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UNSW SOLAR PIONEER NAMED PHYSICAL SCIENTIST OF THE YEAR
October 28, 2020
UNSW Scientia Associate Professor Xiaojing Hao has been named the winner of the Malcolm McIntosh Prize for Physical Scientist of the Year, one of three major awards at the 2020 Prime Minister’s Prizes for Science.
UNSW ENABLING TERAWATTS OF SOLAR POWER
June 24, 2019 PV Magazine
The influence of the University of New South Wales (UNSW) School of Photovoltaics and Renewable Energy Engineering spreads over the horizon like rays of sunlight through a coal haze. Its researchers are confidently working towards the time when terawatts of solar PV power people’s aspirations from Uttar Pradesh to Perth and Pennsylvania....
PIONEERING SOLAR ENERGY
February 15, 2019 Times Higher Education
Scientia Professor Martin Green is one of those rare few who can say their work has made a real-world impact on people’s lives and the planet. Often referred to as the ‘father of photovoltaics’, Professor Green has revolutionised the efficiency and costs of solar photovoltaics, making this now the lowest cost option for bulk electricity supply....
UNSW SCIENTISTS SURPASS 10% EFFICIENCY WITH CZTS PV CELL
August 8, 2018 PV Magazine
Researchers at Australia’s University of New South Wales have surpassed 10% efficiency for a cell based on copper zinc tin sulfide – sulfide kesterite. It is the fourth time in two years the group has set a new record for the efficiency of cells based on such materials....
A CHEMICAL TREASURE HUNT: HOW NEW MATERIALS COULD PRODUCE ULTRA-EFFICIENT SOLAR CELLS
December 14, 2017 ARENA
Over the past decade or so, improvements in the efficiency of mass-produced silicon cells have caused the cost of solar to plummet. But we’re about to hit an efficiency wall – the physical properties of the most popular commercial silicon cells make it extremely difficult for them to convert any more than 25 per cent of the energy in sunlight to electricity....
UNSW TAKES LEAD IN RACE FOR NON-TOXIC, THIN-FILM SOLAR CELLS
27 April, 2016 UNSW Newsroom
‘Zero-energy’ buildings – which generate as much power as they consume – are now much closer after a UNSW team achieved the world’s highest efficiency using flexible solar cells that are non-toxic and cheap to make....