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Publications 2008

Semiconductors and Solar Cells

A. Cuevas, "Presentation by Professor Andres Cuevas to the solar community at the ANU - December 2008"

N.S. Zin and A. Blakers, “Silicon Solar Cells for Tandem High-Efficiency Solar Cells (VHESC)”, 3rd International Solar Energy Society Conference – Asia Pacific Region (ISES-AP-08) Incorporating the 46th ANZSES Conference, November 2008, Sydney, Australia

A. Blakers, V. Everett, I. Skryabin and K. Weber, "Solar Soldiers", Australasian Science Oct/Nov 2008

A. Blakers and I. Skryabin, "Ultra-thin Elongate Solar Cells: Route to Performance and Durability", Land Warfare Conference, October 2008, Brisbane, Australia

A.F. Thomson, K.R. McIntosh, D.H. Macdonald, "Effective lifetime characterisation of a room temperature meta-stable defect in n-type 5 Ω·cm FZ phosphorus-diffused oxide-passivated silicon ", 23rd EPVSEC 2008.

D.H. Macdonald, K. McLean, P.N.K. Deenapanray, S. De Wolf and J. Schmidt, "Electronically-coupled up-conversion: An alternative approach to impurity photovoltaics in crystalline silicon", Semiconductor Science and Technology, 23, 015001 (2008).

J. Tan, A. Cuevas, D.H. Macdonald, T. Trupke, R. Bardos and K. Roth, "On the electronic improvement of multi-crystalline silicon via gettering and hydrogenation", Progress in Photovoltaics: Research and Applications, 16 (2), 129-134 (2008)

D.H. Macdonald, J. Tan and T. Trupke, "Imaging interstitial iron concentrations in boron-doped crystalline silicon using photoluminescence", Journal of Applied Physics 103, 073710 (2008).

N.S. Zin, A. Blakers, V. Everett, “Miniature Silicon Solar Cells for High Efficiency Tandem Cells,” IUMRS-ICEM 2008 Conference, July 2008, Sydney, Australia. View poster (916k)

N.S. Zin, A. Blakers, E. Franklin, and V. Everett, 2008. ”Design, Characterization and Fabrication of Silicon Solar Cells for >50% Efficient 6-junction Tandem Solar Cells”, 33rd IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, San Diego, USA, May 2008.

D.H. Macdonald, A. Cuevas and L.J. Geerligs, “Measuring dopant concentrations in compensated p-type crystalline silicon via iron-acceptor pairing”, Applied Physics Letters 92, 202119 (2008).

K.R. McIntosh, B.B. Paudyal and D.H. Macdonald, "Generalized procedure to determine the dependence of steady-state photoconductance lifetime measurements on the occupation of multiple defects", Journal of Applied Physics 104, 084503 (2008).

T-T.A. Li, K.R. McIntosh and A. Cuevas, "Limitations of a simplified dangling bond recombination model for a-Si:H", Journal of Applied Physics 104, 113718 (2008).

T.C. Kho, K.R. McIntosh, J. Tan, A.F. Thompson and F. W. Chen, "Removal of hydrogen and deposition of surface charge during rapid thermal annealing", 33rd IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, San Diego, USA, May, 2008:

A. Cuevas, "The paradox of compensated silicon", 2008 Conference on Optoelectronic and Microelectronic Materials and Devices (COMMAD '08), IUMRS-ICEM08, Sydney, July 2008

D.H. Macdonald, A. Cuevas, M. Di Sabatino and L. J. Geerligs, "Carrier lifetime studies of strongly compensated p-type Czochralski silicon", 23rd European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference, Valencia, Spain, September, 2008

B.B. Paudyal, K.R. McIntosh and D.H. Macdonald, "Electron capture cross section of iron-boron pairs in crystalline silicon over the temperature range 0 - 100 C", 23rd European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference, Valencia, Spain, September, 2008

D.H. Macdonald, K.E.P. Sepulveda, J. Tan and A. Cuevas, "Gettering and hydrogenation in n-type multicrystalline silicon", 23rd European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference, Valencia, Spain, September, 2008

A. Cuevas and R.A Sinton, "Detailed modelling of silicon solar cells", 23rd European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference, Valencia, Spain, September, 2008

J. Schmidt, A. Merkle, R. Bock, P.P. Altermatt, A. Cuevas, N.P. Harder, B. Hoex, R. van de Sanden, E. Kessels and R. Brendel, "Progress in the surface passivation of silicon solar cells", 23rd European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference, Valencia, Spain, September, 2008

P. Lecouvreur, J. Larrieu, N. Naude, S. Quizola, S. Pouliquen, C. Picard, E. Beche, N. Bererd, N. Gherardi, R. Monna, M. Pirot, D. Jahan, A. Cuevas and F. Massines, "Passivating and physico-chemical properties of silicon nitride deposited by atmospheric pressure plasma for photovoltiac applications", 23rd European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference, Valencia, Spain, September, 2008

H. Jin, W.E. Jellett, Z. Chun, K.J. Weber and A.W. Blakers, “The effect of boron diffusions on the defect density and recombination at the (111) Silicon-Silicon Oxide interface” Applied Physics Letters 92, 122109 (2008)

H. Jin, W. Jellett, K.J. Weber and C. Zhang, “Effect of Diffusions on Si surface passivation”, 23rd European Conference on Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conversion, Valencia, Spain (2008)

C. Zhang, H. Jin and K.J. Weber, “The influence of corona charging on the Si/SiO_2 interface”, 23rd European Conference on Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conversion, Valencia, Spain (2008)

C. Zhang, H. Jin, K.J. Weber and A. Blakers, “Hydrogen Introduction by Acid Solution to Si/SiO2 Interface”, 23rd European Conference on Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conversion, Valencia, Spain (2008)

W. Jellett, C. Zhang, H. Jin, P.J. Smith and K.J. Weber, “Boron Emitters: Defects At The Silicon – Silicon Dioxide Interface”, 33rd IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, San Diego, 2008

H. Jin and K.J. Weber, "The effect of boron diffusions on the defect density and recombination at the (111) Si-Si oxide interface", 23rd European Conference on Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conversion, Valencia, Spain (2008)

B.B. Paudyal, K.R. McIntosh, D.H. Macdonald, B.S. Richards and R.A. Sinton, “The implementation of temperature control to an inductive-coil photoconductance instrument for the range of 0 to 230°C”, Progress in Photovoltaics: Research and Applications, 16, 609-613 (2008).

K.R. McIntosh, J.H. Guo, M.D. Abbott and R.A. Bardos, “Calibration of the WCT-100 photoconductance instrument at low conductance,” Progress in Photovoltaics, 16 (4), pp. 279–287, 2008.

S.C. Baker-Finch and K.R. McIntosh, “Characterisation of corona-charged oxide-passivated silicon,” 46th ANZSES conference, Sydney, paper 304, 2008.

K.R. McIntosh and R.A. Sinton, “Uncertainty in photoconductance lifetime measurements that use an inductive-coil detector,” 23rd EU PVSEC, Valencia, pp. 77–82, 2008.

B. Ketola, K.R. McIntosh, A. Norris, M.K. Tomalia, “Silicones for photovoltaic encapsulation,” 23rd EU PVSEC, Valencia, pp. 2969–2973, 2008.

Nanophotonics for solar cells

K.R. Catchpole and A. Polman, "Plasmonic Solar Cells", Optics Express, 16, 21793 (December 2008).

F.J. Beck and K. Catchpole, "Red-shifting the surface plasmon resonance of silver nanoparticles for light trapping in solar cells", Materials Research Society conference, San Francisco, March 2008.

Energy and the Environment

D.C.Barton, 2008."Social and technical aspects of community level decision making on energy options in two remote island communities", PhD Thesis, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.

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