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Materials Science

D-Index
117
Citations
48768
World Ranking
551
National Ranking
29

Dieter Neher 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 Dieter Neher sits on this spectrum.

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50 publications 1,163+

This scientist: 486 publications — 85th percentile

85% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Dieter Neher 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 Dieter Neher sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 165+

This scientist: 117 D-Index — 96th percentile

96% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2022 - Research.com Materials Science in Germany Leader Award

Overview

Dieter Neher is affiliated with the University of Potsdam in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of Engineering and Materials Science, with significant contributions to subfields such as Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Polymers and Plastics, Materials Chemistry, Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics, and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials.

The scientist's work covers several main topics, notably Perovskite Materials and Applications, Conducting Polymers and Applications, Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics, Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films, Quantum Dots Synthesis and Properties, Solid-state Spectroscopy and Crystallography, and Thin-Film Transistor Technologies.

Neher has published extensively in recognized scientific venues. Frequent publication outlets include Advanced Energy Materials, ACS Energy Letters, Solar RRL, arXiv (Cornell University), and Advanced Materials.

Recent papers associated with Neher include:

  • Monolithic perovskite/silicon tandem solar cell with >29% efficiency by enhanced hole extraction, 2020, Science
  • Minimizing buried interfacial defects for efficient inverted perovskite solar cells, 2023, Science
  • A History and Perspective of Non-Fullerene Electron Acceptors for Organic Solar Cells, 2021, Advanced Energy Materials
  • Perovskite-organic tandem solar cells with indium oxide interconnect, 2022, Nature
  • Barrierless Free Charge Generation in the High-Performance PM6:Y6 Bulk Heterojunction Non-Fullerene Solar Cell, 2020, Advanced Materials

Frequent collaborators in Neher's body of work include Martin Stolterfoht, Safa Shoaee, Steve Albrecht, Felix Lang, and Pietro Caprioglio.

Best Publications

  • Monolithic perovskite/silicon tandem solar cell with >29% efficiency by enhanced hole extraction

    Amran Al-Ashouri;Eike Köhnen;Bor Li;Artiom Magomedov

  • Polyfluorene Homopolymers: Conjugated Liquid-Crystalline Polymers for Bright Blue Emission and Polarized Electroluminescence

    Dieter Neher

  • Minimizing buried interfacial defects for efficient inverted perovskite solar cells

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  • Visualization and suppression of interfacial recombination for high-efficiency large-area pin perovskite solar cells

    Martin Stolterfoht;Christian Michael Wolff;Jose A. Marquez;Shanshan Zhang;Shanshan Zhang

  • Improving carbon nitride photocatalysis by supramolecular preorganization of monomers.

    Menny Shalom;Sahika Inal;Christian Fettkenhauer;Dieter Neher

  • Efficient charge generation by relaxed charge-transfer states at organic interfaces

    Koen Vandewal;Steve N. Albrecht;Eric T. Hoke;Kenneth Graham

  • Effect of Molecular Weight and Annealing of Poly(3-hexylthiophene)s on the Performance of Organic Field-Effect Transistors

    Achmad Zen;J. Pflaum;S. Hirschmann;W. Zhuang

  • The impact of energy alignment and interfacial recombination on the internal and external open-circuit voltage of perovskite solar cells

    Martin Stolterfoht;Pietro Caprioglio;Pietro Caprioglio;Christian M. Wolff;José A. Márquez

  • Improving the Performance of Doped pi-Conjugated Polymers for Use in Organic Light-Emitting Diodes

    Markus Gross;David C. Müller;Heinz-Georg Nothofer;Ulrich Scherf

  • Intrinsic non-radiative voltage losses in fullerene-based organic solar cells

    Johannes Benduhn;Kristofer Tvingstedt;Fortunato Piersimoni;Sascha Ullbrich

  • Competition between recombination and extraction of free charges determines the fill factor of organic solar cells.

    Davide Bartesaghi;Irene del Carmen Perez;Juliane Kniepert;Steffen Roland

  • How to Make over 20% Efficient Perovskite Solar Cells in Regular (n-i-p) and Inverted (p-i-n) Architectures

    Michael Saliba;Juan-Pablo Correa-Baena;Christian M. Wolff;Martin Stolterfoht

  • Nonradiative Recombination in Perovskite Solar Cells: The Role of Interfaces

    Christian Michael Wolff;Pietro Caprioglio;Pietro Caprioglio;Martin Stolterfoht;Dieter Neher

  • Blue Polarized Electroluminescence from a Liquid Crystalline Polyfluorene

    Martin Grell;Wolfgang Knoll;Donald Lupo;Andreas Meisel

  • Novel approaches to polymer blends based on polymer nanoparticles.

    Thomas Kietzke;Dieter Neher;Katharina Landfester;Rivelino Montenegro

  • Perovskite–organic tandem solar cells with indium oxide interconnect

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  • A History and Perspective of Non-Fullerene Electron Acceptors for Organic Solar Cells

    Ardalan Armin;Wei Li;Oskar J. Sandberg;Zuo Xiao

  • Effect of Molecular Weight on the Structure and Crystallinity of Poly(3-hexylthiophene)

    Achmad Zen;Marina Saphiannikova;Dieter Neher;Jörg Grenzer

  • On the relation between the open‐circuit voltage and quasi‐Fermi level splitting in efficient perovskite solar cells

    Pietro Caprioglio;Pietro Caprioglio;Martin Stolterfoht;Christian M. Wolff;Thomas Unold

  • Relationship between energetic disorder and open-circuit voltage in bulk heterojunction organic solar cells

    James C. Blakesley;Dieter Neher

  • Improving the Performance of Polyfluorene-Based Organic Light-Emitting Diodes via End-Capping

    T. Miteva;A. Meisel;Wolfgang Knoll;H. G. Nothofer

  • Aggregation in a high-mobility n-type low-bandgap copolymer with implications on semicrystalline morphology.

    Robert Steyrleuthner;Marcel Schubert;Ian Howard;Bastian Klaumünzer

  • Semiconducting Polymer Nanospheres in Aqueous Dispersion Prepared by a Miniemulsion Process

    Katharina Landfester;Rivelino Montenegro;Ullrich Scherf;Roland GüNTNER

  • Fluorinated copolymer PCPDTBT with enhanced open-circuit voltage and reduced recombination for highly efficient polymer solar cells.

    Steve Albrecht;Silvia Janietz;Wolfram Schindler;Johannes Frisch

Frequent Co-Authors

Ullrich Scherf
Ullrich Scherf University of Wuppertal
Norbert Koch
Norbert Koch Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Steve Albrecht
Steve Albrecht Technical University of Berlin
Gerhard Wegner
Gerhard Wegner Max Planck Society
Martin Stolterfoht
Martin Stolterfoht Chinese University of Hong Kong
Koen Vandewal
Koen Vandewal Hasselt University
Antonio Facchetti
Antonio Facchetti Northwestern University
Bernd Rech
Bernd Rech Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie
Harald Ade
Harald Ade North Carolina State University
Antonio Abate
Antonio Abate Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie

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