Prof. Nanditha Dissanayake

Sustainable Energy Technologies

Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA

Email: nanditha.dissanayake@gmail.com

Qualifications

2008 Ph.D., University of Surrey, UK
2002 B.Sc., University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka

Publications (Selected)

1. D. M. N. M. Dissanayake, B. Roberts and P.-C. Ku, “Angular Selective Transparent Photovoltaics”, Appl. Phys. Lett. (2012) (Pending).
2. Y. Pang, D. M. N. M. Dissanayake and M. Eisaman, “Guided Mode Absorption in Ultrathin Organic Photovoltaics”, 38th IEEE PVSC Proceedings (2012) (submitted).
3. C. Liu, N. Dissanayake, S. Lee, K. Lee and Z. Zhong, “Evidence of Direct Extraction of Hot Carriers from Graphene” (submitted) (2012).
4. N. M. Dissanayake and Z. Zhong, “Unexpected Hole Transfer Leads to High Efficiency Single-walled Carbon Nanotube Hybrid Photovoltaic” Nano Letters, 11, 286-290 (2011).
5. D. M. N. M. Dissanayake, B. Roberts and P.-C. Ku, “Plasmonic Backscattering Enhanced Inverted Photovoltaic”, Appl. Phys. Lett., 99, 113306, (2011).
6. B. Roberts, D. M. N. M. Dissanayake, and P.-C. Ku “Wavelength and Angular Selective Plasmonic Nanostructures for Transparent Photovoltaics” Optics Express, Vol 20, Issue S2, pp. A265-A269 (2012).
7. D. M. N. M. Dissanayake, R. A. Hatton, T. Lutz, R. J. Curry and S. R. P. Silva, “Charge transfer between acene and PbS-nanocrystals”, Nanotechnology. 20, 245202 (2009).
8. D. M. N. M. Dissanayake, T. Lutz, R. A. Hatton, R. J. Curry and S. R. P. Silva, “PbS nanocrystal:fullerene hybrid photovoltaic”, Nanotechnology, 20, 195205 (2009).
9. D. M. N. M Dissanayake, T. Lutz, R. J. Curry and S. R. P. Silva, “Measurement and validation of PbS-nanocrystal energy levels”, Appl. Phys. Lett., 93, 043501, (2008).
10. D. M. N. M. Dissanayake, A. A. D. T. Adikaari and S. R. P. Silva, “Enhanced photovoltaic performance in nanoimprinted pentacene-PbS nanocrystal hybrid device, Appl. Phys. Lett., 92, 093308 (2008).
11. D. M. N. M Dissanayake, R. A. Hatton. R.J. Curry, T. Lutz, C. Giusca, S. R. P. Silva. “A PbS nanocrystal-C60 photovoltaic device for infrared light harvesting”, Appl. Phys. Lett., 91,133506 (2007).
12. D. M. N. M Dissanayake, A. A. D. T. Adikaari, R. A. Hatton, R. J. Curry, S. R. P. Silva, “Nanoimprinted large area heterojunction pentacene-C60 photovoltaic device”, Appl. Phys. Lett., 90, 253502 (2007).
13. D. M. N. M. Dissanayake, R. A. Hatton, R. J. Curry, S. R. P. Silva, “Operation of a reversed pentacene-fullerene discrete heterojunction photovoltaic device”, Appl. Phys. Lett., 90, 113505 (2007).
14. D. M. N. M. Dissanayake, R. A. Hatton, C. Giusca, T. Lutz, R. Curry and S. R. P. Silva, “Organic:PbS-nanocrystal:fullerene hybrid photovoltaics”, MRS Symposium Proceedings, 1102, 59-65 (2008).
15. B. Roberts, D. M. N. M. Dissanayake and P.-C Ku, “Plasmonic Nanostructures for Transparent Photovoltaic Facades”, 37th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialist Conference, 2011 (Accepted).
16. A. A. D. T. Adikaari, D. M. N. M. Dissanayake and S. R. P. Silva “Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Solar Cells: Recent Developments and Outlook”, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, 16, 1595 (2010).
17. K. Bourdakos, D. M. N. M. Dissanayake, R. J Curry and S. R. P. Silva, “High efficient near-infrared hybrid organic-inorganic nanocrystal electroluminescence device”, Appl. Phys. Lett., 92, 153311 (2008).
18. A. A. D. T. Adikaari, D. M. N. M. Dissanayake, R. A. Hatton, S. R. P. Silva, “Efficient laser textured nanocrystalline silicon-polymer bilayer solar cells”, Appl. Phys. Lett., 90, 203514 (2007).
19. R. P. Silva, “Broadband energy harvesting with nano-composite PbSNanocrystal/Excimer laser crystallized thin film amorphous silicon hybrid solar cells”, Solar Energy Materials & Solar Cells,. 93, 549-551 (2009).
20. A. A. D. T. Adikaari, D. M. N. M. Dissanayake, N. K. Mudugamuwa and S. R. P. Silva, “Nano Engineered Organic-Inorganic Material Systems for Photovoltaics, Advanced Material Research: Nanomaterials and Devices –Processing and Applications”, 67, 1-6 (2009).