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Thesis Richards, B. S. (2002b) Novel Uses of Titanium Dioxide for Silicon Solar Cells (ISBN 0733419712), PhD thesis, University of New South Wales. (Full Text) Richards, B. S. (1998) Optical characterisation of sputtered silicon thin films for photovoltaic applications, Master of Engineering Science thesis, University of New South Wales. (Full Text) Books Beamon, S. and S. Roaf (1990). The Ice-Houses of Britain, Routledge, London. British Archaeological Book of the Year Award, 1991. E. Ekevall, J.I.B. Wilson, R.R. Mather “The effect of ammonia and sulphur dioxide gas plasma treatments on polymer surfaces” Medical Textiles and Biomaterials for Healthcare, ed. S.C. Anand, M. Miraftab, S. Rajendran, J.F. Kennedy, Publishing (Cambridge) 2006, p. 491-498 (ISBN 1 85573 683 7) Nicol, F., M. Humphreys, O. Sykes and S. Roaf (Eds) (1994). New Standards for Thermal Comfort, Spon. Richards, B. S. & Schäfer, A. I. (2008) Proc. of International Workshop in Water and Sanitation in International Development and Disaster Relief, University of Edinburgh and Heriot-Watt University, Roaf, S., D. Crichton and F. Nicol (2009). Adapting Buildings and Cities for Climate Change, Architectural Press. Roaf, S., M.Fuentes and S. Thomas (2007). Ecohouse: Design Guide, 3rd Edition, Architectural Press, Elsevier Scientific Publishers, Oxford. Roaf, S., A.Horsley and R.Gupta (2004). Closing the Loop: Benchmarks for Sustainable Buildings, RIBA Publications, London. Roaf S. and M Hancock (Eds) (1993). Energy Efficient Building: a Design Guide, Blackwell Scientific Publications, editor, June. J.I.B.Wilson and W. Kulisch (eds) "Diamond Thin Films" 481pp, Akademie Verlag GmbH, Berlin, 1996, ISBN 3-05-501760-9. Book Chapters Fethy, I. and S. Roaf (1983). The Traditional House in Baghdad - some socio-climatic considerations, in The Arab House, University of Newcastle Press, pp.41-52. P. John, J.I.B. Wilson "Structure and H bonding in device quality a-Si:H" in Tetrahedrally-bonded amorphous semiconductors" (Plenum Press, New York, 1985), p. 107-115. M.Liehr, J.I.B. Wilson "Polykristalline Diamantschichten - Herstellungsverfahren, Eigenschaften und Anwendungsgebiete" 1997 Jahrbuch Oberflächentechnik, 53, 167-188, ed. A. Zielonka (Hütig Verlag, Heidelberg, 1996). R.R. Mather, J.I.B. Wilson “Solar Textiles: production and distribution of electricity coming from solar radiation and applications” Intelligent Textiles and Clothing, ed. H. Mattila, Woodhead Publishing (Cambridge) 2006, chapter 12. R.R. Mather, A. Neville, J.I.B. Wilson “Characterisation of plasma treated textiles” In Plasma Technologies for Textiles, ed. R. Shishoo, Woodhead Publishing (Cambridge) 2007. Meir, S. and S. Roaf (2005). The future of the vernacular: Towards new methodologies for the understanding and optimisation of the performance of vernacular buildings, in L.Asquith and M. Vellinga (Eds.), Vernacular Architecture in the Twenty-First Century: Theory, Education and Practice, Spon. Meir, I. and S. Roaf (2006). Confort termico-masa termica:vivienda en climas calido-secos, Estudios del desierto, edited by Michael Schorr Wiener, published by the Universidad Autonoma De Baja California, Mexico Nicol, J. and S.Roaf (2007). Adaptive thermal comfort and passive buildings, in Santamouris, M. (Ed.) Advances in Passive Cooling, to be published by James & James Science Publishers. Nicol, J.F. and S. Roaf (2005). Post Occupancy Evaluation and Thermal Comfort Surveys, Building Research and Information, London. Guest Editor of this Special Issue with Fergus Nicol, Spon Press. Norton, B., Eames, P. C., Mallick, T. K., Huang, M. J., McCormack, S. J., and Mondol, J. D., “Advances in Solar Energy, Vol. 18”, American Solar Energy Society (to be publish soon). Richards, B. S. & Green, M. A. (2005) Photovoltaic Cells, in: (Eds), Encyclopaedia of Biomedical Engineering, (12), Wiley. Richards, B. S. & Shalav, A. (2007 (invited)) Photovoltaic Devices, in: M. C. Gupta and J. Ballato (Eds), The Handbook of Photonics (2nd Ed), Boca Raton, Florida, USA, CRC Press. Richards, B. S. (2009 (invited)) Renewable Energy: Resources, Technologies, Costs and Environmental Considerations, in: (Eds), Sustainable Water for the Future: Water Recycling versus Desalination, Elsevier Science. Roaf, S. (2009). The Sustainability of High Density, in Designing High-density Cities for Social and Environmental Sustainability, Edited by Edward Ng, Earthscan. Roaf, S. and R. Gupta (2007). Optimising the value of domestic solar roofs: drivers and barriers in the UK, in Sustainable energy: opportunities and limitations: An introductory review of the issues and choices, edited by Dave Elliot, to be published by Palgrave/McMillan publishers (In press). Roaf, S. (2005). Drivers and Barriers for Water Conservation and Use in the UK, chapter in, D. Butler and F. Memon (Eds.), Water Conservation and Reuse. Spon. Roaf, S. (2005). Sustainable Benchmarks for Post Occupancy Evaluation, in W. Preiser and J. Vischer, Post Occupancy Evaluation, published by Harper Colins, New York Roaf, S., M.Fuentes and R.Gupta (2005). Solar Cities: The Oxford Solar Initiative, chapter in M.Jenks. Future Form and Design of Sustainable Cities,Architectural Press. Roaf, S. (2003). 'Sustainable Building and the Middle Eastern Tradition, Chapter in Tradition and Survival: Aspects of Material Culture, Richard Tapper (Ed.),Frank Cass, London. Roaf, S. (2000). The Buildings of 19th Century Ottoman Jerusalem, in Ottoman Jerusalem, edited by Professor Robert Hillenbrand, published by The British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem. 2 Volumes. Roaf, S. (1998). ‘Windcatchers’, ‘Zoroastrian Architecture’, ‘Yazdi and Baghdadi houses’ and ‘Mesopotamia and the Persian Plateau ‘ in Encyclopaedia of Vernacular Architecture of the World, edited by Paul Oliver, Cambridge University Press. Roaf, S. (1995). Natural Ventilation for Indian Designers, in Arvind Krishan (Ed.) Handbook on Climatic Design for India, Dehli, April, Oxford University Press. Roaf, S. (1994). Badgirs, water cisterns, the vernacular architecture of the Near East, The Dictionary of Art, Cambridge University Press. Roaf, S. (1989). Badgirs, Encyclopaedia Iranica, Chicago University Press. Roaf, S. (1989). The use of qanat water in the villages of the Yazd Province, Qanat, Khattara and Mambo,. P. Beaumont, M. Bonine, and K.S. McLachlan (Eds.), Menas Press. Roaf, S. (1983). Climate in Baghdadi houses, in J. Warren, and I. Fethy, Traditional houses of Baghdad, Coach Publishing, Horsham, pp.102-106. Roaf, S. (1983). The windcatchers of the Middle East, in Islamic architecture and urbanism, Proceedings of a Symposium at King Faisal University, edited by Germen Aydin, Dammam, Saudi Arabia, pp. 257-268. Roaf, S. (1982). Windcatchers, ch. 5 in Living with the desert, by E Beasley and M Harverson, Warminster, Wilts, Aris and Phillips, pp. 57-70. J.I.B. Wilson “Amorphous semiconductors” Encyclopaedia of Modern Optics, ed R.D. Guenther, D.G. Steel, L. Bayvel, Elsevier Ltd (Oxford), 2005, 6 pp. (ISBN D-12-227600-0) J.I.B. Wilson "Amorphous silicon solar cells" pp. 97-110 in "Physics of Solar Cells", editors, J.C. Jain, S. Radhakrishna, T.R.S. Reddy (Costed, 1984). J.I.B. Wilson EMIS `datareviews' on "Density of localised states in amorphous silicon", record numbers: 10694, 10695, 10696, 10697, 10698, 10699, 10810, 10811, 10812 [included as Chapter 5 in: "Properties of Amorphous Silicon", EMIS Datareviews Series No. 1, IEE (1985)]. J.I.B. Wilson "Optical applications of amorphous hydrogenated silicon alloys" Advances in Plasma Chemistry, Technology, Applications, 4, 79-90, 1992 (Ed H V Boenig, Technomic Publishing Co Inc, Lancaster PA, USA).