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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

Liu X; Feng Y; Cui H; Liu F; Hao X; Conibeer G; Mitzi DB; Green M, 2016, 'The current status and future prospects of kesterite solar cells: A brief review', Progress in Photovoltaics: Research and Applications, 24, pp. 879 - 898, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/pip.2741

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

Zhang T; Simonds B; Nomoto K; Puthen Veettil B; Lin Z; Perez Wurfl I; Conibeer G; Perez-Wurfl I; Zhang T, 2016, 'Pulsed KrF excimer laser dopant activation in nanocrystal silicon in a silicon dioxide matrix', Applied Physics Letters, 108, pp. 083103, http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4942466

Wu L; Puthen-Veettil B; Nomoto K; Hao X; Jia X; Lin Z; Yang TC; Zhang T; Gutsch S; Conibeer G; Perez-Wurfl I, 2016, 'Temperature dependent electroluminescence from all-Si-nanocrystal p-i-n diodes grown on dielectric substrates', Journal of Applied Physics, 119, http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4941695

Wright M; Lin R; Tayebjee MJY; Veettil BP; Jiang Y; Liang X; Uddin A; Conibeer G, 2016, 'Effect of blend composition on ternary blend organic solar cells using a low band gap polymer', Synthetic Metals, 212, pp. 142 - 153, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.synthmet.2015.12.017

Zhang P; Feng Y; Wen X; Cao W; Anthony R; Kortshagen U; Conibeer G; Huang S, 2016, 'Generation of hot carrier population in colloidal silicon quantum dots for high-efficiency photovoltaics', Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, 145, pp. 391 - 396, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.solmat.2015.11.002

Gordon I; Conibeer G; Krc J; Slaoui A; Niki S, 2016, 'Proceedings of the 2015 E-MRS Spring Meeting Symposium C - Advanced Inorganic Materials and Structures for Photovoltaics', Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, 145, pp. 83, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.solmat.2015.11.011

Tayebjee MJY; Schwarz KN; MacQueen RW; Dvořák M; Lam AWC; Ghiggino KP; McCamey DR; Schmidt TW; Conibeer GJ; Dvorak M, 2016, 'Morphological Evolution and Singlet Fission in Aqueous Suspensions of TIPS-Pentacene Nanoparticles', Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 120, pp. 157 - 165, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.5b11353

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 P; Feng Y; Anthony R; Kortshagen U; Conibeer G; Huang S, 2015, 'Size-dependent evolution of phonon confinement in colloidal Si nanoparticles', Journal of Raman Spectroscopy, 46, pp. 1110 - 1116, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jrs.4727

Zhang T; Puthen-Veettil B; Wu L; Jia X; Lin Z; Yang TCJ; Conibeer G; Perez-Wurfl I; Zhang T, 2015, 'Determination of active doping in highly resistive boron doped silicon nanocrystals embedded in SiO2 by capacitance voltage measurement on inverted metal oxide semiconductor structure', Journal of Applied Physics, 118, pp. 154305, http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4933288

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

Liu X; Huang Y; Yun J; Wen X; Lu Z; Zhang T; Cui H; Li W; Lee CY; Xu S; Hao X; Conibeer G, 2015, 'Characterization of a Cu2ZnSnS4 solar cell fabricated by sulfurization of metallic precursor Mo/Zn/Cu/Sn', Physica Status Solidi (A) Applications and Materials Science, 212, pp. 2074 - 2079, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/pssa.201431942

Yuan L; Patterson R; Cao W; Zhang Z; Zhang Z; Stride JA; Reece P; Conibeer G; Huang S, 2015, 'Air-stable PbS quantum dots synthesized with slow reaction kinetics via a PbBr2 precursor', RSC Advances, 5, pp. 68579 - 68586, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c5ra13499d

Lin Z; Wu L; Jia X; Zhang T; Puthen-Veettil B; Yang TCJ; Conibeer G; Perez-Wurfl I; Zhang T, 2015, 'Boron doped Si rich oxide/SiO2 and silicon rich nitride/SiNx bilayers on molybdenum-fused silica substrates for vertically structured Si quantum dot solar cells', Journal of Applied Physics, 118, pp. 045303, http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4927514

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

Liu X; Cui H; Kong C; Hao X; Huang Y; Liu F; Song N; Conibeer G; Green M, 2015, 'Rapid thermal annealed Molybdenum back contact for Cu2ZnSnS4 thin film solar cells', Applied Physics Letters, 106, http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4916994

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

Jia X; Wu L; Lin Z; Zhang T; Yang TCJ; Xia H; Puthen-Veettil B; Conibeer G; Perez-Wurfl I, 2015, 'Characterization and simulation of optical absorption in Si nanocrystals', Physica Status Solidi (C) Current Topics in Solid State Physics, 12, pp. 271 - 274, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/pssc.201400089

Almansouri I; Bremner S; Ho-Baillie A; Mehrvarz H; Hao X; Conibeer G; Grassman TJ; Carlin JA; Haas A; Ringel SA; Green MA, 2015, 'Designing bottom silicon solar cells for multijunction devices', IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics, 5, pp. 683 - 690, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/JPHOTOV.2014.2381875

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

Jia X; Zhang P; Lin Z; Anthony R; Kortshagen U; Huang S; Puthen-Veettil B; Conibeer G; Perez-Wurfl I, 2015, 'Accurate determination of the size distribution of Si nanocrystals from PL spectra', RSC Advances, 5, pp. 55119 - 55125, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c5ra02805a

Iandolo B; Zhang H; Wickman B; Zorić I; Conibeer G; Hellman A, 2015, 'Correlating flat band and onset potentials for solar water splitting on model hematite photoanodes', RSC Advances, 5, pp. 61021 - 61030, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c5ra10215d

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

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

Liu X; Cui H; Li W; Song N; Liu F; Conibeer G; Hao X, 2014, 'Improving Cu2ZnSnS4 (CZTS) solar cell performance by an ultrathin ZnO intermediate layer between CZTS absorber and Mo back contact', Physica Status Solidi - Rapid Research Letters, 8, pp. 966 - 970, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/pssr.201409052

Puthen Veettil B; Wu L; Jia X; Lin Z; Zhang T; Yang T; Johnson C; McCamey D; Conibeer G; Perez-Würfl I; Perez-Wurfl I; Zhang T, 2014, 'Passivation effects in B doped self-assembled Si nanocrystals', Applied Physics Letters, 105, pp. 222108, http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4903776

Puthen-Veettil B; Patterson R; König D; Conibeer G; Green MA, 2014, 'The impact of disorder on charge transport in three dimensional quantum dot resonant tunneling structures', Journal of Applied Physics, 116, http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4899207

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

Yang TCJ; Kauffmann Y; Wu L; Lin Z; Jia X; Puthen-Veettil B; Zhang T; Conibeer G; Perez-Wurfl I; Rothschild A, 2014, 'In-situ high resolution transmission electron microscopy observation of silicon nanocrystal nucleation in a SiO2 bilayered matrix', Applied Physics Letters, 105, http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4892658

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

Veettil BP; König D; Patterson R; Smyth S; Conibeer G, 2014, 'Electronic confinement in modulation doped quantum dots', Applied Physics Letters, 104, http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4871576

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

Lee S; Huang S; Conibeer G; Green M, 2014, 'In-situ fabrication and characterization of ordered Ge QDs in Si 3 N 4 matrix without barrier layers by rf-magnetron sputtering', Applied Surface Science, 290, pp. 167 - 171, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apsusc.2013.11.026

Mahboubi Soufiani A, 2014, 'The Semi-Empirical Limiting Efficiency of Singlet Fission Capable Polyacene/Inorganic Hybrid Solar Cells', The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 118, pp. 2298 - 2305, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/jp4101637

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

Johnson CM; Woo S; Conibeer GJ, 2014, 'Limiting efficiency of erbium-based up-conversion for generalized realistic c-Si solar cells', IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics, 4, pp. 799 - 806, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/JPHOTOV.2014.2303645

Wu L; Zhang T; Lin Z; Jia X; Puthen-Veettil B; Chien-Jen Yang T; Xia H; Conibeer G; Perez-Wurfl I, 2014, 'Silicon nanocrystal photovoltaic device fabricated via photolithography and its current-voltage temperature dependence', Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, 128, pp. 435 - 440, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.solmat.2014.06.007


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