2026 Wolf Gero Schmidt: 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	60	7055	6819	412	399	402	12885

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 V_B^- 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

879
Citations
The electronic structure and optical response of rutile, anatase and brookite TiO2.

M. Landmann;Eva Rauls;Wolf Gero Schmidt

839
Citations
Attracted by long-range electron correlation: adenine on graphite.

F Ortmann;W G Schmidt;F Bechstedt

346
Citations
Efficient O(N 2 ) method to solve the Bethe-Salpeter equation

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

197
Citations
Methane adsorption on graphene from first principles including dispersion interaction

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

173
Citations
Lithium niobate X -cut, Y -cut, and Z -cut surfaces from ab initio theory

Simone Sanna;Wolf Gero Schmidt

165
Citations
Optical absorption of water: coulomb effects versus hydrogen bonding.

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

159
Citations
III-V compound semiconductor (001) surfaces

W.G. Schmidt

158
Citations
Bulk excitonic effects in surface optical spectra

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

155
Citations
Coulombic amino group-metal bonding : Adsorption of adenine on Cu(110)

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

154
Citations
Optically excited structural transition in atomic wires on surfaces at the quantum limit

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

146
Citations
Raman scattering efficiency in LiTaO 3 and LiNbO 3 crystals

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

142
Citations
Do we know the band gap of lithium niobate

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

142
Citations
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

139
Citations
Geometry and electronic structure of GaAs(001)(2 x 4) reconstructions.

WG Schmidt;F Bechstedt

134
Citations
Reflectance Anisotropy of GaAs(100): Theory and Experiment

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

128
Citations
Barium titanate ground- and excited-state properties from first-principles calculations

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

121
Citations
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

118
Citations
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

114
Citations
A Bifunctional Electrocatalyst for Oxygen Evolution and Oxygen Reduction Reactions in Water.

Wolfgang Schöfberger;Felix Faschinger;Samir Chattopadhyay;Snehadri Bhakta

112
Citations
A Bifunctional Electrocatalyst for Oxygen Evolution and Oxygen Reduction Reactions in Water

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111
Citations
Atomic structure of InP(001)-(2×4): A dimer reconstruction

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

109
Citations
Entropy explains metal-insulator transition of the Si(111)-In nanowire array.

Stefan Martin Wippermann;Wolf Gero Schmidt

108
Citations
Water adsorption on the α -Al 2 O 3 ( 0001 ) surface

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

106
Citations