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

• Control Over Vertical Composition in Low Complexity Polymer Solar Cells , ADVANCED ENERGY MATERIALS (2025)
• Low-Cost, High-Efficiency Organic Solar Cells Based on Ecofriendly Processing Solvent , ADVANCED ENERGY AND SUSTAINABILITY RESEARCH (2025)
• Significant Efficiency Enhancements in Non-Y Series Acceptors by the Addition of Outer Side Chains , ADVANCED SCIENCE (2025)
• A polymer acceptor with double-decker configuration enhances molecular packing for high-performance all-polymer solar cells , JOULE (2024)
• Acid-Triggered Side Chain Cleavage Leads to Doped Conjugated Polymers of High Conductivity , JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY (2024)
• Erratum: "Relationship between charge transfer state electroluminescence and the degradation of organic photovoltaics" [Appl. Phys. Lett. 118, 063301 (2021)] , APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS (2024)
• Exceptional Alignment in a Donor-Acceptor Conjugated Polymer via a Previously Unobserved Liquid Crystal Mesophase , ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS (2024)
• From generation to collection - impact of deposition temperature on charge carrier dynamics of high-performance vacuum-processed organic solar cells , ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE (2024)
• Melt Expansion and Thermal Transitions of Semiconducting Polymers in Thin Films , ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS (2024)
• Modification of the Electron-Deficient Core on Unfused-Ring Acceptors Enabling High Open-Circuit Voltage of Organic Solar Cells , SOLAR RRL (2024)