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