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Materials Science
Germany
2022

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Materials Science

D-Index
92
Citations
30234
World Ranking
1530
National Ranking
84

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2022 - Research.com Materials Science in Germany Leader Award

Overview

Norbert Koch is affiliated with Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin in Germany and has an extensive research portfolio primarily in the fields of Materials Science and Engineering. Their work focuses on interdisciplinary areas combining electrical and electronic engineering with materials chemistry and polymer science.

The primary subfields of study in their research include:

  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  • Materials Chemistry
  • Polymers and Plastics
  • Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
  • Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

The main topics addressed in their publications cover a range of advanced material systems and applications:

  • Perovskite Materials and Applications
  • Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics
  • Conducting Polymers and Applications
  • 2D Materials and Applications
  • Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties
  • Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films
  • Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures

Norbert Koch has contributed to numerous publications in high-impact venues, frequently publishing in:

  • ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry C
  • Advanced Materials Interfaces
  • ACS Energy Letters
  • Advanced Science

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Norbert Koch include:

  • Doping Approaches for Organic Semiconductors (2021), Chemical Reviews
  • Understanding Performance Limiting Interfacial Recombination in pin Perovskite Solar Cells (2022), Advanced Energy Materials
  • Halide Segregation versus Interfacial Recombination in Bromide-Rich Wide-Gap Perovskite Solar Cells (2020), ACS Energy Letters
  • Ion-induced field screening as a dominant factor in perovskite solar cell operational stability (2024), Nature Energy
  • Perfluorinated Self-Assembled Monolayers Enhance the Stability and Efficiency of Inverted Perovskite Solar Cells (2020), ACS Nano

Norbert Koch collaborates regularly with several researchers across their fields, including:

  • Thorsten Schultz
  • Fengshuo Zu
  • Patrick Amsalem
  • Nicola Pinna
  • Dieter Neher

This combination of research topics, subfields, and publication venues indicates a focus on materials relevant to renewable energy, organic electronics, and advanced semiconductor technologies. Their work contributes to the understanding of electronic materials, device interfaces, and stability factors in energy applications.

Best Publications

  • Electronic structure and electrical properties of interfaces between metals and π-conjugated molecular films

    Antoine Kahn;Norbert Koch;Weiying Gao

  • Organic Electronic Devices and Their Functional Interfaces

    Norbert Koch

  • The impact of energy alignment and interfacial recombination on the internal and external open-circuit voltage of perovskite solar cells

    Martin Stolterfoht;Pietro Caprioglio;Pietro Caprioglio;Christian M. Wolff;José A. Márquez

  • Molecular Electrical Doping of Organic Semiconductors: Fundamental Mechanisms and Emerging Dopant Design Rules

    Ingo Salzmann;Georg Heimel;Martin Oehzelt;Stefanie Winkler

  • Orientation-dependent ionization energies and interface dipoles in ordered molecular assemblies

    Steffen Duhm;Georg Heimel;Ingo Salzmann;Hendrik Glowatzki

  • Conjugated organic molecules on metal versus polymer electrodes: Demonstration of a key energy level alignment mechanism

    N. Koch;Antoine Kahn;J. Ghijsen;J. J. Pireaux

  • Surface Termination Dependent Work Function and Electronic Properties of Ti3C2Tx MXene

    Thorsten Schultz;Thorsten Schultz;Nathan C. Frey;Kanit Hantanasirisakul;Soohyung Park;Soohyung Park

  • Large guanidinium cation mixed with methylammonium in lead iodide perovskites for 19% efficient solar cells

    Alexander D. Jodlowski;Alexander D. Jodlowski;Cristina Roldán-Carmona;Giulia Grancini;Manuel Salado

  • Fluorinated copolymer PCPDTBT with enhanced open-circuit voltage and reduced recombination for highly efficient polymer solar cells.

    Steve Albrecht;Silvia Janietz;Wolfram Schindler;Johannes Frisch

  • Charge-transfer crystallites as molecular electrical dopants

    Henry Méndez;Georg Heimel;Stefanie Winkler;Stefanie Winkler;Johannes Frisch;Johannes Frisch

  • Organic semiconductor density of states controls the energy level alignment at electrode interfaces.

    Martin Oehzelt;Norbert Koch;Georg Heimel

  • Bonding self-assembled, compact organophosphonate monolayers to the native oxide surface of silicon.

    Eric L. Hanson;Jeffrey Schwartz;Bert Nickel;Norbert Koch

  • Self-Assembly and Bonding of Alkanephosphonic Acids on the Native Oxide Surface of Titanium

    Ellen S. Gawalt;Michael J. Avaltroni;Norbert Koch;Jeffrey Schwartz

  • Doping Approaches for Organic Semiconductors

    Alberto D. Scaccabarozzi;Aniruddha Basu;Filip Aniés;Jian Liu

  • Influence of Aggregation on the Performance of All-Polymer Solar Cells Containing Low-Bandgap Naphthalenediimide Copolymers

    Marcel Schubert;Daniel Dolfen;Johannes Frisch;Steffen Roland

  • Optimized hole injection with strong electron acceptors at organic-metal interfaces.

    Norbert Koch;Steffen Duhm;Jürgen P. Rabe;Antje Vollmer

  • Moderate doping leads to high performance of semiconductor/insulator polymer blend transistors

    Guanghao Lu;James Blakesley;James Blakesley;Scott Himmelberger;Patrick Pingel;Patrick Pingel

  • PTCDA on Au(111), Ag(111) and Cu(111): Correlation of interface charge transfer to bonding distance

    S. Duhm;A. Gerlach;I. Salzmann;B. Bröker

  • Doping of Organic Semiconductors: Impact of Dopant Strength and Electronic Coupling

    Henry Méndez;Georg Heimel;Andreas Opitz;Katrein Sauer

  • Optically switchable transistor via energy-level phototuning in a bicomponent organic semiconductor

    Emanuele Orgiu;Núria Crivillers;Martin Herder;Lutz Grubert

  • Controlling Electron and Hole Charge Injection in Ambipolar Organic Field-Effect Transistors by Self-Assembled Monolayers

    Xiaoyang Cheng;Yong-Young Noh;Yong-Young Noh;Jianpu Wang;Marta Tello;Marta Tello

  • Pentacene ultrathin film formation on reduced and oxidized Si surfaces

    Ricardo Ruiz;Bert Nickel;Norbert Koch;Leonard C. Feldman

Frequent Co-Authors

Jürgen P. Rabe
Jürgen P. Rabe Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Steffen Duhm
Steffen Duhm Soochow University
Egbert Zojer
Egbert Zojer Graz University of Technology
Klaus Müllen
Klaus Müllen Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research
Frank Schreiber
Frank Schreiber University of Tübingen
Günther Leising
Günther Leising Graz University of Technology
Robert L. Johnson
Robert L. Johnson Universität Hamburg
Dieter Neher
Dieter Neher University of Potsdam
Stefan Hecht
Stefan Hecht Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Antoine Kahn
Antoine Kahn Princeton University

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