Norbert Koch

28.2k total citations · 9 hit papers
457 papers, 23.6k citations indexed

About

Norbert Koch is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials Chemistry and Polymers and Plastics. According to data from OpenAlex, Norbert Koch has authored 457 papers receiving a total of 23.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 388 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 205 papers in Materials Chemistry and 125 papers in Polymers and Plastics. Recurrent topics in Norbert Koch's work include Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (222 papers), Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures (144 papers) and Conducting polymers and applications (112 papers). Norbert Koch is often cited by papers focused on Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (222 papers), Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures (144 papers) and Conducting polymers and applications (112 papers). Norbert Koch collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Austria. Norbert Koch's co-authors include Ingo Salzmann, Georg Heimel, Antje Vollmer, Jürgen P. Rabe, Steffen Duhm, Martin Oehzelt, Robert L. Johnson, Antoine Kahn, Dieter Neher and Johannes Frisch and has published in prestigious journals such as Chemical Reviews, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

Norbert Koch

446 papers receiving 23.3k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Electronic structure and electrical properties of interfaces between metals and π‐conjugated molecular films

2003 736 citations Antoine Kahn, Norbert Koch et al. profile →
The impact of energy alignment and interfacial recombination on the internal and external open-circuit voltage of perovskite solar cells

2019 735 citations Martin Stolterfoht, Pietro Caprioglio et al. profile →
Organic Electronic Devices and Their Functional Interfaces

2007 670 citations Norbert Koch profile →
Molecular Electrical Doping of Organic Semiconductors: Fundamental Mechanisms and Emerging Dopant Design Rules

2016 594 citations Ingo Salzmann, Norbert Koch et al. profile →
Orientation-dependent ionization energies and interface dipoles in ordered molecular assemblies

2008 537 citations Ingo Salzmann, Antje Vollmer et al. profile →
Surface Termination Dependent Work Function and Electronic Properties of Ti₃C₂T_x MXene

2019 524 citations Thorsten Schultz, Norbert Koch et al. profile →
Large guanidinium cation mixed with methylammonium in lead iodide perovskites for 19% efficient solar cells

2017 447 citations Norbert Koch et al. profile →
Doping Approaches for Organic Semiconductors

2021 309 citations Norbert Koch et al. profile →
Understanding Performance Limiting Interfacial Recombination in pin Perovskite Solar Cells

2022 201 citations Jonathan Warby, Fengshuo Zu et al. Advanced Energy Materials profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Norbert Koch Germany	78	19.4k	10.3k	7.4k	3.6k	3.2k	457	23.6k
Antoine Kahn United States	90	23.6k 1.2×	10.2k 1.0×	9.5k 1.3×	5.6k 1.6×	3.1k 1.0×	359	28.0k
Neil C. Greenham United Kingdom	87	26.2k 1.3×	14.3k 1.4×	12.0k 1.6×	2.9k 0.8×	2.2k 0.7×	304	29.9k
David S. Ginger United States	78	18.6k 1.0×	12.4k 1.2×	7.5k 1.0×	3.0k 0.8×	4.4k 1.4×	251	23.6k
Zheng‐Hong Lu Canada	72	20.6k 1.1×	16.5k 1.6×	6.0k 0.8×	1.8k 0.5×	1.6k 0.5×	408	25.3k
Gui Yu China	82	17.0k 0.9×	13.6k 1.3×	8.5k 1.1×	1.5k 0.4×	4.4k 1.4×	503	26.5k
Dieter Neher Germany	99	27.8k 1.4×	12.1k 1.2×	17.7k 2.4×	2.3k 0.6×	2.3k 0.7×	416	33.5k
Michael L. Chabinyc United States	71	15.6k 0.8×	6.8k 0.7×	9.9k 1.3×	1.8k 0.5×	3.3k 1.1×	257	19.8k
Luping Yu United States	66	21.5k 1.1×	5.7k 0.6×	16.7k 2.3×	2.9k 0.8×	2.3k 0.7×	249	26.2k
Stefan C. B. Mannsfeld Germany	66	15.7k 0.8×	6.0k 0.6×	8.6k 1.2×	1.4k 0.4×	6.5k 2.1×	187	21.0k
W. R. Salaneck Sweden	68	16.8k 0.9×	6.8k 0.7×	11.4k 1.5×	2.5k 0.7×	3.7k 1.2×	255	22.1k

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Schultz, Thorsten, et al.. (2025). Toward Ultrawide Bandgap Engineering: Physical Properties of an α‐(Ti _x Ga _{1− x} ) ₂ O ₃ Material Library. physica status solidi (RRL) - Rapid Research Letters. 19(11). 1 indexed citations

Liu, Wenkai, et al.. (2025). Breaking Barriers: Centimeter‐Sized Single Layer WSe₂ by Gold‐Mediated Exfoliation for Ambipolar Field Effect Transistors at Ultra‐Low Voltages. Advanced Electronic Materials. 11(14).

Lungwitz, Dominique, Ahmed E. Mansour, Andreas Opitz, et al.. (2023). Spectral Signatures of a Negative Polaron in a Doped Polymer Semiconductor: Energy Levels and Hubbard U Interactions. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 14(24). 5633–5640. 10 indexed citations

Müller, Johannes, Thorsten Schultz, H. Seiler, et al.. (2023). Probing Crystallinity and Grain Structure of 2D Materials and 2D‐Like Van der Waals Heterostructures by Low‐Voltage Electron Diffraction. physica status solidi (a). 221(1). 9 indexed citations

Zu, Fengshuo, Dongguen Shin, Emilio Gutierrez‐Partida, et al.. (2023). Charge Selective Contacts to Metal Halide Perovskites Studied with Photoelectron Spectroscopy: X‐Ray, Ultraviolet, and Visible Light Induced Energy Level Realignment. Advanced Materials Interfaces. 10(34). 3 indexed citations

Grischek, Max, Pietro Caprioglio, Jiahuan Zhang, et al.. (2022). Efficiency Potential and Voltage Loss of Inorganic CsPbI₂Br Perovskite Solar Cells. Solar RRL. 6(11). 19 indexed citations

Warby, Jonathan, Fengshuo Zu, Stefan Zeiske, et al.. (2022). Understanding Performance Limiting Interfacial Recombination in pin Perovskite Solar Cells. Advanced Energy Materials. 12(12). 201 indexed citations breakdown →

Huang, Jieyang, Ranjit Kulkarni, Patrick Amsalem, et al.. (2022). One‐pot synthesis of high‐capacity silicon anodes via on‐copper growth of a semiconducting, porous polymer. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(3). 3 indexed citations

Sun, Bowen, Wen Liang Tan, Lars Thomsen, et al.. (2022). Spectroelectrochemically determined energy levels of PM6:Y6 blends and their relevance to solar cell performance. Journal of Materials Chemistry C. 10(32). 11565–11578. 30 indexed citations

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Zu, Fengshuo, Dongguen Shin, & Norbert Koch. (2021). Electronic properties of metal halide perovskites and their interfaces: the basics. Materials Horizons. 9(1). 17–24. 23 indexed citations

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Shin, Dongguen, Fengshuo Zu, & Norbert Koch. (2021). Reversible oxygen-induced p-doping of mixed-cation halide perovskites. APL Materials. 9(8). 9 indexed citations

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Xu, Wenlei, Patrícia A. Russo, Thorsten Schultz, Norbert Koch, & Nicola Pinna. (2020). Niobium‐Doped Titanium Dioxide with High Dopant Contents for Enhanced Lithium‐Ion Storage. ChemElectroChem. 7(19). 4016–4023. 26 indexed citations

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Wang, Yu, Qiankun Wang, Martin Quick, et al.. (2020). Insights into Charge Transfer at an Atomically Precise Nanocluster/Semiconductor Interface. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 59(20). 7748–7754. 79 indexed citations

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Zu, Fengshuo, Thorsten Schultz, Christian M. Wolff, et al.. (2020). Position-locking of volatile reaction products by atmosphere and capping layers slows down photodecomposition of methylammonium lead triiodide perovskite. RSC Advances. 10(30). 17534–17542. 18 indexed citations

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Kneiß, Max, Anna Hassa, Thorsten Schultz, et al.. (2019). Epitaxial κ-(AlxGa1−x)2O3 thin films and heterostructures grown by tin-assisted VCCS-PLD. APL Materials. 7(11). 38 indexed citations

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Wahl, Sebastian, Sayed M. El‐Refaei, Patrick Amsalem, et al.. (2019). Operando diffuse reflectance UV-vis spectroelectrochemistry for investigating oxygen evolution electrocatalysts. Catalysis Science & Technology. 10(2). 517–528. 15 indexed citations

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Fan, Yafei, Yanlin Wu, Xing Huang, et al.. (2018). Polarization Resistance‐Free Mn₃O₄‐Based Electrocatalysts for the Oxygen Reduction Reaction. ChemElectroChem. 5(14). 2010–2018. 13 indexed citations

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Pulvirenti, Federico, Berthold Wegner, Nakita K. Noel, et al.. (2018). 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. 3(5). 741–747. 11 indexed citations

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Xu, Yong, Oliver T. Hofmann, Patrick Rinke, et al.. (2012). New mechanism for work-function tuning: ZnO surfaces modified by a strong organic electron acceptor. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 2012. 1 indexed citations

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Vollmer, Antje, Oana D. Jurchescu, Imad Arfaoui, et al.. (2005). The effect of oxygen exposure on pentacene electronic structure. The European Physical Journal E. 17(3). 339–343. 93 indexed citations

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