Photovoltaics prize goes to ANU researcher

摘要

Professor Andres Cuevas from the Australian National University's College of Engineering and Computer Science has been awarded the 2015 Becquerel Prize for his work on the development of silicon solar cells. Cuevas is one of the pioneers in the development of bifacial silicon solar cells and contributed significantly to the development of high-efficiency silicon solar cells. He helped determine and model the most important properties of silicon solar cells including Auger recombination, bulk defect characterisation, emitter properties, and detailed characterisation of types of surface passivation. His work on characterisation of carrier lifetime parameters contributed considerably to the development of widely-used key measurement methods like the quasi-steady-state photoconductance method.