Katharina Broch

5.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
93 papers, 4.5k citations indexed

About

Katharina Broch is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Katharina Broch has authored 93 papers receiving a total of 4.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 75 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 32 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 30 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Katharina Broch's work include Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (61 papers), Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures (24 papers) and Photochemistry and Electron Transfer Studies (20 papers). Katharina Broch is often cited by papers focused on Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (61 papers), Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures (24 papers) and Photochemistry and Electron Transfer Studies (20 papers). Katharina Broch collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United Kingdom and Japan. Katharina Broch's co-authors include Henning Sirringhaus, Aditya Sadhanala, Frank Schreiber, Mark Nikolka, Iyad Nasrallah, Iain McCulloch, Richard H. Friend, Michael Hurhangee, Deepak Venkateshvaran and Justin M. Hodgkiss and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

Katharina Broch

92 papers receiving 4.5k 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.

Approaching disorder-free transport in high-mobility conjugated polymers

2014 901 citations Mark Nikolka, Aditya Sadhanala et al. profile →
Hot-carrier cooling and photoinduced refractive index changes in organic–inorganic lead halide perovskites

2015 542 citations Tom C. Jellicoe, Aditya Sadhanala et al. Nature Communications profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Katharina Broch Germany	27	3.8k	1.7k	1.7k	758	645	93	4.5k
Martin Oehzelt Germany	36	3.9k 1.0×	1.5k 0.9×	2.0k 1.2×	963 1.3×	801 1.2×	80	5.1k
Alexander Hinderhofer Germany	31	4.5k 1.2×	1.8k 1.0×	2.6k 1.5×	575 0.8×	260 0.4×	120	5.0k
Y.-Y. Lin United States	11	4.2k 1.1×	1.6k 0.9×	938 0.6×	545 0.7×	674 1.0×	16	4.8k
Ebinazar B. Namdas Australia	41	4.3k 1.1×	1.8k 1.0×	2.2k 1.3×	372 0.5×	457 0.7×	133	5.1k
Obadiah G. Reid United States	33	3.8k 1.0×	1.9k 1.1×	2.2k 1.3×	673 0.9×	481 0.7×	84	4.6k
Jens Pflaum Germany	43	4.6k 1.2×	1.6k 0.9×	2.0k 1.2×	1.2k 1.5×	1.0k 1.6×	125	6.0k
Marcia M. Payne United States	34	3.4k 0.9×	1.1k 0.6×	1.1k 0.6×	404 0.5×	767 1.2×	56	4.1k
Shelby F. Nelson United States	23	4.1k 1.1×	888 0.5×	1.2k 0.7×	782 1.0×	542 0.8×	58	4.6k
Shu Hotta Japan	44	4.4k 1.2×	1.8k 1.1×	2.3k 1.4×	807 1.1×	688 1.1×	192	5.7k
David A. Vanden Bout United States	36	2.1k 0.6×	990 0.6×	1.8k 1.1×	1.0k 1.3×	779 1.2×	100	4.2k

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Haug, Sara J., Jiřı́ Novák, Holger F. Bettinger, et al.. (2024). Optical Absorption Properties in Pentacene/Tetracene Solid Solutions. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A. 128(4). 747–760. 4 indexed citations

Broch, Katharina, et al.. (2024). Efficient Energy Transfer and Singlet Fission in Co‐Deposited Thin Films of Pentacene and Anthradithiophene. Advanced Materials Interfaces. 11(7). 3 indexed citations

Broch, Katharina, et al.. (2024). Excited States Dynamics at Pentacene/Perfluoropentacene Interfaces: A Femtosecond Time‐Resolved Second Harmonic Generation Study. ChemPhysChem. 25(6). e202300904–e202300904. 1 indexed citations

Broch, Katharina, Frank Schreiber, Gregor Witte, et al.. (2023). Cluster-Based Approach Utilizing Optimally Tuned TD-DFT to Calculate Absorption Spectra of Organic Semiconductor Thin Films. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation. 19(24). 9369–9387. 7 indexed citations

Pflaum, Jens, et al.. (2023). Influence of Excited-State Delocalization on Singlet Fission: Tuning Triplet-Pair-State Emission in Thin Films. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 127(7). 3778–3786. 1 indexed citations

Moretti, Luca, John Bredehoeft, Sara J. Haug, et al.. (2022). Modulating Singlet Fission by Scanning through Vibronic Resonances in Pentacene-Based Blends. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 144(45). 20610–20619. 10 indexed citations

Richter, Martin, Markus Bender, Patrick Michel, et al.. (2022). Short-range organization and photophysical properties of CdSe quantum dots coupled with aryleneethynylenes. Nanotechnology. 33(23). 230001–230001. 1 indexed citations

Pflaum, Jens, et al.. (2022). Distinguishing between Triplet-Pair State and Excimer Emission in Singlet Fission Chromophores Using Mixed Thin Films. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 126(15). 6686–6693. 6 indexed citations

Meixner, Alfred J., et al.. (2022). Structure and photophysics of rubrene–tetracene blends. Electronic Structure. 4(1). 14002–14002. 1 indexed citations

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Reichman, David R., Michael Seitz, Eric L. Chronister, et al.. (2021). Vacancy control in acene blends links exothermic singlet fission to coherence. Nature Communications. 12(1). 5149–5149. 15 indexed citations

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Broch, Katharina, et al.. (2021). On the Origin of Gap States in Molecular Semiconductors—A Combined UPS, AFM, and X-ray Diffraction Study. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 125(32). 17929–17938. 4 indexed citations

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Moretti, Luca, et al.. (2020). Singlet Heterofission in Tetracene–Pentacene Thin‐Film Blends. Angewandte Chemie. 132(45). 20141–20148. 2 indexed citations

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Engels, Bernd, et al.. (2020). Spatial Anisotropy of Charge Transfer at Perfluoropentacene–Pentacene (001) Single-Crystal Interfaces and its Relevance for Thin Film Devices. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 12(47). 53547–53556. 10 indexed citations

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Broch, Katharina, Roland Resel, Ondřej Caha, et al.. (2019). Annealing Behavior with Thickness Hindered Nucleation in Small-Molecule Organic Semiconductor Thin Films. Crystal Growth & Design. 19(7). 3777–3784. 2 indexed citations

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Schreiber, Frank, et al.. (2019). Excited-State Dynamics in Perylene-Based Organic Semiconductor Thin Films: Theory Meets Experiment. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 123(45). 27561–27572. 19 indexed citations

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Kim, Vincent, Katharina Broch, Alexander Gerlach, et al.. (2019). Singlet exciton fission via an intermolecular charge transfer state in coevaporated pentacene-perfluoropentacene thin films. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 151(16). 164706–164706. 23 indexed citations

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Stern, Hannah L., Alexandre Cheminal, Shane R. Yost, et al.. (2017). Vibronically coherent ultrafast triplet-pair formation and subsequent thermally activated dissociation control efficient endothermic singlet fission. Nature Chemistry. 9(12). 1205–1212. 200 indexed citations

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Fujimoto, Ryo, Yu Yamashita, Shohei Kumagai, et al.. (2017). Molecular doping in organic semiconductors: fully solution-processed, vacuum-free doping with metal–organic complexes in an orthogonal solvent. Journal of Materials Chemistry C. 5(46). 12023–12030. 50 indexed citations

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Tabachnyk, Maxim, Katharina Broch, Luis Pazos, et al.. (2016). Efficient singlet exciton fission in pentacene prepared from a soluble precursor. APL Materials. 4(11). 12 indexed citations

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Nikolka, Mark, Iyad Nasrallah, Bradley D. Rose, et al.. (2016). High operational and environmental stability of high-mobility conjugated polymer field-effect transistors through the use of molecular additives. Nature Materials. 16(3). 356–362. 382 indexed citations

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