Prof. Tim Jones

BSc (Liverpool), PhD (Liverpool)

Research Summary

Controlling the growth and properties of a wide range of semiconductor thin films and nanostructures, using both inorganic and organic materials. A sophisticated array of thin film deposition techniques is used to develop new types of structures with novel and well-defined functional properties (i.e. electronic, optical or magnetic), and prototype devices are developed in areas such as solar cells, sensors and spintronics. Current research includes: Organic solar cells; Hybrid organic-inorganic solar cells; Molecular magnetism and spintronics; Molecular assembly at surfaces and control of interface properties; Growth of indium nitride alloys and nanostructures; III-V semiconductor nanostructures for high efficiency solar cells; Novel narrow band gap semiconductor materials for infrared sensing applications.

Selected Publications

Elucidating the factors that determine the open circuit voltage in discrete heterojunction organic photovoltaic cells
K.V. Chauhan, R.A. Hatton, P. Sullivan, T.S. Jones, S.W. Cho, L. Piper, A DeMasi, K.E. Smith, Journal of Materials Chemistry, 2010, 20, 1173.

Increased efficiency of small molecule photovoltaic cells by insertion of a MoO₃ hole-extracting layer
I. Hancox, K.V. Chauhan, P. Sullivan, R.A. Hatton, A. Moshar, C.P.A. Mulcahy, T.S. Jones, Energy and Environmental Science, 2010, 3, 107

Morphology and structure transitions of copper hexadecafluorophthalocyanine (F₁₆CuPc) thin films
J.L. Yang, S. Schumann, T.S. Jones, Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2010, 114, 1057.

Open-cellular organic semiconductor thin films by vertical co-deposition using sub-100 nm nanosphere templates
S. Schumann, S.A.F. Bon, R.A. Hatton, T.S. Jones, Chemical Communications, 2009, 6478.