Prof Alison Walker
Profile
Research Interests
A full description of my research interests is given on my personal web pages.
They are in the following areas:
I am coordinator of the European Union funded project - Modecom: Modelling Electroactive Conjugated Materials at the Multiscale.
Publications
Dunn, H. K., Westin, P.-O., Staff, D. R., Peter, L. M., Walker, A. B., Boschloo, G. and Hagfeldt, A., 2011. Determination of the electron diffusion length in dye-sensitized solar cells by substrate contact patterning. Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 115 (28), pp. 13932-13937.
Peic, A., Staff, D., Risbridger, T., Menges, B., Peter, L. M., Walker, A. B. and Cameron, P. J., 2011. Real-time optical waveguide measurements of dye adsorption into nanocrystalline TiO2 films with relevance to dye-sensitized solar cells. Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 115 (3), pp. 613-619.
Groves, C., Kimber, R. G. E. and Walker, A. B., 2010. Simulation of loss mechanisms in organic solar cells: A description of the mesoscopic Monte Carlo technique and an evaluation of the first reaction method. The Journal of Chemical Physics, 133 (14), 144110.
Stevenson, S. G., Samuel, I. D. W., Staton, S. V., Knights, K. A., Burn, P. L., Williams, J. H. T. and Walker, A. B., 2010. Current-voltage characteristics of dendrimer light-emitting diodes. Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 43 (38), 385106.
Kimber, R. G. E., Walker, A. B., Schroder-Turk, G. E. and Cleaver, D. J., 2010. Bicontinuous minimal surface nanostructures for polymer blend solar cells. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 12 (4), pp. 844-851.
Meng, L. Y., Shang, Y., Li, Q. K., Li, Y. F., Zhan, X. W., Shuai, Z. G., Kimber, R. G. E. and Walker, A. B., 2010. Dynamic Monte Carlo simulation for highly efficient polymer blend photovoltaics. Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 114 (1), pp. 36-41.
Athanasopoulos, S., Emelianova, E. V., Walker, A. B. and Beljonne, D., 2010. Modelling exciton diffusion in disordered conjugated polymers. Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, 7722, 772214.
Athanasopoulos, S., Emelianova, E. V., Walker, A. B. and Beljonne, D., 2009. Exciton diffusion in energetically disordered organic materials. Physical Review B, 80 (19), 195209.
Walker, A. B., 2009. Multiscale Modeling of Charge and Energy Transport in Organic Light-Emitting Diodes and Photovoltaics. Proceedings of the IEEE, 97 (9), pp. 1587-1596.
Jennings, J. R., Ghicov, A., Peter, L. M., Schmuki, P. and Walker, A. B., 2008. Dye-sensitized solar cells based on oriented TiO2 nanotube arrays: transport, trapping, and transfer of electrons. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 130 (40), pp. 13364-13372.
Athanasopoulos, S., Hennebicq, E., Beljonne, D. and Walker, A., 2008. Trap limited exciton transport in conjugated polymers. Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 112 (30), pp. 11532-11538.
Williams, J. and Walker, A., 2008. Two-dimensional simulations of bulk heterojunction solar cell characteristics. Nanotechnology, 19 (42), p. 424011.
