27August2024
SunSolve
UNSW SPREE Seminars
Keith McIntosh - PV LIGHTHOUSE
Feng Yan - Arizona State University
Renate Egan - Australian Centre for Advanced Photovoltaics - SPREE
10July2024
High Efficiency Photovoltaics, Progress towards the Ultimate Limit for Solar Power Conversion
N.J. Ekins-Daukes - UNSW SPREE
Martin Green - UNSW SPREE
Martin Green - UNSW SPREE
Carlos Rodriguez - RINA Tech Renewables Australia
Michelle Vaqueiro Contreras - UNSW SPREE
Shona McNab - UNSW SPREE via Oxford University
Hartmut Nussbaumer - Zurich University of Applied Science
Mohammad Dehghanimadvar - UNSW SPREE
20February2024
Quantum Drop formation in semiconductor perovskites? - Some old ideas in a new light as revealed by ultrafast spectroscopy
Patanjali Kambhampati - McGill University
Rajendra Singh - Clemson University
16February2024
Recent activities for vehicle integrated photovoltaics including Si tandem solar cells
Masafumi Yamaguchi - Toyota Technological Institute
John Boland - University of South Australia
Jae Sung Yun - University of Surrey
10January2024
The Role Solar Energy will play in our Energy Future: Lee Kong Chain Distinguished Professor Public Lecture
Martin Green - at the Institute of Advanced Studies, Nanyang Technological University
11December2023
Photovoltaics Sustainability: Insights and Perspectives
Vasilis Fthenakis - Columbia University
Andrew J Musser - Cornell University
3November2023
Carbon management in the photovoltaic industry: trends, requirements, standards, and certification
Dan Liu - TUV Rheinland
Mauro Pravettoni - SERIS
31October2023
Pathway for Fair and Scientific Rating to Solar Cars – challenge by IEC TC82 PT600 team for International Standardization
Kenji Araki - University of Miyazaki
24October2023
Optoelectronic Characterization and Device Considerations of Next-generation Solution-processed Semiconductors
Qianqian Lin - Wuhan University
17October2023
Integration of Solar Photovoltaic, Regenerative Agriculture and Carbon Dioxide/Moisture Draw-down
Stephen Joseph - UNSW visiting professor
Murad Tayebjee - UNSW SPREE
7September2023
Achieving 26% silicon solar cells in mass production with passivating contacts – TOPCon or heterojunctions?
Daniel Macdonald - Australian National University
Shukla Poddar - UNSW SPREE
21July2023
UNSW ENERGIE RENOUVELABLE VANUATU – UNSW Engineering Students Learning, Helping, Experiencing
Richard Corkish - UNSW Sydney (SPREE) and The Australian Centre for Advanced Photovoltaics
Meita Asami - University of Tokyo
1March2023
History and Future of the PV Industry
Martin Green - UNSW Sydney (SPREE) and The Australian Centre for Advanced Photovoltaics
17February2023
Exploring real-world applications of BIPV, assessing the levelised cost of energy, and identifying future market opportunities
Peter Leeson - Leeson Group
Marina Freitag - University Of Newcastle, UK
Anatoly Rozenfeld - University Of Wollongong
Milad Mohsenzadeh - UNSW SPREE
Professor Tommy Wiedmann - UNSW
4August2022
Exploring 2D materials in emerging solar cells
Munkhbayar Batmunkh - Griffith University
David Moser - EURAC Research
Sudhanshu Shukla - IMEC Belgium
21April2022
Photovoltaics: State of the art and perspectives
Martin Green - UNSW Sydney (SPREE) and The Australian Centre for Advanced Photovoltaics
Yang Guo - Arctech Solar
Martin Green - UNSW Sydney (SPREE) and The Australian Centre for Advanced Photovoltaics
23March2022
Key Material Limitations and Challenges Towards Sustainable Silicon PV Manufacturing at the Terawatt Scale
A/Professor Brett Hallam - UNSW SPREE
24October2021
No Matter How Small: Solar cells take on climate change - Presented at the TEDx Youth @ReddamHouse
Martin Green - UNSW Sydney (SPREE) and The Australian Centre for Advanced Photovoltaics
27August2021
Solar Photovoltaics: Power Source for the Future
Martin Green - UNSW SPREE and The Australian Centre for Advanced Photovoltaics
25August2021
Efficiency limits for PERC, TOPCon, HJT and IBC - PV CellTech Conference online 2021 as a Keynote presentation
Martin Green - The Australian Centre for Advanced Photovoltaics and UNSW SPREE
Thorsten Trupke - UNSW SPREE & BT Imaging
25March2021
Recent trends in photovoltaics
Martin Green - UNSW SPREE and The Australian Centre for Advanced Photovoltaics
10March2021
Tiger Pro: Latest TOPCon research progress in Jinko and industrial innovation discussion
Xinyu Zhang - Jinko Solar
18December2020
How Cheap Can Solar Photovoltaics Become?
Martin Green - UNSW SPREE and The Australian Centre for Advanced Photovoltaics
7December2020
The Grand History and Future of Silicon Solar Cells
Martin Green - UNSW SPREE and The Australian Centre for Advanced Photovoltaics
Pierre Verlinden - AMROCK Pty Ltd - Trina Solar - Sun Yat-Sun University - UNSW
Myles Steiner - National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)
13February2020
Four-terminal bifacial perovskite on silicon tandem devices: Concept, devices, energy yield and outdoor results
Gianluca Coletti - TNO Energy Transition
Bonna Newman - TNO Energy Transition
Ramteen Sioshansi - Ohio State University
28November2019
Photoluminescence and infrared spectroscopy for impurities identification in silicon for photovoltaic applications
Simona Binetti - University of Milano Bicocca
27November2019
Earth-abundant chalcogenide thin film for PV application: the activity of MIBSOLAR centre at University of Milano Bicocca
Simona Binetti - University of Milano Bicocca
21November2019
Scanning probe microscope: A powerful tool for imaging nanoscale charge transport properties
Jae Sung Yun - UNSW School of Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering
30October2019
From inverter standards to understanding inverter behaviour for small-scale distributed generation
John Fletcher - UNSW School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications
16October2019
Blind men and the elephant: The problem of resource adequacy in US organized power markets
Eric Gimon - Energy Innovation
Sachin Rele - Autonic Energy Systems, India
Jianyu Yuan - Soochow University
Xinfang Wang - University of Birmingham
Ivar Houke - Reuniwatt
1May2019
Window layers for silicon heterojunction solar cells: Properties and impact on device performance
Johannes Seif - UNSW SPREE
29March2019
Concentrator photovoltaics: Optics, PV efficiency limits and niche applications for commercialisation
Katie Shanks - University of Exeter
Phill Hamer - UNSW SPREE
Hele Savin - Aalto University
Jeffrey Gordon - Ben-Gurion University
27February2019
Moving from climate change to system change: Citizen-led social innovations in climate change governance
Jennifer Kent - University of Technology Sydney
Kaining Ding - Research Center Juelich
Martin A. Green - Australian Centre for Advanced Photovoltaics & UNSW Sydney
Michael West - University of Sydney
Germain Rey - UNSW SPREE
Tim Niewelt - Fraunhofer ISE
Mario Toledo - USM, Chile
12November2018
Solar research and development at the Renewable Energy Laboratory in the Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria in Chile
Rodrigo Barraza - USM, Chile
Sharon Young - UNSW SPREE
20September2018
Data-driven assessment of distributed PV systems and their impacts on electricity network planning and operation
Navid Haghdadi - UNSW Centre for Energy and Environmental Markets (CEEM)
David Tweddle - University of Oxford
Dietmar Tourbier - Australian Solar Thermal Research Institute (ASTRI)
Otto Breitenstein - Max Planck Institute
17August2018
National Electricity Market: Tail between its NEG?
Dylan McConnell - University of Melbourne
Otto Breitenstein - Max Planck Institute
14August2018
Dielectric solar concentrators for building integration of hybrid photovoltaic-thermal systems
Alberto Riverola - University of Lleida
9August2018
The role of inhomogeneities for understanding current-voltage characteristics of solar cells
Otto Breitenstein - Max Planck Institute
2August2018
Intermediate band materials for high efficiency solar cells: Overview and future directions
Jacob Krich - University of Ottawa
Jeremy Moss - University of New South Wales Sydney
Irina Kabakova - University of Technology Sydney
Angus Gentle - University of Technology Sydney
Nick Jones - UNSW
21February2018
Developing inorganic thin film solar cells using earth-abundant Cu2ZnSn(S,Se)4 absorber materials based on sputtering process
Jin Hyeok Kim - Chonnam National University
Phoebe Pearce - Imperial College London
John Miller - Case Western Reserve University
Lesley Hughes - Macquarie University
Harry A. Atwater - California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
14December2017
Light Management in New Photovoltaic Materials
Albert Polman - Center for Nanophotonics - AMOLF
30November2017
PV Module Degradation: the impact of light induced degradation (LID) and how to fix it
Alison Ciesla - UNSW SPREE
30November2017
Where is the solar industry headed
Martin Green - UNSW SPREE & The Australian Centre for Advanced Photovoltaics (ACAP)
Merlinde Kay - UNSW SPREE
9November2017
Understanding boron-oxygen related light-induced degradation: Properties, kinetics and deactivation mechanisms
Nitin Nampalli - UNSW SPREE
3November2017
Transient photoluminescence spectroscopy for the characterization of surfaces and defects in silicon
Friedemann Heinz - Fraunhofer ISE
Zhilong Zhang - UNSW SPREE
Alexander To - UNSW SPREE
Chris Amos - Ausgrid (up to July 2017)
14September2017
Extrinsic surface passivation of silicon solar cells
Sebastian Bonilla - University of Oxford
Chin-Huai Young - National Taiwan University of Science and Technology (NTUST)
7September2017
Probabilistic forecasting of solar irradiation
Adrian Grantham - University of South Australia
N.J. Ekins-Daukes - UNSW SPREE
Nathan Chang - UNSW SPREE
22June2017
From excitons to device luminescence imaging of organic-inorganic lead halide perovskites
Arman Mahboubi Soufiani - UNSW SPREE
Jose Bilbao - UNSW SPREE
27March2017
Research and development of advanced photovoltaic technologies at Phono Solar: Black silicon, MWT and SHJ
Tian Pu - Phono Solar
Axel Metz - HALM
17March2017
11MWp Williamsdale Solar Farm - Rain and Rocks - construction, highlights and challenges
Martin Brauhart - ib vogt GmbH
Michael Mobbs - Author and Environmental Consultant
Andrew Telford - Imperial College London
19January2017
Metal Halide Perovskites: a New Family of Semiconductors for Photovoltaics and Optoelectronics
Henry Snaith - University of Oxford
15December2016
Electricity industry transition: Systems, markets and regulation in a period of radical change - some insights from the UK
Michael Grubb - University College London - Institute of Sustainable Resources
Alistair Sproul - UNSW SPREE
8December2016
UNSW PV Impact
Martin Green - UNSW SPREE &
Australian Centre for Advanced Photovoltaics (ACAP)
John Wood - Ecoult - www.ecoult.com
Alan Pears - RMIT University, Melbourne
Dirk Konig - UNSW SPREE & UNSW IMDC
15November2016
Implementation of advanced solar-cell analysis at cell test
Ron Sinton - Sinton Instruments
9November2016
How Did Silicon Solar Cells Get So Cheap?
Martin Green - Australian Centre for Advanced Photovoltaics
G.P. Das - Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science (IACS)
NJ Ekins-Daukes - Imperial College London
20October2016
PV market and industry development – from self-consumption to 100% RES, a paradigm shift for PV
Gaëtan Masson - IEA-PVPS Task 1
13October2016
The Network Value of Distributed Generation: the case for paying local generation network credits
Scott Kelly - UTS:ISF
Paul Pistor - Catalonia Institute for Energy Research (IREC)
Mattias Juhl - UNSW SPREE
Jessie Knapstein - UC Berkeley
11August2016
Two for the price of one: Theoretical and experimental advances toward understanding singlet fission
Murad Tayebjee - UNSW SPREE & now, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge
Rob Nicholls - UNSW Business School
Udo Romer - UNSW SPREE
30June2016
Getting affordable electricity to off grid households and SMEs in Africa, India and Papua New Guinea
David Hind - Barefoot Power
Paul Rowley - Loughborough University, UK
James Hazelton - UNSW SPREE
Paul Meredith - University of Queensland
Lucas Nascimento - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina - Brazil
John Murphy - University of Warwick
7April2016
Todae Solar’s 1.22 MWp Rooftop Solar Photovoltaic Installation for Stockland Shellharbour, NSW
JJ Ferrandis - Todae Solar
Laura Herz - University of Oxford
Brian Gorman - Colorado School of Mines
Andrew Telford - Imperial College London
16February2016
High efficiency solar cells by nanophotonic design
Albert Polman - FOM Institute AMOLF
Alistair Sproul - UNSW SPREE - CRC Low Carbon Living
Long Seng To - University College London
Scott Partlin - SMA Solar Technology
19November2015
Active electronic impurity doping of silicon nanovolumes
Dirk Konig - UNSW SPREE - UNSW IMDC
12November2015
High efficiency silicon heterojunction solar cells
Martin Liebhaber - Helmholtz Center Berlin
Jeff Routledge - Tigo Energy
Scott Partlin - SMA Solar Technology
22October2015
A capital city approach to achieving 25% renewables
Russell French - City of Melbourne
17September2015
Performance Evaluation in Conventional and Rectenna Solar Cells
Sachit Grover - First Solar
10September2015
Energy systems modelling for 21st century energy challenges
Adam Hawkes - Imperial College London
3September2015
Flexibility, certainty and federalism: Challenges for governance in Australia’s electricity industry
Penelope Crossley - University of Sydney
Efrat Lifshitz - Technion Institute
James Cave - University of Bath, UK
Martin A. Green - Australian Centre for Advanced Photovoltaics
Fa-Jun MA - UNSW SPREE
David Leitch - UBS Investment Bank
Matt Stocks - Australian National University
Monique Alfris - Pollinate Energy
Pietro Altermatt - Leibniz University Hannover
6March2015
40 years of PV research at UNSW
Martin Green - UNSW SPREE &
Australian Centre for Advanced Photovoltaics
Tony Peaker - University of Manchester
26February2014
High recovery rate solar driven reverse osmosis and membrane distillation plants for brackish groundwater desalination in Egypt
Amir Nashed - UNSW SPREE
6November2014
The shift towards a global renewable energy future
Kobad Bhavnagri - Bloomberg New Energy Finance
Yimao Wan - Australian National University
John Mathews - Macquarie University
Klaus Weber - Australian National University
Muriel Watt - UNSW SPREE, IT Power, IEA PV, Aust PV Institute
21August2014
Localized laser doped contacts for silicon solar cells: Characterization and efficiency potential
Andreas Fell - Australian National University
15August2014
Application of Anodic Aluminium Oxides for Silicon Solar Cell Passivation and Metallisation
Pei Hsuan Doris Lu - UNSW SPREE
Fiacre Rougieux - Australian National University
Elsa Reichmanis - Georgia Institute of Technology
Prof. Martin A. Green - UNSW Australia - SPREE - ACAP
Prof. Martin A. Green - UNSW Australia - SPREE - ACAP
Gregory Wilson - National Center for Photovoltaics - NREL
Pierre Verlinden - Trina Solar
28November2013
Recent Developments in PV and ACAP's Role
Martin Green - Australian Centre for Advanced Photovoltaics
24October2013
Iron in crystalline silicon solar cells: fundamental properties, detection techniques, and gettering
Daniel Macdonald - Australian National University
24October2013
Trends in Global Photovoltaics - 2013 Lecture 1 of 2
Professor Stuart Wenham - UNSW SPREE - PV Centre of Excellence
24October2013
Trends in Global Photovoltaics - 2013 Lecture 2 of 2
Professor Stuart Wenham - UNSW SPREE - PV Centre of Excellence
Zi Ouyang - UNSW SPREE
Sylvain Coulombe - McGill University, Montreal (QC), Canada
19July2013
Tackling PV Manufacturing Cost
Jeff Cotter - Arizona State University &
The Australian National University
Nicholas Grant - Centre for Sustainable Energy Systems, ANU
Martin Green, AM, FAA, FTSE, FIEEE, FRS - Austrlain Centre for Advanced Photovoltaics & UNSW SPREE
Martin Green, AM, FAA, FTSE, FIEEE, FRS - Austrlain Centre for Advanced Photovoltaics & UNSW SPREE
Beniamino Iandolo - Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg (Sweden)
14March2013
Wide Band Gap III-Nitride Compound Semiconductor Devices: The Universal Solution for Energy Applications
Ian Ferguson - University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Robert Opila - University of Delaware
27November2012
Improving the light-harvesting of thin-film solar cells with photochemical upconversion
Tim Schulze - School of Chemistry, The University of Sydney
Joachim Luther - Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (ISE), Germany,Solar Energy Research Institute of Singapore (SERIS), Singapore
Bernhard Mitchell - UNSW SPREE
30August2012
Semitransparent Organic Solar Cells
Furong Zhu - Department of Physics and Institute of Advanced Materials
Hong Kong Baptist University
Adam Shor - Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI)
