Min‐Kyu Son

3.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
63 papers, 2.6k citations indexed

About

Min‐Kyu Son is a scholar working on Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Materials Chemistry and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Min‐Kyu Son has authored 63 papers receiving a total of 2.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 51 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, 45 papers in Materials Chemistry and 17 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Min‐Kyu Son's work include Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (41 papers), TiO2 Photocatalysis and Solar Cells (40 papers) and Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties (21 papers). Min‐Kyu Son is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (41 papers), TiO2 Photocatalysis and Solar Cells (40 papers) and Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties (21 papers). Min‐Kyu Son collaborates with scholars based in South Korea, Japan and Switzerland. Min‐Kyu Son's co-authors include Michaël Grätzel, Jingshan Luo, Matthew T. Mayer, Hee‐Je Kim, Marcel Schreier, Ludmilla Steier, Kandasamy Prabakar, Linfeng Pan, Anders Hagfeldt and Jin Hyun Kim and has published in prestigious journals such as Advanced Materials, Nano Letters and Energy & Environmental Science.

In The Last Decade

Min‐Kyu Son

59 papers receiving 2.5k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Boosting the performance of Cu2O photocathodes for unassisted solar water splitting devices

2018 603 citations Linfeng Pan, Matthew T. Mayer et al. profile →
Cu₂O Nanowire Photocathodes for Efficient and Durable Solar Water Splitting

2016 552 citations Jingshan Luo, Ludmilla Steier et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Min‐Kyu Son South Korea	22	1.9k	1.7k	903	287	161	63	2.6k
Adriana Paracchino Switzerland	9	2.5k 1.3×	1.7k 1.0×	1.2k 1.3×	336 1.2×	143 0.9×	12	3.2k
Linxing Meng China	27	1.7k 0.9×	1.7k 1.0×	1.5k 1.6×	206 0.7×	214 1.3×	46	2.5k
Jin You Zheng China	23	727 0.4×	1.1k 0.6×	803 0.9×	319 1.1×	172 1.1×	49	1.5k
Amol U. Pawar South Korea	20	783 0.4×	756 0.4×	479 0.5×	186 0.6×	118 0.7×	44	1.2k
Mingzhe Yu United States	20	791 0.4×	788 0.5×	1.3k 1.4×	170 0.6×	210 1.3×	34	2.0k
Travis G. Novak South Korea	19	772 0.4×	507 0.3×	624 0.7×	271 0.9×	137 0.9×	36	1.3k
Sheng Zeng Canada	19	850 0.4×	931 0.6×	477 0.5×	106 0.4×	131 0.8×	31	1.3k
Changyeon Kim South Korea	20	859 0.4×	983 0.6×	830 0.9×	86 0.3×	123 0.8×	37	1.5k
Shu Min Tan Singapore	17	1.0k 0.5×	1.0k 0.6×	1.1k 1.2×	133 0.5×	238 1.5×	19	1.8k
Seokhoon Choi South Korea	26	1.0k 0.5×	1.0k 0.6×	807 0.9×	101 0.4×	142 0.9×	38	1.7k

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Seo, Hyunwoong, et al.. (2025). Characteristics of Cu ₂ O Photocathodes Based on the Low‐Cost CuI Back Contact Layer for Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting. ChemPhotoChem. 10(1).

An, Jinsu, Bo Ram Lee, Eun‐Jin Park, et al.. (2025). Control of electrical properties in solution-processed ATO thin-film transistors through gallium doping. RSC Advances. 15(17). 13595–13602.

Kim, Jaekook, Seunghwa Lee, Vaiyapuri Soundharrajan, et al.. (2024). Unveiling the Aluminum Doping Effects of In‐Situ Transmogrified Dual‐LDH Heterostructure and Its Fermi‐Level Alignment to Water Splitting Potentials. Advanced Energy Materials. 15(14). 13 indexed citations

Seo, Ji‐Youn, et al.. (2024). Solution-processed Sb ₂ Se ₃ photocathodes under Se-rich conditions and their photoelectrochemical properties. RSC Advances. 14(1). 59–66. 2 indexed citations

Son, Min‐Kyu. (2024). Recent Research Progresses and Challenges for Practical Application of Large-Scale Solar Hydrogen Production. Molecules. 29(24). 6003–6003. 5 indexed citations

Kim, Donghyun, Min‐Kyu Son, Soo Won Heo, et al.. (2023). Enhanced photoelectrochemical properties of ordered branched CdTe nanotubes arrays with near-ideal antireflection. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy. 49. 1499–1506. 1 indexed citations

Son, Min‐Kyu. (2023). Key Strategies on Cu2O Photocathodes toward Practical Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting. Nanomaterials. 13(24). 3142–3142. 17 indexed citations

Kim, Taegeon, Seungyeon Han, Min‐Kyu Son, et al.. (2021). Electrocatalytic Properties of Pulse-Reverse Electrodeposited Nickel Phosphide for Hydrogen Evolution Reaction. Frontiers in Chemistry. 9. 781838–781838. 8 indexed citations

Son, Min‐Kyu. (2021). Design and Demonstration of Large Scale Cu2O Photocathodes with Metal Grid Structure for Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting. Energies. 14(21). 7422–7422. 15 indexed citations

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Son, Min‐Kyu, et al.. (2020). Graphene-Si3N4 nanocomposite blended polymer counter electrode for low-cost dye-sensitized solar cells. Chemical Physics Letters. 758. 137920–137920. 9 indexed citations

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Pan, Linfeng, Min‐Kyu Son, Matthew T. Mayer, et al.. (2018). Solution-Processed Cu₂S Photocathodes for Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting. ACS Energy Letters. 3(4). 760–766. 104 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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Rao, S. Srinivasa, Chandu V.V. Muralee Gopi, Soo-Kyoung Kim, et al.. (2014). Cobalt sulfide thin film as an efficient counter electrode for dye-sensitized solar cells. Electrochimica Acta. 133. 174–179. 81 indexed citations

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Kim, Soo-Kyoung, et al.. (2014). The effect of TiO₂compact layer in ZnO nanorod based CdS/CdSe quantum-dot sensitized solar cell. physica status solidi (a). 211(8). 1839–1843. 5 indexed citations

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Son, Min‐Kyu, et al.. (2013). Computational modeling and experimental analysis on the improvement of current mismatch in a W-type series-connected dye-sensitized solar module. Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A Chemistry. 268. 17–23. 1 indexed citations

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Raj, C. Justin, Kandasamy Prabakar, S. N. Karthick, et al.. (2013). Banyan Root Structured Mg-Doped ZnO Photoanode Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 117(6). 2600–2607. 86 indexed citations

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Seo, Hyunwoong, et al.. (2012). The blocking effect of charge recombination by sputtered and acid-treated ZnO thin film in dye-sensitized solar cells. Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A Chemistry. 248. 50–54. 17 indexed citations

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Kim, Sookyoung, Min‐Kyu Son, Jin‐Kyoung Kim, et al.. (2012). Effect of Acetic Acid in TiCl₄Post-Treatment on Nanoporous TiO₂Electrode in Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell. Japanese Journal of Applied Physics. 51(9S2). 09MA05–09MA05. 5 indexed citations

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Seo, Hyunwoong, Min‐Kyu Son, Hee‐Je Kim, & Masaharu Shiratani. (2012). Improvement on the Long-Term Stability of Dye-Sensitized Solar Module by Structural Alternation. Japanese Journal of Applied Physics. 51(10S). 10NE21–10NE21. 3 indexed citations

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Kim, Hee‐Je, et al.. (2008). Optimal ablation of fluorine-doped tin oxide (FTO) thin film layers adopting a simple pulsed Nd:YAG laser with TEM00 mode. Optics and Lasers in Engineering. 47(5). 558–562. 20 indexed citations

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