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Profile
| Academic position | Associate Professor, Senior Lecturer, Reader |
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| Research fields | Semiconductor Physics,Synthesis and Properties of Functional Materials |
| Keywords | graphene, 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
| Country | United States of America |
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| City | Chicago |
| Institution | Illinois Institute of Technology |
| Institute | Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering |
Host during sponsorship
| Prof. Dr. Norbert Nickel | Institut für Silizium Photovoltaik, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie (HZB), Berlin |
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| Start of initial sponsorship | 01/11/2015 |
Programme(s)
| 2014 | Georg Forster Research Fellowship Programme for Postdocs |
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Publications (partial selection)
| 2018 | V.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, |
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| 2018 | F. 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 |
| 2018 | V.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, |
| 2018 | V.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 |
| 2017 | N.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 |
| 2017 | V.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 |
| 2017 | V.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 |
| 2017 | Y. 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 |
| 2016 | V.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 |
| 2016 | V.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 |
| 2016 | F. 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 |
| 2015 | V.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 |
| 2015 | V.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 |
| 2014 | R. Yatskiv, V.V. Brus, M. Verde, J. Grym, P. Gladkov: Electrical and optical properties of graphite/ZnO nanorods heterojunctions. In: Carbon, 2014, 1011-1019 |
| 2014 | V.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 |
| 2014 | V.V. Brus, P.D. Maryanchuk: Photosensitive Shottky-type heterojunctions prepared by the drawing of graphite films. In: Appl. Phys. Lett. , 2014, 173501 |
| 2014 | V.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 |
| 2012 | V.V. Brus: On impedance spectroscopy analysis of nonideal heterojunctions. In: Semicond. Sci. Technol. , 2012, 035024 |
| 2012 | V.V. Brus: On quantum efficiency of nonideal solar cells. In: Solar Energy , 2012, 786 |
| 18 | V.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 |
| 18 | F. 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 |
| 17 | N.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 |