Ifor D. W. Samuel

30.9k total citations · 8 hit papers
587 papers, 25.7k citations indexed

About

Ifor D. W. Samuel is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials Chemistry and Polymers and Plastics. According to data from OpenAlex, Ifor D. W. Samuel has authored 587 papers receiving a total of 25.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 495 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 236 papers in Materials Chemistry and 174 papers in Polymers and Plastics. Recurrent topics in Ifor D. W. Samuel's work include Organic Light-Emitting Diodes Research (322 papers), Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (294 papers) and Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials (174 papers). Ifor D. W. Samuel is often cited by papers focused on Organic Light-Emitting Diodes Research (322 papers), Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (294 papers) and Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials (174 papers). Ifor D. W. Samuel collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Australia. Ifor D. W. Samuel's co-authors include Graham A. Turnbull, Paul L. Burn, Arvydas Ruseckas, Shih‐Chun Lo, Gordon J. Hedley, Eli Zysman‐Colman, Ebinazar B. Namdas, Paul E. Shaw, John M. Lupton and William L. Barnes and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Chemical Reviews.

In The Last Decade

Ifor D. W. Samuel

579 papers receiving 25.3k citations

Hit Papers

Organic Semiconductor Lasers 1995 2026 2005 2015 2007 2008 1995 2016 2007 400 800 1.2k
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.

  1. Organic Semiconductor Lasers
    2007 1.3k citations Ifor D. W. Samuel, Graham A. Turnbull profile →
  2. Exciton Diffusion Measurements in Poly(3‐hexylthiophene)
    2008 742 citations Arvydas Ruseckas, Ifor D. W. Samuel et al. profile →
  3. Measurement of absolute photoluminescence quantum efficiencies in conjugated polymers
    1995 722 citations Ifor D. W. Samuel et al. profile →
  4. Light Harvesting for Organic Photovoltaics
    2016 474 citations Gordon J. Hedley, Arvydas Ruseckas et al. profile →
  5. The Development of Light‐Emitting Dendrimers for Displays
    2007 435 citations Ifor D. W. Samuel et al. profile →
  6. The role of the light source in antimicrobial photodynamic therapy
    2023 181 citations Ifor D. W. Samuel, Ifor D. W. Samuel et al. profile →
  7. The Blue Problem: OLED Stability and Degradation Mechanisms
    2024 87 citations Ifor D. W. Samuel, Eli Zysman‐Colman et al. profile →
  8. A figure of merit for efficiency roll-off in TADF-based organic LEDs
    2024 82 citations Le Zhang, Eli Zysman‐Colman 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
Ifor D. W. Samuel United Kingdom 79 19.6k 11.6k 7.8k 3.0k 2.7k 587 25.7k
Howard E. Katz United States 86 19.0k 1.0× 7.1k 0.6× 9.2k 1.2× 4.7k 1.6× 2.6k 0.9× 357 26.1k
John E. Anthony United States 84 21.7k 1.1× 9.0k 0.8× 7.7k 1.0× 3.7k 1.3× 3.2k 1.2× 405 29.4k
Marc A. Baldo United States 63 27.7k 1.4× 18.3k 1.6× 7.4k 1.0× 1.3k 0.4× 2.5k 0.9× 142 32.0k
Stephen Barlow United States 80 16.9k 0.9× 11.5k 1.0× 10.4k 1.3× 4.8k 1.6× 1.9k 0.7× 383 28.0k
Paul L. Burn Australia 75 28.0k 1.4× 12.9k 1.1× 17.1k 2.2× 2.2k 0.7× 1.5k 0.6× 476 32.9k
Dieter Neher Germany 99 27.8k 1.4× 12.1k 1.0× 17.7k 2.3× 2.3k 0.8× 2.3k 0.8× 416 33.5k
Neil C. Greenham United Kingdom 87 26.2k 1.3× 14.3k 1.2× 12.0k 1.5× 2.2k 0.7× 2.9k 1.1× 304 29.9k
Thuc‐Quyen Nguyen United States 92 27.4k 1.4× 7.2k 0.6× 21.1k 2.7× 3.3k 1.1× 1.9k 0.7× 333 31.9k
D. Moses United States 71 19.3k 1.0× 6.0k 0.5× 14.6k 1.9× 2.5k 0.8× 2.2k 0.8× 272 23.7k
Omar F. Mohammed Saudi Arabia 95 27.4k 1.4× 28.1k 2.4× 4.8k 0.6× 1.8k 0.6× 4.9k 1.8× 457 37.3k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Lee, Oliver, Nidhi Sharma, Tomas Matulaitis, et al.. (2024). Evaluation of acenes as potential acceptors in thermally activated delayed fluorescence emitters and the promise of a phenoxazine–naphthalene emitter for OLEDs. Journal of Materials Chemistry C. 12(12). 4273–4286. 8 indexed citations
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Yoshida, Kou, Cheng Chen, Harald Haas, Graham A. Turnbull, & Ifor D. W. Samuel. (2024). RGB‐Single‐Chip OLEDs for High‐Speed Visible‐Light Communication by Wavelength‐Division Multiplexing. Advanced Science. 11(47). e2404576–e2404576. 6 indexed citations
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Xu, Yan, Hassan Hafeez, Jasmin Seibert, et al.. (2024). [2.2]Paracyclophane‐Substituted Chiral Multiresonant Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence Emitters for Efficient Organic Light‐Emitting Diodes. Advanced Functional Materials. 34(47). 25 indexed citations
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Chen, Dongyang, Junyi Gong, Jeannine Grüne, et al.. (2024). Tetra‐Donor Pyrazine Based Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence Emitters for Electroluminescence and Amplified Spontaneous Emission. Advanced Functional Materials. 34(49). 6 indexed citations
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Yoshida, Kou, et al.. (2023). Frequency-domain time-resolved luminescence for In-operando study of efficiency roll-off in organic light-emitting diodes. Synthetic Metals. 301. 117489–117489. 1 indexed citations
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Wu, Sen, Le Zhang, Jingxiang Wang, et al.. (2023). Merging Boron and Carbonyl based MR‐TADF Emitter Designs to Achieve High Performance Pure Blue OLEDs**. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 62(28). e202305182–e202305182. 80 indexed citations
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Soares, Luiz Guilherme P., et al.. (2023). Evaluation of dual application of photodynamic therapy—PDT in Candida albicans. Photodiagnosis and Photodynamic Therapy. 42. 103327–103327. 13 indexed citations
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Wang, Shaoyang, P. R. Edwards, Maged Abdelsamie, et al.. (2023). Chlorine retention enables the indoor light harvesting of triple halide wide bandgap perovskites. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 11(23). 12328–12341. 11 indexed citations
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Chen, Dongyang, Le Zhang, Tomas Matulaitis, et al.. (2023). Tuning the emission and exciton utilization mechanisms of pyrazine-based multi-carbazole emitters and their use in organic light-emitting diodes. Journal of Materials Chemistry C. 11(38). 13095–13105. 6 indexed citations
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Wu, Sen, Abhishek Kumar Gupta, Kou Yoshida, et al.. (2022). Highly Efficient Green and Red Narrowband Emissive Organic Light‐Emitting Diodes Employing Multi‐Resonant Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence Emitters**. Angewandte Chemie. 134(52). 5 indexed citations
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Gupta, Abhishek Kumar, Tomas Matulaitis, David B. Cordes, et al.. (2021). Highly twisted α-diketone-based thermally activated delayed fluorescence emitters and their use in organic light-emitting diodes. Canadian Journal of Chemistry. 100(3). 224–233. 2 indexed citations
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Si, Changfeng, Abhishek Kumar Gupta, Claudia Bizzarri, et al.. (2021). Fluorinated dibenzo[ a , c ]-phenazine-based green to red thermally activated delayed fluorescent OLED emitters. Journal of Materials Chemistry C. 10(12). 4757–4766. 17 indexed citations
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Ma, Suqian, Mengjie Wei, Sai Kiran Rajendran, et al.. (2020). Pick and Place Distributed Feedback Lasers Using Organic Single Crystals. Advanced Optical Materials. 8(8). 9 indexed citations
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Wei, Mengjie, Sai Kiran Rajendran, Hamid Ohadi, et al.. (2019). Low-threshold polariton lasing in a highly disordered conjugated polymer. Optica. 6(9). 1124–1124. 40 indexed citations
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Dalgarno, Paul A., J. Colas, Gordon J. Hedley, et al.. (2019). Unveiling the multi-step solubilization mechanism of sub-micron size vesicles by detergents. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 12897–12897. 18 indexed citations
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Tenopala‐Carmona, Francisco, Stephanie L. Fronk, Guillermo C. Bazan, Ifor D. W. Samuel, & J. Carlos Penedo. (2018). Real-time observation of conformational switching in single conjugated polymer chains. Science Advances. 4(2). eaao5786–eaao5786. 20 indexed citations
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Sajjad, Muhammad T., Jonathon R. Harwell, Fabrice Odobel, et al.. (2018). CuSCN Nanowires as Electrodes for p-Type Quantum Dot Sensitized Solar Cells: Charge Transfer Dynamics and Alumina Passivation. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 122(9). 5161–5170. 8 indexed citations
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Ni, Chengsheng, Gordon J. Hedley, Julia L. Payne, et al.. (2017). Charge carrier localised in zero-dimensional (CH3NH3)3Bi2I9 clusters. Nature Communications. 8(1). 170–170. 71 indexed citations
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Kulyk, Olena, Sally H. Ibbotson, Harry Moseley, R. Valentine, & Ifor D. W. Samuel. (2015). Development of a handheld fluorescence imaging device to investigate the characteristics of protoporphyrin IX fluorescence in healthy and diseased skin. Photodiagnosis and Photodynamic Therapy. 12(4). 630–639. 11 indexed citations
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Cortizo‐Lacalle, Diego, Calvyn T. Howells, Upendra Kumar Pandey, et al.. (2014). Solution processable diketopyrrolopyrrole (DPP) cored small molecules with BODIPY end groups as novel donors for organic solar cells. Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry. 10. 2683–2695. 21 indexed citations

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