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Senior Lecturer and Postgraduate Coordinator
Contact Details
Office Location:Room 464G, Electrical Engineering Building
Email: a.sproul@unsw.edu.au
Phone: +61 2 9385-4039
Fax: +61 2 9385-7762 |
Alistair Sproul's CV (PDF 69 kb)
Teaching Areas
- Introduction to Electronic Devices
- Chemical Processes for PV Systems
- Applied Photovoltaics
- Biomass
- Special topic in PV
- Sustainable and Renewable Energy Technology
Research Interests
- Photovoltaic solar energy conversion
- Silicon solar cells
- Photovoltaic device physics, modelling, design and characterisation
- Thin film crystalline silicon photovoltaic devices
Selected Publications
- N.-P. Harder, A.B. Sproul, T. Brammer, and A.G. Aberle, “Effects of sheet resistance and contact shading on the characterization of solar cells by open-circuit voltage measurements”, Journal of Applied Physics, 94, Issue 4, 15 2003 August, Pages 2473-2479.
- B.S. Richards, A. Lambertz and A.B. Sproul, “Determination of the Optical Properties of Non-Uniformly Thick Non-Hydrogenated Sputtered Silicon Thin Films on Glass”, Journal of Thin Solid Films, 460 247–255 (2004).
- Axel Straub, Per I. Widenborg, Alistair Sproul, Yidan Huang, Nils-Peter Harder, and Armin G. Aberle “ Fast and nondestructive assessment of epitaxial quality of polycrystalline silicon films on glass by optical measurements ” Paper submitted to Journal of Crystal Growth.
- A.B. Sproul, “Solar Geometry using Vector Analysis” Paper accepted for publication in Renewable Energy.
- A. Straub, R. Gebs, H. Habenicht, S. Trunk, R.A. Bardos, A.B. Sproul, and A.G. Aberle, "Impedance analysis - A powerful method for the determination of the doping concentration and built-in potential of nonideal semiconductor p-n diodes", Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 97, p. 083703, 2005.
- A.B. Sproul , “Vector Analysis of Solar Geometry”, Proceedings of the Australian and New Zealand Solar Energy Society Conference, Newcastle, December, 2002.
- S. Wenham, J. Cotter, A. Sproul, M. Watt, A. Bruce, T. Spooner, C. Honsberg, “Tertiary Level Education for Renewable Energy Engineers”, Proceedings of the Australian and New Zealand Solar Energy Society Conference, Newcastle, December, 2002.
- A.B. Sproul, J.E. Cotter and S.R Wenham, “Photovoltaics and Renewable Energy Engineering Degree Programs at UNSW”, Proceedings of the Australian and New Zealand Solar Energy Society Conference, Melbourne, December, 2003.
- A.G. Aberle, P.I. Widenborg, D. Song, A. Straub, M.L. Terry, T. Walsh, A. Sproul, P. Campbell, D. Inns, B. Beilby, M. Griffin, J. Weber, Y. Huang, O. Kunz, R. Gebs, F. Martin-Brune, V. Barroux, and S.R. Wenham, "Recent advances in polycrystalline silicon thin-film solar cells on glass at UNSW", Proc. 31st IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, Orlando, USA, Jan. 2005, 877-882 (invited review talk).
- A. Straub, D. Inns, O. Kunz, M.L. Terry, P.I. Widenborg, A.B. Sproul, and A.G. Aberle, "Towards 400 mV ALICIA thin-film silicon solar cells on glass", Proc. 31st IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, Orlando, USA, Jan. 2005, 1221-1224.
- P. Campbell, P.I. Widenborg, A.B. Sproul and A.G. Aberle, "Surface textures for large-grained poly-silicon thin-film solar cells on glass using the AIT method", accepted for presentation at 15th International Photovoltaic Science and Engineering Conference, Shanghai, 10-15 Oct. 2005 (oral presentation).
- A.B. Sproul, “Design of PV Powered, High Efficiency Pool Pump Systems”, ANZSES Conference, Dunedin, Nov. 2005.
- A.B. Sproul, A. Lambertz, B.S. Richards, T. Puzzer, and M. Gross, “Thin Film Silicon Solar Cell Research at the University of New South Wales”, (Invited paper) , European Union/Australia Photovoltaic Workshop, Canberra, December 1997.
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