By Associate Professor Santosh Shrestha

Journal articles

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

Pratik A; Patterson R; Conibeer G; Shrestha S, 2024, 'Structural, Optical and Phonon properties of hafnium oxynitride thin films synthesized using plasma-enhanced atomic layer deposition', Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 983, pp. 173925 - 173925, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jallcom.2024.173925

Thapa B; Patterson RJ; Conibeer G; Shrestha S, 2022, 'Investigating Electronic, Optical, and Phononic Properties of Bulk γ-M2ON2and β-M7O8N4(M = Hf and Zr) Insulators Using Density Functional Theory', ACS Omega, 7, pp. 9196 - 9205, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsomega.1c05649

Hazra S; Gupta N; Conibeer G; Shrestha S; Kini RN, 2021, 'Effect of nanostructuring on picosecond acoustics in a Zr film', Physica Scripta, 96, http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1402-4896/ac30a3

Thapa B; Patterson R; Dubajic M; Conibeer G; Shrestha S, 2020, 'Hafnium and zirconium nitrides with rock-salt and Th3P4structures: Electronic and phonon band structure calculations to examine hot carrier solar cell and thermoelectric properties', Electronic Structure, 2, http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/2516-1075/ab8d18

Wang B; Patterson R; Chen W; Zhang Z; Yang J; Huang S; Shrestha S; Conibeer G, 2018, 'Ab initio calculation of electronic transport properties between PbSe quantum dots facets with halide ligands (Cl, Br, I)', Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, 57, http://dx.doi.org/10.7567/JJAP.57.08RF01

Chen ; Wen ; Yang ; Patterson ; Huang S; Shrestha ; Conibeer ; Latzel M ; Moss D ; Christiansen S , 2018, 'Free charges versus excitons: photoluminescence investigation of InGaN/GaN multiple quantum well nanorods to their planar counterpart', Nanoscale, 10, pp. 5358 - 5365

Chung S; Wen X; Huang S; Gupta N; Harada T; Kee TW; Conibeer G; Shrestha S, 2017, 'Corrigendum to “Nanosecond long excited state lifetimes observed in hafnium nitride” [Sol. Energy Mater. Sol. Cells 169 (2017) 13–18] (S0927024817302064) (10.1016/j.solmat.2017.04.037))', Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, 171, pp. 302, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.solmat.2017.05.054

Huang S; Cao W; Yuan L; Patterson R; Wen X; Tapping P; Kee T; Puthen-Veettil B; Zhang P; Zhang Z; Oiuyang Z; Reece P; Bremner S; Shrestha S; Conibeer G, 2017, 'Difference in hot carrier cooling rate between  Langmuir-Blodgett and drop cast PbS QDs films due to strong electron-phonon coupling', Nanoscale

Liao Y; Zhou D; Shrestha S; Huang S; Bremner S; Conibeer G, 2017, 'Interfacial Area between Hetero-Epitaxial γ-Al2O3 and Silicon', Advanced Materials Interfaces, 4, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/admi.201700259

Chung S; Wen X; Huang S; Gupta N; Conibeer G; Shrestha S; Harada T; Kee TW, 2017, 'Nanosecond long excited state lifetimes observed in hafnium nitride', Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, 169, pp. 13 - 18, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.solmat.2017.04.037

Wang P; Iles GN; Mole RA; Yu D; Wen X; Aguey-Zinsou KF; Shrestha S; Conibeer G, 2017, 'Hot carrier transfer processes in nonstoichiometric titanium hydride', Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, 56, http://dx.doi.org/10.7567/JJAP.56.08MA10

Shrestha S; Chung S; Liao Y; Wang P; Cao W; Wen X; Gupta N; Conibeer G, 2017, 'Potential of HfN, ZrN, and TiH as hot carrier absorber and Al2O3/Ge quantum well/Al2O3 and Al2O3/PbS quantum dots/Al2O3 as energy selective contacts', Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, 56, pp. 08ma03, http://dx.doi.org/10.7567/JJAP.56.08MA03

Liao Y; Zhang P; Bremner S; Shrestha S; Huang S; Conibeer G, 2017, 'Resonant Tunneling through Monolayer Si Colloidal Quantum Dots and Ge Nanocrystals', Advanced Functional Materials, 27, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/adfm.201605348

Xia H; Patterson R; Smyth S; Feng Y; Chung S; Zhang Y; Shrestha S; Huang S; Uchiyama H; Tsutsui S; Sugiyama M; Baron AQR; Conibeer G, 2017, 'Inelastic X-ray scattering measurements of III-V multiple quantum wells', Applied Physics Letters, 110, http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4974478

Yang J; Wen X; Xia H; Sheng R; Ma Q; Kim J; Tapping P; Harada T; Kee TW; Huang F; Cheng YB; Green M; Ho-Baillie A; Huang S; Shrestha S; Patterson R; Conibeer G, 2017, 'Acoustic-optical phonon up-conversion and hot-phonon bottleneck in lead-halide perovskites', Nature Communications, 8, pp. 14120, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14120

Conibeer G; Zhang Y; Bremner SP; Shrestha S, 2017, 'Towards an understanding of hot carrier cooling mechanisms in multiple quantum wells', Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, 56, http://dx.doi.org/10.7567/JJAP.56.091201

Chen W; Wen X; Latzel M; Heilmann M; Yang J; Dai X; Huang S; Shrestha S; Patterson R; Christiansen S; Conibeer G, 2016, 'Nanoscale characterization of carrier dynamic and surface passivation in InGaN/GaN multiple quantum wells on GaN nanorods', ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 8, pp. 31887 - 31893, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsami.6b11675

Gupta N; Veettill BP; Conibeer G; Shrestha S, 2016, 'Effect of substrate temperature and radio frequency power on compositional, structural and optical properties of amorphous germanium carbide films deposited using sputtering', Journal of Non Crystalline Solids, 443, pp. 97 - 102, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jnoncrysol.2016.04.018

Xia H; Wen X; Feng Y; Patterson R; Chung S; Gupta N; Shrestha S; Conibeer G, 2016, 'Hot carrier dynamics in HfN and ZrN measured by transient absorption spectroscopy', Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, 150, pp. 51 - 56, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.solmat.2016.01.026

Lin S; Feng Y; Wen X; Harada T; Kee TW; Huang S; Shrestha S; Conibeer G, 2016, 'Observation of hot carriers existing in Ag2S nanoparticles and its implication on solar cell application', Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 120, pp. 10199 - 10205, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.6b02607

Yang J; Ge R; Zhang Z; Chen W; Wang B; Feng Y; Huang S; Shrestha S; Patterson R; Conibeer G, 2016, 'Theoretical investigation of carrier transfer by an optical contacting scheme for optoelectronic application', Journal of Applied Physics, 119, pp. 153102, http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4946847

Zhang Y; Tayebjee MJY; Smyth S; Dvořák M; Wen X; Xia H; Heilmann M; Liao Y; Zhang Z; Williamson T; Williams J; Bremner S; Shrestha S; Huang S; Schmidt TW; Conibeer GJ; Dvorak M, 2016, 'Extended hot carrier lifetimes observed in bulk In0.265±0.02Ga0.735N under high-density photoexcitation', Applied Physics Letters, 108, pp. 131904, http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4945594

Wang B; Xia H; Zhang Z; Yang J; Patterson R; Huang S; Shrestha S; Conibeer G, 2016, 'Ab initio calculation of halide ligand passivation on PbSe quantum dot facets', Rsc Advances, 6, pp. 104699 - 104707, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c6ra21668d

Chung S; Shrestha S; Wen X; Feng Y; Gupta N; Xia H; Yu P; Tang J; Conibeer G, 2016, 'Hafnium nitride for hot carrier solar cells', Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, 144, pp. 781 - 786, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.solmat.2014.10.011

Smyth T; Dvorak M; Tayebjee MJY; Yasarapudi VB; Xia H; Feng Y; Wang Y; Puthen-Veettil B; Huang S; Shrestha S; Bremner SP; Schmidt TW; Sugiyama M; Conibeer GJ, 2016, 'Hot carrier cooling in In0.17Ga0.83As/GaAs0.80P0.20 multiple quantum wells: The effect of barrier thickness', IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics, 6, pp. 166 - 171, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/JPHOTOV.2015.2480222

Cao W; Zhang Z; Patterson R; Lin Y; Wen X; Veetil BP; Zhang P; Zhang Q; Shrestha S; Conibeer G; Huang S, 2016, 'Quantification of hot carrier thermalization in PbS colloidal quantum dots by power and temperature dependent photoluminescence spectroscopy', Rsc Advances, 6, pp. 90846 - 90855, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c6ra20165b

Liao Y; Huang S; Shrestha S; Conibeer G, 2015, 'Dynamics of metal-induced crystallization of ultrathin Ge films by rapid thermal annealing', Applied Physics Letters, 107, http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4937270

Feng Y; Xia H; Shrestha S; Conibeer G, 2015, 'Simplified tight-binding model for conductance calculation with phonon scattering for atomic junctions', Physica E Low Dimensional Systems and Nanostructures, 74, pp. 625 - 629, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physe.2015.08.026

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

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

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

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

Niu W; Li X; Karuturi SK; Fam DW; Fan H; Shrestha S; Wong LH; Tok AIY, 2015, 'Applications of atomic layer deposition in solar cells', Nanotechnology, 26, http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0957-4484/26/6/064001

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

Hameiri Z; Shrestha S, 2015, 'Photovoltaics literature survey (No. 115)', Progress in Photovoltaics Research and Applications, 23, pp. 131 - 134, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/pip.2584

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

Shrestha S; Hameiri Z, 2014, 'Photovoltaics literature survey (No. 114)', Progress in Photovoltaics Research and Applications, 22, pp. 1316 - 1320, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/pip.2575

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

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

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

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

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

Shrestha S, 2014, 'Photovoltaics literature survey (No. 107)', Progress in Photovoltaics: Research and Applications, 22, pp. 147 - 149, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/pip.2456

Shrestha S, 2014, 'Photovoltaics literature survey (No. 108)', Progress in Photovoltaics: Research and Applications, 22, pp. 274 - 276, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/pip.2469

Shrestha S, 2014, 'Photovoltaics literature survey (No. 109)', Progress in Photovoltaics: Research and Applications, 22, pp. 394 - 397, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/pip.2481

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