Associate Professor Stephen Bremner
Dr. Stephen Bremner is an Associate Professor in the School of Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering
Teaching Areas
- Engineering Design (ENGG1000)
- Electronic Devices (SOLA2060)
Research interests
- Third generation Photovoltaics including materials for hot carrier solar cells
- Nanostructures for novel Photovoltaic Devices, including nanowires
- III-V compound semiconductor growth by molecular beam epitaxy (MBE)
- Multi-junction solar cells, collaborating with Ohio State University (USA) - currently hold III-V on silicon world record
- Limiting Efficiencies of novel Photovoltaic paradigms
- Novel processing for conventional silicon solar cells
Current PhD opportunities:
Molecular Beam Epitaxy growth of III-V materials on Silicon
Growth and Characterisation of InAs/GaAs(Sb) quantum dot structures for PV devices
Molecular Beam Epitaxy Growth of Gallium Arsenide Bismide
Molecular Beam Epitaxy Growth of low band gap materials such as InSb for novel energy applications
Novel rear contacting process for Silicon solar cells
Silicon sub-cell optimisation for III-V on silicon multi-junction solar cells
Nanowires for hot carrier solar cells
- Publications
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- Awards
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- Engagement
- Teaching and Supervision
Current Grants
ARENA 2014 RND068 Towards Ultimate Performance Commercial Silicon Solar Cells
ARENA 2017 RND008 Next Generation Silicon sub-cells for high efficiency III-V/Si multi-junction solar cells
Australian Research Council Discovery Project DP170102677 Uncovering hot carrier cooling mechanisms in nano structures
Sub-contracts
US Department of Energy SunShot program DE-FOA-0001387 GaAsP/Si Tandem Solar Cells: Pathway to Low-Cost, High-Efficiency Photovoltaics