Peter Peumans

17.3k total citations · 9 hit papers
72 papers, 14.7k citations indexed

About

Peter Peumans is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Biomedical Engineering and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, Peter Peumans has authored 72 papers receiving a total of 14.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 60 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 33 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 12 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in Peter Peumans's work include Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (31 papers), Thin-Film Transistor Technologies (21 papers) and Nanowire Synthesis and Applications (15 papers). Peter Peumans is often cited by papers focused on Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (31 papers), Thin-Film Transistor Technologies (21 papers) and Nanowire Synthesis and Applications (15 papers). Peter Peumans collaborates with scholars based in United States, Belgium and Germany. Peter Peumans's co-authors include Stephen R. Forrest, Jung‐Yong Lee, Yi Cui, Aharon Yakimov, Stephen T. Connor, Soichi Uchida, Liangbing Hu, Han Sun Kim, Mukul Agrawal and Vladimir Bulović and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Advanced Materials and Nano Letters.

In The Last Decade

Peter Peumans

72 papers receiving 14.3k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Small molecular weight organic thin-film photodetectors and solar cells

2003 2.3k citations Peter Peumans, Aharon Yakimov et al. Journal of Applied Physics profile →
Scalable Coating and Properties of Transparent, Flexible, Silver Nanowire Electrodes

2010 1.8k citations Han Sun Kim, Jung‐Yong Lee et al. profile →
Solution-Processed Metal Nanowire Mesh Transparent Electrodes

2008 1.6k citations Jung‐Yong Lee, Stephen T. Connor et al. Nano Letters profile →
Efficient bulk heterojunction photovoltaic cells using small-molecular-weight organic thin films

2003 1.1k citations Peter Peumans, Stephen R. Forrest et al. profile →
Very-high-efficiency double-heterostructure copper phthalocyanine/C60 photovoltaic cells

2001 880 citations Peter Peumans, Stephen R. Forrest Applied Physics Letters profile →
Organic Light-Emitting Diodes on Solution-Processed Graphene Transparent Electrodes

2009 787 citations Mukul Agrawal, Peter Peumans et al. profile →
Organic solar cells with solution-processed graphene transparent electrodes

2008 780 citations Peter Peumans et al. Applied Physics Letters profile →
Efficient photon harvesting at high optical intensities in ultrathin organic double-heterostructure photovoltaic diodes

2000 545 citations Peter Peumans, Stephen R. Forrest et al. Applied Physics Letters profile →
Smooth Nanowire/Polymer Composite Transparent Electrodes

2011 520 citations Whitney Gaynor, George F. Burkhard 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
Peter Peumans United States	36	12.1k	5.9k	5.2k	4.1k	1.3k	72	14.7k
Christian Müller Sweden	68	9.2k 0.8×	3.9k 0.7×	7.1k 1.3×	6.5k 1.6×	1.0k 0.8×	283	15.1k
Jeong Ho Cho South Korea	73	13.2k 1.1×	7.5k 1.3×	5.6k 1.1×	8.4k 2.1×	1.9k 1.4×	411	19.7k
Jana Zaumseil Germany	49	9.3k 0.8×	2.7k 0.5×	4.1k 0.8×	4.7k 1.2×	904 0.7×	166	12.6k
Paul Heremans Belgium	77	19.1k 1.6×	3.4k 0.6×	7.9k 1.5×	6.1k 1.5×	994 0.8×	501	21.3k
Seunghyup Yoo South Korea	57	10.9k 0.9×	2.8k 0.5×	3.9k 0.7×	6.7k 1.6×	881 0.7×	266	14.0k
Ananth Dodabalapur United States	63	13.4k 1.1×	3.6k 0.6×	5.1k 1.0×	4.7k 1.2×	875 0.7×	267	15.9k
Byeong‐Kwon Ju South Korea	49	6.3k 0.5×	4.0k 0.7×	1.8k 0.3×	3.6k 0.9×	993 0.8×	587	9.5k
Moonsub Shim United States	58	7.0k 0.6×	4.9k 0.8×	1.9k 0.4×	11.2k 2.8×	1.2k 1.0×	164	15.3k
Hagen Klauk Germany	64	15.1k 1.2×	5.5k 0.9×	4.9k 0.9×	3.7k 0.9×	818 0.6×	244	17.7k
Thomas Riedl Germany	62	10.6k 0.9×	1.7k 0.3×	4.6k 0.9×	5.1k 1.3×	805 0.6×	207	12.5k

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Mehra, Saahil, M. Greyson Christoforo, Peter Peumans, & Alberto Salleo. (2013). Solution processed zinc oxide nanopyramid/silver nanowire transparent network films with highly tunable light scattering properties. Nanoscale. 5(10). 4400–4400. 38 indexed citations

Sergeant, Nicholas P., Afshin Hadipour, Bjoern Niesen, et al.. (2012). Design of Transparent Anodes for Resonant Cavity Enhanced Light Harvesting in Organic Solar Cells. Advanced Materials. 24(6). 728–732. 216 indexed citations

Guo, Zhiqiang, et al.. (2011). Bio-inspired smart skin based on expandable network. Structural Health Monitoring. 2. 1717–1723. 8 indexed citations

Wang, Trudie & Peter Peumans. (2011). Designing a metallic nanoconcentrator for a lateral multijunction photovoltaic cell. Journal of Applied Physics. 109(11). 3 indexed citations

Lee, Jung‐Yong, et al.. (2011). Title: Using Alignment and 2D Network Simulations to Study Charge Transport Through Doped ZnO Nanowire Thin Film Electrodes. Advanced Functional Materials. 21(24). 4691–4697. 16 indexed citations

Gaynor, Whitney, George F. Burkhard, Michael D. McGehee, & Peter Peumans. (2011). Smooth Nanowire/Polymer Composite Transparent Electrodes. Advanced Materials. 23(26). 2905–2910. 520 indexed citations breakdown →

Sergeant, Nicholas P., Mukul Agrawal, & Peter Peumans. (2010). High performance solar-selective absorbers using coated sub-wavelength gratings. Optics Express. 18(6). 5525–5525. 100 indexed citations

Kim, Han Sun, et al.. (2010). Scalable Coating and Properties of Transparent, Flexible, Silver Nanowire. 1 indexed citations

Min, Changjun, Jennifer Li, Georgios Veronis, et al.. (2010). Enhancement of optical absorption in thin-film organic solar cells through the excitation of plasmonic modes in metallic gratings. Applied Physics Letters. 96(13). 190 indexed citations

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Lee, Jung‐Yong & Peter Peumans. (2010). The origin of enhanced optical absorption in solar cells with metal nanoparticles embedded in the active layer. Optics Express. 18(10). 10078–10078. 166 indexed citations

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Agrawal, Mukul & Peter Peumans. (2010). Semiconductor Energy Conversion Devices. 1 indexed citations

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Mallick, Shrestha Basu, Mukul Agrawal, & Peter Peumans. (2010). Optimal light trapping in ultra-thin photonic crystal crystalline silicon solar cells. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 7725. 772503–772503. 5 indexed citations

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Peumans, Peter, et al.. (2008). Surface plasmon polariton assisted organic solar cells. TechConnect Briefs. 1(2008). 166–169. 2 indexed citations

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Rim, Seung-Bum, et al.. (2008). The optical advantages of curved focal plane arrays. Optics Express. 16(7). 4965–4965. 108 indexed citations

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Agrawal, Mukul & Peter Peumans. (2008). Broadband optical absorption enhancement through coherent light trapping in thin-film photovoltaic cells. Optics Express. 16(8). 5385–5385. 103 indexed citations

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Lee, Jung‐Yong, Stephen T. Connor, Yi Cui, & Peter Peumans. (2008). Solution-Processed Metal Nanowire Mesh Transparent Electrodes. Nano Letters. 8(2). 689–692. 1621 indexed citations breakdown →

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Agrawal, Mukul & Peter Peumans. (2007). Design of non-periodic dielectric stacks for tailoring the emission of organic lighting-emitting diodes. Optics Express. 15(15). 9715–9715. 3 indexed citations

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Peumans, Peter & Stephen R. Forrest. (2004). Separation of geminate charge-pairs at donor–acceptor interfaces in disordered solids. Chemical Physics Letters. 398(1-3). 27–31. 251 indexed citations

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Rand, Barry P., Peter Peumans, & Stephen R. Forrest. (2004). Long-range absorption enhancement in organic tandem thin-film solar cells containing silver nanoclusters. Journal of Applied Physics. 96(12). 7519–7526. 472 indexed citations

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Peumans, Peter, Aharon Yakimov, & Stephen R. Forrest. (2003). Small molecular weight organic thin-film photodetectors and solar cells. Journal of Applied Physics. 93(7). 3693–3723. 2333 indexed citations breakdown →

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