Dr.K.Prashanthan
Senior Lecturer Gr II
B.Sc. Hons in Physics (Jaffna)
MRes, DIC (Imperial College London,UK)
PhD in Physics (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin)
prashan@univ.jfn.ac.lk
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- Thenmolie, V. Jathushan, J.H.T.B. Jayamaha, K. Prashanthan, G. Sashikesh, & Vignarooban, K. Electrochemical and Optical Studies on Aluminum-Ion Conducting Gel-Polymer Electrolytes. Journal of Sustainable Materials Processing and Management 6(2) (2026) 38-46.
- Guixiang Li, Zuhong Zhang, Benjamin Agyei-Tuffour, Luyan Wu, Thomas W. Gries, Karunanantharajah Prashanthan, Lennart Frohloff, Artem Musiienko, Jinzhao Li, Rui Zhu, Lucy J. F. Hart, Luyao Wang, Zhe Li, Bo Hou, Norbert Koch, Michele Saba, Piers R. F. Barnes, Jenny Nelson, Paul J. Dyson, Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Meng Li & Antonio Abate, Stabilizing high-efficiency perovskite solar cells via strategic interfacial contact engineering. Nature Photonics 20 (2026) 55-62. doi.org/10.1038/s41566-025-01791-1.
- Shengnan Zuo, Alexander Tarasov, Lennart Frohloff, Karunanantharajah Prashanthan, Florian Ruske, Mailis Lounasvuori, Chiara Frasca, André Dallmann, Fengshuo Zu, Florian Mathies, Florian Scheler, Noor Titan Putri Hartono, Guixiang Li, Jinzhao Li, Maxim Simmonds, Wenhui Li, Norbert Koch, Steve Albrecht, Meng Li, Eva Unger, Mahmoud Hussein Aldanmasy, Artem Musiienko, and Antonio Abate, Tailored Crystallization Dynamics for Efficient and Stable DMSO-Free Tin Perovskite Solar Cells. Advanced Science (2025), e01311. doi.org/10.1002/advs.202501311.
- Chiara Frasca, Paola Alippi, Renè Schwiddessen, Karunanantharajah Prashanthan, Giuseppe Nasti, Shengnan Zuo, Muhammad Okash Ur Rehman, Mahmoud Hussein Aldamasy, Noor Titan Putri Hartono, Artem Musiienko, and Antonio Abate, Mitigation of Self-p-Doping and Off-Centering Effect in Tin Perovskite via Strontium Doping. ACS Energy Letters 10 (2025) 526-533. doi.org/10.1021/acsenergylett.4c02974.
- Luyan Wu, Guixiang Li, Karunanantharajah Prashanthan, Artem Musiienko, Jinzhao Li, Thomas W. Gries, Hao Zhang, Hans Köbler, Patryk Janasik, Augustine N. S. Appiah, Gopinath Paramasivam, Tianxiao Sun, Meng Li, Daniela Marongiu, Michele Saba, and Antonio Abate, Stabilization of Inorganic Perovskite Solar Cells with a 2D Dion–Jacobson Passivating Layer. Advanced Materials 35 (2023) 2304150. doi.org/10.1002/adma.202304150.
- Guixiang Li, Yalei Hu, Meng Li, Ying Tang, Zuhong Zhang, Artem Musiienko, Qing Cao, Fatima Akhundova, Jinzhao Li, Karunanantharajah Prashanthan, Fengjiu Yang, Patryk Janasik, Augustine N. S. Appiah, Sergei Trofimov, Nikolaos Livakas, Shengnan Zuo, Luyan Wu, Luyao Wang, Yuqian Yang, Janardan Dagar, Benjamin, Agyei-Tuffour, Rowan W. MacQueen, Boris Naydenov, Thomas Unold, Eva Unger, Ece Aktas, Siegfried Eigler, and Antonio Abate, Managing Excess PbI2 with Functionalised Graphene Nanosheets to Fabricate Stable High-Efficiency Perovskite Solar Cells. Angewandte Chemie International Edition 62 (2023) e202307395. doi.org/10.1002/anie.202307395.
- Fengjiu Yang, Rowan W. MacQueen, Dorothee Menzel, Artem Musiienko, Amran Al-Ashouri, Jarla Thiesbrummel, Sahil Shah, Karunanantharajah Prashanthan, Daniel Abou-Ras, Lars Korte, Martin Stolterfoht, Dieter Neher, Igal Levine, Henry Snaith, and Steve Albrecht, Rubidium Iodide Reduces Recombination Losses in Methylammonium-Free Tin-Lead Perovskite Solar Cells. Advanced Energy Materials 13 (2023) 2204339. doi.org/10.1002/aenm.202204339.
- Karunanantharajah Prashanthan, Igal Levine, Artem Musiienko, Emilio Gutierrez-Partida, Hannes Hempel, Klaus Lips, Thomas Unold, Martin Stolterfoht, Thomas Dittrich, and Rowan W. MacQueen, Internal electric fields control triplet formation in halide perovskite-sensitized photon upconverters. iScience 26 (2023) 106365. doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2023.106365.
- Karunanantharajah Prashanthan, Boris Naydenov, Klaus Lips, Eva Unger, and Rowan W. MacQueen, Interdependence of photon upconversion performance and antisolvent processing in thin-film halide perovskite-sensitized triplet–triplet annihilators. Journal of Chemical Physics 153 (2020) 164711. doi.org/10.1063/5.0026564.
- K.Prashanthan, T. Thivakarasarma, P. Ravirajan, M. Planells, N. Robertson, and J. Nelson, Improving Charge Transport of Hybrid Titanium Dioxide / Poly(3-hexylthiophene) Nanocomposites by Employing Interface Modifiers. Journal of Materials Chemistry C 5 (2017) 11758-11762. doi.org/10.1039/c7tc02225e
- Sarathchandran, K. Prashanthan, and P. Ravirajan, Role of Poly(Ethylenedioxythiophene) /Poly(StyreneSulphonate) on the Performance of Nanocrystalline Titanium Dioxide/ Poly(3-Hexylthiophene) Polymer Solar Cells. Journal of Nanoelectronics and Optoelectronics 6(3) (2011) 272-276.
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