Patrick Denk

8.6k total citations · 4 hit papers
33 papers, 7.6k citations indexed

About

Patrick Denk is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Polymers and Plastics and Organic Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Patrick Denk has authored 33 papers receiving a total of 7.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 24 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 17 papers in Polymers and Plastics and 8 papers in Organic Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Patrick Denk's work include Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (21 papers), Conducting polymers and applications (17 papers) and Surfactants and Colloidal Systems (6 papers). Patrick Denk is often cited by papers focused on Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (21 papers), Conducting polymers and applications (17 papers) and Surfactants and Colloidal Systems (6 papers). Patrick Denk collaborates with scholars based in Austria, Germany and France. Patrick Denk's co-authors include Christoph J. Brabec, Christoph Waldauf, Markus Koppe, Niyazi Serdar Sariçiftçi, Christoph Winder, Sean E. Shaheen, Markus C. Scharber, Gilles Dennler, Mauro Morana and Karen Forberich and has published in prestigious journals such as Advanced Materials, Energy & Environmental Science and Applied Physics Letters.

In The Last Decade

Patrick Denk

29 papers receiving 7.4k 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.

Design Rules for Donors in Bulk‐Heterojunction Solar Cells—Towards 10 % Energy‐Conversion Efficiency

2006 4.6k citations Markus Koppe, Patrick Denk et al. Advanced Materials profile →
Effect of LiF/metal electrodes on the performance of plastic solar cells

2002 779 citations Christoph J. Brabec, Sean E. Shaheen et al. Applied Physics Letters profile →
Highly efficient inverted organic photovoltaics using solution based titanium oxide as electron selective contact

2006 553 citations Christoph Waldauf, Mauro Morana et al. Applied Physics Letters profile →
Design Rules for Donors in Bulk‐Heterojunction Tandem Solar Cells�Towards 15 % Energy‐Conversion Efficiency

2008 462 citations Gilles Dennler, Markus C. Scharber et al. Advanced Materials profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Patrick Denk Austria	18	7.0k	5.5k	1.6k	632	579	33	7.6k
Christoph Waldauf Germany	22	8.9k 1.3×	6.9k 1.3×	1.7k 1.1×	667 1.1×	742 1.3×	28	9.4k
Mathieu Turbiez Netherlands	33	5.9k 0.8×	4.8k 0.9×	1.1k 0.7×	428 0.7×	336 0.6×	44	6.4k
J.C. Hummelen Netherlands	21	6.4k 0.9×	4.9k 0.9×	1.7k 1.1×	1.0k 1.7×	564 1.0×	33	7.1k
Tayebeh Ameri Germany	51	8.3k 1.2×	6.1k 1.1×	1.8k 1.2×	471 0.7×	458 0.8×	135	8.9k
Chunhui Duan China	49	8.0k 1.1×	6.7k 1.2×	1.5k 1.0×	488 0.8×	368 0.6×	163	8.7k
Guangchao Han China	38	5.9k 0.8×	4.2k 0.8×	1.6k 1.0×	565 0.9×	287 0.5×	97	6.7k
Raja Shahid Ashraf United Kingdom	46	9.4k 1.4×	8.0k 1.5×	1.4k 0.9×	884 1.4×	536 0.9×	97	10.3k
Erjun Zhou China	61	10.6k 1.5×	9.0k 1.7×	1.8k 1.2×	927 1.5×	618 1.1×	290	11.6k
Zaifei Ma China	51	8.5k 1.2×	6.8k 1.2×	1.2k 0.7×	385 0.6×	467 0.8×	184	8.9k

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All Works

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Denk, Patrick, et al.. (2025). Biliquid oil-in-water nanofoams and spontaneous emulsification obtained with a surfactant resistant to curvature changes. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. 684(Pt 2). 105–121. 1 indexed citations

Denk, Patrick, Lauren Matthews, Sylvain Prévost, Thomas Zemb, & Werner Kunz. (2024). A dilute nematic gel produced by intramicellar segregation of two polyoxyethylene alkyl ether carboxylic acids. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. 659. 833–848. 2 indexed citations

Denk, Patrick, et al.. (2022). The effect of ethanol on fibrillar hydrogels formed by glycyrrhizic acid monoammonium salt. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. 630(Pt B). 762–775. 10 indexed citations

Denk, Patrick, Sylvain Prévost, Wagner Silva, et al.. (2022). Cloud point, auto-coacervation, and nematic ordering of micelles formed by ethylene oxide containing carboxylate surfactants. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. 621. 470–488. 9 indexed citations

Denk, Patrick, et al.. (2021). Phase diagrams and microstructures of aqueous short alkyl chain polyethylene glycol ether carboxylate and carboxylic acid triblock surfactant solutions. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. 590. 375–386. 18 indexed citations

Munkhbat, Battulga, et al.. (2016). Performance Boost of Organic Light‐Emitting Diodes with Plasmonic Nanostars. Advanced Optical Materials. 4(5). 772–781. 42 indexed citations

Gąsiorowski, Jacek, Patrick Denk, Kerstin Oppelt, et al.. (2016). Systematic Investigation of Porphyrin‐Thiophene Conjugates for Ternary Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells. Advanced Energy Materials. 6(20). 25 indexed citations

Pavlica, Egon, Jure Strle, Janez Zavašnik, et al.. (2015). Factors determining large observed increases in power conversion efficiency of P3HT:PCBM solar cells embedded with Mo6S9−xIx nanowires. Synthetic Metals. 212. 105–112. 15 indexed citations

Udum, Yasemin Arslan, Patrick Denk, Getachew Adam Workneh, et al.. (2014). Inverted bulk-heterojunction solar cell with cross-linked hole-blocking layer. Organic Electronics. 15(5). 997–1001. 43 indexed citations

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Denk, Patrick, et al.. (2013). COMBINED EFFECT OF ACTIVE LAYER THICKNESS AND LiF LAYER ON PHOTOVOLTAIC PERFORMANCE OF AN ANTHRACENE - CONTAINING PPE-PPV COPOLYMER.

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Clarke, Tracey M., Jeff Peet, Patrick Denk, et al.. (2011). Non-Langevin bimolecular recombination in a silole-based polymer:PCBM solar cell measured by time-resolved charge extraction and resistance-dependent time-of-flight techniques. Energy & Environmental Science. 5(1). 5241–5245. 38 indexed citations

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Scharber, Markus C., Markus Koppe, Jia Gao, et al.. (2009). Influence of the Bridging Atom on the Performance of a Low‐Bandgap Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cell. Advanced Materials. 22(3). 367–370. 299 indexed citations

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Dennler, Gilles, Markus C. Scharber, Tayebeh Ameri, et al.. (2008). Design Rules for Donors in Bulk‐Heterojunction Tandem Solar Cells�Towards 15 % Energy‐Conversion Efficiency. Advanced Materials. 20(3). 579–583. 462 indexed citations breakdown →

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Morana, Mauro, Christoph Waldauf, Markus Koppe, et al.. (2007). Organic Field‐Effect Devices as Tool to Characterize the Bipolar Transport in Polymer‐Fullerene Blends: The Case of P3HT‐PCBM. Advanced Functional Materials. 17(16). 3274–3283. 96 indexed citations

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Dennler, Gilles, Karen Forberich, Tayebeh Ameri, et al.. (2007). Design of efficient organic tandem cells: On the interplay between molecular absorption and layer sequence. Journal of Applied Physics. 102(12). 90 indexed citations

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Koppe, Markus, et al.. (2006). Design Rules for Donors in Bulk‐Heterojunction Solar Cells—Towards 10 % Energy‐Conversion Efficiency. Advanced Materials. 18(6). 789–794. 4564 indexed citations breakdown →

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Mozer, Attila J., Patrick Denk, Markus C. Scharber, et al.. (2004). Novel Regiospecific MDMO−PPV Copolymer with Improved Charge Transport for Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 108(17). 5235–5242. 79 indexed citations

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Winder, Christoph, Maria Antonietta Loi, Niyazi Serdar Sariçiftçi, et al.. (2003). Towards increasing the photon harvesting in bulk heterojunction polymer solar cells. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 4801. 22–22.

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Loi, Maria Antonietta, Patrick Denk, Harald Hoppe, et al.. (2003). A Fulleropyrrolidine-phthalocyanine dyad for photovoltaic applications. Synthetic Metals. 137(1-3). 1491–1492. 20 indexed citations

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Brabec, Christoph J., Sean E. Shaheen, Christoph Winder, Niyazi Serdar Sariçiftçi, & Patrick Denk. (2002). Effect of LiF/metal electrodes on the performance of plastic solar cells. Applied Physics Letters. 80(7). 1288–1290. 779 indexed citations breakdown →

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