Photov & Renewable Energy Eng - 1655

Program Summary

• A candidate for the degree shall have been awarded an appropriate degree of Bachelor with Honours from the University of New South Wales or a qualification considered equivalent from another university or tertiary institution at a level acceptable to the Research Committee of the appropriate Faculty.
• Candidates may be admitted to the PhD program after one year’s full-time enrolment in a Masters by Research program, with the approval of the Faculty Postgraduate Affairs Committee.
• In exceptional cases an applicant who submits evidence of such other academic and professional qualifications as may be approved by the Committee may be permitted to enrol for the degree.

• Selective emitter, buried contact and other commercial silicon wafer solar cells
• Ink-jet printing technology for high efficiency solar cells
• Light trapping in thin crystalline silicon
• N-type wafer solar cells
• Photovoltaic device and material characterization
• Photovoltaic module design
• Photovoltaics in developing countries
• Screen-printed solar cells
• Semiconductor device modeling
• Silicon photonics
• Silicon wafer solar cells
• Thin-film crystalline silicon photovoltaic devices
• Third generation photovoltaics
• Combustion modelling
• Wind and solar energy forecasting
• Efficiency of energy use
• Renewable energy systems
• Renewable energy policy.