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Electronics and Electrical Engineering

D-Index
92
Citations
29599
World Ranking
277
National Ranking
134

Materials Science

D-Index
94
Citations
30829
World Ranking
1396
National Ranking
442

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2008 - SPIE Fellow
  • 2007 - OSA Fellows For contributions to organic nonlinear optical materials and optoelectronic devices.

Overview

Bernard Kippelen is affiliated with the Georgia Institute of Technology in the United States. Their research spans multiple domains within engineering and materials science, focusing extensively on organic electronics and related materials.

The main fields of study for this scientist include:

  • Engineering
  • Materials Science

Within these broader fields, their subfields of study cover:

  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  • Polymers and Plastics
  • Materials Chemistry
  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Bioengineering

The core research topics addressed in their work consist of:

  • Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics
  • Conducting polymers and applications
  • Organic Light-Emitting Diodes Research
  • Analytical Chemistry and Sensors
  • Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials
  • Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials
  • Perovskite Materials and Applications

Bernard Kippelen has frequently published in these venues:

  • Advanced Functional Materials
  • Science
  • Science Advances
  • Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive Mobile Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies
  • ACS Applied Electronic Materials

Selected recent papers include:

  • Large-area low-noise flexible organic photodiodes for detecting faint visible light, 2020, Science
  • Skin-like low-noise elastomeric organic photodiodes, 2021, Science Advances
  • Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence Sensitization for Highly Efficient Blue Fluorescent Emitters, 2020, Advanced Functional Materials
  • OptoSense, 2020, Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive Mobile Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies
  • Organic Thin-Film Transistors with a Bottom Bilayer Gate Dielectric Having a Low Operating Voltage and High Operational Stability, 2020, ACS Applied Electronic Materials

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Bernard Kippelen include:

  • Canek Fuentes-Hernandez
  • Felipe A. Larrain
  • Xiaojia Jia
  • Wen-Fang Chou
  • Youngrak Park

Bernard Kippelen has received several recognitions, including:

  • SPIE Fellow (2008)
  • OSA Fellow (2007) for contributions to organic nonlinear optical materials and optoelectronic devices

Best Publications

  • A Universal Method to Produce Low―Work Function Electrodes for Organic Electronics

    Yinhua Zhou;Canek Fuentes-Hernandez;Jaewon Shim;Jens Meyer

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

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

  • A high-mobility electron-transport polymer with broad absorption and its use in field-effect transistors and all-polymer solar cells.

    Xiaowei Zhan;Zhan'ao Tan;Benoit Domercq;Zesheng An

  • A photorefractive polymer with high optical gain and diffraction efficiency near 100

    K. Meerholz;B. L. Volodin;Sandalphon;B. Kippelen

  • Phosphonic Acid-Modified Barium Titanate Polymer Nanocomposites with High Permittivity and Dielectric Strength

    Philseok Kim;Simon C. Jones;Peter J. Hotchkiss;Joshua N. Haddock

  • Efficient thin-film organic solar cells based on pentacene/C60 heterojunctions

    SeungHyup Yoo;Benoit Domercq;Bernard Kippelen

  • Highly efficient and bright organic electroluminescent devices with an aluminum cathode

    G. E. Jabbour;Y. Kawabe;S. E. Shaheen;J. F. Wang

  • The Modification of Indium Tin Oxide with Phosphonic Acids: Mechanism of Binding, Tuning of Surface Properties, and Potential for Use in Organic Electronic Applications

    Peter J. Hotchkiss;Simon C. Jones;Sergio A. Paniagua;Asha Sharma

  • Aluminum based cathode structure for enhanced electron injection in electroluminescent organic devices

    G. E. Jabbour;B. Kippelen;N. R. Armstrong;N. Peyghambarian

  • Recyclable organic solar cells on cellulose nanocrystal substrates

    Yinhua Zhou;Canek Fuentes-Hernandez;Talha M. Khan;Jen-Chieh Liu

  • Bright blue organic light-emitting diode with improved color purity using a LiF/Al cathode

    S. E. Shaheen;G. E. Jabbour;M. M. Morrell;Y. Kawabe

  • Large-area low-noise flexible organic photodiodes for detecting faint visible light.

    Canek Fuentes-Hernandez;Wen-Fang Chou;Talha M. Khan;Larissa Diniz

  • Critical interfaces in organic solar cells and their influence on the open-circuit voltage.

    William J. Potscavage;Asha Sharma;Bernard Kippelen

  • High Electron Mobility in Room-Temperature Discotic Liquid-Crystalline Perylene Diimides†

    Z. An;J. Yu;S. C. Jones;S. Barlow

  • Substituted aluminum and zinc quinolates with blue-shifted absorbance/luminescence bands: Synthesis and spectroscopic, photoluminescence, and electroluminescence characterization

    T. A. Hopkins;K. Meerholz;S. Shaheen;M. L. Anderson

  • Interface modification of ITO thin films: organic photovoltaic cells

    Neal R Armstrong;Chet Carter;Carrie Donley;Adam Simmonds

  • New Triarylamine-Containing Polymers as Hole Transport Materials in Organic Light-Emitting Diodes: Effect of Polymer Structure and Cross-Linking on Device Characteristics

    Erika Bellmann;Sean E. Shaheen;S. Thayumanavan;Stephen Barlow

  • RF Tag Antenna Performance on Various Materials Using Radio Link Budgets

    J. D. Griffin;G. D. Durgin;A. Haldi;B. Kippelen

  • A polymeric optical pattern-recognition system for security verification

    B. L. Volodin;B. Kippelen;K. Meerholz;K. Meerholz;B. Javidi

  • Electrochemistry and Electrogenerated Chemiluminescence Processes of the Components of Aluminum Quinolate/Triarylamine, and Related Organic Light-Emitting Diodes

    J. D. Anderson;E. M. McDonald;P. A. Lee;M. L. Anderson

  • Organic Photovoltaics

    B. Kippelen

  • Liquid-crystal approaches to organic photovoltaics

    Bernard Kippelen;Seunghyup Yoo;Joshua A. Haddock;Benoit Domercq

Frequent Co-Authors

Seth R. Marder
Seth R. Marder University of Colorado Boulder
Canek Fuentes-Hernandez
Canek Fuentes-Hernandez Northeastern University
Nasser Peyghambarian
Nasser Peyghambarian University of Arizona
Stephen Barlow
Stephen Barlow Georgia Institute of Technology
Neal R. Armstrong
Neal R. Armstrong University of Arizona
Jean-Luc Brédas
Jean-Luc Brédas University of Arizona
Seunghyup Yoo
Seunghyup Yoo Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Sean E. Shaheen
Sean E. Shaheen University of Colorado Boulder
Ghassan E. Jabbour
Ghassan E. Jabbour University of Ottawa
Yinhua Zhou
Yinhua Zhou Huazhong University of Science and Technology

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