| BSc MSc PhD Freiburg, Dr habil Hannover,
MDPG, SMIEEE
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Professor (Centre
for Photovoltaic Engineering)
Deputy Director (ARC Photovoltaics Centre of Excellence)
Contact Details
Office Location:Room 464F, Electrical Engineering Building
Email: a.aberle@unsw.edu.au
Phone: +61 2 9385-4031
Fax: +61 2 9662-4240 |
Armin Aberle's CV (PDF 233 kb)
Teaching Areas
- Advanced Semiconductor Devices
- High-Efficiency Silicon Solar Cells
- Applied Photovoltaics
- Introduction to Electronic Devices
- Chemical Processes for Renewable Energy Systems
- Biomass
Present Research Interests
- Semiconductor device physics.
- Fabrication, characterisation and numerical modelling of crystalline
silicon solar cells.
- Development of low-cost solar cells based on polycrystalline
silicon films on glass using low-temperature approaches. The Si
films are made by vacuum deposition processes such as PVD, PECVD,
MBE, IAD, and hot-wire CVD.
- Light trapping in polycrystalline silicon thin-film solar cells
on glass.
- Surface passivation of thin-film Si solar cells made on foreign
substrates.
- 1D, 2D and 3D numerical modelling of poly-crystalline Si thin-film
solar cells.
- Development of characterisation methods and processing equipment
for the PV community.
Selected Publications
- Aberle, A.G., Straub, A., Widenborg, P.I., Sproul, A.B., Huang,
Y.,
and Campbell, P., "Polycrystalline silicon thin-film
solar cells on glass by aluminium-induced crystallisation and subsequent
ion-assisted
deposition (ALICIA)", Progress in Photovoltaics (2004, in
press).
- Straub, A., Harder, N.-P., Huang, Y., and Aberle, A.G., "High-quality
homoepitaxial silicon growth in a non-ultra-high vacuum environment
by ion-assisted deposition", Journal of Crystal Growth 268,
pp. 41-51 (2004).
- Widenborg, P.I., and Aberle, A.G., "Surface morphology of
poly-Si films made by aluminium-induced crystallisation on glass
substrates",
Journal of Crystal Growth 242, pp. 270-282 (2002).
- Aberle, A.G., Harder, N.-P., and Oelting, S., "Formation
of large-grained uniform poly-Si films on glass at low temperature",
Journal of Crystal Growth 226, pp. 209-214 (2001).
- Aberle, A.G., "Surface passivation of crystalline silicon
solar cells - A review", Progress in Photovoltaics 8,
pp. 473-487 (2000).
- Aberle, A.G., and Hezel, R., "Progress in low-temperature
surface passivation of silicon solar cells using remote-plasma
silicon
nitride",
Progress in Photovoltaics 5, pp. 29-50 (1997).
- Aberle, A.G., Glunz, S., and Warta, W., "Impact of illumination
level and oxide parameters on Shockley-Read-Hall recombination
at the Si-SiO2 interface", Journal of Applied Physics 71,
pp. 4422-4431 (1992).
**More of A/Prof Aberle's publications can be viewed in the
Publications section
of this website.
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