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Akshay Rao is affiliated with the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. Their research spans primarily the fields of Engineering and Materials Science, with a focus on several subfields including Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials Chemistry, Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics, Polymers and Plastics, and Physical and Theoretical Chemistry.

The main topics of Akshay Rao's scientific work include:

  • Perovskite Materials and Applications
  • Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties
  • 2D Materials and Applications
  • Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films
  • Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics
  • Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures
  • Organic Light-Emitting Diodes Research

Among their recent publications are the following papers:

  • "The role of charge recombination to triplet excitons in organic solar cells" (2021, Nature)
  • "Colloidal Metal-Halide Perovskite Nanoplatelets: Thickness-Controlled Synthesis, Properties, and Application in Light-Emitting Diodes" (2021, Advanced Materials)
  • "Operando optical tracking of single-particle ion dynamics in batteries" (2021, Apollo, University of Cambridge)
  • "Nanoscale chemical heterogeneity dominates the optoelectronic response of alloyed perovskite solar cells" (2021, Nature Nanotechnology)
  • "Efficient energy transport in an organic semiconductor mediated by transient exciton delocalization" (2021, Science Advances)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Akshay Rao include:

  • Richard H. Friend
  • Raj Pandya
  • Neil C. Greenham
  • Samuel D. Stranks
  • James Xiao

Akshay Rao has published extensively in several notable scientific venues. The most frequent publication venues are:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Apollo (University of Cambridge)
  • ACS Nano
  • Nature Communications

Best Publications

  • The Role of Driving Energy and Delocalized States for Charge Separation in Organic Semiconductors

    Artem A. Bakulin;Akshay Rao;Vlad G. Pavelyev;Paul H. M. van Loosdrecht

  • Ultrafast Long-Range Charge Separation in Organic Semiconductor Photovoltaic Diodes

    Simon Gélinas;Akshay Rao;Abhishek Kumar;Samuel L. Smith

  • Synthesis and Optical Properties of Lead-Free Cesium Tin Halide Perovskite Nanocrystals

    Tom C. Jellicoe;Johannes M. Richter;Hugh F. J. Glass;Maxim Tabachnyk

  • The role of spin in the kinetic control of recombination in organic photovoltaics

    Akshay Rao;Philip C. Y. Chow;Simon Gélinas;Cody W. Schlenker

  • A transferable model for singlet-fission kinetics

    Shane R Yost;Jiye Lee;Mark W B Wilson;Tony Wu

  • Ultrafast Dynamics of Exciton Fission in Polycrystalline Pentacene

    Mark W. B. Wilson;Akshay Rao;Jenny Clark;R. Sai Santosh Kumar

  • Harnessing singlet exciton fission to break the Shockley–Queisser limit

    Akshay Rao;Richard H. Friend

  • The role of charge recombination to triplet excitons in organic solar cells.

    Alexander J. Gillett;Alberto Privitera;Rishat Dilmurat;Akchheta Karki

  • Real-time observation of multiexcitonic states in ultrafast singlet fission using coherent 2D electronic spectroscopy.

    Artem A. Bakulin;Sarah E. Morgan;Tom B. Kehoe;Mark W. B. Wilson

  • Evidence for conical intersection dynamics mediating ultrafast singlet exciton fission

    Andrew J. Musser;Matz Liebel;Christoph Schnedermann;Torsten Wende

  • Long-range exciton transport in conjugated polymer nanofibers prepared by seeded growth

    Xu-Hui Jin;Michael B. Price;John R. Finnegan;Charlotte E. Boott

  • Exciton fission and charge generation via triplet excitons in pentacene/C60 bilayers.

    Akshay Rao;Mark W B Wilson;Justin M Hodgkiss;Sebastian Albert-Seifried

  • Resonant energy transfer of triplet excitons from pentacene to PbSe nanocrystals

    Maxim Tabachnyk;Bruno Ehrler;Simon Gélinas;Marcus L Böhm

  • Bimolecular Recombination in Organic Photovoltaics

    Girish Lakhwani;Akshay Rao;Richard H. Friend

  • Singlet exciton fission in polycrystalline pentacene: from photophysics toward devices.

    Mark W. B. Wilson;Akshay Rao;Bruno Ehrler;Richard H. Friend

  • Unequal partnership: asymmetric roles of polymeric donor and fullerene acceptor in generating free charge.

    Brett M. Savoie;Akshay Rao;Artem A. Bakulin;Simon Gelinas

  • Strongly exchange-coupled triplet pairs in an organic semiconductor

    Leah R. Weiss;Sam L. Bayliss;Felix Kraffert;Karl J. Thorley

  • Singlet Exciton Fission-Sensitized Infrared Quantum Dot Solar Cells

    Bruno Ehrler;Mark W. B. Wilson;Akshay Rao;Richard H. Friend

  • Real-Time Observation of Exciton-Phonon Coupling Dynamics in Self-Assembled Hybrid Perovskite Quantum Wells.

    Limeng Ni;Uyen Huynh;Alexandre Cheminal;Tudor H. Thomas

  • Polymer blend solar cells based on a high-mobility naphthalenediimide-based polymer acceptor: Device physics, photophysics and morphology

    Jennifer R. Moore;Sebastian Albert-Seifried;Akshay Rao;Sylvain Massip

  • Temperature-Independent Singlet Exciton Fission in Tetracene

    Mark W. B. Wilson;Akshay Rao;Kerr Johnson;Simon Gélinas

  • Colloidal Metal-Halide Perovskite Nanoplatelets: Thickness-Controlled Synthesis, Properties and Application in Light-Emitting Diodes

    Clara Otero-Martínez;Junzhi Ye;Jooyoung Sung;Jooyoung Sung;Isabel Pastoriza-Santos

  • Operando optical tracking of single-particle ion dynamics in batteries.

    Alice J. Merryweather;Christoph Schnedermann;Quentin Jacquet;Clare P. Grey

  • Nanoscale chemical heterogeneity dominates the optoelectronic response of alloyed perovskite solar cells.

    Kyle Frohna;Miguel Anaya;Stuart Macpherson;Jooyoung Sung;Jooyoung Sung

  • Exploiting Excited-State Aromaticity To Design Highly Stable Singlet Fission Materials.

    Kealan J Fallon;Peter Budden;Enrico Salvadori;Enrico Salvadori;Alex M Ganose

  • Exciton‐Charge Annihilation in Organic Semiconductor Films

    Justin M. Hodgkiss;Justin M. Hodgkiss;Sebastian Albert-Seifried;Akshay Rao;Alex J. Barker

  • Efficient energy transport in an organic semiconductor mediated by transient exciton delocalization.

    Alexander J. Sneyd;Tomoya Fukui;Tomoya Fukui;David Paleček;Suryoday Prodhan

  • Room-Temperature Photoluminescence Mediated by Sulfur Vacancies in 2D Molybdenum Disulfide

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  • Excited-State Dynamics in Fully Conjugated 2D Covalent Organic Frameworks

    Andreas C Jakowetz;Andreas C Jakowetz;Ture F Hinrichsen;Laura Ascherl;Torben Sick

  • Achievement of 4.7% conversion efficiency in ZnO dye-sensitized solar cells fabricated by spray deposition using hydrothermally synthesized nanoparticles

    A Ranga Rao;V Dutta

  • Ultrafast Long-Range Charge Separation in Nonfullerene Organic Solar Cells.

    Yasunari Tamai;Yeli Fan;Vincent O. Kim;Kostiantyn Ziabrev

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard H. Friend
Richard H. Friend University of Cambridge
Neil C. Greenham
Neil C. Greenham University of Cambridge
Aditya Sadhanala
Aditya Sadhanala Indian Institute of Science
David Beljonne
David Beljonne University of Mons
Samuel D. Stranks
Samuel D. Stranks University of Cambridge
Artem A. Bakulin
Artem A. Bakulin Imperial College London
Philipp Kukura
Philipp Kukura University of Oxford
John E. Anthony
John E. Anthony University of Kentucky
Justin M. Hodgkiss
Justin M. Hodgkiss Victoria University of Wellington
Ian Manners
Ian Manners University of Victoria

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