Viktor Brus did his Ph.D. in Solid State Electronics at the Institute for Problems of Materials Science of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in 2012 and received his Doctor of Sciences degree in Physics of Semiconductors and Dielectrics from Chernivtsi National University in 2018. From 2013 until 2020, he was doing research and teaching at Chernivtsi National University (Assistant Professor), Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin (Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow), and the University of California Santa Barbara (Project Leader at the Center for Polymers and Organic Solids, established by the Nobel laureate Prof. Alan Heeger). 

Recent Selected Publications:

1. J. Vollbrecht and V.V. Brus*, On Charge Carrier Density in Organic Solar Cells Obtained via Capacitance Spectroscopy, Advanced Electronic Materials in press (2020) 2000517.                     DOI: 10.1002/aelm.202000517
2. B. Yurash, D.X. Cao, V.V. Brus, D. Leifert, M. Wang, A. E. Mansour, D. Lungwitz,  A. Dixon, M. Seifrid, P. J. Santiago, Norbert Koch, Guillermo C. Bazan,* Thuc-Quyen Nguyen* Towards Understanding the Doping Mechanism of Organic Semiconductors by Lewis Acids, Nature Materials 18 (2019) 1327-1334. DOI: 10.1038/s41563-019-0479-0 Highlighted by: Nature Materials News & Views
3. V.V. Brus, J. Lee, B. Luginbuhl, S.-J. Ko, G.C. Bazan, T.-Q. Nguyen*, Solution-Processed Semitransparent Organic Photovoltaics: from Molecular Design to Device Performance, Advanced Materials 31 (2019) 1900904. DOI: 10.1002/adma.201900904 “Advanced Materials Hall of Fame” Appeared on the back cover for Adv. Mater.
4. J. Vollbrecht, V.V. Brus (co-first author), S.-J. Ko, J. Lee,  A. Karki, D.X. Cao, K. Cho,               G.C. Bazan, T.-Q. Nguyen*, Quantifying the Non-Geminate Recombination Dynamics in Non-Fullerene Bulk Heterojunction Organic Solar Cells, Advanced Energy Materials 9 (2019) 1901438 DOI: 10.1002/aenm.201901438
5. 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, Advanced Energy Materials 8 (2018) 1801807. DOI: 10.1002/aenm.201801807
6. 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, Advanced Materials Interfaces 4 (2018) 1800826. DOI: 10.1002/admi.201800826
7. 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 (Progress Report), Advanced Materials 30 (2018) 1702905. DOI: 10.1002/adma.201702905
8. V.V. Brus*, M. Gluba, J. Rappich, F. Lang, P.D. Maryanchuk, N.H. Nickel, Fine art of thermoelectricity, ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces 10 (2018) 4737-4742.                                 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.7b17491  

   ACS Editors’ Choice Article
   Virtual Issue “Celebrating 10 Years of ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces” is a sampling of all the great work that has been published in the journal since it launched.
   Highlighted by: PhysOrg, Materials Today, Science Daily, IEEE GlobalSpec,  Innovations Report, Chem. Europe, EurekAlert, Enerzine, Индикатор, and others.

9. 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, Advanced Electronic Materials 3 (2017) 1600515. DOI: 10.1002/aelm.201600515 

   Appeared on the front cover for Adv. Electron. Mater.

10. 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, Advanced Electronic Materials 3 (2017) 1600438. DOI: 10.1002/aelm.201600438

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Physics I and II

Topics in Material Science