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72
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19469
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4030
National Ranking
27

Derya Baran publication distribution in Materials Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Materials Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Derya Baran sits on this spectrum.

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50 publications 1,163+

This scientist: 247 publications — 46th percentile

46% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,163 publications or more.

Derya Baran D-index placement in Materials Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Materials Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Derya Baran sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 165+

This scientist: 72 D-Index — 69th percentile

69% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 165 D-Index or more.

Overview

Derya Baran is affiliated with King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in Saudi Arabia. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of Engineering and Materials Science, with significant contributions to subfields including Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials Chemistry, Polymers and Plastics, Biomedical Engineering, and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience.

The scientist's main research topics cover Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics, Conducting Polymers and Applications, Perovskite Materials and Applications, Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films, Advanced Thermoelectric Materials and Devices, Quantum Dots Synthesis and Properties, and Thermal Properties of Materials.

Selected recent papers authored or coauthored by Derya Baran include:

  • Managing grains and interfaces via ligand anchoring enables 22.3%-efficiency inverted perovskite solar cells, 2020, Nature Energy
  • Efficient tandem solar cells with solution-processed perovskite on textured crystalline silicon, 2020, Science
  • Intrinsic efficiency limits in low-bandgap non-fullerene acceptor organic solar cells, 2020, Nature Materials
  • Flexible Electronics: Status, Challenges and Opportunities, 2020, Frontiers in Electronics
  • Efficient bifacial monolithic perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells via bandgap engineering, 2021, Nature Energy

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Derya Baran are:

  • Anirudh Sharma
  • Diego Rosas Villalva
  • Frédéric Laquai
  • Md Azimul Haque
  • Stefaan De Wolf

The scientist publishes frequently in venues such as Advanced Energy Materials, Advanced Materials, Joule, ACS Energy Letters, and the Proceedings of the Materials for Sustainable Development Conference (MAT-SUS).

Best Publications

  • High-efficiency and air-stable P3HT-based polymer solar cells with a new non-fullerene acceptor

    Sarah Holliday;Raja Shahid Ashraf;Andrew Wadsworth;Derya Baran

  • Managing grains and interfaces via ligand anchoring enables 22.3%-efficiency inverted perovskite solar cells

    Xiaopeng Zheng;Yi Hou;Chunxiong Bao;Jun Yin

  • Reducing the efficiency–stability–cost gap of organic photovoltaics with highly efficient and stable small molecule acceptor ternary solar cells

    Derya Baran;Derya Baran;Derya Baran;Raja Shahid Ashraf;Raja Shahid Ashraf;David A. Hanifi;Maged Abdelsamie

  • Critical review of the molecular design progress in non-fullerene electron acceptors towards commercially viable organic solar cells

    Andrew Wadsworth;Maximilian Moser;Adam Marks;Mark S. Little

  • Efficient tandem solar cells with solution-processed perovskite on textured crystalline silicon.

    Yi Hou;Erkan Aydin;Michele De Bastiani;Chuanxiao Xiao

  • Reduced voltage losses yield 10% efficient fullerene free organic solar cells with >1 V open circuit voltages

    Derya Baran;Derya Baran;T. Kirchartz;T. Kirchartz;Scot Wheeler;Stoichko D. Dimitrov

  • The role of the third component in ternary organic solar cells

    Nicola Gasparini;Alberto Salleo;Iain McCulloch;Iain McCulloch;Derya Baran

  • Designing ternary blend bulk heterojunction solar cells with reduced carrier recombination and a fill factor of 77

    Nicola Gasparini;Xuechen Jiao;Thomas Heumueller;Derya Baran

  • Intrinsic efficiency limits in low-bandgap non-fullerene acceptor organic solar cells

    Safakath Karuthedath;Julien Gorenflot;Yuliar Firdaus;Neha Chaturvedi

  • Flexible Electronics: Status, Challenges and Opportunities

    Daniel Alejandro Corzo Diaz;Guillermo Tostado Blazquez;Derya Baran

  • Controlling Blend Morphology for Ultrahigh Current Density in Nonfullerene Acceptor-Based Organic Solar Cells

    Xin Song;Nicola Gasparini;Long Ye;Huifeng Yao

  • Efficient bifacial monolithic perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells via bandgap engineering

    Michele De Bastiani;Alessandro J. Mirabelli;Alessandro J. Mirabelli;Yi Hou;Fabrizio Gota

  • Quantum Dots Supply Bulk- and Surface-Passivation Agents for Efficient and Stable Perovskite Solar Cells

    Xiaopeng Zheng;Joel Troughton;Nicola Gasparini;Yuanbao Lin

  • Performance Enhancement of the P3HT/PCBM Solar Cells through NIR Sensitization Using a Small-Bandgap Polymer

    Tayebeh Ameri;Jie Min;Ning Li;Florian Machui

  • Halide Perovskites: Thermal Transport and Prospects for Thermoelectricity

    Azimul Haque;Seyoung Kee;Diego Rosas Villalva;Wee-Liat Ong

  • Burn-in Free Nonfullerene-Based Organic Solar Cells

    Nicola Gasparini;Michael Salvador;Michael Salvador;Sebastian Strohm;Thomas Heumueller

  • The Energy Level Conundrum of Organic Semiconductors in Solar Cells

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  • An efficient, "burn in" free organic solar cell employing a nonfullerene electron acceptor

    Hyojung Cha;Jiaying Wu;Andrew Wadsworth;Jade Nagitta

  • Overcoming the Interface Losses in Planar Heterojunction Perovskite-Based Solar Cells.

    Yi Hou;Wei Chen;Derya Baran;Tobias Stubhan

  • Concurrent cationic and anionic perovskite defect passivation enables 27.4% perovskite/silicon tandems with suppression of halide segregation

    Furkan Halis Isikgor;Francesco Furlan;Jiang Liu;Esma Ugur

  • Processable Multipurpose Conjugated Polymer for Electrochromic and Photovoltaic Applications

    Derya Baran;Abidin Balan;Selin Celebi;Beatriz Meana Esteban;Beatriz Meana Esteban

  • Robust nonfullerene solar cells approaching unity external quantum efficiency enabled by suppression of geminate recombination

    Derya Baran;Nicola Gasparini;Nicola Gasparini;Andrew Wadsworth;Ching Hong Tan

Frequent Co-Authors

Iain McCulloch
Iain McCulloch University of Oxford
Nicola Gasparini
Nicola Gasparini Imperial College London
Christoph J. Brabec
Christoph J. Brabec University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Levent Toppare
Levent Toppare Middle East Technical University
Tayebeh Ameri
Tayebeh Ameri University of Edinburgh
James R. Durrant
James R. Durrant Imperial College London
Ning Li
Ning Li University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Thomas Kirchartz
Thomas Kirchartz Forschungszentrum Jülich
Raja Shahid Ashraf
Raja Shahid Ashraf Government College University, Lahore
Edward H. Sargent
Edward H. Sargent Northwestern University

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