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Mark E. Thompson

University of Southern California · US
Area of research
Electrical and Electronic Engineering · Materials Chemistry
Research interest
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h-index
130
citations
79,587
works
767
NIH funding
primary concept
email

Recent publications

Eliminating nonradiative decay in Cu(I) emitters: >99% quantum efficiency and microsecond lifetime
Science 2019cited by 677position: lastdoi
Highly Efficient Photo- and Electroluminescence from Two-Coordinate Cu(I) Complexes Featuring Nonconventional N-Heterocyclic Carbenes
Journal of the American Chemical Society 2019cited by 333position: lastdoi
“Quick-Silver” from a Systematic Study of Highly Luminescent, Two-Coordinate, d<sup>10</sup> Coinage Metal Complexes
Journal of the American Chemical Society 2019cited by 294position: lastdoi
Improving Photocatalysis for the Reduction of CO<sub>2</sub> through Non-covalent Supramolecular Assembly
Journal of the American Chemical Society 2019cited by 119position: middledoi
Symmetry-Breaking Charge Transfer in Boron Dipyridylmethene (DIPYR) Dimers
ACS Applied Energy Materials 2018cited by 77position: lastdoi
Hot excited state management for long-lived blue phosphorescent organic light-emitting diodes
Nature Communications 2017cited by 286position: middledoi
Phosphorescent 2-, 3- and 4-coordinate cyclic (alkyl)(amino)carbene (CAAC) Cu(<scp>i</scp>) complexes
Chemical Communications 2017cited by 84position: lastdoi
Deep blue phosphorescent organic light-emitting diodes with very high brightness and efficiency
Nature Materials 2015cited by 821position: middledoi
Singlet Fission in a Covalently Linked Cofacial Alkynyltetracene Dimer
Journal of the American Chemical Society 2015cited by 297position: lastdoi
Understanding and predicting the orientation of heteroleptic phosphors in organic light-emitting materials
Nature Materials 2015cited by 240position: lastdoi
Highly Scalable, Uniform, and Sensitive Biosensors Based on Top-Down Indium Oxide Nanoribbons and Electronic Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay
Nano Letters 2015cited by 69position: middledoi
Solvent vapor annealing on perylene-based organic solar cells
Journal of Materials Chemistry A 2015cited by 34position: middledoi
Phosphorescence versus Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence. Controlling Singlet–Triplet Splitting in Brightly Emitting and Sublimable Cu(I) Compounds
Journal of the American Chemical Society 2014cited by 459position: middledoi
Photophysical Properties of Cyclometalated Pt(II) Complexes: Counterintuitive Blue Shift in Emission with an Expanded Ligand π System
Inorganic Chemistry 2013cited by 151position: lastdoi
Efficient Singlet Fission Discovered in a Disordered Acene Film
Journal of the American Chemical Society 2012cited by 304position: middledoi

Grants

I-Corps: Thermally-Responsive Hydrogels for Ocular Drug Delivery
NSF1713762$50,0002017–2018PIRePORTER
SusChEM: Materials and Architectures for High Efficiency Organic Photovoltaics
NSF1511757$300,0002015–2018PIRePORTER
Collaborative Research: Acquisition of a 400 MHz NMR at the University of Southern California
NSF0840366$469,1642009–2013PIRePORTER
Summer Program in Solid State Chemistry for Undergraduate Students and College Faculty
NSF9803995$650,0001998–2004PIRePORTER
Electron Transfer Reactions in Layered Metal Phosphonates
NSF9596173$159,2001995–1997PIRePORTER
Electron Transfer Reactions in Layered Metal Phosphonates
NSF9312856$219,0001993–1996PIRePORTER
Undergraduate Semiconductor Characterization Laboratory
NSF9351604$20,8821993–1996PIRePORTER
Investigations into the Syntheses and Structures of Layered Intercalation Compounds
NSF9113002$255,0001992–1995PIRePORTER

Frequent collaborators

Peter I. Djurovich · University of Southern California8 papers (2013–2019)Stephen E. Bradforth · University of Southern California4 papers (2012–2019)Abegail C. Tadle · California State University Los Angeles3 papers (2018–2019)Daniel Sylvinson Muthiah Ravinson · University of Southern California3 papers (2018–2019)Stephen R. Forrest · University of Michigan3 papers (2015–2019)Moon Chul Jung · University of Southern California3 papers (2019–2019)Ralf Haiges · University of Southern California3 papers (2015–2019)Rodolphe Jazzar · San Diego State University3 papers (2017–2019)Rasha Hamze · University of Southern California3 papers (2017–2019)Guy Bertrand · University of California San Diego3 papers (2017–2019)Caleb Coburn · University of Michigan–Ann Arbor3 papers (2015–2019)Thilini Batagoda · Japan Display (Japan)2 papers (2015–2017) · 2 papers (2015–2015)Laura Estergreen · The University of Texas at Austin2 papers (2018–2019)Matthew T. Whited · University of California, Irvine2 papers (2012–2013)Michèle Soleilhavoup · University of California San Diego2 papers (2017–2019)Jesse L. Peltier · Northeastern University2 papers (2019–2019)Hartmut Yersin · University of Regensburg2 papers (2013–2014)Savannah C. Kapper · University of Southern California2 papers (2019–2019)Jaesang Lee · Seoul National University2 papers (2015–2017)