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Research Materials (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
This collection contains materials associated with research that are valuable to share and preserve but are not published through formal channels.
Items in this Collection
- 12D Materials
- 12D semiconductor nanosheets
- 1Bandgap Engineering
- 1CO2 photoreduction
- 1Carbon dioxide photoreduction
- 1FDTD simulations
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2018-07-22
Kar, Piyush;, Zeng, Sheng;, Zhang, Yun; Vahidzadeh, Ehsan;, Manuel, Ajay P.;, Kisslinger, Ryan;, Alam, Kazi M,;, Thakur, Ujwal K.,, Mahdi, Najia;, Kumar, Pawan;, Shankar, Karthik
The photocatalytic reduction of CO2 into light hydrocarbons using sunlight and water is a challenging reaction involving eight electron transfer steps; nevertheless, it has great potential to address the problem of rising anthropogenic carbon emissions and enable the use of fossil fuels in a...
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Nanophotonic Enhancement and Improved Electron Extraction in Perovskite Solar Cells Using Near-Horizontally Aligned TiO2 Nanorods
Download2018-11-18
Thakur, Ujwal K., Zeng, Sheng, Kumar, Pawan, Patel, Sahil, Kisslinger, Ryan, Zhang, Yun, Kar, Piyush, Goswami, Ankur, Thundat, Thomas, Meldrum, Alkiviathes, Shankar, Karthik
While vertically oriented metal oxide nanowires have been intensely researched for use as electron transport layers (ETLs) in halide perovskite solar cells (HPSCs), horizontal nanowires (oriented roughly parallel to the substrate) have received much less attention despite their higher photonic...
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2018-11-24
Manuel, Ajay P., Kirkey, Aaron, Mahdi, Najia, Shankar, Karthik
The nanoscale confinement and coupling of electromagnetic radiation into plexcitonic modes has drawn immense interest because of the innovative possibilities for their application in light harvesting and light emitting devices (LEDs). Plexcitons arise from the coupling between two types of...
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2018-04-21
Kumar, Pawan, Boukherroub, Rabah, Shankar, Karthik
The overwhelming challenge of depleting fossil fuels and anthropogenic carbon emissions has driven research into alternative clean sources of energy. To achieve the goal of a carbon neutral economy, the harvesting of sunlight by using photocatalysts to split water into hydrogen and oxygen is an...