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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

Kamikawa-Shimizu Y; Patterson R; Milekhin A; Akahane K; Shoji Y; Zahn DRT; Okada Y; Conibeer G, 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

Shrestha S; Gupta N; Chung S; Conibeer G, 2014, 'Hot Carrier Solar Cells: Toward the fabrication of practical absorbers', International Journal of Nanotechnology, http://www.inderscience.com/jhome.php?jcode=ijnt

Lee S; Huang S; Conibeer G; Green M, 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

Lin Z; Perez-Wurfl I; Wu L; Jia X; Zhang T; Puthen-Veettil B; Zhang H; Di D; Conibeer G, 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

Di D; Perez-Wurfl I; Green MA; Conibeer G, 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

Feng Y; Lin S; Green MA; Conibeer G, 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

Lee S; Huang S; Conibeer G; Green M, 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

Feng Y; Patterson R; Lin S; Shrestha SK; Huang S; Green MA; Conibeer G, 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

Kourkoutis ; Hao X; Huang S; Puthen-Veettil B; Conibeer G; Green MA; Perez-Wurfl I, 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

Liu X; Hao X; Green MA; Huang S; Conibeer G, 2012, 'RF magnetron sputtered molybdenum back contact for Cu2ZnSnS 4 thin film solar cells', Conference on Optoelectronic and Microelectronic Materials and Devices, Proceedings, COMMAD, pp. 61 - 62, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/COMMAD.2012.6472360

Huang S; So YH; Conibeer G; Green M, 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

König D; Takeda Y; Puthen-Veettil B; Conibeer G, 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

Huang S; So Y; Conibeer G; Green MA, 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/

Konig D; Takeda Y; Puthen-Veettil B; Conibeer G, 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/

Feng Y; Aliberti P; Veettil BP; Patterson R; Shrestha SK; Green MA; Conibeer G, 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

Conibeer G, 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

Conibeer G; Perez-Wurfl I; Hao X; Di D; Lin D, 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

Huang S; Conibeer G, 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

Zhang H; Huang S; Conibeer G, 2012, 'Study of Photo-cathode Materials for Tandem Photoelectrochemical Cell for Direct Water Splitting', Energy Procedia


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