Christoph J. Brabec

97.7k total citations · 42 hit papers
890 papers, 79.7k citations indexed

About

Christoph J. Brabec is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Polymers and Plastics and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Christoph J. Brabec has authored 890 papers receiving a total of 79.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 787 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 399 papers in Polymers and Plastics and 244 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Christoph J. Brabec's work include Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (483 papers), Conducting polymers and applications (386 papers) and Perovskite Materials and Applications (320 papers). Christoph J. Brabec is often cited by papers focused on Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (483 papers), Conducting polymers and applications (386 papers) and Perovskite Materials and Applications (320 papers). Christoph J. Brabec collaborates with scholars based in Germany, China and Austria. Christoph J. Brabec's co-authors include Niyazi Serdar Sariçiftçi, Christoph Waldauf, Markus C. Scharber, Gilles Dennler, Pavel Schilinsky, Ning Li, J.C. Hummelen, Tayebeh Ameri, Patrick Denk and Jan C. Hummelen and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Chemical Reviews.

In The Last Decade

Christoph J. Brabec

872 papers receiving 78.3k citations

Hit Papers

Design Rules for Donors in Bulk‐Heterojunction Solar Cell... 2001 2026 2009 2017 2006 2001 2009 2010 2001 1000 2.0k 3.0k 4.0k
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  1. Design Rules for Donors in Bulk‐Heterojunction Solar Cells—Towards 10 % Energy‐Conversion Efficiency
    2006 4.6k citations Christoph J. Brabec et al. profile →
  2. Plastic Solar Cells
    2001 3.3k citations Christoph J. Brabec et al. profile →
  3. Polymer‐Fullerene Bulk‐Heterojunction Solar Cells
    2009 2.8k citations Christoph J. Brabec et al. profile →
  4. Polymer–Fullerene Bulk‐Heterojunction Solar Cells
    2010 2.2k citations Christoph J. Brabec et al. profile →
  5. 2.5% efficient organic plastic solar cells
    2001 2.2k citations Christoph J. Brabec et al. profile →
  6. Origin of the Open Circuit Voltage of Plastic Solar Cells
    2001 1.6k citations Christoph J. Brabec et al. profile →
  7. Processing Additives for Improved Efficiency from Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells
    2008 1.5k citations Christoph J. Brabec et al. profile →
  8. High-efficiency and air-stable P3HT-based polymer solar cells with a new non-fullerene acceptor
    2016 1.1k citations Andrew Wadsworth, Derya Baran et al. Nature Communications profile →
  9. Organic photovoltaics: technology and market
    2004 997 citations Christoph J. Brabec profile →
  10. Detection of X-ray photons by solution-processed lead halide perovskites
    2015 958 citations Shreetu Shrestha, Gebhard J. Matt et al. profile →
  11. High Photovoltaic Performance of a Low‐Bandgap Polymer
    2006 943 citations Christoph J. Brabec et al. profile →
  12. Reducing the efficiency–stability–cost gap of organic photovoltaics with highly efficient and stable small molecule acceptor ternary solar cells
    2016 937 citations Derya Baran, Maged Abdelsamie et al. profile →
  13. Critical review of the molecular design progress in non-fullerene electron acceptors towards commercially viable organic solar cells
    2018 883 citations Andrew Wadsworth, Nicola Gasparini et al. profile →
  14. Recombination and loss analysis in polythiophene based bulk heterojunction photodetectors
    2002 880 citations Christoph J. Brabec et al. profile →
  15. Effect of LiF/metal electrodes on the performance of plastic solar cells
    2002 779 citations Christoph J. Brabec et al. profile →
  16. Correlation Between Structural and Optical Properties of Composite Polymer/Fullerene Films for Organic Solar Cells
    2005 744 citations Christoph J. Brabec et al. profile →
  17. Renewed Prospects for Organic Photovoltaics
    2022 740 citations Thomas Heumüller, Andreas Distler et al. profile →
  18. Organic Ternary Solar Cells: A Review
    2013 694 citations Christoph J. Brabec et al. profile →
  19. Interface materials for organic solar cells
    2010 655 citations Christoph J. Brabec et al. Journal of Materials Chemistry profile →
  20. Organic tandem solar cells: A review
    2009 639 citations Christoph J. Brabec et al. Energy & Environmental Science profile →
  21. Accelerating the discovery of materials for clean energy in the era of smart automation
    2018 572 citations Christoph J. Brabec et al. profile →
  22. Highly efficient inverted organic photovoltaics using solution based titanium oxide as electron selective contact
    2006 553 citations Christoph J. Brabec et al. profile →
  23. High-performance direct conversion X-ray detectors based on sintered hybrid lead triiodide perovskite wafers
    2017 533 citations Shreetu Shrestha, Gebhard J. Matt et al. profile →
  24. Influence of blend microstructure on bulk heterojunction organic photovoltaic performance
    2010 504 citations Christoph J. Brabec, Iain McCulloch et al. profile →
  25. A Low-Bandgap Semiconducting Polymer for Photovoltaic Devices and Infrared Emitting Diodes
    2002 478 citations Christoph J. Brabec et al. profile →
  26. Rare‐Earth Ion Doped Up‐Conversion Materials for Photovoltaic Applications
    2011 462 citations Miroslaw Batentschuk, Andres Osvet et al. profile →
  27. Design Rules for Donors in Bulk‐Heterojunction Tandem Solar Cells�Towards 15 % Energy‐Conversion Efficiency
    2008 462 citations Karen Forberich, Christoph J. Brabec et al. profile →
  28. Reduced voltage losses yield 10% efficient fullerene free organic solar cells with >1 V open circuit voltages
    2016 461 citations Derya Baran, Thomas Kirchartz et al. Energy & Environmental Science profile →
  29. A History and Perspective of Non‐Fullerene Electron Acceptors for Organic Solar Cells
    2021 444 citations Dieter Neher, Thomas Heumüller et al. Advanced Energy Materials profile →
  30. Highly efficient organic tandem solar cells: a follow up review
    2013 430 citations Ning Li, Christoph J. Brabec et al. Energy & Environmental Science profile →
  31. Brightly Luminescent and Color-Tunable Formamidinium Lead Halide Perovskite FAPbX3 (X = Cl, Br, I) Colloidal Nanocrystals
    2017 403 citations Ievgen Levchuk, Andres Osvet et al. profile →
  32. Efficient Polymer Solar Cells Based on Non-fullerene Acceptors with Potential Device Lifetime Approaching 10 Years
    2018 395 citations Thomas Heumueller, Andrej Classen et al. Joule profile →
  33. Dual Interfacial Design for Efficient CsPbI2Br Perovskite Solar Cells with Improved Photostability
    2019 361 citations Jingjing Tian, Xiaofeng Tang et al. profile →
  34. X-ray imaging with scintillator-sensitized hybrid organic photodetectors
    2015 360 citations Gebhard J. Matt, Christoph J. Brabec et al. profile →
  35. Achieving over 17% efficiency of ternary all-polymer solar cells with two well-compatible polymer acceptors
    2021 335 citations Christoph J. Brabec et al. Joule profile →
  36. Organic solar cells using oligomer acceptors for improved stability and efficiency
    2022 330 citations Larry Lüer, Christoph J. Brabec et al. profile →
  37. Inorganic Halide Perovskite Solar Cells: Progress and Challenges
    2020 312 citations Jingjing Tian, Ning Li et al. Advanced Energy Materials profile →
  38. An alcohol-dispersed conducting polymer complex for fully printable organic solar cells with improved stability
    2022 301 citations Ning Li, Christoph J. Brabec et al. profile →
  39. Balancing the efficiency, stability, and cost potential for organic solar cells via a new figure of merit
    2021 206 citations Guanghao Lu, Christoph J. Brabec et al. Joule profile →
  40. High-speed sequential deposition of photoactive layers for organic solar cell manufacturing
    2022 160 citations Christoph J. Brabec et al. profile →
  41. Suppression of phase segregation in wide-bandgap perovskites with thiocyanate ions for perovskite/organic tandems with 25.06% efficiency
    2024 152 citations Christoph J. Brabec et al. profile →
  42. 19.46%-Efficiency all-polymer organic solar cells with excellent outdoor operating stability enabled by active layer reconstruction
    2025 32 citations Yuriy N. Luponosov, Christoph J. Brabec et al. Energy & Environmental Science profile →

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Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Christoph J. Brabec Germany 134 72.1k 50.2k 20.4k 6.7k 5.6k 890 79.7k
Michael F. Toney United States 127 48.6k 0.7× 23.1k 0.5× 20.0k 1.0× 8.4k 1.3× 9.1k 1.6× 703 67.1k
Yang Yang United States 144 81.4k 1.1× 51.3k 1.0× 33.0k 1.6× 10.0k 1.5× 4.5k 0.8× 576 91.0k
Iain McCulloch United Kingdom 122 51.8k 0.7× 40.7k 0.8× 10.9k 0.5× 8.6k 1.3× 2.9k 0.5× 588 59.4k
Niyazi Serdar Sariçiftçi Austria 104 48.2k 0.7× 35.1k 0.7× 16.0k 0.8× 7.8k 1.2× 4.6k 0.8× 638 59.1k
Gang Li China 99 66.8k 0.9× 46.5k 0.9× 20.3k 1.0× 6.2k 0.9× 4.3k 0.8× 524 71.9k
Feng Liu China 123 45.5k 0.6× 36.4k 0.7× 12.0k 0.6× 7.0k 1.1× 2.5k 0.5× 810 56.0k
Michael D. McGehee United States 121 51.3k 0.7× 27.4k 0.5× 25.5k 1.2× 7.6k 1.1× 3.8k 0.7× 303 59.8k
Yongfang Li China 143 88.1k 1.2× 71.0k 1.4× 18.1k 0.9× 5.8k 0.9× 4.6k 0.8× 1.3k 96.4k
Jenny Nelson United Kingdom 106 38.1k 0.5× 24.8k 0.5× 12.5k 0.6× 4.0k 0.6× 4.3k 0.8× 394 45.4k
Stephen R. Forrest United States 139 81.7k 1.1× 30.6k 0.6× 37.5k 1.8× 8.4k 1.3× 9.9k 1.8× 770 93.0k

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All Works

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Qiu, Shudi, Lirong Dong, Andreas Distler, et al.. (2025). Over one-micron-thick void-free perovskite layers enable highly efficient and fully printed solar cells. Energy & Environmental Science. 18(12). 5926–5939. 6 indexed citations
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Wortmann, Jonas, Mingjian Wu, Xin Zhou, et al.. (2025). Fine-Tuning Donor Material Deposition with Ultrasonic Aerosol Jet Printing to Balance Efficiency and Stability in Inverted Organic Photovoltaic Devices. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 17(32). 46149–46160.
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Turchini, Stefano, Francesco Toschi, Patrick O’Keeffe, et al.. (2025). Electron‐Hole Separation Dynamics and Optoelectronic Properties of a PCE10:FOIC Blend. Small. 21(34). e2505063–e2505063. 1 indexed citations
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Stroyuk, Oleksandr, Oleksandra Raievska, Sachin Kinge, Jens Hauch, & Christoph J. Brabec. (2025). Exploring compositional versatility of perovskite-like Cs 3 (Bi,Sb) 2 X 9 (X = Cl, Br, I) compounds by high-throughput experimentation. Materials Advances. 6(14). 4847–4856. 1 indexed citations
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Matt, Gebhard J., Andres Osvet, Shreetu Shrestha, et al.. (2024). Mitigation of carrier trapping effects on carrier lifetime measurements with continuous-wave laser illumination for Pb-based metal halide perovskite materials. Journal of Applied Physics. 135(7). 1 indexed citations
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Zhang, Zesheng, Fang Jin, Chao Yue, et al.. (2024). Simultaneously enhancing efficiency and thermo-/UV-stability of organic solar cells by regulating the nanomorphology of the polymer blend by an acrylated fullerene derivative. Chemical Engineering Journal. 503. 158694–158694. 4 indexed citations
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Peng, Zijian, Á. Vincze, Vincent M. Le Corre, et al.. (2024). Revealing degradation mechanisms in 3D/2D perovskite solar cells under photothermal accelerated ageing. Energy & Environmental Science. 17(21). 8313–8324. 18 indexed citations
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Zhang, Jiyun, Jianchang Wu, Oleksandr Stroyuk, et al.. (2024). Self-driving AMADAP laboratory: Accelerating the discovery and optimization of emerging perovskite photovoltaics. MRS Bulletin. 49(12). 1284–1294. 5 indexed citations
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Distler, Andreas, et al.. (2023). Comparative analysis of outdoor energy harvest of organic and silicon solar modules for applications in BIPV systems. Solar Energy. 263. 111894–111894. 8 indexed citations
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Tang, Yun, Yuchao Zhang, Ting Huang, et al.. (2023). Solvent engineering of scalable deposited wide-bandgap perovskites for efficient monolithic perovskite-organic tandem solar cells. Nano Energy. 114. 108653–108653. 19 indexed citations
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Lüer, Larry, Rong Wang, Chao Liu, et al.. (2023). Maximizing Performance and Stability of Organic Solar Cells at Low Driving Force for Charge Separation. Advanced Science. 11(6). e2305948–e2305948. 9 indexed citations
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Luo, Dou, Christoph J. Brabec, & Aung Ko Ko Kyaw. (2023). Non-fused ring electron acceptors for high-performance and low-cost organic solar cells: Structure-function, stability and synthesis complexity analysis. Nano Energy. 114. 108661–108661. 58 indexed citations
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Singh, Mriganka, Maged Abdelsamie, Qihua Li, et al.. (2023). Effect of the Precursor Chemistry on the Crystallization of Triple Cation Mixed Halide Perovskites. Chemistry of Materials. 35(18). 7450–7459. 15 indexed citations
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Distler, Andreas, et al.. (2023). Overcoming Moisture‐Induced Degradation in Organic Solar Cells. Advanced Engineering Materials. 25(16). 10 indexed citations
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Kupfer, Christian, Jack Elia, Masashi Kato, Andres Osvet, & Christoph J. Brabec. (2022). Mechanochemical Synthesis of Cesium Titanium Halide Perovskites Cs2TiBr6‐xIx (x = 0, 2, 4, 6). Crystal Research and Technology. 58(1). 11 indexed citations
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Gasparini, Nicola, Franco V. A. Camargo, Tetsuhiko Nagahara, et al.. (2021). Adjusting the energy of interfacial states in organic photovoltaics for maximum efficiency. Nature Communications. 12(1). 1772–1772. 48 indexed citations
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Almora, Osbel, Carlos I. Cabrera, José García Cerrillo, et al.. (2021). Quantifying the Absorption Onset in the Quantum Efficiency of Emerging Photovoltaic Devices. Advanced Energy Materials. 11(16). 89 indexed citations
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Gu, Ening, Xiaofeng Tang, Stefan Langner, et al.. (2020). Robot-Based High-Throughput Screening of Antisolvents for Lead Halide Perovskites. Joule. 4(8). 1806–1822. 84 indexed citations
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Batentschuk, Miroslaw, Christoph J. Brabec, Н.М. Хайдуков, et al.. (2017). Highly luminescent Ca3Sc2Si3O12:Ce3+ silicate garnet nano- and microparticles with 50-70% photoluminescence quantum yields as efficient phosphor converters for white LEDs. TechConnect Briefs. 4(2017). 194–197. 3 indexed citations
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Luponosov, Yuriy N., Alexander N. Solodukhin, Artem V. Bakirov, et al.. (2016). Star-shaped D-[small pi]-A oligothiophenes with a tris(2-methoxyphenyl)amine core and alkyldicyanovinyl groups: synthesis and physical and photovoltaic properties. Journal of Materials Chemistry. 4(29). 7061–7076. 1 indexed citations

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