Eric Wei‐Guang Diau

23.9k total citations · 7 hit papers
269 papers, 21.4k citations indexed

About

Eric Wei‐Guang Diau is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. According to data from OpenAlex, Eric Wei‐Guang Diau has authored 269 papers receiving a total of 21.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 169 papers in Materials Chemistry, 137 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 94 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. Recurrent topics in Eric Wei‐Guang Diau's work include Perovskite Materials and Applications (107 papers), TiO2 Photocatalysis and Solar Cells (78 papers) and Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (77 papers). Eric Wei‐Guang Diau is often cited by papers focused on Perovskite Materials and Applications (107 papers), TiO2 Photocatalysis and Solar Cells (78 papers) and Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (77 papers). Eric Wei‐Guang Diau collaborates with scholars based in Taiwan, United States and Japan. Eric Wei‐Guang Diau's co-authors include Chen‐Yu Yeh, Michaël Grätzel, Shaik M. Zakeeruddin, Lulin Li, Hsuan‐Wei Lee, Chenyi Yi, Aswani Yella, Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Hoi Nok Tsao and Aravind Kumar Chandiran and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Eric Wei‐Guang Diau

266 papers receiving 21.1k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Porphyrin-Sensitized Solar Cells with Cobalt (II/III)–Based Redox Electrolyte Exceed 12 Percent Efficiency

2011 5.4k citations Eric Wei‐Guang Diau et al. profile →
Porphyrin-sensitized solar cells

2012 1.2k citations Eric Wei‐Guang Diau et al. profile →
Highly Efficient Mesoscopic Dye‐Sensitized Solar Cells Based on Donor–Acceptor‐Substituted Porphyrins

2010 755 citations Eric Wei‐Guang Diau et al. Angewandte Chemie International Edition profile →
Robust Tin‐Based Perovskite Solar Cells with Hybrid Organic Cations to Attain Efficiency Approaching 10%

2018 443 citations Efat Jokar, Amir Fathi et al. Advanced Materials profile →
Slow surface passivation and crystal relaxation with additives to improve device performance and durability for tin-based perovskite solar cells

2018 443 citations Efat Jokar, Amir Fathi et al. profile →
Dual-plasmonic Au@Cu7S4 yolk@shell nanocrystals for photocatalytic hydrogen production across visible to near infrared spectral region

2024 102 citations Sudhakar Narra, Eric Wei‐Guang Diau et al. profile →
Perovskite solar cells

2025 80 citations Eric Wei‐Guang Diau et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Eric Wei‐Guang Diau Taiwan	69	14.3k	10.5k	8.4k	4.3k	1.3k	269	21.4k
Jacques‐E. Moser Switzerland	76	22.0k 1.5×	18.3k 1.7×	16.2k 1.9×	8.0k 1.9×	2.0k 1.5×	207	35.9k
Lin X. Chen United States	70	7.3k 0.5×	3.7k 0.4×	10.7k 1.3×	6.6k 1.5×	1.6k 1.2×	290	18.6k
Jun‐Ho Yum Switzerland	69	17.7k 1.2×	11.7k 1.1×	15.4k 1.8×	6.4k 1.5×	664 0.5×	157	26.3k
Gerald J. Meyer United States	67	9.8k 0.7×	10.1k 1.0×	4.3k 0.5×	1.4k 0.3×	2.1k 1.5×	339	18.3k
Tianquan Lian United States	80	15.4k 1.1×	9.0k 0.9×	9.1k 1.1×	833 0.2×	1.5k 1.1×	283	21.4k
Shozo Yanagida Japan	78	12.4k 0.9×	11.3k 1.1×	4.9k 0.6×	3.3k 0.8×	546 0.4×	340	20.3k
Ryuzi Katoh Japan	50	7.5k 0.5×	6.8k 0.7×	3.2k 0.4×	1.3k 0.3×	1.2k 0.9×	225	11.7k
Robin Humphry‐Baker Switzerland	70	30.4k 2.1×	25.1k 2.4×	22.3k 2.6×	11.3k 2.6×	1.6k 1.2×	127	46.9k
Peter Bäuerle Germany	73	9.4k 0.7×	4.1k 0.4×	13.8k 1.6×	9.8k 2.3×	1.2k 0.9×	371	24.0k
Ling Zang United States	60	7.9k 0.6×	3.3k 0.3×	5.1k 0.6×	1.9k 0.5×	415 0.3×	186	13.0k

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Nebhani, Leena, et al.. (2025). Multifunctional Engineering-Enabled Electron Transport in SnO₂ for Sn-Based Perovskite Solar Cells in the n-i-p Configuration. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 17(35). 49584–49593. 1 indexed citations

Narra, Sudhakar, et al.. (2024). Surface Roughness Dependent Linear Electric Field Effects on the Exciton Absorption of Methylammonium Lead Triiodide Perovskite Films. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 128(40). 17134–17140. 2 indexed citations

Afraj, Shakil N., Chun‐Hsiao Kuan, Yunxin Wang, et al.. (2024). Triphenylamine‐Based Y‐Shaped Self‐Assembled Monolayers for Efficient Tin Perovskite Solar Cells. Small. 21(2). e2408638–e2408638. 7 indexed citations

Kuan, Chun‐Hsiao, Shakil N. Afraj, Yuling Huang, et al.. (2024). Functionalized Thienopyrazines on NiOx Film as Self‐Assembled Monolayer for Efficient Tin‐Perovskite Solar Cells Using a Two‐Step Method. Angewandte Chemie. 136(39). 11 indexed citations

Awasthi, Kamlesh, et al.. (2023). Interface- and Temperature-Sensitive Linear Electric Field Effects on Exciton Absorption of CH₃NH₃PbI₃ Perovskite Films. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 127(50). 24383–24392. 1 indexed citations

Kuan, Chun‐Hsiao, Rajendiran Balasaravanan, Jen‐Shyang Ni, et al.. (2023). Dopant‐Free Pyrrolopyrrole‐Based (PPr) Polymeric Hole‐Transporting Materials for Efficient Tin‐Based Perovskite Solar Cells with Stability Over 6000 h. Advanced Materials. 35(23). e2300681–e2300681. 48 indexed citations

Narra, Sudhakar, et al.. (2022). Retarded Charge Recombination to Enhance Photocatalytic Performance for Water-Free CO₂ Reduction Using Perovskite Nanocrystals as Photocatalysts. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 13(39). 9134–9139. 10 indexed citations

Kuan, Chun‐Hsiao, Sudhakar Narra, Hirotsugu Hiramatsu, et al.. (2022). How can a hydrophobic polymer PTAA serve as a hole- transport layer for an inverted tin perovskite solar cell?. Chemical Engineering Journal. 450. 138037–138037. 55 indexed citations

Bhosale, Sumit S., et al.. (2022). Self-Photocatalytic Splitting of Carbon Dioxide Using Co-cationic Perovskite Nanocrystals in the Absence of Water. ACS Energy Letters. 8(1). 280–288. 4 indexed citations

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Jokar, Efat, et al.. (2021). Slow Passivation and Inverted Hysteresis for Hybrid Tin Perovskite Solar Cells Attaining 13.5% via Sequential Deposition. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 12(41). 10106–10111. 81 indexed citations

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Awasthi, Kamlesh, et al.. (2021). Illumination Power-Dependent Electroabsorption of Excitons in a CH₃NH₃PbI₃ Perovskite Film. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 125(50). 27631–27637. 3 indexed citations

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Awasthi, Kamlesh, et al.. (2019). Effect of an External Electric Field on the Fluorescence of a π-Conjugated Polymer Film of P3HT Sandwiched between FTO and PMMA. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 123(20). 12647–12658. 5 indexed citations

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Awasthi, Kamlesh, et al.. (2019). Temperature-Dependent Electroabsorption and Electrophotoluminescence and Exciton Binding Energy in MAPbBr₃ Perovskite Quantum Dots. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 123(32). 19927–19937. 29 indexed citations

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Awasthi, Kamlesh, et al.. (2019). Enhanced Dissociation of Hot Excitons with an Applied Electric Field under Low-Power Photoexcitation in Two-Dimensional Perovskite Quantum Wells. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 10(16). 4752–4757. 10 indexed citations

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Yang, In Seok, et al.. (2017). Silver bismuth iodides in various compositions as potential Pb-free light absorbers for hybrid solar cells. Sustainable Energy & Fuels. 2(1). 294–302. 98 indexed citations

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Shalan, Ahmed Esmail, Sudhakar Narra, Tomoya Oshikiri, et al.. (2017). Optimization of a compact layer of TiO₂via atomic-layer deposition for high-performance perovskite solar cells. Sustainable Energy & Fuels. 1(7). 1533–1540. 58 indexed citations

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Hsu, Hung‐Yu, Chi‐Yung Wang, Amir Fathi, et al.. (2014). Femtosecond Excitonic Relaxation Dynamics of Perovskite on Mesoporous Films of Al₂O₃ and NiO Nanoparticles. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 53(35). 9339–9342. 59 indexed citations

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Hung, Chen‐Hsiung, et al.. (2007). m-Benziporphodimethene: a new porphyrin analogue fluorescence zinc(ii) sensor. Chemical Communications. 978–980. 98 indexed citations

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Diau, Eric Wei‐Guang, Carsten Kötting, Theis I. Sølling, & Ahmed H. Zewail. (2002). Femtochemistry of Norrish Type-I Reactions: III. Highly Excited Ketones—Theoretical. ChemPhysChem. 3(1). 57–78. 74 indexed citations

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Diau, Eric Wei‐Guang, Carsten Kötting, & Ahmed H. Zewail. (2001). Femtochemistry of Norrish Type-I Reactions: I. Experimental and Theoretical Studies of Acetone and Related Ketones on the S1 Surface. ChemPhysChem. 2(5). 273–293. 122 indexed citations

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