The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

Scientia Prof. Martin Green

BE MEngSc Qld., PhD McMaster, FAA, FTS, FIEEE

Executive Research Director, ARC Photovoltaics Centre of Excellence

Contact Details
Office Location:Room 127, Electrical Engineering Building
Email: m.green@unsw.edu.au
Phone: +61 2 9385-4018
Fax: +61 2 9662-4240

Teaching Areas

  • High Efficiency Silicon Solar Cells

Research Interests

  • Semiconductor Device physics
  • Novel Semiconductor devices
  • Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conversion
  • Silicon Solar Cells
  • Photovoltaic module design
  • Photovoltaic device fabrication and characterisation
  • Semiconductor device modelling
  • Electrical energy storage
  • Thin film crustalline silicon photovoltaic devices

Selected Publications

Author of 5 books, 9 book chapters, numerous reports, patents and conference papers, and over 300 papers in international refereed journals in the area of semiconductors, micro-electronics and solar cells. Several publications considered among his career best are:

  • Green, M.A., and Shewchun, J., "Current Multiplication in Metal-Insulator-Semiconductor (MIS) Tunnel Diodes", Solid-State Electronics 17, pp. 349-365, 1974.
  • Green, M.A., "Limits on the Open Circuit Voltage and Efficiency of Silicon Solar Cells Imposed by Intrinsic Auger Processes", IEEE Trans. Electron Devices 31, pp. 671-8, 1984.
  • Green, M.A., "Intrinsic Carrier Concentration, Effective Densities of States and Effective Mass in Silicon", J Applied Physics 67, pp.2944-2954, 1990.
  • Green, M.A., "Depletion Region Recombination in Silicon Thin-Film Multilayer Solar Cells", Progress in Photovoltaics 4, pp. 375-380, 1996.
  • Zhao, J., Wang, A., Green, M.A., and Ferrazza, F., "19.8% Efficient "Honeycomb" Textured Crystalline and 24.4% Monocrystalline Silicon Solar Cells", Applied Physics Letters 73, pp.1991-1993, 1998.
  • Green, M.A., "Third Generation Photovoltaics: Ultra-High Efficiency at Low Cost", Progress in Photovoltaics 9, 123-135, 2001.
  • Green, M.A., Zhao, J., Wang, A., Reece, P.J., Gal, M., "Efficient Silicon Light Emitting Diodes", Nature 405, pp. 805-808, 2001.

** More of Prof. Green's publications can be viewed in the Publications section of this website.