Complete Report - University of New South Wales

Magnetic Materials Laboratory, School of Physics, UNSW
Dr Jack Cochrane, Physics, UNSW has been instrumental in providing access and in assisting
in measurements for Hall effect and resistivity vs. temperature measurements. These
measurements are important in elucidating electrical transport mechanisms.
Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation, Lucas Heights, NSW
The Centre was yet again successful in an application to AINSE for time on Secondary Ion
Mass Spectrometry at ANSTO in 2005. Again the grant also included time on Rutherford
Backscattering at ANSTO. Characterisation primarily involved Si nanostructures with high
levels of depth resolution achieved for SIMS, this resolution exceeded that of last year and is
now down to 1.5nm (as independently measured by TEM). RBS was used for calibration of
these data and in addition RBS channelling was used for further structural characterisation
of Si nanostructure samples used in synchrotron experiments.
IRDEP (joint EDF/CNRS/ENSCP lab.), Paris
University of Karlsruhe
Collaboration with the above was by way of prolonged visits by researchers from these
institutions to work on projects in the Third Generation strand.
Dr Jean-Françoise Guillemoles, from the IDREP, Paris, visited the Centre for six months from
March to October, 2005. He was principally involved in work on Hot Carrier cells but also
provided useful contributions to other areas of Third Generation Strand activities.
Prof. Peter Würfel, from Karlsruhe University, visited the Centre from October 2005
to January 2006 having visited previously in 2000 and 2003. He contributed to several
areas of Third Generation work, including establishment of an electro-luminescence mapping
teachnique.
Global Climate and Energy Project (GCEP), Stanford Univeristy, California, USA
The Centre was successful in a proposal to the GCEP for work on Si nanostructures to
develop a wide band gap Si nanostructure based tandem cell element over three years. This
builds on the Si quantum dot nanostructure work in the Third Generation strand and will link
to work in the Thin Film strand. The project offi cially started in September 2005 and initial
work involved recruitment of three new postdoctoral fellows and two new research fellows to
lead the strands on materials processing and characterisation/modelling.
Toyota Central Research Laboratories, Nagoya, Japan and Toyota Future Project
Division, Higashi-Fuji, Japan
The project on Energy Conversion Devices concentrating on high effi ciency thermoelectrics
and application of selective energy contacts started in December 2004. It continued
throughout 2005 with appointment of a postdoctoral fellow. Signifi cant progress was made
on thermoelectric and selective energy contact theory and on experimental measurement
of selective energy contacts including initiation of a new technique of optically assisted I-V
measurement. Mr Nagashima, Dr Motohiro, Dr Takeda and Dr Itoh from Toyota visited in
December 2005 for an annual meeting and progress report.
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