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Chemistry

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Citations
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Chemistry in China Leader Award
  • 2026 - Research.com Materials Science in China Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Chemistry in China Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Materials Science in China Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Chemistry in China Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Materials Science in China Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Chemistry in China Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Materials Science in China Leader Award
  • 2019 - Member of the European Academy of Sciences
  • 2012 - Fellow of the Materials Research Society
  • 2011 - Fellow of the American Chemical Society
  • 2008 - OSA Fellows For pioneering contributions to the field organic materials for optics including conducting polymers, organic electro-optics, and organic LEDs.
  • 2006 - SPIE Fellow
  • 2005 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Alex K.-Y. Jen is affiliated with City University of Hong Kong in China and has contributed extensively to the fields of engineering and materials science, with a focus on electrical and electronic engineering, polymers and plastics, and materials chemistry. Their research also spans electronic, optical, and magnetic materials as well as renewable energy, sustainability, and the environment.

Their primary areas of investigation include perovskite materials and applications, conducting polymers and applications, organic electronics and photovoltaics, quantum dots synthesis and properties, chalcogenide semiconductor thin films, organic light-emitting diodes research, and crystallization and solubility studies.

Frequent collaborators in Alex K.-Y. Jen's research have included:

  • Francis Lin
  • Zonglong Zhu
  • Hin-Lap Yip
  • Baobing Fan
  • Wenlin Jiang

Key publication venues where Alex K.-Y. Jen has published numerous papers include:

  • Advanced Materials
  • Advanced Energy Materials
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Angewandte Chemie
  • Advanced Functional Materials

Recent significant papers authored by Alex K.-Y. Jen include:

  • "Renewed Prospects for Organic Photovoltaics," 2022, Chemical Reviews
  • "Highly efficient all-inorganic perovskite solar cells with suppressed non-radiative recombination by a Lewis base," 2020, Nature Communications
  • "Regulating Surface Termination for Efficient Inverted Perovskite Solar Cells with Greater Than 23% Efficiency," 2020, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • "Achieving 19% Power Conversion Efficiency in Planar-Mixed Heterojunction Organic Solar Cells Using a Pseudosymmetric Electron Acceptor," 2022, Advanced Materials
  • "Graphdiyne Derivative as Multifunctional Solid Additive in Binary Organic Solar Cells with 17.3% Efficiency and High Reproductivity," 2020, Advanced Materials

Alex K.-Y. Jen has received various recognitions including membership or fellowship status from multiple esteemed organizations:

  • Member of the European Academy of Sciences, 2019
  • Fellow of the Materials Research Society, 2012
  • Fellow of the American Chemical Society, 2011
  • OSA Fellow, 2008, for pioneering contributions in organic materials for optics including conducting polymers, organic electro-optics, and organic LEDs
  • SPIE Fellow, 2006
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2005

Best Publications

  • Non-fullerene acceptors for organic solar cells

    Cenqi Yan;Stephen Barlow;Zhaohui Wang;He Yan

  • Molecular biomimetics: nanotechnology through biology

    Mehmet Sarikaya;Candan Tamerler;Candan Tamerler;Alex K. Y. Jen;Klaus Schulten

  • Additive Enhanced Crystallization of Solution‐Processed Perovskite for Highly Efficient Planar‐Heterojunction Solar Cells

    Po-Wei Liang;Chien-Yi Liao;Chien-Yi Liao;Chu-Chen Chueh;Fan Zuo

  • Polymer-based optical waveguides: Materials, processing, and devices

    Hong Ma;Alex K.-Y. Jen;Larry R. Dalton

  • Design and synthesis of chromophores and polymers for electro-optic and photorefractive applications

    Seth R. Marder;Bernard Kippelen;Alex K.-Y. Jen;Nasser Peyghambarian

  • Recent advances in solution-processed interfacial materials for efficient and stable polymer solar cells

    Hin-Lap Yip;Alex K.-Y. Jen;Alex K.-Y. Jen

  • Interface Engineering for Organic Electronics

    Hong Ma;Hin-Lap Yip;Fei Huang;Fei Huang;Alex K.-Y. Jen

  • Renewed Prospects for Organic Photovoltaics.

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  • Air-stable inverted flexible polymer solar cells using zinc oxide nanoparticles as an electron selective layer

    Steven K. Hau;Hin-Lap Yip;Nam Seob Baek;Jingyu Zou

  • High‐Performance and Environmentally Stable Planar Heterojunction Perovskite Solar Cells Based on a Solution‐Processed Copper‐Doped Nickel Oxide Hole‐Transporting Layer

    Jong H. Kim;Po-Wei Liang;Spencer T. Williams;Namchul Cho

  • Recent progress and perspective in solution-processed Interfacial materials for efficient and stable polymer and organometal perovskite solar cells

    Chu-Chen Chueh;Chang-Zhi Li;Alex K.-Y. Jen

  • Heterojunction Modification for Highly Efficient Organic–Inorganic Perovskite Solar Cells

    Konrad Wojciechowski;Samuel D. Stranks;Antonio Abate;Golnaz Sadoughi

  • High-Performance Perovskite-Polymer Hybrid Solar Cells via Electronic Coupling with Fullerene Monolayers

    Agnese Abrusci;Samuel D. Stranks;Pablo Docampo;Hin-Lap Yip

  • Processible and environmentally stable conducting polymers

    R.L. Elsenbaumer;K.Y. Jen;R. Oboodi

  • Efficient CdSe/CdS quantum dot light-emitting diodes using a thermally polymerized hole transport layer.

    Jialong Zhao;Julie A. Bardecker;Andrea M. Munro;Michelle S. Liu

  • Polymer Solar Cells That Use Self‐Assembled‐Monolayer‐ Modified ZnO/Metals as Cathodes

    Hin-Lap Yip;Steven K. Hau;Nam Seob Baek;Hong Ma

  • Synthesis and Processing of Improved Organic Second-Order Nonlinear Optical Materials for Applications in Photonics

    L. R. Dalton;A. W. Harper;R. Ghosn;W. H. Steier

  • The role of spin in the kinetic control of recombination in organic photovoltaics

    Akshay Rao;Philip C. Y. Chow;Simon Gélinas;Cody W. Schlenker

  • Highly efficient all-inorganic perovskite solar cells with suppressed non-radiative recombination by a Lewis base.

    Jing Wang;Jie Zhang;Yingzhi Zhou;Hongbin Liu

  • Functional fullerenes for organic photovoltaics

    Chang-Zhi Li;Hin-Lap Yip;Alex K.-Y. Jen;Alex K.-Y. Jen

  • Regulating Surface Termination for Efficient Inverted Perovskite Solar Cells with Greater Than 23% Efficiency

    Fengzhu Li;Xiang Deng;Feng Qi;Zhen Li

  • Highly Efficient Electrophosphorescent Devices with Saturated Red Emission from a Neutral Osmium Complex

    † Yu-Hua Niu;‡ Yung-Liang Tung;Yun Chi;§ Ching-Fong Shu

  • From molecules to opto-chips: organic electro-optic materials

    Larry R. Dalton;William H. Steier;Bruce H. Robinson;Chang Zhang

Frequent Co-Authors

Jingdong Luo
Jingdong Luo City University of Hong Kong
Larry R. Dalton
Larry R. Dalton University of Washington
Hong Ma
Hong Ma University of Washington
Hin-Lap Yip
Hin-Lap Yip City University of Hong Kong
Chang-Zhi Li
Chang-Zhi Li Zhejiang University
Zonglong Zhu
Zonglong Zhu City University of Hong Kong
David S. Ginger
David S. Ginger University of Washington
William H. Steier
William H. Steier University of Southern California
Nasser Peyghambarian
Nasser Peyghambarian University of Arizona
Robert A. Norwood
Robert A. Norwood University of Arizona

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