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2026

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Materials Science

D-Index
139
Citations
83857
World Ranking
239
National Ranking
97

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Materials Science in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Materials Science in United States Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Materials Science in United States Leader Award
  • 2018 - Fellow of the Materials Research Society For advancing the understanding of organic and perovskite semiconductors including pioneering research on using these materials in solar cells.

Overview

Michael D. McGehee is affiliated with the University of Colorado Boulder in the United States, where they focus their research on materials science and engineering disciplines. Their main fields of study include Engineering and Materials Science, with specific expertise in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials Chemistry, and Polymers and Plastics. They have also contributed work related to Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, as well as Biomedical Engineering.

The scientist's research centers primarily around topics such as Perovskite Materials and Applications, Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films, Conducting Polymers and Applications, Quantum Dots Synthesis and Properties, Solid-state Spectroscopy and Crystallography, Transition Metal Oxide Nanomaterials, and Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics.

Michael D. McGehee has published frequently in several venues, including:

  • Advanced Energy Materials
  • Nature Energy
  • Joule
  • ACS Energy Letters
  • Solar RRL

Key recent publications include:

  • Consensus statement for stability assessment and reporting for perovskite photovoltaics based on ISOS procedures, 2020, Nature Energy
  • Triple-halide wide-band gap perovskites with suppressed phase segregation for efficient tandems, 2020, Science
  • Overcoming Redox Reactions at Perovskite-Nickel Oxide Interfaces to Boost Voltages in Perovskite Solar Cells, 2020, Joule
  • Reducing nonradiative recombination in perovskite solar cells with a porous insulator contact, 2023, Science
  • Long-term operating stability in perovskite photovoltaics, 2023, Nature Reviews Materials

The scientist has collaborated extensively with colleagues such as Joseph M. Luther, Joseph J. Berry, Christopher J. Barile, Axel F. Palmstrom, and Gabriel R. McAndrews.

In recognition of their contributions to the field of materials research, Michael D. McGehee received the Fellow of the Materials Research Society award in 2018 for advancing the understanding of organic and perovskite semiconductors, including work on solar cells.

Best Publications

  • Conjugated Polymer Photovoltaic Cells

    Kevin M. Coakley;Michael D. McGehee

  • Liquid-crystalline semiconducting polymers with high charge-carrier mobility.

    Iain McCulloch;Martin Heeney;Clare Bailey;Kristijonas Genevicius

  • A Layered Hybrid Perovskite Solar-Cell Absorber with Enhanced Moisture Stability

    Ian C. Smith;Eric T. Hoke;Diego Solis-Ibarra;Michael D. McGehee

  • Reversible photo-induced trap formation in mixed-halide hybrid perovskites for photovoltaics

    Eric T. Hoke;Daniel J. Slotcavage;Emma R. Dohner;Andrea R. Bowring

  • Challenges for commercializing perovskite solar cells.

    Yaoguang Rong;Yue Hu;Anyi Mei;Anyi Mei;Hairen Tan;Hairen Tan

  • Understanding Degradation Mechanisms and Improving Stability of Perovskite Photovoltaics.

    Caleb C Boyd;Rongrong Cheacharoen;Rongrong Cheacharoen;Tomas Leijtens;Tomas Leijtens;Michael D McGehee;Michael D McGehee

  • 23.6%-efficient monolithic perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells with improved stability

    Kevin A. Bush;Axel F. Palmstrom;Zhengshan J. Yu;Mathieu Boccard

  • The renaissance of dye-sensitized solar cells

    Brian E. Hardin;Henry J. Snaith;Michael D. McGehee

  • Consensus statement for stability assessment and reporting for perovskite photovoltaics based on ISOS procedures

    Mark V. Khenkin;Mark V. Khenkin;Eugene A. Katz;Antonio Abate;Giorgio Bardizza

  • Perovskite-perovskite tandem photovoltaics with optimized band gaps

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

  • Optical absorption enhancement in amorphous silicon nanowire and nanocone arrays.

    Jia Zhu;Zongfu Yu;George F. Burkhard;Ching-Mei Hsu

  • Hysteresis and transient behavior in current–voltage measurements of hybrid-perovskite absorber solar cells

    E. L. Unger;E. T. Hoke;E. T. Hoke;C. D. Bailie;W. H. Nguyen

  • Organic solar cells with carbon nanotube network electrodes

    Michael W. Rowell;Mark A. Topinka;Michael D. McGehee;Hans-Jürgen Prall

  • Dependence of Regioregular Poly(3-hexylthiophene) Film Morphology and Field-Effect Mobility on Molecular Weight

    R.Joseph Kline;Michael D. McGehee;Ekaterina N. Kadnikova;Jinsong Liu

  • Self-limited plasmonic welding of silver nanowire junctions

    Erik C. Garnett;Wenshan Cai;Judy J. Cha;Fakhruddin Mahmood;Fakhruddin Mahmood

  • Controlling the Field‐Effect Mobility of Regioregular Polythiophene by Changing the Molecular Weight

    R.J. Kline;M.D. McGehee;E.N. Kadnikova;E.N. Kadnikova;J. Liu;J. Liu

  • Cesium Lead Halide Perovskites with Improved Stability for Tandem Solar Cells

    Rachel E. Beal;Daniel J. Slotcavage;Tomas Leijtens;Andrea R. Bowring

  • Semiconducting (Conjugated) Polymers as Materials for Solid‐State Lasers

    Michael D. McGehee;Alan J. Heeger

  • Opportunities and challenges for tandem solar cells using metal halide perovskite semiconductors

    Tomas Leijtens;Tomas Leijtens;Kevin A. Bush;Rohit Prasanna;Michael D. McGehee

  • Triple-halide wide–band gap perovskites with suppressed phase segregation for efficient tandems

    Jixian Xu;Jixian Xu;Jixian Xu;Caleb C. Boyd;Caleb C. Boyd;Zhengshan J. Yu;Axel F. Palmstrom

  • Highly oriented crystals at the buried interface in polythiophene thin-film transistors

    R. Joseph Kline;Michael D. McGehee;Michael F. Toney

  • 23.6%-efficient monolithic perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells with improved stability

    Kevin A. Bush;Axel F. Palmstrom;Zhengshan J. Yu;Mathieu Boccard

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael F. Toney
Michael F. Toney University of Colorado Boulder
Tomas Leijtens
Tomas Leijtens Swift Solar
Stacey F. Bent
Stacey F. Bent Stanford University
Alberto Salleo
Alberto Salleo Stanford University
Jean M. J. Fréchet
Jean M. J. Fréchet University of California, Berkeley
Yi Cui
Yi Cui Stanford University
Michael Grätzel
Michael Grätzel École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Alan Sellinger
Alan Sellinger Colorado School of Mines
Alan J. Heeger
Alan J. Heeger University of California, Santa Barbara
Jean-Luc Brédas
Jean-Luc Brédas University of Arizona

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