Bert Nickel

6.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
126 papers, 5.6k citations indexed

About

Bert Nickel is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials Chemistry and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, Bert Nickel has authored 126 papers receiving a total of 5.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 73 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 42 papers in Materials Chemistry and 33 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in Bert Nickel's work include Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (38 papers), Perovskite Materials and Applications (19 papers) and Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties (17 papers). Bert Nickel is often cited by papers focused on Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (38 papers), Perovskite Materials and Applications (19 papers) and Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties (17 papers). Bert Nickel collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Italy. Bert Nickel's co-authors include Norbert Koch, Alexander S. Urban, Ricardo Ruiz, Jochen Feldmann, Martin Huth, G. Scoles, Stefan Fischer, Stefan Schiefer, M. Fatih Danışman and Yu Tong and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Physical Review Letters and Advanced Materials.

In The Last Decade

Bert Nickel

121 papers receiving 5.5k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Quantum Size Effect in Organometal Halide Perovskite Nanoplatelets

2015 817 citations Yu Tong, Bert Nickel et al. profile →
Pentacene Thin Film Growth

2004 564 citations Bert Nickel et al. Chemistry of Materials profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Bert Nickel Germany	36	3.9k	2.4k	1.3k	891	663	126	5.6k
David A. Vanden Bout United States	36	2.1k 0.5×	1.8k 0.8×	1.0k 0.8×	779 0.9×	990 1.5×	100	4.2k
Mircea Cotlet United States	48	2.9k 0.7×	4.0k 1.7×	811 0.6×	818 0.9×	862 1.3×	140	6.6k
Ivan G. Scheblykin Sweden	40	4.1k 1.1×	3.5k 1.5×	1.2k 0.9×	375 0.4×	1.2k 1.8×	144	5.7k
T. Burgin United States	18	4.6k 1.2×	1.8k 0.7×	2.3k 1.7×	1.4k 1.6×	265 0.4×	32	5.4k
Yongchun Zhong China	34	2.6k 0.7×	3.1k 1.3×	805 0.6×	1.3k 1.4×	258 0.4×	140	5.3k
Alfons Schulte United States	34	2.1k 0.5×	3.3k 1.4×	816 0.6×	666 0.7×	312 0.5×	116	5.0k
Benjamin Messer United States	23	2.7k 0.7×	3.2k 1.3×	1.1k 0.8×	1.4k 1.5×	508 0.8×	35	5.3k
Hisao Yanagi Japan	36	2.7k 0.7×	2.4k 1.0×	1.0k 0.8×	897 1.0×	675 1.0×	239	4.5k
D. McBranch United States	34	4.2k 1.1×	4.8k 2.0×	1.2k 0.9×	959 1.1×	1.5k 2.2×	97	7.0k
Ernesto Joselevich Israel	36	2.4k 0.6×	4.9k 2.0×	1.7k 1.2×	2.3k 2.5×	477 0.7×	101	6.7k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Bert Nickel

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Paul, Jonathan, et al.. (2025). Synthesizer: Chemistry‐Aware Machine Learning for Precision Control of Nanocrystal Growth. Advanced Materials. 38(4). e09472–e09472. 1 indexed citations

Abfalterer, Anna, et al.. (2025). Locking in Color: Stable RGB Perovskite Nanocrystal Films via UV Cross‐Linking. Advanced Optical Materials. 13(16).

Döblinger, Markus, et al.. (2025). Diminishing Surface Defects in Silver Indium Sulfide Quantum Dots Enables Bandgap‐Excitonic Characteristics. Advanced Optical Materials. 13(34).

Karaghiosoff, Konstantin, et al.. (2024). Synthesis of Cs ₃ Cu ₂ I ₅ Nanocrystals in a Continuous Flow System. Small. 20(44). e2403572–e2403572. 2 indexed citations

Frank, Kilian, et al.. (2024). Direct Synthesis of CuPd Icosahedra Supercrystals Studied by In Situ X‐Ray Scattering. Small. 20(32). e2311714–e2311714. 4 indexed citations

Frank, Kilian, Carola Lampe, Benjamin März, et al.. (2024). Antisolvent controls the shape and size of anisotropic lead halide perovskite nanocrystals. Nature Communications. 15(1). 8952–8952. 10 indexed citations

Frank, Kilian, Johanna Eichhorn, Markus Döblinger, et al.. (2024). S-Scheme Interface Between K–C₃N₄ and FePS₃ Fosters Photocatalytic H₂ Evolution. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 16(47). 65610–65619. 6 indexed citations

Lehner, Lukas E., Stepan Demchyshyn, Kilian Frank, et al.. (2023). Elucidating the Origins of High Preferential Crystal Orientation in Quasi‐2D Perovskite Solar Cells (Adv. Mater. 5/2023). Advanced Materials. 35(5). 2 indexed citations

Caddeo, Francesco, Kilian Frank, Olof Gutowski, et al.. (2023). Photodegradation of CuBi₂O₄ Films Evidenced by Fast Formation of Metallic Bi using Operando Surface‐sensitive X‐ray Scattering**. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 62(43). e202307948–e202307948. 12 indexed citations

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Frank, Kilian, et al.. (2023). Lead‐Free, Luminescent Perovskite Nanocrystals Obtained through Ambient Condition Synthesis. Small. 19(30). e2300525–e2300525. 8 indexed citations

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Amenitsch, Heinz, et al.. (2022). SAXS measurements of azobenzene lipid vesicles reveal buffer‐dependent photoswitching and quantitative Z→E isomerisation by X‐rays. Nanophotonics. 11(10). 2361–2368. 16 indexed citations

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Nickel, Bert, et al.. (2022). 3D-printed SAXS chamber for controlled in situ dialysis and optical characterization. Journal of Synchrotron Radiation. 29(4). 1014–1019. 1 indexed citations

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Zito, Cecilia A., Kilian Frank, Ann‐Christin Dippel, et al.. (2021). X-ray studies bridge the molecular and macro length scales during the emergence of CoO assemblies. Nature Communications. 12(1). 25 indexed citations

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Huang, He, Maximilian W. Feil, Tushar Debnath, et al.. (2020). Growth of Perovskite CsPbBr₃ Nanocrystals and Their Formed Superstructures Revealed by In Situ Spectroscopy. Chemistry of Materials. 32(20). 8877–8884. 48 indexed citations

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Guggenmos, Alexander, et al.. (2012). Aperiodic multilayer mirrors for attosecond soft x-ray pulses. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 8502. 850204–850204. 3 indexed citations

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Hesse, Holger C., Christoph J. Schaffer, Akimitsu Narita, et al.. (2012). Large polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons for application in donor–acceptor photovoltaics. physica status solidi (a). 209(4). 785–789. 7 indexed citations

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Reich, Christian, Margaret R. Horton, B. Krause, et al.. (2008). Asymmetric Structural Features in Single Supported Lipid Bilayers Containing Cholesterol and GM1 Resolved with Synchrotron X-Ray Reflectivity. Biophysical Journal. 95(2). 657–668. 31 indexed citations

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Salzmann, Ingo, et al.. (2007). Phase separation in vacuum codeposited pentacene/6,13-pentacenequinone thin films. Physical Review B. 75(17). 34 indexed citations

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Pedio, M., Bryan P. Doyle, Nicola Mahne, et al.. (2007). Growth of pentacene on Ag(111) surface: A NEXAFS study. Applied Surface Science. 254(1). 103–107. 21 indexed citations

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Toperverg, B.P., et al.. (2000). Reflectivity and off-specular neutron scattering from ferrofluid. Physica B Condensed Matter. 283(1-3). 203–207. 7 indexed citations

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