By Professor Ned Ekins-Daukes

Book Chapters

van Sark W; Hoex B; Reinders A; Verlinden PJ; Ekins-Daukes NJ, 2024, 'Introduction', in Photovoltaic Solar Energy: From Fundamentals to Applications, pp. 3 - 7, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781119578826.ch1

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

Bushnell DB; Ekins-Daukes NJ; Mazzer M; Connolly JP; Barnham KWJ; Roberts JS; Clark J; Hill G; Forbes I, 2020, 'GaAsP/InGaAs Strain-Balanced Quantum Well Solar Cells', in Sixteenth European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference, Routledge, pp. 999 - 1002, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315074405-264

Kluftinger BG; Ekins-Daukes NJ; Nelson J; Barnham KWJ; Foxon CT; Cheng TS; Grey R, 2020, 'Quasi-Fermi Level Separations in Double and Shifted Quantum Well Solar Cells', in Sixteenth European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference, Taylor & Francis, pp. 161 - 164, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315074405-42

Faur M; Faur M; Bailey SG; Flood DJ; Faur HM; Mateescu CG; Scheiman SD, 2020, 'Wet Chemical Growth of Low-Cost Antireflective Coatings for Solar Cells', in Sixteenth European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference, Routledge, pp. 239 - 242, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315074405-62

Ekins-Daukes NJ, 2015, 'Quantum well solar cells', in Advances in Solar Energy an Annual Review of Research and Development in Renewable Energy Technologies, pp. 45 - 73, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315793221-9

Ekins-Daukes NJ, 2014, 'III-V Solar Cells', in Solar Cell Materials Developing Technologies, pp. 113 - 143, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781118695784.ch6

NELSON J; EKINS-DAUKES NED, 2014, 'QUANTUM WELL SOLAR CELLS', in Series on Photoconversion of Solar Energy, IMPERIAL COLLEGE PRESS, pp. 453 - 489, http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/9781848167681_0010

Barnham KWJ; Ballard IM; Browne BC; Bushnell DB; Connolly JP; Ekins-Daukes NJ; Fuhrer M; Ginige R; Hill G; Ioannides A; Johnson DC; Lynch MC; Mazzer M; Roberts JS; Rohr C; Tibbits NDT, 2010, 'Recent progress in quantum well solar cells', in Nanotechnology for Photovoltaics, pp. 187 - 210, http://dx.doi.org/10.1201/9781420076752

Barnham KWJ; Ballard IM; Browne BC; Bushnell DB; Connolly JP; Ekins-Daukes NJ; Fuhrer M; Ginige R; Hill G; Ioannides A; Johnson DC; Lynch MC; Mazzer M; Roberts JS; Rohr C; Tibbits TND, 2010, 'Recent Progress in Quantum Well Solar Cells', in Tsakalakos L (ed.), NANOTECHNOLOGY FOR PHOTOVOLTAICS, CRC PRESS-TAYLOR & FRANCIS GROUP, pp. 187 - 210, http://dx.doi.org/10.1201/9781420076752-c5

Barnham KWJ; Ballard I; Bessière A; Chatten AJ; Connolly JP; Ekins-Daukes NJ; Johnson DC; Lynch MC; Mazzer M; Tibbits TND; Hill G; Roberts JS; Malik MA, 2007, 'Quantum Well Solar Cells and Quantum Dot Concentrators', in Nanostructured Materials for Solar Energy Conversion, pp. 517 - 537, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-044452844-5/50017-2

Barnham KWJ; Ballard I; Bessière A; Chatten AJ; Connolly JP; Ekins-Daukes NJ; Johnson DC; Lynch MC; Mazzer M; Tibbits TND; Hill G; Roberts JS; Malik MA, 2006, 'Quantum Well Solar Cells and Quantum Dot Concentrators', in Nanostructured Materials for Solar Energy Conversion, pp. 517 - 537, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-044452844-5/50017-2

Barnham KWJ; Ballard I; Bessière A; Chatten AJ; Connolly JP; Ekins-Daukes NJ; Johnson DC; Lynch MC; Mazzer M; Tibbits TND; Hill G; Roberts JS; Malik MA, 2006, 'Chapter 16 Quantum Well Solar Cells and Quantum Dot Concentrators', in Nanostructured Materials for Solar Energy Conversion, Elsevier, pp. 517 - 537, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/b978-044452844-5/50017-2

Grunbaum E; Barkay Z; Shapira Y; Barnham K; Bushnell DB; Ekins-Daukes NJ; Mazzer M; Wilshaw PR, 2005, 'The electric field and dopant distribution in p-i-n structures observed by ionisation potential (dopant contrast) microscopy in the HRSEM', in Cullis AG; Hutchison JL (ed.), , SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN, pp. 503 - 506

Rohr C; Abbott P; Ballard I; Bushnell D; Connolly J; Ekins-Daukes N; Barnham K, 2003, 'Quantum wells in photovoltaic cells', in Series in Optics and Optoelectronics, Taylor & Francis, http://dx.doi.org/10.1201/9781420033861.ch5

Tundo S; Mazzer M; Nasi L; Salviati G; Lazzarini L; Ferrari C; Passaseo A; Ekins-Daukes NJ, 2001, 'Comparative cathodoluminescence and EBIC analysis of partially relaxed InGaAs/GaAs p-i-n structures', in Cullis AG; Hutchison JL (ed.), , IOP PUBLISHING LTD, pp. 567 - 570

Rohr C; Abbott P; Ballard IM; Bushnell DB; Connolly JP; Ekins-Daukes NJ; Barnham KWJ, 'Quantum wells in photovoltaic cells', in Next Generation Photovoltaics, IOP Publishing Ltd, http://dx.doi.org/10.1887/0750309059/b1396c5

Edited Books

van Sark W; Hoex B; Reinders A; Verlinden PJ; Ekins-Daukes NJ, 2024, Photovoltaic Solar Energy: From Fundamentals to Applications, Volume 2, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781119578826

Journal articles

Thomas IL; Ekins-Daukes NJ; Schmidt TW, 2026, 'Spectrally selective c-Si agrivoltaic modules: Evaluating a new approach', Applied Energy, 421, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2026.128266

Sun Z; Wang L; Zhou Z; Lou X; Nakamura T; Imaizumi M; Ohshima T; Sato S; Hallam B; Ekins-Daukes NJ; Perez-Wurfl I, 2026, 'Electron irradiation effects on ultra-thin silicon IBC solar cells of varying thickness: Analytical modelling and experimental demonstration of the critical design factors of silicon solar cells for space application', Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, 304, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.solmat.2026.114428

Sharma AS; Bremner SP; Nielsen MP; Tayebjee MJY; Rougieux FE; Ekins-Daukes NJ; Pusch A, 2026, 'Impact of slow carrier-carrier equilibration on spectroscopic carrier temperature determination and hot-carrier solar cell performance', Physical Review Applied, 25, http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/yy87-sq4x

Sarsour M; Madumelu C; Ciesla A; McNab S; Wright B; Rougieux F; Green M; Bonilla R; Niu X; Ekins-Daukes NJ; Jiang J, 2026, 'Stability of Commercial nc-Si:H Heterojunction Solar Cells Under Variable Illumination', Progress in Photovoltaics Research and Applications, 34, pp. 758 - 770, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/pip.70102

Zhang SR; Nandi SK; Kremer F; Nath SK; Ji W; Ratcliff T; Li L; Ekins-Daukes NJ; Lu T; Liu Y; Elliman RG, 2026, 'High-Mobility Indium Native Oxide Transistors via Liquid-Metal Printing in Air', ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 18, pp. 22089 - 22101, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsami.5c24948

Nielsen MP; Maier SA; Fuhrer MS; Ekins-Daukes NJ, 2026, 'Balancing positive and negative luminescence for thermoradiative signatureless communications', Light Science and Applications, 15, pp. 148 - 148, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41377-025-02119-y

Carwithen BP; Bajpayee S; Brett MW; de Clercq DM; Baldacchino AJ; Ekins-Daukes NJ; Nielsen MP; Tayebjee MJY; Beves JE; Schmidt TW, 2026, 'Exploiting Transient Anisotropy To Reveal Detailed Molecular-Frame Ultrafast Dynamics', Journal of the American Chemical Society, 148, pp. 7837 - 7845, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/jacs.5c22517

Huang T; Mei T; Nath SK; He G; Kim J; Zhang S; Feng Z; Ma X; He M; Ekins-Daukes NJ; Hao X; Chen F; Hu L; Li Z; Lin CH; Chu D, 2026, 'Bioinspired Ion Doping for Threshold Control in Green Chitosan-Based Flexible Transistor Neuromorphic Devices', ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 18, pp. 8507 - 8519, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsami.5c21733

Thomas IL; Ekins-Daukes NJ; Schmidt TW, 2026, 'Spectrally selective modules for agrivoltaics', Ees Solar, 2, pp. 10 - 27, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/d5el00077g

Sun Y; Harrison JA; Cui Y; Li Y; Wang S; Vedaraj VA; Philpott L; Tang S; Corletto A; Balendhran S; Ekins-Daukes NJ; Crozier KB; Nielsen MP; Bullock J, 2026, 'Thermoradiative Diodes Using Black Phosphorus van der Waals Materials', Advanced Energy Materials, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/aenm.71599

Baldo MA; Ekins-Daukes NJ; Jiang JY; Pearce PM; Schmidt TW; Tayebjee MJY, 2025, 'Singlet Fission Provides a Scalable Pathway to High Efficiency Silicon Photovoltaics', ACS Energy Letters, 10, pp. 4830 - 4833, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsenergylett.5c01944

Baldacchino AJ; Brett MW; Carwithen BP; McNab S; Tong J; Zhang VY; Chang NL; Ciesla A; de Clercq DM; Capomolla SS; Collins MI; Jiang JY; Kavungathodi MFM; Mo A; Pearce PM; Hoex B; McCamey DR; Nielsen MP; Beves JE; Ekins-Daukes NJ; Schmidt TW; Tayebjee MJY, 2025, 'Singlet Fission c-Si Solar Cells: Beyond Tetracene', ACS Energy Letters, 10, pp. 4596 - 4602, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsenergylett.5c01930

Nath SK; Syed N; Pan W; Yu Y; Liu D; Nielsen MP; Yuwono J; Kumar PV; Zhu Y; Cortie DL; Nguyen CK; Fu L; Roberts A; Faraone L; Ekins-Daukes NJ; Lei W, 2025, 'Liquid Metal-Exfoliated SnO2-Based Mixed-Dimensional Heterostructures for Visible-to-Near-Infrared Photodetection', Advanced Optical Materials, 13, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/adom.202500765

Radchenkov V; Harrison JA; Sazzad MH; Pearce PM; Pusch A; Bremner SP; Reece PJ; Ekins-Daukes NJ; Nielsen MP, 2025, 'Temperature-dependent power generation from HgCdTe and III-V thermoradiative diodes', Applied Physics Letters, 126, http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/5.0265431

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

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

Feng J; Hosseinabadi P; de Clercq DM; Carwithen BP; Nielsen MP; Brett MW; Prasad SKK; Farahani AAD; Li HL; Sanders SN; Beves JE; Ekins-Daukes NJ; Cole JH; Thordarson P; Huang DM; Tayebjee MJY; Schmidt TW, 2024, 'Magnetic fields reveal signatures of triplet-pair multi-exciton photoluminescence in singlet fission', Nature Chemistry, 16, pp. 1861 - 1867, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41557-024-01591-0

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

Ma FJ; Li G; Wang X; Wang H; Zhou Z; Madumelu CU; Toth P; Ekins-Daukes NJ; Conibeer G; Hoex B, 2024, 'Comparative analysis of radiation-induced effects on the performance of p-type PERC and TOPCon solar cells for space applications', Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, 274, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.solmat.2024.113002

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

Hughes KM; Ito M; Vaquero-Stainer A; Ekins-Daukes NJ; Phillips CC, 2024, 'Increasing the two-photon photocurrent saturation limit in a quantum ratchet intermediate band solar cell', Applied Physics Letters, 124, http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/5.0176397

Sharma AS; Hanif M; Bremner SP; Nielsen MP; Tayebjee MJY; Rougieux FE; Ekins-Daukes NJ; Pusch A, 2023, 'Heat Flow through Nonideal Contacts in Hot-Carrier Solar Cells', Physical Review Applied, 20, http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevApplied.20.034001

Li C; Pusch A; Liu Z; Zhang P; Huang J; Guo H; Zhang W; Wang H; Gao P; Sun Q; Ekins-Daukes N; Hao X, 2023, 'A modeling framework to quantify the intermediate layer impact in III-V//Si multijunction solar cells', Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, 62, http://dx.doi.org/10.35848/1347-4065/acd45e

Herrando M; Wang K; Huang G; Otanicar T; Mousa OB; Agathokleous RA; Ding Y; Kalogirou S; Ekins-Daukes N; Taylor RA; Markides CN, 2023, 'A review of solar hybrid photovoltaic-thermal (PV-T) collectors and systems', Progress in Energy and Combustion Science, 97, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pecs.2023.101072

Hughes KM; Ito M; Vaquero-Stainer A; Ekins Daukes NJ; Phillips CC, 2023, 'Room Temperature Operation of a Quantum Ratchet Intermediate Band Solar Cell', Solar Rrl, 7, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/solr.202200897

Pusch A; Römer U; Culcer D; Ekins-Daukes NJ, 2023, 'Energy Conversion Efficiency of the Bulk Photovoltaic Effect', Prx Energy, 2, http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PRXEnergy.2.013006

Liu M; Römer U; Ekins-Daukes NJ; Lennon A, 2022, 'Optical analysis of light management for finger designs in CPV systems', Progress in Photovoltaics Research and Applications, 30, pp. 1219 - 1227, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/pip.3570

Tabernig SW; Soeriyadi AH; Römer U; Pusch A; Lamers D; Juhl MK; Payne DNR; Nielsen MP; Polman A; Ekins-Daukes NJ, 2022, 'Avoiding Shading Losses in Concentrator Photovoltaics Using a Soft-Imprinted Cloaking Geometry', IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics, 12, pp. 1116 - 1127, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/JPHOTOV.2022.3182277

Röhr JA; Sartor BE; Duenow JN; Qin Z; Meng J; Lipton J; Maclean SA; Römer U; Nielsen MP; Zhao S; Kong J; Reese MO; Steiner MA; Ekins-Daukes NJ; Taylor AD; Roemer U, 2022, 'Identifying optimal photovoltaic technologies for underwater applications', Iscience, 25, pp. 104531, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2022.104531

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

Sharma AS; Pusch A; Nielsen MP; Römer U; Tayebjee MJY; Rougieux FE; Ekins-Daukes NJ, 2022, 'Constraints imposed by the sparse solar photon flux on upconversion and hot carrier solar cells', Solar Energy, 237, pp. 44 - 51, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.solener.2022.03.037

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