CDU - EHS - School of Engineering and Information Technology

School of Engineering and Informatoin Technology

Prof. Jai Singh, B.Sc., M. Sc., Ph.D Professor, Physics
Contact details
Phone:	+61 8 8946 6811
Email:	jai.singh@cdu.edu.au
Address:	School of Engineering and Information Technology Charles Darwin University Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia, 0909
Fax:	+61 8 8946 6366
Building:	Purple 12
Room:	Purple 12.2.7

Teaching Teaching activities focus on materials engineering, renewable energy and mathematics for engineers.

Research interests My general research interests lie in the area of condensed matter physics. Specifically: Excitonic Processes in Condensed Matter Photo-excitation Induced Processes in Amorphous Semiconductors Designing Amorphous Silicon Solar Cells for Optimal Photovoltaic Performance. More information about current research projects can be found here.

Selected publications Books J. Singh and K. Shimakawa, Advances in Amorphous Semiconductors (Gordon and Breach /Taylor & Francis, London, 2003), ISBN 0415 287707. J. Singh, Excitation energy transfer processes in condensed matter: Theory and applications, (Plenum Press, New York- London, 1994), ISBN 0-306-44780-0. Book proceedings J. Singh (Editor) Proc. 5th International Conference on Excitonic Processes in Condensed Matter, EXCON'02, 22-26 July, 2002, Darwin, Australia published as a special volume of the Journal of Nonlinear Optics, vol. 29, nos. 4-12 (Taylor & Francis, 2002). S. Chandra, J. Singh, K. Presnell (editors) Proceedings of the 34th ANZSES Annual Conference, SOLAR'96, 22-25 Oct., 1996 (ANZSES NT Branch, Darwin, 1996). J. Singh (Editor) Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Excitonic Processes in Condensed Matter, EXCON'94, Darwin, 19-22 July, 1994 (SPIE, Washington, 1995); and Journal of Pure and Applied Chemistry, Vol. 63 (Blackwell, Oxford) 1995. J. Singh and S. Chandra ( Editors) Proceedings of the ANZSES Annual Conference, "" SOLAR'92"",15-18 July, 1992 ( NT Govt., Darwin, 1992). Journals and papers J. Singh, Dynamics of Excitons in: Solid State Physics, edited by H. Ehrenreich, D. Turnbull and F. Seitz (Academic Press, N.Y.) Vol. 38, 295-341 (1984). J. Singh, N. Itoh, Y. Nakai, J. Kanasaki and A. Okano, Defect-excitation processes involved in laser-induced atomic emission and laser ablation of non-metallic solids, Phys. Rev. B50, 11730-7 (1994). D. Birkedal, J. Singh, V.G. Lyssenko, J. Erland, and J.M. Hvam, Binding of quasi-two dimensional biexcitons, Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 672-675 (1996). J. Singh, D. Birkedal, V.G. Lyssenko, and J.M. Hvam, Binding energy of two dimensional biexcitons, Phys. Rev. B53, 15909-13 (1996). R. Yang and J. Singh, Study of the stability of hydrogenated amorphous silicon using tight binding molecular dynamics, J. Non-Cryst. Sol. 240, 29-34(1998). P. Stulik and J. Singh, A simple method to simulate the influence of defects on the short circuit current in amorphous silicon solar cells, J. Non-Cryst. Sol. 226, 299-303 (1998). I.-K. Oh and J. Singh, A. Thilagam, and A.S. Vengurlekar, Exciton formation assisted by LO phonons in quantum wells, Phys. Rev. B62, 2045-2050 (2000). J. Singh, Electronic processes in amorphous semiconductors ( Invited Review article), J. Material Science 14, 171-186 (2003). For a list of publications, please click here.

Recent postgraduate completions Pavel Stulik (1996-1998) Study of the optical properties of thin film amorphous silicon solar cells, 1999.

Membership of professional organisations Fellow of the Australian Institute of Physics Member of the American Physical Society President of the Northern Territory Branch of the Australian New Zealand Solar Energy Society (ANZSES) Member of Australasian Association for Engineering Education (AAEE)