Complete Report - University of New South Wales

4.5 THIRD GENERATION STRAND: ADVANCED CONCEPTS
University Staff:
Dr. Gavin Conibeer (group leader)
Dr. Richard Corkish
Prof. Martin Green
Research and Postdoctoral Fellows:
Dr. Ximing Dai
Dr. Tammy Humphrey (part time to Feb 2005)
Dr. Dirk König (from June, 2005)
Dr. Kuo-Lung Lin (to Jan 2005)
Dr. Tom Puzzer (part time)
Dr. Bryce Richards (to March 2005)
Research Associates:
Yidan Huang
Edwin Pink
Dr. Didier Debuf (adjunct fellow)
Higher Degree Students:
Young Hyun Cho
Thipwan Fangsuwannarak
Chu-Wei “Scott” Jiang
Supriya Pillai
Giuseppe Scardera
Avi Shalav
Visiting Researchers:
Dr. Jean-Françoise Guillemoles
(IRDEP: joint EDF/CNRS/ENSCP lab, Paris, April to Oct 2005)
Prof. Peter Würfel (Karlsruhe University, Oct to Dec 2005)
Visiting Students:
James Rudd (U/grad thesis student 2005)
Theo Comino (U/grad thesis student 2005)
Owen The (U/grad thesis student 2005)
In 2005, work in the Third Generation Strand has continued to build on the work of 2004,
2003 and of the earlier Third Generation Special Research Centre. The concept of third
generation photovoltaics is to signifi cantly increase device effi ciencies whilst still using thin
fi lm processes and abundant non-toxic materials. This can be achieved, for example by using
multiple energy threshold approaches.
In 2005, each of the three principal project areas has shown signifi cant development: with
transfer of technology to nitride dielectrics in Si nanostructures; further quantum effi ciency
improvements in Up-conversion and application of carrier cooling theory in Hot Carrier Cells
to include sensitivity to some of the non-idealities found in real materials. Also there have been
advances in subsidiary project areas, with demonstrated increased luminescence effi ciency
using Surface Plasmon coupling; development of more robust windows based limiting effi ciency
programs; and a small resurgence of theoretical work on Quantum Antennas.
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