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Wolfgang Heiss 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 Wolfgang Heiss sits on this spectrum.

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50 publications 1,163+

This scientist: 262 publications — 50th percentile

50% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Wolfgang Heiss 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 Wolfgang Heiss sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 165+

This scientist: 59 D-Index — 44th percentile

44% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Wolfgang Heiss is affiliated with the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in Germany. Their research spans primarily the fields of Engineering and Materials Science, with a strong focus on Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Materials Chemistry within these disciplines.

Their work covers several subfields, including Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Polymers and Plastics, and Biomedical Engineering. The main research topics addressed by Heiss include:

  • Perovskite Materials and Applications
  • Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties
  • Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films
  • Luminescence Properties of Advanced Materials
  • Solid State Laser Technologies
  • Optical properties and cooling technologies in crystalline materials
  • Conducting polymers and applications

Heiss has authored multiple papers in various high-profile scientific journals. Notable recent publications include:

  • High-sensitivity high-resolution X-ray imaging with soft-sintered metal halide perovskites, 2021, Nature Electronics
  • Revealing the strain-associated physical mechanisms impacting the performance and stability of perovskite solar cells, 2022, Joule
  • Sensitive Direct Converting X-Ray Detectors Utilizing Crystalline CsPbBr3 Perovskite Films Fabricated via Scalable Melt Processing, 2020, Advanced Materials Interfaces
  • Micron Thick Colloidal Quantum Dot Solids, 2020, Nano Letters
  • Exploring the Steric Hindrance of Alkylammonium Cations in the Structural Reconfiguration of Quasi-2D Perovskite Materials Using a High-throughput Experimental Platform, 2022, Advanced Functional Materials

Frequent publication venues include Advanced Functional Materials, Nano Letters, Advanced Materials Interfaces, Advanced Materials Technologies, and Advanced Engineering Materials. These venues reflect the interdisciplinary nature of Heiss's research, which integrates aspects of chemistry, physics, and engineering.

Wolfgang Heiss has collaborated extensively with other researchers. Frequent co-authors include Christoph J. Brabec, Mykhailo Sytnyk, Andres Osvet, Hany A. Afify, and Viktor Rehm. These collaborations indicate a network active in the development and study of advanced materials and electronic devices.

Best Publications

  • Low-threshold amplified spontaneous emission and lasing from colloidal nanocrystals of caesium lead halide perovskites

    Sergii Yakunin;Sergii Yakunin;Loredana Protesescu;Loredana Protesescu;Franziska Krieg;Franziska Krieg;Maryna I. Bodnarchuk;Maryna I. Bodnarchuk

  • Prospects of Nanoscience with Nanocrystals

    Maksym V. Kovalenko;Liberato Manna;Liberato Manna;Andreu Cabot;Zeger Hens

  • Detection of X-ray photons by solution-processed lead halide perovskites

    Sergii Yakunin;Mykhailo Sytnyk;Dominik Kriegner;Shreetu Shrestha

  • Near-infrared imaging with quantum-dot-sensitized organic photodiodes

    Tobias Rauch;Michaela Böberl;Sandro F. Tedde;Jens Fürst;Jens Fürst

  • High-performance direct conversion X-ray detectors based on sintered hybrid lead triiodide perovskite wafers

    Shreetu Shrestha;René Fischer;Gebhard J. Matt;Patrick Feldner

  • Fatty acid salts as stabilizers in size- and shape-controlled nanocrystal synthesis: the case of inverse spinel iron oxide.

    Maksym V. Kovalenko;Maryna I. Bodnarchuk;Rainer T. Lechner;Günter Hesser

  • Gold/Iron Oxide Core/Hollow-Shell Nanoparticles**

    Elena V. Shevchenko;Elena V. Shevchenko;Maryna I. Bodnarchuk;Maksym V. Kovalenko;Dmitri V. Talapin;Dmitri V. Talapin

  • High-sensitivity high-resolution X-ray imaging with soft-sintered metal halide perovskites

    Sarah Deumel;Sarah Deumel;Albert van Breemen;Gerwin Gelinck;Bart Peeters

  • Energetic and Entropic Contributions to Self-Assembly of Binary Nanocrystal Superlattices: Temperature as the Structure-Directing Factor

    Maryna I. Bodnarchuk;Maksym V. Kovalenko;Wolfgang Heiss;Dmitri V. Talapin

  • Colloidal HgTe nanocrystals with widely tunable narrow band gap energies : From telecommunications to molecular vibrations

    Maksym V. Kovalenko;Erich Kaufmann;Dietmar Pachinger;Jürgen Roither

  • Inkjet-Printed Nanocrystal Photodetectors Operating up to 3 μm Wavelengths

    Michaela Böberl;Maksym V. Kovalenko;Stefan Gamerith;Stefan Gamerith;Emil J. W. List;Emil J. W. List

  • Infrared Emitting and Photoconducting Colloidal Silver Chalcogenide Nanocrystal Quantum Dots from a Silylamide-Promoted Synthesis

    Maksym Yarema;Stefan Pichler;Mykhailo Sytnyk;Robert Seyrkammer

  • Revealing the strain-associated physical mechanisms impacting the performance and stability of perovskite solar cells

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  • SnTe Nanocrystals: A New Example of Narrow-Gap Semiconductor Quantum Dots

    Maksym V. Kovalenko;Wolfgang Heiss;Elena V. Shevchenko;Jong-Soo Lee

  • X-ray imaging: Perovskites target X-ray detection

    Wolfgang Heiss;Christoph Brabec

  • Solution‐Processable Near‐IR Photodetectors Based on Electron Transfer from PbS Nanocrystals to Fullerene Derivatives

    Krisztina Szendrei;Fabrizio Cordella;Maksym V. Kovalenko;Michaela Böberl

  • Highly Luminescent, Size- and Shape-Tunable Copper Indium Selenide Based Colloidal Nanocrystals

    Olesya Yarema;Deniz Bozyigit;Ian Rousseau;Lea Nowack

  • Direct observation of the LO phonon bottleneck in wide GaAs/AlxGa1-xAs quantum wells

    Ben Murdin;W Heiss;C J G M Langerak;S C Lee

  • PbS nanocrystal solar cells with high efficiency and fill factor

    Krisztina Szendrei;Widianta Gomulya;Maksym Yarema;Wolfgang Heiss

  • Hydrogen-Bonded Organic Semiconductors as Stable Photoelectrocatalysts for Efficient Hydrogen Peroxide Photosynthesis

    Marie Jakešová;Doǧukan Hazar Apaydin;Mykhailo Sytnyk;Kerstin Oppelt

  • Low Driving Voltage and High Mobility Ambipolar Field-Effect Transistors with PbS Colloidal Nanocrystals

    Satria Zulkarnaen Bisri;Claudia Piliego;Maksym Yarema;Wolfgang Heiss

  • Centrosymmetric PbTe∕CdTe quantum dots coherently embedded by epitaxial precipitation

    W. Heiss;H. Groiss;E. Kaufmann;G. Hesser

Frequent Co-Authors

Maria Antonietta Loi
Maria Antonietta Loi University of Groningen
Friedrich Schäffler
Friedrich Schäffler Johannes Kepler University of Linz
Dmitri V. Talapin
Dmitri V. Talapin University of Chicago
Christoph J. Brabec
Christoph J. Brabec University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Sergii Yakunin
Sergii Yakunin ETH Zurich
Julian Stangl
Julian Stangl Johannes Kepler University of Linz
G. Bauer
G. Bauer Johannes Kepler University of Linz

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