This article first appeared on UNSW Australia News – December 8, 2014 UNSW’s solar researchers have converted over 40% of the sunlight hitting a solar system into electricity, the highest efficiency ever reported. The world-beating efficiency was achieved in outdoor tests in Sydney, before being independently confirmed by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) […]
Jen Fuller, a QESST ERC and CSPO (Consortium for Science, Policy and Outcomes) scholar has been awarded a Graduate Education Completion Fellowship for Spring 2015 in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change (SHESC) at Arizona State University (ASU). Completion Fellowships are awarded to support a student’s degree completion of a PhD, and are […]
This article first appeared on MIT News – January 13, 2015 David L. Chandler | MIT News Office Mechanical engineering professor pursues a vision of a cleaner, more energy-efficient world. One day in the 1990s, as he was riding home from high school in São Paulo, Tonio Buonassisi looked out the bus window at […]
This article first appeared on AZ Central – January 14, 2015 Ryan Randazzo |, The Republicazcentral.com In a research facility off the Loop 101 in Tempe, about 30 researchers in clean rooms wearing protective suits, gloves and hair nets test some of the most efficient semiconductor materials on the planet for solar panels and LEDs. […]
Tandem devices based on III-V semiconductors have shown excellent promise for boosting solar cell conversion efficiencies. In particular, the use of a bottom subcell made with dilute nitrogen alloys of these semiconductors in a 3-cells series-connected tandem configuration already has shown practical conversion efficiencies in the range of 44%. Nevertheless, thus far access to higher […]
A collaboration between QESST researchers at Georgia Tech and Arizona State University has developed and demonstrated high quality InGaN thin films with high In compositions. These films show high optical properties that result from full-strain relaxation and uniform chemical composition profiles, in a range that was previously thought not possible. Thick InGaN films grown on […]
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