UNIVERSITY OF DAR ES SALAAM
COLLEGE OF NATURAL AND APPLIED SCIENCES (CONAS)

LWITIKO MWAKYUSA

Lecturer, College Of Natural And Applied Sciences
Education:

2015–2019 PhD Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). Thesis entitled “Development and characterization of co-evaporated CZTSe solar cells” (Ph.D. awarded November 2019), 2008-2012 MSc (Physics) University of Dar es Salaam Thesis entitled “Structural, E

Projects:

Recent projects:

  1. Project title: Solar cooking for institution as one of the alternatives for inefficient and polluting cooking technologies

Funding institution: UDSM

  1. Project title: Development of highly efficient CZTSe based solar cells: a quest to mitigate global warming

Funding organisation: UDSM

  1. Project title: performance enhancement of solar-driven photocatalytic materials for water treatment (SolPhoWat).

Funding organisation: DFG

Publications:

Most Recent Relevant Publications:

  1. Lwitiko P. Mwakyusa, Nuru R. Mlyuka, Margaret E. Samiji, Boron Doped ZnO Films Deposited by DC Reactive Sputtering Using Zn:B Target: Influence of the Deposition Temperature on the Structural, Electrical and Optical Properties Tanzania Journal of Science 48(1) 2022 DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.4314/tjs.v48i1.14
  2.  Lwitiko Mwakyusa, Xiaowei Jin, Erich Müller, Reinhard Schneider, Dagmar Gerthsen, Monika Rinke, Ulrich W. Paetzold, Bryce S. Richards, and Michael Hetterich, Phase Evolution During Annealing of Low-Temperature Co-Evaporated Precursors for CZTSe Solar Cell Absorbers Journal of Applied Physics 129, 153104 (2021)
  3. Lwitiko P. Mwakyusa, Lennart Leist, Monika Rinke, Alexander Welle, Ulrich W. Paetzold, Bryce S. Richards, and Michael Hetterich, Impact of Silver Incorporation at the Back Contact of Kesterite Solar Cells on Structural and Device Properties Thin Solid Films 2020, 709(1) 138223
  4. Lwitiko P. Mwakyusa Development and Characterization of Co-evaporated CZTSe solar cells Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT), 2019 10.5445/IR/1000099731
  5. Lwitiko P. Mwakyusa, Markus Neuwirth, Will Kogler, Thomas Schnabel, Erik Ahlswede, Ulrich W. Paetzold, Bryce S. Richards, Michael Hetterich, CZTSe solar cells prepared by co-evaporation of multilayer Cu-Sn/Cu,Zn,Sn,Se/ZnSe/Cu,Zn,Sn,Se stacks Phys. Scr. 2019, 94 105007