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Akira Yamada is affiliated with the Tokyo Institute of Technology in Japan. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of Engineering and Materials Science, with notable subfields including Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials Chemistry, Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics, Biomedical Engineering, and Automotive Engineering.

The scientist's main topics of work involve:

  • Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films
  • Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties
  • Semiconductor materials and interfaces
  • Copper-based nanomaterials and applications
  • Additive Manufacturing and 3D Printing Technologies
  • Rare-earth and actinide compounds
  • Solar cell performance optimization

Their recent papers reflect this diverse expertise:

  • Physical and chemical aspects at the interface and in the bulk of CuInSe2-based thin-film photovoltaics, 2021, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
  • CIGS photovoltaics: reviewing an evolving paradigm, 2021, Journal of Physics D Applied Physics
  • Enhancement of Cu(In,Ga)Se2 solar cells efficiency by controlling the formation of Cu-deficient layer, 2020, Japanese Journal of Applied Physics
  • Interfacial modification mechanism by aging effect for high-performance Cd-free and all-dry process Cu(In,Ga)(S,Se)2 solar cells, 2020, Applied Physics Letters
  • Deterioration of the Mechanical Properties of FFF 3D-Printed PLA Structures, 2020, Inventions

The scientist has frequently published in several venues, with a prominence in the Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, where they have eight publications. Other venues include physica status solidi (a) and physica status solidi (RRL) - Rapid Research Letters, each with two publications, as well as Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics and Journal of Physics D Applied Physics.

Yamada collaborates regularly with various co-authors, including Takahito Nishimura, Kazuyoshi Nakada, Yosuke Abe, Naoki Suyama, and Takashi Fujii. Takahito Nishimura is the most frequent co-author, with seventeen joint publications, indicating a significant research partnership.

Best Publications

  • Electrical and optical properties of boron‐doped ZnO thin films for solar cells grown by metalorganic chemical vapor deposition

    Wilson W. Wenas;Akira Yamada;Kiyoshi Takahashi;Masahiro Yoshino

  • Atomic layer deposition of ZnO transparent conducting oxides

    Akira Yamada;Baosheng Sang;Makoto Konagai

  • Textured ZnO Thin Films for Solar Cells Grown by Metalorganic Chemical Vapor Deposition

    Wilson W. Wenas;Akira Yamada;Makoto Konagai;Kiyoshi Takahashi

  • Photoelectrochemical water splitting using a Cu(In,Ga)Se2 thin film

    Daisuke Yokoyama;Tsutomu Minegishi;Kazuhiko Maeda;Masao Katayama

  • The Tokyo subway sarin attack--lessons learned.

    T. Okumura;T. Hisaoka;A. Yamada;T. Naito

  • Epitaxial Growth of Organic Thin Films by Organic Molecular Beam Epitaxy

    Masahiko Hara;Hiroyuki Sasabe;Akira Yamada;Anthony F. Garito

  • Preferred Orientation Control of Cu(In1-xGax)Se2 (x ?0.28) Thin Films and Its Influence on Solar Cell Characteristics

    Sutichai Chaisitsak;Akira Yamada;Makoto Konagai

  • Photopotential and photocurrent induced by a tolusafranine ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid system

    Masao Kaneko;Akira Yamada

  • Textured ZnO Thin Films for Solar Cells Grown by a Two-step Process with the Atomic Layer Deposition Technique

    Baosheng Sang;Akira Yamada;Makoto Konagai

  • Control of actin moving trajectory by patterned poly(methylmethacrylate) tracks

    H. Suzuki;A. Yamada;K. Oiwa;H. Nakayama

  • New World-Record Efficiency for Pure-Sulfide Cu(In,Ga)S 2 Thin-Film Solar Cell With Cd-Free Buffer Layer via KCN-Free Process

    Homare Hiroi;Yasuaki Iwata;Shunsuke Adachi;Hiroki Sugimoto

  • High Quality Aluminum Oxide Passivation Layer for Crystalline Silicon Solar Cells Deposited by Parallel-Plate Plasma-Enhanced Chemical Vapor Deposition

    Shinsuke Miyajima;Junpei Irikawa;Akira Yamada;Makoto Konagai

  • Highly efficient 1 μm thick CdTe solar cells with textured TCOs

    Nowshad Amin;Takayuki Isaka;Akira Yamada;Makoto Konagai

  • Phases and Third-Order Optical Nonlinearities in Tetravalent Metallophthalocyanine Thin Films

    Masahiro Hosoda;Tatsuo Wada;Akira Yamada;Anthony F. Garito

  • Femtosecond spectroscopy of vanadyl phthalocyanines in various molecular arrangements

    Akira Terasaki;Masahiro Hosoda;Tatsuo Wada;Hirokazu Tada

  • Polycrystalline Cu(InGa)Se2 Thin-Film Solar Cells with ZnSe Buffer Layers

    Yasutoshi Ohtake;Katsumi Kushiya;Mitsuru Ichikawa;Akira Yamada

  • Mobility Enhancement of Textured ZnO Films by Ultraviolet Light Irradiation

    Akira Yamada;Wilson W. Wenas;Masahiro Yoshino;Makoto Konagai

  • Epitaxial growth of silicon by photochemical vapor deposition at a very low temperature of 200 °C

    Shoji Nishida;Tsunenori Shiimoto;Akira Yamada;Shiro Karasawa

  • Fabrication of Cu(In,Ga)Se2 thin films by a combination of mechanochemical and screen-printing/sintering processes

    T. Wada;Y. Matsuo;S. Nomura;Y. Nakamura

  • Optimization of ZnO Films for Amorphous Silicon Solar Cells

    Katsuya Tabuchi;Wilson W. Wenas;Akira Yamada;Makoto Konagai

Frequent Co-Authors

Makoto Konagai
Makoto Konagai Tokyo City University
Hiroyuki Sasabe
Hiroyuki Sasabe Chitose Institute of Science and Technology
Anthony F. Garito
Anthony F. Garito University of Pennsylvania
Nowshad Amin
Nowshad Amin Universiti Tenaga Nasional
Masahiko Hara
Masahiko Hara Tokyo Institute of Technology
Hideaki Ishii
Hideaki Ishii Tokyo Institute of Technology
Oliver Brandt
Oliver Brandt Paul Drude Institute for Solid State Electronics
Takashi Minemoto
Takashi Minemoto Ritsumeikan University
Seiji Yamazoe
Seiji Yamazoe Tokyo Metropolitan University
K. H. Ploog
K. H. Ploog National Sun Yat-sen University

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