Kung‐Hwa Wei

19.2k total citations · 3 hit papers
248 papers, 16.7k citations indexed

About

Kung‐Hwa Wei is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Polymers and Plastics and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Kung‐Hwa Wei has authored 248 papers receiving a total of 16.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 154 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 145 papers in Polymers and Plastics and 102 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Kung‐Hwa Wei's work include Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (110 papers), Conducting polymers and applications (102 papers) and Perovskite Materials and Applications (68 papers). Kung‐Hwa Wei is often cited by papers focused on Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (110 papers), Conducting polymers and applications (102 papers) and Perovskite Materials and Applications (68 papers). Kung‐Hwa Wei collaborates with scholars based in Taiwan, United States and China. Kung‐Hwa Wei's co-authors include Lain‐Jong Li, Yu‐Wei Su, U‐Ser Jeng, Chia-Chin Cheng, Chih‐Wei Chu, Cheng‐Te Lin, Mao‐Yuan Chiu, Wenjing Zhang, Ming‐Shin Su and Yu‐Che Lin and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Advanced Materials.

In The Last Decade

Kung‐Hwa Wei

241 papers receiving 16.5k 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.

Janus monolayers of transition metal dichalcogenides

2017 1.9k citations Kung‐Hwa Wei, Lain‐Jong Li et al. profile →
Epitaxial growth of a monolayer WSe ₂ -MoS ₂ lateral p-n junction with an atomically sharp interface

2015 1.0k citations Chih‐Wei Chu, Kung‐Hwa Wei et al. profile →
Highly Efficient Electrocatalytic Hydrogen Production by MoS_x Grown on Graphene‐Protected 3D Ni Foams

2012 701 citations Kung‐Hwa Wei, Lain‐Jong Li et al. profile →

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Author						Papers	Cites
Kung‐Hwa Wei	9.3k	8.4k	7.4k	2.3k	1.7k	248	16.7k
Tae Joo Shin	16.4k 1.8×	9.3k 1.1×	9.1k 1.2×	4.2k 1.8×	2.1k 1.3×	301	22.8k
Mukundan Thelakkat	7.9k 0.8×	5.3k 0.6×	5.5k 0.7×	1.7k 0.7×	1.1k 0.7×	258	12.0k
Lukas Schmidt‐Mende	8.3k 0.9×	10.4k 1.2×	3.6k 0.5×	6.5k 2.8×	1.4k 0.8×	189	16.5k
Yeng Ming Lam	11.7k 1.3×	8.7k 1.0×	4.7k 0.6×	1.1k 0.5×	984 0.6×	188	14.3k
Ying Ma	7.1k 0.8×	8.9k 1.1×	1.7k 0.2×	2.6k 1.1×	2.0k 1.2×	238	13.5k
Alan Sellinger	5.7k 0.6×	5.5k 0.7×	3.9k 0.5×	913 0.4×	1.0k 0.6×	126	10.5k
In Jae Chung	5.7k 0.6×	6.9k 0.8×	3.9k 0.5×	783 0.3×	1.0k 0.6×	253	12.3k
Rachel A. Segalman	8.2k 0.9×	9.0k 1.1×	5.0k 0.7×	648 0.3×	2.9k 1.8×	250	16.0k
Jin Joo	4.7k 0.5×	6.3k 0.7×	2.2k 0.3×	1.6k 0.7×	2.2k 1.3×	115	9.7k
Mats Fahlman	14.2k 1.5×	7.1k 0.8×	10.8k 1.5×	986 0.4×	4.1k 2.5×	277	19.3k

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Wei, Kung‐Hwa, Xabier Rodríguez‐Martínez, Leonidas Tsetseris, et al.. (2025). Novel ambipolar polymers for detection beyond 1000 nm with organic phototransistors. Materials Horizons. 13(1). 464–472.

Le, Phuoc‐Anh, Jui‐Cheng Kao, Chiang‐Ju Chien, et al.. (2025). Sustainable surface-plasma-exfoliated homogeneous ternary MoSe2/WSe2/Graphene nanosheets heterostructures as high-efficiency electrocatalysts for hydrogen evolution reaction. Materials Today Nano. 32. 100692–100692. 1 indexed citations

Wei, Kung‐Hwa, et al.. (2025). Electrodeposited polydopamine-polyethyleneimine films as permselective coatings for oxidase-based amperometric sensors. Electrochimica Acta. 533. 146571–146571.

Dang, Van Dien, P. Raghunath, M. C. Lin, & Kung‐Hwa Wei. (2023). MoS₂ Nanoflowers Grown on Plasma‐Induced W‐Anchored Graphene for Efficient and Stable H₂ Production Through Seawater Electrolysis. Small. 20(2). e2305220–e2305220. 17 indexed citations

Chang, Bin, Yu‐Che Lin, Shaun Tan, et al.. (2022). High-Efficiency Semitransparent Organic Photovoltaics Containing Vertical Multiheterojunctions. ACS Applied Energy Materials. 5(11). 13763–13772. 14 indexed citations

Le, Phuoc‐Anh, Debashis Panda, Firman Mangasa Simanjuntak, et al.. (2022). Ion accumulation-induced capacitance elevation in a microporous graphene-based supercapacitor. RSC Advances. 12(42). 27082–27093. 25 indexed citations

Khang, Trang Manh, Rong Huang, Wei‐Tsung Chuang, et al.. (2022). Reversible Ratiometric Mechanochromic Fluorescence Switching in Highly Stretchable Polyurethane Elastomers with Ultratoughness Enhanced by Polyrotaxane. ACS Materials Letters. 4(12). 2537–2546. 22 indexed citations

Cheng, Hao‐Wen, Song Zhang, Lukas Michalek, et al.. (2022). Realizing Intrinsically Stretchable Semiconducting Polymer Films by Nontoxic Additives. ACS Materials Letters. 4(11). 2328–2336. 25 indexed citations

Cheng, Hao‐Wen, Anisha Mohapatra, Chung-Hao Chen, et al.. (2021). High-Performance Organic Photovoltaics Incorporating an Active Layer with a Few Nanometer-Thick Third-Component Layer on a Binary Blend Layer. Nano Letters. 21(5). 2207–2215. 35 indexed citations

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Tan, Shaun, Tianyi Huang, İlhan Yavuz, et al.. (2021). Surface Reconstruction of Halide Perovskites During Post-treatment. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 143(18). 6781–6786. 173 indexed citations

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Cheng, Hao‐Wen, Huotian Zhang, Yu‐Che Lin, et al.. (2019). Realizing Efficient Charge/Energy Transfer and Charge Extraction in Fullerene-Free Organic Photovoltaics via a Versatile Third Component. Nano Letters. 19(8). 5053–5061. 49 indexed citations

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Liu, Yuqiang, Pei Cheng, Tengfei Li, et al.. (2019). Unraveling Sunlight by Transparent Organic Semiconductors toward Photovoltaic and Photosynthesis. ACS Nano. 13(2). 1071–1077. 149 indexed citations

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Cheng, Hao‐Wen, P. Raghunath, Pei Cheng, et al.. (2019). Potassium-Presenting Zinc Oxide Surfaces Induce Vertical Phase Separation in Fullerene-Free Organic Photovoltaics. Nano Letters. 20(1). 715–721. 51 indexed citations

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Cheng, Pei, Yuqiang Liu, Sheng-Yung Chang, et al.. (2018). Efficient Tandem Organic Photovoltaics with Tunable Rear Sub-cells. Joule. 3(2). 432–442. 75 indexed citations

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Son, Young‐Woo, Kung‐Hwa Wei, Pingwei Liu, et al.. (2016). Observation of switchable photoresponse of a monolayer WSe2-mos2 lateral heterostructure via photocurrent spectral atomic force microscopic imaging. Abstracts of papers - American Chemical Society. 252. 2 indexed citations

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Simanjuntak, Firman Mangasa, Debashis Panda, Kung‐Hwa Wei, & Tseung‐Yuen Tseng. (2016). Status and Prospects of ZnO-Based Resistive Switching Memory Devices. Nanoscale Research Letters. 11(1). 368–368. 196 indexed citations

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Shellaiah, Muthaiah, Mandapati V. Ramakrishnam Raju, Ashutosh Singh, et al.. (2014). Synthesis of novel platinum complex core as a selective Ag⁺ sensor and its H-bonded tetrads self-assembled with triarylamine dendrimers for electron/energy transfers. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 2(41). 17463–17476. 19 indexed citations

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Wang, Yuh‐Lin, et al.. (2011). Nanostructured Nanorod Arrays Presenting TiO<SUB>2</SUB> Nanorods/Poly(3-hexylthiophene) for Solar Cells Application. Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology. 11(4). 3229–3234. 3 indexed citations

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Wang, Yuh‐Lin, et al.. (2009). Ordered polythiophene/fullerene composite core–shell nanorod arrays for solar cell applications. Nanotechnology. 20(7). 75201–75201. 56 indexed citations

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Bhattacharya, Subramshu S., Hoe H. Chuah, M. Dotrong, et al.. (1989). Rigid-rod benzobisthiazole polymers with reactive fluorene moieties. II. Fiber processing, properties and morphology. 60. 512–516.

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