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Centre of Excellence location in Sydney.

The ARC Photovoltaics Centre of Excellence is located at the Kensington campus of the University of New South Wales, about 6 km from the heart of Sydney and close to its world famous beaches including Bondi, Coogee and Maroubra .

Organisationally, the Centre of Excellence is located within the School of Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering within the Faculty of Engineering. The Centre of Excellence has a large range of laboratory facilities; these include the Photovoltaics Research Laboratory, the Device Characterisation Laboratory, the Optoelectronic Research area, the Thin-Film Cell Laboratory and the Industry Collaborative Laboratory. Facilities developed in 2003 include the acquisition of the Thin-Film Cleanroom facility at Botany, 5km south-west of the main campus; the extension of the equipment inventory and functionality of the Optoelectronics characterization area; and continuing development of the Industry Collaborative Laboratory. Systems work is also accessible through the Little Bay Research Facility, near Maroubra.

Another important resource is the Semiconductor Nanofabrication Facility jointly operated by the Faculty of Science and the Faculty of Engineering. In addition an office area for the CPVE has been established on the Lower Ground floor; this will become the office for the School in due course.

Additional equipment commonly used for solar cell work is available on the University campus. Included in this category are electron and focussed ion beam microscopes, X-ray diffraction, Raman spectroscopy, surface analysis and photoluminescence equipment. TEM, elipsometry and high-precision I-V equipment is also regularly accessed at Sydney University.

Layout of laboratories and other facilities within the Electrical Engineering building.

 

>>Research Laboratories

The various laboratories in the Centre are described here.

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