By Dr Phoebe Pearce

Book Chapters

Cleveland ER; Kotulak N; Tomasulo S; Jenkins PP; Mellor A; Pearce P; Ekins-Daukes NJ; Yakes MK, 2022, 'Interstitial Light Trapping and Optical Confinement in Multijunction Solar Cells', in NATO Science for Peace and Security Series B: Physics and Biophysics, pp. 311 - 313, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-2138-5_32

Journal articles

Harrison JA; Pearce PM; Yang F; Nielsen MP; Brindley HE; Ekins-Daukes NJ, 2024, 'Evaluating potential power output of terrestrial thermoradiative diodes with atmospheric modeling', iScience, 27, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2024.111346

Nielsen MP; Pusch A; Pearce PM; Sazzad MH; Reece PJ; Green MA; Ekins-Daukes NJ, 2024, 'Semiconductor thermoradiative power conversion', Nature Photonics, 18, pp. 1137 - 1146, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41566-024-01537-5

Pearce PM; Ong SW; Johnson AD; Tok ES; Ekins-Daukes NJ, 2024, 'Compositional dependence of direct transition energies in SixGe1−x−ySny alloys lattice-matched to Ge/GaAs', Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology B, 42, http://dx.doi.org/10.1116/6.0003737

Pearce PM; Halme J; Jiang JY; Ekins-Daukes NJ, 2024, 'Efficiency limits and design principles for multi-junction coloured photovoltaics', Energy and Environmental Science, 17, pp. 1189 - 1201, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/d3ee03337f

Nielsen MP; Pusch A; Sazzad MH; Pearce PM; Reece PJ; Ekins-Daukes NJ, 2022, 'Thermoradiative Power Conversion from HgCdTe Photodiodes and Their Current−Voltage Characteristics', ACS Photonics, 9, pp. 1535 - 1540, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsphotonics.2c00223

Pearce PM; Abad EC; Hirst LC, 2022, 'Designing transparent nanophotonic gratings for ultra-thin solar cells', Optics Express, 30, pp. 4528 - 4542, http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OE.446570

Pearce PM; Broderick CA; Nielsen MP; Johnson AD; Ekins-Daukes NJ, 2022, 'Electronic and optical properties of SixGe1-x-ySny alloys lattice-matched to Ge', Physical Review Materials, 6, http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.6.015402

Sayre L; Camarillo Abad E; Pearce P; Chausse P; Coulon PM; Shields P; Johnson A; Hirst LC, 2022, 'Ultra-thin GaAs solar cells with nanophotonic metal-dielectric diffraction gratings fabricated with displacement Talbot lithography', Progress in Photovoltaics: Research and Applications, 30, pp. 96 - 108, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/pip.3463

Pearce P, 2021, 'RayFlare: flexible optical modelling of solar cells', Journal of Open Source Software, 6, pp. 3460 - 3460, http://dx.doi.org/10.21105/joss.03460

Alonso-Álvarez D; Augusto A; Pearce P; Llin LF; Mellor A; Bowden S; Paul DJ; Ekins-Daukes N, 2019, 'Thermal emissivity of silicon heterojunction solar cells', Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, 201, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.solmat.2019.110051

Pusch A; Pearce P; Ekins-Daukes NJ, 2019, 'Analytical Expressions for the Efficiency Limits of Radiatively Coupled Tandem Solar Cells', IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics, 9, pp. 679 - 687, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/JPHOTOV.2019.2903180

Jiang Y; Keevers MJ; Pearce P; Ekins-Daukes N; Green MA, 2019, 'Design of an intermediate Bragg reflector within triple-junction solar cells for spectrum splitting applications', Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, 193, pp. 259 - 269, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.solmat.2019.01.011

Pearce P; Mellor A; Ekins-Daukes N, 2019, 'The importance of accurate determination of optical constants for the design of nanometallic light-trapping structures', Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, 191, pp. 133 - 140, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.solmat.2018.11.008

Wilson T; Hylton NP; Harada Y; Pearce P; Alonso-Álvarez D; Mellor A; Richards RD; David JPR; Ekins-Daukes NJ, 2018, 'Assessing the Nature of the Distribution of Localised States in Bulk GaAsBi', Scientific Reports, 8, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-24696-2

Alonso-Álvarez D; Wilson T; Pearce P; Führer M; Farrell D; Ekins-Daukes N, 2018, 'Solcore: a multi-scale, Python-based library for modelling solar cells and semiconductor materials', Journal of Computational Electronics, 17, pp. 1099 - 1123, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10825-018-1171-3

Pearce P; Slade R, 2018, 'Feed-in tariffs for solar microgeneration: Policy evaluation and capacity projections using a realistic agent-based model', Energy Policy, 116, pp. 95 - 111, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2018.01.060

Barker AJ; Sadhanala A; Deschler F; Gandini M; Senanayak SP; Pearce PM; Mosconi E; Pearson AJ; Wu Y; Srimath Kandada AR; Leijtens T; De Angelis F; Dutton SE; Petrozza A; Friend RH, 2017, 'Defect-Assisted Photoinduced Halide Segregation in Mixed-Halide Perovskite Thin Films', ACS Energy Letters, 2, pp. 1416 - 1424, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsenergylett.7b00282

Sadhanala A; Ahmad S; Zhao B; Giesbrecht N; Pearce PM; Deschler F; Hoye RLZ; Gödel KC; Bein T; Docampo P; Dutton SE; De Volder MFL; Friend RH, 2015, 'Blue-Green Color Tunable Solution Processable Organolead Chloride-Bromide Mixed Halide Perovskites for Optoelectronic Applications', Nano Letters, 15, pp. 6095 - 6101, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.5b02369

Silverberg GJ; Pearce P; Vecitis CD, 2015, 'Controlling self-assembly of reduced graphene oxide at the air-water interface: Quantitative evidence for long-range attractive and many-body interactions', ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 7, pp. 3807 - 3815, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/am5087984

Van Hattem B; Corfdir P; Brereton P; Pearce P; Graham AM; Stanley MJ; Hugues M; Hopkinson M; Phillips RT, 2013, 'Photoluminescence in tilted magnetic field of triply negatively charged excitons hybridized with a continuum', Acta Physica Polonica A, 124, pp. 798 - 800, http://dx.doi.org/10.12693/APhysPolA.124.798

Van Hattem B; Corfdir P; Brereton P; Pearce P; Graham AM; Stanley MJ; Hugues M; Hopkinson M; Phillips RT, 2013, 'From the artificial atom to the Kondo-Anderson model: Orientation-dependent magnetophotoluminescence of charged excitons in InAs quantum dots', Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics, 87, http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.87.205308

Conference Papers

Pearce PM; Ekins-Daukes NJ, 2024, 'Efficiency Limits of Silicon Solar Cells with Organic Singlet Fission Layers', in 2024 IEEE 52nd Photovoltaic Specialist Conference (PVSC), IEEE, pp. 1191 - 1193, presented at 2024 IEEE 52nd Photovoltaic Specialist Conference (PVSC), 09 June 2024 - 14 June 2024, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/pvsc57443.2024.10749263

Harrison J; Pearce P; Ekins-Daukes NJ, 2024, 'Optimized Bragg Reflectors for GaAs Subcell in InGaP/GaAs/Ge Triple-Junctions', in 2024 IEEE 52nd Photovoltaic Specialist Conference (PVSC), IEEE, pp. 1449 - 1451, presented at 2024 IEEE 52nd Photovoltaic Specialist Conference (PVSC), 09 June 2024 - 14 June 2024, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/pvsc57443.2024.10749046

Schmidt TW; Tayebjee MJY; Nielsen MP; McCamey DR; Ekins-Daukes N; Baldacchino A; Mo A; Brett MW; Pearce PM; Ciesla AM; Chang NL; Hoex B; Beves JE; Jiang Y; McNab S; Carwithen BP; de Clercq DM; Tong J, 2024, 'Singlet fission solar cells', in Freundlich A; Hinzer K; Collin S; Sellers IR (eds.), Physics, Simulation, and Photonic Engineering of Photovoltaic Devices XIII, SPIE, pp. 2 - 2, presented at Physics, Simulation, and Photonic Engineering of Photovoltaic Devices XIII, 27 January 2024 - 01 February 2024, http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.3003348

Harrison J; Pearce P; Yang F; Nielsen M; Brindley H; Ekins-Daukes NJ, 2024, 'Evaluating Power Output of Terrestrial Thermoradiative Diodes with Atmospheric Modelling', in Conference Record of the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, pp. 1366 - 1369, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/PVSC57443.2024.10748806

Nielsen MP; Sazzad MH; Pusch A; Pearce PM; Reece PJ; Ekins-Daukes NJ, 2023, 'A direct comparison between thermoradiative and thermophotovoltaic operation of HgCdTe photodiodes', in Munday JN; Bermel P (ed.), New Concepts in Solar and Thermal Radiation Conversion V, SPIE, pp. 15 - 15, presented at New Concepts in Solar and Thermal Radiation Conversion V, 20 August 2023 - 25 August 2023, http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.2677744

Schmidt TW; Ekins-Daukes NJ; Tayebjee M; Nielsen MP; McCamey DR; Jiang JY; Hoex B; Ciesla A; Pearce PM; Chang N; Beves JE, 2023, 'Organic multiple exciton generation and silicon (OMEGA Si)', in Munday JN; Bermel P (ed.), New Concepts in Solar and Thermal Radiation Conversion V, SPIE, pp. 8 - 8, presented at New Concepts in Solar and Thermal Radiation Conversion V, 20 August 2023 - 25 August 2023, http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.2677760

Nielsen MP; Sazzad MH; Pusch A; Pearce PM; Reece PJ; Ekins-Daukes NJ, 2023, 'A Direct Comparison of Thermoradiative and Thermophotovoltaic Operation of HgCdTe Photodiodes', in 2023 IEEE 50th Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC), IEEE, pp. 1 - 1, presented at 2023 IEEE 50th Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC), 11 June 2023 - 16 June 2023, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/pvsc48320.2023.10359604

Pearce PM; Halme J; Jiang JY; Elsehrawy F; Ekins-Daukes NJ, 2023, 'Efficiency Limits for Multi-Junction Coloured Photovoltaics', in Conference Record of the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/PVSC48320.2023.10360038

Ekins-Daukes NJ; Nielsen MP; Pusch A; Sazzad MH; Pearce PM; Reece PJ, 2022, 'Demonstrating the Thermoradiative Diode: Generating Electrical Power Through Radiative Emission', in 2022 IEEE 49th Photovoltaics Specialists Conference (PVSC), IEEE, pp. 0959 - 0959, presented at 2022 IEEE 49th Photovoltaics Specialists Conference (PVSC), 05 June 2022 - 10 June 2022, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/pvsc48317.2022.9938647

Nielsen MP; Pusch A; Sazzad MH; Pearce PM; Reece PJ; Ekins-Daukes NJ, 2022, 'Demonstrating the thermoradiative diode: Generating electrical power through radiative emission', in Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.2631707

Camarillo Abad E; Sayre L; Pearce P; Joyce H; Hirst L, 2021, 'The optimal scattering structures for light-trapping in ultra-thin photovoltaic devices', in Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.2583411

Sayre L; Camarillo Abad E; Pearce P; Chausse P; Coulon PM; Shields P; Hirst L, 2021, 'Ultra-thin photovoltaics for radiation-tolerant space power systems', in Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.2583519

Sayre L; Lang F; Bundesmann J; Denker A; Pearce P; Johnson A; Hirst L, 2020, 'Ultra-thin Single-junction GaAs Solar Cells for Extreme Space Environments', in Conference Record of the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, pp. 1621 - 1625, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/PVSC45281.2020.9300596

Pearce P; Sayre L; Johnson A; Hirst L; Ekins-Daukes N, 2020, 'Design of photonic light-trapping structures for ultra-thin solar cells', in Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.2550136

Cleveland ER; Kotulak N; Tomasulo S; Jenkins PP; Mellor A; Pearce P; Ekins-Daukes NJ; Yakes MK, 2019, 'Interstitial Light Trapping and Optical Confinement in Multijunction Solar Cells', in Conference Record of the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, pp. 2826 - 2828, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/PVSC40753.2019.8980921

Pearce P; Ekins-Daukes N, 2019, 'Open-source integrated optical modelling with RayFlare', in Conference Record of the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, pp. 2627 - 2633, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/PVSC40753.2019.8980868

Cleveland ER; Hirst LC; Brittman S; Tomasulo S; Bennett MF; Mellor AV; Pearce P; Jenkins PP; Walters RJ; Ekins-Daukes NJ; Yakes MK, 2018, 'Enhanced Optical Absorption in an Ultra-thin Textured Solar Cell Using Nanosphere Natural Photolithography', in 2018 IEEE 7th World Conference on Photovoltaic Energy Conversion, WCPEC 2018 - A Joint Conference of 45th IEEE PVSC, 28th PVSEC and 34th EU PVSEC, pp. 2878 - 2881, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/PVSC.2018.8547893

Pearce P; Mellor A; Ekins-Daukes N, 2018, 'Quantifying Parasitic Losses from Metal Scattering Structures in Solar Cells: How Uncertainty in Optical Constants Affects Simulation Results', in 2018 IEEE 7th World Conference on Photovoltaic Energy Conversion, WCPEC 2018 - A Joint Conference of 45th IEEE PVSC, 28th PVSEC and 34th EU PVSEC, pp. 2918 - 2923, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/PVSC.2018.8548090

Pearce P; Wilson T; Johnson A; Ekins-Daukes N, 2018, 'Characterization of SiGeSn for Use as a 1 eV Sub-Cell in Multi-Junction Solar Cells', in 2018 IEEE 7TH WORLD CONFERENCE ON PHOTOVOLTAIC ENERGY CONVERSION (WCPEC) (A JOINT CONFERENCE OF 45TH IEEE PVSC, 28TH PVSEC & 34TH EU PVSEC), IEEE, HI, Waikoloa, pp. 0943 - 0948, presented at 7th IEEE World Conference on Photovoltaic Energy Conversion (WCPEC) / A Joint Conference of 45th IEEE PVSC / 28th PVSEC / 34th EU PVSEC, HI, Waikoloa, 10 June 2018 - 15 June 2018, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000469200400215&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Preprints

Pearce PM; Ong SW; Johnson AD; Tok ES; Ekins-Daukes NJ, 2022, Compositional dependence of direct transition energies in Si$_x$Ge$_{1-x-y}$Sn$_y$ alloys lattice-matched to Ge/GaAs, http://arxiv.org/abs/2203.08605v1

Pearce PM; Broderick CA; Nielsen MP; Johnson AD; Ekins-Daukes NJ, 2021, Electronic and optical properties of Si$_{x}$Ge$_{1-x-y}$Sn$_{y}$ alloys lattice-matched to Ge, http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.6.015402

Alonso-Álvarez D; Wilson T; Pearce P; Führer M; Farrell D; Ekins-Daukes N, 2017, Solcore: A multi-scale, python-based library for modelling solar cells and semiconductor materials, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10825-018-1171-3

Van Hattem B; Corfdir P; Brereton P; Pearce P; Graham AM; Stanley MJ; Hugues M; Hopkinson M; Phillips RT, 2013, From the artificial atom to the Kondo-Anderson model: orientation dependent magneto-photoluminescence of charged excitons in InAs quantum dots, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1302.6512

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