Core research areas

Projects

Expertise

  • Research on the property-performance relationship in organic and hybrid semiconductors, with emphasis on emerging photovoltaics
  • Focus on carrier generation, recombination and transport, the role of the energetic landscape, density of states distribution and disorder
  • Experimental techniques: impedance spectroscopy, steady-state and transient charge extraction, carrier mobility measurements, steady-state and time-resolved photoluminescence, electroluminescence, optical absorption, sol-gel processing, device simulations.

Publications

  1. Title

    Overcoming the fill-factor limit of organic solar cells

    Author
    H. Zhang, J. Yuan, T. Wang, Y. Nai, N. Tokmoldin, W. Liu, S. Ouyang, R. Jasiūnas, Y. Liu, Y. Li, M. S. Shadabroo, M. Pranav, N. Jain, X. Zhang, V. Coropceanu, A. A. Bakulin, S.-W. Tsang, V. Gulbinas, S. Shoaee, Y. Zou, D. Neher, T. Kirchartz, F. Gao
    Source
    Nat. Photonics, tba, tba (2026)
    DOI:
    10.1038/s41566-026-01946-8 (PDI-ID: 3186)
  2. Title

    Rapid parameter prediction in perovskite solar cells via AI-assisted performance analysis

    Author
    J. Diekmann, Zi. Yang, N. Tokmoldin, Z. Liu, P.-C. Peña-Camargo, Z. Xiong, P. Forozi Sowmeeh, H. Li, Q. Kong, X. Ju, F. Lang, S. Shoaee, D. Neher, M. Stolterfoht
    Source
    ACS Energy Lett., 11, 3395-3404 (2026)
    DOI:
    10.1021/acsenergylett.6c00075 (PDI-ID: 3170)
  3. Title

    When the triplet state doesn’t matter: Insights into its impact on VOC

    Author
    M. S. Shadabroo, N. Tokmoldin, A. Shukla, A. Patterson, T. M. Melody, O. Alqahtani, B. A. Collins, D. Neher, S. Shoaee
    Source
    ACS Energy Lett., 10, 2419-2427 (2025)
    DOI:
    10.1021/acsenergylett.5c00384 (PDI-ID: 3089)
  4. Title

    Key factors behind the superior performance of polymer-based NFA blends

    Author
    E. Sağlamkaya, M. S. Shadabroo, N. Tokmoldin, T. M. Melody, B. Sun, O. Alqahtani, A. Patterson, B. A. Collins, D. Neher, S. Shoaee
    Source
    Mater. Horiz., 11, 5304-5312 (2024)
    DOI:
    10.1039/D4MH00747F (PDI-ID: 3032)
  5. Title

    On the critical competition between singlet exciton decay and free charge generation in non-fullerene based organic solar cells with low energetic offsets

    Author
    M. Pranav, A. Shukla, D. Moser, J. Rumeney, W. Liu, R. Wang, B. Sun, S. Smeets, N. Tokmoldin, Y. Cao, G. He, T. Beitz, F. Jaiser, T. Hultzsch, S. Shoaee, W. Maes, L. Lüer, C. Brabec, K. Vandewal, D. Andrienko, S. Ludwigs, D. Neher
    Source
    Energy Environ. Sci., 17, 6676-6697 (2024)
    DOI:
    10.1039/d4ee01409j (PDI-ID: 3042)