Harald Ade

Bio

A graduate of Stony Brook University, H. Ade has been a faculty member at NCSU since Nov. 1992, rising through the ranks to Full Professor by 2001, and been named Distinguished Professor of Physics in 2014 and Goodnight Innovation Distinguished Professor in 2017. He has had an active and continually funded research program (~$14,500,000 total) and served as Director of Graduate Program in Physics from 2006-2013. Recognitions include R&D100 Award, NSF Young Investigator Award, APS Fellow, AAAS Fellow, (NCSU) Alumni Outstanding Research Award, K. F. J. Heinrich Award, and Shirley Price for Outstanding Science and Halbach Award of Innovative Instrumentation (both at the Advanced Light Source). He is a 2017 and 2018 Clarivate Analytics WoS Highly Cited Researcher in Materials Science.

His most distinguished external engagements include serving on the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Advanced Light Source (2011- present) and the BESSY-II Synchrotron Facility in Berlin, Germany (2006-2009), as well as the Scientific Advisory Council of the Helmholz Zentrum Berlin, Germany (2009 – 2012).

Publications

• Accurate single-shot full-Stokes detection enabled by heterogeneous grain orientations in polycrystalline films , NATURE COMMUNICATIONS (2025)
• Air-stable n-type dopant for organic semiconductors via a single-photon catalytic process , SCIENCE ADVANCES (2025)
• Control Over Vertical Composition in Low Complexity Polymer Solar Cells , ADVANCED ENERGY MATERIALS (2025)
• Decoding the Structure of Benzodithiophene Polymers for High-Efficiency Organic Solar Cells , ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS (2025)
• Low-Cost, High-Efficiency Organic Solar Cells Based on Ecofriendly Processing Solvent , ADVANCED ENERGY AND SUSTAINABILITY RESEARCH (2025)
• Non‐Halogenated Solvent Processed Shortwave Infrared Organic Photodetectors Using Sub‐1 eV Bandgap Acceptor with Cyano Substitution , (2025)
• Re-entrant phase behaviour of organic semiconductors , Nature Materials (2025)
• Significant Efficiency Enhancements in Non-Y Series Acceptors by the Addition of Outer Side Chains , ADVANCED SCIENCE (2025)
• Tailoring small-molecule acceptors through asymmetric side-chain substitution for efficient organic solar cells , SCIENCE CHINA-MATERIALS (2025)
• Tuning the Solubility Parameters of Conjugated Polymers via Side-Chain Engineering for All-Polymer Solar Cells , CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS (2025)