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Canek Fuentes-Hernandez

Canek Fuentes-Hernandez

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Electronics and Electrical Engineering

D-Index
43
Citations
8533
World Ranking
3864
National Ranking
1394

Overview

Canek Fuentes-Hernandez is affiliated with Northeastern University in the United States and conducts research primarily in the fields of engineering and materials science. Their work spans subfields including electrical and electronic engineering, polymers and plastics, biomedical engineering, materials chemistry, and bioengineering.

The scientist's research focuses on topics such as organic electronics and photovoltaics, conducting polymers and their applications, organic light-emitting diodes research, advanced sensor and energy harvesting materials, luminescence and fluorescent materials, thin-film transistor technologies, and perovskite materials and applications.

Among their recent publications are:

  • Large-area low-noise flexible organic photodiodes for detecting faint visible light (2020, Science)
  • Skin-like low-noise elastomeric organic photodiodes (2021, Science Advances)
  • Flexible computational photodetectors for self-powered activity sensing (2022, npj Flexible Electronics)
  • 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)

The venues in which they have most frequently published include Advanced Functional Materials, Applied Physics Letters, Science, Science Advances, and npj Flexible Electronics.

Collaborations are a significant component of their research activities. Frequent co-authors include Bernard Kippelen, Felipe A. Larrain, Xiaojia Jia, Wen-Fang Chou, and Youngrak Park.

Best Publications

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

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

  • Recyclable organic solar cells on cellulose nanocrystal substrates

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

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

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

  • High performance polymeric charge recombination layer for organic tandem solar cells

    Yinhua Zhou;Canek Fuentes-Hernandez;Jae Won Shim;Talha M. Khan

  • Top-Gate Organic Field-Effect Transistors with High Environmental and Operational Stability

    Do Kyung Hwang;Canek Fuentes-Hernandez;Jungbae Kim;William J. Potscavage

  • Indium tin oxide-free and metal-free semitransparent organic solar cells

    Yinhua Zhou;Hyeunseok Cheun;Seungkeun Choi;William J. Potscavage

  • Low-voltage InGaZnO thin-film transistors with Al2O3 gate insulator grown by atomic layer deposition

    Jungbae Kim;Canek Fuentes-Hernandez;William J. Potscavage;Xiaohong Zhang

  • Solution-based electrical doping of semiconducting polymer films over a limited depth

    Vladimir A. Kolesov;Canek Fuentes-Hernandez;Wen-Fang Chou;Naoya Aizawa

  • Efficient Colorful Perovskite Solar Cells Using a Top Polymer Electrode Simultaneously as Spectrally Selective Antireflection Coating

    Youyu Jiang;Bangwu Luo;Fangyuan Jiang;Fuben Jiang

  • Electrical and Optical Properties of ZnO Processed by Atomic Layer Deposition in Inverted Polymer Solar Cells

    Hyeunseok Cheun;Canek Fuentes-Hernandez;Yinhua Zhou;William J. Potscavage

  • Direct correlation between work function of indium-tin-oxide electrodes and solar cell performance influenced by ultraviolet irradiation and air exposure.

    Yinhua Zhou;Jae Won Shim;Canek Fuentes-Hernandez;Asha Sharma

  • Stable organic thin-film transistors

    Xiaojia Jia;Canek Fuentes-Hernandez;Cheng-Yin Wang;Youngrak Park

  • Solvent and polymer matrix effects on TIPS-pentacene/polymer blend organic field-effect transistors

    Do Kyung Hwang;Canek Fuentes-Hernandez;John D. Berrigan;Yunnan Fang

  • Inverted organic solar cells with ITO electrodes modified with an ultrathin Al2O3 buffer layer deposited by atomic layer deposition

    Yinhua Zhou;Hyeunseok Cheun;Willliam J. Potscavage;Canek Fuentes-Hernandez

  • Efficient recyclable organic solar cells on cellulose nanocrystal substrates with a conducting polymer top electrode deposited by film-transfer lamination

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

  • All-plastic solar cells with a high photovoltaic dynamic range

    Yinhua Zhou;Talha Mansur Khan;Jae Won Shim;Amir Dindar

  • A Study on Reducing Contact Resistance in Solution-Processed Organic Field-Effect Transistors

    Sangmoo Choi;Canek Fuentes-Hernandez;Cheng-Yin Wang;Talha M. Khan

  • Enhanced charge-carrier injection and collection via lamination of doped polymer layers p-doped with a solution-processible molybdenum complex

    An Dai;Yinhua Zhou;Andrew L. Shu;Swagat K. Mohapatra

  • Flexible and stable solution-processed organic field-effect transistors

    D.K. Hwang;C. Fuentes-Hernandez;J.B. Kim;W.J. Potscavage

  • High-performance InGaZnO thin-film transistors with high-k amorphous Ba0.5Sr0.5TiO3 gate insulator

    Jungbae Kim;Canek Fuentes-Hernandez;Bernard Kippelen

  • Reduction of the Work Function of Gold by N-Heterocyclic Carbenes

    Hye Kyung Kim;Alexander S. Hyla;Alexander S. Hyla;Paul Winget;Hong Li;Hong Li

Frequent Co-Authors

Bernard Kippelen
Bernard Kippelen Georgia Institute of Technology
Seth R. Marder
Seth R. Marder University of Colorado Boulder
Yinhua Zhou
Yinhua Zhou Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Stephen Barlow
Stephen Barlow Georgia Institute of Technology
Joseph W. Perry
Joseph W. Perry Georgia Institute of Technology
Do Kyung Hwang
Do Kyung Hwang Korea Institute of Science and Technology
Samuel Graham
Samuel Graham Georgia Institute of Technology
Jean-Luc Brédas
Jean-Luc Brédas University of Arizona
Nasser Peyghambarian
Nasser Peyghambarian University of Arizona
Antoine Kahn
Antoine Kahn Princeton University

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