Stephen Barlow

34.5k total citations · 8 hit papers
383 papers, 28.0k citations indexed

About

Stephen Barlow is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials Chemistry and Polymers and Plastics. According to data from OpenAlex, Stephen Barlow has authored 383 papers receiving a total of 28.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 253 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 142 papers in Materials Chemistry and 109 papers in Polymers and Plastics. Recurrent topics in Stephen Barlow's work include Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (168 papers), Organic Light-Emitting Diodes Research (113 papers) and Conducting polymers and applications (106 papers). Stephen Barlow is often cited by papers focused on Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (168 papers), Organic Light-Emitting Diodes Research (113 papers) and Conducting polymers and applications (106 papers). Stephen Barlow collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Germany. Stephen Barlow's co-authors include Seth R. Marder, Xiaowei Zhan, Jean‐Luc Brédas, Bernard Kippelen, Dermot O’Hare, Joseph W. Perry, Chun Huang, Alex K.‐Y. Jen, Zhaohui Wang and Cenqi Yan and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Chemical Reviews.

In The Last Decade

Stephen Barlow

371 papers receiving 27.7k 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.

Non-fullerene acceptors for organic solar cells

2018 2.4k citations Stephen Barlow, Seth R. Marder et al. profile →
Two-photon polymerization initiators for three-dimensional optical data storage and microfabrication

1999 1.8k citations B. H. Cumpston, Stephen Barlow et al. profile →
Rylene and Related Diimides for Organic Electronics

2010 1.6k citations Xiaowei Zhan, Antonio Facchetti et al. Advanced Materials profile →
A High-Mobility Electron-Transport Polymer with Broad Absorption and Its Use in Field-Effect Transistors and All-Polymer Solar Cells

2007 1.1k citations Xiaowei Zhan, Stephen Barlow et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
Perylene-3,4,9,10-tetracarboxylic Acid Diimides: Synthesis, Physical Properties, and Use in Organic Electronics

2011 1.0k citations Stephen Barlow, Seth R. Marder et al. The Journal of Organic Chemistry profile →
Structure−Property Relationships for Two-Photon Absorbing Chromophores: Bis-Donor Diphenylpolyene and Bis(styryl)benzene Derivatives

2000 769 citations Mariacristina Rumi, J.E. Ehrlich et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
Intrinsic non-radiative voltage losses in fullerene-based organic solar cells

2017 590 citations Moritz Riede, Stephen Barlow et al. profile →
Metal−Metal Interactions in Linked Metallocenes

1997 524 citations Stephen Barlow et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Stephen Barlow United States	80	16.9k	11.5k	10.4k	5.4k	4.8k	383	28.0k
Huanli Dong China	77	16.2k 1.0×	10.6k 0.9×	7.7k 0.7×	3.2k 0.6×	3.9k 0.8×	368	23.5k
Ullrich Scherf Germany	98	29.4k 1.7×	15.9k 1.4×	18.1k 1.7×	5.9k 1.1×	4.0k 0.8×	743	40.1k
Jérôme Cornil Belgium	76	23.3k 1.4×	11.1k 1.0×	11.8k 1.1×	4.4k 0.8×	2.5k 0.5×	382	31.1k
Gui Yu China	82	17.0k 1.0×	13.6k 1.2×	8.5k 0.8×	2.6k 0.5×	4.4k 0.9×	503	26.5k
John E. Anthony United States	84	21.7k 1.3×	9.0k 0.8×	7.7k 0.7×	6.9k 1.3×	3.7k 0.8×	405	29.4k
Zhigang Shuai China	92	19.0k 1.1×	20.0k 1.7×	5.8k 0.6×	3.9k 0.7×	3.0k 0.6×	458	32.1k
David Beljonne Belgium	101	24.2k 1.4×	20.1k 1.7×	10.3k 1.0×	5.6k 1.0×	6.1k 1.3×	533	39.6k
Howard E. Katz United States	86	19.0k 1.1×	7.1k 0.6×	9.2k 0.9×	3.2k 0.6×	4.7k 1.0×	357	26.1k
Samson A. Jenekhe United States	99	22.8k 1.4×	10.3k 0.9×	18.5k 1.8×	5.8k 1.1×	3.1k 0.6×	347	31.9k
Colin Nuckolls United States	91	16.4k 1.0×	14.4k 1.3×	3.4k 0.3×	7.9k 1.5×	4.8k 1.0×	361	29.9k

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Zhang, Junxiang, et al.. (2025). Surface Passivation for Halide Optoelectronics: Comparing Optimization and Reactivity of Amino-Silanes with Formamidinium. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 147(46). 42918–42925.

Li, Shuya, Kan Tang, Saied Md Pratik, et al.. (2025). Intrachain Electron Transport in a Naphthalene Diimide–Bithiophene Copolymer: A Mixed-Valence Approach. ACS Materials Letters. 7(4). 1447–1453.

Taddei, Margherita, Huu Doan, Seongrok Seo, et al.. (2025). Diamine Surface Passivation and Postannealing Enhance the Performance of Silicon-Perovskite Tandem Solar Cells. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 17(26). 38754–38762. 1 indexed citations

Gallant, Benjamin M., Junxiang Zhang, Yangwei Shi, et al.. (2024). Reactive Passivation of Wide-Bandgap Organic–Inorganic Perovskites with Benzylamine. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 146(40). 27405–27416. 18 indexed citations

Dai, Zhenghong, Shuai You, Shunran Li, et al.. (2024). Connecting Interfacial Mechanical Adhesion, Efficiency, and Operational Stability in High Performance Inverted Perovskite Solar Cells. ACS Energy Letters. 9(4). 1880–1887. 54 indexed citations

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

Mattiello, Sara, Norberto Manfredi, Alexey Fedorov, et al.. (2023). Direct detection of molecular hydrogen upon p- and n-doping of organic semiconductors with complex oxidants or reductants. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 11(15). 8192–8201. 10 indexed citations

Zhang, Junxiang, Yadong Zhang, Bernard Kippelen, et al.. (2023). Dirhodium C–H Functionalization of Hole-Transport Materials. The Journal of Organic Chemistry. 88(7). 4309–4316. 1 indexed citations

Wang, Rongbin, Thorsten Schultz, Alexandra Papadogianni, et al.. (2023). Tuning the Surface Electron Accumulation Layer of In₂O₃ by Adsorption of Molecular Electron Donors and Acceptors. Small. 19(32). e2300730–e2300730. 3 indexed citations

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Tremblay, Marie‐Hélène, Kelly Schutt, Yadong Zhang, et al.. (2021). A polymeric bis(di-p-anisylamino)fluorene hole-transport material for stable n-i-p perovskite solar cells. New Journal of Chemistry. 45(33). 15017–15021. 3 indexed citations

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Larson, Bryon W., Iryna Davydenko, Raghunath R. Dasari, et al.. (2021). Short and long-range electron transfer compete to determine free-charge yield in organic semiconductors. Materials Horizons. 9(1). 312–324. 8 indexed citations

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Tait, Claudia E., Ana M. Valencia, Caterina Cocchi, et al.. (2020). Quantitative Analysis of Doping-Induced Polarons and Charge-Transfer Complexes of Poly(3-hexylthiophene) in Solution. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 124(35). 7694–7708. 54 indexed citations

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Kaafarani, Bilal R., W.A.W. Smith, Sean M. Ryno, et al.. (2019). Bis(tercarbazole) pyrene and tetrahydropyrene derivatives: photophysical and electrochemical properties, theoretical modeling, and OLEDs. Journal of Materials Chemistry C. 7(17). 5009–5018. 19 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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Reiser, Patrick, Robert Lovrinčić, Stephen Barlow, et al.. (2018). Dopant Diffusion in Sequentially Doped Poly(3-hexylthiophene) Studied by Infrared and Photoelectron Spectroscopy. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 122(26). 14518–14527. 28 indexed citations

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Lin, Xin, Berthold Wegner, Michael A. Fusella, et al.. (2017). Beating the thermodynamic limit with photo-activation of n-doping in organic semiconductors. Nature Materials. 16(12). 1209–1215. 143 indexed citations

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Noel, Nakita K., Severin N. Habisreutinger, Yadong Zhang, et al.. (2017). Efficient and Stable Perovskite Solar Cells Using Molybdenum Tris(dithiolene)s as p-Dopants for Spiro-OMeTAD. ACS Energy Letters. 2(9). 2044–2050. 83 indexed citations

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Hwang, Do Kyung, Raghunath R. Dasari, Mathieu Fenoll, et al.. (2012). Stable Solution‐Processed Molecular n‐Channel Organic Field‐Effect Transistors. Advanced Materials. 24(32). 4445–4450. 66 indexed citations

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Zhan, Xiaowei, Antonio Facchetti, Stephen Barlow, et al.. (2010). Rylene and Related Diimides for Organic Electronics. Advanced Materials. 23(2). 268–284. 1610 indexed citations breakdown →

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Barlow, Stephen, David Beljonne, Jean‐Luc Brédas, et al.. (1998). Design, synthesis and applications of two-photon absorbing organic molecules. 39(2).

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