David Cahen

40.9k total citations · 17 hit papers
512 papers, 34.6k citations indexed

About

David Cahen is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials Chemistry and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, David Cahen has authored 512 papers receiving a total of 34.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 420 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 230 papers in Materials Chemistry and 151 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in David Cahen's work include Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films (179 papers), Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties (145 papers) and Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures (135 papers). David Cahen is often cited by papers focused on Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films (179 papers), Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties (145 papers) and Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures (135 papers). David Cahen collaborates with scholars based in Israel, United States and Germany. David Cahen's co-authors include Gary Hodes, Antoine Kahn, Michael Kulbak, Leeor Kronik, Ayelet Vilan, Eran Edri, Saar Kirmayer, J. Manassen, Pabitra K. Nayak and Adi Salomon and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Chemical Reviews.

In The Last Decade

David Cahen

505 papers receiving 34.0k citations

Hit Papers

Hybrid organic—... 1976 2026 1992 2009 2016 2015 2019 2015 2003 400 800 1.2k
What are hit papers?

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.

  1. Hybrid organic—inorganic perovskites: low-cost semiconductors with intriguing charge-transport properties
    2016 1.3k citations Leeor Kronik, Gary Hodes et al. Nature Reviews Materials profile →
  2. How Important Is the Organic Part of Lead Halide Perovskite Photovoltaic Cells? Efficient CsPbBr3 Cells
    2015 971 citations Michael Kulbak, David Cahen et al. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters profile →
  3. Photovoltaic solar cell technologies: analysing the state of the art
    2019 894 citations Pabitra K. Nayak, Suhas Mahesh et al. Nature Reviews Materials profile →
  4. Cesium Enhances Long-Term Stability of Lead Bromide Perovskite-Based Solar Cells
    2015 871 citations Michael Kulbak, Satyajit Gupta et al. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters profile →
  5. Comparison of Electronic Transport Measurements on Organic Molecules
    2003 743 citations David Cahen et al. profile →
  6. Nature of Photovoltaic Action in Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells
    2000 639 citations David Cahen, Gary Hodes et al. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B profile →
  7. Electron Energetics at Surfaces and Interfaces: Concepts and Experiments
    2003 617 citations David Cahen, Antoine Kahn profile →
  8. Interface energetics in organo-metal halide perovskite-based photovoltaic cells
    2014 615 citations Eran Edri, Gary Hodes et al. profile →
  9. Advances in Perovskite Solar Cells
    2016 552 citations David Cahen et al. profile →
  10. Physical Chemical Principles of Photovoltaic Conversion with Nanoparticulate, Mesoporous Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells
    2004 546 citations David Cahen, Gary Hodes et al. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B profile →
  11. Elucidating the charge carrier separation and working mechanism of CH3NH3PbI3−xClx perovskite solar cells
    2014 505 citations Eran Edri, Gary Hodes et al. profile →
  12. High Open-Circuit Voltage Solar Cells Based on Organic–Inorganic Lead Bromide Perovskite
    2013 480 citations Eran Edri, David Cahen et al. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters profile →
  13. Halide Perovskites: Is It All about the Interfaces?
    2019 463 citations David Cahen, Antoine Kahn et al. profile →
  14. Rain on Methylammonium Lead Iodide Based Perovskites: Possible Environmental Effects of Perovskite Solar Cells
    2015 455 citations Eran Edri, Gary Hodes et al. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters profile →
  15. Preparation of Single-Phase Films of CH3NH3Pb(I1–xBrx)3 with Sharp Optical Band Edges
    2014 392 citations David Cahen, Richard H. Friend et al. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters profile →
  16. Photoelectrochemical energy conversion and storage using polycrystalline chalcogenide electrodes
    1976 384 citations Gary Hodes, David Cahen et al. profile →
  17. Temperature-Dependent Optical Band Gap in CsPbBr3, MAPbBr3, and FAPbBr3 Single Crystals
    2020 256 citations Davide Raffaele Ceratti, David Cahen et al. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
David Cahen Israel 89 28.4k 20.2k 6.3k 5.6k 4.8k 512 34.6k
Jiannian Yao China 99 20.5k 0.7× 20.4k 1.0× 3.4k 0.5× 7.8k 1.4× 6.5k 1.3× 703 37.3k
Arthur J. Nozik United States 83 19.9k 0.7× 24.8k 1.2× 5.4k 0.9× 1.8k 0.3× 8.9k 1.8× 231 32.6k
Chongwu Zhou United States 99 24.7k 0.9× 23.0k 1.1× 5.8k 0.9× 4.7k 0.8× 1.8k 0.4× 279 39.7k
Xiao Wei Sun China 93 25.2k 0.9× 23.9k 1.2× 4.9k 0.8× 5.9k 1.1× 3.1k 0.6× 1.3k 39.0k
Vladimir Bulović United States 93 32.7k 1.1× 28.9k 1.4× 4.8k 0.8× 7.6k 1.4× 2.0k 0.4× 310 42.6k
Paolo Samorı́ France 83 13.2k 0.5× 16.2k 0.8× 3.8k 0.6× 3.7k 0.7× 1.7k 0.3× 532 27.4k
Deren Yang China 80 18.9k 0.7× 17.6k 0.9× 3.4k 0.5× 2.3k 0.4× 4.6k 0.9× 1.1k 29.1k
C. Daniel Frisbie United States 90 23.5k 0.8× 8.5k 0.4× 6.0k 1.0× 8.8k 1.6× 843 0.2× 287 30.5k
Robert C. Haddon United States 111 12.0k 0.4× 32.2k 1.6× 5.4k 0.9× 6.8k 1.2× 1.5k 0.3× 496 49.2k
Jr‐Hau He Taiwan 91 17.5k 0.6× 18.0k 0.9× 2.2k 0.3× 3.5k 0.6× 5.1k 1.1× 366 29.0k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Das, Sourav, Eran Edri, Israel Pecht, et al.. (2025). Hard‐Wired Solid‐State Bioelectronic Micropore Devices: Permanent Metal‐Protein‐Metal Junction Proof‐of‐Concept. Small. 21(49). e06560–e06560.
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Levine, Igal, et al.. (2024). Experimental evidence for defect tolerance in Pb-halide perovskites. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(18). e2316867121–e2316867121. 6 indexed citations
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Rosenhek‐Goldian, Irit, David Cahen, & Sidney Cohen. (2023). Measuring and understanding the nanomechanical properties of halide perovskites and their correlation to structure—A perspective. Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology B Nanotechnology and Microelectronics Materials Processing Measurement and Phenomena. 41(5). 2 indexed citations
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Papp, Eszter, Gábor Vattay, Carlos Romero‐Muñiz, et al.. (2023). Experimental Data Confirm Carrier-Cascade Model for Solid-State Conductance across Proteins. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 127(8). 1728–1734. 3 indexed citations
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Kumar, Sujit, Tatyana Bendikov, Michael Elbaum, et al.. (2023). Topotactic, Vapor-Phase, In Situ Monitored Formation of Ultrathin, Phase-Pure 2D-on-3D Halide Perovskite Surfaces. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 15(19). 23908–23921. 6 indexed citations
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Aharon, Sigalit, Davide Raffaele Ceratti, Llorenç Cremonesi, et al.. (2022). 2D Pb‐Halide Perovskites Can Self‐Heal Photodamage Better than 3D Ones. Advanced Functional Materials. 32(24). 23 indexed citations
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Frisch, Johannes, et al.. (2022). Prospect of making XPS a high-throughput analytical method illustrated for a CuxNi1−xOy combinatorial material library. RSC Advances. 12(13). 7996–8002. 6 indexed citations
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Rosenhek‐Goldian, Irit, et al.. (2022). Nanomechanical signatures of degradation-free influence of water on halide perovskite mechanics. Communications Materials. 3(1). 11 indexed citations
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Guo, Cunlan, Yulian Gavrilov, Satyajit Gupta, et al.. (2022). Electron transport via tyrosine-doped oligo-alanine peptide junctions: role of charges and hydrogen bonding. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 24(47). 28878–28885. 3 indexed citations
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Cahen, David, Leeor Kronik, & Gary Hodes. (2021). Are Defects in Lead-Halide Perovskites Healed, Tolerated, or Both?. ACS Energy Letters. 6(11). 4108–4114. 59 indexed citations
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Levine, Igal, Michael Kulbak, Carolin Rehermann, et al.. (2021). Direct Probing of Gap States and Their Passivation in Halide Perovskites by High-Sensitivity, Variable Energy Ultraviolet Photoelectron Spectroscopy. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 125(9). 5217–5225. 15 indexed citations
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Futera, Zdeněk, Kavita Garg, Xiuyun Jiang, et al.. (2020). Coherent Electron Transport across a 3 nm Bioelectronic Junction Made of Multi-Heme Proteins. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 11(22). 9766–9774. 52 indexed citations
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Hartmann, Claudia, Satyajit Gupta, Tatyana Bendikov, et al.. (2020). Impact of SnF2 Addition on the Chemical and Electronic Surface Structure of CsSnBr3. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 12(10). 12353–12361. 46 indexed citations
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Feldman, Yishay, et al.. (2020). Halide Diffusion in MAPbX3: Limits to Topotaxy for Halide Exchange in Perovskites. Chemistry of Materials. 32(10). 4223–4231. 24 indexed citations
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Levine, Igal, Michael Kulbak, Janardan Dagar, et al.. (2019). Correction to “Deep Defect States in Wide-Band-Gap ABX3 Halide Perovskites”. ACS Energy Letters. 4(6). 1464–1464. 2 indexed citations
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Nayak, Pabitra K., Suhas Mahesh, Henry J. Snaith, & David Cahen. (2019). Photovoltaic solar cell technologies: analysing the state of the art. Nature Reviews Materials. 4(4). 269–285. 894 indexed citations breakdown →
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Zohar, Arava, Michael Kulbak, Igal Levine, et al.. (2018). What Limits the Open-Circuit Voltage of Bromide Perovskite-Based Solar Cells?. ACS Energy Letters. 4(1). 1–7. 79 indexed citations
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Garg, Kavita, Mihir Ghosh, Jessica H. van Wonderen, et al.. (2018). Direct evidence for heme-assisted solid-state electronic conduction in multi-hemec-type cytochromes. Chemical Science. 9(37). 7304–7310. 47 indexed citations
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Gupta, Satyajit, David Cahen, & Gary Hodes. (2018). How SnF2 Impacts the Material Properties of Lead-Free Tin Perovskites. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 122(25). 13926–13936. 224 indexed citations
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Kulbak, Michael, et al.. (2017). CsPbBr 3 /ポリトリアリールアミン(PTAA)系の電子構造. Journal of Applied Physics. 121(3). 35304–35304. 1 indexed citations

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