High Energy Efficiency Group
- Buried Contact Group
- Thin Film Group
- 3rd Generation Photovoltaics
- Silicon Photonics
- Collaborative Research
- Facilities & Infrastructure
University Staff:
A/Prof. Jianhua Zhao (Group Leader)
Prof. Martin Green
Prof. Stuart Wenham
Research Fellows:
Dr. Aihua Wang
Research Assistant:
Guangchun Zhang
Visiting Fellow:
Dr. Otwin Breitenstein
The high efficiency solar cell group aims to maintain the Centre’s international leadership position in this area and to demonstrate the performance potential of new concepts by showing them at their full capability.
High-Efficiency Solar Cell on N-Type Silicon Substrates
This work aims to solve the degradation problem associated with cells on boron doped p-type CZ silicon substrates. The boron doping problem is avoided by using a PERT (passivated emitter, rear totally-diffused) cell structure on n-type silicon substrate.
High Performance from Topsil PV-FZ Silicon Substrates
PERL (passivated emitter, rear locally-diffused) cells have been fabricated on PV-FZ substrates made by the silicon wafer manufacturer Topsil. These cells demonstrated high open circuit voltages, fill factors and efficiencies.