Jose Raul Montes-Bojorquez, Maria Fernanda Villa-Bracamonte, Omar J. Castillo, and Arturo A. Ayón Silicon Solar Cell Efficiency Improvement Employing Electrostatically Assembled Polyelectrolyte-Quantum Dot Multilayers, Results in Optics, Volume 15, May 2024, 100655. DOI:10.1016/j.rio.2024.100655
Maria Fernanda Villa-Bracamonte, Jose Raul Montes-Bojorquez, and Arturo A. Ayón Optical Properties Study of a Perovskite Solar Cell Film Stack by Spectroscopic Ellipsometry and Spectrophotometry, Results in Optics, Volume 15, May 2024, 100640. DOI:10.1016/j.rio.2024.100640
A. Cordova-Rubio, R. Lopez-Delgado, A. Zazueta-Raynaud, Arturo A. Ayón, and M.E. Alvarez-Ramos Efficiency Improvement of Commercial Silicon solar Cells Using Bilayers of Luminescent Nanomaterials, Applied Physics A, Volume 129, November 2023, 129:874. DOI:10.1007/s00339-023-07146-3
Alvaro Flores-Pacheco, Jose Raul Montes-Bojorquez, Mario Enrique Alvarez-Ramos, and Arturo A. Ayón Enhanced Power Conversion Efficiency of Single-Crystal Silicon Solar Cells by the Utilization of pH-Tuned ZnO Down-Shifting Photoluminescent Quantum Dots, Journal of Micro and Nano Engineering, Volume 15, June 2022, 100128. DOI:10.1016/j.mne.2022.100128
David Elam, Eduardo Ortega, Anastasiia Nemashkalo, Yuri Strzhemechny, Arturo Ayón, Arturo Ponce, and Andrey A. Chabanov Low-Defect-Density ZnO Homoepitaxial Films Grown by Low-Temperature ALD, Appl. Phys. Lett. 119, 142101 (2021). DOI:10.1063/5.0062122
Janeth Alexandra García-Monge and Arturo A Ayón, Dependence of Spin Current Modulation on Stress-Mediated Magneto-Electric Coupling in Ferromagnetic Devices, J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 54 (2021) 345005. DOI:10.1088/1361-6463/ac0704
J.C. Melendres-Sánchez, R. López-Delgado, G. Saavedra-Rodríguez, R.C. Carrillo-Torres, R. Sánchez-Zeferino, A. Ayón and M.E. Álvarez-Ramos, Zinc Sulfide Quantum Dots Coated with PVP: Applications on Commercial Solar Cells, Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics, 32, 1457-1465 (2021). DOI:10.1007/s10854-020-04916-0
Juan Adrian Zepeda-Galvez, Daniel Shreiber, Arturo Ayón, All-Optical Reconfigurable Metamaterial Employing the Self-Assembly of CdTe Quantum Dots, Journal of Inorganic Non-metallic Materials, Vol. 10, No. 3, July 2020. DOI:10.4236/ojinm.2020.103003
J.E. Pelayo, E. Saucedo-Flores, R. Ruelas-Lepe, and A. Ayón, Anomalous Stokes Shift of Colloidal Quantum Dots and their Influence on Solar Cell Performance, Journal of Microsystem Technologies, 2019. DOI:10.1007/s00542-019-04603-z
R. Guerrero-Gonzalez, F.A. Orona, E. Saucedo-Flores, R. Ruelas, J.E. Pelayo-Ceja, R. Lopez-Delgado, A. Cordova Rubio, M.E. Alvarez-Ramos, and A. Ayón, Synthesis of Si and CdTe Quantum Dots and their Combined Use as Down-Shifting Photoluminescent Centers in Si Solar Cells, Materials for Renewable and Sustainable Energy, (2019) 8:14. DOI:10.1007/s40243-019-0153-0
Janeth Alexandra García-Monge, Clarissa D. Vazquez-Colon, Arturo Ponce, Gregory Guisbiers, and Arturo A. Ayón, Synergistic Photoluminescent Interaction of Si and CdTe Quantum Dots, Journal of Microsystem Technologies, 2019. DOI:10.1007/s00542-019-04602-0
R. Lopez-Delgado, Miriam Tostado-Plascencia, M.E. Álvarez-Ramos, and Arturo Ayon, Silicon Solar Cell Efficiency Improvement Employing Photoluminescent Properties of Chlorophyll-A, Microelectronic Engineering 216 (2019) 111047. DOI:10.1016/j.mee.2019.111047
Clarissa D. Vázquez-Colón, Alvaro Flores-Pacheco, Janeth Alexandra García-Monge, Juan Adrián Zepeda-Galvéz, Daniel Shreiber, and Arturo Ayón, Terahertz Modulation of Hexagonal-Shaped Metamaterials Employing ZnO Quantum Dots, Journal of Inorganic Non-metallic Materials, Vol. 1, No.1, January 2019. DOI:10.4236/ojinm.2019.91001
J. Melendres, G. Saavedra Rodríguez, R. López-Delgado, R.C. Carrillo-Torres, R. Sánchez Zeferino, E. Alvarez, and Arturo Ayón, Utilization of ZnS Quantum Dots for Photovoltaic Applications, Microsc. Microanal. 24 (Suppl 1), 1760, 2018. DOI:10.1017/S1431927618009285
Rosendo Lopez-Delgado, Y. Zhou, A. Zazueta-Raynaud, H. Zhao, J.E. Pelayo, A. Vomiero, M.E. Álvarez-Ramos, F. Rosei, and A. Ayon, Enhanced Conversión Efficiency in Si Solar Cells Employing Luminescent Down-Shifting CdSe/Cd Score/Shell Quantum Dots, Scientific Reports, Vol. 7, Article Number 14104 (2017). DOI:10.1038/s41598-017-14269-0
Ulises Tronco-Jurado, Emmanuel Saucedo-Flores, Ruben Ruelas, Rosendo Lopez, and Arturo A. Ayón, Synergistic Effects of Nanotexturization and Down Shifting CdTe Quantum Dots in Solar Cell Performance, Microsystem Technologies (2017) 23:3945-3953. DOI:10.1007/s00542-015-2748-4
Manisha Sharma, Rosendo Lopez-Delgado, and Arturo A. Ayón, Effect of Au Nanoparticles on the Performance of Hybrid Solar Cells, Journal of Microsystem Technologies, 2017. DOI:10.1007/s00542-017-3510-x
Rosendo Lopez-Delgado, H.J. Higuera-Valenzuela, A. Zazueta-Raynaud, A. Ramos, J.E. Pelayo, D. Berman, M.E. Álvarez-Ramos, and Arturo Ayón, Solar Cell Efficiency Improvement Employing Down-Shifting Silicon Quantum Dots, Microsystem Technologies (2017), 1-8. DOI:10.1016/j.mee.2019.111047
A. Zazueta-Raynaud, J.E. Pelayo-Ceja, R. Lopez-Delgado, and A. Ayón, Utilization of Down Shifting Photo-luminescent ZnO Quantum Dots in Solar Cells, 2017 Mater. Res. Express 4 076203. DOI:10.1088/2053-1591/aa7824
J.E. Pelayo, N. Herrera, A. Zazueta, R. Lopez, E. Saucedo, R. Ruelas, and A. Ayón, Silicon Solar Cell Efficiency Improvement Employing the Photoluminescent, Down-Shifting Effects of Carbon And CdTe Quantum Dots, Materials for Renewable and Sustainable Energy, March, 2016. DOI:10.1007/s40243-016-0070-4
Ramakrishna Kotha, Diana Strickland, and Arturo A Ayón, Nanowire Fabrication in Porous Alumina Templates Produced by Employing Sulphuric, Oxalic and Phosphoric Acids, Journal of Inorganic Non-metallic Materials, Vol. 5, No. 3, 2015. DOI:10.4236/ojinm.2015.53005
D. Strickland, A. Ayón, and A. Alu, Dynamic Polarizability Tensor for Circular Cylinders, Physical Review B, Phys. Rev. B 91, 085104, 2015. DOI:10.1103/PhysRevB.91.085104
Emmanuel Saucedo-Flores, Rubén Ruelas, Víctor Rangel, Ulises Tronco, y Arturo Ayón, Modelado de la Fotoluminiscencia Descendente en Nanopartículas de CdSe/Te, Revista Iberoamericana de Ciencias, Vol. 1, No. 7, December, 2014, pp. 113-121. ISSN 2334-250
M. Sharma, P.R. Pudasaini, F. Ruiz-Zepeda, D. Vinogradova, and A.A. Ayón, Plasmonic Effects of Au/Ag Bimetallic Multi-Spiked Nanoparticles for Photovoltaic Applications, ACS Journal of Applied Materials and Interface, 2014, 6(17):15472-9. DOI:10.1021/am5040939
Pushpa Raj Pudasaini, Manisha Sharma, Francisco Ruiz-Zepeda, and Arturo A Ayón, Efficiency Improvement of a Nanostructured Polymer Solar Cell Employing Atomic Layer Deposited Al 2O 3 as a Passivation Layer , Microelectronic Engineering, Vol. 119, 1 May 2014, pp. 6-10. DOI:10.1016/j.mee.2014.01.015
M. Sharma, P.R. Pudasaini, F. Ruiz-Zepeda, D. Elam, and A.A. Ayón, Ultrathin, Flexible, Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Solar Cells Based on Silicon Nanowires and PEDOT:PSS, ACS Journal of Applied Materials and Interface, 2014, 6, 4356-4363. DOI:10.1021/am500063w
Pushpa Raj Pudasaini and Arturo A Ayón, Nanostructured Plasmonic Silicon Solar Cells, Journal of Microelectronic Engineering, 110 (2013) 126-131. DOI:10.1016/j.mee.2013.02.104
Pushpa Raj Pudasaini, Francisco Ruiz-Zepeda, Manisha Sharma, David Elam, Arturo Ponce, and Arturo A Ayón, High Efficiency Hybrid Silicon Nanopillar-Polymer Solar Cells, ACS Journal of Applied Materials and Interface, 2013, 5 (19), pp 9620-9627. DOI:10.1021/am402598j
H. Nanda Kumar, K.R. Van Sickle, A. Parikh, C. Louden, J. Michalek, A.A. Ayón, and S.M. Cohn, Development of an Animal Model to Investigate Optimal Laparascopic Trocar Site Fascial Closure, J. Surg. Res., 2013 Sep; 184 (1): 126-31. DOI:10.1016/j.jss.2013.05.025
Pushpa Raj Pudasaini and Arturo A Ayón, Aluminum Oxide Passivated Radial Junction Sub-Micron Pillar Arrays Textured Silicon Solar Cells, Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 2013, 46 235104. DOI:10.1088/0022-3727/46/23/235104
M.F. Cabral, J.D. Barrios, E.M. Kataoka, S.A.S. Machado, E. Carrilho, C.D. Garcia, and A.A. Ayón, Computational, Electrochemical, and Spectroscopic, Studies of Acetycholinesterase Covalently Attached to Carbon Nanotubes, Colloids and Surfaces B: Biointerfaces, Volume 103, March 2013, pp. 624-629. DOI:10.1016/j.colsurfb.2012.08.039
Pushpa Raj Pudasaini and Arturo A Ayón, Modeling the Front Side Plasmonics Effect in Nanotextured Silicon Surface for Thin Film Solar Cell Applications, Microsystem Technologies, (2013) 19:871-877. DOI:10.1007/s00542-013-1756-5
Pushpa Raj Pudasaini and Arturo A. Ayón, High Efficiency Nanotextured Silicon Solar Cells, Journal of Optics Communications, Volume 285, Issues 21-22, October 2012, pp. 4211-4214. DOI:10.1016/j.optcom.2012.07.028
Eric Tavares da Costa, Carlos Antonio Neves, Guilherme Minoru Hotta, Denis Tadeu Rajh Vidal, Marcelo Fagundes Barros, Arturo A. Ayón, Carlos D. Garcia, and Claudimir Lucio do Lago, Unmanned Platform for Long-Range Remote Analysis of Volatile Compounds in Air Samples, Electrophoresis, 2012, 33(17), 2650-2659. DOI:10.1002/elps.201200273
Pushpa Raj Pudasaini and Arturo A Ayón, Nanostructure Thin Film Silicon Solar Cell Efficiency Improvement Using Gold Nanoparticles, J. of Physica Status Solidi A, Vol. 209, pp. 1475-1480, 2012. DOI:10.1002/pssa.201228022
D. Valdez, C. Garcia and A. Ayón, Implementation of a Field Programmable Gate Array for Wireless Control of a Lab-on-a-Robot, J. of Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing, 71, pp. 29-38, 2012. DOI:10.1007/s10470-010-9577-2
G. Collins, D. Elam, R. Hackworth, R. Kotha, A. Ayón, A. Chabanov, and C. Chen, The Use of Pulsed Laser Deposition to Produce Low-Temperature Barium Titanate Films on Nickel Tape and Carbon Fiber Fabric, Journal of Microsystem Technologies, Volume 17, Number 4, pp. 701-706, 2011. DOI:10.1007/s00542-010-1157-y
C. Berg, D.C. Valdez, P. Bergeron, M.F. Mora, C.D. Garcia, and A.A. Ayón, Lab-on-a-Robot: Integrated Microchip CE, Power Supply, Electrochemical Detector, Wireless Unit, and Mobile Platform, Electrophoresis, Special Issue on Miniaturization, Vol. 29, pp. 4914-4921, 2009. DOI:10.1002/elps.200800215
G. Mani, D.M. Johnson, D. Marton, M.D. Feldman, D. Patel, A.A. Ayón, et al, Drug Delivery from Gold and Titanium Surfaces Using Self-Assembled Monolayers, Biomaterials, 29, 4561-4573, 2008. DOI:10.1016/j.biomaterials.2008.08.014
P. Cotae, S. Yalamanchili, C.L.P. Chen, and A. Ayón, Optimization of Sensor Locations and Sensitivity Analysis for Engine Health Monitoring Using Minimum Interference Algorithms, Eurasip Journal on Advances in Signal Processing Special Issue on Distributed Signal Processing Techniques for Wireless Sensors Networks, Volume 2008, pp. 1-9, (Article ID 280346), 2008. DOI:10.1155/2008/280346
G. Mani, D. Johnson, M. Denes, V. Dougherty, M. Feldman, D. Patel, A. Ayón, et al, Stability of Self-Assembled Monolayers on Titanium and Gold, Langmuir, Vol. 24, pp. 6774-6784, 2008. DOI:10.1021/la8003646
M.F. Mora, J. Felhofer, A. Ayón, and C.D. Garcia, Surfactants as a Preferred Option to Improve Separation and Detection in Capillary Electrophoresis, Analytical Letters, Volume 41, pp. 312-334, 2008. DOI:10.1080/00032710701792927
L. Blanes, M.F. Mora, C.L. do Lago, A. Ayón, and C.D. Garcia, Lab-on-a-Chip Biosensor for Glucose Based on a Packed Immobilized Enzyme Reactor, Electroanalysis, Volume 19, pp. 2451-2456, 2007. DOI:10.1002/elan.200704001
Yongsheng Ding, Arturo A. Ayón, and Carlos Garcia, Electrochemical Detection of Phenolic Compounds Using Cylindrical Carbon-Ink Electrodes and Microchip Capillary Electrophoresis, Analytica Chimica Acta, Volume 584, pp. 244-251, 2007. DOI:10.1016/j.aca.2006.11.064
D.M. Johnson, D. Marton, A. Mahapatro, M. Feldman, D. Patel, A. Ayón, et al, The Use of Alkanethiol Self-assembled Monolayers (SAMs) on 316L Stainless Steel for Coronary Artery Stent Nanomedicine Applications: An Oxidative and In Vitro Stability Study, Journal of Nanomedicine: Nanotechnology, Biology and Medicine, Volume 2, pp. 182-190, 2006. DOI:10.1016/j.nano.2006.07.006
A. Ayón, M. Cantu, K. Chava, C.M. Agrawal, M.D. Feldman, D. Johnson, D. Patel, and E. Shi, Drug Loading of Nanoporous TiO2 Films, Journal of Biomedical Materials, Volume 1, pp. L11-L15, 2006. DOI:10.1088/1748-6041/1/4/L01
Mahapatro, D.M. Johnson, D.N. Patel, M.D. Feldman, A.A. Ayón, et al, Surface Modification of Functional Self-Assembled Monolayers on 316L Stainless Steel via Lipase Catalysis, Langmuir, Volume 22, pp. 901-905, 2006. DOI:10.1021/la052817h
Alvaro Flores-Pacheco, Enrique Alvarez and Arturo A Ayón, Utilization of Quantum Dots on Silicon Solar Cells, Featured in Solar Cells and Light Management, Chapter 13, pp. 443-477, Elsevier, 2020.
Emmanuel Saucedo-Flores, Rubén Ruelas, Víctor Rangel-Cobián, Héctor Pulido-González, J Elías Pelayo-Ceja y Arturo Ayón, Modelo Cuántico con Entrelazamiento y Confinamiento Aplicado al Hidrógeno, Featured in Ciencias Biológicas y Químicas, 1st Edition, Chapter 5, pp. 91-120, Science associate Editors, 2015.
Pushpa Raj Pudasaini and Arturo A Ayón, Design Guidelines for High Efficiency Plasmonics Silicon Solar Cells, Featured in High-Efficiency Solar Cells - Physics, Materials and Devices (volume 190), Chapter 16, pp. 497-514, Springer Verlag Series in Materials Science, 2014.
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