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Michael B. Johnston

Michael B. Johnston

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Materials Science
UK
2022

D-Index & Metrics

Materials Science

D-Index
93
Citations
56864
World Ranking
1420
National Ranking
61

Michael B. Johnston 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 Michael B. Johnston sits on this spectrum.

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50 publications 1,163+

This scientist: 305 publications — 61st percentile

61% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Michael B. Johnston 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 Michael B. Johnston sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 165+

This scientist: 93 D-Index — 89th percentile

89% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2022 - Research.com Materials Science in United Kingdom Leader Award

Overview

Michael B. Johnston is affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Their research focuses primarily on the fields of Engineering and Materials Science, with significant contributions to the subfields of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials Chemistry, Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics, Polymers and Plastics, and Biomedical Engineering.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics, including:

  • Perovskite Materials and Applications
  • Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films
  • Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties
  • Solid-state spectroscopy and crystallography
  • Terahertz technology and applications
  • Conducting polymers and applications
  • Optical properties and cooling technologies in crystalline materials

Michael B. Johnston has published extensively in several leading scientific journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Advanced Functional Materials
  • ACS Energy Letters
  • Nature Communications
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters
  • Science

Their recent papers include:

  • "A piperidinium salt stabilizes efficient metal-halide perovskite solar cells" (2020) in Science
  • "The 2023 terahertz science and technology roadmap" (2023) in Journal of Physics D Applied Physics
  • "Crystallization of CsPbBr3 single crystals in water for X-ray detection" (2021) in Nature Communications
  • "Atomic-scale microstructure of metal halide perovskite" (2020) in Science
  • "Halide Segregation in Mixed-Halide Perovskites: Influence of A-Site Cations" (2021) in ACS Energy Letters

Michael B. Johnston collaborates frequently with other researchers. Notable co-authors include:

  • Laura M. Herz
  • Henry J. Snaith
  • Jay B. Patel
  • Robert D. J. Oliver
  • Chelsea Q. Xia

Best Publications

  • Efficient planar heterojunction perovskite solar cells by vapour deposition

    Mingzhen Liu;Michael B. Johnston;Henry J. Snaith

  • Formamidinium lead trihalide: a broadly tunable perovskite for efficient planar heterojunction solar cells

    Giles E. Eperon;Samuel D. Stranks;Christopher Menelaou;Michael B. Johnston

  • High Charge Carrier Mobilities and Lifetimes in Organolead Trihalide Perovskites

    Christian Wehrenfennig;Giles E. Eperon;Michael B. Johnston;Henry J. Snaith

  • A mixed-cation lead mixed-halide perovskite absorber for tandem solar cells

    David P. McMeekin;Golnaz Sadoughi;Waqaas Rehman;Giles E. Eperon

  • Lead-free organic–inorganic tin halide perovskites for photovoltaic applications

    Nakita K. Noel;Samuel D. Stranks;Antonio Abate;Christian Wehrenfennig

  • The 2017 terahertz science and technology roadmap

    S S Dhillon;M S Vitiello;E H Linfield;A G Davies

  • Bandgap-tunable cesium lead halide perovskites with high thermal stability for efficient solar cells

    Rebecca J. Sutton;Giles E. Eperon;Laura Miranda;Elizabeth S. Parrott

  • Perovskite-perovskite tandem photovoltaics with optimized band gaps

    Giles E. Eperon;Giles E. Eperon;Tomas Leijtens;Kevin A. Bush;Rohit Prasanna

  • Electron–phonon coupling in hybrid lead halide perovskites

    Adam D. Wright;Carla Verdi;Rebecca L. Milot;Giles E. Eperon

  • Hybrid Perovskites for Photovoltaics: Charge-Carrier Recombination, Diffusion, and Radiative Efficiencies

    Michael B. Johnston;Laura M. Herz

  • Cs2InAgCl6: A New Lead-Free Halide Double Perovskite with Direct Band Gap.

    George Volonakis;Amir Abbas Haghighirad;Rebecca L. Milot;Weng H. Sio

  • Temperature-Dependent Charge-Carrier Dynamics in CH3NH3PbI3 Perovskite Thin Films

    Rebecca L. Milot;Giles E. Eperon;Henry J. Snaith;Michael B. Johnston

  • Electron Mobility and Injection Dynamics in Mesoporous ZnO, SnO2, and TiO2 Films Used in Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

    Priti Tiwana;Pablo Docampo;Michael B. Johnston;Henry J. Snaith

  • A piperidinium salt stabilizes efficient metal-halide perovskite solar cells.

    Yen-Hung Lin;Nobuya Sakai;Peimei Da;Jiaying Wu

  • Photovoltaic mixed-cation lead mixed-halide perovskites: links between crystallinity, photo-stability and electronic properties

    Waqaas Rehman;David P. McMeekin;Jay B. Patel;Rebecca L. Milot

  • Enhanced UV-light stability of planar heterojunction perovskite solar cells with caesium bromide interface modification

    Wenzhe Li;Wenzhe Li;Wei Zhang;Stephan Van Reenen;Rebecca J. Sutton

  • Optical properties and limiting photocurrent of thin-film perovskite solar cells

    James M. Ball;Samuel D. Stranks;Maximilian T. Hörantner;Sven Hüttner

  • Charge-carrier dynamics in vapour-deposited films of the organolead halide perovskite CH3NH3PbI3-xClx

    Christian Wehrenfennig;Mingzhen Liu;Henry J. Snaith;Michael B. Johnston

  • Charge-Carrier Dynamics in 2D Hybrid Metal-Halide Perovskites.

    Rebecca L. Milot;Rebecca J. Sutton;Giles E. Eperon;Amir Abbas Haghighirad

  • Efficient perovskite solar cells by metal ion doping

    Jacob Tse-Wei Wang;Zhiping Wang;Sandeep Pathak;Wei Zhang

  • Cs$_2$InAgCl$_6$: A new lead-free halide double perovskite with direct band gap

    George Volonakis;Amir A. Haghighirad;Rebecca L. Milot;Weng H. Sio

Frequent Co-Authors

Laura M. Herz
Laura M. Herz University of Oxford
Henry J. Snaith
Henry J. Snaith University of Oxford
Chennupati Jagadish
Chennupati Jagadish Australian National University
Hannah J. Joyce
Hannah J. Joyce University of Cambridge
Hark Hoe Tan
Hark Hoe Tan Australian National University
Lan Fu
Lan Fu Australian National University
Qiang Gao
Qiang Gao Beihang University
Giles E. Eperon
Giles E. Eperon Swift Solar
Edmund H. Linfield
Edmund H. Linfield University of Leeds
Samuel D. Stranks
Samuel D. Stranks University of Cambridge

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