Koen Vandewal

20.9k total citations · 9 hit papers
206 papers, 17.9k citations indexed

About

Koen Vandewal is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Polymers and Plastics and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Koen Vandewal has authored 206 papers receiving a total of 17.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 198 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 130 papers in Polymers and Plastics and 31 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Koen Vandewal's work include Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (172 papers), Conducting polymers and applications (127 papers) and Perovskite Materials and Applications (56 papers). Koen Vandewal is often cited by papers focused on Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (172 papers), Conducting polymers and applications (127 papers) and Perovskite Materials and Applications (56 papers). Koen Vandewal collaborates with scholars based in Belgium, Germany and United States. Koen Vandewal's co-authors include Jean Manca, Olle Inganäs, Alberto Salleo, Kristofer Tvingstedt, Abay Gadisa, Johannes Benduhn, Michael D. McGehee, Jonathan Rivnay, Rodrigo Noriega and Donato Spoltore and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Advanced Materials.

In The Last Decade

Koen Vandewal

199 papers receiving 17.8k 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.

A general relationship between disorder, aggregation and charge transport in conjugated polymers

2013 1.8k citations Koen Vandewal et al. profile →
On the origin of the open-circuit voltage of polymer–fullerene solar cells

2009 1.0k citations Koen Vandewal, Jean Manca et al. profile →
Relating the open-circuit voltage to interface molecular properties of donor:acceptor bulk heterojunction solar cells

2010 746 citations Koen Vandewal, Jean Manca et al. profile →
Efficient charge generation by relaxed charge-transfer states at organic interfaces

2013 638 citations Koen Vandewal, Johannes Widmer et al. profile →
Intrinsic non-radiative voltage losses in fullerene-based organic solar cells

2017 590 citations Johannes Benduhn, Fortunato Piersimoni et al. profile →
The Relation Between Open‐Circuit Voltage and the Onset of Photocurrent Generation by Charge‐Transfer Absorption in Polymer : Fullerene Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells

2008 475 citations Koen Vandewal, Laurence Lutsen et al. Advanced Functional Materials profile →
A History and Perspective of Non‐Fullerene Electron Acceptors for Organic Solar Cells

2021 444 citations Ardalan Armin, Dieter Neher et al. Advanced Energy Materials profile →
Optical Gaps of Organic Solar Cells as a Reference for Comparing Voltage Losses

2018 395 citations Yuming Wang, Deping Qian et al. Advanced Energy Materials profile →
Reverse dark current in organic photodetectors and the major role of traps as source of noise

2021 218 citations Jonas Kublitski, Johannes Benduhn et al. Nature Communications profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Accurate, Precise, and Verifiable Photoluminescence Efficiency of Colloidal Quantum Dots Sols by Photothermal Threshold Quantum Yield Analysis 2025 ·Chemistry of Materials ·Pieter Schiettecatte, (unknown), Luca Giordano, Koen Vandewal, Zeger Hens	3
2	Performance of the RuO ₂ Catalyst Layer with Nonuniform Ionomer Distribution for Water Electrolysis 2025 ·Energy & Fuels ·Subir Paul, An Hardy, Koen Vandewal, Mohammadhosein Safari	1
3	Organic indoor PV: vanishing surface recombination allows for robust device architecture 2024 ·Materials Horizons ·Xueshi Jiang, Bernhard Siegmund, Koen Vandewal	1
4	A tetrathienopyrrole-based ladder-type donor polymer for high-performance organic near-infrared cavity detectors 2023 ·Materials Horizons ·(unknown), Jorne Raymakers, Quan Liu, (unknown), Yuming Wang, Jurgen Kesters, Tyler J. Quill, Zhen Liu, Niko Van den Brande, Laurence Lutsen, Koen Vandewal, Wouter Maes	2
5	Structurally Pure and Reproducible Polymer Materials for High-Performance Organic Solar Cells 2023 ·Chemistry of Materials ·(unknown), Quan Liu, (unknown), Tyler J. Quill, Sam Gielen, Laurence Lutsen, Koen Vandewal, Wouter Maes	12
6	Wavelength‐Selective Organic Photodetectors 2021 ·Advanced Functional Materials ·(unknown), Wouter Maes, Koen Vandewal	80
7	Excitons Dominate the Emission from PM6:Y6 Solar Cells, but This Does Not Help the Open-Circuit Voltage of the Device 2021 ·ACS Energy Letters ·Lorena Perdigón‐Toro, Le Quang Phuong, Stefan Zeiske, Koen Vandewal, Ardalan Armin, Safa Shoaee, Dieter Neher	71
8	Cavity-Enhanced Near-Infrared Organic Photodetectors Based on a Conjugated Polymer Containing [1,2,5]Selenadiazolo[3,4-c]Pyridine 2021 ·Chemistry of Materials ·Jinjin Yang, Jun Huang, Ruiming Li, Hui Li, Bin Sun, Qianqian Lin, Ming Wang, Zaifei Ma, Koen Vandewal, Zheng Tang	51
9	Efficient and readily tuneable near-infrared photodetection up to 1500 nm enabled by thiadiazoloquinoxaline-based push–pull type conjugated polymers 2020 ·Journal of Materials Chemistry C ·Frederik Verstraeten, Sam Gielen, Pieter Verstappen, Jorne Raymakers, Huguette Penxten, Laurence Lutsen, Koen Vandewal, Wouter Maes	59
10	Orientation dependent molecular electrostatics drives efficient charge generation in homojunction organic solar cells 2020 ·Nature Communications ·Yifan Dong, Vasileios C. Nikolis, Felix Talnack, Yi‐Chun Chin, Johannes Benduhn, Giacomo Londi, Jonas Kublitski, (unknown), Stefan C. B. Mannsfeld, Donato Spoltore, Luca Muccioli, Jing Li, Xavier Blase, David Beljonne, Ji‐Seon Kim, Artem A. Bakulin, Gabriele D’Avino, James R. Durrant, Koen Vandewal	87
11	Manipulating the Charge Transfer Absorption for Narrowband Light Detection in the Near-Infrared 2019 ·Chemistry of Materials ·Christina Kaiser, Karl Sebastian Schellhammer, Johannes Benduhn, Bernhard Siegmund, Manuel Tropiano, Jonas Kublitski, Donato Spoltore, (unknown), Olaf Zeika, Frank Ortmann, Paul Meredith, Ardalan Armin, Koen Vandewal	45
12	Impact of molecular quadrupole moments on the energy levels at organic heterojunctions 2019 ·Nature Communications ·Martin Schwarze, Karl Sebastian Schellhammer, Katrin Ortstein, Johannes Benduhn, Christopher Gaul, Alexander Hinderhofer, Lorena Perdigón‐Toro, Reinhard Scholz, Jonas Kublitski, Steffen Roland, (unknown), Carl Poelking, Denis Andrienko, Gianaurelio Cuniberti, Frank Schreiber, Dieter Neher, Koen Vandewal, Frank Ortmann, Karl Leo	117
13	Effect of H- and J-Aggregation on the Photophysical and Voltage Loss of Boron Dipyrromethene Small Molecules in Vacuum-Deposited Organic Solar Cells 2019 ·The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters ·Tian‐Yi Li, Johannes Benduhn, Zhi Qiao, Yuan Liu, Yue Li, Rishi Shivhare, Frank Jaiser, Pei Wang, (unknown), Olaf Zeika, Dieter Neher, Stefan C. B. Mannsfeld, Zaifei Ma, Koen Vandewal, Karl Leo	41
14	Diketopyrrolopyrrole-based terpolymers with tunable broad band absorption for fullerene and fullerene-free polymer solar cells 2019 ·Journal of Materials Chemistry C ·(unknown), Zewdneh Genene, Raghavendran Thiruvallur Eachambadi, Jurgen Kesters, Niko Van den Brande, Jan D’Haen, Huguette Penxten, (unknown), Ergang Wang, Koen Vandewal, Wouter Maes, Wendimagegn Mammo, Jean Manca, Shimelis Admassie	16
15	Diffusion-Limited Crystallization: A Rationale for the Thermal Stability of Non-Fullerene Solar Cells 2019 ·ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces ·Liyang Yu, Deping Qian, (unknown), Ferry Anggoro Ardy Nugroho, Anirudh Sharma, Sandra Hultmark, Anna Hofmann, Renee Kroon, Johannes Benduhn, Detlef‐M. Smilgies, Koen Vandewal, Mats R. Andersson, Christoph Langhammer, Jaime Martín, Feng Gao, Christian Müller	98
16	Benzothiadiazole–triphenylamine as an efficient exciton blocking layer in small molecule based organic solar cells 2018 ·Sustainable Energy & Fuels ·Laura Caliò, Bhushan Ramesh Patil, Johannes Benduhn, Koen Vandewal, Horst‐Günter Rubahn, Morten Madsen, Samrana Kazim, Shahzada Ahmad	9
17	Impact of Triplet Excited States on the Open‐Circuit Voltage of Organic Solar Cells 2018 ·Advanced Energy Materials ·Johannes Benduhn, Fortunato Piersimoni, Giacomo Londi, Anton Kirch, Johannes Widmer, Christian Koerner, David Beljonne, Dieter Neher, Donato Spoltore, Koen Vandewal	41
18	Near-infrared organic photodetectors based on bay-annulated indigo showing broadband absorption and high detectivities up to 1.1 μm 2018 ·Journal of Materials Chemistry C ·Frederik Verstraeten, Sam Gielen, Pieter Verstappen, Jurgen Kesters, Epimitheas Georgitzikis, Jorne Raymakers, David Cheyns, Paweł E. Malinowski, Michaël Daenen, Laurence Lutsen, Koen Vandewal, Wouter Maes	49
19	Boron dipyrromethene (BODIPY) with meso-perfluorinated alkyl substituents as near infrared donors in organic solar cells 2018 ·Journal of Materials Chemistry A ·Tian‐Yi Li, Johannes Benduhn, Yue Li, Frank Jaiser, Donato Spoltore, Olaf Zeika, Zaifei Ma, Dieter Neher, Koen Vandewal, Karl Leo	36
20	High voltage vacuum-deposited CH₃NH₃PbI₃–CH₃NH₃PbI₃ tandem solar cells 2018 ·Energy & Environmental Science ·Jorge Ávila, Cristina Momblona, Pablo P. Boix, Michele Sessolo, Miguel Anaya, Gabriel Lozano, Koen Vandewal, Hernán Míguez, Henk J. Bolink	106

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