Future Students - Postgraduate
Research
The School is internationally recognised for it’s research activities. UNSW academics in the photovoltaic field have been consistently ranked amongst the leaders worldwide through international peer review. This team has held the world record for silicon solar cell efficiencies for almost 15 years and has been responsible for developing the most successfully commercialised new photovoltaic technology internationally throughout the same period. Research students are involved across all the School’s research groups and play an important role in the School’s activities.
Research and Project Areas
- Crystalline silicon solar cells - design and processing techniques
- Electrical energy storage
- GaAs and SiGe devices
- Light trapping in thin crystalline silicon
- Novel semiconductor devices
- Photovoltaic applications in developing countries
- Photovoltaic device fabrication and characterisation
- Photovoltaic device physics, modelling, design and characterisation
- Photovoltaic module design
- Photovoltaic solar energy conversion
- Quantum well and advanced solar cell structures
- Quantum well, wire and dot structures
- Semiconductor device modeling
- Semiconductor device physics
- Commercially oriented silicon solar cellsdevice design, processing and characterisation
- Thin film crystalline silicon photovoltaic devices
Research
areas of interest for academics
Meet Our Staff
ARC Photovoltaics Centre of
Excellence
Facilities & Infrastructure
Annual Report of the ARC Centre
of Excellence
Masters of Engineering by Research (2655)
The Master of Engineering by Research is a two year research program where students are required to submit a thesis which embodies the result of an original investigation, or design, or engineering development. Award rules for this program can be found on the UNSW Online Handbook.
Doctor of Philosophy (1655)
This is a three year research program awarded for a thesis considered to be a substantially original contribution to the area concerned. The degree is becoming a prerequisite for appointments in government and industrial research and development laboratories and in higher education. Further information about this program can be found in the UNSW Online Handbook.