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Dr. Dirk König

Dipl. Ing. (EE), TU Chemnitz, Germany,  Dr. rer. nat. (Ph), TU Chemnitz, Germany

Postdoc Research Fellow

Contact Details
Office Location:Room 464H, Electrical Engineering Building
Email: dirk.koenig@unsw.edu.au
Phone: +61 2 9385-4259
Fax: +61 2 9385-5412

Dirk König's CV (PDF 21 kb)

Research Interests

  • Concepts of practical realisation of third generation PV devices
  • Novel/alternative materials for quantum structures and hot carrier absorbers
  • Quantum & solid state physics, HF-DFT (Gaussian03), EMA (MatLab), reactivity and thermochemistry of solids
  • Thin film characterisation (I,C,G/V, DLTS, PES, IPES, RBS, SIMS, TEM, EELS, PL, FT-IR)
  • Preparation of quantum structures (wet chemistry, sputtering, anneal/RTP, passivation, metallisation)

Selected Publications

  • M.A. Green, G. Conibeer, D. König, Y.-H- Cho, T. Fangsuwannarak, T. Trupke, T. Puzzer, Progress With All-Silicon Tandem Cells Based on Silicon Quantum Dots in a Dielectric matrix, plenary presentation 1AP.1.2, 21 st European PVSEC, 4 - 8 Sept. 2006, Dresden, Germany, proc. on CD-ROM
  • D. König, R. Corkish, Energy Selective Contacts as Ultrafast Rectifiers for Optical Antennas, oral presentation 1BO.9.1, 21 st European PVSEC, 4 - 8 Sept. 2006, Dresden, Germany, proc. on CD-ROM
  • D. König, M.A. Green, G. Conibeer, Y. Takeda, T. Ito, T. Motohiro, T. Nagashima, DF-HF Computation of Si QDs: Intrinsic Stress, Iso-Valent Impurities and Validity of the Effective Mass Approximation, oral presentation 1CO.6.4, 21 st European PVSEC, 4 - 8 Sept. 2006, Dresden, Germany, proc. on CD-ROM
  • D. König, C.W. Jiang, G. Conibeer, Y. Takeda, T. Ito, T. Motohiro, T. Nagashima, Static Distribution of Hot Electrons and Energy Selective Extraction Observed by Optically Assisted IV Measurements, poster 1BV2.23, 21 st European PVSEC, 4 - 8 Sept. 2006, Dresden, Germany, proc. on CD-ROM
  • D. König, M. Rennau, M. Henker, Direct tunneling effective mass of electrons determined by intrinsic charge-up process, submitted to Sol. Stat. Eltron., April 2006
  • D. König, R. Scholz, D.R.T. Zahn, G. Ebest, Band diagram of the AlF 3/SiO 2/Si system, J. Appl. Phys. 97, 093707 (2005)
  • D. König, D. R. T. Zahn, G. Ebest, Field effect of fixed negative charges on oxidized Si induced by AlF 3 layers with Fluorine deficiency, Appl. Surf. Sci. 234, 222 (2004)
  • D. König, K. König, Solarzellen-Oberfläche, German Patent DE 100 57 296 B4, filed on 17 th November 2000, certified on 19 th February 2004
  • D. König, G. Ebest, New contact frame design for minimizing losses due to edge recombination and grid-induced shading, Solar Energy Materials & Solar Cells 75, 381 (2003)
  • D. König, K. König, Solarzellen unter Verwendung eines Kontaktrahmens und Verfahren zu deren Herstellung, German Patent DE 100 57 297 C2, filed on 17 th November 2000, certified on 30 th Januar 2003
  • Thurzo, T.U. Kampen, D.R.T. Zahn, D. König, Electron capture kinetics at AlF 3/SiO 2 interfaces, Appl. Surf. Sci. 212-213, 753 (2003)
  • D. König, D. R. T. Zahn, R. Reich, K. Gottfried, G. Ebest, p-inversion layer Si solar cells as test for the I - S structure: results and prospects, poster 1P-D3-21, 3 rd W-PVSEC, May 11 - 18, 2003, Osaka, Japan, proc. on CD-ROM
  • D. König, R. Scholz, S. Gemming, I. Thurzo, T.U. Kampen, D.R.T. Zahn, G. Ebest, Evidence for high negative charge densities in AlF 3 coatings on oxidized silicon: a promising source for large drift fields, Physica E 14, 259 (2002)
  • D. König, K. König, Solar Cell Surface, international patent application (PCT) no. WO 02/41408 A1, filed on 16 th November 2001, published on 23 rd May 2002
  • D. König, K. König , Solar Cell Using A Contact Frame And Method Of Production Thereof, international patent application (PCT) no. WO 02/41409 A3, filed on 16 th November 2001, published on 23 rd May 2002
  • D. König, T. Otto, R. Streiter, Anordnung zum Aufbau einer Solarzelle für polykristalline/amorphe Halbleiter, German Patent DE 197 29 522 C2, filed on 10 th July 1997, certified on 8 th November 2001
  • D. König, G. Ebest, Hole collecting contacts by Pt with PtSi formation, poster VC1.28, 17 th European PVSEC, 22 - 26 October 2001, Munich, Germany, proc. pp. 1503
  • D. König, R. Scholz, S. Gemming, I. Thurzo, T.U. Kampen, D.R.T. Zahn, G. Ebest, Evidence for high negative charge densities in AlF 3 coatings on oxidized silicon: a promising source for large drift fields, poster P28, International Workshop on Nanostructures in Photovoltaics, 28 July - 4 August 2001, Max-Planck-Institut für komplexe Systeme (MPI-PKS) Dresden
  • D. König, M. Rennau, M. Henker, G. Ebest, Evidence of a high density of fixed negative charges in an insulation layer compound on silicon, Thin Solid Films 385, 126 (2001)
  • D. König, G. Ebest, The negatively charged insulator-semiconductor structure: concepts, technological considerations and applications, Sol. State Electron. 44, 111 (2000)
  • D. König, G. Ebest, Antipolar counterpart to the positively charged SiO xN y layer for improvement of field effect solar cells, oral presentation OC9.5, 16 th European PVSEC, Glasgow, Great Britain, 1 - 5 May 2000, proc. pp. 88
  • D. König, G. Ebest, Novel thin film solar cell model with two antipolar MIS structures, Solar Energy Materials & Solar Cells 56, 67 (1998)

 

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