Thomas Kirchartz

22.5k citations

227 papers · 17.1k indexed · 8 hit papers · h-index 70

Impact in

Polymers and Plastics top 0.05%
- Conducting polymers and applications
Electrical and Electronic Engineering top 0.05%
- Perovskite Materials and Applications
- Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics
- Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films
- Thin-Film Transistor Technologies
- Silicon and Solar Cell Technologies
- solar cell performance optimization

Papers in

Polymers and Plastics 63
- Conducting polymers and applications 61
Electrical and Electronic Engineering 222
- Perovskite Materials and Applications 105
- Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films 95
- Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics 77
- Thin-Film Transistor Technologies 56
- Silicon and Solar Cell Technologies 51

Co-authors: Uwe Rau Jenny Nelson James R. Durrant Martin Stolterfoht Thomas Unold Wei Gong J.A. Marquez Iain McCulloch
Journals: Advanced Energy Materials (24 papers)ACS Energy Letters (12 papers)Physical Review Applied (11 papers)The Journal of Physical Chemistry C (10 papers)Solar RRL (9 papers)
Partner nations: Germany United Kingdom China

In The Last Decade

Thomas Kirchartz

220 papers receiving 16.9k citations

Hit Papers

8 papers align trajectories log scale

Shallow defects and variable photoluminescence decay times up to 280 µs in triple-cation perovskites 2024 · 89 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2024 Nature Materials
2021 Nature Energy
2020 Advanced Energy Materials
2019 Energy & Environmental Science
2018 Advanced Energy Materials
2016 Energy & Environmental Science
2016 Nature Materials
2015 Physical Review Applied

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20 of 20 papers shown

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1	The Value of Device Characterization for the Optimization of Organic Solar Cells Advanced Energy Materials ·J Ochanda, Beatriz Urbano, Andreas Krause, 壯司大西, Thomas Kirchartz	2025	0
2	Correlating the Photoshunt with Charge‐Collection Losses in Organic Solar Cells Advanced Energy Materials ·Chaelyeong Jin, J Ochanda, Thomas Kirchartz	2024	4
3	Understanding Power‐Law Photoluminescence Decays and Bimolecular Recombination in Lead‐Halide Perovskites Advanced Energy Materials ·Ye Yuan, Genghua Yan, Chris Dreeßen, Thomas Kirchartz	2024	15
4	Combinatorial screening of wide band-gap organic solar cell materials with open-circuit voltage between 1.1 and 1.4 V Journal of Materials Chemistry A ·P. I. Maton, Douglas R. Stark, Laxman V Dasar, Francisco Javier JIMÉNEZ, Gregor Trimmel, 鄭賢甲, Jaime Martín, A. R. Goñi, Thomas Kirchartz, Mariano Campoy‐Quiles	2024	6
5	Origin of sputter damage during transparent conductive oxide deposition for semitransparent perovskite solar cells Journal of Materials Chemistry A ·Nacereddine MESSAHEL, Weiyuan Duan, Aryan Amit Barsainyan, Benjamin Klingebiel, Yueming Wang, Ashish Kulkarni, Andreas Lambertz, Karsten Bittkau, Yongqiang Zhang, S. А. Vitusevich, Uwe Rau, Thomas Kirchartz, Kaining Ding	2024	20
6	A Stage‐Gate Framework for Upscaling of Single‐Junction Perovskite Photovoltaics Advanced Energy Materials ·Alper K. Yazicioglu, Steve Albrecht, Luigi Angelo Castriotta, Andreas Distler, Jens Hauch, Thomas Kirchartz, Ulrich W. Paetzold, Susan Schorr, Christian Sprau, Bernd Stannowski, Simon Ternes, Eva Unger, Nam Hyun Kim, Adnan Ouakedi	2024	0
7	Visualizing Performances Losses of Perovskite Solar Cells and Modules: From Laboratory to Industrial Scales Advanced Energy Materials ·Genghua Yan, Ye Yuan, Hugo Almeida Camargo, Thomas Kirchartz	2024	22
8	MAPbCl₃ Light Absorber for Highest Voltage Perovskite Solar Cells ACS Energy Letters ·Waqas Zia, Mahdi Malekshahi Byranvand, Rahul Atara, Monika Rai, Małgorzata Kot, Chittaranjan Das, Mayank Kedia, G. Blazek, Weiwei Zuo, Vishal Yeddu, Makhsud I. Saidaminov, Jan Ingo Flege, Thomas Kirchartz, Michael Saliba	2024	15
9	How Charge Carrier Exchange between Absorber and Contact Influences Time Constants in the Frequency Domain Response of Perovskite Solar Cells SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·Sandheep Ravishankar, Zhi‐Fa Liu, Yueming Wang, Thomas Kirchartz, Uwe Rau	2023	10
10	A Universal Strategy of Perovskite Ink ‐ Substrate Interaction to Overcome the Poor Wettability of a Self‐Assembled Monolayer for Reproducible Perovskite Solar Cells Advanced Functional Materials ·Ashish Kulkarni, Ranjini Sarkar, 由美子飯嶋, 程千钉, Benjamin Klingebiel, Matthias Wuttig, Simone Wiegand, Sudip Chakraborty, Michael Saliba, Thomas Kirchartz	2023	66
11	Resolving the Hydrophobicity of the Me-4PACz Hole Transport Layer for Inverted Perovskite Solar Cells with Efficiency >20% ACS Energy Letters ·Fiona Dale-Huang, Ashish Kulkarni, Yasemin ÖZCAN KARAMAN, Benjamin Klingebiel, Thomas Kirchartz, Michael Saliba, Dinesh Kabra	2023	85
12	Rationalizing Performance Losses of Wide Bandgap Perovskite Solar Cells Evident in Data from the Perovskite Database Advanced Energy Materials ·Klara Suchan, T. Jesper Jacobsson, Carolin Rehermann, Eva Unger, Thomas Kirchartz, Christian M. Wolff	2023	14
13	Bismuth-based halide perovskite and perovskite-inspired light absorbing materials for photovoltaics Journal of Physics D Applied Physics ·Feray Ünlü, Meenal Deo, Sanjay Mathur, Thomas Kirchartz, Ashish Kulkarni	2021	43
14	Recombination Dynamics in PbS Nanocrystal Quantum Dot Solar Cells Studied through Drift–Diffusion Simulations ACS Applied Electronic Materials ·Weyde M. M. Lin, Nuri Yazdani, Olesya Yarema, Maksym Yarema, Mengxia Liu, Edward H. Sargent, Thomas Kirchartz, Vanessa Wood	2021	12
15	Quantifying the Absorption Onset in the Quantum Efficiency of Emerging Photovoltaic Devices Advanced Energy Materials ·Osbel Almora, Carlos I. Cabrera, José García Cerrillo, Thomas Kirchartz, Uwe Rau, Christoph J. Brabec	2021	89
16	Femto- to Microsecond Dynamics of Excited Electrons in a Quadruple Cation Perovskite ACS Energy Letters ·Eunhwan Jung, Wanjing Hu, Senol Öz, Feray Ünlü, Charles-Wilfrid de (1833-1914). Compositeur Bériot, Satler Vh, Zengyun Qin, Benjamin Klingebiel, 亜古細野, Jinwei Dong, Ye-Yan, Paola Vivo, Thomas Kirchartz, Tsutomu Miyasaka, P. H. M. van Loosdrecht, L. Perfetti, Sanjay Mathur	2020	24
17	Bifunctional CoFeVO_x Catalyst for Solar Water Splitting by using Multijunction and Heterojunction Silicon Solar Cells Advanced Materials Technologies ·Minoh Lee, Xinyu Ding, Nathalie Auclair, Florian F. Krause, Vladimir Smirnov, Oleksandr Astakhov, Tsvetelina Merdzhanova, Benjamin Klingebiel, Thomas Kirchartz, F. Finger, Uwe Rau, Stefan Haas	2020	26
18	Charge-Carrier Recombination in Halide Perovskites Chemical Reviews ·Dane W. deQuilettes, Kyle Frohna, David Emin, Thomas Kirchartz, Vladimir Bulović, David S. Ginger, Samuel D. Stranks	2019	241
19	Research Update: Recombination and open-circuit voltage in lead-halide perovskites APL Materials ·Thomas Kirchartz, Lisa Krückemeier, Eva Unger	2018	61
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About Thomas Kirchartz

Thomas Kirchartz is a scholar working on Polymers and Plastics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials Chemistry, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, having authored 227 papers that have together received 17.1k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Perovskite Materials and Applications (105 papers), Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films (95 papers), Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (77 papers), Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties (63 papers), Conducting polymers and applications (61 papers), Thin-Film Transistor Technologies (56 papers), Silicon and Solar Cell Technologies (51 papers) and Semiconductor materials and interfaces (25 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Polymers and Plastics (8.0k citations), Electrical and Electronic Engineering (16.3k citations), Materials Chemistry (6.2k citations), Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics (1.5k citations) and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment (722 citations). Thomas Kirchartz has collaborated with scholars based in Germany, United Kingdom and China. Frequent co-authors include Uwe Rau, Jenny Nelson, James R. Durrant, Martin Stolterfoht, Thomas Unold, Wei Gong, J.A. Marquez, Iain McCulloch, Jason A. Röhr and Bart E. Pieters. Their work appears in journals such as Advanced Energy Materials, ACS Energy Letters, Physical Review Applied, The Journal of Physical Chemistry C and Solar RRL.

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