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Optoelectronics based on metal halide perovskites (MHPs) have shown substantial promise, following more than a decade of research. For prime routes of commercialization such as tandem solar cells, optical modeling is essential for…
Accurate optical constants are essential for modelling light propagation, absorption, and ultimately photovoltaic performance in state of the art perovskite solar cells and is especially important for multiple junction or tandem cells.…
We report the uniaxial anisotropic optical constants of Wurtzite type AlN films deposited on Si (100) substrate using DC reactive magnetron sputtering as a function of growth temperature (Ts, 35 to 600 C). Evolution of optical properties…
Spectroscopic ellipsometry is a powerful method with high surface sensitivity that can be used to monitor the growth of even sub-monolayer film. However, the analysis of ultrathin films is complicated by the correlation of the dielectric…
One significant drawback of a spectroscopic ellipsometry (SE) technique is its time-consuming and often complicated analysis procedure necessary to assess the optical functions of thin-film and bulk samples. Here, to solve this inherent…
Spectroscopic ellipsometry is a widely used optical technique both in industry and research for determining the optical properties and thickness of thin films. The effective use of spectroscopic ellipsometry on micro-structures is inhibited…
We report on the optical properties of CsPbBr3 polycrystalline thin film on a single grain level. A sample comprised of isolated nanocrystals (NCs) mimicking the properties of the polycrystalline thin film grains that can be individually…
In this investigation, we have synthesized thermally stable cubic CsSnCl$_{3}$ perovskite nanocrystals (crystal size ~300 nm) with better surface morphology by the hot-injection technique. Excellent crystalline quality of these cubic…
Thin films of inorganic materials as Tin-doped indium oxide, titanium oxide, Niobium doped titanium oxide, were deposited for comparison on glass and Polyethylene terephthalate (PET) substrates with a DC sputtering method. These thin films…
Lead halide perovskite nanocrystals are attractive for light emitting devices both as electroluminescent and color converting materials, since they combine intense and narrow emissions with good charge injection and transport properties.…
Spectroscopic ellipsometry is a means to investigate optical and dielectric material responses. Conventional spectroscopic ellipsometry has trade-offs between spectral accuracy, resolution, and measurement time. Polarization modulation has…
The structural, electronic, optical and elastic properties of perovskites of the $\alpha$-, $\beta$- and $\gamma$-phase family CsSnI$_{3-x}$Cl$_x$ (x = 0, 1, 2, 3) are analyzed by ab initio methods using GGA, SCAN and HSE06. It is found…
All-inorganic halide perovskites have attracted a great interest as a promising light harvester of perovskite solar cells due to their enhanced chemical stability. In this work we investigate the material properties of solid solutions…
Seebeck coefficient is a widely-studied semiconductor property. Conventional Seebeck coefficient measurements are based on DC voltage measurement. Normally this is performed on samples with low resistances below a few Mohm level. Meanwhile,…
The first principles calculations of band gaps and bulk moduli of cesium lead halide perovskite solid solutions, $CsPb(I_{1-x}Cl_x)_3$ and $CsPb(I_{1-x}Br_x)_3$, are performed at the level of general gradient approximation of the density…
CsPbI3 has recently received tremendous attention as a possible absorber of perovskite solar cells (PSCs). However, CsPbI3-based PSCs have yet to achieve the high performance of the hybrid PSCs. In this work, we performed a density…
In this paper, we present an analysis for treating the spectroscopic ellipsometry response of Si/Ge superlattices (SL) with embedded Ge dots. Spectroscopic ellipsometry (SE) measurement at room temperature was used to investigate optical…
In the present work performance of cesium iodide thin film photocathode is studied in detail. The optical absorbance of cesium iodide thin films have been analyzed in the spectral range of 190 nm to 900 nm. The optical band gap energy of…
We use solid-state methods to synthesize single crystals of perovskite-phase cesium lead iodide (${\gamma}$-CsPbI3) that are kinetically stable at room temperature. Single crystal X-ray diffraction characterization shows that the compound…
We report optical characterization of PtSi films for thermoelectric device applications by nondestructive spectroscopic ellipsometry (SE). Pt monolayer and Pt-Si multilayer which consists of 3 pairs of Pt and Si layers were deposited on…