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Martyn A. McLachlan is affiliated with Imperial College London in the United Kingdom and has contributed extensively to research in engineering and materials science. Their work primarily focuses on electrical and electronic engineering, materials chemistry, and related subfields including polymers and plastics, electronic, optical and magnetic materials, as well as atomic and molecular physics and optics.

Their most frequent topics of study encompass perovskite materials and applications, quantum dots synthesis and properties, chalcogenide semiconductor thin films, conducting polymers and their applications, ZnO doping and properties, organic electronics and photovoltaics, and solid-state spectroscopy and crystallography.

McLachlan's publication record includes papers in several notable scientific journals. Recent significant papers include:

  • Additive-Free, Low-Temperature Crystallization of Stable α-FAPbI3 Perovskite, 2021, Advanced Materials
  • Light-intensity and thickness dependent efficiency of planar perovskite solar cells: charge recombination versus extraction, 2020, Journal of Materials Chemistry C
  • Substitutional doping of hybrid organic-inorganic perovskite crystals for thermoelectrics, 2020, Journal of Materials Chemistry A
  • Phosphorene Nanoribbon-Augmented Optoelectronics for Enhanced Hole Extraction, 2021, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Towards Efficient Integrated Perovskite/Organic Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells: Interfacial Energetic Requirement to Reduce Charge Carrier Recombination Losses, 2020, Advanced Functional Materials

The scientist often collaborates with several frequent coauthors, including:

  • Thomas J. Macdonald
  • Chieh-Ting Lin
  • James R. Durrant
  • Tian Du
  • Weidong Xu

McLachlan's research is regularly published in a number of journals, with multiple papers appearing in:

  • ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
  • Advanced Functional Materials
  • Advanced Electronic Materials
  • Journal of Materials Chemistry A
  • Advanced Materials

Their research spans both fundamental and applied aspects of materials chemistry and electrical engineering, with particular emphasis on perovskite-based materials, solar cell technologies, and the development of organic-inorganic hybrid materials. Their work contributes to understanding the mechanisms underlying charge recombination, charge extraction, and doping processes in these advanced materials.

Best Publications

  • The impact of molecular weight on microstructure and charge transport in semicrystalline polymer semiconductors–poly(3-hexylthiophene), a model study

    Felix Peter Vinzenz Koch;Jonathan Rivnay;Sam Foster;Christian Müller;Christian Müller

  • Copper(I) Thiocyanate (CuSCN) Hole-Transport Layers Processed from Aqueous Precursor Solutions and Their Application in Thin-Film Transistors and Highly Efficient Organic and Organometal Halide Perovskite Solar Cells

    Nilushi Wijeyasinghe;Anna Regoutz;Flurin Eisner;Tian Du

  • High-Mobility Low-Voltage ZnO and Li-Doped ZnO Transistors Based on ZrO2 High-k Dielectric Grown by Spray Pyrolysis in Ambient Air

    George Adamopoulos;Stuart Thomas;Paul H. Wöbkenberg;Donal D. C. Bradley

  • Surface Structure Modification of ZnO and the Impact on Electronic Properties

    Robert M. Hewlett;Martyn A. McLachlan

  • High‐Efficiency, Solution‐Processed, Multilayer Phosphorescent Organic Light‐Emitting Diodes with a Copper Thiocyanate Hole‐Injection/Hole‐Transport Layer

    Ajay Perumal;Hendrik Faber;Nir Yaacobi-Gross;Pichaya Pattanasattayavong

  • High-performance ZnO transistors processed via an aqueous carbon-free metal oxide precursor route at temperatures between 80-180 °C

    Yen-Hung Lin;Hendrik Faber;Kui Zhao;Qingxiao Wang

  • Additive‐Free, Low‐Temperature Crystallization of Stable α‐FAPbI3 Perovskite

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  • High Electron Mobility Thin‐Film Transistors Based on Solution‐Processed Semiconducting Metal Oxide Heterojunctions and Quasi‐Superlattices

    Yen-Hung Lin;Hendrik Faber;John G. Labram;Emmanuel Stratakis

  • Low-voltage ZnO thin-film transistors based on Y2O3 and Al2O3 high-k dielectrics deposited by spray pyrolysis in air

    George Adamopoulos;Stuart Thomas;Donal D. C. Bradley;Martyn A. McLachlan

  • Polymer Solar Cells with Efficiency >10% Enabled via a Facile Solution‐Processed Al‐Doped ZnO Electron Transporting Layer

    Lethy Krishnan Jagadamma;Mohammed Al-Senani;Abdulrahman El-Labban;Issam Gereige

  • Thin film photonic crystals: synthesis and characterisation

    Martyn A. McLachlan;Nigel P. Johnson;Richard M. De La Rue;David W. McComb

  • Light-intensity and thickness dependent efficiency of planar perovskite solar cells: charge recombination versus extraction

    Tian Du;Weidong Xu;Shengda Xu;Sinclair R. Ratnasingham;Sinclair R. Ratnasingham

  • Formation, location and beneficial role of PbI2 in lead halide perovskite solar cells

    Tian Du;Claire H. Burgess;Jinhyun Kim;Jiaqi Zhang

  • p-channel thin-film transistors based on spray-coated Cu2O films

    Pichaya Pattanasattayavong;Stuart Thomas;George Adamopoulos;Martyn A. McLachlan

  • Inverted organic photovoltaic devices with high efficiency and stability based on metal oxide charge extraction layers

    S. Schumann;R. Da Campo;B. Illy;A. C. Cruickshank

  • Electrodeposition of ZnO layers for photovoltaic applications: controlling film thickness and orientation

    Benoit N. Illy;Amy C. Cruickshank;Stefan Schumann;Raffaello Da Campo

  • Optimised pulsed laser deposition of ZnO thin films on transparent conducting substrates

    J. B. Franklin;B. Zou;P. Petrov;D. W. McComb

  • Sub-15-nm patterning of asymmetric metal electrodes and devices by adhesion lithography

    David J. Beesley;James Semple;Lethy Krishnan Jagadamma;Aram Amassian

  • Elucidating the Origins of Subgap Tail States and Open‐Circuit Voltage in Methylammonium Lead Triiodide Perovskite Solar Cells

    Tian Du;Jinhyun Kim;Jonathan Ngiam;Shengda Xu

  • Template-Assisted Growth of Nominally Cubic (100)-Oriented Three-Dimensional Crack-Free Photonic Crystals

    Chongjun Jin;Martyn A. Mclachlan;David W. Mccomb;Richard M. De La Rue

  • Indium Oxide Thin-Film Transistors Processed at Low Temperature via Ultrasonic Spray Pyrolysis

    Hendrik Faber;Yen-Hung Lin;Stuart R. Thomas;Kui Zhao

Frequent Co-Authors

James R. Durrant
James R. Durrant Imperial College London
Thomas D. Anthopoulos
Thomas D. Anthopoulos University of Manchester
David W. McComb
David W. McComb The Ohio State University
Mary P. Ryan
Mary P. Ryan Imperial College London
Martin Heeney
Martin Heeney Imperial College London
Ji-Seon Kim
Ji-Seon Kim Imperial College London
Aram Amassian
Aram Amassian North Carolina State University
Hendrik Faber
Hendrik Faber King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Kui Zhao
Kui Zhao Shaanxi Normal University
Ivan P. Parkin
Ivan P. Parkin University College London

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