Publications

Khan, Imran S., William E. McMahon, Chun-Sheng Jiang, Patrick Walker, Andriy Zakutayev, and Andrew G. Norman   "Pulsed Laser Deposition of Epitaxial SrTiO3/Sr3Al2O6  Templates as a Water-Soluble Sacrificial Layer for GaAs Growth and Lift-Off." Cryst. Growth Des. 2024.

doi: 10.1021/acs.cgd.3c01531

Sohel, Shahadat H., Ramchandra Kotecha, Imran S. Khan, Karen N. Heinselman, Sreekant Narumanchi, M. Brooks Tellekamp, Andriy Zakutayev   "Gallium Oxide Heterojunction Diodes for 400C High Temperature Applications." Physica Status Solidi (2023), 2300535.

doi: 10.1002/pssa.202300535

Khan, Imran S., T. Ablekim, D. L. McGott, B. Good, C. L. Perkins, W. K. Metzger, and A. Zakutayev   "Co-designing alloy compositions of CdSeyTe1-y absorbers and MgxZn1-xO contacts to increase solar cell efficiency." Solar RRL (2022).

doi: 10.1002/solr.202200394

Khan, Imran S., J. Morse, R. R. White, and D. C. Miller  "A Custom High-Throughput Optical Mapping Instrument for Accelerated Stress Testing of PV Module Materials." IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics  vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 73-80 (2022).

doi.org/10.1109/JPHOTOV.2021.3122925

Khan, Imran S., C. P. Muzzillo, C. L. Perkins, A. G. Norman, J. Young, N. Gaillard, and A. Zakutayev   "MgxZn1-xO contact to CuGa3Se5 absorber for photovoltaic and photoelectrochemical devices." Journal of Physics: Energy  3 024001 (2020).

doi.org/10.1088/2515-7655/abd3b3

Palm, David W., C. P. Muzzillo, M. Ben-Naim, Imran Khan,  N. Gaillard, and T.F. Jaramillo.  "Tungsten Oxide-Coated Copper Gallium Selenide Sustains Long-Term Solar Hydrogen Evolution." Sustainable Energy & Fuels (2021). 

doi.org/10.1039/d0se00487a 

Khan, Imran S.*, K. Heinselman*, and A. Zakutayev. (*equal contributions)  "Review of ZnSnN2 semiconductor material." Journal of Physics: Energy  2 032007 (2020).

doi.org/10.1088/2515-7655/ab8b69 

Good, Brian, T. Ablekim, Imran Khan, M. Reese, A. Zakutayev, and W. Metzger. "Tailoring SnO2, (Mg,Zn)O, and Ga:(Mg,Zn)O electro-optical properties and stability for solar cells." Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics 54 034002 (2020)

doi.org/10.1088/1361-6463/abb901

Tellekamp, Marshall Brooks, K. Heinselman, S. Harvey, Imran S. Khan, and A. Zakutayev. "Growth and Characterization of Homoepitaxial β-Ga2O3 Layers." J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 53 484002 (2020)

doi.org/10.1088/1361-6463/aba6b8 

Woods-Robinson, Rachel, Y. Han, H. Zhang, T. Ablekim, Imran Khan, K. A. Persson, and A. Zakutayev. "Wide band gap chalcogenide semiconductors." Chemical Reviews 120, no. 9 (2020): 4007-4055.

doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemrev.9b00600 

Kim, Jekyung, S. R. Bauers, Imran S. Khan, J. Perkins, B. I. Park, K. R. Talley, D. Kim, A. Zakutayev, and B. Shin. "Influence of hydrogen and oxygen on the structure and properties of sputtered magnesium zirconium oxynitride thin films." Journal of Materials Chemistry A 8, no. 18 (2020): 9364-9372.

doi.org/10.1039/D0TA00654H 

Talley, Kevin R., S. R. Bauers, C. L. Melamed, M. C. Papac, K. N. Heinselman, Imran Khan, D. M. Roberts et al. "COMBIgor: Data-Analysis Package for Combinatorial Materials Science." ACS combinatorial science 21, no. 7 (2019): 537-547.

doi.org/10.1021/acscombsci.9b00077 

Palekis, Vasilios, Imran Khan, S. Collins, C. A. Hsu, S. Misra, M. A. Scarpulla, Y. H. Zhang, D. Morel, and C. Ferekides. "Thin Film Solar Cells Based on n-type Polycrystalline CdTe Absorber." In 2018 IEEE 7th World Conference on Photovoltaic Energy Conversion (WCPEC)(A Joint Conference of 45th IEEE PVSC, 28th PVSEC & 34th EU PVSEC), pp. 1937-1942. IEEE, 2018.

doi.org/10.1109/PVSC.2018.8548249 

Khan, Imran S. "In Situ Extrinsic Doping of CdTe Thin Films for Photovoltaic Applications." (2018). Graduate Theses and Dissertations.

scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/7177 

Khan, Imran S., V. K. Evani, V. Palekis, and C. Ferekides. "Effect of stoichiometry on the lifetime and doping concentration of polycrystalline CdTe." IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics 7, no. 5 (2017): 1450-1455.

doi.org/10.1109/JPHOTOV.2017.2730865 

Palekis, Vasilios, S. Collins, Imran Khan, V. Evani, S. Misra, M. A. Scarpulla, M. Lonergan, D. Morel, and C. Ferekides. "Laser Annealed Back Contacts for CdTe Solar Cells." In 2017 IEEE 44th Photovoltaic Specialist Conference (PVSC), pp. 802-806. IEEE, 2017.

doi.org/10.1109/PVSC.2017.8366164 

Hsu, Chih An, V. Palekis, Imran Khan, S. Collins, D. Morel, and C. Ferekides. "The Effect of the CdCl2 Heat Treatment on CdSexTe1-x Solar Cells." In 2017 IEEE 44th Photovoltaic Specialist Conference (PVSC), pp. 3413-3416. IEEE, 2017.

doi.org/10.1109/PVSC.2017.8366767 

Collins, Shamara, Imran Khan, V. Evani, C. A. Hsu, V. Palekis, D. Morel, and C. Ferekides. "PL Study of Phosphorus-Doped CdTe EVT Films." In 2017 IEEE 44th Photovoltaic Specialist Conference (PVSC), pp. 1638-1642. IEEE, 2017.

doi.org/10.1109/PVSC.2017.8366034 

Khan, Imran S., V. Evani, S. Collins, C. A. Hsu, V. Palekis, and C. Ferekides. "The Effect of Deposition Stoichiometry and Post-deposition Treatments on Deep Defects in CdTe." In 2017 IEEE 44th Photovoltaic Specialist Conference (PVSC), pp. 2449-2452. IEEE, 2017.

doi.org/10.1109/PVSC.2017.8366728 

Palekis, Vasilios, S. Collins, Md Khan, V. Evani, S. Misra, M. A. Scarpulla, A. Abbas, J. Walls, and C. Ferekides. "Near infrared laser CdCl2 heat treatment for CdTe solar cells." In 2016 IEEE 43rd Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC), pp. 1498-1502. IEEE, 2016.

doi.org/10.1109/PVSC.2016.7749867 

Khan, M., V. Evani, V. Palekis, S. Collins, D. Morel, and C. Ferekides. "Study of defects in polycrystalline CdTe using DLTS." In 2016 IEEE 43rd Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC), pp. 2191-2194. IEEE, 2016.

doi.org/10.1109/PVSC.2016.7750023 

Evani, V., M. Khan, S. Collins, V. Palekis, D. Morel, and C. Ferekides. "Phosphorus doping of polycrystalline CdTe." In 2016 IEEE 43rd Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC), pp. 0435-0437. IEEE, 2016.

doi.org/10.1109/PVSC.2016.7749628 

Misra, Sudhajit, Md I. Khan, V. Palekis, C. Ferekides, and M. A. Scarpulla. "Continuous-wave laser driven post deposition chlorine treatment of CdTe." In 2015 IEEE 42nd Photovoltaic Specialist Conference (PVSC), pp. 1-4. IEEE, 2015.

doi.org/10.1109/PVSC.2015.7356092 

Khan, M., V. Evani, V. Palekis, P. Bane, S. Collins, D. Morel, and C. Ferekides. "In-situ antimony doping of CdTe." In 2015 IEEE 42nd Photovoltaic Specialist Conference (PVSC), pp. 1-4. IEEE, 2015.

doi.org/10.1109/PVSC.2015.7356365 

Evani, V., M. Khan, V. Kendre, D. Morel, and C. Ferekides. "Effect of Cu doping on polycrystalline CdTe prepared by close-spaced sublimation." In 2013 IEEE 39th Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC), pp. 1428-1431. IEEE, 2013.

doi.org/10.1109/PVSC.2013.6744412 

Kendre, V., V. Evani, M. Khan, V. Palekis, S. Vatavu, D. Morel, and C. Ferekides. "CdTe films by elemental vapor transport." In 2013 IEEE 39th Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC), pp. 1-4. IEEE, 2013

doi.org/10.1109/PVSC.2013.6744411 

Khan, Md Imran. "A Study on the optimization of dye-sensitized solar cells." (2013). Graduate Theses and Dissertations.

scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/4519

Khan, Md Imran, M. R. Islam, M. Z. Mozumder, and K. M. Rahman. "Photovoltaic maximum power point tracking battery charge controller." In 2009 1st International Conference on the Developements in Renewable Energy Technology (ICDRET), pp. 1-5. IEEE, 2009

doi.org/10.1109/ICDRET.2009.5454219