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Overview

Hae Jung Son is affiliated with the Korea Institute of Science and Technology in South Korea. Their research focuses primarily on engineering and materials science, with specific subfields including electrical and electronic engineering, polymers and plastics, renewable energy, sustainability, biomedical engineering, and materials chemistry.

The main topics covered in their body of work include organic electronics and photovoltaics, conducting polymers and their applications, perovskite materials and applications, electrocatalysts for energy conversion, fuel cells and related materials, advanced sensor and energy harvesting materials, and thin-film transistor technologies.

Hae Jung Son has published extensively in several scientific venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Journal of Materials Chemistry C
  • Joule
  • ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
  • Chemical Engineering Journal
  • ACS Applied Energy Materials

Their recent publications reflect work in organic photovoltaics and materials science. Notable papers include:

  • Progress in Materials, Solution Processes, and Long-Term Stability for Large-Area Organic Photovoltaics, 2020, Advanced Materials
  • High-performance scalable organic photovoltaics with high thickness tolerance from 1 cm² to above 50 cm², 2022, Joule
  • Progress in morphology control from fullerene to nonfullerene acceptors for scalable high-performance organic photovoltaics, 2021, Journal of Materials Chemistry A
  • Understanding the Performance of Organic Photovoltaics under Indoor and Outdoor Conditions: Effects of Chlorination of Donor Polymers, 2020, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
  • Wide-Linear-Dynamic-Range Polymer Photodiode with a New Benzo[1,2-b:4,5-b']dithiophene-Copolymer: The Role of Crystalline Orientation, 2020, Chemistry of Materials

Throughout their career, Hae Jung Son has collaborated frequently with several researchers. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Sungmin Park
  • Eul-Yong Shin
  • So Hyun Park
  • Seongwon Yoon
  • Hyungju Ahn

This extensive network of collaborators and the variety of research topics indicate a broad engagement with scientific problems in organic electronics, photovoltaic device engineering, and polymer chemistry.

Best Publications

  • Development of New Semiconducting Polymers for High Performance Solar Cells

    Yongye Liang;Yue Wu;Danqin Feng;Szu-Ting Tsai

  • Stille polycondensation for synthesis of functional materials.

    Bridget Carsten;Feng He;Hae Jung Son;Tao Xu

  • Synthesis of fluorinated polythienothiophene-co-benzodithiophenes and effect of fluorination on the photovoltaic properties.

    Hae Jung Son;Wei Wang;Tao Xu;Yongye Liang

  • Examining the Effect of the Dipole Moment on Charge Separation in Donor–Acceptor Polymers for Organic Photovoltaic Applications

    Bridget Carsten;Jodi M. Szarko;Hae Jung Son;Wei Wang

  • Low-temperature solution-processed Li-doped SnO2 as an effective electron transporting layer for high-performance flexible and wearable perovskite solar cells

    Minwoo Park;Minwoo Park;Jae Yup Kim;Hae Jung Son;Chul Ho Lee

  • Metal Oxide Nanoparticles as an Electron‐Transport Layer in High‐Performance and Stable Inverted Polymer Solar Cells

    Jingbi You;Chun-Chao Chen;Letian Dou;Seiichiro Murase

  • Overcoming efficiency challenges in organic solar cells: rational development of conjugated polymers

    Hae Jung Son;Bridget Carsten;In Hwan Jung;Luping P. Yu

  • Inorganic Rubidium Cation as an Enhancer for Photovoltaic Performance and Moisture Stability of HC(NH2)2PbI3 Perovskite Solar Cells

    Yun Hee Park;Yun Hee Park;Inyoung Jeong;Inyoung Jeong;Seunghwan Bae;Hae Jung Son

  • Ultrafast intramolecular exciton splitting dynamics in isolated low-band-gap polymers and their implications in photovoltaic materials design.

    Brian S. Rolczynski;Jodi M. Szarko;Hae Jung Son;Yongye Liang

  • Highly Efficient Copper–Indium–Selenide Quantum Dot Solar Cells: Suppression of Carrier Recombination by Controlled ZnS Overlayers

    Jae Yup Kim;Jiwoong Yang;Jung Ho Yu;Woonhyuk Baek

  • Synthesis and photovoltaic effect in dithieno[2,3-d:2',3'-d']benzo[1,2-b:4,5-b']dithiophene-based conjugated polymers

    Hae Jung Son;Luyao Lu;Wei Chen;Wei Chen;Tao Xu

  • Structure, dynamics, and power conversion efficiency correlations in a new low bandgap polymer: PCBM solar cell.

    Jianchang Guo;Yongye Liang;Jodi Szarko;Byeongdu Lee

  • Mechanically Recoverable and Highly Efficient Perovskite Solar Cells: Investigation of Intrinsic Flexibility of Organic–Inorganic Perovskite

    Minwoo Park;Hae Jin Kim;Inyoung Jeong;Inyoung Jeong;Jinwoo Lee

  • Are we there yet? Design of better conjugated polymers for polymer solar cells

    Hae Jung Son;Feng He;Bridget Carsten;Luping Yu

  • Progress in Materials, Solution Processes, and Long-Term Stability for Large-Area Organic Photovoltaics.

    Sungmin Park;Taehee Kim;Seongwon Yoon;Chang Woo Koh

  • A Highly Planar Fluorinated Benzothiadiazole‐Based Conjugated Polymer for High‐Performance Organic Thin‐Film Transistors

    Benjamin Nketia-Yawson;Hyo Sang Lee;Hyo Sang Lee;Dongkyun Seo;Youngwoon Yoon

  • Improving Performance and Stability of Flexible Planar-Heterojunction Perovskite Solar Cells Using Polymeric Hole-Transport Material

    Jea Woong Jo;Myung Seok Seo;Myung Seok Seo;Minwoo Park;Minwoo Park;Jae Yup Kim

  • Mediating Solar Cell Performance by Controlling the Internal Dipole Change in Organic Photovoltaic Polymers

    Bridget Carsten;Jodi M. Szarko;Luyao Lu;Hae Jung Son

  • Inverted Layer‐By‐Layer Fabrication of an Ultraflexible and Transparent Ag Nanowire/Conductive Polymer Composite Electrode for Use in High‐Performance Organic Solar Cells

    Youngmin Kim;Tae In Ryu;Ki Hoon Ok;Min Gi Kwak

  • Accelerated Degradation Due to Weakened Adhesion from Li-TFSI Additives in Perovskite Solar Cells.

    Inhwa Lee;Jae Hoon Yun;Hae Jung Son;Taek-Soo Kim

  • Intrinsic photo-degradation and mechanism of polymer solar cells: the crucial role of non-fullerene acceptors

    Sungmin Park;Hae Jung Son;Hae Jung Son

Frequent Co-Authors

Min Jae Ko
Min Jae Ko Hanyang University
Bongsoo Kim
Bongsoo Kim Pusan National University
Jin Young Kim
Jin Young Kim Seoul National University
Hyungju Ahn
Hyungju Ahn Pohang University of Science and Technology
Dae Sung Chung
Dae Sung Chung Pohang University of Science and Technology
Sang Hyuk Im
Sang Hyuk Im Korea University
Nam-Gyu Park
Nam-Gyu Park Sungkyunkwan University
Jeong Ho Cho
Jeong Ho Cho Yonsei University
Jinwoo Lee
Jinwoo Lee Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Kyungkon Kim
Kyungkon Kim Ewha Womans University

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