Mindaugas Kirkus

2.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
29 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

Mindaugas Kirkus is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Polymers and Plastics and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Mindaugas Kirkus has authored 29 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 25 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 17 papers in Polymers and Plastics and 9 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Mindaugas Kirkus's work include Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (18 papers), Conducting polymers and applications (16 papers) and Organic Light-Emitting Diodes Research (11 papers). Mindaugas Kirkus is often cited by papers focused on Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (18 papers), Conducting polymers and applications (16 papers) and Organic Light-Emitting Diodes Research (11 papers). Mindaugas Kirkus collaborates with scholars based in Saudi Arabia, United Kingdom and Netherlands. Mindaugas Kirkus's co-authors include Iain McCulloch, Christian B. Nielsen, Raja Shahid Ashraf, James R. Durrant, Sarah Holliday, Elisa Collado‐Fregoso, Henning Sirringhaus, René A. J. Janssen, Mark Nikolka and Astrid‐Caroline Knall and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Advanced Materials and Chemistry of Materials.

In The Last Decade

Mindaugas Kirkus

29 papers receiving 2.3k 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.

A Rhodanine Flanked Nonfullerene Acceptor for Solution-Processed Organic Photovoltaics

2014 443 citations Sarah Holliday, Raja Shahid Ashraf et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Mindaugas Kirkus Saudi Arabia	22	1.9k	1.5k	597	258	179	29	2.3k
Holger Spanggaard Denmark	12	1.5k 0.8×	1.1k 0.7×	561 0.9×	228 0.9×	98 0.5×	18	1.9k
Tainan Duan China	26	2.1k 1.1×	1.7k 1.2×	374 0.6×	184 0.7×	226 1.3×	75	2.4k
Balaji Purushothaman United States	24	1.8k 1.0×	958 0.7×	912 1.5×	673 2.6×	324 1.8×	37	2.5k
Agustín Molina‐Ontoria Spain	28	1.7k 0.9×	1.1k 0.8×	862 1.4×	444 1.7×	96 0.5×	53	2.4k
Warren Duffy United Kingdom	19	1.9k 1.0×	1.6k 1.1×	541 0.9×	345 1.3×	123 0.7×	28	2.4k
Teresa L. Chen United States	20	1.5k 0.8×	1.3k 0.8×	491 0.8×	220 0.9×	62 0.3×	24	1.8k
Olivia P. Lee United States	12	1.9k 1.0×	1.6k 1.1×	465 0.8×	330 1.3×	57 0.3×	16	2.2k
Munazza Shahid United Kingdom	21	2.1k 1.1×	1.8k 1.2×	372 0.6×	251 1.0×	51 0.3×	35	2.4k
Claire H. Woo United States	15	3.0k 1.6×	2.6k 1.8×	574 1.0×	381 1.5×	102 0.6×	15	3.3k
Yu‐Ying Lai Taiwan	24	1.3k 0.7×	1.1k 0.7×	351 0.6×	399 1.5×	60 0.3×	75	1.7k

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Pitaro, Matteo, Lorenzo Di Mario, Marios Neophytou, et al.. (2025). Bulk Defects Passivation of Tin Halide Perovskite by Tin Thiocyanate. Carbon Energy. 7(6). 6 indexed citations

Savva, Achilleas, Rawad K. Hallani, Camila Cendra, et al.. (2020). Balancing Ionic and Electronic Conduction for High‐Performance Organic Electrochemical Transistors. Advanced Functional Materials. 30(11). 191 indexed citations

Ugur, Esma, Jafar I. Khan, Erkan Aydın, et al.. (2019). Carrier Extraction from Perovskite to Polymeric Charge Transport Layers Probed by Ultrafast Transient Absorption Spectroscopy. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 10(21). 6921–6928. 34 indexed citations

Seitkhan, Akmaral, Marios Neophytou, Mindaugas Kirkus, et al.. (2019). Use of the Phen‐NaDPO:Sn(SCN)₂ Blend as Electron Transport Layer Results to Consistent Efficiency Improvements in Organic and Hybrid Perovskite Solar Cells. Advanced Functional Materials. 29(49). 45 indexed citations

Leydecker, Tim, Lili Hou, Hu Chen, et al.. (2019). Phototuning Selectively Hole and Electron Transport in Optically Switchable Ambipolar Transistors. Advanced Functional Materials. 30(5). 27 indexed citations

Koščo, Ján, Michael Sachs, Robert Godin, et al.. (2018). The Effect of Residual Palladium Catalyst Contamination on the Photocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution Activity of Conjugated Polymers. Advanced Energy Materials. 8(34). 172 indexed citations

Knall, Astrid‐Caroline, Andrew O. F. Jones, Birgit Kunert, et al.. (2017). Synthesis of a conjugated pyrrolopyridazinedione–benzodithiophene (PPD–BDT) copolymer and its application in organic and hybrid solar cells. Monatshefte für Chemie - Chemical Monthly. 148(5). 855–862. 8 indexed citations

Casey, Abby, Pabitra Shakya Tuladhar, Mindaugas Kirkus, et al.. (2017). Cyano substituted benzotriazole based polymers for use in organic solar cells. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 5(14). 6465–6470. 28 indexed citations

Chen, Hu, Michael Hurhangee, Mark Nikolka, et al.. (2017). Dithiopheneindenofluorene (TIF) Semiconducting Polymers with Very High Mobility in Field‐Effect Transistors. Advanced Materials. 29(36). 95 indexed citations

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Neophytou, Marios, Jack Griffiths, James P. Fraser, et al.. (2017). High mobility, hole transport materials for highly efficient PEDOT:PSS replacement in inverted perovskite solar cells. Journal of Materials Chemistry C. 5(20). 4940–4945. 57 indexed citations

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Giovannitti, Alexander, Christian B. Nielsen, Jonathan Rivnay, et al.. (2015). Sodium and Potassium Ion Selective Conjugated Polymers for Optical Ion Detection in Solution and Solid State. Advanced Functional Materials. 26(4). 514–523. 68 indexed citations

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Schroeder, Bob C., Mindaugas Kirkus, Christian B. Nielsen, Raja Shahid Ashraf, & Iain McCulloch. (2015). Dithienosilolothiophene: A New Polyfused Donor for Organic Electronics. Macromolecules. 48(16). 5557–5562. 3 indexed citations

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Yue, Wan, Raja Shahid Ashraf, Christian B. Nielsen, et al.. (2015). A Thieno[3,2‐b][1]benzothiophene Isoindigo Building Block for Additive‐ and Annealing‐Free High‐Performance Polymer Solar Cells. Advanced Materials. 27(32). 4702–4707. 117 indexed citations

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Holliday, Sarah, Raja Shahid Ashraf, Christian B. Nielsen, et al.. (2014). A Rhodanine Flanked Nonfullerene Acceptor for Solution-Processed Organic Photovoltaics. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 137(2). 898–904. 443 indexed citations breakdown →

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Ashraf, Raja Shahid, Iain Meager, Mark Nikolka, et al.. (2014). Chalcogenophene Comonomer Comparison in Small Band Gap Diketopyrrolopyrrole-Based Conjugated Polymers for High-Performing Field-Effect Transistors and Organic Solar Cells. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 137(3). 1314–1321. 376 indexed citations

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Gevaerts, Veronique S., Eva M. Herzig, Mindaugas Kirkus, et al.. (2013). Influence of the Position of the Side Chain on Crystallization and Solar Cell Performance of DPP-Based Small Molecules. Chemistry of Materials. 26(2). 916–926. 112 indexed citations

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Kirkus, Mindaugas, Linjun Wang, Sébastien Mothy, et al.. (2012). Optical Properties of Oligothiophene Substituted Diketopyrrolopyrrole Derivatives in the Solid Phase: Joint J- and H-Type Aggregation. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A. 116(30). 7927–7936. 119 indexed citations

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Mohamad, David K., et al.. (2010). Aryl amine substituted low energy gap carbazole polymers: preparation and photovoltaic properties. Journal of Materials Chemistry. 20(33). 6990–6990. 12 indexed citations

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Karpicz, Renata, Mindaugas Kirkus, Juozas V. Gražulevičius, & Vidmantas Gulbinas. (2009). Fluorescence quenching by charge carriers in indolo[3,2-b]carbazole-based polymer. Journal of Luminescence. 130(4). 722–727. 9 indexed citations

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Kirkus, Mindaugas, et al.. (2008). Hole-transporting glass-forming indolo[3,2-b]carbazole-based diepoxy monomer and polymers. European Polymer Journal. 45(2). 410–417. 33 indexed citations

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