Information
The ARCS Photovoltaics Venter of Excellence was founded in 2003, by Martin Green. He strives to improve the efficiency of photovoltaic and solar energy.
Martin Green says: “To me, the path to a sustainable energy future seems very obvious. We have to find a way to tap into a very small fraction of the sun’s energy to convert it to a form suitable for supplying what are in fact the relatively small additional requirements of modern life. … I think the technological challenge can be met. It remains to be seen whether the political and organizational challenges involved in recognizing and addressing the need to change from the status quo can also be met on a reasonable timescale.”
The ARCS works in close collaboration with the University of South Wales, Sydney, enabling students to be taught the most recent discoveries and the and integrated into the development of new techniques. ARCS was the first international organization to offer a degree program on photovoltaic and solar energy.
The center consists of five research teams, of which each team specializes on a different topic. Programs include 'High Efficiency', 'Thin Film' and 'Buried Contact Group'. Also the center can takes credit for making LED lamps easy to use and affordable. The goal of all five teams is to find efficient and low priced solutions and therefore, finding possible ways to provide power to the poor regions of the world, in the future.
Short Description and Facts
| Members/Size: | large | Email: | pv.labs@unsw.edu.au |
| Foundation Date: | 2003 | Webseite: | http://www.pv.unsw.edu.au/ |
| Address: | Phone: | +61 2 9385 4018 | |
| 2052Kensington | Fax: |
Arbeitet an den folgenden Globalen Herausforderungen
Has projects with following themes
- Environment
- Safe Energy and Transport
- Tackling Climate Change
- Intelligent and Sensitive Building
- Economics and Politics
- Socially and Environmentally Responsible Production and Technologies
- Energy crises
- Regenerative energy
- Solar plants
- Nuclear power
- Efficiency
- Sufficiency
- Savings
- Climate changes
- Emissions
- Technologies
- Economic growth
- Globalization
- Energy supply
This commercially relevant research area focuses on the development of these thin-film technologies and addresses materials, device performance, and manufacturing issues. Goal ist to develope an affordable solar technology, which would promote the apply of ressource saving solar energy.
The Buried Contact Solar Cell Group has the goal to develop new structures and process technologies of solar cells. The focus of this extensive research and development work lies on the mono– and multi-crystalline solar wafers, which when accumulated can be used as solar cells in standard products.
