Staff Profiles

BEd, MSc., PhD

• Electronics
• Semiconductor Devices
• Energy Physics
• Renewable energy
• Solid state Physics

• Nanoscience and Energy
• Photocatalysis
• Fundamental understanding and application aspects of organic/inorganic hybrid solar cells
• Metal-oxides nanostructures,
• Thin film Technology

Interested in fabrication and spectroscopic characterization of novel nano-materials and their assembly into functional devices including hybrid organic/inorganic solar cells and fuel cells. The aim is to investagate the relationship between structures and properties and functionality of the devices. A better understanding of interfacial processes in terms of charge transport and transfer properties and recombination processes in solid-solid, solid-liquid interfaces is of great interest. 

1.  Alexander T. Paaradzah, Kelebogile D. Maabong, Huzifa M. A. M. Elnour, Asmita Singh, Mmantsae Diale, and Tjaart P. J. Krüger, “Identification of Exciton–Exciton Annihilation in Hematite Thin Films”, J. Phys. Chem. C, Vol.123 (30), 18676-18684, 2019.
2. Kelebogile Maabong, Augusto G. J. Machatine, Benard Mwankenwa, Rita Toth, Artur Braun, Bora Debajeet, Mmantsae Diale (2018), “Nanostructured hematite thin films for photoelectrochemical water splitting”, Physica B: Condensed Matter, Vol.535, 67-71, 2018.
3. Kelebogile Maabong, Augusto G. Machatine, Yelin Hu, Artur Braun, Mmantsae Diale “Influence of anodization time on surface modification on hematite photoanode upon anodization”, J. Mater. Res., Vol.31 (11) 1-8, 2016.
4. K. Maabong, C. M. Muiva, P. Monowe, T. S Sathiaraj, M. Hopkins, L. Nguyen, K. Malungwa, M. Thobega, “Natural pigments as photosensitizers for dye-sensitized solar cells with TiO2 thin films”, International Journal of Renewable Energy Research, Vol.5(1), 55-60, 2015.