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Yimao Wan publication distribution in Engineering and Technology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Engineering and Technology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Yimao Wan sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 804+

This scientist: 127 publications — 18th percentile

18% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 804 publications or more.

Yimao Wan D-index placement in Engineering and Technology in 2026

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

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30 D-Index 107+

This scientist: 42 D-Index — 35th percentile

35% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 107 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Rising Stars Award

Overview

Yimao Wan is affiliated with the Australian National University in Australia. Their research primarily focuses on engineering, with a particular emphasis on electrical and electronic engineering, atomic and molecular physics and optics, materials chemistry, biomedical engineering, and renewable energy, sustainability, and the environment.

Wan's main research topics include silicon and solar cell technologies, thin-film transistor technologies, semiconductor materials and interfaces, silicon nanostructures and photoluminescence, semiconductor materials and devices, integrated circuits and semiconductor failure analysis, and nanowire synthesis and applications.

The scientist has contributed to several recent papers, including:

  • Polysilicon passivated junctions: The next technology for silicon solar cells? (2021, Joule)
  • Over 17% Efficiency Stand-Alone Solar Water Splitting Enabled by Perovskite-Silicon Tandem Absorbers (2020, Advanced Energy Materials)
  • Titanium Nitride Electron-Conductive Contact for Silicon Solar Cells By Radio Frequency Sputtering from a TiN Target (2020, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces)
  • Atomic scale controlled tunnel oxide enabled by a novel industrial tube-based PEALD technology with demonstrated commercial TOPCon cell efficiencies > 24% (2022, Progress in Photovoltaics Research and Applications)
  • 24.4% industrial tunnel oxide passivated contact solar cells with ozone-gas oxidation Nano SiOx and tube PECVD prepared in-situ doped polysilicon (2022, Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells)

Wan frequently publishes in venues such as:

  • Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells
  • Progress in Photovoltaics Research and Applications
  • Solar Energy
  • Advanced Energy Materials
  • ACS Applied Energy Materials

They have collaborated often with researchers including Wenhao Chen, Di Yan, Daniel Macdonald, Weiqing Liu, and Wenjie Wang.

Best Publications

  • A Universal Double‐Side Passivation for High Open‐Circuit Voltage in Perovskite Solar Cells: Role of Carbonyl Groups in Poly(methyl methacrylate)

    Jun Peng;Jafar Iqbal Khan;Wenzhu Liu;Esma Ugur

  • Interface passivation using ultrathin polymer–fullerene films for high-efficiency perovskite solar cells with negligible hysteresis

    Jun Peng;Yiliang Wu;Wang Ye;Daniel A. Jacobs

  • Monolithic perovskite/silicon-homojunction tandem solar cell with over 22% efficiency

    YiLiang Wu;Di Yan;Jun Peng

  • Conductive and Stable Magnesium Oxide Electron‐Selective Contacts for Efficient Silicon Solar Cells

    Yimao Wan;Christian Samundsett;James Bullock;Mark Hettick

  • Magnesium Fluoride Electron-Selective Contacts for Crystalline Silicon Solar Cells

    Yimao Wan;Chris Samundsett;James Bullock;James Bullock;Thomas Allen

  • Design, fabrication and characterisation of a 24.4% efficient interdigitated back contact solar cell

    Evan Franklin;Kean Fong;Keith McIntosh;Andreas Fell

  • Efficient Indium-Doped TiOxElectron Transport Layers for High-Performance Perovskite Solar Cells and Perovskite-Silicon Tandems

    Jun Peng;Xianzhong Zhou;Heping Shen

  • Stable Dopant-Free Asymmetric Heterocontact Silicon Solar Cells with Efficiencies above 20%

    James Bullock;James Bullock;Yimao Wan;Yimao Wan;Yimao Wan;Zhaoran Xu;Zhaoran Xu;Stephanie Essig

  • Phosphorus-diffused polysilicon contacts for solar cells

    Di Yan;Andres Cuevas;James Bullock;Yimao Wan

  • Tantalum Oxide Electron-selective Heterocontacts for Silicon Photovoltaics and Photoelectrochemical Water Reduction

    Yimao Wan;Yimao Wan;Yimao Wan;Siva Krishna Karuturi;Christian Samundsett;James Bullock;James Bullock

  • Lithium Fluoride Based Electron Contacts for High Efficiency n-Type Crystalline Silicon Solar Cells

    James Bullock;James Bullock;James Bullock;Peiting Zheng;Quentin Jeangros;Mahmut Tosun;Mahmut Tosun

  • In situ recombination junction between p-Si and TiO2 enables high-efficiency monolithic perovskite/Si tandem cells.

    Heping Shen;Stefan T. Omelchenko;Daniel A. Jacobs;Sisir Yalamanchili

  • Tantalum Nitride Electron-Selective Contact for Crystalline Silicon Solar Cells

    Xinbo Yang;Erkan Aydin;Hang Xu;Jingxuan Kang

  • Characterisation and optimisation of PECVD SiNx as an antireflection coating and passivation layer for silicon solar cells

    Yimao Wan;Keith R. McIntosh;Andrew F. Thomson

  • Carrier population control and surface passivation in solar cells

    Andres Cuevas;Yimao Wan;Di Yan;Christian Samundsett

  • Polysilicon passivated junctions: The next technology for silicon solar cells?

    Di Yan;Andres Cuevas;Jesús Ibarra Michel;Chun Zhang

  • A Low Resistance Calcium/Reduced Titania Passivated Contact for High Efficiency Crystalline Silicon Solar Cells

    Thomas G. Allen;James Bullock;James Bullock;Quentin Jeangros;Quentin Jeangros;Christian Samundsett

  • Dual-Function Electron-Conductive, Hole-Blocking Titanium Nitride Contacts for Efficient Silicon Solar Cells

    Xinbo Yang;Wenzhu Liu;Michele De Bastiani;Thomas Allen

  • Skin care for healthy silicon solar cells

    Andres Cuevas;Thomas Allen;James Bullock;Yimao Wan

  • Dopant-Free Partial Rear Contacts Enabling 23% Silicon Solar Cells

    James Bullock;James Bullock;Yimao Wan;Yimao Wan;Yimao Wan;Mark Hettick;Mark Hettick;Xu Zhaoran;Xu Zhaoran

  • Passivating contacts for silicon solar cells based on boron-diffused recrystallized amorphous silicon and thin dielectric interlayers

    Di Yan;Andres Cuevas;Yimao Wan;James Bullock

Frequent Co-Authors

Andres Cuevas
Andres Cuevas Australian National University
James Bullock
James Bullock University of Melbourne
Ali Javey
Ali Javey University of California, Berkeley
Daniel Macdonald
Daniel Macdonald Australian National University
Mark Hettick
Mark Hettick University of California, Berkeley
Keith R. McIntosh
Keith R. McIntosh University of Wollongong
Jun Peng
Jun Peng Australian National University
Kylie R. Catchpole
Kylie R. Catchpole Australian National University
Stefaan De Wolf
Stefaan De Wolf King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Jichun Ye
Jichun Ye Chinese Academy of Sciences

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