Faiz Ahmad

ScholarGPS® ID: 18062696452252

Affiliation

Pennsylvania State University, University Park, United States

Affiliation History

Field

Physical Sciences and Mathematics

Discipline

Physics

Top Specialties

Solar Cell | Thin-film Solar Cell | Energy

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294

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Bifacial flexible CIGS thin-film solar cells with nonlinearly graded-bandgap photon-absorbing layers (journal article) Ahmad, Faiz \| Monk, Peter B \| Lakhtakia, Akhlesh Journal of Physics: Energy, volume 6, issue 2, pages 025012- (2024). 10.1088/2515-7655/ad29fd Cited by (2) \| Cite \| Source
Efficiency enhancement of ultrathin CIGS solar cells by optimal bandgap grading. Part III: piecewise-homogeneous grading (journal article) Ahmad, Faiz \| Monk, Peter B. \| Lakhtakia, Akhlesh Applied Optics, volume 63, issue 11, pages 2831- (2024). 10.1364/AO.516850 Cite \| Source
Effects of defect density, minority carrier lifetime, doping density, and absorber-layer thickness in CIGS and CZTSSe thin-film solar cells (journal article) Ahmad, Faiz \| Civiletti, Benjamin J. \| Monk, Peter B. \| Lakhtakia, Akhlesh Journal of Photonics for Energy, volume 13, issue 02 (2023). 10.1117/1.JPE.13.025502 Cited by (2) \| Cite \| Source
Nonlinear effects in modeling thin-film graded-bandgap solar cells (conference) Ahmad, Faiz \| Civiletti, Benjamin \| Lakhtakia, Akhlesh \| Monk, Peter B. Active Photonic Platforms (APP) 2022 (2022) San Diego, United States 10.1117/12.2632264 Cite \| Source
Double-layer antireflection coatings for CIGS thin-film solar cells (conference) Ahmad, Faiz \| Civiletti, Benjamin J. \| Monk, Peter B. \| Lakhtakia, Akhlesh International Workshop on Thin Films for Electronics, Electro-Optics, Energy and Sensors (2022) Boston, United States 10.1117/12.2645881 Cite \| Source
Efficiency enhancement of ultrathin CIGS solar cells by optimal bandgap grading. Part II: finite-difference algorithm and double-layer antireflection coatings (journal article) Ahmad, Faiz \| Civiletti, Benjamin J. \| Monk, Peter B. \| Lakhtakia, Akhlesh Applied Optics, volume 61, issue 33, pages 10049- (2022). 10.1364/AO.474920 Cited by (3) \| Cite \| Source
Enhanced efficiency of graded-bandgap thin-film solar cells due to concentrated sunlight (journal article) Ahmad, Faiz \| Lakhtakia, Akhlesh \| Monk, Peter B. Applied Optics, volume 60, issue 34, pages 10570- (2021). 10.1364/AO.442590 Cited by (3) \| Cite \| Source
Thin film solar cells with graded-bandgap photon-absorbing layer (book chapter) In Thin Film Nanophotonics Ahmad, Faiz \| Lakhtakia, Akhlesh \| Monk, Peter B. Elsevier (2021) 10.1016/B978-0-12-822085-6.00007-8 Cited by (1) \| Cite \| Source
Double-absorber thin-film solar cell with 34% efficiency (journal article) Ahmad, Faiz \| Lakhtakia, Akhlesh \| Monk, Peter B. Applied Physics Letters, volume 117, issue 3 (2020). 10.1063/5.0017916 Cited by (15) \| Cite \| Source
Towards highly efficient thin-film solar cells with a graded-bandgap CZTSSe layer (journal article) Ahmad, Faiz \| Lakhtakia, Akhlesh \| Anderson, Tom H \| Monk, Peter B Journal of Physics: Energy, volume 2, issue 2, pages 025004- (2020). 10.1088/2515-7655/ab6f4a Cited by (20) \| Cite \| Source
Efficiency enhancement of ultrathin CIGS solar cells by optimal bandgap grading: erratum (journal article) Ahmad, Faiz \| Anderson, Tom H. \| Monk, Peter B. \| Lakhtakia, Akhlesh Applied Optics, volume 59, issue 8, pages 2615- (2020). 10.1364/AO.389988 Cited by (10) \| Cite \| Source
Optoelectronic optimization of graded-bandgap thin-film AlGaAs solar cells (journal article) Ahmad, Faiz \| Lakhtakia, Akhlesh \| Monk, Peter B. Applied Optics, volume 59, issue 4, pages 1018- (2020). 10.1364/AO.381246 Cited by (13) \| Cite \| Source
Optoelectronically optimized colored thin-film CZTSSe solar cells (conference) Ahmad, Faiz \| Anderson, Tom H. \| Lenau, Torben A. \| Lakhtakia, Akhlesh International Workshop on Thin Films for Electronics, Electro-Optics, Energy and Sensors 2019 (2019) Reykjavik, Iceland 10.1117/12.2534592 Cited by (1) \| Cite \| Source
Randomized phase 3 evaluation of trifarotene 50 μg/g cream treatment of moderate facial and truncal acne (journal article) Tan, Jerry \| Thiboutot, Diane \| Popp, Georg \| Gooderham, Melinda \| Lynde, Charles \| Del Rosso, James \| Weiss, Jonathan \| Blume-Peytavi, Ulrike \| Weglovska, Jolanta \| Johnson, Sandra \| ... \| Stein Gold, Linda Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology, volume 80, issue 6, pages 1691-1699 (2019). 10.1016/j.jaad.2019.02.044 Cited by (77) \| Cite \| Source
Towards biomimetic red solar cells (conference) Lenau, Torben A. \| Ahmad, Faiz \| Lakhtakia, Akhlesh Bioinspiration, Biomimetics, and Bioreplication IX (2019) Denver, United States 10.1117/12.2513259 Cited by (1) \| Cite \| Source
Efficiency enhancement of ultrathin CIGS solar cells by optimal bandgap grading (journal article) Ahmad, Faiz \| Anderson, Tom H. \| Monk, Peter B. \| Lakhtakia, Akhlesh Applied Optics, volume 58, issue 22, pages 6067- (2019). 10.1364/AO.58.006067 Cited by (30) \| Cite \| Source
Optimization of light trapping in ultrathin nonhomogeneous CuIn1-ξGaξSe2 solar cell backed by 1D periodically corrugated backreflector (conference) Ahmad, Faiz \| Anderson, Tom H. \| Monk, Peter B. \| Lakhtakia, Akhlesh Nanostructured Thin Films XI (2018) San Diego, United States 10.1117/12.2320672 Cited by (9) \| Cite \| Source
Optimization approach for optical absorption in three-dimensional structures including solar cells (journal article) Civiletti, Benjamin J. \| Anderson, Tom H. \| Ahmad, Faiz \| Monk, Peter B. \| Lakhtakia, Akhlesh Optical Engineering, volume 57, issue 05, pages 1- (2018). 10.1117/1.OE.57.5.057101 Cited by (17) \| Cite \| Source
On optical-absorption peaks in a nonhomogeneous thin-film solar cell with a two-dimensional periodically corrugated metallic backreflector (journal article) Ahmad, Faiz \| Anderson, Tom H. \| Civiletti, Benjamin J. \| Monk, Peter B. \| Lakhtakia, Akhlesh Journal of Nanophotonics, volume 12, issue 01, pages 1- (2018). 10.1117/1.JNP.12.016017 Cited by (19) \| Cite \| Source \| Open Access
Optimization of charge-carrier generation in amorphous-silicon thin-film tandem solar cell backed by two-dimensional metallic surface-relief grating (conference) Civiletti, Benjamin J. \| Anderson, Thomas H. \| Ahmad, Faiz \| Monk, Peter B. \| Lakhtakia, Akhlesh Next Generation Technologies for Solar Energy Conversion VIII (2017) San Diego, United States 10.1117/12.2274077 Cited by (1) \| Cite \| Source