Esma Ugur

6.5k total citations · 8 hit papers
38 papers, 3.2k citations indexed

About

Esma Ugur is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Polymers and Plastics and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Esma Ugur has authored 38 papers receiving a total of 3.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 36 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 16 papers in Polymers and Plastics and 16 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Esma Ugur's work include Perovskite Materials and Applications (34 papers), Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films (18 papers) and Conducting polymers and applications (14 papers). Esma Ugur is often cited by papers focused on Perovskite Materials and Applications (34 papers), Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films (18 papers) and Conducting polymers and applications (14 papers). Esma Ugur collaborates with scholars based in Saudi Arabia, China and United States. Esma Ugur's co-authors include Stefaan De Wolf, Erkan Aydın, Michele De Bastiani, Thomas G. Allen, Jiang Liu, Anand S. Subbiah, Frédéric Laquai, Randi Azmi, Maxime Babics and Arsalan Razzaq and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Advanced Materials.

In The Last Decade

Esma Ugur

36 papers receiving 3.2k citations

Hit Papers

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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. Damp heat–stable perovskite solar cells with tailored-dimensionality 2D/3D heterojunctions
    2022 639 citations Randi Azmi, Esma Ugur et al. Science profile →
  2. A Universal Double‐Side Passivation for High Open‐Circuit Voltage in Perovskite Solar Cells: Role of Carbonyl Groups in Poly(methyl methacrylate)
    2018 459 citations Jafar I. Khan, Esma Ugur et al. profile →
  3. Enhanced optoelectronic coupling for perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells
    2023 287 citations Erkan Aydın, Esma Ugur et al. Nature profile →
  4. Tin Oxide Electron‐Selective Layers for Efficient, Stable, and Scalable Perovskite Solar Cells
    2021 274 citations Erkan Aydın, Esma Ugur et al. Advanced Materials profile →
  5. Double-side 2D/3D heterojunctions for inverted perovskite solar cells
    2024 273 citations Randi Azmi, Drajad Satrio Utomo et al. Nature profile →
  6. Pathways toward commercial perovskite/silicon tandem photovoltaics
    2024 210 citations Erkan Aydın, Thomas G. Allen et al. Science profile →
  7. Enhanced cation interaction in perovskites for efficient tandem solar cells with silicon
    2024 105 citations Esma Ugur, Ahmed Ali Said et al. Science profile →
  8. Capillary Manganese Halide Needle‐Like Array Scintillator with Isolated Light Crosstalk for Micro‐X‐Ray Imaging
    2024 43 citations Wenyi Shao, Tengyue He et al. Advanced Materials profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Esma Ugur Saudi Arabia 23 3.1k 1.7k 1.5k 141 122 38 3.2k
Caleb C. Boyd United States 14 3.8k 1.2× 2.2k 1.3× 1.6k 1.1× 141 1.0× 108 0.9× 18 3.8k
Sam Teale Canada 18 2.2k 0.7× 1.4k 0.8× 967 0.6× 105 0.7× 116 1.0× 25 2.3k
Hongwei Zhu China 23 2.4k 0.8× 1.3k 0.8× 1.3k 0.9× 111 0.8× 81 0.7× 51 2.7k
Seong Sik Shin South Korea 13 2.8k 0.9× 1.9k 1.2× 1.3k 0.9× 309 2.2× 117 1.0× 24 3.1k
Yunlong Li China 25 3.7k 1.2× 2.1k 1.3× 2.2k 1.4× 102 0.7× 89 0.7× 78 4.0k
Xisheng Zhang China 13 1.3k 0.4× 1.0k 0.6× 438 0.3× 111 0.8× 126 1.0× 36 1.5k
Jeannette M. Kadro Switzerland 8 2.8k 0.9× 2.3k 1.4× 665 0.4× 105 0.7× 242 2.0× 9 2.9k
Deng‐Bing Li United States 33 3.7k 1.2× 3.4k 2.1× 492 0.3× 335 2.4× 351 2.9× 73 4.1k
Taylor Moot United States 16 1.6k 0.5× 1.1k 0.7× 481 0.3× 114 0.8× 87 0.7× 20 1.7k

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All Works

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Zhu, Yan, Thomas Allen, Erkan Aydın, et al.. (2025). Luminescence‐Based Implied Voltage Imaging of Tandem Solar Cells Using Bandpass Filters. Small Methods. 9(4). e2401003–e2401003. 2 indexed citations
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Said, Ahmed Ali, Esma Ugur, Zhaoning Song, et al.. (2025). Temperature-Resilient Monolithic Perovskite/Silicon Tandems Enabling Crystalline Front TCO Integration. ACS Applied Energy Materials. 8(18). 13722–13731.
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Said, Ahmed Ali, Xiaole Li, Esma Ugur, et al.. (2025). Perovskite/Silicon Tandem Photovoltaics: Long-Term Stability through Interface Engineering. Energy & Fuels. 39(22). 10134–10149. 4 indexed citations
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Xu, Fuzong, Erkan Aydın, İlhan Yavuz, et al.. (2025). Stabilized perovskite phases enabling efficient perovskite/perovskite/silicon triple-junction solar cells. Nature Materials. 25(2). 259–266.
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Wang, Lijie, Jie Yang, Yifan Zhou, et al.. (2025). Real-space imaging of photo-generated surface carrier transport in 2D perovskites. Light Science & Applications. 14(1). 124–124. 4 indexed citations
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Shao, Wenyi, Tengyue He, Lijie Wang, et al.. (2024). Capillary Manganese Halide Needle‐Like Array Scintillator with Isolated Light Crosstalk for Micro‐X‐Ray Imaging. Advanced Materials. 36(21). e2312053–e2312053. 43 indexed citations breakdown →
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Allen, Thomas, Esma Ugur, Erkan Aydın, Anand S. Subbiah, & Stefaan De Wolf. (2024). A Practical Efficiency Target for Perovskite/Silicon Tandem Solar Cells. ACS Energy Letters. 10(1). 238–245. 14 indexed citations
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Aydın, Erkan, Thomas G. Allen, Michele De Bastiani, et al.. (2024). Pathways toward commercial perovskite/silicon tandem photovoltaics. Science. 383(6679). eadh3849–eadh3849. 210 indexed citations breakdown →
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Ugur, Esma, Ahmed Ali Said, Pia Dally, et al.. (2024). Enhanced cation interaction in perovskites for efficient tandem solar cells with silicon. Science. 385(6708). 533–538. 105 indexed citations breakdown →
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Azmi, Randi, Drajad Satrio Utomo, Badri Vishal, et al.. (2024). Double-side 2D/3D heterojunctions for inverted perovskite solar cells. Nature. 628(8006). 93–98. 273 indexed citations breakdown →
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Aydın, Erkan, Esma Ugur, Bumın K. Yildırım, et al.. (2023). Enhanced optoelectronic coupling for perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells. Nature. 623(7988). 732–738. 287 indexed citations breakdown →
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Babics, Maxime, Michele De Bastiani, Ahmed H. Balawi, et al.. (2022). Unleashing the Full Power of Perovskite/Silicon Tandem Modules with Solar Trackers. ACS Energy Letters. 7(5). 1604–1610. 22 indexed citations
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Ugur, Esma, Martin Ledinský, Thomas G. Allen, et al.. (2022). Life on the Urbach Edge. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 13(33). 7702–7711. 106 indexed citations
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Azmi, Randi, Esma Ugur, Akmaral Seitkhan, et al.. (2022). Damp heat–stable perovskite solar cells with tailored-dimensionality 2D/3D heterojunctions. Science. 376(6588). 73–77. 639 indexed citations breakdown →
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Bastiani, Michele De, Emmanuel Van Kerschaver, Quentin Jeangros, et al.. (2021). Toward Stable Monolithic Perovskite/Silicon Tandem Photovoltaics: A Six-Month Outdoor Performance Study in a Hot and Humid Climate. ACS Energy Letters. 6(8). 2944–2951. 58 indexed citations
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Khan, Jafar I., Furkan H. Isikgor, Esma Ugur, et al.. (2021). Charge Carrier Recombination at Perovskite/Hole Transport Layer Interfaces Monitored by Time-Resolved Spectroscopy. ACS Energy Letters. 6(12). 4155–4164. 50 indexed citations
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Ugur, Esma, Erkki Alarousu, Jafar I. Khan, et al.. (2020). How Humidity and Light Exposure Change the Photophysics of Metal Halide Perovskite Solar Cells. Solar RRL. 4(11). 24 indexed citations
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Neophytou, Marios, Michele De Bastiani, Nicola Gasparini, et al.. (2019). Enhancing the Charge Extraction and Stability of Perovskite Solar Cells Using Strontium Titanate (SrTiO3) Electron Transport Layer. ACS Applied Energy Materials. 2(11). 8090–8097. 61 indexed citations
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Ugur, Esma, Jafar I. Khan, Erkan Aydın, et al.. (2019). Carrier Extraction from Perovskite to Polymeric Charge Transport Layers Probed by Ultrafast Transient Absorption Spectroscopy. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 10(21). 6921–6928. 34 indexed citations
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Aydın, Erkan, Joel Troughton, Michele De Bastiani, et al.. (2018). Room-Temperature-Sputtered Nanocrystalline Nickel Oxide as Hole Transport Layer for p–i–n Perovskite Solar Cells. ACS Applied Energy Materials. 1(11). 6227–6233. 110 indexed citations

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