Michael B. Johnston

53.5k citations

259 papers · 42.6k indexed · 20 hit papers · h-index 80

Impact in

Polymers and Plastics top 0.02%
- Conducting polymers and applications
Electrical and Electronic Engineering top 0.01%
- Perovskite Materials and Applications
- Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films
- Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics
- Organic Light-Emitting Diodes Research

Papers in

Electrical and Electronic Engineering 237
- Perovskite Materials and Applications 118
- Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films 77
- Terahertz technology and applications 60
- Photonic and Optical Devices 35
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics 98
- Semiconductor Quantum Structures and Devices 54

Co-authors: Henry J. Snaith Laura M. Herz Mingzhen Liu Giles E. Eperon Christian Wehrenfennig Samuel D. Stranks Rebecca L. Milot Amir A. Haghighirad
Journals: Nano Letters (19 papers)Advanced Functional Materials (19 papers)The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters (15 papers)ACS Energy Letters (14 papers)Energy & Environmental Science (13 papers)
Partner nations: United Kingdom Australia Germany

In The Last Decade

Michael B. Johnston

245 papers receiving 41.9k citations

Hit Papers

15 papers align trajectories log scale

Bandgap-universal passivation enables stable perovskite solar cells with low photovoltage loss 2024 · 85 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2024 Science
2021 Nature Communications
2019 Energy & Environmental Science
2017 The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters
2016 Nature Communications
2016 Advanced Energy Materials
2016 Energy & Environmental Science
2016 Science
2016 Energy & Environmental Science
2016 Energy & Environmental Science
2016 Nano Letters
2015 Advanced Functional Materials
2015 Accounts of Chemical Research
2014 Energy & Environmental Science
2014 Energy & Environmental Science
2014 Energy & Environmental Science
2014 Energy & Environmental Science
2013 Nature
2013 Advanced Materials
2011 ACS Nano

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1	Ruddlesden–Popper Defects Act as a Free Surface: Role in Formation and Photophysical Properties of CsPbI ₃ Advanced Materials ·Weilun Li, Thomas Douglas Selkirk, Sasashi Sugiyama, DALLAS H. ADAMS, Marina R. Filip, Laura M. Herz, Michael B. Johnston, Joanne Etheridge	2025	2
2	Optically Determined Hole Effective Mass in Tin-Iodide Perovskite Films ACS Energy Letters ·D.K. Cha, Marcello Righetto, Michael D. Farrar, Thomas Siday, Henry J. Snaith, Michael B. Johnston, Laura M. Herz	2025	1
3	Atomic-scale Defects Critical to the Performance of Perovskite Solar Cells SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·Weilun Li, Mengmeng Hao, Shanshan Ding, Thomas Douglas Selkirk, Michael B. Johnston, Lianzhou Wang, Joanne Etheridge	2024	0
4	In situ nanoscopy of single-grain nanomorphology and ultrafast carrier dynamics in metal halide perovskites Nature Photonics ·弘志西増, 優諏訪, Thomas Douglas Selkirk, Kilian B. Lohmann, Fabian Sandner, ELISABETH LEGENSTEIN, Joseph Awad, Yaroslav A. Gerasimenko, Laura M. Herz, Thomas Siday, Markus A. Huber, Michael B. Johnston, R. Huber	2024	17
5	Methylammonium-free wide-bandgap metal halide perovskites for tandem photovoltaics Nature Reviews Materials ·Alexandra J. Ramadan, Robert D. J. Oliver, Michael B. Johnston, Henry J. Snaith	2023	79
6	Alumina Nanoparticle Interfacial Buffer Layer for Low‐Bandgap Lead‐Tin Perovskite Solar Cells Advanced Functional Materials ·Sebastian Bundajev, Michael D. Farrar, James M. Ball, Akash Dasgupta, Pietro Caprioglio, Sudarshan Narayanan, Robert D. J. Oliver, Florine M. Rombach, M. Ratzka, Michael B. Johnston, Henry J. Snaith	2023	18
7	Open-circuit and short-circuit loss management in wide-gap perovskite p-i-n solar cells Nature Communications ·Pietro Caprioglio, Joel A. Smith, Robert D. J. Oliver, Akash Dasgupta, 将一清水, Michael D. Farrar, Alexandra J. Ramadan, Yen‐Hung Lin, M. Greyson Christoforo, James M. Ball, Jonas Diekmann, Jarla Thiesbrummel, A F Petkus, Xinyi Shen, Michael B. Johnston, Dieter Neher, Martin Stolterfoht, Henry J. Snaith	2023	107
8	Photovoltaic Performance of FAPbI₃ Perovskite Is Hampered by Intrinsic Quantum Confinement ACS Energy Letters ·Karim A. Elmestekawy, Benjamin M. Gallant, Adam D. Wright, Philippe Holzhey, Nakita K. Noel, Michael B. Johnston, Henry J. Snaith, Laura M. Herz	2023	19
9	Controlling Intrinsic Quantum Confinement in Formamidinium Lead Triiodide Perovskite through Cs Substitution ACS Nano ·Karim A. Elmestekawy, Adam D. Wright, Kilian B. Lohmann, Juliane Borchert, Michael B. Johnston, Laura M. Herz	2022	18
10	Charge-Carrier Mobility and Localization in Semiconducting Cu₂AgBiI₆ for Photovoltaic Applications ACS Energy Letters ·Leonardo R. V. Buizza, Adam D. Wright, Giulia Longo, Harry C. Sansom, Chelsea Q. Xia, Matthew J. Rosseinsky, Michael B. Johnston, Henry J. Snaith, Laura M. Herz	2021	67
11	Ultrafast photo-induced phonon hardening due to Pauli blocking in MAPbI₃ single-crystal and polycrystalline perovskites Journal of Physics Materials ·Chelsea Q. Xia, Samuel Poncé, Jiali Peng, Aleksander M. Ulatowski, Jay B. Patel, Adam D. Wright, Rebecca L. Milot, Hans Kraus, Qianqian Lin, Laura M. Herz, Feliciano Giustino, Michael B. Johnston	2021	5
12	Thermally Stable Passivation toward High Efficiency Inverted Perovskite Solar Cells ACS Energy Letters ·Robert D. J. Oliver, Yen‐Hung Lin, Carola Maribel Villalta Contreras, Chelsea Q. Xia, Jonathan Warby, Michael B. Johnston, Alexandra J. Ramadan, Henry J. Snaith	2020	23
13	Hybrid Perovskites: Prospects for Concentrator Solar Cells Advanced Science ·Qianqian Lin, Zhiping Wang, Henry J. Snaith, Michael B. Johnston, Laura M. Herz	2018	86
14	Publisher Correction: High irradiance performance of metal halide perovskites for concentrator photovoltaics Nature Energy ·Zhiping Wang, Qianqian Lin, Bernard Wenger, M. Greyson Christoforo, Yen‐Hung Lin, Matthew T. Klug, Michael B. Johnston, Laura M. Herz, Henry J. Snaith	2018	4
15	Raman Spectrum of the Organic–Inorganic Halide Perovskite CH₃NH₃PbI₃ from First Principles and High-Resolution Low-Temperature Raman Measurements The Journal of Physical Chemistry C ·Miguel A. Pérez‐Osorio, Qianqian Lin, R. T. Phillips, Rebecca L. Milot, Laura M. Herz, Michael B. Johnston, Feliciano Giustino	2018	103
16	Elucidating the long-range charge carrier mobility in metal halide perovskite thin films Energy & Environmental Science ·Jongchul Lim, Maximilian T. Hörantner, Nobuya Sakai, James M. Ball, Suhas Mahesh, Nakita K. Noel, Yen‐Hung Lin, Jay B. Patel, David P. McMeekin, Michael B. Johnston, Bernard Wenger, Henry J. Snaith	2018	150
17	Impact of the Organic Cation on the Optoelectronic Properties of Formamidinium Lead Triiodide The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters ·Christopher L. Davies, Juliane Borchert, Chelsea Q. Xia, Rebecca L. Milot, Hans Kraus, Michael B. Johnston, Laura M. Herz	2018	55
18	Modification of the fluorinated tin oxide/electron-transporting material interface by a strong reductant and its effect on perovskite solar cell efficiency Molecular Systems Design & Engineering ·Federico Pulvirenti, Berthold Wegner, Nakita K. Noel, Donartauli Perwita S, Uday Hadi Abadan, Jay B. Patel, Laura M. Herz, Michael B. Johnston, Moritz Riede, Henry J. Snaith, Norbert Koch, Stephen Barlow, Seth R. Marder	2018	11
19	Photon Reabsorption Masks Intrinsic Bimolecular Charge-Carrier Recombination in CH₃NH₃PbI₃ Perovskite Nano Letters ·Timothy W. Crothers, Rebecca L. Milot, Jay B. Patel, Elizabeth S. Parrott, Johannes Schlipf, Peter Müller‐Buschbaum, Michael B. Johnston, Laura M. Herz	2017	151
20	Photocurrent Spectroscopy of Perovskite Solar Cells Over a Wide Temperature Range from 15 to 350 K The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters ·Jay B. Patel, Qianqian Lin, Nursultan Shingissov, Christopher L. Davies, Laura M. Herz, Michael B. Johnston	2017	24

About Michael B. Johnston

Michael B. Johnston is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Materials Chemistry, Polymers and Plastics and Spectroscopy, having authored 259 papers that have together received 42.6k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Perovskite Materials and Applications (118 papers), Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films (77 papers), Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties (71 papers), Terahertz technology and applications (60 papers), Semiconductor Quantum Structures and Devices (54 papers), Photonic and Optical Devices (35 papers), Solid-state spectroscopy and crystallography (32 papers) and Nanowire Synthesis and Applications (28 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Polymers and Plastics (11.9k citations), Electrical and Electronic Engineering (40.2k citations), Materials Chemistry (28.1k citations), Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics (4.9k citations) and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials (2.5k citations). Michael B. Johnston has collaborated with scholars based in United Kingdom, Australia and Germany. Frequent co-authors include Henry J. Snaith, Laura M. Herz, Mingzhen Liu, Giles E. Eperon, Christian Wehrenfennig, Samuel D. Stranks, Rebecca L. Milot, Amir A. Haghighirad, Jay B. Patel and Christopher Menelaou. Their work appears in journals such as Nano Letters, Advanced Functional Materials, The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, ACS Energy Letters and Energy & Environmental Science.

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