2026 Ifor D. W. Samuel: Materials Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Materials Science	96	1268	1216	51	47	643	34220

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Research.com Recognitions

2022 - Research.com Materials Science in United Kingdom Leader Award
2013 - SPIE Fellow

Overview

Ifor D. W. Samuel is a researcher affiliated with the University of St Andrews in the United Kingdom. Their academic work spans primarily the fields of Engineering and Materials Science, with a particular focus on subfields including Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials Chemistry, Biomedical Engineering, Polymers and Plastics, and Organic Chemistry.

The scientist's research covers a range of topics related to advanced materials and device applications. Key thematic areas include:

Organic Light-Emitting Diodes Research
Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics
Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials
X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
Crystallization and Solubility Studies
Perovskite Materials and Applications
Conducting polymers and applications

Recent publications by Ifor D. W. Samuel include the following papers:

The role of the light source in antimicrobial photodynamic therapy (2023, Chemical Society Reviews)
The Golden Age of Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence Materials: Design and Exploitation (2024, Chemical Reviews)
Organic Long-Persistent Luminescence from a Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence Compound (2020, Advanced Materials)
Exact Solution of Kinetic Analysis for Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence Materials (2021, The Journal of Physical Chemistry A)
Electrically driven organic laser using integrated OLED pumping (2023, Nature)

The researcher has published extensively in several journals, with frequent publications appearing in:

The Cambridge Structural Database
Journal of Materials Chemistry C
Angewandte Chemie International Edition
Advanced Functional Materials
Angewandte Chemie

Ifor D. W. Samuel collaborates regularly with several co-authors, some of the most frequent being:

Eli Zysman-Colman
Alexandra M. Z. Slawin
David B. Cordes
Graham A. Turnbull
Tomas Matulaitis

In recognition of contributions to the field, Ifor D. W. Samuel was named SPIE Fellow in 2013.

Best Publications

Organic semiconductor lasers.

I D W Samuel;G A Turnbull

1619
Citations
Exciton Diffusion Measurements in Poly(3‐hexylthiophene)

Paul E. Shaw;Arvydas Ruseckas;Ifor D. W. Samuel

1148
Citations
Measurement of absolute photoluminescence quantum efficiencies in conjugated polymers

N.C. Greenham;I.D.W. Samuel;G.R. Hayes;R.T. Phillips

1060
Citations
Blue Phosphorescence from Iridium(III) Complexes at Room Temperature

Shih-Chun Lo;Christopher P. Shipley;Raghu N. Bera;Ruth E. Harding

716
Citations
Light Harvesting for Organic Photovoltaics

Gordon James Hedley;Arvydas Ruseckas;Ifor David William Samuel

596
Citations
The Development of Light-Emitting Dendrimers for Displays†

Paul L. Burn;Shih-Chun Lo;Ifor D. W Samuel

549
Citations
Green Phosphorescent Dendrimer for Light‐Emitting Diodes

Shih-Chun Lo;Nigel A. H. Male;Jonathan P. J. Markham;Steven W. Magennis

412
Citations
Determining the optimum morphology in high-performance polymer-fullerene organic photovoltaic cells

Gordon James Hedley;Alexander J Ward;Alexander Alekseev;Calvyn Travis Howells

393
Citations
Chiral metal complexes with large octupolar optical nonlinearities

Christophe Dhenaut;Isabella Ledoux;Ifor D. W. Samuel;Joseph Zyss

357
Citations
Efficient interchain photoluminescence in a high-electron-affinity conjugated polymer.

I. D. W. Samuel;G. Rumbles;C. J. Collison

345
Citations
High-efficiency green phosphorescence from spin-coated single-layer dendrimer light-emitting diodes

J. P. J. Markham;S.-C. Lo;S. W. Magennis;P. L. Burn

328
Citations
CONJUGATED DENDRIMERS FOR LIGHT-EMITTING DIODES : EFFECT OF GENERATION

Mounir Halim;Jonathan N. G. Pillow;Ifor D. W. Samuel;Paul L. Burn

328
Citations
How to recognize lasing

Ifor D. W. Samuel;Ifor D. W. Samuel;Ebinazar B. Namdas;Graham A. Turnbull

323
Citations
Improving Processability and Efficiency of Resonant TADF Emitters: A Design Strategy

David Hall;David Hall;Subeesh Madayanad Suresh;Paloma L. dos Santos;Eimantas Duda

296
Citations
Hybrid optoelectronics: A polymer laser pumped by a nitride light-emitting diode

Y. Yang;G. A. Turnbull;I. D. W. Samuel

278
Citations
Bragg scattering from periodically microstructured light emitting diodes

John M. Lupton;Benjamin J. Matterson;Ifor D. W. Samuel;Michael J. Jory

275
Citations
Increased Efficiency and Controlled Light Output from a Microstructured Light-Emitting Diode

B. J. Matterson;J. M. Lupton;A. F. Safonov;M. G. Salt

265
Citations
High-triplet-energy dendrons: enhancing the luminescence of deep blue phosphorescent iridium(III) complexes.

Shih-Chun Lo;Ruth E. Harding;Christopher P. Shipley;Stuart G. Stevenson

263
Citations
The role of the light source in antimicrobial photodynamic therapy.

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261
Citations
Emission Characteristics and Performance Comparison of Polyfluorene Lasers with One- and Two-Dimensional Distributed Feedback

G. Heliotis;R. Xia;G. A. Turnbull;P. Andrew

246
Citations
Singlet exciton diffusion in MEH-PPV films studied by exciton-exciton annihilation

A.J. Lewis;A. Ruseckas;O.P.M. Gaudin;G.R. Webster

231
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