Publications

Universal approach to wave-optical calculations of point spread functions in microscopy (and beyond)

Ivan Gligonov, Lars Loetgering, Francisco Tenopala-Carmona, Chia-Lung Hsieh, Friedrich Schwarz, Ingo Gregor, Jörg Enderlein - Methods in Microscopy 3, 99 (2026).

"Reducing the Threshold of Organic Polariton Lasers by Active Layer Micropatterning and Lateral Confinement"

Julia Witt, Jiwoo Oh, Tommaso Marcato, Andreas Mischok, Chih-Jen Shih, Malte C. Gather - Small Structures 7, e202600009 (2026).

"Structural Modulation of Charge Transfer in Donor-Acceptor Systems: Effects of Donor Type and Connectivity"

Christopher Anton Wallerius, Robert Herzhoff, Soyoung Boo, Andreas Mischok, Dirk Hertel, Jörg-Martin Neudörfl, Daniele Fazzi, Malte C. Gather, Klaus Meerholz - Advanced Optical Materials 14, e00018, (2026).

"Elastomer-based whispering gallery mode microlasers with low Young’s modulus for biosensing applications"

Melisa A. Bayrak, David Ripp, Joseph S. Hill, Marcel Schubert - Optical Materials Express 16, 1440 (2026).

"Electrochemically induced hyperfluorescence based on the formation of charge-transfer excimers"

Chang-Ki Moon, Yuka Yasuda, Yu Kusakabe, Anna Popczyk, Shohei Fukushima, Julian F. Butscher, Nachiket Pathak, Joel Schlecht, Kuraudo Ishihara, Oliver Dumele, Hironori Kaji, Malte C. Gather - Nature Communications 17, 3753 (2026).

"Tunable Photogating in a Molecular Aggregate Coupled Graphene Phototransistor"

Abhinav Raina, Maurizio Sanfilippo, Chang-Ki Moon, Manuel Neubauer, Klaus Meerholz, Malte C. Gather, Klas Lindfors - ACS Applied Electronic Materials 8, 2068 (2026).

"Harnessing the Orientation of Columnar Discotic Liquid Crystals for Narrowband Blue Emission with Enhanced Out-Coupling Efficiency Toward Improvement of SP-OLEDs Performance"

Joydip De, Abhishek Kumar Gupta, Džiugas Litvinas, Francisco Tenopala-Carmona, Matthias Lehmann, Malte C. Gather, Eli Zysman-Colman - Advanced Functional Materials, e28081 (early view).

"High-power pulsed electrochemiluminescence for optogenetic manipulation of Drosophila larval behaviour"

Chang-Ki Moon, Matthias König, Ranjini Sircar, Julian F. Butscher, Ronald Alle, Klaus Meerholz, Stefan R. Pulver, Malte C. Gather - Light: Science & Applications 15, 104 (2026).

"Students as carbon accountants: calculating carbon costs of a PhD in neuroscience"

William V. Smith, Aimee Bebbington, Ranjini Sircar, Malte C. Gather, Stefan R. Pulver - Genetics 232, iyaf268 (2026).

"Highly transparent elastic optical microcavities for interferometric mapping of cell mechanics"

Franziska Busse, Jonathan H. Booth, Nils M. Kronenberg, Yingyu Sun, Andrew T. Meek, Andreas Mischok, Stefan R. Pulver, Malte C. Gather - Biomedical Optics Express 16, 4617 (2025).

"Biointegrated microlasers: technologies, applications, and emerging developments"

Catriona A. Thomson, Anna Popczyk, Marcel Schubert, Malte C. Gather - Optica 12, 1311 (2025).

"Reduced nephrin tyrosine phosphorylation impairs podocyte force transmission and accelerates detachment in disease"

Casey R. Williamson, Claire E. Martin, J. Dinesh Kumar, Peihua Lu, Laura A. New, Alice Y. Wang, Nils M. Kronenberg, Malte C. Gather, Paul A. Reynolds, Nina Jones - iScience 28, 112673 (2025).

"Simultaneous Multi-Resonant Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence and Room Temperature Phosphorescence from Biluminescent Nitrogen-Containing Indolocarbazoles"

Oliver S. Lee, Aidan P. Mckay, David B. Cordes, Stuart L. Warriner, Malte C. Gather, Eli Zysman-Colman - Advanced Science 12, e03175 (2025).

"Open-Source Tools for the Fabrication and Characterization of Organic Electronics"

Julian F. Butscher, Seonil Kwon, Anna Popczyk, Malte C. Gather - Advanced Electronic Materials 11, 2400460 (2025).

"CRB2 Depletion Induces YAP Signaling and Disrupts Mechanosensing in Podocytes"

Yingyu Sun, Nils M. Kronenberg, Sidharth Sethi, Surjya N. Dash, Maria E. Kovalik, Benjamin Sempowski, Shelby Strickland, Rupesh Raina, C. John Sperati, Xuefei Tian, Shuta Ishibe, Gentzon Hall, Malte C Gather - American Journal of Physiology-Renal Physiology 328, F578 (2025).

"DNA Sensing with Whispering Gallery Mode Microlasers"

Soraya Caixeiro, Robert Dörrenhaus, Anna Popczyk, Marcel Schubert, Stephanie Kath-Schorr, Malte C. Gather - Nano Letters 25, 4467 (2025).

"Engineering mechanical resonances of magnetoelectric transducers"

Julian F. Butscher, Malte C. Gather - Applied Physics Letters 126, 053503 (2025).

"Schlieren texture and topography induced confinement in an organic exciton-polariton laser"

Florian Le Roux, Andreas Mischok, Francisco Tenopala-Carmona, Malte C. Gather - Nature Communications 16, 811 (2025).

"Breaking the angular dispersion limit in thin film optics by ultra-strong light-matter coupling"

Andreas Mischok, Bernhard Siegmund, Florian Le Roux, Sabina Hillebrandt, Koen Vandewal, Malte C. Gather - Nature Communications 15, 10529 (2024).

"Absolute Quantum Efficiency Measurements of Electrochemiluminescent Devices Through Electrical Impedance Spectroscopy"

Chang-Ki Moon, Malte C. Gather - Advanced Optical Materials 12, 2401253 (2024).

"Digichem: Computational Chemistry For Everyone"

Oliver Lee, Malte C. Gather, Eli Zysman-Colman - Digital Discovery 3, 1695 (2024).

"Light sheet microscope scanning of biointegrated microlasers for localized refractive index sensing"

Ross C. Cowie, Marcel Schubert - Photonics Research 12, 1673 (2024).

"Polarization-Dependent Strong and Weak Light-Matter Coupling in Aligned Perylene Diimide Thin Films"

Niklas J. Herrmann, Manuel Hertzog, Andreas Mischok, Malte C. Gather, Jana Zaumseil - ACS Applied Optical Materials 2, 1619 (2024).

"Deformable microlaser force sensing"

Eleni Dalaka, Joseph S. Hill, Jonathan H. H. Booth, Anna Popczyk, Stefan R. Pulver, Malte C. Gather, Marcel Schubert - Light: Science & Applications 3, 129 (2024).

"High-density Integration of Ultrabright OLEDs on a Miniaturized Needle-shaped CMOS backplane"

Sabina Hillebrandt, Chang-Ki Moon, Adriaan J. Taal, Henry Overhauser, Kenneth L. Shepard, Malte C. Gather - Advanced Materials 36, 2300578 (2024).

"A multi-modal microscope for integrated mapping of cellular forces and Brillouin scattering with high resolution"

Andrew T. Meek, Franziska Busse, Nils M. Kronenberg, San V. Dinh, Kim Berghaus, Jonathan H. H. Booth, Giuliano Scarcelli, Malte C. Gather - Journal of Physics: Photonics 6, 025012 (2024).

"High-Brightness Blue Polariton Organic Light-Emitting Diodes"

Julia Witt, Andreas Mischok, Francisco Tenopala-Carmona, Sabina Hillebrandt, Julian F. Butscher, Malte C. Gather - ACS Photonics 11, 1844 (2024).

"A highly stable and efficient organic microcavity polariton laser"

Julia Witt, Andreas Mischok, Florian Le Roux, Malte C. Gather - MRS Communications 14, 184 (2024).

"Wireless magnetoelectrically powered organic light-emitting diodes"

Julian F. Butscher, Sabina Hillebrandt, Andreas Mischok, Anna Popczyk, Jonathan H. H. Booth, Malte C. Gather - Science Advances 10, eadm7613 (2024).

"Optically Manipulated Micromirrors for Precise Excitation of WGM Microlasers"

Tomasz Plaskocinski, Libin Yan, Marcel Schubert, Malte C. Gather, Andrea Di Falco - Advanced Optical Materials 12, 2302024 (2024).

"Lessons learnt in photocatalysis - the influence of solvent polarity and the photostability of the photocatalyst"

Megan Amy Bryden, Francis Millward, Oliver S. Lee, Lauren Cork, Malte C. Gather, Andreas Steffen, Eli Zysman-Colman - Chemical Science 15, 3741 (2024).

"Bay-substituted octaazaperopyrenedioxides as solid-state emitters for strong light-matter coupling"

Manuel Hertzog, Robert Eichelmann, Pierre Jeudy, Tobias Wesp, Joachim Ballmann, Simon Settele, Finn L. Sebastian, Andreas Mischok, Florian Le Roux, Francisco Tenopala-Carmona, Malte C. Gather, Lutz H. Gade, Jana Zaumseil - Journal of Materials Chemistry C 12, 2745 (2024).

"Evaluation of acenes as potential acceptors in thermally activated delayed fluorescence emitters and the promise of a phenoxazine-naphthalene emitter for OLEDs"

Oliver S. Lee, Nidhi Sharma, Tomas Matulaitis, Alexandra M. Z. Slawin, Yoann Olivier, Ifor D. W. Samuel, Malte C. Gather, Eli Zysman-Colman - Journal of Materials Chemistry C 12, 4273 (2024).

"Hyperspectral confocal imaging for high-throughput readout and analysis of bio-integrated microlasers"

Vera M. Titze, Soraya Caixeiro, San D. Vinh, Matthias König, Matthias Rübsam, Nachiket Pathak, Anna-Lena Schumacher, Maximilian Germer, Christian Kukat, Carien M. Niessen, Marcel Schubert, Malte C. Gather - Nature Protocols (2024).

"Revealing the Origin of Fast Delayed Fluorescence in a Donor Functionalized Bisterpyridine"

Felix D. Goll, Andreas Schelhorn, Dziugas Litvinas, Francisco Tenopala-Carmona, Lev Kazak, Fedor Jelezko, Christoph Lambert, Malte C. Gather, Alexander J. C.Kuehne, Ulrich Ziener - Chemistry - A European Journal 30, e202303067 (2024).

Orientation distributions of vacuum-deposited organic emitters revealed by single-molecule microscopy

Francisco Tenopala-Carmona, Dirk Hertel, Sabina Hillebrandt, Andreas Mischok, Arko Graf, Philipp Weitkamp, Klaus Meerholz, Malte C. Gather - Nature Communications 14, 6126 (2023).

Snapshot hyperspectral imaging of intracellular lasers

Soraya Caixeiro, Philip Wijesinghe, Kishan Dholakia, Malte C Gather - Optics Express 31, 33175 (2023).

Optogenetic stimulation probes with single-neuron resolution based on organic LEDs monolithically integrated on CMOS

Adriaan J. Taal, Ilke Uguz, Sabina Hillebrandt, Chang-Ki Moon, Victoria Andino-Pavlovsky, Jaebin Choi, Changmin Keum, Karl Deisseroth, Malte C. Gather, Kenneth L. Shepard - Nature Electronics 6, 669–679 (2023).

Optical mapping of Ground Reaction Force Dynamics in Freely Behaving Drosophila melanogaster larvae

Jonathan H Booth, Andrew T Meek, Nils M. Kronenberg, Stefan R Pulver, Malte C Gather - eLife 12, RP87746 (2023).

High Brightness, Highly Directional Organic Light-Emitting Diodes as Light Sources for Future Light-Amplifying Prosthetics in the Optogenetic Management of Vision Loss

Sabina Hillebrandt, Changmin Keum, Yali Deng, Joel Chavas, Charlie Galle, Thomas Hardin, Francesco Galluppi, Malte C Gather - Advanced Optical Materials 11, 2200877 (2023).

An Exciplex‐Based Light‐Emission Pathway for Solution‐State Electrochemiluminescent Devices

Chang-Ki Moon, Julian F. Butscher, Malte C. Gather - Advanced Materials 35, 2302544 (2023).

Local sensing of absolute refractive index during protein-binding using microlasers with spectral encoding

Soraya Caixeiro, Casper Kunstmann-Olsen, Marcel Schubert, Joseph Hill, Isla R. M. Barnard, Matthew D. Simmons, Steven Johnson, Malte C. Gather - Advanced Optical Materials 11, 2300530 (2023).

Highly efficient polaritonic light emitting diodes with angle-independent narrowband emission

Andreas Mischok, Sabina Hillebrandt, Seonil Kwon, Malte C. Gather - Nature Photonics 17, 393–400 (2023).

Mesogenic Groups Control the Emitter Orientation in Multi-Resonance TADF Emitter Films

Dongyang Chen, Francisco Tenopala-Carmona, Julius A. Knoeller, Andreas Mischok, David Hall, Subeesh Madayanad Suresh, Tomas Matulaitis, Yoann Olivier, Pierre Nacke, Frank Giesselmann, Sabine Laschat, Malte C. Gather, Eli Zysman-Colman - Angewandte Chemie International Edition 62, e202218911 (2023).

Efficient Anisotropic Polariton Lasing Using Molecular Conformation and Orientation in Organic Microcavities

Florian Le Roux, Andreas Mischok, Donal D. C. Bradley, Malte C Gather - Advanced Functional Materials 32, 2209241 (2022).

Influence of regioisomerism in bis(terpyridine) based exciplexes with delayed fluorescence

A. Lennart Schleper, Sabina Hillebrandt, Christoph Bannwarth, Andreas Mischok, Seonil Kwon, Florian Buchner, Francisco Tenopala-Carmona, R. Jurgen Behm, Felix D. Goll, Philipp J. Welscher, Michael Usselmann, Ulrich Ziener, Malte C. Gather, Alexander J. C. Kuehne - Journal of Materials Chemistry C 10, 7699-7706 (2022).

Red-Shifted Excitation and Two-Photon Pumping of Biointegrated GaInP/AlGaInP Quantum Well Microlasers

Vera M. Titze, Soraya Caixeiro, Andrea Di Falco, Marcel Schubert, Malte C. Gather - ACS Photonics 9, 952-960 (2022).

KIAA0319 influences cilia length, cell migration and mechanical cell–substrate interaction

Rebeca Diaz, Nils M. Kronenberg, Angela Martinelli, Philipp Liehm, Andrew C. Riches, Malte C. Gather, Silvia Paracchini - Scientific Reports 12, 722 (2022).

Identification of the Key Parameters for Horizontal Transition Dipole Orientation in Fluorescent and TADF Organic Light-Emitting Diodes

Francisco Tenopala-Carmona, Oliver S. Lee, Ettore Crovini, Ana M. Neferu, Caroline Murawski, Yoann Olivier, Eli Zysman-Colman, Malte C. Gather - Advanced Materials 33, 2100677 (2021).

Emerging Biomedical Applications of Organic Light-Emitting Diodes

Caroline Murawsk, Malte C. Gather - Advanced Optical Materials 9, 2100269 (2021).

Improving the Thermal Stability of Top‐Emitting Organic Light‐Emitting Diodes by Modification of the Anode Interface

Yali Deng, Chang-Min Keum, Sabina Hillebrandt, Caroline Murawski, Malte C. Gather - Advanced Optical Materials 9, 2001642 (2021).

Real-time imaging of cellular forces using optical interference

Andrew T. Meek, Nils M. Kronenberg, Andrew Morton, Philipp Liehm, Jan Murawski, Eleni Dalaka, Jonathan H. Booth, Simon J. Powis, Malte C. Gather - Nature Communications 12, 3552 (2021).

Cell Force-Driven Basement Membrane Disruption Fuels EGF- and Stiffness-Induced Invasive Cell Dissemination from Benign Breast Gland Acini

Aljona Gaiko-Shcherbak, Julian Eschenbruch, Nils M. Kronenberg, Michael Teske, Benjamin Wolters, Ronald Springer, Malte C. Gather, Rudolf Merkel, Bernd Hoffmann, Erik Noetzel - International Journal of Molecular Sciences 22, 3962 (2021).

Effective permittivity of co-evaporated metal-organic mixed films

Andreas Mischok, Nathan Hale, Malte C. Gather, Andrea Di Falco, Journal of Applied Physics 129, 083101 (2021).

Narrow Stimulated Resonance Raman Scattering and WGM Lasing in Small Conjugated Polymer Particles for Live Cell Tagging and Tracking

Bastian Haehnle, Markus Lamla, Konstantin M. J. Sparrer, Malte C. Gather, Alexander J. C. Kuehne - Advanced Optical Materials 9, 2001553 (2021).

Fast Delayed Emission in New Pyridazine-Based Compounds

Simonas Krotkus, Thomas Matulaitis, Stefan Diesing, Graeme Copley, Emily Archer, Chang-Min Keum, David B. Cordes, Alexandra M. Z. Slawin, Malte C. Gather, Eli Zysman-Colman, Ifor D. W. Samuel - Frontiers in Chemistry 8, 572862 (2021).

Accurate Efficiency Measurements of Organic Light‐Emitting Diodes via Angle‐Resolved Spectroscopy

Emily Archer, Sabina Hillebrandt, Chang-Min Keum, Caroline Murawski, Jan Murawski, Francisco Tenopala‐Carmona, Malte C. Gather - Advanced Optical Materials 9, 2000838 (2021).

A substrateless, flexible, and water-resistant organic light-emitting diode

Chang-Min Keum, Caroline Murawski, Emily Archer, Seonil Kwon, Andreas Mischok, Malte C. Gather - Nature Communications 11, 6250 (2020).

Segment-specific optogenetic stimulation in Drosophila melanogaster with linear arrays of organic light-emitting diodes

Caroline Murawski, Stefan R. Pulver, Malte C. Gather - Nature Communications 11, 6248 (2020).

Spectroscopic near-infrared photodetectors enabled by strong light–matter coupling in (6,5) single-walled carbon nanotubes

Andreas Mischok, Jan Lüttgens, Felix Berger, Sabina Hillebrandt, Francisco Tenopala-Carmona, Seonil Kwon, Caroline Murawski, Bernhard Siegmund, Jana Zaumseil, Malte C Gather - The Journal of Chemical Physics 153, 201104 (2020).

Willin/FRMD6 influences mechanical phenotype and neuronal differentiation in mammalian cells by regulating ERK1/2 activity

Nils M. Kronenberg, Andrew Tilston-Lunel, Frances E. Thompson, Kishan Dholakia, Malte C. Gather, Frank J. Gunn-Moore - Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience 14, 552213 (2020).

Organic Light‐Emitting Diodes Based on a Columnar Liquid‐Crystalline Perylene Emitter

Chang-Min Keum, David Becker, Emily Archer, Harald Bock, Heinz Kitzerow, Malte C. Gather, Caroline Murawski - Advanced Optical Materials 8, 200414 (2020).

Monitoring contractility in single cardiomyocytes and whole hearts with bio-integrated microlasers

Marcel Schubert, Lewis Woolfson, Isla RM Barnard, Andrew Morton, Becky Casement, Gavin B. Robertson, Gareth B Miles, Samantha J Pitt, Carl S Tucker, Malte C Gather - Nature Photonic 14, 452 (2020).

Cortical cell stiffness is independent of substrate mechanics

Johannes Rheinlaender, Andrea Dimitracopoulos, Bernhard Wallmeyer, Nils M. Kronenberg, Kevin J. Chalut, Malte C. Gather, Timo Betz, Guillaume Charras, Kristian Franze - Nature Materials 19, 1019 (2020).