Thomas G. Allen

6.7k total citations · 6 hit papers
53 papers, 3.7k citations indexed

About

Thomas G. Allen is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials Chemistry and Polymers and Plastics. According to data from OpenAlex, Thomas G. Allen has authored 53 papers receiving a total of 3.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 49 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 14 papers in Materials Chemistry and 13 papers in Polymers and Plastics. Recurrent topics in Thomas G. Allen's work include Perovskite Materials and Applications (35 papers), Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films (15 papers) and Silicon and Solar Cell Technologies (14 papers). Thomas G. Allen is often cited by papers focused on Perovskite Materials and Applications (35 papers), Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films (15 papers) and Silicon and Solar Cell Technologies (14 papers). Thomas G. Allen collaborates with scholars based in Saudi Arabia, United States and Italy. Thomas G. Allen's co-authors include Stefaan De Wolf, Erkan Aydın, Michele De Bastiani, Lujia Xu, Xinbo Yang, Esma Ugur, Ali Javey, Jiang Liu, James Bullock and Anand S. Subbiah and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Advanced Materials.

In The Last Decade

Thomas G. Allen

51 papers receiving 3.6k citations

Hit Papers

Passivating contacts for crystalline silicon solar cells 2019 2026 2021 2023 2019 2023 2021 2021 2024 100 200 300 400
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.

  1. Passivating contacts for crystalline silicon solar cells
    2019 483 citations Thomas G. Allen, James Bullock et al. Nature Energy profile →
  2. Enhanced optoelectronic coupling for perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells
    2023 287 citations Erkan Aydın, Esma Ugur et al. Nature profile →
  3. Tin Oxide Electron‐Selective Layers for Efficient, Stable, and Scalable Perovskite Solar Cells
    2021 274 citations Cesur Altinkaya, Erkan Aydın et al. Advanced Materials profile →
  4. Efficient bifacial monolithic perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells via bandgap engineering
    2021 234 citations Michele De Bastiani, Alessandro J. Mirabelli et al. Nature Energy profile →
  5. Pathways toward commercial perovskite/silicon tandem photovoltaics
    2024 210 citations Erkan Aydın, Thomas G. Allen et al. Science profile →
  6. Enhanced cation interaction in perovskites for efficient tandem solar cells with silicon
    2024 105 citations Esma Ugur, Ahmed Ali Said et al. Science profile →

Peers

Thomas G. Allen
Zhengshan J. Yu United States
Hisashi Uzu Japan
Lujia Xu Saudi Arabia
Suhas Mahesh United Kingdom
Toru Irie Japan
Masanori Kanematsu Japan
Kunta Yoshikawa Japan
Hayato Kawasaki Japan
Toshihiko Uto Japan
Kunihiro Nakano Japan
Zhengshan J. Yu United States
Thomas G. Allen
Citations per year, relative to Thomas G. Allen Thomas G. Allen (= 1×) peers Zhengshan J. Yu

Countries citing papers authored by Thomas G. Allen

Since Specialization
Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of Thomas G. Allen's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by Thomas G. Allen with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Thomas G. Allen more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by Thomas G. Allen

Since Specialization
Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Thomas G. Allen. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Thomas G. Allen. The network helps show where Thomas G. Allen may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Thomas G. Allen

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Thomas G. Allen. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Thomas G. Allen based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Thomas G. Allen. Thomas G. Allen is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
1.
Said, Ahmed Ali, Xiaole Li, Esma Ugur, et al.. (2025). Perovskite/Silicon Tandem Photovoltaics: Long-Term Stability through Interface Engineering. Energy & Fuels. 39(22). 10134–10149. 4 indexed citations
2.
Xu, Fuzong, Erkan Aydın, İlhan Yavuz, et al.. (2025). Stabilized perovskite phases enabling efficient perovskite/perovskite/silicon triple-junction solar cells. Nature Materials. 25(2). 259–266.
3.
Aydın, Erkan, Thomas G. Allen, Michele De Bastiani, et al.. (2024). Pathways toward commercial perovskite/silicon tandem photovoltaics. Science. 383(6679). eadh3849–eadh3849. 210 indexed citations breakdown →
4.
Ugur, Esma, Ahmed Ali Said, Pia Dally, et al.. (2024). Enhanced cation interaction in perovskites for efficient tandem solar cells with silicon. Science. 385(6708). 533–538. 105 indexed citations breakdown →
5.
Subbiah, Anand S., Arsalan Razzaq, Thomas G. Allen, & Stefaan De Wolf. (2024). Outlook on monolithic perovskite/silicon tandem photovoltaics. MRS Bulletin. 49(12). 1251–1264. 1 indexed citations
6.
Bristow, Helen, Maxime Babics, Jiang Liu, et al.. (2023). Efficient and reliable encapsulation for perovskite/silicon tandem solar modules. Nanoscale. 15(42). 16984–16991. 30 indexed citations
7.
Aydın, Erkan, Esma Ugur, Bumın K. Yildırım, et al.. (2023). Enhanced optoelectronic coupling for perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells. Nature. 623(7988). 732–738. 287 indexed citations breakdown →
8.
Prasetio, Adi, Rakesh R. Pradhan, Pia Dally, et al.. (2023). Efficient Silicon Solar Cells through Organic Self‐Assembled Monolayers as Electron Selective Contacts. Advanced Energy Materials. 14(9). 12 indexed citations
9.
Xu, Lujia, Erkan Aydın, Michele De Bastiani, et al.. (2023). Parasitic Heating of Perovskite‐ and Silicon‐Based Photovoltaics (Adv. Energy Mater. 24/2023). Advanced Energy Materials. 13(24). 1 indexed citations
10.
Babics, Maxime, Michele De Bastiani, Esma Ugur, et al.. (2023). One-year outdoor operation of monolithic perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells. Cell Reports Physical Science. 4(2). 101280–101280. 46 indexed citations
11.
Babics, Maxime, Michele De Bastiani, Ahmed H. Balawi, et al.. (2022). Unleashing the Full Power of Perovskite/Silicon Tandem Modules with Solar Trackers. ACS Energy Letters. 7(5). 1604–1610. 22 indexed citations
12.
Ugur, Esma, Martin Ledinský, Thomas G. Allen, et al.. (2022). Life on the Urbach Edge. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 13(33). 7702–7711. 106 indexed citations
13.
Bastiani, Michele De, Emmanuel Van Kerschaver, Quentin Jeangros, et al.. (2021). Toward Stable Monolithic Perovskite/Silicon Tandem Photovoltaics: A Six-Month Outdoor Performance Study in a Hot and Humid Climate. ACS Energy Letters. 6(8). 2944–2951. 58 indexed citations
14.
Bastiani, Michele De, Alessandro J. Mirabelli, Yi Hou, et al.. (2021). Efficient bifacial monolithic perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells via bandgap engineering. Nature Energy. 6(2). 167–175. 234 indexed citations breakdown →
15.
Altinkaya, Cesur, Erkan Aydın, Esma Ugur, et al.. (2021). Tin Oxide Electron‐Selective Layers for Efficient, Stable, and Scalable Perovskite Solar Cells. Advanced Materials. 33(15). e2005504–e2005504. 274 indexed citations breakdown →
16.
Subbiah, Anand S., Furkan H. Isikgor, Calvyn T. Howells, et al.. (2020). High-Performance Perovskite Single-Junction and Textured Perovskite/Silicon Tandem Solar Cells via Slot-Die-Coating. ACS Energy Letters. 5(9). 3034–3040. 169 indexed citations
17.
Chen, Bin, Se‐Woong Baek, Yi Hou, et al.. (2020). Enhanced optical path and electron diffusion length enable high-efficiency perovskite tandems. Nature Communications. 11(1). 1257–1257. 237 indexed citations
18.
Ji, Wenbo, Thomas G. Allen, Xinbo Yang, et al.. (2020). Polymeric Electron-Selective Contact for Crystalline Silicon Solar Cells with an Efficiency Exceeding 19%. ACS Energy Letters. 5(3). 897–902. 43 indexed citations
19.
Ji, Wenbo, Yingbo Zhao, Hossain M. Fahad, et al.. (2019). Dip Coating Passivation of Crystalline Silicon by Lewis Acids. ACS Nano. 13(3). 3723–3729. 31 indexed citations
20.
Allen, Thomas G., James Bullock, Xinbo Yang, Ali Javey, & Stefaan De Wolf. (2019). Passivating contacts for crystalline silicon solar cells. Nature Energy. 4(11). 914–928. 483 indexed citations breakdown →

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

Explore authors with similar magnitude of impact

Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Zhengshan J. Yu Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Hisashi Uzu Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Lujia Xu Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Suhas Mahesh Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Toru Irie Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Masanori Kanematsu Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Kunta Yoshikawa Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Hayato Kawasaki Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Toshihiko Uto Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Kunihiro Nakano
Rankless by CCL
2026