Dr Stephen Bremner

BSc(Physics) UNSW, PhD UNSW

Senior Lecturer

Contact Details
Office Location: Room 217, TETB (H6) Building
Email: stephen.bremner@unsw.edu.au
Phone: +61 2 9385-7890
Fax: +61 2 9385-5412


Teaching Areas

  • Engineering Design (ENGG1000)
  • Renewable Energy(SOLA2051)

Research Interests

  • Third generation Photovoltaics
  • Quantum Dots for PV
  • III-V MBE Growth
  • Multi-junction PV
  • Limiting Efficiency of Novel PV

Selected Publications

  • Identification of Candidate Material Systems for Quantum Dot Solar Cells Using a k.p Method to Include Strain, S. N. Dahal, S. P. Bremner, C. B. Honsberg, Progress in Photovoltaics, to be published.
  • Variability of heterostructure type with thickness of barriers and temperature in the InhAs/GaAsSb quantum dot system, A.Pancholi, S. P. Bremner, J. Boyle, V. G. Stoleru, C. B. Honsberg, Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, to be published.
  • Limiting efficiency of an intermediate band under a terrestrial spectrum, S. P. Bremner, M. Y. Levy, C. B. Honsberg, Applied Physics Letters, 92, 171110, 2008.
  • Analysis of Tandem Solar Cell Efficiencies Under AM1.5G Spectrum Using a Rapid Flux Calculation Method, S. P. Bremner, M.Y. Levy, C. B. Honsberg, Progress in Photovoltaics: Research and Applications, 16, 225-233, 2008.
  • Formation and ordering of epitaxial quantum dots, P. Atkinson, O. G. Schmidt, S. P. Bremner, D. A. Ritchie, Comptes Rendus Physique, 9(8), 788-803, 2008.
  • Site control of InAs quantum dot nucleation by ex situ electron-beam lithographic patterning of GaAs substrates, P. Atkinson, M. B. Ward, S. P. Bremner, D. Anderson, T. Farrow, G. A. C. Jones, A. J. Shields, D. A. Ritchie, Physica E, v 32, n 1-2, May 2006, p 21-4.
  • Surface acoustic wave driven luminescence from a lateral p-n junction, J. R. Gell, P. Atkinson, S. P. Bremner, F. Sfigakis, M. Kataoka, D. Anderson, G. A. C. Jones, C. H. W. Barnes, D. A. Ritchie, Applied Physics Letters, 89(24), p243505, 2006.