Making the data of your setups FAIR (Findable Accessible Interoperable and Reusable) since July 2024. Previously focusing on (and still interested in) organic photovoltaics, excited states spectroscopy and corresponding data analysis, quantitative modelling of photophysical processes and their integration in device simulations.

Increasing the Ionization Energy Offset to Increase the Quantum Efficiency in Non-Fullerene Acceptor-Based Organic Solar Cells: How Far Can We Go?

J. Gorenflot,* W. Alsufyani, M. Alqurashi, S. H. K. Paleti, D. Baran and F. Laquai. Advanced Materials Interfaces, special issue: Next-Generation Organic Semiconductors—Materials, Fundamentals and Applications, 10, 2202515 (2023).

Rationalizing the Influence of Tunable Energy Levels on Quantum Efficiency to Design Optimal Non-Fullerene Acceptor-Based Ternary Organic Solar Cells.

S. Karuthedath, S. H. K. Paleti, A. Sharma, H. Yin, C. S. P. De Castro, S. Chen, H. Xu, N. Alshehri, N. Ramos, J. I. Khan, J. Martin, G. Li, F. Laquai, D. Baran and J. Gorenflot.* Adv. Energy Mater., 13, 2203464 (2023).

Effect of Quencher, Geometry, and Light Outcoupling on the Determination of Exciton Diffusion Length in Nonfullerene Acceptors

V. Belova, † A. Perevedentsev, † J. Gorenflot, †* C. S. P. De Castro, M. Casademont Viñas, S. H. K. Paleti , S. Karuthedath, D. Baran, F. Laquai and M. Campoy-Quiles. Solar RRL, 6, 2100822 (2022).

Charge Photogeneration in Non-Fullerene Organic Solar Cells: Influence of Excess Energy and Electrostatic Interactions.

M. Saladina, P. Simón Marqués, A. Markina, S. Karuthedath, C. Wöpke, C. Göhler, Y. Chen, M. Allain, P. Blanchard, C. Cabanetos, D. Andrienko, F. Laquai, J. Gorenflot, and C. Deibel. Adv. Funct. Mater., 31, 2007479 (2021).

Intrinsic efficiency limits in low-bandgap non-fullerene acceptor organic solar cells.

S. Karuthedath,† J. Gorenflot,† Y. Firdaus, N. Chaturvedi, C. S.P. De Castro,† G. T. Harrison, J. I. Khan, A. Markina, A. H. Balawi, T. A. Dela Peña, W. Liu, R.-Z. Liang, A. Sharma, S. H. K. Paleti, W. Zhang, Y. Lin, E. Alarousu, S. Lopatin, D. H Anjum, P. M Beaujuge, S. De Wolf, I. McCulloch, T. D Anthopoulos, D. Baran, D. Andrienko, F. Laquai. Nat. Mater., 20, 378 (2021).

Build-up of Triplet State Population in Operating TQ1:PC71BM Devices Does Not Limit Their Performance.

S. Karuthedath,† J. Gorenflot,†* A. Melianas, Z. Kan, M. Kemerink, F. Laquai. J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 11(8), 2838 (2020).

Triphenylamine-Based Push–Pull σ–C60 Dyad As Photoactive Molecular Material for Single-Component Organic Solar Cells: Synthesis, Characterizations, and Photophysical Properties.​

A. Labrunie,† J. Gorenflot,† M. Babics, O. Alévêque, S. Dabos-Seignon, A. H. Balawi, Z. Kan, M. Wohlfahrt, E. Levillain, P. Hudhomme, P. M. Beaujuge, F. Laquai, C. Cabanetos, and P. Blanchard. Chem. Mater., 30(10), 3474 (2018).

From Recombination Dynamics to Device Performance: Quantifying the Efficiency of Exciton Dissociation, Charge Separation, and Extraction in Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells with Fluorine-Substituted Polymer Donors.

J. Gorenflot,* A. Paulke, F. Piersimoni, J. Wolf, Z. Kan, F. Cruciani, A. El Labban, D. Neher, P. M. Beaujuge, and F. Laquai. Adv. Energy Mater., 8(4), 1701678 (2018).

Nongeminate recombination in neat P3HT and P3HT:PCBM blend films.

J. Gorenflot,† M. C. Heiber,† A. Baumann, J. Lorrmann, M. Gunz, A. Kämpgen, V. Dyakonov and C. Deibel. J. Appl. Phys., 114(14), 144502 (2014).

Energy levels and exciton binding energy in the conjugated polymer poly(3-hexyl thiophene).

C. Deibel, D. Mack, J. Gorenflot, A. Schöll, S. Krause, F. Reinert, D. Rauh and V. Dyakonov. Phys. Rev. B, 81, 085202 (2010).

† stands for equal contribution - * stands for corresponding author

Ph.D. in Physics, University of Würzburg, Germany, 2015

M.Sc in Physics, Louis Pasteur University, France, 2006

M.Sc in Engineering, University of Strasbourg, France, 2006

2024 – present: Research Scientist in charge of FAIR data implementation, KAUST, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia

2018 – 2024: Research Scientist in charge of leading the Organic Photovoltaic Research in the Ultrafast Dynamics group of Prof. F. Laquai, KAUST, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia

Summer 2023: Visiting Scholar in charge of implementing a Transient Absorption Spectroscopy setup, TU Chemnitz, Chemnitz, Germany

2016 – 2018: Postdoctoral Fellow, Building and programming of a Transient Absorption Spectroscopy setup, Ultrafast Dynamics group of Prof. F. Laquai, KAUST, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia

2015: Postdoctoral Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz, Germany

Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft (DFG)

2023: Visiting Scholar Grant - Visiting Scholar Program of Chemnitz University of Technology.

Division of Physical Science and Engineering (PSE)