Franky So

18.1k total citations · 6 hit papers
243 papers, 15.5k citations indexed

About

Franky So is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Polymers and Plastics and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Franky So has authored 243 papers receiving a total of 15.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 226 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 125 papers in Polymers and Plastics and 51 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Franky So's work include Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (162 papers), Conducting polymers and applications (118 papers) and Organic Light-Emitting Diodes Research (108 papers). Franky So is often cited by papers focused on Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (162 papers), Conducting polymers and applications (118 papers) and Organic Light-Emitting Diodes Research (108 papers). Franky So collaborates with scholars based in United States, Hong Kong and China. Franky So's co-authors include John R. Reynolds, Sai‐Wing Tsang, Song Chen, Jegadesan Subbiah, Chad M. Amb, Cephas E. Small, Tzung‐Han Lai, Jesse R. Manders, Denis Y. Kondakov and Neetu Chopra and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Franky So

237 papers receiving 15.2k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

High-efficiency inverted dithienogermole–thienopyrrolodione-based polymer solar cells

2011 872 citations Sai‐Wing Tsang, John R. Reynolds et al. profile →
Dithienogermole As a Fused Electron Donor in Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells

2011 598 citations Franky So, John R. Reynolds et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
Solution‐Processed Nickel Oxide Hole Transport Layers in High Efficiency Polymer Photovoltaic Cells

2013 492 citations Sai‐Wing Tsang, John R. Reynolds et al. Advanced Functional Materials profile →
Recent Advances in OLED Optical Design

2019 453 citations Amin Salehi, Dong‐Hun Shin et al. Advanced Functional Materials profile →
Low-Voltage, Low-Power, Organic Light-Emitting Transistors for Active Matrix Displays

2011 408 citations Franky So et al. profile →
Metal Halide Perovskites for Laser Applications

2021 286 citations Qi Dong, Kenan Gündoğdu et al. Advanced Functional Materials profile →

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Franky So

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Franky So. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Franky So based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Franky So. Franky So is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Trap‐Modified Inverted Organic Photodetectors via Layer‐by‐Layer Processing with Poly(N‐vinylcarbazole) Additives 2025 ·Advanced Functional Materials ·Jingwei Yi, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), V. Mahdikhah, (unknown), (unknown), Kenan Gündoğdu, Wei You, Harald Ade, Franky So	0
2	Micropatterned Indium–Tin Oxide Grid Electrode for Vertical, Optoelectronic Field-Effect Transistors 2025 ·ACS Applied Electronic Materials ·Szuheng Ho, (unknown), Franky So, Hyeonggeun Yu	0
3	Unconventional solitonic high-temperature superfluorescence from perovskites 2025 ·Nature ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Xixi Qin, Dovletgeldi Seyitliyev, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Rui Su, Uthpala Herath, Anna K. Swan, Vasily V. Temnov, Volker Blüm, Franky So, Kenan Gündoğdu	0
4	Quantifying the Localization of Charges Generated upon Molecular Doping of Conjugated Polymers 2025 ·Journal of the American Chemical Society ·Sung‐Joo Kwon, Rajiv Giridharagopal, (unknown), (unknown), Wei You, Franky So, David S. Ginger	0
5	Modeling the co-assembly of binary nanoparticles 2023 ·Nanotechnology ·(unknown), Timothy Chen, (unknown), Franky So, Chih‐Hao Chang	1
6	Curved Mirror Arrays for Light Extraction in Top-Emitting Organic Light-Emitting Diodes 2022 ·ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Qi Dong, Dong Chen, Franky So	11
7	Insights into the Local Bulk-Heterojunction Packing Interactions and Donor–Acceptor Energy Level Offsets in Scalable Photovoltaic Polymers 2022 ·Chemistry of Materials ·Austin L. Jones, Carr Hoi Yi Ho, Sebastian Schneider, Junxiang Zhang, (unknown), Jiayu Wang, Xiaowei Zhan, Seth R. Marder, Michael F. Toney, Franky So, G. N. Manjunatha Reddy, John R. Reynolds	7
8	Directional Polarized Light Emission from Thin‐Film Light‐Emitting Diodes 2021 ·Advanced Materials ·(unknown), (unknown), Yi‐An Chen, Lei Lei, Liping Zhu, Nilesh Barange, Qi Dong, (unknown), Juliana Mendes, Siliang He, (unknown), Chih‐Hao Chang, Franky So	41
9	Multi-mode Organic Light-Emitting Diode to Suppress the Viewing Angle Dependence 2020 ·ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces ·Dong Chen, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Kenan Gündoğdu, Jian Li, Franky So	9
10	High‐Performance Tandem Organic Solar Cells Using HSolar as the Interconnecting Layer 2020 ·Advanced Energy Materials ·Carr Hoi Yi Ho, Taesoo Kim, Yuan Xiong, Yuliar Firdaus, Xueping Yi, Qi Dong, Jeromy James Rech, Abay Gadisa, Ronald E. Booth, Brendan O’Connor, Aram Amassian, Harald Ade, Wei You, Thomas D. Anthopoulos, Franky So	29
11	Understanding the Role of Ion Migration in the Operation of Perovskite Light-Emitting Diodes by Transient Measurements 2020 ·ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces ·Qi Dong, Juliana Mendes, Lei Lei, Dovletgeldi Seyitliyev, Liping Zhu, Siliang He, Kenan Gündoğdu, Franky So	51
12	Realization of high-efficiency fluorescent organic light-emitting diodes with low driving voltage 2019 ·Nature Communications ·Amin Salehi, Dong Chen, Dong‐Hun Shin, Liping Zhu, Christopher M. Papa, Anh Thy Bui, Felix N. Castellano, Franky So	90
13	Eliminate angular color shift in top‐emitting OLEDs through cavity design 2019 ·Journal of the Society for Information Display ·Dong Chen, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Dong‐Hun Shin, Amin Salehi, Juliana Mendes, Franky So	14
14	Side-Chain Sequence Enabled Regioisomeric Acceptors for Conjugated Polymers 2018 ·Macromolecules ·Xuyi Luo, Dung T. Tran, (unknown), Carr Hoi Yi Ho, Parand R. Riley, Franky So, Jianguo Mei	15
15	Impact of Nonfullerene Molecular Architecture on Charge Generation, Transport, and Morphology in PTB7‐Th‐Based Organic Solar Cells 2018 ·Advanced Functional Materials ·Xueping Yi, Bhoj Gautam, Iordania Constantinou, Yuanhang Cheng, Zhengxing Peng, Erik Klump, (unknown), Carr Hoi Yi Ho, Dong Chen, Seth R. Marder, John R. Reynolds, Sai‐Wing Tsang, Harald Ade, Franky So	49
16	Flexoelectricity in a metal/ferroelectric/semiconductor heterostructure 2018 ·AIP Advances ·(unknown), Hei Man Yau, Hyeonggeun Yu, Lu Qi, Franky So, Jiyan Dai, Xiaoning Jiang	6
17	Increased Exciton Delocalization of Polymer upon Blending with Fullerene 2018 ·Advanced Materials ·Bhoj Gautam, Erik Klump, Xueping Yi, Iordania Constantinou, Nathan T. Shewmon, Amin Salehi, Chi Kin Lo, Zilong Zheng, Jean‐Luc Brédas, Kenan Gündoğdu, John R. Reynolds, Franky So	21
18	Enhanced piezoelectricity of thin film hafnia-zirconia (HZO) by inorganic flexible substrates 2018 ·Applied Physics Letters ·H. Alex Hsain, Pankaj Sharma, Hyeonggeun Yu, Jacob L. Jones, Franky So, Jan Seidel	28
19	Every Atom Counts: Elucidating the Fundamental Impact of Structural Change in Conjugated Polymers for Organic Photovoltaics 2018 ·Chemistry of Materials ·Chi Kin Lo, Bhoj Gautam, (unknown), Zilong Zheng, Stefan D. Oosterhout, Iordania Constantinou, (unknown), Rylan M. W. Wolfe, Xueping Yi, Jean‐Luc Brédas, Franky So, Michael F. Toney, Veaceslav Coropceanu, Michael Ryan Hansen, Kenan Gündoğdu, John R. Reynolds	39
20	Strong polymer molecular weight-dependent material interactions: impact on the formation of the polymer/fullerene bulk heterojunction morphology 2017 ·Journal of Materials Chemistry A ·Joo‐Hyun Kim, Abay Gadisa, Charley Schaefer, Huifeng Yao, Bhoj Gautam, Nrup Balar, Masoud Ghasemi, Iordania Constantinou, Franky So, Brendan O’Connor, Kenan Gündoğdu, Jianhui Hou, Harald Ade	48

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