By Professor Bram Hoex

Journal articles

Zhang Y; Veeken T; Wang S; Scardera G; Abbott M; Payne D; Polman A; Hoex B, 2022, 'Plasma Focused Ion Beam Tomography for Accurate Characterization of Black Silicon Validated by Full Wave Optical Simulation', Advanced Materials Technologies, 7, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/admt.202200068

Gandhi HH; Hoex B; Hallam BJ, 2022, 'Strategic investment risks threatening India's renewable energy ambition', Energy Strategy Reviews, 43, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.esr.2022.100921

Chaudhari A; Cui X; Hoex B; Hyde L; Ironside CN; Jadwisienczak WM; Kordesch ME; Rahman F; Vispute RD, 2022, 'Zinc oxide family semiconductors for ultraviolet radiation emission – A cathodoluminescence study', Materials Research Bulletin, 153, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.materresbull.2022.111906

Wang S; Xie T; Liang R; Zhang Y; Ma FJ; Payne D; Scardera G; Hoex B, 2022, 'An Artificial-Intelligence-Assisted Investigation on the Potential of Black Silicon Nanotextures for Silicon Solar Cells', ACS Applied Nano Materials, 5, pp. 11636 - 11647, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsanm.2c02619

Rahaman MH; Holland J; Hossain MA; Duan L; Hoex B; Mota-Santiago P; Mitchell VD; Uddin A; Stride JA, 2022, 'Increased Efficiency of Organic Solar Cells by Seeded Control of the Molecular Morphology in the Active Layer', Solar Rrl, 6, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/solr.202200184

Østrøm I; Hossain MA; Burr PA; Hart JN; Hoex B, 2022, 'Designing 3d metal oxides: selecting optimal density functionals for strongly correlated materials', Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 24, pp. 14119 - 14139, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/d2cp01303g

Wang S; Scardera G; Ma FJ; Zhang Y; Payne D; Abbott M; Hoex B, 2022, 'Quantifying the Effect of Nanofeature Size on the Electrical Performance of Black Silicon Emitter by Nanoscale Modeling', IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics, 12, pp. 744 - 753, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/JPHOTOV.2022.3148713

Zhang Y; Kong C; Scardera G; Abbott M; Payne DNR; Hoex B, 2022, 'Large volume tomography using plasma FIB-SEM: A comprehensive case study on black silicon', Ultramicroscopy, 233, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ultramic.2021.113458

Qian C; Li J; Sun K; Jiang C; Huang J; Tang R; Green M; Hoex B; Chen T; Hao X, 2022, '9.6%-Efficient all-inorganic Sb 2 (S,Se) 3 solar cells with a MnS hole-transporting layer', Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 10, pp. 2835 - 2841, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/d1ta09913b

Hadia NMA; Abdelazeez AAA; Alzaid M; Shaban M; Mohamed SH; Hoex B; Hajjiah A; Rabia M, 2022, 'Converting Sewage Water into H2 Fuel Gas Using Cu/CuO Nanoporous Photocatalytic Electrodes', Materials, 15, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ma15041489

Gupta B; Hossain MA; Riaz A; Sharma A; Zhang D; Tan HH; Jagadish C; Catchpole K; Hoex B; Karuturi S, 2022, 'Recent Advances in Materials Design Using Atomic Layer Deposition for Energy Applications', Advanced Functional Materials, 32, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202109105

Liu Y; Sang B; Hossain MA; Gao K; Cheng H; Song X; Zhong S; Shi L; Shen W; Hoex B; Huang Z, 2021, 'A novel passivating electron contact for high-performance silicon solar cells by ALD Al-doped TiO2', Solar Energy, 228, pp. 531 - 539, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.solener.2021.09.083

Jafari S; Varshney U; Hoex B; Meyer S; Lausch D, 2021, 'Understanding Light-and Elevated Temperature-Induced Degradation in Silicon Wafers Using Hydrogen Effusion Mass Spectroscopy', IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics, 11, pp. 1363 - 1369, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/JPHOTOV.2021.3104194

Hossain MA; Zhang T; Zakaria Y; Lambert D; Burr P; Rashkeev S; Abdallah A; Hoex B, 2021, 'Doped Nickel Oxide Carrier-Selective Contact for Silicon Solar Cells', IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics, 11, pp. 1176 - 1187, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/JPHOTOV.2021.3095458

Scardera G; Payne D; Khan M; Zhang Y; Soeriyadi A; Zou S; Zhang D; Davidsen R; Hansen O; Hoex B; Abbott M, 2021, 'Silicon Nanotexture Surface Area Mapping Using Ultraviolet Reflectance', IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics, 11, pp. 1291 - 1298, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/JPHOTOV.2021.3086439

Tong J; Le TT; Liang W; Hossain MA; McIntosh KR; Narangari P; Armand S; Kho TC; Khoo KT; Zakaria Y; Abdallah AA; Surve S; Ernst M; Hoex B; Fong KC, 2021, 'Impact of Pregrown SiOx on the Carrier Selectivity and Thermal Stability of Molybdenum-Oxide-Passivated Contact for Si Solar Cells', ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 13, pp. 36426 - 36435, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsami.1c06765

Wang S; Wu X; Ma FJ; Payne D; Abbott M; Hoex B, 2021, 'Field-Effect Passivation of Undiffused Black Silicon Surfaces', IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics, 11, pp. 897 - 907, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/JPHOTOV.2021.3069124

Duan L; Hoex B; Uddin A, 2021, 'Progress in Semitransparent Organic Solar Cells', Solar Rrl, 5, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/solr.202100041

Scardera G; Wang S; Zhang Y; Khan MU; Zou S; Zhang D; Davidsen RS; Hansen O; Mai L; Payne DNR; Hoex B; Abbott MD, 2021, 'On the Enhanced Phosphorus Doping of Nanotextured Black Silicon', IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics, 11, pp. 298 - 305, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/JPHOTOV.2020.3047420

Varshney U; Kim M; Khan MU; Hamer P; Chan C; Abbott M; Hoex B, 2021, 'Impact of Substrate Thickness on the Degradation in Multicrystalline Silicon', IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics, 11, pp. 65 - 72, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/JPHOTOV.2020.3038412

Madumelu C; Wright B; Soeriyadi A; Wright M; Chen D; Hoex B; Hallam B, 2020, 'Investigation of light-induced degradation in N-Type silicon heterojunction solar cells during illuminated annealing at elevated temperatures', Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, 218, pp. 110752, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.solmat.2020.110752

Hoex B, 2020, '(Invited) ALD Enabling High-Efficiency Solar Cells', ECS Meeting Abstracts, MA2020-02, pp. 1669 - 1669, http://dx.doi.org/10.1149/ma2020-02231669mtgabs

Zhang Y; Kong C; Davidsen RS; Scardera G; Duan L; Khoo KT; Payne DNR; Hoex B; Abbott M, 2020, '3D characterisation using plasma FIB-SEM: A large-area tomography technique for complex surfaces like black silicon', Ultramicroscopy, 218, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ultramic.2020.113084

Bonilla RS; Hoex B; Wilshaw PR, 2020, 'Special issue: Surface and interface passivation in crystalline silicon solar cells', Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, 213, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.solmat.2020.110580

Li J; Pan T; Wang J; Cao S; Lin Y; Hoex B; Ma Z; Lu L; Yang L; Sun B; Li D, 2020, 'Bilayer MoOX/CrOXPassivating Contact Targeting Highly Stable Silicon Heterojunction Solar Cells', ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 12, pp. 36778 - 36786, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsami.0c09877

Varshney U; Chan C; Hoex B; Hallam B; Hamer P; Ciesla A; Chen D; Liu S; Sen C; Samadi A; Abbott M, 2020, 'Controlling Light- And Elevated-Temperature-Induced Degradation with Thin Film Barrier Layers', IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics, 10, pp. 19 - 27, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/JPHOTOV.2019.2945199

Hossain MA; Khoo KT; Cui X; Poduval GK; Zhang T; Li X; Li WM; Hoex B, 2020, 'Atomic layer deposition enabling higher efficiency solar cells: A review', Nano Materials Science, 2, pp. 204 - 226, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nanoms.2019.10.001

Poduval GK; Duan L; Hossain MA; Sang B; Zhang Y; Zou Y; Uddin A; Hoex B, 2020, 'High-Efficiency Nonfullerene Organic Solar Cells Enabled by Atomic Layer Deposited Zirconium-Doped Zinc Oxide', Solar RRL, 4, pp. 2000241 - 2000241, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/solr.202000241

Duan L; Sang B; He M; Zhang Y; Hossain MA; Rahaman MH; Wei Q; Zou Y; Uddin A; Hoex B, 2020, 'Interface Modification Enabled by Atomic Layer Deposited Ultra-Thin Titanium Oxide for High-Efficiency and Semitransparent Organic Solar Cells', Solar RRL, 4, pp. 2000497 - 2000497, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/solr.202000497

Halilov S; Belayneh ML; Hossain MA; Abdallah AA; Hoex B; Rashkeev SN, 2020, 'Optimized Ni1−xAlxO hole transport layer for silicon solar cells', RSC Adv., 10, pp. 22377 - 22386, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/D0RA02982C

Krishnan C; Mercier T; Rahman T; Piana G; Brossard M; Yagafarov T; To A; Pollard ME; Shaw P; Bagnall DM; Hoex B; Boden SA; Lagoudakis PG; Charlton MDB, 2019, 'Efficient light harvesting in hybrid quantum dot-interdigitated back contact solar cells: Via resonant energy transfer and luminescent downshifting', Nanoscale, 11, pp. 18837 - 18844, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c9nr04003j

Cui X; Sun K; Huang J; Yun JS; Lee CY; Yan C; Sun H; Zhang Y; Xue C; Eder K; Yang L; Cairney JM; Seidel J; Ekins-Daukes NJ; Green M; Hoex B; Hao X, 2019, 'Cd-Free Cu2ZnSnS4 solar cell with an efficiency greater than 10% enabled by Al2O3 passivation layers', Energy and Environmental Science, 12, pp. 2751 - 2764, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c9ee01726g

Huang ZG; Gao K; Wang XG; Xu C; Song XM; Shi LX; Zhang Y; Hoex B; Shen WZ, 2019, 'Large-area MACE Si nano-inverted-pyramids for PERC solar cell application', Solar Energy, 188, pp. 300 - 304, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.solener.2019.06.015

He J; Hossain MA; Lin H; Wang W; Karuturi SK; Hoex B; Ye J; Gao P; Bullock J; Wan Y, 2019, '15% Efficiency Ultrathin Silicon Solar Cells with Fluorine-Doped Titanium Oxide and Chemically Tailored Poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene):Poly(styrenesulfonate) as Asymmetric Heterocontact', ACS Nano, 13, pp. 6356 - 6362, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.9b01754

Varshney U; Abbott M; Ciesla A; Chen D; Liu S; Sen C; Kim M; Wenham S; Hoex B; Chan C, 2019, 'Evaluating the Impact of SiNx Thickness on Lifetime Degradation in Silicon', IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics, 9, pp. 601 - 607, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/JPHOTOV.2019.2896671

Cui X; Sun K; Huang J; Lee CY; Yan C; Sun H; Zhang Y; Liu F; Hossain MA; Zakaria Y; Wong LH; Green M; Hoex B; Hao X, 2018, 'Enhanced Heterojunction Interface Quality to Achieve 9.3% Efficient Cd-Free Cu2ZnSnS4 Solar Cells Using Atomic Layer Deposition ZnSnO Buffer Layer', Chemistry of Materials, 30, pp. 7860 - 7871, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemmater.8b03398

Zhang T; Lee CY; Wan Y; Lim S; Hoex B, 2018, 'Investigation of the thermal stability of MoOx as hole-selective contacts for Si solar cells', Journal of Applied Physics, 124, http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.5041774

Lee CY; Deng S; Zhang T; Cui X; Khoo KT; Kim K; Hoex B, 2018, 'Evaluating the impact of thermal annealing on c -Si/Al2O3 interface: Correlating electronic properties to infrared absorption', Aip Advances, 8, pp. 075204, http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.5036738

Lee CY; Wang S; Cui X; Zhang T; Deng R; Khoo KT; Hoex B, 2018, 'Improving the Silicon Surface Passivation by Aluminum Oxide Grown Using a Non-Pyrophoric Aluminum Precursor', Physica Status Solidi Rapid Research Letters, 12, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/pssr.201800156

Zhang T; Lee CY; Gong B; Lim S; Wenham S; Hoex B, 2018, 'In situ x-ray photoelectron emission analysis of the thermal stability of atomic layer deposited WOx as hole-selective contacts for Si solar cells', Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology A Vacuum Surfaces and Films, 36, http://dx.doi.org/10.1116/1.5020339

Rahman T; To A; Pollard ME; Grant NE; Colwell J; Payne DNR; Murphy JD; Bagnall DM; Hoex B; Boden SA, 2018, 'Minimising bulk lifetime degradation during the processing of interdigitated back contact silicon solar cells', Progress in Photovoltaics Research and Applications, 26, pp. 38 - 47, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/pip.2928

Zhang T; Hossain MA; Lee C-Y; Zakaria Y; Abdallah AA; Hoex B, 2018, 'Atomic layer deposited ZnxNi1−xO: A thermally stable hole selective contact for silicon solar cells', Applied Physics Letters, 113, pp. 262102 - 262102, http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.5056223

To A; Hoex B, 2017, 'Extracting dielectric fixed charge density on highly doped crystalline-silicon surfaces using photoconductance measurements', Journal of Applied Physics, 122, http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.5010160

To A; Tahir S; Garavaglia A; Li WM; Li X; Hoex B, 2017, 'The Effect of Bifacial AlOx Deposition on PERC Solar Cell Performance', IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics, 7, pp. 1528 - 1538, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/JPHOTOV.2017.2745699

Lee CY; Aziz MIA; Wenham S; Hoex B, 2017, 'Characterisation of thermal annealed WO x on p-type silicon for hole-selective contacts', Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, 56, http://dx.doi.org/10.7567/JJAP.56.08MA08

To A; Ma F; Hoex B, 2017, 'Improved understanding of the recombination rate at inverted p+ silicon surfaces', Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, 56, http://dx.doi.org/10.7567/JJAP.56.08MB05

Tong J; To A; Lennon A; Hoex B, 2017, 'Unintentional consequences of dual mode plasma reactors: Implications for upscaling lab-record silicon surface passivation by silicon nitride', Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, 56, http://dx.doi.org/10.7567/JJAP.56.08MB12

Bonilla RS; Hoex B; Hamer P; Wilshaw PR, 2017, 'Dielectric surface passivation for silicon solar cells: A review', Physica Status Solidi A Applications and Materials Science, 214, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/pssa.201700293

Hallam B; Chen D; Kim M; Stefani B; Hoex B; Abbott M; Wenham S, 2017, 'The role of hydrogenation and gettering in enhancing the efficiency of next-generation Si solar cells: An industrial perspective', Physica Status Solidi A Applications and Materials Science, 214, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/pssa.201700305

Li M; Ma FJ; Peters IM; Shetty KD; Aberle AG; Hoex B; Samudra GS, 2017, 'Numerical Simulation of Doping Process by BBr3 Tube Diffusion for Industrial n -Type Silicon Wafer Solar Cells', IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics, 7, pp. 755 - 762, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/JPHOTOV.2017.2679342

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