Ludmilla Steier

7.7k total citations · 7 hit papers
34 papers, 6.6k citations indexed

About

Ludmilla Steier is a scholar working on Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Materials Chemistry and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Ludmilla Steier has authored 34 papers receiving a total of 6.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, 21 papers in Materials Chemistry and 19 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Ludmilla Steier's work include Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (16 papers), Copper-based nanomaterials and applications (11 papers) and Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films (9 papers). Ludmilla Steier is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (16 papers), Copper-based nanomaterials and applications (11 papers) and Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films (9 papers). Ludmilla Steier collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, United Kingdom and United States. Ludmilla Steier's co-authors include Michaël Grätzel, Antonio Abate, Matthew T. Mayer, Jingshan Luo, Marcel Schreier, Wolfgang Tress, Anders Hagfeldt, Taisuke Matsui, Michael Saliba and James R. Durrant and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Ludmilla Steier

33 papers receiving 6.5k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Highly efficient planar perovskite solar cells through band alignment engineering

2015 1.1k citations Ludmilla Steier, Wolfgang Tress et al. Energy & Environmental Science profile →
Highly efficient and stable planar perovskite solar cells by solution-processed tin oxide

2016 735 citations A. Kermanpur, Ludmilla Steier et al. Energy & Environmental Science profile →
Cu₂O Nanowire Photocathodes for Efficient and Durable Solar Water Splitting

2016 552 citations Jingshan Luo, Ludmilla Steier et al. Nano Letters profile →
Monolithic perovskite/silicon-heterojunction tandem solar cells processed at low temperature

2015 542 citations Ludmilla Steier, Antonio Abate et al. Energy & Environmental Science profile →
Solar conversion of CO2 to CO using Earth-abundant electrocatalysts prepared by atomic layer modification of CuO

2017 472 citations Marcel Schreier, Florent Héroguel et al. Nature Energy profile →
Progress and Perspectives in Photo‐ and Electrochemical‐Oxidation of Biomass for Sustainable Chemicals and Hydrogen Production

2021 342 citations Hui Luo, Jesús Barrio et al. Advanced Energy Materials profile →
The kinetics of metal oxide photoanodes from charge generation to catalysis

2021 292 citations Sacha Corby, Reshma R. Rao et al. Nature Reviews Materials profile →

Peers

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Chun‐Jern Pan Taiwan

Fatwa F. Abdi Germany

Miao Kan China

Todd G. Deutsch United States

Στέλλα Κέννου Greece

Eva M. Barea Spain

Hiroshi Nishiyama Japan

Csaba Janáky Hungary

Θωμάς Στεργιόπουλος Greece

Chun‐Jern Pan Taiwan

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ludmilla Steier

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Ludmilla Steier. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Ludmilla Steier based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Ludmilla Steier. Ludmilla Steier is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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Bagger, Alexander, et al.. (2025). Revisiting Active Site Quantification in CO ₂ Electroreduction: The Case for CO Displacement. ACS Energy Letters. 10(9). 4324–4331.

Li, Biwen, et al.. (2024). Electrochemical versus Photoelectrochemical Water Oxidation Kinetics on Bismuth Vanadate (Photo)anodes. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 146(18). 12324–12328. 19 indexed citations

Moruzzi, Floriana, Weimin Zhang, Balaji Purushothaman, et al.. (2023). Solution-processable polymers of intrinsic microporosity for gas-phase carbon dioxide photoreduction. Nature Communications. 14(1). 3443–3443. 23 indexed citations

Lin, Chieh‐Ting, Cheng‐Tien Hsieh, Thomas J. Macdonald, et al.. (2022). Water‐Insensitive Electron Transport and Photoactive Layers for Improved Underwater Stability of Organic Photovoltaics. Advanced Functional Materials. 32(40). 16 indexed citations

Luo, Hui, Jesús Barrio, Nixon Sunny, et al.. (2021). Progress and Perspectives in Photo‐ and Electrochemical‐Oxidation of Biomass for Sustainable Chemicals and Hydrogen Production. Advanced Energy Materials. 11(43). 342 indexed citations breakdown →

Chang, Yu‐Han, Romain Carron, Mario Ochoa, et al.. (2021). Impact of RbF and NaF Postdeposition Treatments on Charge Carrier Transport and Recombination in Ga‐Graded Cu(In,Ga)Se₂ Solar Cells. Advanced Functional Materials. 31(40). 13 indexed citations

Moss, Benjamin, Qian Wang, Keith T. Butler, et al.. (2021). Linking in situ charge accumulation to electronic structure in doped SrTiO3 reveals design principles for hydrogen-evolving photocatalysts. Nature Materials. 20(4). 511–517. 135 indexed citations

Corby, Sacha, Reshma R. Rao, Ludmilla Steier, & James R. Durrant. (2021). The kinetics of metal oxide photoanodes from charge generation to catalysis. Nature Reviews Materials. 6(12). 1136–1155. 292 indexed citations breakdown →

Luo, Hui, Ying Liu, Stoichko Dimitrov, et al.. (2020). Pt single-atoms supported on nitrogen-doped carbon dots for highly efficient photocatalytic hydrogen generation. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 8(29). 14690–14696. 77 indexed citations

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Pastor, Ernest, Ji‐Sang Park, Ludmilla Steier, et al.. (2019). In situ observation of picosecond polaron self-localisation in α-Fe2O3 photoelectrochemical cells. Nature Communications. 10(1). 3962–3962. 107 indexed citations

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Alqahtani, Mahdi, Sanjayan Sathasivam, Fan Cui, et al.. (2019). Heteroepitaxy of GaP on silicon for efficient and cost-effective photoelectrochemical water splitting. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 7(14). 8550–8558. 21 indexed citations

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Kermanpur, A., Matthew T. Mayer, Ludmilla Steier, et al.. (2018). Low-Temperature Nb-Doped SnO₂ Electron-Selective Contact Yields over 20% Efficiency in Planar Perovskite Solar Cells. ACS Energy Letters. 3(4). 773–778. 175 indexed citations

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Steier, Ludmilla & Sarah Holliday. (2018). A bright outlook on organic photoelectrochemical cells for water splitting. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 6(44). 21809–21826. 58 indexed citations

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Ummadisingu, Amita, Ludmilla Steier, Ji‐Youn Seo, et al.. (2017). The effect of illumination on the formation of metal halide perovskite films. Nature. 545(7653). 208–212. 278 indexed citations

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Son, Min‐Kyu, Ludmilla Steier, Marcel Schreier, et al.. (2017). A copper nickel mixed oxide hole selective layer for Au-free transparent cuprous oxide photocathodes. Energy & Environmental Science. 10(4). 912–918. 99 indexed citations

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Steier, Ludmilla, Sebastiano Bellani, Linfeng Pan, et al.. (2017). Stabilizing organic photocathodes by low-temperature atomic layer deposition of TiO₂. Sustainable Energy & Fuels. 1(9). 1915–1920. 45 indexed citations

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Schreier, Marcel, Florent Héroguel, Ludmilla Steier, et al.. (2017). Solar conversion of CO2 to CO using Earth-abundant electrocatalysts prepared by atomic layer modification of CuO. Nature Energy. 2(7). 472 indexed citations breakdown →

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Luo, Jingshan, Ludmilla Steier, Min‐Kyu Son, et al.. (2016). Cu₂O Nanowire Photocathodes for Efficient and Durable Solar Water Splitting. Nano Letters. 16(3). 1848–1857. 552 indexed citations breakdown →

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Schreier, Marcel, Fabrizio Giordano, Ludmilla Steier, et al.. (2015). Efficient photosynthesis of carbon monoxide from CO2 using perovskite photovoltaics. Nature Communications. 6(1). 7326–7326. 307 indexed citations

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Azevedo, João, Ludmilla Steier, Paula Dias, et al.. (2014). On the stability enhancement of cuprous oxide water splitting photocathodes by low temperature steam annealing. Energy & Environmental Science. 7(12). 4044–4052. 113 indexed citations

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