Dr Santosh Shrestha

PhD UNSW

Lecturer and
Member, Faculty UG Education Committee

Contact Details
Office Location: Room 225, TETB (H6) Building
Email: s.shrestha@unsw.edu.au

Phone: +61 2 9385-7267
Fax: +61 2 9385-7762

Teaching Areas

  • Applied Photovoltaics
  • Introduction to Electronic Devices

Research Interests

  • Third Generation Photovoltaics
  • Hot Carrier solar cells
  • Fabrication of quantum dots structures
  • Thin film growth and characterisation
  • Ion beam analysis

Selected Publications

  • S.K. Shrestha, P. Alibeti, G. Conibeer, Energy Selective Contacts for Hot Carrier solar cell, Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells 94 (2010) 1546-1550.
  • B. Zhang, S.K. Shrestha, M.A. Green, G.J. Conibeer, Size controlled synthesis of Ge nanocrystals in SiO2 at temperatures below 400 °C using magnetron sputtering,  Applied Physics Letters 96 (2010) 261901, doi:10.1063/1.345786.
  • B. Zhang, S.K. Shrestha, P. Aliberti, M.A. Green, G.J. Conibeer, Characterisation of size-controlled and red luminescent Ge nanocrystals in multilayered superlattice structure, Thin Solid Films 518 (2010) 5483-5487.
  • G. Conibeer, L. Huang, J-F. Guillemoles, R. Patterson, A. Hsieh, D. Kőnig, S. Shrestha, M.A. Green, Modelling of hot carrier solar cell absorbers, Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells 94 (2010) 1516-1521.
  • S.K. Shrestha, Photovoltaics literature survey (No. 79), Progress in Photovoltaics: Research and Applications 18 (2010), 385-388.
  • G. Conibeer, N. Ekins-Daukes, J-F. Guillemoles, J.-F., D. Konig, E.C. Cho, C-W. Jiang, S. Shrestha, M. Green, Progress on hot carrier cells, Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells 93 (2009) 713-719.
  • Y. Takeda, T. Ito, T. Motohiro, D. König, S.K. Shrestha, G. Conibeer, Hot Carrier solar cells operating under practical conditions, Journal of Applied Physics 105 (2009) 074905.
  • K.S.A. Butcher, S.K. Shrestha, H. Hirshy, R.M Perks, Brian F. Usher, A.J. Fernandes, P.P.-T. Chen, M. Wintrebert-Fouquet, H. Timmers, The nature of nitrogen related point defects in common forms of InN, Journal of Applied Physics 101 (2007) 123702 (1-11).
  • S.K. Shrestha, H. Timmers, K.S.A. Butcher, M. Wintrebert-Fouquet, P.P.-T. Chen, Nitrogen depletion of indium nitride films during Elastic Recoil Detection analysis, Nuclear Instruments and Methods B 234 (2005) 291-307.
  • S.K. Shrestha, H. Timmers, A.P. Byrne, W.D. Hutchison, D.H. Chaplin, R. Dogra,  Implantation of the 111In/Cd probe as InO- ion for radioisotope tracer studies, Hyperfine Interactions, 2005, doi: 10.1007/s10751-005-9067-6.