2026 Roger H. French: Materials Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Materials Science	54	8819	8518	2162	2005	311	12515

Discipline name

D-Index

World Ranking

Current World Ranking

National Ranking

Current National Ranking

Publications

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Materials Science

8819

8518

2162

2005

311

12515

Overview

Roger H. French is affiliated with Case Western Reserve University in the United States. Their research is primarily situated within the broad field of engineering, with a significant focus on electrical and electronic engineering, renewable energy, sustainability, artificial intelligence, environmental engineering, and mechanical engineering.

The scientist's publication record highlights active contributions to the areas of photovoltaic technology and sustainability. Main research topics include:

Photovoltaic System Optimization Techniques
Silicon and Solar Cell Technologies
Photovoltaic Systems and Sustainability
Solar Radiation and Photovoltaics
Solar Cell Performance Optimization
Energy Load and Power Forecasting
Industrial Vision Systems and Defect Detection

Roger H. French has authored numerous papers in notable venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics
Integrating Materials and Manufacturing Innovation
2022 IEEE 49th Photovoltaics Specialists Conference (PVSC)
MRS Advances
Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

Representative recent papers from this researcher are:

"Generalized and Mechanistic PV Module Performance Prediction From Computer Vision and Machine Learning on Electroluminescence Images" (2020) in IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics
"Consolidated modeling and prediction of heat transfer coefficients for saturated flow boiling in mini/micro-channels using machine learning methods" (2022) in Applied Thermal Engineering
"Spatiotemporal Graph Neural Network for Performance Prediction of Photovoltaic Power Systems" (2021) in Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
"Impact of environmental variables on the degradation of photovoltaic components and perspectives for the reliability assessment methodology" (2020) in Solar Energy
"International collaboration framework for the calculation of performance loss rates: Data quality, benchmarks, and trends (towards a uniform methodology)" (2021) in Progress in Photovoltaics Research and Applications

Their frequent collaborators include Laura S. Bruckman, Kristopher O. Davis, Jennifer L. Braid, Yinghui Wu, and Jean-Nicolas Jaubert, indicating engagement in collaborative research projects across multiple domains and institutions.

Best Publications

Bulk electronic structure of SrTiO3: Experiment and theory

K. van Benthem;C. Elsässer;R. H. French

1189
Citations
Experimental and theoretical determination of the electronic structure and optical properties of three phases of {ZrO2}

R. H. French;S. J. Glass;F. S. Ohuchi;Y. N. Xu

691
Citations
Electronic Band Structure of {Al2O3}, with Comparison to Alon and {AIN}

Roger H. French

689
Citations
Vibrational Spectroscopy of Aluminum Nitride

Laurie E. McNeil;Marcos Grimsditch;Roger H. French

539
Citations
Long Range Interactions in Nanoscale Science.

Roger H. French;V. Adrian Parsegian;Rudolf Podgornik;Rick F. Rajter

498
Citations
Origins and Applications of London Dispersion Forces and Hamaker Constants in Ceramics

Roger H. French;Roger H. French

397
Citations
Comparisons of Hamaker constants for ceramic systems with intervening vacuum or water : From force laws and physical properties

Harold D. Ackler;Roger H. French;Yet-Ming Chiang

355
Citations
Optical Properties of Aluminum Oxide: Determined from Vacuum Ultraviolet and Electron {Energy-Loss} Spectroscopies

Roger H. French;Harald Müllejans;David J. Jones

277
Citations
Parametric tip model and force-distance relation for Hamaker constant determination from atomic force microscopy

C. Argento;R. H. French

268
Citations
Method for providing nano-structures of uniform length

Roger Harquail French;Timothy Gierke;Mark Andrew Harmer;Anand Jagota

248
Citations
Optical properties of Teflon ® AF amorphous fluoropolymers

Min K. Yang;Roger H. French;Edward W. Tokarsky

192
Citations
Thin Glass Film between Ultrafine Conductor Particles in Thick-Film Resistors

Yet-Ming Chiang;Lee A. Silverman;Roger H. French;Rowland M. Cannon

184
Citations
Temperature dependence of the electronic structure of oxides: MgO, MgAl2O4 and Al2O3

M L Bortz;R H French;D J Jones;R V Kasowski

184
Citations
Full spectral calculation of non-retarded Hamaker constants for ceramic systems from interband transition strengths

R.H. French;R.M. Cannon;L.K. DeNoyer;Y.-M. Chiang

165
Citations
Electronic structure of β- BaB 2 O 4 and LiB 3 O 5 nonlinear optical crystals

R. H. French;J. W. Ling;F. S. Ohuchi;C. T. Chen

162
Citations
Heteroepitaxy of N-type β-Ga2O3 thin films on sapphire substrate by low pressure chemical vapor deposition

Subrina Rafique;Lu Han;Adam T. Neal;Shin Mou

157
Citations
Optical reflectivity measurements using a laser plasma light source

M. L. Bortz;R. H. French

146
Citations
Optical properties and London dispersion interaction of amorphous and crystalline SiO 2 determined by vacuum ultraviolet spectroscopy and spectroscopic ellipsometry

G. L. Tan;M. F. Lemon;D. J. Jones;R. H. French;R. H. French

136
Citations
Multiple scattering from rutile TiO2 particles

L.E McNeil;R.H French

135
Citations
Annual review of materials research

Samuel I. Stupp;Richard Lesar;Klaus-Dieter Kreuer;Evelyn Hu

86
Citations