K. S. Whitehead

1.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
14 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

K. S. Whitehead is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Polymers and Plastics and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, K. S. Whitehead has authored 14 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 5 papers in Polymers and Plastics and 5 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in K. S. Whitehead's work include Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (8 papers), Organic Light-Emitting Diodes Research (7 papers) and Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials (4 papers). K. S. Whitehead is often cited by papers focused on Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (8 papers), Organic Light-Emitting Diodes Research (7 papers) and Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials (4 papers). K. S. Whitehead collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Germany and United States. K. S. Whitehead's co-authors include Donal D. C. Bradley, Martin Grell, Goran Ungar, J. Grant Hill, M. Jandke, Peter Strohriegl, M. Inbasekaran, E. P. Woo, P. Etchegoin and H. Liem and has published in prestigious journals such as Advanced Materials, Applied Physics Letters and Journal of Applied Physics.

In The Last Decade

K. S. Whitehead

14 papers receiving 1.3k citations

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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.

Interplay of Physical Structure and Photophysics for a Liquid Crystalline Polyfluorene

1999 602 citations Martin Grell, Donal D. C. Bradley et al. Macromolecules profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
K. S. Whitehead United Kingdom	11	1.0k	546	545	238	162	14	1.3k
Han You China	16	960 0.9×	400 0.7×	649 1.2×	219 0.9×	106 0.7×	37	1.2k
A. Falcou France	11	1.2k 1.2×	647 1.2×	534 1.0×	164 0.7×	182 1.1×	29	1.5k
M.‐M. Ling United States	6	895 0.9×	442 0.8×	278 0.5×	123 0.5×	139 0.9×	7	1.1k
S. A. Chen Taiwan	16	810 0.8×	569 1.0×	497 0.9×	144 0.6×	134 0.8×	22	1.1k
Heinrich Becker Germany	11	2.0k 2.0×	1.2k 2.2×	698 1.3×	198 0.8×	208 1.3×	25	2.3k
Takafumi Izawa Japan	11	1.7k 1.6×	699 1.3×	427 0.8×	273 1.1×	201 1.2×	14	2.0k
K. Pakbaz United States	18	1.6k 1.6×	1.2k 2.3×	464 0.9×	247 1.0×	156 1.0×	32	1.9k
Egon Reinold Germany	20	1.6k 1.5×	1.2k 2.2×	438 0.8×	215 0.9×	185 1.1×	27	1.8k
Sean W. Culligan United States	12	988 1.0×	483 0.9×	679 1.2×	379 1.6×	42 0.3×	13	1.3k
Hisayoshi Fujikawa Japan	20	1.4k 1.4×	618 1.1×	588 1.1×	264 1.1×	280 1.7×	55	2.0k

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Xia, Ruidong, Mariano Campoy‐Quiles, G. Heliotis, et al.. (2005). Significant improvements in the optical gain properties of oriented liquid crystalline conjugated polymer films. Synthetic Metals. 155(2). 274–278. 33 indexed citations

Liem, H., P. Etchegoin, K. S. Whitehead, & Donal D. C. Bradley. (2003). Raman Anisotropy Measurements: An Effective Probe of Molecular Orientation in Conjugated Polymer Thin Films. Advanced Functional Materials. 13(1). 66–72. 70 indexed citations

Heliotis, G., Ruidong Xia, K. S. Whitehead, et al.. (2003). Investigation of amplified spontaneous emission in oriented films of a liquid crystalline conjugated polymer. Synthetic Metals. 139(3). 727–730. 31 indexed citations

Liem, H., P. Etchegoin, K. S. Whitehead, & Donal D. C. Bradley. (2002). Raman scattering as a probe of morphology in conjugated polymer thin films. Journal of Applied Physics. 92(2). 1154–1161. 34 indexed citations

Jandke, M., Doris Hanft, Peter Strohriegl, et al.. (2001). Polarized electroluminescence from photocrosslinkable nematic fluorene bisacrylates. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 4105. 338–338. 24 indexed citations

Grell, Martin, et al.. (2001). A Compact Device for the Efficient, Electrically Driven Generation of Highly Circularly Polarized Light. Advanced Materials. 13(8). 577–580. 113 indexed citations

Grell, Martin, et al.. (2001). A Compact Device for the Efficient, Electrically Driven Generation of Highly Circularly Polarized Light. Advanced Materials. 13(8). 577–580. 2 indexed citations

Whitehead, K. S., Martin Grell, Donal D. C. Bradley, M. Jandke, & Peter Strohriegl. (2000). Highly polarized blue electroluminescence from homogeneously aligned films of poly(9,9-dioctylfluorene). Applied Physics Letters. 76(20). 2946–2948. 193 indexed citations

Whitehead, K. S., Martin Grell, Donal D. C. Bradley, M. Inbasekaran, & E. P. Woo. (2000). Polarized emission from liquid crystal polymers. Synthetic Metals. 111-112. 181–185. 72 indexed citations

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Grell, Martin, Donal D. C. Bradley, M. Inbasekaran, et al.. (2000). Intrachain ordered polyfluorene. Synthetic Metals. 111-112. 579–581. 27 indexed citations

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Whitehead, K. S., Martin Grell, Donal D. C. Bradley, M. Jandke, & Peter Strohriegl. (2000). Liquid crystalline orientation of polyfluorenes for polarized electroluminescence devices. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 3939. 172–172. 3 indexed citations

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Bacher, Andreas, P G Bentley, Martin Grell, et al.. (2000). Conjugated reactive mesogens. Synthetic Metals. 111-112. 413–415. 9 indexed citations

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Grell, Martin, Donal D. C. Bradley, Goran Ungar, J. Grant Hill, & K. S. Whitehead. (1999). Interplay of Physical Structure and Photophysics for a Liquid Crystalline Polyfluorene. Macromolecules. 32(18). 5810–5817. 602 indexed citations breakdown →

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Grell, Martin, M. Redecker, K. S. Whitehead, et al.. (1999). Monodomain alignment of thermotropic fluorene copolymers. Liquid Crystals. 26(9). 1403–1407. 77 indexed citations

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