Prof. Dr. Viktor Brus

Profile

Academic positionAssociate Professor, Senior Lecturer, Reader
Research fieldsSemiconductor Physics,Synthesis and Properties of Functional Materials
Keywordsgraphene, organic electronics, perovskites, optoelectronics, photovoltaics
Honours and awards

2024: EB1-A Green Card: Extraordinary Ability (USCIS)

2021: Prize of the Parliament of Ukraine for Young Scientists for 2020

2021: “Rising Stars” Special Issue of Advanced Materials (Wiley)

2020: Editor’s Pick article in Journal of Applied Physics (AIP)

2020: The Stanford University's 2020 list of the World Top 2% Highly Cited Scientists

2019: Certificate of appreciation for high professionalism and personal contribution to the development of Ukrainian science (Chernivtsi Regional Council)

2019: Virtual Issue Celebrating 10 Years of ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

2018: American Chemical Society (ACS) Editors' Choice Award

2017: IEEE International Publication Encouragement Award

2016: Expert of the Ministry of Education and Research of Ukraine

2015: Editorial Board Member for Scientific Reports (Nature Publishing Group)

2014: Georg Forster Research Fellowship

2014:

2012: Fellowship of the President of Ukraine for young scientists

2012: Green Talents Award

Current contact address

CountryUnited States of America
CityChicago
InstitutionIllinois Institute of Technology
InstituteDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Norbert NickelInstitut für Silizium Photovoltaik, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie (HZB), Berlin
Start of initial sponsorship01/11/2015

Programme(s)

2014Georg Forster Research Fellowship Programme for Postdocs

Publications (partial selection)

2018V.V. Brus, H.K. Lee, C.M. Proctor, M. Ford, X. Liu, M.A. Burgers, J. Lee, G.C. Bazan, T.-Q. Nguyen: Balance between light absorption and recombination losses in solution-processed small molecule solar cells with normal or inverted structures. In: Advanced Energy Materials , 2018,
2018F. Lang, O. Shargaieva, V.V. Brus, J. Rappich, N.H. Nickel: Creation and annealing of metastable defect states in CH3NH3PbI3 at low temperatures. In: Appl. Phys. Lett. , 2018, 081102
2018V.V. Brus, F. Lang, S. Fengler, T. Dittrich, J. Rappich, N. H. Nickel: Doping Effects and Charge-Transfer Dynamics at Hybrid Perovskite/Graphene Interfaces. In: Advanced Materials Interfaces , 2018,
2018V.V. Brus, M. Gluba, J. Rappich, F. Lang, P.D. Maryanchuk, N.H. Nickel: Fine art of thermoelectricity. In: ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces , 2018, 4737-4742
2017N.A. Ran, M.P. Hughes, M.C. Heiber, J.A. Love, Z. Jiao, A. Karki, H. Wang, M. Wang, V.V. Brus, B. Kippelen, D. Neher, H. Ade, G.C. Bazan, T.-Q. Nguyen: Charge generation and recombination in an organic solar cell with low energetic offsets. In: Advanced Energy Materials , 2017, 1701073
2017V.V. Brus, M.A. Gluba, Ch.-K. Mai, S.L. Fronk, J. Rappich, N.H. Nickel and G.C. Bazan: Conjugated polyelectrolyte/graphene heterobilayer nanocomposites exhibit temperature switchable type of conductivity. In: Advanced Electronic Materials , 2017, 1600515
2017V.V. Brus, F. Lang, J. Bundesmann, S. Seidel, A. Denker, B. Rech, G. Landi, H. Neitzert, J. Rappich, N.H. Nickel: Defect dynamics in proton irradiated CH3NH3PbI3 perovskite solar cells. In: Advanced Electronic Materials , 2017, 1600428
2017Y. Hu, V.V. Brus, W. Cao, K. Liao, H. Phan, M. Wang, K. Banerjee, G.C. Bazan, T.-Q. Nguyen: Understanding the device physics in polymer-based ionic-organic ratchets. In: Advanced Materials , 2017, 1606464
2016V.V. Brus, S.D. Collins, O.V. Mikhnenko, M. Wang, G.C. Bazan, T.-Q. Nguyen: Fabricating Low-Cost Ionic-Organic Electronic Ratchets with Graphite Pencil and Adhesive Tape. In: Advanced Electronic Materials , 2016, 1500334
2016V.V. Brus: Light dependent open-circuit voltage of organic bulk heterojunction solar cells in the presence of surface recombination. In: Organic Electronics , 2016, 1-6
2016F. Lang, N.H. Nickel, J. Bundesmann, S. Seidel, A. Denker, S. Albercht, V.V. Brus, J. Rappich, B. Rech, G. Landi, H.C. Neitzert: Radiation Hardness and Self-Healing of Perovskite Solar Cells. In: Advanced Materials , 2016, 8726
2015V.V. Brus, P.D. Maryanchuk, Z.D. Kovalyuk, S.L. Abashyn: 2D nanocomposite photoconductive sensors fully dry drawn on regular paper. In: Nanotechnology, 2015, 255501
2015V.V. Brus, Aung Ko Ko Kyaw, P.D. Maryanchuk, Jie Zhang: Quantifying interface states and bulk defects in high-efficiency solution-processed small molecule solar cells from impedance and capacitance characteristics. In: Progress in Photovoltaics: Research and Applications, 2015, 1526
2014R. Yatskiv, V.V. Brus, M. Verde, J. Grym, P. Gladkov: Electrical and optical properties of graphite/ZnO nanorods heterojunctions. In: Carbon, 2014, 1011-1019
2014V.V. Brus, P.D. Maryanchuk: Graphite trace on water surface: a step toward the low-cost pencil-on-semiconductor electronics and optoelectronics. In: Carbon, 2014, 613-616
2014V.V. Brus, P.D. Maryanchuk: Photosensitive Shottky-type heterojunctions prepared by the drawing of graphite films. In: Appl. Phys. Lett. , 2014, 173501
2014V.V. Brus, M.A. Gluba, X. Zhang, K. Hinrichs, J. Rappich, N.H. Nickel: Stability of graphene-silicon heterostructure solar cells. In: Phys. Status Solidi A, 2014, 843-847
2012V.V. Brus: On impedance spectroscopy analysis of nonideal heterojunctions. In: Semicond. Sci. Technol. , 2012, 035024
2012V.V. Brus: On quantum efficiency of nonideal solar cells. In: Solar Energy , 2012, 786
18V.V. Brus, C.M. Proctor, N.A. Ran, T.-Q. Nguyen: Capacitance Spectroscopy for Quantifying Recombination Losses in Nonfullerene Small-Molecule Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells. In: Advanced Energy Materials , 18, 1502250
18F. Lang, O. Shargaieva, V.V. Brus, H.C. Neitzert, J. Rappich, N.H. Nickel: Influence of Radiation on the Properties and the Stability of Hybrid Perovskites . In: Advanced Materials , 18, 1702905
17N.H. Nickel, F. Lang, V.V. Brus, O. Shargaieva and J. Rappich: Unraveling the light-induced degradation mechanism of CH3NH3PbI3 perovskite films. In: Advanced Electronic Materials , 17, 1700158