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2022

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Materials Science

D-Index
69
Citations
19392
World Ranking
4584
National Ranking
56

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2022 - Research.com Materials Science in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2009 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For his significant contributions to the science and technology of organic semiconductors and related applications, and especially for seminal contributions to the scanning nearfield optical microscopy SNOM assisted lithography of organic semiconductor nanostructures

Overview

Franco Cacialli is affiliated with the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano in Italy. Their research primarily spans the fields of Engineering and Materials Science, with notable focus on Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Materials Chemistry. Among the subfields of study are Biomedical Engineering, Polymers and Plastics, and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics.

The main topics in Cacialli's body of work include Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics, Organic Light-Emitting Diodes Research, Perovskite Materials and Applications, Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials, Conducting polymers and applications, Crystallization and Solubility Studies, and X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography.

Frequent publication venues for Cacialli include Advanced Optical Materials, The Cambridge Structural Database, Advanced Electronic Materials, Light Science & Applications, and the Journal of Materials Chemistry C.

Coauthors who have frequently collaborated with Cacialli include Alessandro Minotto, Daniel G. Congrave, Hugo Bronstein, Michele Pompilio, and Kunping Guo.

Recent notable papers authored or co-authored by Cacialli are:

  • Visible light communication with efficient far-red/near-infrared polymer light-emitting diodes, 2020, Light Science & Applications
  • Perspectives of Organic and Perovskite-Based Spintronics, 2021, Advanced Optical Materials
  • Towards efficient near-infrared fluorescent organic light-emitting diodes, 2021, Light Science & Applications
  • Lanthanide-Induced Photoluminescence in Lead-Free Cs2AgBiBr6 Bulk Perovskite: Insights from Optical and Theoretical Investigations, 2020, The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters
  • Chiral Oligothiophenes with Remarkable Circularly Polarized Luminescence and Electroluminescence in Thin Films, 2020, Chemistry - A European Journal

Cacialli has received recognition such as the Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) award in 2009. The citation for this award notes significant contributions to the science and technology of organic semiconductors, especially in scanning nearfield optical microscopy (SNOM) assisted lithography of organic semiconductor nanostructures.

Best Publications

  • Inorganic caesium lead iodide perovskite solar cells

    Giles E. Eperon;Giuseppe M. Paternò;Giuseppe M. Paternò;Rebecca J. Sutton;Andrea Zampetti;Andrea Zampetti

  • Work Functions and Surface Functional Groups of Multiwall Carbon Nanotubes

    Hiroki Ago;Thomas Kugler;Franco Cacialli;William R. Salaneck

  • Molecular-scale interface engineering for polymer light-emitting diodes

    Peter K. H. Ho;Ji-Seon Kim;Jeremy H. Burroughes;Heinrich Becker

  • Indium-tin oxide treatments for single- and double-layer polymeric light-emitting diodes: The relation between the anode physical, chemical, and morphological properties and the device performance

    J. S. Kim;M. Granström;R. H. Friend;N. Johansson

  • Built-in field electroabsorption spectroscopy of polymer light-emitting diodes incorporating a doped poly(3,4-ethylene dioxythiophene) hole injection layer

    T. M. Brown;J. S. Kim;R. H. Friend;F. Cacialli

  • Cyclodextrin-threaded conjugated polyrotaxanes as insulated molecular wires with reduced interstrand interactions

    Franco Cacialli;Franco Cacialli;Joanne S. Wilson;Jasper J. Michels;Clement Daniel

  • Near-Infrared (NIR) Organic Light-Emitting Diodes (OLEDs): Challenges and Opportunities

    Andrea Zampetti;Alessandro Minotto;Franco Cacialli

  • Improved operational stability of polyfluorene-based organic light-emitting diodes with plasma-treated indium–tin–oxide anodes

    J. S. Kim;R. H. Friend;F. Cacialli

  • Kelvin probe and ultraviolet photoemission measurements of indium tin oxide work function: a comparison

    J.S. Kim;B. Lagel;E. Moons;N. Johansson

  • Highly efficient perovskite solar cells for light harvesting under indoor illumination via solution processed SnO2/MgO composite electron transport layers

    Janardan Dagar;Sergio Castro-Hermosa;Giulia Lucarelli;Giulia Lucarelli;Franco Cacialli

  • LiF/Al cathodes and the effect of LiF thickness on the device characteristics and built-in potential of polymer light-emitting diodes

    T. M. Brown;R. H. Friend;I. S. Millard;D. J. Lacey

  • Efficient electron injection in blue-emitting polymer light-emitting diodes with LiF/Ca/Al cathodes

    T. M. Brown;R. H. Friend;I. S. Millard;D. J. Lacey

  • X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy of surface-treated indium-tin oxide thin films

    J.S. Kim;P.K.H. Ho;D.S. Thomas;R.H. Friend

  • Surface energy and polarity of treated indium–tin–oxide anodes for polymer light-emitting diodes studied by contact-angle measurements

    J. S. Kim;R. H. Friend;F. Cacialli

  • Electronic line-up in light-emitting diodes with alkali-halide/metal cathodes

    T. M. Brown;R. H. Friend;I. S. Millard;D. J. Lacey

  • Synthesis of Conjugated Polyrotaxanes

    Jasper J. Michels;Michael J. O'Connell;Peter N. Taylor;Joanne S. Wilson

  • Optically switchable organic light-emitting transistors.

    Lili Hou;Xiaoyan Zhang;Xiaoyan Zhang;Giovanni F. Cotella;Giuseppe Carnicella

  • Electroluminescent device comprising a chromophoric polymeric composition

    Andrew Bruce Holmes;Arno Kraft;Paul Leslie Burn;Stephen Carl Moratti

  • Near-infrared electroluminescence of polymer light-emitting diodes doped with a lissamine-sensitized Nd3+ complex

    L.H. Slooff;A. Polman;F Cacialli;R.H. Friend

  • Highly Efficient Solid-State Near-infrared Organic Light-Emitting Diodes incorporating A-D-A Dyes based on α,β -unsubstituted “BODIPY” Moieties

    Andrea Zampetti;Alessandro Minotto;Benedetta Maria Squeo;Vasilis G. Gregoriou

  • High-efficiency oligothiopene-based light-emitting diodes

    G. Gigli;G. Barbarella;L. Favaretto;F. Cacialli

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard H. Friend
Richard H. Friend University of Cambridge
Harry L. Anderson
Harry L. Anderson University of Oxford
Sergio Brovelli
Sergio Brovelli University of Milano-Bicocca
Paolo Samorì
Paolo Samorì University of Strasbourg
Andrew B. Holmes
Andrew B. Holmes University of Melbourne
Thomas M. Brown
Thomas M. Brown University of Rome Tor Vergata
Ji-Seon Kim
Ji-Seon Kim Imperial College London
Paul Anthony Haigh
Paul Anthony Haigh Newcastle University
Stephen C. Moratti
Stephen C. Moratti University of Otago
David Beljonne
David Beljonne University of Mons

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