Kilwon Cho

33.5k total citations · 10 hit papers
560 papers, 28.9k citations indexed

About

Kilwon Cho is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Polymers and Plastics and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Kilwon Cho has authored 560 papers receiving a total of 28.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 396 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 279 papers in Polymers and Plastics and 145 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Kilwon Cho's work include Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (289 papers), Conducting polymers and applications (228 papers) and Perovskite Materials and Applications (117 papers). Kilwon Cho is often cited by papers focused on Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (289 papers), Conducting polymers and applications (228 papers) and Perovskite Materials and Applications (117 papers). Kilwon Cho collaborates with scholars based in South Korea, China and United States. Kilwon Cho's co-authors include Wi Hyoung Lee, Boseok Kang, Do Hwan Kim, Seung Goo Lee, Yeong Don Park, Joong Tark Han, Jeong Ho Cho, Hyun Ho Choi, Donghoon Kwak and Jung Ah Lim and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Kilwon Cho

544 papers receiving 28.5k citations

Hit Papers

Critical assessment of charge mobili... 2005 2026 2012 2019 2017 2005 2016 2019 2018 200 400 600
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. Critical assessment of charge mobility extraction in FETs
    2017 623 citations Hyun Ho Choi, Kilwon Cho et al. profile →
  2. Quantitative equivalence between polymer nanocomposites and thin polymer films
    2005 612 citations Kilwon Cho et al. profile →
  3. Linearly and Highly Pressure‐Sensitive Electronic Skin Based on a Bioinspired Hierarchical Structural Array
    2016 573 citations Geun Yeol Bae, Daegun Kim et al. Advanced Materials profile →
  4. A High‐Performance Solution‐Processed Organic Photodetector for Near‐Infrared Sensing
    2019 407 citations Jianfei Huang, Jaewon Lee et al. Advanced Materials profile →
  5. Pressure/Temperature Sensing Bimodal Electronic Skin with Stimulus Discriminability and Linear Sensitivity
    2018 362 citations Geun Yeol Bae, Giwon Lee et al. Advanced Materials profile →
  6. Advances in Biodegradable Electronic Skin: Material Progress and Recent Applications in Sensing, Robotics, and Human–Machine Interfaces
    2022 236 citations Mohammad Zarei, Giwon Lee et al. Advanced Materials profile →
  7. Rational molecular and device design enables organic solar cells approaching 20% efficiency
    2024 220 citations Jiehao Fu, Qianguang Yang et al. Nature Communications profile →
  8. Age of Flexible Electronics: Emerging Trends in Soft Multifunctional Sensors
    2024 175 citations Kilwon Cho et al. Advanced Materials profile →
  9. Mechanically Robust and Linearly Sensitive Soft Piezoresistive Pressure Sensor for a Wearable Human–Robot Interaction System
    2024 88 citations Siyoung Lee, Geun Yeol Bae et al. profile →
  10. Molecular order manipulation with dual additives suppressing trap density in non-fullerene acceptors enables efficient bilayer organic solar cells
    2025 19 citations Zhenmin Zhao, Sein Chung et al. Energy & Environmental Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Kilwon Cho South Korea 94 19.0k 12.8k 9.2k 7.7k 2.2k 560 28.9k
Peter Müller‐Buschbaum Germany 76 15.8k 0.8× 8.1k 0.6× 4.4k 0.5× 11.8k 1.5× 2.0k 0.9× 830 27.4k
Unyong Jeong South Korea 61 6.5k 0.3× 5.3k 0.4× 7.9k 0.9× 6.0k 0.8× 934 0.4× 253 15.7k
Zhiqun Lin United States 114 21.5k 1.1× 6.2k 0.5× 6.6k 0.7× 21.3k 2.8× 1.8k 0.8× 521 41.8k
Karen I. Winey United States 74 5.2k 0.3× 11.6k 0.9× 6.0k 0.7× 11.6k 1.5× 911 0.4× 301 23.1k
Yun‐Ze Long China 74 8.0k 0.4× 5.5k 0.4× 9.6k 1.0× 5.7k 0.7× 1.1k 0.5× 539 21.9k
Sang Ouk Kim South Korea 86 11.0k 0.6× 4.2k 0.3× 7.3k 0.8× 14.1k 1.8× 1.5k 0.7× 339 25.3k
Magnus Berggren Sweden 91 19.0k 1.0× 18.3k 1.4× 11.0k 1.2× 6.4k 0.8× 319 0.1× 400 30.3k
Cheolmin Park South Korea 62 6.1k 0.3× 3.7k 0.3× 7.7k 0.8× 6.5k 0.8× 1.2k 0.5× 310 15.4k
Craig A. Grimes United States 98 12.2k 0.6× 4.9k 0.4× 8.7k 1.0× 22.8k 2.9× 873 0.4× 392 40.4k
Hongwei Zhu China 95 13.5k 0.7× 5.7k 0.4× 15.4k 1.7× 19.3k 2.5× 1.2k 0.5× 635 37.2k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kilwon Cho

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Chung, Sein, Seung Hyun Kim, Kitae Kim, et al.. (2025). Accompanying Structural Transformations in Polarity Switching of Heavily Doped Conjugated Polymers. Advanced Materials. 37(39). e2505945–e2505945. 1 indexed citations
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Zhang, Jinghao, et al.. (2025). Regulating Förster resonance energy transfer and cascade energy offset achieves 19.6% efficiency in ternary organic solar cells. Journal of Materials Chemistry C. 13(17). 8494–8502. 2 indexed citations
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Zhao, Zhenmin, Sein Chung, Jingjing Zhao, et al.. (2025). Molecular order manipulation with dual additives suppressing trap density in non-fullerene acceptors enables efficient bilayer organic solar cells. Energy & Environmental Science. 18(6). 2791–2803. 19 indexed citations breakdown →
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Sun, Yuqing, Sein Chung, Chaofeng Zhu, et al.. (2024). Dual-Donor-Induced Crystallinity Modulation Enables 19.23% Efficiency Organic Solar Cells. Nano-Micro Letters. 17(1). 72–72. 24 indexed citations
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Fu, Jiehao, Qianguang Yang, Peihao Huang, et al.. (2024). Rational molecular and device design enables organic solar cells approaching 20% efficiency. Nature Communications. 15(1). 1830–1830. 220 indexed citations breakdown →
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Son, Jonghyun, Siyoung Lee, Geun Yeol Bae, et al.. (2023). Skin‐Mountable Vibrotactile Stimulator Based on Laterally Multilayered Dielectric Elastomer Actuators. Advanced Functional Materials. 33(23). 33 indexed citations
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Duan, Shengnan, Shin‐ichi Sasaki, Deman Han, et al.. (2023). Natural Bio‐additive Chlorophyll Derivative Enables 17.30% Efficiency Organic Solar Cells. Advanced Functional Materials. 33(37). 27 indexed citations
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Zhao, Zhenmin, Jingjing Zhao, Sein Chung, et al.. (2023). Suppressing Bimolecular Charge Recombination and Energetic Disorder with Planar Heterojunction Active Layer Enables 18.1% Efficiency Binary Organic Solar Cells. ACS Materials Letters. 5(6). 1718–1726. 52 indexed citations
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Zhao, Bin, Sein Chung, Min Zhang, et al.. (2023). 18.9% Efficiency Binary Organic Solar Cells Enabled by Regulating the Intrinsic Properties of PEDOT:PSS. Advanced Functional Materials. 34(7). 37 indexed citations
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Zarei, Mohammad, Giwon Lee, Seung Goo Lee, & Kilwon Cho. (2022). Advances in Biodegradable Electronic Skin: Material Progress and Recent Applications in Sensing, Robotics, and Human–Machine Interfaces. Advanced Materials. 35(4). e2203193–e2203193. 236 indexed citations breakdown →
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Kim, Seong‐Wook, Sein Chung, Gao‐Feng Han, et al.. (2022). Solution-Processable Semiconducting Conjugated Planar Network. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 14(12). 14588–14595. 3 indexed citations
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Lee, Noho, Myeonghwan Shin, Eunho Lee, et al.. (2020). Three-Dimensional Tungsten Disulfide Raman Biosensor for Dopamine Detection. ACS Applied Bio Materials. 3(11). 7687–7695. 7 indexed citations
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Singh, Ranbir, et al.. (2019). Excimer formation effects and trap-assisted charge recombination loss channels in organic solar cells of perylene diimide dimer acceptors. Journal of Materials Chemistry C. 8(5). 1686–1696. 25 indexed citations
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Lee, Dongki, Sung Hyuk Kim, Jungho Mun, et al.. (2019). Effect of Hot-Electron Injection on the Excited-State Dynamics of a Hybrid Plasmonic System Containing Poly(3-hexylthiophene)-Coated Gold Nanoparticles. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 123(43). 26564–26570. 3 indexed citations
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Lee, Jaewon, Seo‐Jin Ko, Hansol Lee, et al.. (2019). Side-Chain Engineering of Nonfullerene Acceptors for Near-Infrared Organic Photodetectors and Photovoltaics. ACS Energy Letters. 4(6). 1401–1409. 224 indexed citations
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Chochos, Christos L., Ranbir Singh, Vasilis G. Gregoriou, et al.. (2018). Enhancement of the Power-Conversion Efficiency of Organic Solar Cells via Unveiling an Appropriate Rational Design Strategy in Indacenodithiophene-alt-quinoxaline π-Conjugated Polymers. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 10(12). 10236–10245. 10 indexed citations
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Kwon, Jimin, Yasunori Takeda, Kenjiro Fukuda, et al.. (2016). Printed Electronics: Vertically Stacked Complementary Organic Field‐Effect Transistors and Logic Circuits Fabricated by Inkjet Printing (Adv. Electron. Mater. 7/2016). Advanced Electronic Materials. 2(7). 2 indexed citations
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Lee, Jaewon, Ranbir Singh, Dong Hun Sin, et al.. (2016). Solar Cells: A Nonfullerene Small Molecule Acceptor with 3D Interlocking Geometry Enabling Efficient Organic Solar Cells (Adv. Mater. 1/2016). Advanced Materials. 28(1). 1–1. 44 indexed citations

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