By Professor N.J. Ekins-Daukes

Journal articles

Alonso-Álvarez D; Ekins-Daukes N, 2016, 'SPICE modelling of photoluminescence and electroluminescence based current-voltage curves of solar cells for concentration applications', Journal of Green Engineering, 5, pp. 33 - 47, http://dx.doi.org/10.13052/jge1904-4720.5343

Fujita H; Carrington PJ; Wagener MC; Botha JR; Marshall ARJ; James J; Krier A; Lee KH; Ekins-Daukes NJ, 2015, 'Open-circuit voltage recovery in type II GaSb/GaAs quantum ring solar cells under high concentration', Progress in Photovoltaics: Research and Applications, 23, pp. 1896 - 1900, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/pip.2615

Thomas T; Mellor A; Hylton NP; Fuhrer M; Alonso-Àlvarez D; Braun A; Ekins-Daukes NJ; David JPR; Sweeney SJ, 2015, 'Requirements for a GaAsBi 1 eV sub-cell in a GaAs-based multi-junction solar cell', Semiconductor Science and Technology, 30, http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0268-1242/30/9/094010

Okada Y; Ekins-Daukes NJ; Kita T; Tamaki R; Yoshida M; Pusch A; Hess O; Phillips CC; Farrell DJ; Yoshida K; Ahsan N; Shoji Y; Sogabe T; Guillemoles JF, 2015, 'Intermediate band solar cells: Recent progress and future directions', Applied Physics Reviews, 2, http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4916561

Emmott CJM; Röhr JA; Campoy-Quiles M; Kirchartz T; Urbina A; Ekins-Daukes NJ; Nelson J, 2015, 'Organic photovoltaic greenhouses: A unique application for semi-transparent PV?', Energy and Environmental Science, 8, pp. 1317 - 1328, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c4ee03132f

Chan NLA; Brindley HE; Ekins-Daukes NJ, 2014, 'Impact of individual atmospheric parameters on CPV system power, energy yield and cost of energy', Progress in Photovoltaics: Research and Applications, 22, pp. 1080 - 1095, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/pip.2376

Massa E; Giannini V; Hylton NP; Ekins-Daukes NJ; Jain S; El Daif O; Maier SA, 2014, 'Diffractive Interference Design Using Front and Rear Surface Metal and Dielectric Nanoparticle Arrays for Photocurrent Enhancement in Thin Crystalline Silicon Solar Cells', ACS Photonics, 1, pp. 871 - 877, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/ph5001567

Alonso-Álvarez D; Thomas T; Führer M; Hylton NP; Ekins-Daukes NJ; Lackner D; Philipps SP; Bett AW; Sodabanlu H; Fujii H; Watanabe K; Sugiyama M; Nasi L; Campanini M, 2014, 'InGaAs/GaAsP strain balanced multi-quantum wires grown on misoriented GaAs substrates for high efficiency solar cells', Applied Physics Letters, 105, http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4894424

Hirst LC; Walters RJ; Führer MF; Ekins-Daukes NJ, 2014, 'Experimental demonstration of hot-carrier photo-current in an InGaAs quantum well solar cell', Applied Physics Letters, 104, http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4883648

Yoshida M; Amrania H; Farrell DJ; Browne B; Yoxall E; Ekins-Daukes NJ; Phillips CC, 2014, 'Progress toward realizing an intermediate band solar cell-Sequential absorption of photons in a quantum well solar cell', IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics, 4, pp. 634 - 638, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/JPHOTOV.2014.2301891

Piper RB; Yoshida M; Farrell DJ; Khoury T; Crossley MJ; Schmidt TW; Haque SA; Ekins-Daukes NJ, 2014, 'Kinetic insight into bimolecular upconversion: Experiment and simulation', RSC Advances, 4, pp. 8059 - 8063, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c3ra46953k

Emmott CJM; Ekins-Daukes NJ; Nelson J, 2014, 'Dynamic carbon mitigation analysis: The role of thin-film photovoltaics', Energy and Environmental Science, 7, pp. 1810 - 1818, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c4ee00646a

Hirst LC; Yakes MK; Bailey CG; Tischler JG; Lumb MP; Gonzalez M; Fuhrer MF; Ekins-Daukes NJ; Walters RJ, 2014, 'Enhanced hot-carrier effects in InAlAs/InGaAs quantum wells', IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics, 4, pp. 1526 - 1531, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/JPHOTOV.2014.2355412

Hirst LC; Fujii H; Wang Y; Sugiyama M; Ekins-Daukes NJ, 2014, 'Hot carriers in quantum wells for photovoltaic efficiency enhancement', IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics, 4, pp. 244 - 252, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/JPHOTOV.2013.2289321

Chan NLA; Thomas T; Fuhrer M; Ekins-Daukes NJ, 2014, 'Practical limits of multijunction solar cell performance enhancement from radiative coupling considering realistic spectral conditions', IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics, 4, pp. 1306 - 1313, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/JPHOTOV.2014.2337520

Chan NLA; Young TB; Brindley HE; Ekins-Daukes NJ; Araki K; Kemmoku Y; Yamaguchi M, 2013, 'Validation of energy prediction method for a concentrator photovoltaic module in Toyohashi Japan', Progress in Photovoltaics: Research and Applications, 21, pp. 1598 - 1610, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/pip.2241

Hylton NP; Li XF; Giannini V; Lee KH; Ekins-Daukes NJ; Loo J; Vercruysse D; Van Dorpe P; Sodabanlu H; Sugiyama M; Maier SA, 2013, 'Loss mitigation in plasmonic solar cells: Aluminium nanoparticles for broadband photocurrent enhancements in gaas photodiodes', Scientific Reports, 3, pp. 2874, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep02874

Ekins-Daukes NJ; Lee KH; Hirst L; Chan A; Führer M; Adams J; Browne B; Barnham KWJ; Stavrinou P; Connolly J; Roberts JS; Stevens B; Airey R; Kennedy K, 2013, 'Controlling radiative loss in quantum well solar cells', Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 46, http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0022-3727/46/26/264007

Tutu FK; Lam P; Wu J; Miyashita N; Okada Y; Lee KH; Ekins-Daukes NJ; Wilson J; Liu H, 2013, 'InAs/GaAs quantum dot solar cell with an AlAs cap layer', Applied Physics Letters, 102, http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4803459

Li X; Hylton NP; Giannini V; Lee KH; Ekins-Daukes NJ; Maier SA, 2013, 'Multi-dimensional modeling of solar cells with electromagnetic and carrier transport calculations', Progress in Photovoltaics: Research and Applications, 21, pp. 109 - 120, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/pip.2159

Braun A; Vossier A; Katz EA; Ekins-Daukes NJ; Gordon JM, 2012, 'Multiple-bandgap vertical-junction architectures for ultra-efficient concentrator solar cells', Energy and Environmental Science, 5, pp. 8523 - 8527, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c2ee22167e

Gong W; Faist MA; Ekins-Daukes NJ; Xu Z; Bradley DDC; Nelson J; Kirchartz T, 2012, 'Influence of energetic disorder on electroluminescence emission in polymer: Fullerene solar cells', Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics, 86, http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.86.024201

Yoshida M; Ekins-Daukes NJ; Farrell DJ; Phillips CC, 2012, 'Photon ratchet intermediate band solar cells', Applied Physics Letters, 100, http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4731277

Schulze TF; Cheng YY; Fckel B; MacQueen RW; Danos A; Davis NJLK; Tayebjee MJY; Khoury T; Clady RGCR; Ekins-Daukes NJ; Crossley MJ; Stannowski B; Lips K; Schmidt TW, 2012, 'Photochemical upconversion enhanced solar cells: Effect of a back reflector', Australian Journal of Chemistry, 65, pp. 480 - 485, http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/CH12117

Cheng YY; Fückel B; MacQueen RW; Khoury T; Clady RGCR; Schulze TF; Ekins-Daukes NJ; Crossley MJ; Stannowski B; Lips K; Schmidt TW, 2012, 'Improving the light-harvesting of amorphous silicon solar cells with photochemical upconversion', Energy and Environmental Science, 5, pp. 6953 - 6959, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c2ee21136j

Chan NLA; Ekins-Daukes NJ; Adams JGJ; Lumb MP; Gonzalez M; Jenkins PP; Vurgaftman I; Meyer JR; Walters RJ, 2012, 'Optimal bandgap combinations-does material quality matter', IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics, 2, pp. 202 - 208, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/JPHOTOV.2011.2180513

Faist MA; Kirchartz T; Gong W; Ashraf RS; McCulloch I; De Mello JC; Ekins-Daukes NJ; Bradley DDC; Nelson J, 2012, 'Competition between the charge transfer state and the singlet states of donor or acceptor limiting the efficiency in polymer: Fullerene solar cells', Journal of the American Chemical Society, 134, pp. 685 - 692, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/ja210029w

Lee KH; Barnham KWJ; Connolly JP; Browne BC; Airey RJ; Roberts JS; Führer M; Tibbits TND; Ekins-Daukes NJ, 2012, 'Demonstration of photon coupling in dual multiple-quantum-well solar cells', IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics, 2, pp. 68 - 74, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/JPHOTOV.2011.2177444

Adams JGJ; Browne BC; Ballard IM; Connolly JP; Chan NLA; Ioannides A; Elder W; Stavrinou PN; Barnham KWJ; Ekins-Daukes NJ, 2011, 'Recent results for single-junction and tandem quantum well solar cells', Progress in Photovoltaics: Research and Applications, 19, pp. 865 - 877, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/pip.1069

Farrell DJ; Takeda Y; Nishikawa K; Nagashima T; Motohiro T; Ekins-Daukes NJ, 2011, 'A hot-carrier solar cell with optical energy selective contacts', Applied Physics Letters, 99, http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3636401

Danilchenko BA; Budnyk AP; Shpinar LI; Yaskovets II; Barnham KWJ; Ekins-Daukes NJ, 2011, 'Radiation resistance of GaAs solar cells and hot carriers', Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, 95, pp. 2551 - 2556, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.solmat.2011.02.033

Li X; Hylton NP; Giannini V; Lee KH; Ekins-Daukes NJ; Maier SA, 2011, 'Bridging electromagnetic and carrier transport calculations for three-dimensional modelling of plasmonic solar cells', Optics Express, 19, pp. A888 - A896, http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OE.19.00A888

Fückel B; Roberts DA; Cheng YY; Clady RGCR; Piper RB; Ekins-Daukes NJ; Crossley MJ; Schmidt TW, 2011, 'Singlet oxygen mediated photochemical upconversion of NIR light', Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 2, pp. 966 - 971, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/jz200270w

Hirst LC; Ekins-Daukes NJ, 2011, 'Fundamental losses in solar cells', Progress in Photovoltaics: Research and Applications, 19, pp. 286 - 293, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/pip.1024

Cheng YY; Fückel B; Khoury T; Clady RGCR; Ekins-Daukes NJ; Crossley MJ; Schmidt TW, 2011, 'Entropically driven photochemical upconversion', Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 115, pp. 1047 - 1053, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/jp108839g

Clady RGCR; Schmidt T; Tayebjee M; Aliberti P; Conibeer G; Konig D; Green MA; Ekins-Daukes NJ, 2011, 'Interplay between the hot phonon effect and intervalley scattering on the cooling rate of hot carrier in GaAs and InP', Progress in Photovoltaics: Research and Applications, 20, pp. 82 - 92, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/pip.1121

Tayebjee MJY; Hirst LC; Ekins-Daukes NJ; Schmidt TW, 2010, 'The efficiency limit of solar cells with molecular absorbers: A master equation approach', Journal of Applied Physics, 108, http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3517826

Cheng YY; Fückel B; Khoury T; Clady RGCR; Tayebjee MJY; Ekins-Daukes NJ; Crossley MJ; Schmidt TW, 2010, 'Kinetic analysis of photochemical upconversion by triplet-triplet annihilation: Beyond any spin statistical limit', Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 1, pp. 1795 - 1799, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/jz100566u

Cheng YY; Khoury T; Clady RGCR; Tayebjee MJY; Ekins-Daukes NJ; Crossley MJ; Schmidt TW, 2010, 'On the efficiency limit of triplet-triplet annihilation for photochemical upconversion', Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 12, pp. 66 - 71, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/b913243k

Farrell DJ; Ekins-Daukes NJ, 2009, 'Photovoltaic technology: Relay dye boosts efficiency', Nature Photonics, 3, pp. 373 - 374, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2009.108

Grunbaum E; Barkay Z; Shapira Y; Barnham KWJ; Bushnell DB; Ekins-Daukes NJ; Mazzer M; Wilshaw P, 2009, 'Secondary electron emission contrast of quantum wells in GaAs p-i-n junctions', Microscopy and Microanalysis, 15, pp. 125 - 129, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1431927609090205

Danilchenko B; Budnyk A; Shpinar L; Poplavskyy D; Zelensky SE; Barnham KWJ; Ekins-Daukes NJ, 2008, '1 MeV electron irradiation influence on GaAs solar cell performance', Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, 92, pp. 1336 - 1340, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.solmat.2008.05.006

Ekins-Daukes NJ; Schmidt TW, 2008, 'A molecular approach to the intermediate band solar cell: The symmetric case', Applied Physics Letters, 93, http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.2970157

Ekins-Daukes NJ, 2008, 'Quantum wells in concentrator solar cells', SPIE Newsroom, http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/2.1200812.1399

Lee HS; Yamaguchi M; Ekins-Daukes NJ; Khan A; Takamoto T; Imaizumi M; Ohshima T; Itoh H, 2007, 'Radiation resistance of wide band gap n⁺/p AlInGaP solar cell for high-efficient multijunction space solar cells', Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, Part 2: Letters, 46, http://dx.doi.org/10.1143/JJAP.46.L645

Ekins-Daukes NJ, 2007, 'Quantum well solar cells', Advances in Solar Energy, 17, pp. 45 - 73

Araki K; Kondo M; Uozumi H; Ekins-Daukes NJ; Kemmoku Y; Yamaguchi M, 2006, 'Achievement of 27% efficient and 200 Wp concentrator module and the technological roadmap toward realization of more than 31% efficient modules', Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, 90, pp. 3312 - 3319, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.solmat.2005.09.017

Araki K; Kondo M; Uozumi H; Ekins-Daukes NJ; Egami T; Hiramatsu M; Miyazaki Y; Yamaguchi M, 2006, 'Packaging III-V tandem solar cells for practical terrestrial applications achievable to 27% of module efficiency by conventional machine assemble technology', Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, 90, pp. 3320 - 3326, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.solmat.2005.09.014

Lee HS; Yamaguchi M; Ekins-Daukes NJ; Khan A; Takamoto T; Agui T; Kamimura K; Kaneiwa M; Imaizumi M; Ohshima T; Itoh H, 2005, 'Deep-level defects introduced by 1 MeV electron radiation in AlInGaP for multijunction space solar cells', Journal of Applied Physics, 98, http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.2115095

Adachi M; Khan A; Ando K; Ekins-Daukes NJ; Lee HS; Yamaguchi M, 2005, 'Electrical and optical properties of radiation-induced dominant recombination center in InxGa1-xP space solar cells', Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics, 72, http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.72.155320

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