News

We have been awarded a £1.3m grant from EPSRC entitled "SuperSilicon PV: extending the limits of material performance" (EP/M024911/1). Warwick is now looking to fill a postdoctoral position for three years to work on materials for silicon solar cells. The position is advertised here: http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/ATU555/research-fellow-75689-045/ and the closing date is strictly 13th May 2015.

PhD student Mohammad Al-Amin won the Poster Prize at the School of Engineering's Annual Graduate Symposium held on 9th March 2015 for his contribution entitled "Defect interactions in multicrystalline silicon materialsfor photovoltaics". Well done, Mohammad!

In collaboration with colleagues at the Australian National University (ANU), we have just published a paper in IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics on recombination in high lifetime silicon for solar cells. It can be accessed here. This is likely to the be the first in a series of papers in this relatively unchartered field of research.

We have just published a paper in Journal of Applied Physics on our new results on competitive gettering in Silicon PV. Click here to view the article.

Two new papers on the group's work have recently been published online. The first is in Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells and reports a study of the effect of oxygen-related defects on minority carrier lifetime in silicon photovoltaics (doi: 10.1016/j.solmat.2013.06.018). The second is in IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics and presents the findings of a worldwide study into calibration of lifetime measurements by quasi-steady-state photoconductance (doi: JPHOTOV.2013.2284375).

On 1st November 2013, John Murphy will join the School of Engineering at the University of Warwick. He aims to strengthen the School's activities in electronic materials further, adding expertise in electronic materials for energy applications, particularly silicon photovoltaics.