Dr Patrick Campbell

BSc BE PhD UNSW

Research Fellow

Contact Details
Office Location:Room 464J, Electrical Engineering Building
Email: p.campbell@unsw.edu.au
Phone: +61 2 9666-5286
Fax: +61 2 9666-5203


Patrick Campbell's CV (PDF 20 kb)

Research Interests

  • Optical confinement in solar cells
  • Influence of surface texture on silicon film crystallisation
  • Surface texturing of glass

Selected Publications

  • Chao-Yang Tsao, P.Campbell, Dengyuan song, M.Green, "Influence of hydrogen on structural and optical properties of low temperature polycrystalline Ge films deposited by RF magnetron sputtering", J. Crystal Growth, 2010.
  • Zi Ouyang, Fiona Beck, Oliver Kunz, Patrick Campbell, Kylie Catchpole, Sergey Varlamov, Supriya Pillai, Martin Green, "Enhanced Photocurrent in Evaporated Solid-Phase-Crystallised Poly-Si Thin-film Solar Cells Using Rear Surface Plasmons", 24th European PV Conference proceedings Hamburg 2009
  • Chao-Yang Tsao, J.Weber, P.Campbell, P.Widerborg, Dengyuan Song, M.Green, "Low-temperature growth of polycrystalline Ge thin film on glass by insitu deposition and ex situ solid-phase crystallization for photovoltaic applications", Applied Surface Science 255, p7028 (2009)
  • Guangyao Jin, Per I. Widenborg, Patrick Campbell and Sergey Varlamov, "Enhanced light trapping in SPC Poly-si thin film solar cells on aluminium induced textured glass superstrates", PVSEC-18 conf. Proc., Kolkata 2008
  • Daniel Inns, Patrick Campbell, and Kylie Catchpole, "Wafer Surface Charge Reversal as a Method of Simplifying Nanosphere Lithography for Reactive Ion Etch Texturing of Solar Cells", Advances in OptoElectronics, vol. 2007, Article ID 32707, 2007. doi:10.1155/2007/32707.
  • D. Song, D. Inns, A. Straub, M.L. Terry, P. Campbell, and A.G. Aberle, "Solid phase crystallized polycrystalline thin-films on glass from evaporated silicon for photovoltaic applications", Thin Solid Films 513(1), 356-63 (Aug 2006).
  • P. Campbell, “Enhancement of absorption in silicon films using a pressed glass substrate texture”, Glass Technology June 2002. (Introduces a new surface texturing process for thin film solar cells using author-developed equipment. A new method of assessing light trapping is presented.)
  • M. Kerr, P. Campbell and A. Cuevas, “Limiting Efficiency of Crystalline Silicon Solar Cells due to Coulomb-Enhanced Auger Recombination”, to be published in Progress in Photovoltaics. (Refines effects of doping and injection and introduces effect of photon recycling.)
  • P. Campbell and M. Keevers, “Characterisation of Light Trapping in Silicon Films by Spectral Photoconductance Measurements”, Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells 66, pp187-193 (2001). (Examines how an electronic approach overcomes fundamental limitation of standard optical method for characterising light trapping.)
  • P.Campbell and M.A.Green, “High Performance light trapping textures for monocrystalline silicon solar cells”, Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells 65, pp. 369-375 (2001). (Two new surface textures are presented which, while based on crystallographic etching, overcome prime shortcomings of presently fabricated pyramid textures.)
  • P.Campbell and M.Keevers, “Light Trapping and Reflection Control for Silicon Thin Films Deposited on Glass Substrates Textured by Embossing”, Conference Record, 28th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialist Conference, p. 355-8, Alaska (2000). (Introduces new texturing process and assesses validity of using photoconductance for characterising light trapping.)
  • J.Zhao, P.Campbell and M.A.Green, “19.8% Efficient Honeycomb Multicrystalline Silicon Solar Cell with Improved Light Trapping”, IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, Vol.46, No.10, 1978-1983 (special edition on Photovoltaics, 1999).