  • Semiconductor quantum dots: Technological progress and future challenges

    F. Pelayo García de Arquer;Dmitri V. Talapin;Victor I. Klimov;Yasuhiko Arakawa

  • What Should We Make with CO2 and How Can We Make It

    Oleksandr S. Bushuyev;Phil De Luna;Cao Thang Dinh;Ling Tao

  • Nanostructured materials for photon detection

    Gerasimos Konstantatos;Edward H. Sargent

  • Solution-processed semiconductors for next-generation photodetectors

    F. Pelayo García de Arquer;Ardalan Armin;Paul Meredith;Paul Meredith;Edward H. Sargent

  • Hybrid passivated colloidal quantum dot solids

    Alexander H. Ip;Susanna M. Thon;Sjoerd Hoogland;Oleksandr Voznyy

  • Ligand-Stabilized Reduced-Dimensionality Perovskites

    Li Na Quan;Li Na Quan;Mingjian Yuan;Riccardo Comin;Oleksandr Voznyy

  • Accelerated discovery of CO 2 electrocatalysts using active machine learning

    Miao Zhong;Miao Zhong;Kevin Tran;Yimeng Min;Chuanhao Wang

  • Colloidal quantum dot solar cells

    Edward H. Sargent

Frequent Co-Authors

Oleksandr Voznyy
Oleksandr Voznyy University of Toronto
Shana O. Kelley
Shana O. Kelley Northwestern University
Sjoerd Hoogland
Sjoerd Hoogland University of Toronto
Larissa Levina
Larissa Levina University of Toronto
F. Pelayo García de Arquer
F. Pelayo García de Arquer ICFO – The Institute of Photonic Sciences
Cao-Thang Dinh
Cao-Thang Dinh Queen's University
Makhsud I. Saidaminov
Makhsud I. Saidaminov University of Victoria
Grant Walters
Grant Walters University of Toronto
David Sinton
David Sinton University of Toronto
Zheng-Hong Lu
Zheng-Hong Lu University of Toronto

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