Complete Report - University of New South Wales

4.2 FACULTIES AND INFRASTRUCTURE
The ARC Centre of Excellence for Advanced Silicon Photovoltaics and Photonics is located at
the Kensington campus of the University of New South Wales, about 6 km from the heart of
Sydney and close to its world famous beaches including Bondi, Coogee and Maroubra (Fig.
4.2.1).
Sydney CBD
Kensington
University of
New South Wales
Coogee
Bondi
Sydney Airport
Botany
CSG Solar Pty Ltd
Botany Laboratory
Maroubra
Figure 4.2.1: Centre of
Excellence location in
Sydney.
Organisationally, the Centre of Excellence is located within the Centre for Photovoltaic
Engineering within the Faculty of Engineering. The Centre of Excellence has a large range of
laboratory facilities (Fig. 4.2.2). These include the Bulk Silicon Research Laboratories, the
Device Characterisation Laboratory, the Optoelectronic Research Laboratory, the Thin-Film
Cell Laboratory, the Industry Collaborative Laboratory and Inkjet Processing Laboratory. Off
campus the Centre has a Thin-Film Cleanroom facility at Botany, 5km south-west of the main
campus. Another important resource is the Semiconductor Nanofabrication Facility jointly
operated by the Faculty of Science and the Faculty of Engineering.
A new offi ce accommodation area on the fourth fl oor of the Electrical Engineering building has
consolidated 12 offi ces for up to 19 academic/senior researchers around 28 open plan desk
spaces with supporting meeting rooms and tea room. Whilst not only providing fi rst class
accommodation, the consolidation provides space for personnel previously accommodated in
an adjacent building and permits the conversion of LG offi ce space to a new laser laboratory
for the Optoelectronic Research Laboratory.
Additional equipment commonly used for solar cell work is also available on the University
campus. Included in this category are TEM/SEM electron and focussed ion beam (FIB)
microscopes, X-ray diffraction, Raman spectroscopy, AFM and surface analysis equipment.
TEM, ellipsometry and high-precision I-V equipment are also regularly accessed at Sydney
University.
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