Frank Ortmann

Short CV

Prof. Ortmann studied physics and received his doctorate with “summa cum laude” from the Friedrich Schiller University Jena in 2009. In the same year, he joined CEA Grenoble as postdoctoral fellow and was awarded a Marie-Curie Fellowship in 2010. In 2011 he moved to the ICN2 Barcelona and in 2013 to TU Dresden. From 2014, he headed an Emmy Noether junior research group and was group leader at the excellence cluster cfaed from 2017. Since 2020, Prof. Ortmann has been at TUM.


Selected Awards

  • 2014, Emmy Noether junior research group 
  • 2010, Marie-Curie Fellowship 
  • 2010, Finalist for the Dissertation Prize of the German Physical Society, Condensed Matter Section
  • 2006, Rhode & Schwarz Faculty Award

Research Interests

excitons in organic materials, theoretical spectroscopy, quantum transport, electron-vibration coupling, polarons, semiconductor doping, spin-related phenomena


Selected Publications

  • M. Panhans and F. Ortmann "Efficient Time-Domain Approach for Linear Response Functions" arXiv preprint (2021); arXiv:2104.08608
     
  • M. Panhans, S. Hutsch, J. Benduhn, K. S. Schellhammer, V. C. Nikolis, T. Vangerven, K. Vandewal and F. Ortmann “Molecular vibrations reduce the maximum achievable photovoltage in organic solar cells” Nat. Commun. 11, 1488 (2020).
     
  • M. Schwarze, K. S. Schellhammer, K. Ortstein, J. Benduhn, C. Gaul, A. Hinderhofer, L. Perdigón Toro, R. Scholz, J. Kublitski, S. Roland, M. Lau, C. Poelking, D. Andrienko, G. Cuniberti, F. Schreiber, D. Neher, K. Vandewal, F. Ortmann and K. Leo “Impact of molecular quadrupole moments on the energy levels at organic heterojunctions” Nat. Commun. 10, 2466 (2019).
     
  • M. Schwarze, C. Gaul, R. Scholz, F. Bussolotti, A. Hofacker, K. S. Schellhammer, B. Nell, B. Naab, Z. Bao, D. Spoltore, K. Vandewal, J. Widmer, S. Kera, N. Ueno, F. Ortmann and K. Leo “Molecular Parameters Responsible for Thermally Activated Transport in Doped Organic Semiconductors” Nat. Mater. 18, 242 (2019).
     
  • C. Gaul, S. Hutsch, M. Schwarze, K. S. Schellhammer, F. Bussolotti, S. Kera, G. Cuniberti, K. Leo, and F. Ortmann “Insight into doping efficiency of organic semiconductors from the analysis of the density of states in n-doped C60 and ZnPc” Nat. Mater. 17, 439 (2018).
     
  • K. Vandewal, J. Benduhn, K. S. Schellhammer, T. Vangerven, J. E. Rückert, F. Piersimoni, R. Scholz, O. Zeika, Y. Fan, S. Barlow, D. Neher, S. R. Marder, J. Manca, D. Spoltore, G. Cuniberti, and F. Ortmann “Absorption Tails of Donor:C60 Blends Provide Insight into Thermally Activated Charge-Transfer Processes and Polaron Relaxation” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 139, 1699 (2017).
     
  • C. Yang, K.S. Schellhammer, F. Ortmann, S. Sun, R. Dong, M. Karakus, Z. Mics, M. Löffler, F. Zhang, X. Zhuang, E. Cánovas, G. Cuniberti, M. Bonn, and X. Feng “Coordination Polymer Framework Based On‐Chip Micro‐Supercapacitors with AC Line‐Filtering Performance” Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 56, 3920 (2017).
     
  • D. Van Tuan, F. Ortmann, D. Soriano, S. O. Valenzuela, S. Roche “Pseudospin-driven spin relaxation mechanism in graphene” Nat. Phys. 10, 857-863 (2014).
     
  • F. Ortmann, F. Bechstedt, and K. Hannewald “Theory of charge transport in organic crystals: Beyond Holstein’s small-polaron model” Phys. Rev. B 79, 235206 (2009).  
     
  • F. Ortmann, F. Bechstedt, and W. G. Schmidt “Semiempirical van der Waals correction to the density functional description of solids and molecular structures” Phys. Rev. B 73, 205101 (2006).

A full list of publications can be found on the TUM Department of Chemistry.:

 


Publications as TUM-IAS-Fellow

2022

  • Dorfner, Maximilian F X; Hutsch, Sebastian; Borrelli, Raffaele; Gelin, Maxim F; Ortmann, Frank: Ultrafast carrier dynamics at organic donor–acceptor interfaces—a quantum-based assessment of the hopping model. Journal of Physics: Materials 5 (2), 2022, 024001 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
  • Hutsch, Sebastian; Panhans, Michel; Ortmann, Frank: Charge carrier mobilities of organic semiconductors: ab initio simulations with mode-specific treatment of molecular vibrations. npj Computational Materials 8 (1), 2022 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
  • Lenz, Jakob; Statz, Martin; Watanabe, K; Taniguchi, T; Ortmann, Frank; Weitz, R Thomas: Charge transport in single polymer fiber transistors in the sub-100 nm regime: temperature dependence and Coulomb blockade. Journal of Physics: Materials 6 (1), 2022, 015001 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
  • Merkel, Konrad; Panhans, Michel; Hutsch, Sebastian; Ortmann, Frank: Interplay of band occupation, localization, and polaron renormalization for electron transport in molecular crystals: Naphthalene as a case study. Physical Review B 105 (16), 2022 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
  • Talnack, Felix; Hutsch, Sebastian; Bretschneider, Michael; Krupskaya, Yulia; Büchner, Bernd; Malfois, Marc; Hambsch, Mike; Ortmann, Frank; Mannsfeld, Stefan C. B.: Thermal behavior and polymorphism of 2,9-didecyldinaphtho[2,3-<i>b</i>:2′,3′-<i>f</i>]thieno[3,2-<i>b</i>]thiophene thin films. Molecular Systems Design &amp; Engineering 7 (5), 2022, 507-519 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
  • Wang, Shu-Jen; Panhans, Michel; Lashkov, Ilia; Kleemann, Hans; Caglieris, Federico; Becker-Koch, David; Vahland, Jörn; Guo, Erjuan; Huang, Shiyu; Krupskaya, Yulia; Vaynzof, Yana; Büchner, Bernd; Ortmann, Frank; Leo, Karl: Highly efficient modulation doping: A path toward superior organic thermoelectric devices. Science Advances 8 (13), 2022 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )

2021

  • Adamczak, Desiree; Perinot, Andrea; Komber, Hartmut; Illy, Anna; Hultmark, Sandra; Passarella, Bianca; Tan, Wen Liang; Hutsch, Sebastian; Becker-Koch, David; Rapley, Charlotte; Scaccabarozzi, Alberto D.; Heeney, Martin; Vaynzof, Yana; Ortmann, Frank; McNeill, Christopher R.; Müller, Christian; Caironi, Mario; Sommer, Michael: Influence of synthetic pathway, molecular weight and side chains on properties of indacenodithiophene-benzothiadiazole copolymers made by direct arylation polycondensation. Journal of Materials Chemistry C 9 (13), 2021, 4597-4606 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
  • Ajayakumar, M. R.; Ma, Ji; Lucotti, Andrea; Schellhammer, Karl Sebastian; Serra, Gianluca; Dmitrieva, Evgenia; Rosenkranz, Marco; Komber, Hartmut; Liu, Junzhi; Ortmann, Frank; Tommasini, Matteo; Feng, Xinliang: Persistent <i>peri</i> ‐Heptacene: Synthesis and In Situ Characterization. Angewandte Chemie International Edition 60 (25), 2021, 13853-13858 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
  • Hutsch, Sebastian; Panhans, Michel; Ortmann, Frank: Time-consistent hopping transport with vibration-mode-resolved electron-phonon couplings. Physical Review B 104 (5), 2021 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
  • Ortstein, Katrin; Hutsch, Sebastian; Hambsch, Mike; Tvingstedt, Kristofer; Wegner, Berthold; Benduhn, Johannes; Kublitski, Jonas; Schwarze, Martin; Schellhammer, Sebastian; Talnack, Felix; Vogt, Astrid; Bäuerle, Peter; Koch, Norbert; Mannsfeld, Stefan C. B.; Kleemann, Hans; Ortmann, Frank; Leo, Karl: Band gap engineering in blended organic semiconductor films based on dielectric interactions. Nature Materials 20 (10), 2021, 1407-1413 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
  • Panhans, Michel; Ortmann, Frank: Efficient Time-Domain Approach for Linear Response Functions. Physical Review Letters 127 (1), 2021 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
  • Schellhammer, K. Sebastian; Cuniberti, Gianaurelio; Ortmann, Frank: Investigating a Combined Stochastic Nucleation and Molecular Dynamics-Based Equilibration Approach for Constructing Large-Scale Polycrystalline Films. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation 17 (2), 2021, 1266-1275 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
  • Shin, Nara; Schellhammer, Karl Sebastian; Lee, Min Ho; Zessin, Jakob; Hambsch, Mike; Salleo, Alberto; Ortmann, Frank; Mannsfeld, Stefan C. B.: Electronic Doping and Enhancement of n‐Channel Polycrystalline OFET Performance through Gate Oxide Modifications with Aminosilanes. Advanced Materials Interfaces 8 (16), 2021, 2100320 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
  • Shivhare, Rishi; Moore, Gareth John; Hofacker, Andreas; Hutsch, Sebastian; Zhong, Yufei; Hambsch, Mike; Erdmann, Tim; Kiriy, Anton; Mannsfeld, Stefan C. B.; Ortmann, Frank; Banerji, Natalie: Short Excited‐State Lifetimes Mediate Charge‐Recombination Losses in Organic Solar Cell Blends with Low Charge‐Transfer Driving Force. Advanced Materials 34 (22), 2021, 2101784 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )