READ ME File For 'Data And Code For PhD Thesis Hybrid Solar Cells and Hybrid LEDs utilising Photonic Quasi Crystals and Colloidal Quantum Dots by Thomas Mercier 2021' Dataset DOI:10.5258/SOTON/D1852 ReadMe Author: Thomas Manuel Mercier, University of Southampton ORCID ID 0000-0002-8367-0346 This dataset supports the thesis entitled "Hybrid Solar Cells and Hybrid LEDs utilising Photonic Quasi Crystals and Colloidal Quantum Dots" AWARDED BY: Univeristy of Southampton DATE OF AWARD: 2021 DESCRIPTION OF THE DATA This zip file contains the data and code used in the thesis titled "Hybrid Solar Cells and Hybrid LEDs utilising Photonic Quasi Crystals and Colloidal Quantum Dots" by , submitted in June 2021. The data is sorted by the figure to which it relates. The code is sorted in a folder structure by language and purpose. Licence: CC-BY Related projects/Funders: The work conducted for this thesis was supported by a EPSRC PhD studentship as well as grant EP/N00762X/1 Related publication: C. Krishnan, T. Mercier, T. Rahman, G. Piana, M. Brossard, T. Yagafarov, A. To, M. E. Pollard, P. Shaw, D. M. Bagnall, B. Hoex, S. A. Boden, P. G. Lagoudakis, and M. D. B. Charlton, “Efficient light harvesting in hybrid quantum dot–interdigitated back contact solar cells via resonant energy transfer and luminescent downshifting,” Nanoscale, vol. 11, no. 40, pp. 18837–18844, 2019. T. M. Mercier, C. Krishnan, P. J. Shaw, P. G. Lagoudakis, and M. D. B. Charlton, “Photonic crystal based control of directionality in GaN based LEDs,” in Light- Emitting Devices, Materials, and Applications XXIV, vol. 11302, p. 113021P, In- ternational Society for Optics and Photonics, Feb. 2020. T. M. Mercier, C. Krishnan, T. Rahman, P. J. Shaw, P. G. Lagoudakis, and M. D. B. Charlton, “FDTD study of anti-reflective properties of photonic crystal slabs in silicon,” in Physics, Simulation, and Photonic Engineering of Photovoltaic Devices IX, vol. 11275, p. 112751A, International Society for Optics and Photonics, Mar. 2020. T. M. Mercier, T. Rahman, C. Krishnan, E. Khorani, P. J. Shaw, M. E. Pollard, S. A. Boden, P. G. Lagoudakis, and M. D. B. Charlton, “High symmetry nano- photonic quasi-crystals providing novel light management in silicon solar cells,” Nano Energy, vol. 84, p. 105874, June 2021. Date that the file was created: June, 2021