
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听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)听- currently hold III-V on silicon world record
- Limiting Efficiencies of novel Photovoltaic paradigms听
- Novel processing for conventional silicon solar cells
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Current PhD opportunities:
Molecular Beam Epitaxy growth of III-V materials on Silicon
Growth and Characterisation of听InAs/GaAs(Sb) quantum dot structures for PV devices
Molecular Beam Epitaxy Growth of Gallium Arsenide听Bismide
Molecular Beam Epitaxy Growth of low band gap materials such as InSb for novel energy applications听听
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
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- Engagement
- Teaching and Supervision
Current Grants
ARENA 2014听RND068听Towards Ultimate Performance Commercial Silicon Solar Cells
ARENA 2017 RND008听Next Generation Silicon sub-cells for high efficiency III-V/Si multi-junction solar cells
Australian Research Council Discovery Project DP170102677听Uncovering hot carrier cooling mechanisms in nano structures
Sub-contracts
US Department of Energy SunShot program听DE-FOA-0001387听GaAsP/Si Tandem Solar Cells: Pathway to Low-Cost, High-Efficiency Photovoltaics