Esther M. Conwell

Research.com Recognitions

• 2009 - US President's National Medal of Science "For her broad contributions to understanding electron and hole transport in semiconducting materials, which helped to enable commercial applications of semiconductor and organic electronic devices, and for extending her analysis to studying the electronic properties of DNA.", Presented by President Barack H. Obama in the East Room of the White House on November 17, 2010.
• 2008 - ACS Award for Encouraging Women into Careers in the Chemical Sciences, American Chemical Society (ACS)
• 1997 - IEEE Edison Medal For fundamental contributions to transport theory in semiconductor and organic conductors, and their application to the semiconductor, electronic copying and printing industries.
• 1990 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
• 1961 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Best Publications

• High field transport in semiconductors

  Esther M. Conwell

  1075
  Citations

• Theory of Impurity Scattering in Semiconductors

  E. Conwell;V. F. Weisskopf

  1049
  Citations

• Electrical and optical properties of some M2v−bN3vi−b semiconductors

  Unknown

  387
  Citations

• High-field hopping mobility in molecular systems with spatially correlated energetic disorder

  Yu.N. Gartstein;Yu.N. Gartstein;E.M. Conwell;E.M. Conwell

  332
  Citations

• Impurity Band Conduction in Germanium and Silicon

  Esther M. Conwell

  288
  Citations

• Excitons and the band gap in poly(phenylene vinylene).

  P. Gomes da Costa;P. Gomes da Costa;E. M. Conwell;E. M. Conwell

  203
  Citations

• Charge transport in DNA in solution: The role of polarons

  Esther M. Conwell

  188
  Citations

• Band transport in quasi-one-dimensional conductors in the phonon-scattering regime and application to tetrathiofulvalene-tetracyanoquinodimethane

  Esther M. Conwell

  177
  Citations

• Solid-state carbon-13 NMR characterization of polyanilines

  S. Kaplan;E. M. Conwell;A. F. Richter;A. G. MacDiarmid

  157
  Citations

• Contact injection into polymer light-emitting diodes

  E. M. Conwell;M. W. Wu

  156
  Citations

• Novel photovoltaic devices based on donor-acceptor molecular and conducting polymer systems

  K. Yoshino;K. Tada;A. Fujii;E.M. Conwell

  151
  Citations

• Polaron Motion in DNA

  Svetlana V. Rakhmanova† and;Esther M. Conwell

  150
  Citations

• Effect of solvation on hole motion in DNA.

  D. M. Basko;E. M. Conwell

  139
  Citations

• Electric-field dependence of mobility in conjugated polymer films

  S. V. Rakhmanova;E. M. Conwell

  132
  Citations

• First-principles calculation of the three-dimensional band structure of poly(phenylene vinylene).

  P. Gomes da Costa;P. Gomes da Costa;R. G. Dandrea;E. M. Conwell;E. M. Conwell

  129
  Citations

• High-field distribution function in GaAs

  Unknown

  127
  Citations

• Electronic structure of some polyanilines

  W.R Salaneck;I Lundström;T Hjertberg;C.B Duke

  126
  Citations

• Photoinduced charge transfer in poly(p-phenylene vinylene).

  H. A. Mizes;H. A. Mizes;E. M. Conwell;E. M. Conwell

  124
  Citations

• Photogeneration of polaron pairs in conducting polymers.

  E. M. Conwell;H. A. Mizes

  104
  Citations

• INTERCHAIN PHOTOLUMINESCENCE IN POLY(PHENYLENE VINYLENE) DERIVATIVES

  E. M. Conwell;J. Perlstein;S. Shaik

  104
  Citations

• Hole traps in DNA.

  Conwell Em;Basko Dm

  102
  Citations

• Field-dependent thermal injection into a disordered molecular insulator

  Yu.N. Gartstein;Yu.N. Gartstein;E.M. Conwell;E.M. Conwell

  101
  Citations

• Current–voltage characteristic of organic light emitting diodes

  A. Ioannidis;E. Forsythe;Yongli Gao;M. W. Wu

  100
  Citations

• Stability of polarons in conducting polymers

  H. A. Mizes;H. A. Mizes;E. M. Conwell;E. M. Conwell

  95
  Citations

• Localized molecular excitons in polyaniline

  Unknown

  90
  Citations