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Overview

Geert Brocks is affiliated with the University of Twente in the Netherlands. Their research spans multiple areas within materials science and engineering, with a particular focus on materials chemistry and electronic and optical materials.

The main fields of study covered by their work include:

  • Materials Science
  • Engineering

Within these, their subfields of study specifically include:

  • Materials Chemistry
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  • Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
  • Polymers and Plastics
  • Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials

Key topics frequently addressed in their research are:

  • Perovskite Materials and Applications
  • Solid-state spectroscopy and crystallography
  • Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films
  • 2D Materials and Applications
  • Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties
  • Conducting polymers and applications
  • Electronic and Structural Properties of Oxides

Geert Brocks has published extensively, with frequent contributions to several prominent scientific venues, including:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Advanced Materials
  • Physical Review Materials
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters
  • Physical review. B./Physical review. B

Some recent publications representative of their work include:

  • "Oxygen evolution reaction (OER) mechanism under alkaline and acidic conditions," 2021, Journal of Physics Energy
  • "Microscopic Degradation in Formamidinium-Cesium Lead Iodide Perovskite Solar Cells under Operational Stressors," 2020, Joule
  • "Precise Control of Perovskite Crystallization Kinetics via Sequential A-Site Doping," 2020, Advanced Materials
  • "Phenylalkylammonium passivation enables perovskite light emitting diodes with record high-radiance operational lifetime: the chain length matters," 2021, Nature Communications
  • "Unified theory for light-induced halide segregation in mixed halide perovskites," 2021, Nature Communications

Throughout their career, Geert Brocks has collaborated frequently with a core group of co-authors including:

  • Shuxia Tao
  • Mike Pols
  • Sofia Apergi
  • Haibo Xue
  • Zehua Chen

Best Publications

  • Doping graphene with metal contacts.

    G. Giovannetti;G. Giovannetti;Petr Khomyakov;G. Brocks;Volodymyr Karpan

  • Substrate-induced band gap in graphene on hexagonal boron nitride: Ab initio density functional calculations

    Gianluca Giovannetti;Gianluca Giovannetti;Petr A. Khomyakov;Geert Brocks;Paul J. Kelly

  • First-principles study of the interaction and charge transfer between graphene and metals

    P.A. Khomyakov;G. Giovannetti;G. Giovannetti;P.C. Rusu;G. Brocks

  • Cation and anion immobilization through chemical bonding enhancement with fluorides for stable halide perovskite solar cells

    Nengxu Li;Shuxia Tao;Yihua Chen;Xiuxiu Niu

  • Absolute energy level positions in tin- and lead-based halide perovskites

    Shuxia Tao;Ines Schmidt;Geert Brocks;Geert Brocks;Junke Jiang

  • Graphite and Graphene as Perfect Spin Filters

    Volodymyr Karpan;G. Giovannetti;G. Giovannetti;Petr Khomyakov;M. Talanana

  • Germanene: the germanium analogue of graphene.

    A Acun;L Zhang;P Bampoulis;M Farmanbar

  • Oxygen evolution reaction (OER) mechanism under alkaline and acidic conditions

    Qiuhua Liang;Geert Brocks;Geert Brocks;Anja Bieberle-Hütter

  • Binding and diffusion of a Si adatom on the Si(100) surface

    G. Brocks;P. J. Kelly;Roberto Car

  • Theoretical prediction of perfect spin filtering at interfaces between close-packed surfaces of Ni or Co and graphite or graphene

    Volodymyr Karpan;Petr Khomyakov;A.A. Starikov;G. Giovannetti;G. Giovannetti

  • Microscopic Degradation in Formamidinium-Cesium Lead Iodide Perovskite Solar Cells under Operational Stressors

    Nengxu Li;Yanqi Luo;Zehua Chen;Xiuxiu Niu

  • Adsorption of Al on Si(100): A surface polymerization reaction

    G. Brocks;P. J. Kelly;Roberto Car

  • Controlling the Schottky barrier at MoS 2/metal contacts by inserting a BN monolayer

    Mojtaba Farmanbar;Geert Brocks

  • First-principles study of van der Waals interactions and lattice mismatch at MoS2/metal interfaces

    Mojtaba Farmanbar;Geert Brocks

  • DFT Study of Planar Boron Sheets: A New Template for Hydrogen Storage

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  • Ab initio calculation of the electronic and optical excitations in polythiophene: Effects of intra- and interchain screening

    J.W. van der Horst;Peter A. Bobbert;M.A.J. Michels;G. Brocks

  • Precise Control of Perovskite Crystallization Kinetics via Sequential A-Site Doping.

    Minchao Qin;Haibo Xue;Hengkai Zhang;Hanlin Hu

  • Phenylalkylammonium passivation enables perovskite light emitting diodes with record high-radiance operational lifetime:the chain length matters

    Yuwei Guo;Sofia Apergi;Nan Li;Mengyu Chen;Mengyu Chen

  • Formation of Pt-induced Ge atomic nanowires on Pt/Ge(001) : A density functional theory study

    Danny E. P. Vanpoucke;Geert Brocks

  • Surface Dipoles and Work Functions of Alkylthiolates and Fluorinated Alkylthiolates on Au(111)

    Paul C. Rusu;Geert Brocks

  • Small Band Gap Semiconducting Polymers Made from Dye Molecules: Polysquaraines

    G. Brocks;A. Tol

  • Electronic structure and optical properties of lightweight metal hydrides

    M.J. van Setten;V.A. Popa;G.A. de Wijs;G. Brocks

  • Doping graphene with metal contacts

    Petr Khomyakov;G. Giovannetti;G.. Brocks;P.C. Rusu

Frequent Co-Authors

Jeroen van den Brink
Jeroen van den Brink Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research
PA Peter Bobbert
PA Peter Bobbert Eindhoven University of Technology
Roberto Car
Roberto Car Princeton University
Alberto F. Morpurgo
Alberto F. Morpurgo University of Geneva
Mats Fahlman
Mats Fahlman Linköping University
Jonathan Tennyson
Jonathan Tennyson University College London
Huanping Zhou
Huanping Zhou Peking University
Gerwin H. Gelinck
Gerwin H. Gelinck Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research
Lei Zhang
Lei Zhang South China University of Technology
Klaus Meerholz
Klaus Meerholz University of Cologne

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