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Piers R. F. Barnes is affiliated with Imperial College London in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Engineering and Materials Science, with significant contributions in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials Chemistry, and Polymers and Plastics. Additional subfields of their work include Atmospheric Science and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials.

Their scientific output demonstrates a focused interest in advanced materials and their applications, notably within Perovskite Materials and Applications, Conducting Polymers, Quantum Dots Synthesis and Properties, and Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films. Other major topics Barnes has covered include Solid-state Spectroscopy and Crystallography, Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics, and Organic Light-Emitting Diodes Research.

Piers R. F. Barnes has published in a variety of scientific venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Proceedings of the International Conference on Hybrid and Organic Photovoltaics
  • Journal of Computational Electronics
  • Advanced Energy Materials
  • Nature Communications

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Barnes include:

  • "Overcoming the Limitations of Transient Photovoltage Measurements for Studying Recombination in Organic Solar Cells," 2020, Solar RRL
  • "Driftfusion: an open source code for simulating ordered semiconductor devices with mixed ionic-electronic conducting materials in one dimension," 2022, Journal of Computational Electronics
  • "Impact of Interface Energetic Alignment and Mobile Ions on Charge Carrier Accumulation and Extraction in p-i-n Perovskite Solar Cells," 2023, Advanced Energy Materials
  • "Operando dynamics of trapped carriers in perovskite solar cells observed via infrared optical activation spectroscopy," 2023, Nature Communications
  • "Dark Current in Broadband Perovskite-Organic Heterojunction Photodetectors Controlled by Interfacial Energy Band Offset," 2024, Advanced Materials

Collaborations have formed a notable aspect of Barnes's research career. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Jenny Nelson
  • Philip Calado
  • Lucy J. F. Hart
  • James R. Durrant
  • Ilario Gelmetti

Best Publications

  • Ionic transport in hybrid lead iodide perovskite solar cells

    Christopher Eames;Jarvist M. Frost;Piers R. F. Barnes;Brian C. O’Regan

  • Eight glacial cycles from an Antarctic ice core

    Laurent Augustin;Carlo Barbante;Piers R. F. Barnes;Jean Marc Barnola

  • Reversible Hydration of CH3NH3PbI3 in Films, Single Crystals, and Solar Cells

    Aurélien M. A. Leguy;Yinghong Hu;Mariano Campoy-Quiles;M. Isabel Alonso

  • Efficiency of solar water splitting using semiconductor electrodes

    A.B. Murphy;P.R.F. Barnes;L.K. Randeniya;I.C. Plumb

  • Evidence for ion migration in hybrid perovskite solar cells with minimal hysteresis

    Philip Calado;Andrew M. Telford;Daniel Bryant;Xiaoe Li

  • The dynamics of methylammonium ions in hybrid organic–inorganic perovskite solar cells

    Aurelien M A Leguy;Jarvist Moore Frost;Andrew P McMahon;Victoria Garcia Sakai

  • Parameters influencing the efficiency of electron injection in dye-sensitized solar cells.

    Sara E. Koops;Brian C. O’Regan;Piers R. F. Barnes;James R. Durrant

  • The friction and creep of polycrystalline ice

    P. Barnes;David Tabor;J. C. F. Walker

  • Lattice dynamics and vibrational spectra of the orthorhombic, tetragonal, and cubic phases of methylammonium lead iodide

    Federico Brivio;Jarvist M. Frost;Jonathan M. Skelton;Adam J. Jackson

  • Experimental and theoretical optical properties of methylammonium lead halide perovskites

    Aurélien M. A. Leguy;Pooya Azarhoosh;M. Isabel Alonso;Mariano Campoy-Quiles

  • Enhancement of Photoelectrochemical Hydrogen Production from Hematite Thin Films by the Introduction of Ti and Si

    Julie A. Glasscock;Piers R. F. Barnes;Ian C. Plumb;Nick Savvides

  • Optoelectronic Studies of Methylammonium Lead Iodide Perovskite Solar Cells with Mesoporous TiO2: Separation of Electronic and Chemical Charge Storage, Understanding Two Recombination Lifetimes, and the Evolution of Band Offsets during J–V Hysteresis

    Brian C. O’Regan;Piers R. F. Barnes;Xiaoe Li;Chunhung Law

  • Interpretation of Optoelectronic Transient and Charge Extraction Measurements in Dye‐Sensitized Solar Cells

    Piers R. F. Barnes;Kati Miettunen;Kati Miettunen;Xiaoe Li;Assaf Y. Anderson

  • Design and evaluation of conjugated polymers with polar side chains as electrode materials for electrochemical energy storage in aqueous electrolytes

    Davide Moia;Alexander Giovannitti;Anna A. Szumska;Iuliana P. Maria

  • Dynamic disorder, phonon lifetimes, and the assignment of modes to the vibrational spectra of methylammonium lead halide perovskites

    Aurélien M. A. Leguy;Alejandro R. Goñi;Jarvist M. Frost;Jonathan Skelton

  • Electron Injection Efficiency and Diffusion Length in Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells Derived from Incident Photon Conversion Efficiency Measurements

    Piers R. F. Barnes;Assaf Y. Anderson;Sara E. Koops;James R. Durrant

  • Structural, optical and electrical properties of undoped polycrystalline hematite thin films produced using filtered arc deposition

    J.A. Glasscock;P.R.F. Barnes;I.C. Plumb;A. Bendavid

  • Identifying Dominant Recombination Mechanisms in Perovskite Solar Cells by Measuring the Transient Ideality Factor

    Phil Calado;Dan Burkitt;Jizhong Yao;Joel Troughton

  • The role of the side chain on the performance of n-type conjugated polymers in aqueous electrolytes

    Alexander Giovannitti;Iuliana P. Maria;David Hanifi;Mary J. Donahue

  • Quantifying Regeneration in Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

    Assaf Y. Anderson;Piers R. F. Barnes;James R. Durrant;Brian C. O’Regan

  • Interpretation of inverted photocurrent transients in organic lead halide perovskite solar cells: proof of the field screening by mobile ions and determination of the space charge layer widths

    Rebecca A. Belisle;William H. Nguyen;Andrea R. Bowring;Philip Calado

  • Water-based electrolytes for dye-sensitized solar cells.

    ChunHung Law;Shehan C. Pathirana;Xaioe Li;Assaf Y. Anderson

Frequent Co-Authors

Jenny Nelson
Jenny Nelson Imperial College London
Brian C. O'Regan
Brian C. O'Regan Imperial College London
James R. Durrant
James R. Durrant Imperial College London
Eric W. Wolff
Eric W. Wolff University of Cambridge
Robert Mulvaney
Robert Mulvaney British Antarctic Survey
Aron Walsh
Aron Walsh Imperial College London
Bernhard Stauffer
Bernhard Stauffer University of Bern
Pablo Docampo
Pablo Docampo University of Glasgow
Jarvist M. Frost
Jarvist M. Frost Imperial College London
Jørgen Peder Steffensen
Jørgen Peder Steffensen University of Copenhagen

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