By Dr Phoebe Pearce

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

Journal articles

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

Zheng J; Wang G; Duan L; Duan W; Jiang Y; Pearce P; Gao Y; Mahmud MA; Liao C; Leung TL; Bing J; Li Z; Sun Z; Cui X; Bailey C; Jankovec M; Yi J; Tao R; Zheng L; Zhu B; Sun Y; Sun N; Huang G; Wang L; Lambertz A; Bremner S; Liao X; Wu T; Xie G; Rothmann MU; Topic M; Mckenzie DR; Ding K; Li W; Chen Z; Ho-Baillie AWY, 2025, 'Tailoring nanoscale interfaces for perovskite-perovskite-silicon triple-junction solar cells', NATURE NANOTECHNOLOGY, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41565-025-02015-x

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

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

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

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

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

Pearce PM; Abad EC; Hirst LC, 2022, 'Designing transparent nanophotonic gratings for ultra-thin solar cells', Optics Express, 30, pp. 4528 - 4542, http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OE.446570

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

Sayre L; Camarillo Abad E; Pearce P; Chausse P; Coulon PM; Shields P; Johnson A; Hirst LC, 2022, 'Ultra-thin GaAs solar cells with nanophotonic metal-dielectric diffraction gratings fabricated with displacement Talbot lithography', Progress in Photovoltaics Research and Applications, 30, pp. 96 - 108, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/pip.3463

Pearce P, 2021, 'RayFlare: flexible optical modelling of solar cells', Journal of Open Source Software, 6, pp. 3460 - 3460, http://dx.doi.org/10.21105/joss.03460

Alonso-Álvarez D; Augusto A; Pearce P; Llin LF; Mellor A; Bowden S; Paul DJ; Ekins-Daukes N, 2019, 'Thermal emissivity of silicon heterojunction solar cells', Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, 201, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.solmat.2019.110051

Pusch A; Pearce P; Ekins-Daukes NJ, 2019, 'Analytical Expressions for the Efficiency Limits of Radiatively Coupled Tandem Solar Cells', IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics, 9, pp. 679 - 687, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/JPHOTOV.2019.2903180

Jiang Y; Keevers MJ; Pearce P; Ekins-Daukes N; Green MA, 2019, 'Design of an intermediate Bragg reflector within triple-junction solar cells for spectrum splitting applications', Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, 193, pp. 259 - 269, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.solmat.2019.01.011

Pearce P; Mellor A; Ekins-Daukes N, 2019, 'The importance of accurate determination of optical constants for the design of nanometallic light-trapping structures', Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, 191, pp. 133 - 140, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.solmat.2018.11.008

Wilson T; Hylton NP; Harada Y; Pearce P; Alonso-Álvarez D; Mellor A; Richards RD; David JPR; Ekins-Daukes NJ, 2018, 'Assessing the Nature of the Distribution of Localised States in Bulk GaAsBi', Scientific Reports, 8, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-24696-2

Alonso-Álvarez D; Wilson T; Pearce P; Führer M; Farrell D; Ekins-Daukes N, 2018, 'Solcore: a multi-scale, Python-based library for modelling solar cells and semiconductor materials', Journal of Computational Electronics, 17, pp. 1099 - 1123, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10825-018-1171-3

Pearce P; Slade R, 2018, 'Feed-in tariffs for solar microgeneration: Policy evaluation and capacity projections using a realistic agent-based model', Energy Policy, 116, pp. 95 - 111, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2018.01.060

Barker AJ; Sadhanala A; Deschler F; Gandini M; Senanayak SP; Pearce PM; Mosconi E; Pearson AJ; Wu Y; Srimath Kandada AR; Leijtens T; De Angelis F; Dutton SE; Petrozza A; Friend RH, 2017, 'Defect-Assisted Photoinduced Halide Segregation in Mixed-Halide Perovskite Thin Films', ACS Energy Letters, 2, pp. 1416 - 1424, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsenergylett.7b00282

Sadhanala A; Ahmad S; Zhao B; Giesbrecht N; Pearce PM; Deschler F; Hoye RLZ; Gödel KC; Bein T; Docampo P; Dutton SE; De Volder MFL; Friend RH, 2015, 'Blue-Green Color Tunable Solution Processable Organolead Chloride-Bromide Mixed Halide Perovskites for Optoelectronic Applications', Nano Letters, 15, pp. 6095 - 6101, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.5b02369

Silverberg GJ; Pearce P; Vecitis CD, 2015, 'Controlling self-assembly of reduced graphene oxide at the air-water interface: Quantitative evidence for long-range attractive and many-body interactions', ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 7, pp. 3807 - 3815, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/am5087984

Van Hattem B; Corfdir P; Brereton P; Pearce P; Graham AM; Stanley MJ; Hugues M; Hopkinson M; Phillips RT, 2013, 'Photoluminescence in tilted magnetic field of triply negatively charged excitons hybridized with a continuum', Acta Physica Polonica A, 124, pp. 798 - 800, http://dx.doi.org/10.12693/APhysPolA.124.798

Van Hattem B; Corfdir P; Brereton P; Pearce P; Graham AM; Stanley MJ; Hugues M; Hopkinson M; Phillips RT, 2013, 'From the artificial atom to the Kondo-Anderson model: Orientation-dependent magnetophotoluminescence of charged excitons in InAs quantum dots', Physical Review B Condensed Matter and Materials Physics, 87, http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.87.205308

Conference Papers

Nielsen MP; McNab S; Pearce PM; Beves J; Schmidt T; Cho Y; Baldacchino AJ; Tong J; Brett MW; Carwithen BP; Jiang JY; Hoex B; Ciesla AM; McCamey DR; Tayebjee MJY; Ekins-Daukes NJ, 2025, 'Organic multi exciton generation augmented silicon (OMEGA): Elucidating hybrid inorganic-organic energy transfer', in 2025 IEEE 53rd Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC), IEEE, pp. 0172 - 0172, presented at 2025 IEEE 53rd Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC), 08 June 2025 - 13 June 2025, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/pvsc59419.2025.11133118

Nielsen MP; Radchenkov V; Harrison JA; Sazzad MH; Pearce PM; Pusch A; Bremner SP; Reece PJ; Ekins-Daukes NJ, 2025, 'Raising the Temperature: Comparing HgCdTe and III-V Thermoradiative Diodes', in 2025 IEEE 53rd Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC), IEEE, pp. 0097 - 0097, presented at 2025 IEEE 53rd Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC), 08 June 2025 - 13 June 2025, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/pvsc59419.2025.11132943

Harrison JA; Pearce PM; Bremner SP; Ekins-Daukes NJ, 2025, 'Experimental verification of AlGaAs reflectors optimised for InGaP/GaAs/Ge triple-junction cells', in Conference Record of the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, pp. 1036 - 1038, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/PVSC59419.2025.11132564

Schmidt TW; Tayebjee MJY; Nielsen MP; McCamey DR; Ekins-Daukes N; Baldacchino A; Mo A; Brett MW; Pearce PM; Ciesla AM; Chang NL; Hoex B; Beves JE; Jiang Y; McNab S; Carwithen BP; de Clercq DM; Tong J, 2024, 'Singlet fission solar cells', in Freundlich A; Hinzer K; Collin S; Sellers IR (eds.), Physics, Simulation, and Photonic Engineering of Photovoltaic Devices XIII, SPIE, pp. 2 - 2, presented at Physics, Simulation, and Photonic Engineering of Photovoltaic Devices XIII, 27 January 2024 - 01 February 2024, http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.3003348

Wong J; Mitchell B; Wagner-Mohnsen H; Pearce P, 2024, 'Analyzing Rapid-QE Data Using Rayflare', in Conference Record of the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, pp. 1180 - 1181, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/PVSC57443.2024.10749256

Pearce PM; Ekins-Daukes NJ, 2024, 'Efficiency Limits of Silicon Solar Cells with Organic Singlet Fission Layers', in Conference Record of the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, pp. 1191 - 1193, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/PVSC57443.2024.10749263

Harrison J; Pearce P; Yang F; Nielsen M; Brindley H; Ekins-Daukes NJ, 2024, 'Evaluating Power Output of Terrestrial Thermoradiative Diodes with Atmospheric Modelling', in Conference Record of the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, pp. 1366 - 1369, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/PVSC57443.2024.10748806

Harrison J; Pearce P; Ekins-Daukes NJ, 2024, 'Optimized Bragg Reflectors for GaAs Subcell in InGaP/GaAs/Ge Triple-Junctions', in Conference Record of the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, pp. 1449 - 1451, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/PVSC57443.2024.10749046

Nielsen MP; Sazzad MH; Pusch A; Pearce PM; Reece PJ; Ekins-Daukes NJ, 2023, 'A direct comparison between thermoradiative and thermophotovoltaic operation of HgCdTe photodiodes', in Munday JN; Bermel P (ed.), New Concepts in Solar and Thermal Radiation Conversion V, SPIE, pp. 15 - 15, presented at New Concepts in Solar and Thermal Radiation Conversion V, 20 August 2023 - 25 August 2023, http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.2677744

Schmidt TW; Ekins-Daukes NJ; Tayebjee M; Nielsen MP; McCamey DR; Jiang JY; Hoex B; Ciesla A; Pearce PM; Chang N; Beves JE, 2023, 'Organic multiple exciton generation and silicon (OMEGA Si)', in Munday JN; Bermel P (ed.), New Concepts in Solar and Thermal Radiation Conversion V, SPIE, pp. 8 - 8, presented at New Concepts in Solar and Thermal Radiation Conversion V, 20 August 2023 - 25 August 2023, http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.2677760

Nielsen MP; Sazzad MH; Pusch A; Pearce PM; Reece PJ; Ekins-Daukes NJ, 2023, 'A direct comparison of thermoradiative and thermophotovoltaic operation of HgCdTe photodiodes', in 2023 IEEE 50TH PHOTOVOLTAIC SPECIALISTS CONFERENCE, PVSC, IEEE, PR, San Juan, presented at IEEE 50th Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC), PR, San Juan, 11 June 2023 - 16 June 2023, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/PVSC48320.2023.10359604

Pearce PM; Halme J; Jiang JY; Elsehrawy F; Ekins-Daukes NJ, 2023, 'Efficiency Limits for Multi-Junction Coloured Photovoltaics', in Conference Record of the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/PVSC48320.2023.10360038

Ekins-Daukes NJ; Nielsen MP; Pusch A; Sazzad MH; Pearce PM; Reece PJ, 2022, 'Demonstrating the Thermoradiative Diode: Generating Electrical Power Through Radiative Emission', in 2022 IEEE 49th Photovoltaics Specialists Conference (PVSC), IEEE, pp. 0959 - 0959, presented at 2022 IEEE 49th Photovoltaics Specialists Conference (PVSC), 05 June 2022 - 10 June 2022, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/pvsc48317.2022.9938647

Nielsen MP; Pusch A; Sazzad MH; Pearce PM; Reece PJ; Ekins-Daukes NJ, 2022, 'Demonstrating the thermoradiative diode: Generating electrical power through radiative emission', in Proceedings of SPIE the International Society for Optical Engineering, http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.2631707

Camarillo Abad E; Sayre L; Pearce P; Joyce H; Hirst L, 2021, 'The optimal scattering structures for light-trapping in ultra-thin photovoltaic devices', in Proceedings of SPIE the International Society for Optical Engineering, http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.2583411

Sayre L; Camarillo Abad E; Pearce P; Chausse P; Coulon PM; Shields P; Hirst L, 2021, 'Ultra-thin photovoltaics for radiation-tolerant space power systems', in Proceedings of SPIE the International Society for Optical Engineering, http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.2583519

Sayre L; Lang F; Bundesmann J; Denker A; Pearce P; Johnson A; Hirst L, 2020, 'Ultra-thin Single-junction GaAs Solar Cells for Extreme Space Environments', in Conference Record of the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, pp. 1621 - 1625, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/PVSC45281.2020.9300596

Pearce P; Sayre L; Johnson A; Hirst L; Ekins-Daukes N, 2020, 'Design of photonic light-trapping structures for ultra-thin solar cells', in Proceedings of SPIE the International Society for Optical Engineering, http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.2550136

Cleveland ER; Kotulak N; Tomasulo S; Jenkins PP; Mellor A; Pearce P; Ekins-Daukes NJ; Yakes MK, 2019, 'Interstitial Light Trapping and Optical Confinement in Multijunction Solar Cells', in Conference Record of the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, pp. 2826 - 2828, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/PVSC40753.2019.8980921

Pearce P; Ekins-Daukes N, 2019, 'Open-source integrated optical modelling with RayFlare', in Conference Record of the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, pp. 2627 - 2633, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/PVSC40753.2019.8980868

Cleveland ER; Hirst LC; Brittman S; Tomasulo S; Bennett MF; Mellor AV; Pearce P; Jenkins PP; Walters RJ; Ekins-Daukes NJ; Yakes MK, 2018, 'Enhanced Optical Absorption in an Ultra-thin Textured Solar Cell Using Nanosphere Natural Photolithography', in 2018 IEEE 7th World Conference on Photovoltaic Energy Conversion Wcpec 2018 A Joint Conference of 45th IEEE Pvsc 28th Pvsec and 34th Eu Pvsec, pp. 2878 - 2881, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/PVSC.2018.8547893

Pearce P; Mellor A; Ekins-Daukes N, 2018, 'Quantifying Parasitic Losses from Metal Scattering Structures in Solar Cells: How Uncertainty in Optical Constants Affects Simulation Results', in 2018 IEEE 7th World Conference on Photovoltaic Energy Conversion Wcpec 2018 A Joint Conference of 45th IEEE Pvsc 28th Pvsec and 34th Eu Pvsec, pp. 2918 - 2923, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/PVSC.2018.8548090

Pearce P; Wilson T; Johnson A; Ekins-Daukes N, 2018, 'Characterization of SiGeSn for Use as a 1 eV Sub-Cell in Multi-Junction Solar Cells', in 2018 IEEE 7TH WORLD CONFERENCE ON PHOTOVOLTAIC ENERGY CONVERSION (WCPEC) (A JOINT CONFERENCE OF 45TH IEEE PVSC, 28TH PVSEC & 34TH EU PVSEC), IEEE, HI, Waikoloa, pp. 0943 - 0948, presented at 7th IEEE World Conference on Photovoltaic Energy Conversion (WCPEC) / A Joint Conference of 45th IEEE PVSC / 28th PVSEC / 34th EU PVSEC, HI, Waikoloa, 10 June 2018 - 15 June 2018, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000469200400215&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Preprints

Baldo M; Ekins-Daukes N; Jiang J; Pearce P; Schmidt T; Tayebjee M, 2025, Singlet Fission Provides a Scalable Pathway to High Efficiency Silicon Photovoltaics, http://dx.doi.org/10.26434/chemrxiv-2025-kmpmx

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