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Industrial Silicon Wafer Solar Cells – Status and Trends

• G. Aberle Armin

  Prof Armin Aberle is the CEO of the Solar Energy Research Institute of Singapore (SERIS) at the National University of Singapore (NUS). He holds BSc/MSc, PhD and Dr habil degrees in physics from German universities. His research focus is on reducing the cost of electricity generated with silicon solar cells (wafer based and thin film based). He has published extensively (> 300 papers) and his work has a high impact (> 3000 citations). He is an editor of several scientific journals. In the 1990s he established the Silicon PV Department at ISFH in Germany. He then worked for 10 years in Australia, as a professor for photovoltaics at the University of New South Wales (UNSW). In 2008 he joined NUS to establish SERIS, with particular responsibility for the creation of a Silicon PV Department.

  , B. Boreland Matthew

  Dr Matthew Boreland is a Director of the Silicon PV Cluster of SERIS and Head of the PV Production Technologies group. He has a BSc (honours) and PhD from UNSW, Australia. His work in PV spans over 20 years with international experience in Australia (UNSW, University of Sydney), Japan (TTI), the UK (University of Loughborough) and Singapore (UNSW Asia, NUS). His research focuses on applied device and process technologies for silicon solar cells, predominantly at the research/industry interface. In 2008 he joined SERIS to establish silicon PV R&D capabilities in Singapore.

  , Hoex Bram

  Dr Bram Hoex is a Director of the Silicon PV Cluster of SERIS and Head of the Silicon Wafer Solar Cells II group. His research focusses on advanced PV characterisation methods and on high-efficiency silicon wafer solar cells. He received his Master and PhD degrees in Applied Physics from the Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands, in 2003 and 2008, respectively. His PhD work was awarded the SolarWorld ‘Junior Einstein Award’ and the Leverhulme ‘Technology Transfer Award’. He has authored over 50 scientific papers and holds several patents in the area of silicon wafer solar cell processing and advanced characterisation.

  and Mueller Thomas

  Dr Thomas Mueller is the Head of the Silicon Wafer Solar Cells I group at SERIS. His research focuses on advanced high-efficiency silicon wafer solar cell architectures such as all-back-contact and heterojunction cells. He holds BSc/MSc degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Dortmund, Germany and obtained his PhD degree in 2009 from the University of Hagen, Germany, with highest commendation. His PhD work on heterojunction solar cells won the 2009 SolarWorld ‘Junior Einstein Award’. He is an internationally recognised expert in the field of heterojunction silicon wafer solar cells and silicon surface passivation. He has authored over 50 scientific papers and holds several patents in the area of silicon wafer solar cells.