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Overview

Bryce S. Richards is affiliated with the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany and conducts research primarily in materials science and engineering. Their academic work spans multiple subfields, encompassing materials chemistry, electrical and electronic engineering, renewable energy, sustainability and the environment, polymers and plastics, as well as atomic and molecular physics and optics.

Their research topics include:

  • Luminescence Properties of Advanced Materials
  • Perovskite Materials and Applications
  • Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties
  • Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials
  • Solid State Laser Technologies
  • Conducting polymers and applications
  • Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films

Richards has been published in several scientific journals, frequently contributing to the following venues:

  • Advanced Optical Materials
  • Journal of Materials Chemistry C
  • Advanced Materials Technologies
  • ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
  • Journal of Membrane Science

Among recent papers authored or co-authored by Richards are:

  • Photon Upconversion for Photovoltaics and Photocatalysis: A Critical Review, 2021, Chemical Reviews
  • 2D/3D Heterostructure for Semitransparent Perovskite Solar Cells with Engineered Bandgap Enables Efficiencies Exceeding 25% in Four-Terminal Tandems with Silicon and CIGS, 2020, Advanced Functional Materials
  • Scalable two-terminal all-perovskite tandem solar modules with a 19.1% efficiency, 2022, Nature Energy
  • High Efficiency Perovskite-Silicon Tandem Solar Cells: Effect of Surface Coating versus Bulk Incorporation of 2D Perovskite, 2020, Advanced Energy Materials
  • Radiative cooling and indoor light management enabled by a transparent and self-cleaning polymer-based metamaterial, 2024, Nature Communications

Frequent collaborators in publications include:

  • Ian A. Howard
  • Andrey Turshatov
  • Dmitry Busko
  • Ulrich W. Paetzold
  • Eduard Madirov

Richards' research integrates interdisciplinary areas focusing on the synthesis and properties of advanced luminescent materials, perovskite-based solar technologies, and polymer-based metamaterials. Their contributions entail both fundamental and applied aspects in energy materials and optoelectronics, with emphasis on photovoltaic efficiency, photochemical processes, and optical material design.

Best Publications

  • Application of NaYF 4 : Er 3 + up-converting phosphors for enhanced near-infrared silicon solar cell response

    A. Shalav;B. S. Richards;T. Trupke;Karl Krämer

  • Luminescent layers for enhanced silicon solar cell performance: Up-conversion

    A. Shalav;A. Shalav;B.S. Richards;M.A. Green

  • Enhancing the performance of solar cells via luminescent down-shifting of the incident spectrum: A review

    Efthymios Klampaftis;David Ross;Keith R. McIntosh;Bryce S. Richards

  • Enhancing the performance of silicon solar cells via the application of passive luminescence conversion layers

    B.S. Richards

  • Silicon nanostructures for third generation photovoltaic solar cells

    Gavin Conibeer;Martin Green;Richard Corkish;Young Cho

  • Record Open-Circuit Voltage Wide-Bandgap Perovskite Solar Cells Utilizing 2D/3D Perovskite Heterostructure

    Saba Gharibzadeh;Bahram Abdollahi Nejand;Marius Jakoby;Tobias Abzieher

  • Efficiency enhancement of solar cells by luminescent up-conversion of sunlight

    T. Trupke;A. Shalav;B.S. Richards;P. Würfel

  • Photon Upconversion for Photovoltaics and Photocatalysis: A Critical Review – Focus Review

    Bryce S. Richards;Damien Hudry;Dmitry Busko;Andrey Turshatov

  • Advanced Material Concepts for Luminescent Solar Concentrators

    B.C. Rowan;L.R. Wilson;B.S. Richards

  • The importance of dehydration in determining ion transport in narrow pores.

    Laura A. Richards;Andrea I. Schäfer;Bryce S. Richards;Ben Corry

  • Single-material TiO2 double-layer antireflection coatings

    B.S. Richards

  • Comparison of TiO2 and other dielectric coatings for buried-contact solar cells: A review

    B. S. Richards

  • Measurement method for photoluminescent quantum yields of fluorescent organic dyes in polymethyl methacrylate for luminescent solar concentrators

    L. R. Wilson;B. S. Richards

  • Coated and Printed Perovskites for Photovoltaic Applications.

    Ian A. Howard;Tobias Abzieher;Ihteaz M. Hossain;Helge Eggers

  • Europium complexes with high total photoluminescence quantum yields in solution and in PMMA

    Omar Moudam;Brenda C. Rowan;Mohammed Alamiry;Patricia Richardson

  • Inkjet-Printed Micrometer-Thick Perovskite Solar Cells with Large Columnar Grains

    Helge Eggers;Fabian Schackmar;Tobias Abzieher;Qing Sun

  • Highly Efficient IR to NIR Upconversion in Gd2O2S: Er3+ for Photovoltaic Applications

    Rosa Martín-Rodríguez;Stefan Fischer;Aruna Ivaturi;Benjamin Froehlich

  • Inkjet-Printed Triple Cation Perovskite Solar Cells

    Florian Mathies;Helge Eggers;Bryce Sydney Richards;Gerardo Hernandez-Sosa

  • Electron-Beam-Evaporated Nickel Oxide Hole Transport Layers for Perovskite-Based Photovoltaics

    Tobias Abzieher;Somayeh Moghadamzadeh;Fabian Schackmar;Helge Eggers

  • Wide-range non-contact fluorescence intensity ratio thermometer based on Yb3+/Nd3+ co-doped La2O3 microcrystals operating from 290 to 1230 K

    Guojun Gao;Dmitry Busko;Sandra Kauffmann-Weiss;Andrey Turshatov

  • Increase in external quantum efficiency of encapsulated silicon solar cells from a luminescent down-shifting layer

    Keith R. McIntosh;James N. Cotsell;Katherine Hanton

  • Enhancing the Near-Infrared Spectral Response of Silicon Optoelectronic Devices via Up-Conversion

    B.S. Richards;A. Shalav

Frequent Co-Authors

Ulrich W. Paetzold
Ulrich W. Paetzold Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Ian A. Howard
Ian A. Howard Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Uli Lemmer
Uli Lemmer Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Andrea I. Schäfer
Andrea I. Schäfer Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Karl Krämer
Karl Krämer University of Bern
Keith R. McIntosh
Keith R. McIntosh University of Wollongong
Christof Wöll
Christof Wöll Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Hendrik Hölscher
Hendrik Hölscher Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Yana Vaynzof
Yana Vaynzof TU Dresden
Jan Christoph Goldschmidt
Jan Christoph Goldschmidt Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems

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