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126
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2011 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2010 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For the development and incisive use of soft xray characterization methods in a wide range of polymeric and organic systems

Overview

Harald Ade is affiliated with North Carolina State University in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields with a primary focus on Engineering and Materials Science. Within these broad areas, their subfield concentrations include Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Polymers and Plastics, Materials Chemistry, Biomedical Engineering, and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics.

Their main topics of study reflect a strong emphasis on organic electronic materials and devices. These topics include:

  • Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics
  • Conducting Polymers and Applications
  • Perovskite Materials and Applications
  • Thin-Film Transistor Technologies
  • Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures
  • Organic Light-Emitting Diodes Research
  • Semiconductor Materials and Interfaces

Harald Ade has published extensively in leading scientific journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Advanced Energy Materials
  • Advanced Functional Materials
  • Advanced Materials
  • Nature Communications
  • Solar RRL

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Harald Ade highlight various aspects of organic solar cell technologies and related materials:

  • "A History and Perspective of Non-Fullerene Electron Acceptors for Organic Solar Cells," 2021, Advanced Energy Materials
  • "Achieving 19% Power Conversion Efficiency in Planar-Mixed Heterojunction Organic Solar Cells Using a Pseudosymmetric Electron Acceptor," 2022, Advanced Materials
  • "A molecular interaction-diffusion framework for predicting organic solar cell stability," 2021, Nature Materials
  • "Long-range exciton diffusion in molecular non-fullerene acceptors," 2020, Nature Communications
  • "Suppressed recombination loss in organic photovoltaics adopting a planar-mixed heterojunction architecture," 2022, Nature Energy

Collaborative work features frequent coauthors who have contributed significantly alongside Ade. These coauthors include:

  • Zhengxing Peng
  • Wei You
  • He Yan
  • Indunil Angunawela
  • Jeromy James Rech

Harald Ade has been recognized by professional scientific organizations. They were named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2011. In 2010, they received Fellowship status in the American Physical Society (APS) with a citation noting their development and incisive use of soft x-ray characterization methods across polymeric and organic systems.

Best Publications

  • Aggregation and morphology control enables multiple cases of high-efficiency polymer solar cells.

    Yuhang Liu;Jingbo Zhao;Zhengke Li;Cheng Mu

  • Efficient organic solar cells processed from hydrocarbon solvents

    Jingbo Zhao;Yunke Li;Guofang Yang;Guofang Yang;Kui Jiang

  • Energy-Level Modulation of Small-Molecule Electron Acceptors to Achieve over 12% Efficiency in Polymer Solar Cells

    Sunsun Li;Long Ye;Wenchao Zhao;Shaoqing Zhang

  • Fast charge separation in a non-fullerene organic solar cell with a small driving force

    Jing Liu;Shangshang Chen;Deping Qian;Bhoj Gautam

  • A Large‐Bandgap Conjugated Polymer for Versatile Photovoltaic Applications with High Performance

    Maojie Zhang;Maojie Zhang;Xia Guo;Xia Guo;Wei Ma;Wei Ma;Harald Ade

  • Alkyl Chain Tuning of Small Molecule Acceptors for Efficient Organic Solar Cells

    Kui Jiang;Kui Jiang;Qingya Wei;Joshua Yuk Lin Lai;Zhengxing Peng

  • Absolute Measurement of Domain Composition and Nanoscale Size Distribution Explains Performance in PTB7:PC71BM Solar Cells

    Brian A Collins;Zhe Li;John R Tumbleston;Eliot Gann

  • A Wide Band Gap Polymer with a Deep Highest Occupied Molecular Orbital Level Enables 14.2% Efficiency in Polymer Solar Cells.

    Sunsun Li;Long Ye;Wenchao Zhao;Hongping Yan

  • Quantitative relations between interaction parameter, miscibility and function in organic solar cells

    Long Ye;Huawei Hu;Masoud Ghasemi;Tonghui Wang;Tonghui Wang

  • Fluorine Substituents Reduce Charge Recombination and Drive Structure and Morphology Development in Polymer Solar Cells

    Andrew C. Stuart;John R. Tumbleston;Huaxing Zhou;Wentao Li

  • Achieving 19% Power Conversion Efficiency in Planar‐Mixed Heterojunction Organic Solar Cells Using a Pseudosymmetric Electron Acceptor

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  • The influence of molecular orientation on organic bulk heterojunction solar cells

    John R. Tumbleston;Brian A. Collins;Brian A. Collins;Liqiang Yang;Andrew C. Stuart

  • The Importance of Fullerene Percolation in the Mixed Regions of Polymer–Fullerene Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells

    Jonathan A. Bartelt;Zach M. Beiley;Eric T. Hoke;William R. Mateker

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

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

  • Soft x-ray scattering facility at the Advanced Light Source with real-time data processing and analysis.

    E. Gann;A. T. Young;B. A. Collins;H. Yan

  • Chemical contrast in X-ray microscopy and spatially resolved XANES spectroscopy of organic specimens

    H Ade;X Zhang;S Cameron;C Costello

  • Designing ternary blend bulk heterojunction solar cells with reduced carrier recombination and a fill factor of 77

    Nicola Gasparini;Xuechen Jiao;Thomas Heumueller;Derya Baran

  • Molecular Miscibility of Polymer-Fullerene Blends

    Brian A. Collins;Eliot Gann;Lewis Guignard;Xiaoxi He

  • A High-Efficiency Organic Solar Cell Enabled by the Strong Intramolecular Electron Push-Pull Effect of the Nonfullerene Acceptor.

    Wanning Li;Long Ye;Sunsun Li;Huifeng Yao

  • Achieving Highly Efficient Nonfullerene Organic Solar Cells with Improved Intermolecular Interaction and Open-Circuit Voltage.

    Huifeng Yao;Long Ye;Junxian Hou;Bomee Jang

  • Compatibilizing Bulk Polymer Blends by Using Organoclays

    Mayu Si;Tohru Araki;Harald Ade;A. L. D. Kilcoyne

  • Miscibility, Crystallinity, and Phase Development in P3HT/PCBM Solar Cells: Toward an Enlightened Understanding of Device Morphology and Stability

    Brian A. Collins;John R. Tumbleston;Harald Ade

Frequent Co-Authors

Long Ye
Long Ye Tianjin University
Jianhui Hou
Jianhui Hou Chinese Academy of Sciences
Wei You
Wei You University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
He Yan
He Yan Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Adam P. Hitchcock
Adam P. Hitchcock McMaster University
Wei Ma
Wei Ma Xi'an Jiaotong University
Eliot Gann
Eliot Gann National Institute of Standards and Technology
Christopher R. McNeill
Christopher R. McNeill Monash University
Yongfang Li
Yongfang Li Soochow University
Robert Nemanich
Robert Nemanich Arizona State University

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