2023 - Research.com Materials Science in United States Leader Award
2023 - Research.com Chemistry in United States Leader Award
2023 - Research.com Physics in United States Leader Award
2022 - Research.com Best Scientist Award
2011 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
2002 - Member of the National Academy of Engineering For co-founding the field of conducting polymers and for pioneering work in making these novel materials available for technological applications.
2001 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
2000 - Nobel Prize for the discovery and development of conductive polymers
1995 - International Balzan Prize
1983 - Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize, American Physical Society For his studies of conducting polymers and organic solids, and in particular for his leadership in our understanding of the properties of quasi-one-dimensional conductors
1969 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS)
1968 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
1963 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Foreign Member, Chinese Academy of Sciences
His main research concerns Optoelectronics, Polymer, Polymer solar cell, Nanotechnology and Conductive polymer. As part of his studies on Optoelectronics, Alan J. Heeger frequently links adjacent subjects like Acceptor. His Polymer study combines topics from a wide range of disciplines, such as Inorganic chemistry, Photochemistry, Counterion and Polymer chemistry.
His research brings together the fields of Organic solar cell and Polymer solar cell. His Nanotechnology study integrates concerns from other disciplines, such as Photovoltaics, Aptamer, Small molecule and DNA. The concepts of his Conductive polymer study are interwoven with issues in Polyacetylene and Doping.
His primary scientific interests are in Optoelectronics, Polymer, Polymer solar cell, Condensed matter physics and Doping. His work is dedicated to discovering how Optoelectronics, Field-effect transistor are connected with Organic semiconductor and other disciplines. His Polymer research is multidisciplinary, incorporating elements of Photochemistry, Nanotechnology and Polymer chemistry.
He has included themes like Organic solar cell and Fullerene in his Polymer solar cell study. His Condensed matter physics research includes elements of Electron and Anisotropy. His studies deal with areas such as Semiconductor, Electrical resistivity and conductivity and Analytical chemistry as well as Doping.
Alan J. Heeger focuses on Optoelectronics, Polymer solar cell, Polymer, Nanotechnology and Organic solar cell. His research in Optoelectronics intersects with topics in Field-effect transistor and Transistor. His Polymer solar cell study combines topics in areas such as Fullerene and Charge carrier.
His Polymer research incorporates themes from Electron mobility, Donor acceptor, Semiconductor and Polymer chemistry. Alan J. Heeger focuses mostly in the field of Nanotechnology, narrowing it down to matters related to Small molecule and, in some cases, Solution processed. Alan J. Heeger interconnects Layer, Photochemistry, Chemical physics and Solar energy in the investigation of issues within Organic solar cell.
His scientific interests lie mostly in Optoelectronics, Polymer solar cell, Polymer, Organic solar cell and Hybrid solar cell. His work deals with themes such as Layer, Acceptor and Solar energy, which intersect with Optoelectronics. The various areas that Alan J. Heeger examines in his Polymer solar cell study include Open-circuit voltage, Transmission electron microscopy and Charge carrier.
The study incorporates disciplines such as Electron mobility and Nanotechnology, Nanostructure in addition to Polymer. His Organic solar cell research integrates issues from Chemical physics, Cathode, Fullerene and Solar cell. His study in Hybrid solar cell is interdisciplinary in nature, drawing from both Quantum dot solar cell, PEDOT:PSS, Organic electronics and Equivalent series resistance.
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Polymer photovoltaic cells : enhanced efficiencies via a network of internal donor-acceptor heterojunctions
G. Yu;J. Gao;J. C. Hummelen;F. Wudl.
Science (1995)
Solitons in polyacetylene
W. P. Su;J. R. Schrieffer;A. J. Heeger.
Physical Review Letters (1979)
Photoinduced electron transfer from a conducting polymer to buckminsterfullerene.
N. S. Sariciftci;L. Smilowitz;A. J. Heeger;F. Wudl.
Science (1992)
Thermally stable, efficient polymer solar cells with nanoscale control of the interpenetrating network morphology
Wanli Ma;Cuiying Yang;Xiong Gong;Kwanghee Lee.
Advanced Functional Materials (2005)
Design Rules for Donors in Bulk‐Heterojunction Solar Cells—Towards 10 % Energy‐Conversion Efficiency
Markus C. Scharber;David Mühlbacher;Markus Koppe;Patrick Denk.
Advanced Materials (2006)
Synthesis of electrically conducting organic polymers: halogen derivatives of polyacetylene, (CH)x
Hideki Shirakawa;Edwin J Louis;Alan g MacDiarmid;Chwan K Chiang.
Journal of The Chemical Society, Chemical Communications (1977)
Electrical Conductivity in Doped Polyacetylene.
C. K. Chiang;C. R. Fincher;Y. W. Park;A. J. Heeger.
Physical Review Letters (1977)
Solitons in conducting polymers
A. J. Heeger;S. Kivelson;J. R. Schrieffer;W. P. Su.
Reviews of Modern Physics (1988)
Bulk heterojunction solar cells with internal quantum efficiency approaching 100
Sung Heum Park;Sung Heum Park;Anshuman Roy;Serge Beaupré;Shinuk Cho;Shinuk Cho.
Nature Photonics (2009)
Efficient tandem polymer solar cells fabricated by all-solution processing.
Jin Young Kim;Jin Young Kim;Kwanghee Lee;Kwanghee Lee;Nelson E. Coates;Nelson E. Coates;Daniel Moses;Daniel Moses.
Science (2007)
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