Select Publications
Journal articles
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
,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
,2015, 'Characterization of a Cu
2015, 'Air-stable PbS quantum dots synthesized with slow reaction kinetics via a PbBr
2015, 'Boron doped Si rich oxide/SiO
2015, 'Tunability Limit of Photoluminescence in Colloidal Silicon Nanocrystals', Scientific Reports, 5, pp. 12469, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep12469
,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
,2015, 'Rapid thermal annealed Molybdenum back contact for Cu
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
,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
,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
,2015, 'Hetero-epitaxial Γ-Al
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
,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
,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
,2015, 'Study on the Ultrafast Carrier Dynamics in the Bulk In
2015, 'Theoretical and experimental investigation of the electronic structure and quantum confinement of wet-chemistry synthesized Ag
2014, 'Improving Cu
2014, 'Passivation effects in B doped self-assembled Si nanocrystals', Applied Physics Letters, 105, pp. 222108, http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4903776
,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
,2014, 'Thermodynamic efficiency limits for optically boosted planar solar cells', Physical Review Applied, 2, http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevApplied.2.044010
,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
,2014, 'In-situ high resolution transmission electron microscopy observation of silicon nanocrystal nucleation in a SiO
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
,2014, 'Electronic confinement in modulation doped quantum dots', Applied Physics Letters, 104, http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4871576
,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
,2014, 'In-situ fabrication and characterization of ordered Ge QDs in Si
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
,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
,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
,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
,2014, 'Study of phonons in self-assembled InAs quantum dots embedded in an InGaAlAs matrix', Physica E: Low-Dimensional Systems and Nanostructures, 57, pp. 1 - 5, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physe.2013.10.023
,2014, 'Hot Carrier Solar Cells: Toward the fabrication of practical absorbers', International Journal of Nanotechnology, http://www.inderscience.com/jhome.php?jcode=ijnt
,2013, 'Lateral growth of Ge nanocrystals in a thin Ge-rich silicon nitride layer', Journal of Crystal Growth, 383, pp. 36 - 42, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jcrysgro.2013.08.012
,2013, 'Investigation in feasibility of Molybdenum as a back contact layer for Silicon based quantum dot solar cells', Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, 8620, http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.2003504
,2013, 'Improved nanocrystal formation, quantum confinement and carrier transport properties of doped Si quantum dot superlattices for third generation photovoltaics.', Progress in Photovoltaics: Research and Applications, 21, pp. 569 - 577, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/pip.1230
,2013, 'Effect of static carrier screening on the energy relaxation of electrons in polar-semiconductor multiple-quantum-well superlattices', Journal of Applied Physics, 113, pp. 024317, http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4774327
,2013, 'In-situ fabrication and characterization of ordered Ge QDs in SiN matrix without barrier layers by rf-magnetron sputtering', Applied Surface Science, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apsusc.2013.11.026
,2013, 'Investigation of carier-carrier scattering effect on the performance of hot carrier solar cells with relaxation time approximation', Applied Physics Letters, 102, pp. 243901
,2013, 'Three-dimensional imaging for precise structural control of Si quantum dot networks for all-Si solar cells', Nanoscale, 5, pp. 7499 - 7504, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c3nr01998e
,2012, 'RF magnetron sputtered molybdenum back contact for Cu
2012, 'Doping of Silicon Quantum Dots Embedded in Nitride Matrix for All-Silicon Tandem Cells', Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, 51, pp. 10NE10 - 10NE10, http://dx.doi.org/10.7567/jjap.51.10ne10
,2012, 'Lattice-Matched Hot Carrier Solar Cell with Energy Selectivity Integrated into Hot Carrier Absorber', Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, 51, pp. 10ND02 - 10ND02, http://dx.doi.org/10.7567/jjap.51.10nd02
,2012, 'Doping of Silicon Quantum Dots Embedded in Nitride Matrix for All-silicon tandem cells', Japanese Journal of Applied Phys., url:%20http://jjap.jsap.jp/link?JJAP/51/10NE10/
,2012, 'Lattice-Matched Hot Carrier Solar cell with Energy Selectivity Integratd into Hot Carrier Absorber', Japanese Journal of Applied Physics Part 1 - Regular Papers Brief Communications and Review Papers, 51, pp. 10ND02 - 1 - 10ND02 - 4, http://jjap.jsap.jp/link?JJAP/51/10ND02/
,2012, 'Non-ideal energy selective contacts and their effect on the performance of a hot carrier solar cell with an indium nitride absorber', Applied Physics Letters, 100, pp. 053502, http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3680594
,2012, 'Si and other group IV quantum dot based materials for tandem solar cells', Energy Procedia, 15, pp. 200 - 205, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.egypro.2012.02.023
,2012, 'Si solid-state quantum dot-based materials for tandem solar cells', Nanoscale research letters, 7, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1556-276X-7-193
,2012, 'Sputter-grown Si quantum dot nanostructures for tandem solar cells', J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 46 024003, 46, pp. 024003, http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0022-3727/46/2/024003
,2012, 'Study of Photo-cathode Materials for Tandem Photoelectrochemical Cell for Direct Water Splitting', Energy Procedia
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