| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Transparent conductors—A status review | Thin Solid Films | 1983 | 2,567 |
| 2 | Buildup of ultrathin multilayer films by a self-assembly process: III. Consecutively alternating adsorption of anionic and cationic polyelectrolytes on charged surfaces | Thin Solid Films | 1992 | 2,491 |
| 3 | Modelling polycrystalline semiconductor solar cells | Thin Solid Films | 2000 | 1,711 |
| 4 | Fabrication of thin film dye sensitized solar cells with solar to electric power conversion efficiency over 10% | Thin Solid Films | 2008 | 1,702 |
| 5 | Optical properties of thin films | Thin Solid Films | 1982 | 1,419 |
| 6 | Atomic layer deposition (ALD): from precursors to thin film structures | Thin Solid Films | 2002 | 1,092 |
| 7 | Stress-related effects in thin films | Thin Solid Films | 1989 | 1,072 |
| 8 | Development of CZTS-based thin film solar cells | Thin Solid Films | 2009 | 1,011 |
| 9 | Synthesis and catalytic properties of metal nanoparticles: Size, shape, support, composition, and oxidation state effects | Thin Solid Films | 2010 | 969 |
| 10 | The M+1AX phases: Materials science and thin-film processing | Thin Solid Films | 2010 | 934 |
| 11 | Review of recent developments in amorphous oxide semiconductor thin-film transistor devices | Thin Solid Films | 2012 | 905 |
| 12 | Transparent and conducting ITO films: new developments and applications | Thin Solid Films | 2002 | 892 |
| 13 | Ionized physical vapor deposition (IPVD): A review of technology and applications | Thin Solid Films | 2006 | 886 |
| 14 | A concept for the design of novel superhard coatings | Thin Solid Films | 1995 | 874 |
| 15 | Structure and properties of TiN coatings | Thin Solid Films | 1985 | 862 |
| 16 | Transparent conducting p-type NiO thin films prepared by magnetron sputtering | Thin Solid Films | 1993 | 858 |
| 17 | Electrochromics for smart windows: Oxide-based thin films and devices | Thin Solid Films | 2014 | 816 |
| 18 | A simple model for the formation of compressive stress in thin films by ion bombardment | Thin Solid Films | 1993 | 747 |
| 19 | Columnar microstructure in vapor-deposited thin films | Thin Solid Films | 1977 | 726 |
| 20 | Porous anodic alumina: fabrication, characterization and applications | Thin Solid Films | 1997 | 706 |
| 21 | Different approaches to superhard coatings and nanocomposites | Thin Solid Films | 2005 | 704 |
| 22 | Noble metal nanoparticles for water purification: A critical review | Thin Solid Films | 2009 | 684 |
| 23 | Reactive-sputter-deposited TiN films on glass substrates | Thin Solid Films | 1991 | 669 |
| 24 | Hardness measurements of thin films | Thin Solid Films | 1984 | 668 |
| 25 | Nanocrystalline TiO2 studied by optical, FTIR and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy: correlation to presence of surface states | Thin Solid Films | 2000 | 663 |
| 26 | Diffusion barriers in thin films | Thin Solid Films | 1978 | 651 |
| 27 | A structure zone diagram including plasma-based deposition and ion etching | Thin Solid Films | 2010 | 641 |
| 28 | Electrical characterization of thin Al2O3 films grown by atomic layer deposition on silicon and various metal substrates | Thin Solid Films | 2002 | 640 |
| 29 | Present status of transparent conducting oxide thin-film development for Indium-Tin-Oxide (ITO) substitutes | Thin Solid Films | 2008 | 634 |
| 30 | Fundamental structure forming phenomena of polycrystalline films and the structure zone models | Thin Solid Films | 1998 | 599 |
| 31 | Sol-gel preparation of ZnO films with extremely preferred orientation along (002) plane from zinc acetate solution | Thin Solid Films | 1997 | 585 |
| 32 | Fundamental understanding and modeling of reactive sputtering processes | Thin Solid Films | 2005 | 573 |
| 33 | Recent progress in transparent oxide semiconductors: Materials and device application | Thin Solid Films | 2007 | 567 |
| 34 | Celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Stoney equation for film stress: Developments from polycrystalline steel strips to single crystal silicon wafers | Thin Solid Films | 2009 | 567 |
| 35 | Recent progress on doped ZnO nanostructures for visible-light photocatalysis | Thin Solid Films | 2016 | 560 |
| 36 | Fundamentals of sol-gel dip coating | Thin Solid Films | 1991 | 543 |
| 37 | Van der Waals epitaxy—a new epitaxial growth method for a highly lattice-mismatched system | Thin Solid Films | 1992 | 543 |
| 38 | Silicon nanostructures for third generation photovoltaic solar cells | Thin Solid Films | 2006 | 542 |
| 39 | Photocatalytic activity and photoinduced hydrophilicity of titanium dioxide coated glass | Thin Solid Films | 1999 | 538 |
| 40 | XPS and X-ray diffraction studies of aluminum-doped zinc oxide transparent conducting films | Thin Solid Films | 1996 | 533 |
| 41 | Applications of atomic layer deposition to nanofabrication and emerging nanodevices | Thin Solid Films | 2009 | 533 |
| 42 | Texture etched ZnO:Al coated glass substrates for silicon based thin film solar cells | Thin Solid Films | 1999 | 527 |
| 43 | Effect of surface structure on photocatalytic activity of TiO2 thin films prepared by sol-gel method | Thin Solid Films | 2000 | 519 |
| 44 | Recent advances in epitaxy | Thin Solid Films | 1972 | 518 |
| 45 | The relationship between hardness and scratch adhession | Thin Solid Films | 1987 | 513 |
| 46 | Cu2ZnSnS4 thin film solar cells | Thin Solid Films | 2005 | 497 |
| 47 | Atomic layer epitaxy | Thin Solid Films | 1992 | 495 |
| 48 | Hybrid photovoltaic devices of polymer and ZnO nanofiber composites | Thin Solid Films | 2006 | 494 |
| 49 | Al3O3 thin film growth on Si(100) using binary reaction sequence chemistry | Thin Solid Films | 1997 | 484 |
| 50 | Violet and UV luminescence emitted from ZnO thin films grown on sapphire by pulsed laser deposition | Thin Solid Films | 2000 | 484 |
