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James M. Ball is affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom and has contributed extensively to research in engineering and materials science. Their work primarily focuses on electrical and electronic engineering, materials chemistry, and polymers and plastics, with additional research in atomic and molecular physics, optics, and renewable energy sustainability.

The main topics of their research encompass:

  • Perovskite Materials and Applications
  • Conducting Polymers and Applications
  • Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films
  • Quantum Dots Synthesis and Properties
  • Solid-state Spectroscopy and Crystallography
  • Advancements in Solid Oxide Fuel Cells
  • Optical Properties and Cooling Technologies in Crystalline Materials

James M. Ball has published numerous papers, with recent notable works including:

  • "A piperidinium salt stabilizes efficient metal-halide perovskite solar cells" (2020) in Science
  • "Revealing Charge Carrier Mobility and Defect Densities in Metal Halide Perovskites via Space-Charge-Limited Current Measurements" (2021) in ACS Energy Letters
  • "Toward Understanding Space-Charge Limited Current Measurements on Metal Halide Perovskites" (2020) in ACS Energy Letters
  • "Intermediate-phase engineering via dimethylammonium cation additive for stable perovskite solar cells" (2022) in Nature Materials
  • "Open-circuit and short-circuit loss management in wide-gap perovskite p-i-n solar cells" (2023) in Nature Communications

They frequently publish in venues such as:

  • ACS Energy Letters
  • Nature Communications
  • Proceedings of the International Conference on Hybrid and Organic Photovoltaics
  • Science
  • Nature Materials

Frequent co-authors in their work include Henry J. Snaith, Michael B. Johnston, Philippe Holzhey, Pietro Caprioglio, and Robert D. J. Oliver. Collaboration with these researchers indicates a focus on topics related to energy materials and solar cell technologies.

Best Publications

  • Anomalous hysteresis in perovskite solar cells

    Henry J. Snaith;Antonio Abate;James M. Ball;Giles E. Eperon

  • Low-temperature processed meso-superstructured to thin-film perovskite solar cells

    James M. Ball;Michael M. Lee;Andrew Hey;Henry J. Snaith

  • Efficient organometal trihalide perovskite planar-heterojunction solar cells on flexible polymer substrates

    Pablo Docampo;James M. Ball;Mariam Darwich;Giles E. Eperon

  • Recombination Kinetics in Organic-Inorganic Perovskites: Excitons, Free Charge, and Subgap States

    Samuel D. Stranks;Victor M. Burlakov;Tomas Leijtens;James M. Ball

  • Low-temperature processed electron collection layers of graphene/TiO2 nanocomposites in thin film perovskite solar cells.

    Jacob Tse-Wei Wang;James M. Ball;Eva M. Barea;Antonio Abate

  • Defects in perovskite-halides and their effects in solar cells

    James M. Ball;Annamaria Petrozza

  • Lithium salts as “redox active” p-type dopants for organic semiconductors and their impact in solid-state dye-sensitized solar cells

    Antonio Abate;Tomas Leijtens;Sandeep Pathak;Joël Teuscher

  • Migration of cations induces reversible performance losses over day/night cycling in perovskite solar cells

    Konrad Domanski;Bart Roose;Taisuke Matsui;Michael Saliba

  • The Raman Spectrum of the CH3NH3PbI3 Hybrid Perovskite: Interplay of Theory and Experiment

    Claudio Quarti;Giulia Grancini;Edoardo Mosconi;Paola Bruno

  • Strongly emissive perovskite nanocrystal inks for high-voltage solar cells

    Quinten A. Akkerman;Quinten A. Akkerman;Marina Gandini;Marina Gandini;Francesco Di Stasio;Prachi Rastogi;Prachi Rastogi

  • Iodine chemistry determines the defect tolerance of lead-halide perovskites

    Daniele Meggiolaro;Silvia G. Motti;Silvia G. Motti;Edoardo Mosconi;Alex J. Barker

  • A piperidinium salt stabilizes efficient metal-halide perovskite solar cells.

    Yen-Hung Lin;Nobuya Sakai;Peimei Da;Jiaying Wu

  • Revealing Charge Carrier Mobility and Defect Densities in Metal Halide Perovskites via Space-Charge-Limited Current Measurements

    Vincent M Le Corre;Elisabeth A Duijnstee;Elisabeth A Duijnstee;Omar El Tambouli;James M Ball

  • Structural and optical properties of methylammonium lead iodide across the tetragonal to cubic phase transition: implications for perovskite solar cells

    Claudio Quarti;Edoardo Mosconi;James M. Ball;Valerio D'Innocenzo;Valerio D'Innocenzo

  • Optical properties and limiting photocurrent of thin-film perovskite solar cells

    James M. Ball;Samuel D. Stranks;Maximilian T. Hörantner;Sven Hüttner

  • Carrier trapping and recombination: the role of defect physics in enhancing the open circuit voltage of metal halide perovskite solar cells

    Tomas Leijtens;Tomas Leijtens;Giles E. Eperon;Alex J. Barker;Giulia Grancini

  • Electronic properties of meso-superstructured and planar organometal halide perovskite films: charge trapping, photodoping, and carrier mobility.

    Tomas Leijtens;Samuel D. Stranks;Giles E. Eperon;Rebecka Lindblad

  • Revealing the origin of voltage loss in mixed-halide perovskite solar cells

    Suhas Mahesh;James M. Ball;Robert D. J. Oliver;David P. McMeekin

  • Controlling competing photochemical reactions stabilizes perovskite solar cells

    Silvia G. Motti;Silvia G. Motti;Silvia G. Motti;Daniele Meggiolaro;Alex J. Barker;Edoardo Mosconi

  • Toward understanding space-charge limited current measurements on metal halide perovskites

    Elisabeth A. Duijnstee;James M. Ball;Vincent M. Le Corre;L. Jan Anton Koster

  • Mapping Electric Field‐Induced Switchable Poling and Structural Degradation in Hybrid Lead Halide Perovskite Thin Films

    Tomas Leijtens;Eric T. Hoke;Giulia Grancini;Daniel J. Slotcavage

  • Intermediate-phase engineering via dimethylammonium cation additive for stable perovskite solar cells

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Frequent Co-Authors

Henry J. Snaith
Henry J. Snaith University of Oxford
Annamaria Petrozza
Annamaria Petrozza Italian Institute of Technology
Thomas D. Anthopoulos
Thomas D. Anthopoulos University of Manchester
Michael B. Johnston
Michael B. Johnston University of Oxford
Tomas Leijtens
Tomas Leijtens Swift Solar
Giles E. Eperon
Giles E. Eperon Swift Solar
Filippo De Angelis
Filippo De Angelis University of Perugia
Giulia Grancini
Giulia Grancini University of Pavia
Samuel D. Stranks
Samuel D. Stranks University of Cambridge

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