Donal D. C. Bradley

74.4k total citations · 22 hit papers
605 papers, 64.6k citations indexed

About

Donal D. C. Bradley is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Polymers and Plastics and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Donal D. C. Bradley has authored 605 papers receiving a total of 64.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 540 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 290 papers in Polymers and Plastics and 129 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Donal D. C. Bradley's work include Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (440 papers), Conducting polymers and applications (271 papers) and Organic Light-Emitting Diodes Research (255 papers). Donal D. C. Bradley is often cited by papers focused on Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (440 papers), Conducting polymers and applications (271 papers) and Organic Light-Emitting Diodes Research (255 papers). Donal D. C. Bradley collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Germany. Donal D. C. Bradley's co-authors include Richard H. Friend, Andrew B. Holmes, Jenny Nelson, J. H. Burroughes, R. N. Marks, Paul L. Burn, Adam R. Brown, K. Mackay, James R. Durrant and David G. Lidzey and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Donal D. C. Bradley

600 papers receiving 62.9k citations

Hit Papers

Light-emitting diodes based on conjugated polymers 1990 2026 2002 2014 1990 1999 2006 1993 2008 2.5k 5.0k 7.5k
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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.

  1. Light-emitting diodes based on conjugated polymers
    1990 9.7k citations Donal D. C. Bradley, Richard H. Friend et al. profile →
  2. Electroluminescence in conjugated polymers
    1999 5.3k citations Richard H. Friend, Andrew B. Holmes et al. profile →
  3. A strong regioregularity effect in self-organizing conjugated polymer films and high-efficiency polythiophene:fullerene solar cells
    2006 2.1k citations Donal D. C. Bradley et al. profile →
  4. Efficient light-emitting diodes based on polymers with high electron affinities
    1993 1.5k citations Donal D. C. Bradley, Richard H. Friend et al. profile →
  5. Morphology evolution via self-organization and lateral and vertical diffusion in polymer:fullerene solar cell blends
    2008 1.3k citations Thomas D. Anthopoulos, Paul N. Stavrinou et al. profile →
  6. Strong exciton–photon coupling in an organic semiconductor microcavity
    1998 718 citations Donal D. C. Bradley et al. profile →
  7. Mobility enhancement in conjugated polymer field-effect transistors through chain alignment in a liquid-crystalline phase
    2000 679 citations Richard H. Friend, Donal D. C. Bradley et al. profile →
  8. Degradation of organic solar cells due to air exposure
    2006 643 citations Donal D. C. Bradley et al. profile →
  9. Electrochemical determination of the ionization potential and electron affinity of poly(9,9-dioctylfluorene)
    1998 632 citations Donal D. C. Bradley et al. profile →
  10. Chemical tuning of electroluminescent copolymers to improve emission efficiencies and allow patterning
    1992 616 citations Paul L. Burn, Andrew B. Holmes et al. profile →
  11. Device annealing effect in organic solar cells with blends of regioregular poly(3-hexylthiophene) and soluble fullerene
    2005 605 citations Donal D. C. Bradley et al. profile →
  12. Interplay of Physical Structure and Photophysics for a Liquid Crystalline Polyfluorene
    1999 602 citations Donal D. C. Bradley et al. profile →
  13. Poly(p-phenylenevinylene) light-emitting diodes: Enhanced electroluminescent efficiency through charge carrier confinement
    1992 559 citations Donal D. C. Bradley, Richard H. Friend et al. profile →
  14. Charge Carrier Formation in Polythiophene/Fullerene Blend Films Studied by Transient Absorption Spectroscopy
    2008 558 citations Martin Heeney, Donal D. C. Bradley et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  15. High brightness and efficiency blue light-emitting polymer diodes
    1998 553 citations Donal D. C. Bradley et al. profile →
  16. Efficient Organic Solar Cells with Solution‐Processed Silver Nanowire Electrodes
    2011 513 citations Donal D. C. Bradley et al. Advanced Materials profile →
  17. Angular Dependence of the Emission from a Conjugated Polymer Light‐Emitting Diode: Implications for efficiency calculations
    1994 506 citations Richard H. Friend, Donal D. C. Bradley et al. Advanced Materials profile →
  18. A glass‐forming conjugated main‐chain liquid crystal polymer for polarized electroluminescence applications
    1997 491 citations Donal D. C. Bradley et al. Advanced Materials profile →
  19. Measuring the Efficiency of Organic Light‐Emitting Devices
    2003 484 citations Donal D. C. Bradley et al. Advanced Materials profile →
  20. Experimental determination of the rate law for charge carrier decay in a polythiophene: Fullerene solar cell
    2008 473 citations Donal D. C. Bradley et al. profile →
  21. Hybrid Polymer/Zinc Oxide Photovoltaic Devices with Vertically Oriented ZnO Nanorods and an Amphiphilic Molecular Interface Layer
    2006 472 citations Donal D. C. Bradley et al. profile →
  22. Space-charge limited conduction with traps in poly(phenylene vinylene) light emitting diodes
    1997 439 citations Donal D. C. Bradley et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Donal D. C. Bradley United Kingdom 114 55.2k 35.1k 18.5k 7.9k 5.8k 605 64.6k
Niyazi Serdar Sariçiftçi Austria 104 48.2k 0.9× 35.1k 1.0× 16.0k 0.9× 7.8k 1.0× 4.6k 0.8× 638 59.1k
Ullrich Scherf Germany 98 29.4k 0.5× 18.1k 0.5× 15.9k 0.9× 4.0k 0.5× 3.4k 0.6× 743 40.1k
Guillermo C. Bazan United States 130 41.9k 0.8× 32.4k 0.9× 18.8k 1.0× 6.8k 0.9× 3.1k 0.5× 731 63.4k
Alex K.‐Y. Jen United States 149 67.9k 1.2× 43.3k 1.2× 28.5k 1.5× 8.0k 1.0× 6.7k 1.2× 1.1k 83.5k
Michael D. McGehee United States 121 51.3k 0.9× 27.4k 0.8× 25.5k 1.4× 7.6k 1.0× 3.8k 0.7× 303 59.8k
Karl Leo Germany 105 39.0k 0.7× 16.2k 0.5× 14.5k 0.8× 5.6k 0.7× 6.9k 1.2× 816 45.7k
Jenny Nelson United Kingdom 106 38.1k 0.7× 24.8k 0.7× 12.5k 0.7× 4.0k 0.5× 4.3k 0.7× 394 45.4k
Henning Sirringhaus United Kingdom 102 45.2k 0.8× 24.9k 0.7× 13.3k 0.7× 9.5k 1.2× 4.5k 0.8× 398 51.9k
Yang Yang United States 144 81.4k 1.5× 51.3k 1.5× 33.0k 1.8× 10.0k 1.3× 4.5k 0.8× 576 91.0k
René A. J. Janssen Netherlands 116 46.7k 0.8× 34.6k 1.0× 16.3k 0.9× 5.4k 0.7× 3.5k 0.6× 673 56.9k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Levermore, Peter A., et al.. (2024). 62‐1: Invited Paper: TurboLED: Smart Display Design. SID Symposium Digest of Technical Papers. 55(S1). 531–534.
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He, Song, et al.. (2022). Acanthopagrus oconnorae, a new species of seabream (Sparidae) from the Red Sea. Journal of Fish Biology. 101(4). 885–897. 3 indexed citations
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Subedi, Ram Chandra, Susann Rossbach, Chun Hong Kang, et al.. (2021). Giant clam inspired high-speed photo-conversion for ultraviolet optical wireless communication. Optical Materials Express. 11(5). 1515–1515. 1 indexed citations
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Taylor, Robert A., et al.. (2020). Enhanced and polarization-dependent coupling for photoaligned liquid crystalline conjugated polymer microcavities. Oxford University Research Archive (ORA) (University of Oxford). 21 indexed citations
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Yu, Meng‐Na, Jinyi Lin, Yinxiang Li, et al.. (2019). Emission Enhanced and Stabilized by Stereoisomeric Strategy in Hierarchical Uniform Supramolecular Framework. Chem. 5(9). 2470–2483. 53 indexed citations
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Zhang, Qi, Qi Wei, Xu Yan, et al.. (2018). Host Exciton Confinement for Enhanced Förster‐Transfer‐Blend Gain Media Yielding Highly Efficient Yellow‐Green Lasers. Advanced Functional Materials. 28(17). 44 indexed citations
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Amdursky, Nadav, Xuhua Wang, Paul Meredith, Donal D. C. Bradley, & Molly M. Stevens. (2016). Long‐Range Proton Conduction across Free‐Standing Serum Albumin Mats. Advanced Materials. 28(14). 2692–2698. 69 indexed citations
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Kang, Chan‐mo, Jessica Wade, Sumin Yun, et al.. (2016). Organic Electronics: 1 GHz Pentacene Diode Rectifiers Enabled by Controlled Film Deposition on SAM‐Treated Au Anodes (Adv. Electron. Mater. 2/2016). Advanced Electronic Materials. 2(2). 1 indexed citations
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Yaacobi‐Gross, Nir, Neil D. Treat, Pichaya Pattanasattayavong, et al.. (2014). High‐Efficiency Organic Photovoltaic Cells Based on the Solution‐Processable Hole Transporting Interlayer Copper Thiocyanate (CuSCN) as a Replacement for PEDOT:PSS. Advanced Energy Materials. 5(3). 154 indexed citations
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Belton, C., Alexander L. Kanibolotsky, James Kirkpatrick, et al.. (2013). Location, Location, Location ‐ Strategic Positioning of 2,1,3‐Benzothiadiazole Units within Trigonal Quaterfluorene‐Truxene Star‐Shaped Structures. Advanced Functional Materials. 23(22). 2792–2804. 66 indexed citations
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Wakahara, Takatsugu, Pasquale D’Angelo, Kun’ichi Miyazawa, et al.. (2012). Fullerene/Cobalt Porphyrin Hybrid Nanosheets with Ambipolar Charge Transporting Characteristics. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 134(17). 7204–7206. 121 indexed citations
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Dickson, Wayne, Jean‐Sebastien G. Bouillard, Stéphane Kéna‐Cohen, et al.. (2011). 2011 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe and 12th European Quantum Electronics Conference. Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics. 4 indexed citations
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Mackintosh, A. R., Alexander J. C. Kuehne, R.A. Pethrick, et al.. (2008). Novel polymer systems for deep UV microlens arrays. Journal of Physics D Applied Physics. 41(9). 94007–94007. 8 indexed citations
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Khan, R. U. A., Theo Kreouzis, D. Poplavskyy, & Donal D. C. Bradley. (2002). Hole injection and transport in a fluorene-containing copolymer. MRS Proceedings. 734. 3 indexed citations
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Martin, Simon J., Donal D. C. Bradley, Paul A. Lane, H. Mellor, & Paul L. Burn. (1999). Linear and nonlinear optical properties of the conjugated polymers PPV and MEH-PPV. Physical review. B, Condensed matter. 59(23). 15133–15142. 78 indexed citations
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Bradley, Donal D. C.. (1991). Molecular electronics. Aspects of the physics. 27(8). 719–723. 9 indexed citations
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Pellegrin, E., J. Fink, Donal D. C. Bradley, et al.. (1991). Electronic structure of poly(p-phenylenevinylene) and poly(2,5-thienylenevinylene). Synthetic Metals. 41(3). 1353–1357. 6 indexed citations
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Friend, Richard H., David Bott, Donal D. C. Bradley, et al.. (1985). Electronic properties of conjugated polymers. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series A Mathematical and Physical Sciences. 314(1528). 37–49. 26 indexed citations

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