Chengbin Fei

3.9k total citations · 4 hit papers
51 papers, 3.1k citations indexed

About

Chengbin Fei is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials Chemistry and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. According to data from OpenAlex, Chengbin Fei has authored 51 papers receiving a total of 3.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 42 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 32 papers in Materials Chemistry and 10 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. Recurrent topics in Chengbin Fei's work include Perovskite Materials and Applications (39 papers), Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films (19 papers) and Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties (18 papers). Chengbin Fei is often cited by papers focused on Perovskite Materials and Applications (39 papers), Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films (19 papers) and Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties (18 papers). Chengbin Fei collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Sweden. Chengbin Fei's co-authors include Guozhong Cao, Jianjun Tian, Jinsong Huang, Hangyu Gu, Bo Li, Zhenyi Ni, Rong Zhang, Haoyu Fu, He Wang and Mengru Wang and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Chengbin Fei

48 papers receiving 3.0k 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.

Evolution of defects during the degradation of metal halide perovskite solar cells under reverse bias and illumination

2021 297 citations Zhenyi Ni, Haoyang Jiao et al. profile →
Lead-chelating hole-transport layers for efficient and stable perovskite minimodules

2023 247 citations Chengbin Fei, Nengxu Li et al. Science profile →
Ammonium cations with high pKa in perovskite solar cells for improved high-temperature photostability

2023 164 citations Mengru Wang, Zhifang Shi et al. profile →
Multifunctional entinostat enhances the mechanical robustness and efficiency of flexible perovskite solar cells and minimodules

2024 91 citations Wenzhan Xu, Bo Chen et al. Nature Photonics profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Chengbin Fei United States	30	2.7k	1.9k	1.2k	404	138	51	3.1k
Bart Roose United Kingdom	25	3.3k 1.2×	2.3k 1.2×	1.6k 1.3×	448 1.1×	128 0.9×	45	3.7k
Yinghong Hu Germany	16	2.6k 0.9×	2.1k 1.1×	936 0.8×	240 0.6×	112 0.8×	21	2.9k
Stèphanie Narbey France	14	2.1k 0.8×	1.7k 0.9×	987 0.8×	639 1.6×	89 0.6×	37	2.7k
Mahdi Malekshahi Byranvand Germany	27	2.2k 0.8×	1.5k 0.8×	952 0.8×	256 0.6×	126 0.9×	55	2.5k
Silver‐Hamill Turren‐Cruz Germany	26	4.8k 1.8×	3.1k 1.7×	2.3k 1.9×	235 0.6×	190 1.4×	52	5.0k
Alexander R. Uhl Switzerland	23	3.0k 1.1×	2.5k 1.4×	719 0.6×	289 0.7×	138 1.0×	38	3.3k
Somayeh Gholipour Iran	21	1.4k 0.5×	1.2k 0.7×	614 0.5×	306 0.8×	268 1.9×	33	2.0k
Luca Bertoluzzi Spain	22	1.5k 0.5×	1.2k 0.6×	623 0.5×	760 1.9×	211 1.5×	26	2.2k
Zhenhuang Su China	31	3.0k 1.1×	1.7k 0.9×	1.4k 1.2×	140 0.3×	94 0.7×	133	3.2k
Deng‐Bing Li United States	33	3.7k 1.4×	3.4k 1.8×	492 0.4×	335 0.8×	205 1.5×	73	4.1k

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Fei, Chengbin, Yuqian Yang, Huanxin Guo, et al.. (2026). Limiting phosphonic acid interlayer–perovskite reactivity to stabilize perovskite solar modules. Science. 391(6780). eadz7969–eadz7969.

Yang, Guang, Hangyu Gu, Jun Yin, et al.. (2025). Reductive cation for scalable wide-bandgap perovskite solar cells in ambient air. Nature Sustainability. 8(4). 456–463. 18 indexed citations

Yan, Yanfa, Hengkai Zhang, Jinsong Huang, et al.. (2025). Enhancing charge-emitting shallow traps in metal halide perovskites by >100 times by surface strain. UNC Libraries. 1 indexed citations

Uličná, Soňa, Steven C. Hayden, Timothy J. Silverman, et al.. (2025). Field‐Relevant Degradation Mechanisms in Metal Halide Perovskite Modules. Advanced Energy Materials. 15(23). 3 indexed citations

Fei, Chengbin, Xinwen Zhang, Meng Zhou, & He Wang. (2025). Manipulating phase distribution and transformation kinetics by substrate clamping for DMAxCs1-xPbI3 perovskite solar cells. Nano Energy. 142. 111200–111200.

Xu, Wenzhan, Bo Chen, Zhao Zhang, et al.. (2024). Multifunctional entinostat enhances the mechanical robustness and efficiency of flexible perovskite solar cells and minimodules. Nature Photonics. 18(4). 379–387. 91 indexed citations breakdown →

Zhang, Xinwen, Chengbin Fei, Lening Shen, et al.. (2023). Manipulating Nucleation and Crystal Growth of Inorganic Perovskite Solar Cells. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 15(32). 38522–38529. 7 indexed citations

Zhou, Ying, Chengbin Fei, Md Aslam Uddin, et al.. (2023). Self-powered perovskite photon-counting detectors. Nature. 616(7958). 712–718. 106 indexed citations

Ni, Zhenyi, Shuang Xu, Haoyang Jiao, et al.. (2022). High grain boundary recombination velocity in polycrystalline metal halide perovskites. Science Advances. 8(36). eabq8345–eabq8345. 44 indexed citations

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Dai, Xuezeng, Chengbin Fei, Praneeth Kandlakunta, et al.. (2022). Origin of the X-Ray-Induced Damage in Perovskite Solar Cells. IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science. 69(8). 1850–1856. 9 indexed citations

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Dai, Xuezeng, Shangshang Chen, Yehao Deng, et al.. (2022). Pathways to High Efficiency Perovskite Monolithic Solar Modules. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1(1). 15 indexed citations

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Jiao, Haoyang, Zhenyi Ni, Zhifang Shi, et al.. (2022). Perovskite grain wrapping by converting interfaces and grain boundaries into robust and water-insoluble low-dimensional perovskites. Science Advances. 8(48). eabq4524–eabq4524. 54 indexed citations

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Wang, Mengru, Chengbin Fei, Md Aslam Uddin, & Jinsong Huang. (2022). Influence of voids on the thermal and light stability of perovskite solar cells. Science Advances. 8(38). eabo5977–eabo5977. 112 indexed citations

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Xiao, Xun, Meixiang Wang, Shangshang Chen, et al.. (2021). Lead-adsorbing ionogel-based encapsulation for impact-resistant, stable, and lead-safe perovskite modules. Science Advances. 7(44). eabi8249–eabi8249. 120 indexed citations

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Zhou, Meng, et al.. (2020). Effect of Composition on the Spin Relaxation of Lead Halide Perovskites. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 11(4). 1502–1507. 74 indexed citations

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Fei, Chengbin, Meng Zhou, Jonathan Ogle, et al.. (2019). Self-assembled propylammonium cations at grain boundaries and the film surface to improve the efficiency and stability of perovskite solar cells. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 7(41). 23739–23746. 47 indexed citations

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Zhou, Meng, et al.. (2019). Charge Transfer and Diffusion at the Perovskite/PCBM Interface Probed by Transient Absorption and Reflection. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 123(36). 22095–22103. 36 indexed citations

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Titze, Michael, et al.. (2019). Ultrafast Carrier Dynamics of Dual Emissions from the Orthorhombic Phase in Methylammonium Lead Iodide Perovskites Revealed by Two-Dimensional Coherent Spectroscopy. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 10(16). 4625–4631. 12 indexed citations

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Fei, Chengbin, et al.. (2018). Generation of Coherent Optical Phonons in Methylammonium Lead Iodide Thin Films. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 122(30). 17035–17041. 13 indexed citations

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Tian, Jianjun, Lili Lv, Chengbin Fei, et al.. (2014). A highly efficient (>6%) Cd₁₋ₓMnₓSe quantum dot sensitized solar cell. Journal of Materials Chemistry.

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