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Karen Forberich is affiliated with the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in Germany. Their research primarily spans the fields of Engineering and Materials Science, with a more focused engagement in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Polymers and Plastics, Materials Chemistry, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, and Biomedical Engineering.

The scientist's work covers various topics in materials science and engineering. Key research areas include:

  • Perovskite Materials and Applications
  • Conducting Polymers and Applications
  • Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics
  • Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films
  • Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties
  • Solar Cell Performance Optimization
  • Thin-Film Transistor Technologies

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Karen Forberich consist of:

  • Christoph J. Brabec
  • Larry Lüer
  • Ning Li
  • Vincent M. Le Corre
  • Andres Osvet

Publications appear prominently in venues such as:

  • Advanced Energy Materials
  • Energy & Environmental Science
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Solar RRL
  • Nano Energy

Some recent publications by Karen Forberich include:

  • The role of exciton lifetime for charge generation in organic solar cells at negligible energy-level offsets, 2020, Nature Energy
  • Revealing the strain-associated physical mechanisms impacting the performance and stability of perovskite solar cells, 2022, Joule
  • Spontaneously Self-Assembly of a 2D/3D Heterostructure Enhances the Efficiency and Stability in Printed Perovskite Solar Cells, 2020, Advanced Energy Materials
  • Controlling the crystallization dynamics of photovoltaic perovskite layers on larger-area coatings, 2020, Energy & Environmental Science
  • Device Performance of Emerging Photovoltaic Materials (Version 3), 2022, Advanced Energy Materials

Best Publications

  • Solar Power Wires Based on Organic Photovoltaic Materials

    Michael R. Lee;Robert D. Eckert;Karen Forberich;Gilles Dennler

  • Influence of the bridging atom on the performance of a low-bandgap bulk heterojunction solar cell.

    Markus C. Scharber;Markus Koppe;Jia Gao;Fabrizio Cordella

  • High-performance semitransparent perovskite solar cells with solution-processed silver nanowires as top electrodes

    Fei Guo;Hamed Azimi;Yi Hou;Thomas Przybilla

  • The role of exciton lifetime for charge generation in organic solar cells at negligible energy-level offsets

    Andrej Classen;Christos L. Chochos;Larry Lüer;Vasilis G. Gregoriou

  • Interface Engineering of Perovskite Hybrid Solar Cells with Solution-Processed Perylene–Diimide Heterojunctions toward High Performance

    Jie Min;Zhi-Guo Zhang;Yi Hou;Cesar Omar Ramirez Quiroz

  • Angle dependence of external and internal quantum efficiencies in bulk-heterojunction organic solar cells

    Gilles Dennler;Karen Forberich;Markus C. Scharber;Christoph J. Brabec

  • Fabrication, Optical Modeling, and Color Characterization of Semitransparent Bulk-Heterojunction Organic Solar Cells in an Inverted Structure

    Tayebeh Ameri;Gilles Dennler;Christoph Waldauf;Hamed Azimi

  • Nanomorphology and Charge Generation in Bulk Heterojunctions Based on Low‐Bandgap Dithiophene Polymers with Different Bridging Atoms

    Mauro Morana;Hamed Azimi;Gilles Dennler;Hans-Joachim Egelhaaf

  • Revealing the strain-associated physical mechanisms impacting the performance and stability of perovskite solar cells

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  • ITO-Free and Fully Solution-Processed Semitransparent Organic Solar Cells with High Fill Factors

    Fei Guo;Xiangdong Zhu;Karen Forberich;Johannes Krantz

  • Overcoming the Interface Losses in Planar Heterojunction Perovskite-Based Solar Cells.

    Yi Hou;Wei Chen;Derya Baran;Tobias Stubhan

  • Performance improvement of organic solar cells with moth eye anti-reflection coating

    Karen Forberich;Gilles Dennler;Markus C. Scharber;Kurt Hingerl

  • Device Performance of Emerging Photovoltaic Materials (Version 3)

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  • Highly efficient, large area, roll coated flexible and rigid OPV modules with geometric fill factors up to 98.5% processed with commercially available materials

    L. Lucera;F. Machui;P. Kubis;H. D. Schmidt

  • Spontaneously Self‐Assembly of a 2D/3D Heterostructure Enhances the Efficiency and Stability in Printed Perovskite Solar Cells

    Jinlong Hu;Chuan Wang;Shudi Qiu;Yicheng Zhao

  • Design of efficient organic tandem cells: On the interplay between molecular absorption and layer sequence

    Gilles Dennler;Karen Forberich;Tayebeh Ameri;Christoph Waldauf

  • Bulk heterojunction solar cells with thick active layers and high fill factors enabled by a bithiophene-co-thiazolothiazole push-pull copolymer

    J. Peet;L. Wen;P. Byrne;S. Rodman

  • Design Rules for Donors in Bulk‐Heterojunction Tandem Solar Cells�Towards 15 % Energy‐Conversion Efficiency

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  • Controlling the crystallization dynamics of photovoltaic perovskite layers on larger-area coatings

    Linxiang Zeng;Linxiang Zeng;Shi Chen;Karen Forberich;Christoph J. Brabec

  • The fabrication of color-tunable organic light-emitting diode displays via solution processing.

    Fei Guo;Andre Karl;Qi-Fan Xue;Kai Cheong Tam

  • Balancing electrical and optical losses for efficient 4-terminal Si–perovskite solar cells with solution processed percolation electrodes

    César Omar Ramírez Quiroz;Yilei Shen;Michael Salvador;Michael Salvador;Karen Forberich

  • Realization, characterization, and optical modeling of inverted bulk-heterojunction organic solar cells

    Tayebeh Ameri;Gilles Dennler;Christoph Waldauf;Patrick Denk

  • Towards 15% energy conversion efficiency: a systematic study of the solution-processed organic tandem solar cells based on commercially available materials

    Ning Li;Derya Baran;Karen Forberich;Florian Machui

  • Guidelines for Closing the Efficiency Gap between Hero Solar Cells and Roll‐To‐Roll Printed Modules

    Luca Lucera;Peter Kubis;Frank W. Fecher;Carina Bronnbauer

Frequent Co-Authors

Christoph J. Brabec
Christoph J. Brabec University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Erdmann Spiecker
Erdmann Spiecker University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Tayebeh Ameri
Tayebeh Ameri University of Edinburgh
Ning Li
Ning Li University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Gilles Dennler
Gilles Dennler Industrial Technical Center of Plastics and Composites
Michael Salvador
Michael Salvador King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Marko Topič
Marko Topič University of Ljubljana
Yi Hou
Yi Hou National University of Singapore
Uli Lemmer
Uli Lemmer Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Hans-Joachim Egelhaaf
Hans-Joachim Egelhaaf University of Tübingen

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