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Markus C. Scharber publication distribution in Materials Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Materials Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Markus C. Scharber sits on this spectrum.

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50 publications 1,163+

This scientist: 177 publications — 23rd percentile

23% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,163 publications or more.

Markus C. Scharber D-index placement in Materials Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Materials Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Markus C. Scharber sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 165+

This scientist: 51 D-Index — 24th percentile

24% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 165 D-Index or more.

Overview

Markus C. Scharber is affiliated with Johannes Kepler University of Linz in Austria. Their research primarily spans the fields of Engineering and Materials Science, with significant contributions in subfields such as Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials Chemistry, Polymers and Plastics, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics.

The scientist's work covers multiple topics including:

  • Perovskite Materials and Applications
  • Conducting polymers and applications
  • Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics
  • Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties
  • Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films
  • Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures
  • Organic Light-Emitting Diodes Research

Recent publications authored or co-authored by Markus C. Scharber highlight their active research involvement. Selected papers include:

  • "An autonomous wearable biosensor powered by a perovskite solar cell" (2023), published in Nature Electronics
  • "Low Band Gap Conjugated Semiconducting Polymers" (2021), published in Advanced Materials Technologies
  • "Impedance Spectroscopy of Perovskite Solar Cells: Studying the Dynamics of Charge Carriers Before and After Continuous Operation" (2020), published in physica status solidi (a)
  • "Designing Ultraflexible Perovskite X-Ray Detectors through Interface Engineering" (2020), published in Advanced Science
  • "Flexible quasi-2D perovskite solar cells with high specific power and improved stability for energy-autonomous drones" (2024), published in Nature Energy

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Niyazi Serdar Sariçiftçi
  • Felix Mayr
  • Bekele Hailegnaw
  • Cigdem Yumusak
  • Martin Kaltenbrunner

The primary publication venues where Markus C. Scharber has contributed multiple works are:

  • ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
  • Materials Advances
  • ACS Applied Nano Materials
  • physica status solidi (a)
  • Advanced Materials

Best Publications

  • Design Rules for Donors in Bulk‐Heterojunction Solar Cells—Towards 10 % Energy‐Conversion Efficiency

    Markus C. Scharber;David Mühlbacher;Markus Koppe;Patrick Denk

  • High Photovoltaic Performance of a Low‐Bandgap Polymer

    David Mühlbacher;Markus Scharber;Mauro Morana;Zhengguo Zhu

  • Efficiency of bulk-heterojunction organic solar cells

    M.C. Scharber;N.S. Sariciftci

  • Flexible high power-per-weight perovskite solar cells with chromium oxide–metal contacts for improved stability in air

    Martin Kaltenbrunner;Getachew Adam;Eric Daniel Głowacki;Michael Drack

  • Ultrathin, highly flexible and stretchable PLEDs

    Matthew S. White;Martin Kaltenbrunner;Martin Kaltenbrunner;Eric D. Głowacki;Kateryna Gutnichenko

  • Panchromatic Conjugated Polymers Containing Alternating Donor/Acceptor Units for Photovoltaic Applications

    Zhengguo Zhu;David Waller;Russell Gaudiana;Mauro Morana

  • Bimolecular recombination coefficient as a sensitive testing parameter for low-mobility solar-cell materials.

    A. Pivrikas;G. Juška;A. J. Mozer;M. Scharber

  • 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

  • Polymer‐Fullerene Bulk‐Heterojunction Solar Cells

    Unknown

  • Near IR Sensitization of Organic Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells: Towards Optimization of the Spectral Response of Organic Solar Cells

    Markus Koppe;Hans-Joachim Egelhaaf;Gilles Dennler;Markus C. Scharber

  • An autonomous wearable biosensor powered by a perovskite solar cell

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  • Physics of organic bulk heterojunction devices for photovoltaic applications

    Christoph Waldauf;Marcus C. Scharber;Pavel Schilinsky;Jens A. Hauch

  • Exciton diffusion length in narrow bandgap polymers

    Oleksandr V. Mikhnenko;Hamed Azimi;Markus Scharber;Mauro Morana

  • Charge transfer excitons in bulk heterojunctions of a polyfluorene copolymer and a fullerene derivative

    Maria Antonietta Loi;Stefano Toffanin;Michele Muccini;Michael Forster

  • Stabilization of the nanomorphology of polymer–fullerene “bulk heterojunction” blends using a novel polymerizable fullerene derivative

    Martin Drees;Harald Hoppe;Christoph Winder;Helmut Neugebauer

  • Organic photovoltaics for low light applications

    Roland Steim;Tayebeh Ameri;Pavel Schilinsky;Christoph Waldauf

  • Low Band Gap Conjugated Semiconducting Polymers

    Markus Clark Scharber;Niyazi Serdar Sariciftci

  • 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

  • Bipolar Charge Transport in PCPDTBT‐PCBM Bulk‐Heterojunctions for Photovoltaic Applications

    Mauro Morana;Matthias Wegscheider;Alberta Bonanni;Nikos Kopidakis

  • Two Novel Cyclopentadithiophene-Based Alternating Copolymers as Potential Donor Components for High-Efficiency Bulk-Heterojunction-Type Solar Cells

    Adam J. Moulé;Argiri Tsami;Torsten W. Bünnagel;Michael Forster

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

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  • High Photovoltaic Performance of a Low-Bandgap Polymer. Adv Mater 18:2884

    David Muehlbacher;D. Mühlbacher;Markus Scharber;Mauro Morana

Frequent Co-Authors

Niyazi Serdar Sariciftci
Niyazi Serdar Sariciftci Johannes Kepler University of Linz
Christoph J. Brabec
Christoph J. Brabec University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Gilles Dennler
Gilles Dennler Industrial Technical Center of Plastics and Composites
Tsukasa Yoshida
Tsukasa Yoshida Yamagata University
Helmut Neugebauer
Helmut Neugebauer Johannes Kepler University of Linz
Maria Antonietta Loi
Maria Antonietta Loi University of Groningen
Martin Kaltenbrunner
Martin Kaltenbrunner Johannes Kepler University of Linz
Karen Forberich
Karen Forberich University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Tayebeh Ameri
Tayebeh Ameri University of Edinburgh
Hans-Joachim Egelhaaf
Hans-Joachim Egelhaaf University of Tübingen

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