News

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.

Mohammad Al-Amin has joined Warwick as a PhD student working on defect interactions in silicon photovoltaic materials. Mohammad previously gained an MSc with distinction from the University of Southampton, before working for Microsol International in the UAE for several years.

John chaired the 15th Gettering and Defect Engineering in Semiconductor Technology (GADEST) conference in Oxford in late September 2013. The conference was a great success, with 118 delegates attending from 23 countries. More information is on the conference websiteLink opens in a new window.