By Associate Professor Santosh Shrestha

Book Chapters

Shrestha S; Conibeer G; Huang S, 2019, 'Solar Cells Based on Hot Carriers and Quantum Dots', in Gao F (ed.), Advanced Nanomaterials for Solar Cells and Light Emitting Diodes, Elsevier, pp. 175 - 213, https://www.elsevier.com/books/advanced-nanomaterials-for-solar-cells-and-light-emitting-diodes/gao/978-0-12-813647-8

Shrestha S; Conibeer G; Huang S, 2019, 'Chapter 6 Solar Cells Based on Hot Carriers and Quantum Dots', in Advanced Nanomaterials for Solar Cells and Light Emitting Diodes, Elsevier, pp. 175 - 213, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-12-813647-8.00006-0

Shrestha SK; Timmers H; Byrne AP; Hutchison WD; Chaplin DH; Dogra R, 'Implantation of the 111In/Cd Probe as InO− Ion for Radioisotope Tracer Studies', in HFI/NQI 2004, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 407 - 411, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/3-540-30924-1_66

Journal articles

Ho-Baillie AWY; Bremner S; Brenner C; Cairns IH; Granados-Caro L; Conibeer G; Curry J; Ekins-Daukes N; Griffin D; Leung TL; Mahmud MA; McKenzie D; Peracchi S; Shrestha S; Wilt D, 2024, 'Emerging photovoltaics for onboard space applications', Nature Reviews Materials, 9, pp. 759 - 761, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41578-024-00723-9

Pratik A; Patterson R; Conibeer G; Shrestha S, 2024, 'Structural, Optical and Phonon properties of hafnium oxynitride thin films synthesized using plasma-enhanced atomic layer deposition', Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 983, pp. 173925 - 173925, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jallcom.2024.173925

Conibeer G; Shrestha S; Huang S; Patterson R; Xia H; Feng Y; Zhang P; Gupta N; Smyth S; Liao Y; Lin S; Wang P; Dai X; Chung S, 2023, 'Hot Carrier solar cell absorbers: Slowed Carrier Cooling in MNW and Phononic band gap materials', , pp. 1113 - 1113, http://dx.doi.org/10.11470/jsapmeeting.2013.2.0_1113

Thapa B; Patterson RJ; Conibeer G; Shrestha S, 2022, 'Investigating Electronic, Optical, and Phononic Properties of Bulk γ-M2ON2and β-M7O8N4(M = Hf and Zr) Insulators Using Density Functional Theory', ACS Omega, 7, pp. 9196 - 9205, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsomega.1c05649

Hazra S; Gupta N; Conibeer G; Shrestha S; Kini RN, 2021, 'Effect of nanostructuring on picosecond acoustics in a Zr film', Physica Scripta, 96, http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1402-4896/ac30a3

Thapa B; Patterson R; Dubajic M; Conibeer G; Shrestha S, 2020, 'Hafnium and zirconium nitrides with rock-salt and Th3P4structures: Electronic and phonon band structure calculations to examine hot carrier solar cell and thermoelectric properties', Electronic Structure, 2, http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/2516-1075/ab8d18

Wang B; Patterson R; Chen W; Zhang Z; Yang J; Huang S; Shrestha S; Conibeer G, 2018, 'Ab initio calculation of electronic transport properties between PbSe quantum dots facets with halide ligands (Cl, Br, I)', Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, 57, http://dx.doi.org/10.7567/JJAP.57.08RF01

Chen ; Wen ; Yang ; Patterson ; Huang S; Shrestha ; Conibeer ; Latzel M ; Moss D ; Christiansen S , 2018, 'Free charges versus excitons: photoluminescence investigation of InGaN/GaN multiple quantum well nanorods to their planar counterpart', Nanoscale, 10, pp. 5358 - 5365

Chung S; Wen X; Huang S; Gupta N; Harada T; Kee TW; Conibeer G; Shrestha S, 2017, 'Corrigendum to “Nanosecond long excited state lifetimes observed in hafnium nitride” [Sol. Energy Mater. Sol. Cells 169 (2017) 13–18] (S0927024817302064) (10.1016/j.solmat.2017.04.037))', Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, 171, pp. 302, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.solmat.2017.05.054

Huang S; Cao W; Yuan L; Patterson R; Wen X; Tapping P; Kee T; Puthen-Veettil B; Zhang P; Zhang Z; Oiuyang Z; Reece P; Bremner S; Shrestha S; Conibeer G, 2017, 'Difference in hot carrier cooling rate between  Langmuir-Blodgett and drop cast PbS QDs films due to strong electron-phonon coupling', Nanoscale

Liao Y; Zhou D; Shrestha S; Huang S; Bremner S; Conibeer G, 2017, 'Interfacial Area between Hetero-Epitaxial γ-Al2O3 and Silicon', Advanced Materials Interfaces, 4, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/admi.201700259

Chung S; Wen X; Huang S; Gupta N; Conibeer G; Shrestha S; Harada T; Kee TW, 2017, 'Nanosecond long excited state lifetimes observed in hafnium nitride', Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, 169, pp. 13 - 18, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.solmat.2017.04.037

Wang P; Iles GN; Mole RA; Yu D; Wen X; Aguey-Zinsou KF; Shrestha S; Conibeer G, 2017, 'Hot carrier transfer processes in nonstoichiometric titanium hydride', Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, 56, http://dx.doi.org/10.7567/JJAP.56.08MA10

Shrestha S; Chung S; Liao Y; Wang P; Cao W; Wen X; Gupta N; Conibeer G, 2017, 'Potential of HfN, ZrN, and TiH as hot carrier absorber and Al2O3/Ge quantum well/Al2O3 and Al2O3/PbS quantum dots/Al2O3 as energy selective contacts', Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, 56, pp. 08ma03, http://dx.doi.org/10.7567/JJAP.56.08MA03

Liao Y; Zhang P; Bremner S; Shrestha S; Huang S; Conibeer G, 2017, 'Resonant Tunneling through Monolayer Si Colloidal Quantum Dots and Ge Nanocrystals', Advanced Functional Materials, 27, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/adfm.201605348

Xia H; Patterson R; Smyth S; Feng Y; Chung S; Zhang Y; Shrestha S; Huang S; Uchiyama H; Tsutsui S; Sugiyama M; Baron AQR; Conibeer G, 2017, 'Inelastic X-ray scattering measurements of III-V multiple quantum wells', Applied Physics Letters, 110, http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4974478

Yang J; Wen X; Xia H; Sheng R; Ma Q; Kim J; Tapping P; Harada T; Kee TW; Huang F; Cheng YB; Green M; Ho-Baillie A; Huang S; Shrestha S; Patterson R; Conibeer G, 2017, 'Acoustic-optical phonon up-conversion and hot-phonon bottleneck in lead-halide perovskites', Nature Communications, 8, pp. 14120, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14120

Conibeer G; Zhang Y; Bremner SP; Shrestha S, 2017, 'Towards an understanding of hot carrier cooling mechanisms in multiple quantum wells', Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, 56, http://dx.doi.org/10.7567/JJAP.56.091201

Chen W; Wen X; Latzel M; Heilmann M; Yang J; Dai X; Huang S; Shrestha S; Patterson R; Christiansen S; Conibeer G, 2016, 'Nanoscale characterization of carrier dynamic and surface passivation in InGaN/GaN multiple quantum wells on GaN nanorods', ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 8, pp. 31887 - 31893, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsami.6b11675

Gupta N; Veettill BP; Conibeer G; Shrestha S, 2016, 'Effect of substrate temperature and radio frequency power on compositional, structural and optical properties of amorphous germanium carbide films deposited using sputtering', Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids, 443, pp. 97 - 102, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jnoncrysol.2016.04.018

Xia H; Wen X; Feng Y; Patterson R; Chung S; Gupta N; Shrestha S; Conibeer G, 2016, 'Hot carrier dynamics in HfN and ZrN measured by transient absorption spectroscopy', Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, 150, pp. 51 - 56, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.solmat.2016.01.026

Lin S; Feng Y; Wen X; Harada T; Kee TW; Huang S; Shrestha S; Conibeer G, 2016, 'Observation of hot carriers existing in Ag2S nanoparticles and its implication on solar cell application', Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 120, pp. 10199 - 10205, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.6b02607

Yang J; Ge R; Zhang Z; Chen W; Wang B; Feng Y; Huang S; Shrestha S; Patterson R; Conibeer G, 2016, 'Theoretical investigation of carrier transfer by an optical contacting scheme for optoelectronic application', Journal of Applied Physics, 119, pp. 153102, http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4946847

Zhang Y; Tayebjee MJY; Smyth S; Dvořák M; Wen X; Xia H; Heilmann M; Liao Y; Zhang Z; Williamson T; Williams J; Bremner S; Shrestha S; Huang S; Schmidt TW; Conibeer GJ; Dvorak M, 2016, 'Extended hot carrier lifetimes observed in bulk In0.265±0.02Ga0.735N under high-density photoexcitation', Applied Physics Letters, 108, pp. 131904, http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4945594

Wang B; Xia H; Zhang Z; Yang J; Patterson R; Huang S; Shrestha S; Conibeer G, 2016, 'Ab initio calculation of halide ligand passivation on PbSe quantum dot facets', RSC Advances, 6, pp. 104699 - 104707, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c6ra21668d

Chung S; Shrestha S; Wen X; Feng Y; Gupta N; Xia H; Yu P; Tang J; Conibeer G, 2016, 'Hafnium nitride for hot carrier solar cells', Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, 144, pp. 781 - 786, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.solmat.2014.10.011

Smyth T; Dvorak M; Tayebjee MJY; Yasarapudi VB; Xia H; Feng Y; Wang Y; Puthen-Veettil B; Huang S; Shrestha S; Bremner SP; Schmidt TW; Sugiyama M; Conibeer GJ, 2016, 'Hot carrier cooling in In0.17Ga0.83As/GaAs0.80P0.20 multiple quantum wells: The effect of barrier thickness', IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics, 6, pp. 166 - 171, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/JPHOTOV.2015.2480222

Cao W; Zhang Z; Patterson R; Lin Y; Wen X; Veetil BP; Zhang P; Zhang Q; Shrestha S; Conibeer G; Huang S, 2016, 'Quantification of hot carrier thermalization in PbS colloidal quantum dots by power and temperature dependent photoluminescence spectroscopy', RSC Advances, 6, pp. 90846 - 90855, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c6ra20165b

Liao Y; Huang S; Shrestha S; Conibeer G, 2015, 'Dynamics of metal-induced crystallization of ultrathin Ge films by rapid thermal annealing', Applied Physics Letters, 107, http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4937270

Feng Y; Xia H; Shrestha S; Conibeer G, 2015, 'Simplified tight-binding model for conductance calculation with phonon scattering for atomic junctions', Physica E: Low-Dimensional Systems and Nanostructures, 74, pp. 625 - 629, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physe.2015.08.026

Zhang Z; Yang J; Wen X; Yuan L; Shrestha S; Stride JA; Conibeer GJ; Patterson RJ; Huang S, 2015, 'Effect of Halide Treatments on PbSe Quantum Dot Thin Films: Stability, Hot Carrier Lifetime, and Application to Photovoltaics', Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 119, pp. 24149 - 24155, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.5b08021

Gupta N; Veettil BP; Xia H; Karuturi SK; Conibeer G; Shrestha S, 2015, 'Synthesis of nano-crystalline germanium carbide using radio frequency magnetron sputtering', Thin Solid Films, 592, pp. 162 - 166, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tsf.2015.09.014

Wen X; Zhang P; Smith TA; Anthony RJ; Kortshagen UR; Yu P; Feng Y; Shrestha S; Coniber G; Huang S; Conibeer G, 2015, 'Tunability Limit of Photoluminescence in Colloidal Silicon Nanocrystals', Scientific Reports, 5, pp. 12469, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep12469

Yang J; Patterson R; Feng Y; Shrestha S; Huang S; Conibeer G, 2015, 'Investigation of the Working Principle in an Optically Coupled Hot-Carrier Solar Cell Using the Relaxation-Time Model', Physical Review Applied, 3, http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevApplied.3.044006

Feng Y; Lin S; Huang S; Shrestha S; Conibeer G, 2015, 'Can Tauc plot extrapolation be used for direct-band-gap semiconductor nanocrystals?', Journal of Applied Physics, 117, http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4916090

Liao YX; Shrestha S; Huang SJ; Conibeer G, 2015, 'Hetero-epitaxial Γ-Al2O3 on Si (100) substrate by sputtering', Materials Letters, 141, pp. 20 - 22, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.matlet.2014.11.020

Niu W; Li X; Karuturi SK; Fam DW; Fan H; Shrestha S; Wong LH; Tok AIY, 2015, 'Applications of atomic layer deposition in solar cells', Nanotechnology, 26, http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0957-4484/26/6/064001

Conibeer G; Shrestha S; Huang S; Patterson R; Xia H; Feng Y; Zhang P; Gupta N; Tayebjee M; Smyth S; Liao Y; Lin S; Wang P; Dai X; Chung S, 2015, 'Hot carrier solar cell absorber prerequisites and candidate material systems', Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, 135, pp. 124 - 129, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.solmat.2014.11.015

Hameiri Z; Shrestha S, 2015, 'Photovoltaics literature survey (No. 115)', Progress in Photovoltaics: Research and Applications, 23, pp. 131 - 134, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/pip.2584

Zhang Y; Wen X; Feng Y; Smyth T; Huang S; Shrestha S; Conibeer G, 2015, 'Study on the Ultrafast Carrier Dynamics in the Bulk In0.265GaN Thin Film', Energy Procedia, 84, pp. 165 - 175, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.egypro.2015.12.310

Lin S; Feng Y; Wen X; Zhang P; Woo S; Shrestha S; Conibeer G; Huang S, 2015, 'Theoretical and experimental investigation of the electronic structure and quantum confinement of wet-chemistry synthesized Ag2S nanocrystals', Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 119, pp. 867 - 872, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/jp511054g

Shrestha S; Hameiri Z, 2014, 'Photovoltaics literature survey (No. 114)', Progress in Photovoltaics: Research and Applications, 22, pp. 1316 - 1320, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/pip.2575

Feng Y; Shrestha S; Huang S; Conibeer G, 2014, 'Thermodynamic efficiency limits for optically boosted planar solar cells', Physical Review Applied, 2, http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevApplied.2.044010

Xia H; Patterson R; Feng Y; Shrestha S; Conibeer G, 2014, 'Net electron-phonon scattering rates in InN/GaN multiple quantum wells: The effects of an energy dependent acoustic deformation potential', Applied Physics Letters, 105, http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4893158

Wen X; Yu P; Toh YR; Lee YC; Huang KY; Huang S; Shrestha S; Conibeer G; Tang J, 2014, 'Ultrafast electron transfer in the nanocomposite of the graphene oxide-Au nanocluster with graphene oxide as a donor', Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 2, pp. 3826 - 3834, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c3tc32376e

Yu P; wen X; toh Y-R; Lee Y-C; Huang K-Y; Huang S; shrestha S; Conibeer G; Tang J, 2014, 'Efficient Electron Transfer in Carbon Nanodot-Graphene Oxide Nanocomposites', Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 2014, pp. 2894 - 2901, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C3TC32395A

Zhang B; Xiang Y; Shrestha S; Green M; Conibeer G, 2014, 'Growth mechanism and surface structure of ge nanocrystals prepared by thermal annealing of cosputtered gesio ternary precursor', Journal of Nanomaterials, 2014, http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/161637

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