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Wolf Gero Schmidt

Wolf Gero Schmidt

D-Index & Metrics

Materials Science

D-Index
60
Citations
12885
World Ranking
7053
National Ranking
411

Wolf Gero Schmidt 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 Wolf Gero Schmidt sits on this spectrum.

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50 publications 1,163+

This scientist: 402 publications — 77th percentile

77% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Wolf Gero Schmidt 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 Wolf Gero Schmidt sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 165+

This scientist: 60 D-Index — 46th percentile

46% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Wolf Gero Schmidt is affiliated with the University of Paderborn in Germany. Their research spans multiple disciplines with a focus on materials science, engineering, and physics and astronomy.

The scientist's recent publications include:

  • Controlled growth of ordered monolayers of N-heterocyclic carbenes on silicon, 2021, published in Nature Chemistry
  • Electron-Nuclear Coherent Coupling and Nuclear Spin Readout through Optically Polarized VB- Spin States in hBN, 2022, published in Nano Letters
  • Toward Efficient Toxic-Gas Detectors: Exploring Molecular Interactions of Sarin and Dimethyl Methylphosphonate with Metal-Centered Phthalocyanine Structures, 2020, published in The Journal of Physical Chemistry C
  • Substrate Doping and Defect Influence on P-Rich InP(001):H Surface Properties, 2024, published in Surfaces
  • Adatom mediated adsorption of N-heterocyclic carbenes on Cu(111) and Au(111), 2021, published in Journal of Computational Chemistry

Their work addresses a range of topics:

  • Photorefractive and Nonlinear Optics
  • Semiconductor materials and devices
  • Semiconductor Quantum Structures and Devices
  • Electronic and Structural Properties of Oxides
  • Surface and Thin Film Phenomena
  • Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques
  • Ferroelectric and Piezoelectric Materials

Wolf Gero Schmidt has contributed extensively to several fields of study, including:

  • Materials Science
  • Engineering
  • Physics and Astronomy

The scientist's subfields of study include:

  • Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  • Materials Chemistry
  • Organic Chemistry
  • Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

They regularly collaborate with a group of frequent co-authors, including:

  • U. Gerstmann
  • Timur Biktagirov
  • Isaac Azahel Ruiz Alvarado
  • Thomas Hannappel
  • A. Bocchini

Wolf Gero Schmidt's research has been published in various scientific venues with some of the most frequent being Physical Review B, arXiv (Cornell University), Crystals, ACS Omega, and physica status solidi (b).

Best Publications

  • Semiempirical van der Waals correction to the density functional description of solids and molecular structures

    F. Ortmann;F. Bechstedt;W. G. Schmidt

  • The electronic structure and optical response of rutile, anatase and brookite TiO2.

    M. Landmann;Eva Rauls;Wolf Gero Schmidt

  • Attracted by long-range electron correlation: adenine on graphite.

    F Ortmann;W G Schmidt;F Bechstedt

  • Efficient O(N 2 ) method to solve the Bethe-Salpeter equation

    W. G. Schmidt;S. Glutsch;P. H. Hahn;F. Bechstedt

  • Methane adsorption on graphene from first principles including dispersion interaction

    C. Thierfelder;M. Witte;S. Blankenburg;S. Blankenburg;E. Rauls

  • Lithium niobate X -cut, Y -cut, and Z -cut surfaces from ab initio theory

    Simone Sanna;Wolf Gero Schmidt

  • Optical absorption of water: coulomb effects versus hydrogen bonding.

    P. H. Hahn;W. G. Schmidt;K. Seino;M. Preuss

  • III-V compound semiconductor (001) surfaces

    W.G. Schmidt

  • Bulk excitonic effects in surface optical spectra

    P. H. Hahn;W. G. Schmidt;F. Bechstedt

  • Coulombic amino group-metal bonding : Adsorption of adenine on Cu(110)

    M. Preuss;W. G. Schmidt;F. Bechstedt

  • Optically excited structural transition in atomic wires on surfaces at the quantum limit

    T. Frigge;B. Hafke;T. Witte;B. Krenzer

  • Raman scattering efficiency in LiTaO 3 and LiNbO 3 crystals

    Simone Sanna;Sergej Neufeld;M. Rüsing;Gerhard Berth

  • Do we know the band gap of lithium niobate

    Christian Thierfelder;Simone Sanna;Arno Schindlmayr;Wolf Gero Schmidt

  • Understanding reflectance anisotropy: Surface-state signatures and bulk-related features in the optical spectrum of InP ( 001 ) ( 2 × 4 )

    W. G. Schmidt;N. Esser;A. M. Frisch;P. Vogt

  • Geometry and electronic structure of GaAs(001)(2 x 4) reconstructions.

    WG Schmidt;F Bechstedt

  • Reflectance Anisotropy of GaAs(100): Theory and Experiment

    A. I. Shkrebtii;N. Esser;W. Richter;W. G. Schmidt

  • Barium titanate ground- and excited-state properties from first-principles calculations

    Simone Sanna;Christian Thierfelder;Stefan Martin Wippermann;Tripurari Prasad Sinha

  • Beyond the molecular movie: Dynamics of bands and bonds during a photoinduced phase transition

    Christopher Nicholson;Christopher Nicholson;Andreas Lücke;Wolf Gero Schmidt;Michele Puppin

  • Ground- and excited-state properties of DNA base molecules from plane-wave calculations using ultrasoft pseudopotentials.

    Martin Preuss;Wolf G. Schmidt;Kaori Seino;Jürgen Furthmüller

  • A Bifunctional Electrocatalyst for Oxygen Evolution and Oxygen Reduction Reactions in Water.

    Wolfgang Schöfberger;Felix Faschinger;Samir Chattopadhyay;Snehadri Bhakta

  • A Bifunctional Electrocatalyst for Oxygen Evolution and Oxygen Reduction Reactions in Water

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  • Atomic structure of InP(001)-(2×4): A dimer reconstruction

    W. G. Schmidt;F. Bechstedt;N. Esser;M. Pristovsek

  • Entropy explains metal-insulator transition of the Si(111)-In nanowire array.

    Stefan Martin Wippermann;Wolf Gero Schmidt

  • Water adsorption on the α -Al 2 O 3 ( 0001 ) surface

    Peter Thissen;Guido Grundmeier;Stefan Martin Wippermann;Wolf Gero Schmidt

Frequent Co-Authors

Friedhelm Bechstedt
Friedhelm Bechstedt Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Jerry Bernholc
Jerry Bernholc North Carolina State University
Johannes V. Barth
Johannes V. Barth Technical University of Munich
Florian Klappenberger
Florian Klappenberger Technical University of Munich
Guido Grundmeier
Guido Grundmeier University of Paderborn
Moritz Sokolowski
Moritz Sokolowski University of Bonn
Yves J. Chabal
Yves J. Chabal The University of Texas at Dallas
Peter Schwerdtfeger
Peter Schwerdtfeger Massey University
Kai Nordlund
Kai Nordlund University of Helsinki
Martin Wolf
Martin Wolf Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society

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