Fengshuo Zu

4.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
53 papers, 3.2k citations indexed

About

Fengshuo Zu is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials Chemistry and Polymers and Plastics. According to data from OpenAlex, Fengshuo Zu has authored 53 papers receiving a total of 3.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 51 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 31 papers in Materials Chemistry and 18 papers in Polymers and Plastics. Recurrent topics in Fengshuo Zu's work include Perovskite Materials and Applications (37 papers), Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films (21 papers) and Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties (18 papers). Fengshuo Zu is often cited by papers focused on Perovskite Materials and Applications (37 papers), Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films (21 papers) and Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties (18 papers). Fengshuo Zu collaborates with scholars based in Germany, China and Hong Kong. Fengshuo Zu's co-authors include Norbert Koch, Dieter Neher, Christian M. Wolff, Martin Stolterfoht, Liang‐Sheng Liao, Pietro Caprioglio, Steve Albrecht, Maryline Ralaiarisoa, Thomas Unold and Patrick Amsalem and has published in prestigious journals such as Advanced Materials, Nature Communications and ACS Nano.

In The Last Decade

Fengshuo Zu

50 papers receiving 3.2k 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.

The impact of energy alignment and interfacial recombination on the internal and external open-circuit voltage of perovskite solar cells

2019 735 citations Martin Stolterfoht, Pietro Caprioglio et al. Energy & Environmental Science profile →
Understanding Performance Limiting Interfacial Recombination in pin Perovskite Solar Cells

2022 201 citations Jonathan Warby, Fengshuo Zu et al. Advanced Energy Materials profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Fengshuo Zu Germany	26	3.1k	1.7k	1.4k	259	212	53	3.2k
Jun Xi China	33	3.5k 1.1×	2.3k 1.3×	1.4k 1.0×	152 0.6×	145 0.7×	82	3.6k
Christ H. L. Weijtens Netherlands	21	1.8k 0.6×	991 0.6×	1.0k 0.7×	143 0.6×	356 1.7×	44	2.1k
Yao‐Tsung Hsieh United States	14	2.6k 0.9×	1.8k 1.0×	1.0k 0.7×	127 0.5×	141 0.7×	14	2.7k
Axel F. Palmstrom United States	25	3.6k 1.2×	2.1k 1.2×	1.4k 1.0×	127 0.5×	77 0.4×	44	3.7k
Zong‐Liang Tseng Taiwan	22	2.2k 0.7×	1.5k 0.9×	967 0.7×	81 0.3×	104 0.5×	89	2.4k
Xuegong Yu China	27	1.7k 0.6×	1.3k 0.8×	714 0.5×	293 1.1×	420 2.0×	52	2.1k
Brion Bob United States	21	2.8k 0.9×	1.7k 1.0×	807 0.6×	245 0.9×	645 3.0×	28	3.0k
Like Huang China	28	3.2k 1.0×	1.5k 0.9×	1.9k 1.4×	82 0.3×	210 1.0×	118	3.4k
Haoran Wang China	29	4.0k 1.3×	3.0k 1.8×	1.2k 0.8×	221 0.9×	144 0.7×	52	4.3k

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All Works

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Zu, Fengshuo, et al.. (2025). The Impact of Gas Cluster Ion Beam Sputtering on the Chemical and Electronic Structure of Methyl Ammonium Lead Iodide Thin Films. Advanced Materials Interfaces. 12(12). 1 indexed citations

Ye, Fangyuan, Shuo Zhang, Felix Lang, et al.. (2025). Minimizing Recombination at the Perovskite/C₆₀ Interface through a Volatile Highly Dense Molecular Interlayer. ACS Energy Letters. 10(6). 2942–2951. 4 indexed citations

Zuo, Shengnan, Sercan Özen, Wentao Liu, et al.. (2025). Minimizing Ionic Losses in DMSO-Free Tin-Based Perovskite Solar Cells. ACS Energy Letters. 10(12). 6215–6222. 1 indexed citations

Zu, Fengshuo, Rongbin Wang, Sylke Blumstengel, et al.. (2025). Light-Induced Electronic Band Realignment at the Metal Halide Perovskite/Monolayer MoS₂ Heterojunction. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 17(20). 30251–30258.

Grandhi, G. Krishnamurthy, Fengshuo Zu, Paola Alippi, et al.. (2025). DMSO-Free Tin Halide Perovskites for Indoor Photovoltaics. ACS Energy Letters. 10(8). 3789–3798.

Zu, Fengshuo, Dongguen Shin, Emilio Gutierrez‐Partida, et al.. (2023). Charge Selective Contacts to Metal Halide Perovskites Studied with Photoelectron Spectroscopy: X‐Ray, Ultraviolet, and Visible Light Induced Energy Level Realignment. Advanced Materials Interfaces. 10(34). 3 indexed citations

Zu, Fengshuo, Artem Musiienko, Emilio Gutierrez‐Partida, et al.. (2023). Interface Modification for Energy Level Alignment and Charge Extraction in CsPbI₃ Perovskite Solar Cells. ACS Energy Letters. 8(10). 4304–4314. 74 indexed citations

Grischek, Max, Pietro Caprioglio, Jiahuan Zhang, et al.. (2022). Efficiency Potential and Voltage Loss of Inorganic CsPbI₂Br Perovskite Solar Cells. Solar RRL. 6(11). 19 indexed citations

Zu, Fengshuo, Mukunda Mandal, Andreas Opitz, et al.. (2022). Quantum Efficiency Enhancement of Lead-Halide Perovskite Nanocrystal LEDs by Organic Lithium Salt Treatment. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 14(25). 28985–28996. 13 indexed citations

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Ye, Fangyuan, Shuo Zhang, Jonathan Warby, et al.. (2022). Overcoming C60-induced interfacial recombination in inverted perovskite solar cells by electron-transporting carborane. Nature Communications. 13(1). 7454–7454. 145 indexed citations

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Zu, Fengshuo, Marcel Roß, Dongguen Shin, et al.. (2022). Illumination‐Driven Energy Level Realignment at Buried Interfaces between Organic Charge Transport Layers and a Lead Halide Perovskite. Solar RRL. 6(6). 11 indexed citations

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Warby, Jonathan, Fengshuo Zu, Stefan Zeiske, et al.. (2022). Understanding Performance Limiting Interfacial Recombination in pin Perovskite Solar Cells. Advanced Energy Materials. 12(12). 201 indexed citations breakdown →

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Shin, Dongguen, et al.. (2022). The Electronic Properties of a 2D Ruddlesden‐Popper Perovskite and its Energy Level Alignment with a 3D Perovskite Enable Interfacial Energy Transfer. Advanced Functional Materials. 33(2). 28 indexed citations

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Shin, Dongguen, Fengshuo Zu, & Norbert Koch. (2021). Reversible oxygen-induced p-doping of mixed-cation halide perovskites. APL Materials. 9(8). 9 indexed citations

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Shin, Dongguen, et al.. (2021). Mechanism and Timescales of Reversible p‐Doping of Methylammonium Lead Triiodide by Oxygen. Advanced Materials. 33(23). e2100211–e2100211. 26 indexed citations

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Oliver, Robert D. J., Pietro Caprioglio, Francisco Peña‐Camargo, et al.. (2021). Understanding and suppressing non-radiative losses in methylammonium-free wide-bandgap perovskite solar cells. Energy & Environmental Science. 15(2). 714–726. 119 indexed citations

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Zu, Fengshuo, Thorsten Schultz, Christian M. Wolff, et al.. (2020). Position-locking of volatile reaction products by atmosphere and capping layers slows down photodecomposition of methylammonium lead triiodide perovskite. RSC Advances. 10(30). 17534–17542. 18 indexed citations

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Ramadan, Alexandra J., Maryline Ralaiarisoa, Fengshuo Zu, et al.. (2019). Revealing the Stoichiometric Tolerance of Lead Trihalide Perovskite Thin Films. Chemistry of Materials. 32(1). 114–120. 8 indexed citations

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Dagar, Janardan, Katrin Hirselandt, Aboma Merdasa, et al.. (2019). Alkali Salts as Interface Modifiers in n‐i‐p Hybrid Perovskite Solar Cells. Solar RRL. 3(9). 52 indexed citations

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Zu, Fengshuo, Patrick Amsalem, David A. Egger, et al.. (2019). Constructing the Electronic Structure of CH₃NH₃PbI₃ and CH₃NH₃PbBr₃ Perovskite Thin Films from Single-Crystal Band Structure Measurements. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 10(3). 601–609. 80 indexed citations

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