By Professor N.J. Ekins-Daukes

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

Williams M; Barnham K; Ekins-Daukes N; Marques JL, 2020, 'Modelling the Quantum Dot Concentrator', in Sixteenth European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference, Routledge, pp. 2304 - 2307, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315074405-62

Tundo S; Mazzer M; Nasia L; Salviati G; Lazzarini L; Ferrari C; Passaseo A; Ekins-Daukes NJ; Barnham KWJ, 2018, 'Comparative cathodoluminescence and EBIC analysis of partially relaxed InGaAs/GaAs p-i-n structures', in Microscopy of Semiconducting Materials 2001, CRC Press, pp. 567 - 570, http://dx.doi.org/10.1201/9781351074629-122

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 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

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

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

Grunbaum E; Barkay Z; Shapira Y; Barnham K; Bushnell DB; Ekins-Daukes NJ; Mazzer M; Wilshaw PR, 'The electric field and dopant distribution in p-i-n structures observed by ionisation potential (dopant contrast) microscopy in the HRSEM', in Springer Proceedings in Physics, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 503 - 506, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/3-540-31915-8_108

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

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

van Sark W; Hoex B; Reinders A; Verlinden PJ; Ekins-Daukes NJ, 2024, 'Introduction', Photovoltaic Solar Energy: From Fundamentals to Applications, Volume 2, pp. 3 - 7, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781119578826.ch1

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

Ekins-Daukes NJ; Lee KH; Chan A; Fuhrer M; Tomos T; Kirkpatrick D; Alonso-Alvarez D, 2023, 'Status and future challenges for Quantum Well Solar Cells', , pp. 1121 - 1121, http://dx.doi.org/10.11470/jsapmeeting.2013.2.0_1121

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, 2022, 'Identifying optimal photovoltaic technologies for underwater applications', iScience, 25, 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

Li J; Huang J; Cong J; Mai Y; Su Z; Liang G; Wang A; He M; Yuan X; Sun H; Yan C; Sun K; Ekins-Daukes NJ; Green MA; Hao X, 2022, 'Large-Grain Spanning Monolayer Cu2ZnSnSe4 Thin-Film Solar Cells Grown from Metal Precursor', Small, 18, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/smll.202105044

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

Yamaguchi M; Dimroth F; Ekins-Daukes NJ; Kojima N; Ohshita Y, 2022, 'Overview and loss analysis of III-V single-junction and multi-junction solar cells', EPJ Photovoltaics, 13, http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/epjpv/2022020

Li J; Huang J; Ma F; Sun H; Cong J; Privat K; Webster RF; Cheong S; Yao Y; Chin RL; Yuan X; He M; Sun K; Li H; Mai Y; Hameiri Z; Ekins-Daukes NJ; Tilley RD; Unold T; Green MA; Hao X, 2022, 'Unveiling microscopic carrier loss mechanisms in 12% efficient Cu2ZnSnSe4 solar cells', Nature Energy, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41560-022-01078-7

Sogabe T; Hung CY; Tamaki R; Tomić S; Yamaguchi K; Ekins-Daukes N; Okada Y, 2021, 'Experimental demonstration of energy-transfer ratchet intermediate-band solar cell', Communications Physics, 4, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s42005-021-00543-1

Ghasri M; Ardeshiri A; Ekins-Daukes NJ; Rashidi T, 2021, 'Willingness to pay for photovoltaic solar cells equipped electric vehicles', Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, 133, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.trc.2021.103433

Li C; Wang H; Liu Z; Guo H; Zhang P; Rey G; Huang J; Gao P; Sun Q; Zhang W; Ekins-Daukes N; Hao X, 2021, 'Improving Performance of Bifacial-Grid III–V Solar Cells Bonded on Glass by Selective Contact Annealing', Solar RRL, 5, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/solr.202100438

Gholizadeh EM; Prasad SKK; Gillan LV; Nielsen MP; Ekins-Daukes NJ; McCamey DR; Tayebjee MJY; Schmidt TW, 2021, 'Singlet and Triplet Exciton Dynamics of Violanthrone', Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 125, pp. 22464 - 22471, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.1c06848

Pusch A; Nielsen MP; Sazzad MH; Reece PJ; Ekins-Daukes NJ, 2021, 'Designing high-performance nighttime thermoradiative systems for harvesting energy from outer space: Comment', Optics Letters, 46, pp. 5124, http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OL.426514

Tang S; Bing J; Zheng J; Tang J; Li Y; Mayyas M; Cho Y; Jones TW; Yang TCJ; Yuan L; Tebyetekerwa M; Nguyen HT; Nielsen MP; Ekins-Daukes NJ; Kalantar-Zadeh K; Wilson GJ; McKenzie DR; Huang S; Ho-Baillie AWY, 2021, 'Complementary bulk and surface passivations for highly efficient perovskite solar cells by gas quenching', Cell Reports Physical Science, 2, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.xcrp.2021.100511

Choi KTH; Brindley H; Ekins-Daukes N; Escobar R, 2021, 'Developing automated methods to estimate spectrally resolved direct normal irradiance for solar energy applications', Renewable Energy, 173, pp. 1070 - 1086, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2021.03.127

Jiang Y; Nielsen MP; Baldacchino AJ; Green MA; McCamey DR; Tayebjee MJY; Schmidt TW; Ekins-Daukes NJ; Jiang JY, 2021, 'Singlet fission and tandem solar cells reduce thermal degradation and enhance lifespan', Progress in Photovoltaics: Research and Applications, 29, pp. 899 - 906, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/pip.3405

Yamaguchi M; Dimroth F; Geisz JF; Ekins-Daukes NJ, 2021, 'Multi-junction solar cells paving the way for super high-efficiency', Journal of Applied Physics, 129, http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/5.0048653

Pusch A; Bremner SP; Tayebjee MJY; Daukes NJE; Ekins-Daukes NJ, 2021, 'Microscopic reversibility demands lower open circuit voltage in multiple exciton generation solar cells', Applied Physics Letters, 118, pp. 151103, http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/5.0049120

Pusch A; Dubajic M; Nielsen MP; Conibeer GJ; Bremner SP; Ekins-Daukes NJ, 2021, 'Optoelectronic reciprocity in hot carrier solar cells with ideal energy selective contacts', Progress in Photovoltaics: Research and Applications, 29, pp. 433 - 444, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/pip.3386

Steiner MA; France RM; Buencuerpo J; Geisz JF; Nielsen MP; Pusch A; Olavarria WJ; Young M; Ekins-Daukes NJ, 2021, 'High Efficiency Inverted GaAs and GaInP/GaAs Solar Cells With Strain-Balanced GaInAs/GaAsP Quantum Wells', Advanced Energy Materials, 11, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/aenm.202002874

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