Ronald Österbacka

11.7k total citations · 3 hit papers
225 papers, 9.4k citations indexed

About

Ronald Österbacka is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Polymers and Plastics and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Ronald Österbacka has authored 225 papers receiving a total of 9.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 188 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 113 papers in Polymers and Plastics and 40 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Ronald Österbacka's work include Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (133 papers), Conducting polymers and applications (110 papers) and Thin-Film Transistor Technologies (40 papers). Ronald Österbacka is often cited by papers focused on Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (133 papers), Conducting polymers and applications (110 papers) and Thin-Film Transistor Technologies (40 papers). Ronald Österbacka collaborates with scholars based in Finland, Lithuania and Germany. Ronald Österbacka's co-authors include Daniel Tobjörk, G. Juška, Almantas Pivrikas, Niyazi Serdar Sariçiftçi, H. Stubb, Z. Valy Vardeny, Xiangwei Jiang, K. Arlauskas, C. P. An and Oskar J. Sandberg and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Chemical Reviews and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

Ronald Österbacka

218 papers receiving 9.2k 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.

Paper Electronics

2011 1.1k citations Ronald Österbacka et al. Advanced Materials profile →
Two-Dimensional Electronic Excitations in Self-Assembled Conjugated Polymer Nanocrystals

2000 570 citations Ronald Österbacka et al. profile →
A review of charge transport and recombination in polymer/fullerene organic solar cells

2007 483 citations Almantas Pivrikas, Niyazi Serdar Sariçiftçi et al. profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ronald Österbacka Finland	46	7.7k	4.8k	2.2k	1.7k	772	225	9.4k
BongSoo Kim South Korea	47	7.3k 0.9×	3.3k 0.7×	2.4k 1.1×	3.4k 2.0×	1.3k 1.7×	250	9.9k
John C. de Mello United Kingdom	52	7.1k 0.9×	3.9k 0.8×	3.6k 1.6×	3.3k 2.0×	543 0.7×	139	10.2k
Mario Caironi Italy	50	8.9k 1.2×	5.3k 1.1×	2.8k 1.3×	3.2k 1.9×	431 0.6×	247	11.1k
Ute Zschieschang Germany	55	11.4k 1.5×	3.7k 0.8×	4.4k 2.0×	2.8k 1.7×	885 1.1×	174	13.4k
Yan Zhao China	43	6.5k 0.8×	4.2k 0.9×	1.9k 0.9×	2.6k 1.6×	415 0.5×	243	8.6k
Martijn Kemerink Netherlands	58	9.7k 1.3×	6.6k 1.4×	2.3k 1.1×	3.4k 2.0×	1.3k 1.7×	222	11.9k
Wi Hyoung Lee South Korea	51	5.6k 0.7×	2.4k 0.5×	3.0k 1.4×	3.5k 2.1×	482 0.6×	137	8.1k
Emil List Germany	49	8.5k 1.1×	4.4k 0.9×	1.4k 0.7×	4.8k 2.9×	462 0.6×	291	11.1k
Xiaodan Gu United States	57	7.3k 0.9×	6.8k 1.4×	4.1k 1.9×	2.5k 1.5×	328 0.4×	220	10.8k
Sabine Ludwigs Germany	42	4.1k 0.5×	3.5k 0.7×	1.4k 0.7×	2.4k 1.5×	388 0.5×	131	6.9k

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Österbacka, Ronald, et al.. (2025). Unintentional doping in PM6:Y6-based solar cells from exposure to the ambient. Journal of Applied Physics. 137(6).

Liu, Bowen, Oskar J. Sandberg, Jian Qin, et al.. (2025). Inverted organic solar cells with an in situ-derived SiOxNy passivation layer and power conversion efficiency exceeding 18%. Nature Photonics. 19(2). 195–203. 21 indexed citations

Xi, Qian, Jian Qin, Na Wu, et al.. (2025). Unexpected MoO₃/Al Interfacial Reaction Lowering the Performance of Organic Solar Cells upon Thermal Annealing and Methods for Suppression. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 17(17). 25419–25428.

Rosqvist, Emil, et al.. (2024). Multistep Fabrication of OECTs via Direct Ink Writing, With Performance Analysis Based on a Novel Measurement Protocol. Advanced Electronic Materials. 11(8). 1 indexed citations

Yin, Li, Changzeng Ding, Chenguang Liu, et al.. (2023). A Multifunctional Molecular Bridging Layer for High Efficiency, Hysteresis‐Free, and Stable Perovskite Solar Cells. Advanced Energy Materials. 13(25). 32 indexed citations

Zhang, Qilun, Tiefeng Liu, Sebastian Wilken, et al.. (2023). Industrial Kraft Lignin Based Binary Cathode Interface Layer Enables Enhanced Stability in High Efficiency Organic Solar Cells. Advanced Materials. 36(9). e2307646–e2307646. 15 indexed citations

Sarcina, Lucia, Cinzia Di Franco, Ronald Österbacka, et al.. (2023). Single Molecule with a Large Transistor – SiMoT cytokine IL‐6 Detection Benchmarked against a Chemiluminescent Ultrasensitive Immunoassay Array. Advanced Materials Technologies. 8(11). 12 indexed citations

Rosqvist, Emil, et al.. (2023). Experimental design of stencil-printed high-performance organic electrochemical transistors. Materials Advances. 4(24). 6718–6729. 8 indexed citations

Tewari, Amit, et al.. (2022). Low-cost dielectric sheets for large-area floor sensing applications. Flexible and Printed Electronics. 7(4). 45005–45005. 1 indexed citations

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Carmichael, Tricia Breen & Ronald Österbacka. (2022). Flexible and printed electronics: a transition in leadership—reflecting on our successes and looking forward to the future. Flexible and Printed Electronics. 7(1). 10401–10401. 1 indexed citations

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Ding, Changzeng, Rong Huang, Jian Lin, et al.. (2021). Synergetic effects of electrochemical oxidation of Spiro-OMeTAD and Li⁺ ion migration for improving the performance of n–i–p type perovskite solar cells. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 9(12). 7575–7585. 70 indexed citations

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Gounani, Zahra, Marika Sjöqvist, Cecilia Sahlgren, et al.. (2021). In Situ Coupled Electrochemical‐Goniometry as a Tool to Reveal Conformational Changes of Charged Peptides. Advanced Materials Interfaces. 9(4). 8 indexed citations

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Macchia, Eleonora, Rosaria Anna Picca, Kyriaki Manoli, et al.. (2020). About the amplification factors in organic bioelectronic sensors. Materials Horizons. 7(4). 999–1013. 96 indexed citations

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Blasi, Davide, Fabrizio Antonio Viola, Eleonora Macchia, et al.. (2020). Printed, cost-effective and stable poly(3-hexylthiophene) electrolyte-gated field-effect transistors. Journal of Materials Chemistry C. 8(43). 15312–15321. 37 indexed citations

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Macchia, Eleonora, Kyriaki Manoli, Cinzia Di Franco, et al.. (2020). Organic Field-Effect Transistor Platform for Label-Free, Single-Molecule Detection of Genomic Biomarkers. ACS Sensors. 5(6). 1822–1830. 66 indexed citations

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Salunke, Jagadish K., Xing Guo, Zhenhua Lin, et al.. (2019). Phenothiazine-Based Hole-Transporting Materials toward Eco-friendly Perovskite Solar Cells. ACS Applied Energy Materials. 2(5). 3021–3027. 61 indexed citations

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Sandberg, Oskar J., et al.. (2018). Two-dimensional drift-diffusion study of mid-gap states and subsequent vacuum level shifts at interfaces in bulk-heterojunction solar cells. Physical review. B.. 98(7). 2 indexed citations

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Jiang, Hua, Janne Ruokolainen, Makoto Komatsu, et al.. (2013). Investigation of plasmonic gold–silica core–shell nanoparticle stability in dye-sensitized solar cell applications. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. 427. 54–61. 26 indexed citations

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Halonen, Eerik, et al.. (2009). Evaluation of printed electronics manufacturing line with sensor platform application. Åbo Akademi University Research Portal. 1–8. 8 indexed citations

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Pivrikas, Almantas, G. Juška, Attila J. Mozer, et al.. (2005). Bimolecular Recombination Coefficient as a Sensitive Testing Parameter for Low-Mobility Solar-Cell Materials. Physical Review Letters. 94(17). 176806–176806. 273 indexed citations

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