Safa Shoaee

4.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
76 papers, 4.0k citations indexed

About

Safa Shoaee is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Polymers and Plastics and Organic Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Safa Shoaee has authored 76 papers receiving a total of 4.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 72 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 56 papers in Polymers and Plastics and 9 papers in Organic Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Safa Shoaee's work include Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (68 papers), Conducting polymers and applications (55 papers) and Perovskite Materials and Applications (28 papers). Safa Shoaee is often cited by papers focused on Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (68 papers), Conducting polymers and applications (55 papers) and Perovskite Materials and Applications (28 papers). Safa Shoaee collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United Kingdom and United States. Safa Shoaee's co-authors include Dieter Neher, James R. Durrant, Martin Stolterfoht, Ardalan Armin, Paul Meredith, Seyed Mehrdad Hosseini, Samson A. Jenekhe, Selvam Subramaniyan, Hao Xin and Oskar J. Sandberg and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Advanced Materials and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Safa Shoaee

75 papers receiving 4.0k 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.

A History and Perspective of Non‐Fullerene Electron Acceptors for Organic Solar Cells

2021 444 citations Ardalan Armin, Oskar J. Sandberg et al. Advanced Energy Materials profile →
Barrierless Free Charge Generation in the High‐Performance PM6:Y6 Bulk Heterojunction Non‐Fullerene Solar Cell

2020 311 citations Lorena Perdigón‐Toro, Seyed Mehrdad Hosseini et al. profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Safa Shoaee Germany	34	3.7k	2.8k	723	301	272	76	4.0k
Sachetan M. Tuladhar United Kingdom	21	3.2k 0.9×	2.5k 0.9×	687 1.0×	380 1.3×	334 1.2×	33	3.5k
Huanran Feng China	26	4.8k 1.3×	4.1k 1.5×	672 0.9×	391 1.3×	228 0.8×	56	5.1k
Jessica D. Douglas United States	15	3.7k 1.0×	3.1k 1.1×	493 0.7×	334 1.1×	337 1.2×	18	4.0k
Guofang Yang China	18	5.3k 1.4×	4.6k 1.6×	455 0.6×	408 1.4×	295 1.1×	34	5.6k
Petr P. Khlyabich United States	24	2.9k 0.8×	2.5k 0.9×	494 0.7×	354 1.2×	224 0.8×	39	3.2k
Koen H. Hendriks Netherlands	26	3.4k 0.9×	2.6k 0.9×	619 0.9×	246 0.8×	147 0.5×	34	3.7k
Qinghe Wu China	21	3.3k 0.9×	2.6k 0.9×	592 0.8×	252 0.8×	206 0.8×	48	3.6k
Sylvia J. Lou United States	16	2.9k 0.8×	2.5k 0.9×	415 0.6×	200 0.7×	199 0.7×	22	3.2k
Chad M. Amb United States	23	3.7k 1.0×	3.5k 1.2×	903 1.2×	358 1.2×	217 0.8×	35	4.5k
Haijun Fan China	26	2.6k 0.7×	2.3k 0.8×	412 0.6×	235 0.8×	160 0.6×	65	2.9k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Safa Shoaee

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Shukla, Atul, Yufei Gong, Julian A. Steele, et al.. (2025). Discerning Performance Bottlenecks of State‐of‐the‐Art Narrow Bandgap Organic Solar Cells. Advanced Energy Materials. 15(32). 1 indexed citations

Tokmoldin, Nurlan, et al.. (2025). When the Triplet State Doesn’t Matter: Insights into Its Impact on V_OC. ACS Energy Letters. 10(5). 2419–2427. 1 indexed citations

Sun, Bowen, et al.. (2024). An Analytical Model for Describing Transient Photocurrents in Bias‐Assisted Charge Extraction for Low‐Mobility Organic Solar Cells. Solar RRL. 8(12). 4 indexed citations

Tokmoldin, Nurlan, et al.. (2024). On the Impact of Bimolecular Recombination on Time‐Delayed Collection Field Measurements and How to Minimize Its Effect. Solar RRL. 8(10). 4 indexed citations

Vollbrecht, Joachim, Nurlan Tokmoldin, Bowen Sun, et al.. (2023). On the relationship of the effective mobility and photoconductance mobility in organic solar cells. Energy Advances. 2(9). 1390–1398. 5 indexed citations

Hosseini, Seyed Mehrdad, Nurlan Tokmoldin, Artem Musiienko, et al.. (2023). Self‐Doping of the Transport Layers Decreases the Bimolecular Recombination by Reducing Static Disorder. Solar RRL. 7(19). 2 indexed citations

Sun, Bowen, et al.. (2023). Performance-Limiting Factors in Ultralow-Bandgap PTB7-Th:COTIC-4F-Based Organic Solar Cells. ACS Energy Letters. 8(10). 3980–3988. 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

Sun, Bowen, Oskar J. Sandberg, Dieter Neher, Ardalan Armin, & Safa Shoaee. (2022). Wave Optics of Differential Absorption Spectroscopy in Thick-Junction Organic Solar Cells: Optical Artifacts and Correction Strategies. Physical Review Applied. 17(5). 4 indexed citations

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Benduhn, Johannes, Mathias Nyman, Seyed Mehrdad Hosseini, et al.. (2022). Reply to Comment on “Enhanced Charge Selectivity via Anodic-C₆₀ Layer Reduces Nonradiative Losses in Organic Solar Cells”. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 14(6). 7527–7530. 1 indexed citations

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Ye, Fangyuan, Shuo Zhang, Jonathan Warby, et al.. (2022). Overcoming C60-induced interfacial recombination in inverted perovskite solar cells by electron-transporting carborane. Nature Communications. 13(1). 7454–7454. 145 indexed citations

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Fritsch, Tobias, Jona Kurpiers, Steffen Roland, et al.. (2022). On the Interplay between CT and Singlet Exciton Emission in Organic Solar Cells with Small Driving Force and Its Impact on Voltage Loss. Advanced Energy Materials. 12(31). 20 indexed citations

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Hosseini, Seyed Mehrdad, Thomas Ferron, Terry McAfee, et al.. (2021). Evidence That Sharp Interfaces Suppress Recombination in Thick Organic Solar Cells. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 13(47). 56394–56403. 6 indexed citations

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Perdigón‐Toro, Lorena, Le Quang Phuong, Stefan Zeiske, et al.. (2021). Excitons Dominate the Emission from PM6:Y6 Solar Cells, but This Does Not Help the Open-Circuit Voltage of the Device. ACS Energy Letters. 6(2). 557–564. 71 indexed citations

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Benduhn, Johannes, Mathias Nyman, Seyed Mehrdad Hosseini, et al.. (2021). Enhanced Charge Selectivity via Anodic-C₆₀ Layer Reduces Nonradiative Losses in Organic Solar Cells. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 13(10). 12603–12609. 9 indexed citations

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Hosseini, Seyed Mehrdad, Nurlan Tokmoldin, Young Woong Lee, et al.. (2020). Putting Order into PM6:Y6 Solar Cells to Reduce the Langevin Recombination in 400 nm Thick Junction. Solar RRL. 4(11). 65 indexed citations

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Tokmoldin, Nurlan, Seyed Mehrdad Hosseini, Meysam Raoufi, et al.. (2020). Extraordinarily long diffusion length in PM6:Y6 organic solar cells. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 8(16). 7854–7860. 90 indexed citations

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Shoaee, Safa, Ardalan Armin, Martin Stolterfoht, et al.. (2019). Decoding Charge Recombination through Charge Generation in Organic Solar Cells. Solar RRL. 3(11). 39 indexed citations

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Würfel, Uli, Lorena Perdigón‐Toro, Jona Kurpiers, et al.. (2019). Recombination between Photogenerated and Electrode-Induced Charges Dominates the Fill Factor Losses in Optimized Organic Solar Cells. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 10(12). 3473–3480. 33 indexed citations

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Armin, Ardalan, Zhiming Chen, Yaocheng Jin, et al.. (2017). A Shockley‐Type Polymer: Fullerene Solar Cell. Advanced Energy Materials. 8(7). 31 indexed citations

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