By Dr Catherine Emily Chan

Conference Papers

Hallam BJ; Hamer P; Nampalli N; Abbott M; Kim M; Chen D; Azmi A; Gorman N; Li H; Lu P; Wang S; Wenham A; Chan C; Payne D; Mai L; Ji J; Wenham S, 2015, 'Rapid processing of boron oxygen defects.', in Proceedings of the 31st European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference, Hamburg, Germany, pp. 531 - 535, presented at 31st European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference, Hamburg, Germany, 14 September 2015 - 18 September 2015, http://dx.doi.org/10.4229/EUPVSEC20152015-2DO.16.4

Wang S; Wenham A; Hamer P; Hallam B; Mai L; Chan C; Nampalli N; Song L; Chong CM; Abbott M; Wenham S, 2015, 'Stability of hydrogen passivated UMG silicon with implied open circuit voltages over 700mV', in 2015 IEEE 42nd Photovoltaic Specialist Conference, PVSC 2015, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), LA, New Orleans, pp. 1 - 4, presented at 2015 IEEE 42nd Photovoltaic Specialist Conference (PVSC), LA, New Orleans, 14 June 2015 - 19 June 2015, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/PVSC.2015.7355739

Hallam BJ; Hamer PG; Wang S; Song L; Nampalli N; Abbott MD; Chan CE; Lu D; Wenham AM; Mai L; Borojevic N; Li A; Chen D; Kim MY; Azmi A; Wenham S, 2015, 'Advanced Hydrogenation of Dislocation Clusters and Boron-oxygen Defects in Silicon Solar Cells', in Hahn G (ed.), Energy Procedia, Elsevier, GERMANY, Univ Konstanz, Konstanz, pp. 799 - 809, presented at 5th International Conference on Crystalline Silicon Photovoltaics (SiliconPV), GERMANY, Univ Konstanz, Konstanz, 23 March 2015 - 25 March 2015, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.egypro.2015.07.113

Hallam B; Sugianto A; Mai L; Xu G; Chan C; Abbott M; Wenham S; Uruena A; Aleman M; Poortmans J, 2014, 'Hydrogen passivation of laser-induced defects for silicon solar cells', in 2014 IEEE 40th Photovoltaic Specialist Conference, PVSC 2014, pp. 2476 - 2480, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/PVSC.2014.6925432

Hallam BJ; Wang S; Wenham A; Hamer P; Chan C; Abbott M; Wenham S, 2014, 'Hydrogen passivation for highly defected commercial grade n-type Cz wafers and oxygen precipitates', in Proceedings of the 29th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference, Amsterdam, Netherlands, pp. 608 - 611, presented at 29th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 22 September 2014 - 26 September 2014, http://dx.doi.org/10.4229/EUPVSEC20142014-2DO.2.6

Hallam BJ; Wang S; Abbott M; Wenham A; Chan C; Hamer P; Eadie M; Wenham S, 2014, 'Hydrogen passivation for multi-crystalline and quasi-mono cast silicon wafers - a pathway to low cost, high efficiency solar cells?', in Proceedings of the 29th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference, Amsterdam, Netherlands, pp. 1292 - 1295, presented at 29th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 22 September 2014 - 26 September 2014, http://dx.doi.org/10.4229/EUPVSEC20142014-2CV.4.8

Hamer PG; Hallam B; Chan C; Wenham A; Sugianto A; Abbott M; Wenham SR, 2013, 'Hydrogen passivation mechanisms in silicon solar cells', Paris, France, presented at 28th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition, Paris, France, 30 September 2013 - 04 October 2013

Hallam B; Wenham SR; Hamer P; Abbott M; Sugianto A; Chan C; Mai L, 2013, 'Advanced Bulk Defect Passivation Techniques for Silicon Solar Cells', 16 June 2013 - 19 June 2013

Chan C; Abbott M; Juhl M; Hallam B; Xiao B; Wenham SR, 2013, 'Assessing the performance of surface passivation using low intensity photoluminescence characterization techniques', Tampa, Florida, presented at 39th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, Tampa, Florida, 16 June 2013 - 19 June 2013

Hallam BJ; Wenham SR; Hamer PG; Abbott MD; Sugianto A; Chan CE; Wenham AM; Eadie MG; Xu GQ, 2013, 'Hydrogen passivation of B-O defects in Czochralski silicon', Hamelin, Germany, presented at 3rd International conference on crystalline silicon photovoltaics, Hamelin, Germany, 25 March 2013 - 27 March 2013

Hallam BJ; Wenham SR; Hamer PG; Abbott MD; Sugianto A; Chan CE; Wenham AM; Eadie MG; Xu G, 2013, 'Hydrogen Passivation of B-O Defects in Czochralski Silicon', in Energy Procedia, Elsevier, Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands, pp. 561 - 570, presented at International Conference on Crystalline Silicon Photovoltaics, Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands, 25 March 2013 - 27 March 2013, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.egypro.2013.07.317

Xu G; Hallam B; Hameiri Z; Chan C; Yao Y; Chong C; Wenham S, 2013, 'Over 700 mV implied Voc on p-type CZ silicon solar cells with double-sided laser doping', in Energy Procedia, pp. 33 - 40, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.egypro.2013.05.037

Conference Posters

Varshney U; Liu S; Chen D; Kim M; Abbott M; Payne D; Hoex B; Chan C; Wenham S; Sen C, 2018, 'Influence of dielectric passivation layer thickness on LeTID in multicrystalline silicon', Hawaii, USA, Vol. 00, pp. 363 - 367, presented at WCPEC-7, Hawaii, USA, 10 June 2018 - 15 June 2018, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/PVSC.2018.8547618

chan C; payne D; abbott M; Chen D; ciesla A; chen R; hallam B; wenham S, 2017, 'Investigations of carrier-induced degradation behaviour in p-type mc-Si', Washington DC, presented at 44th IEEE Photovoltaics Specialist Conference, Washington DC, 25 June 2017 - 30 June 2017, http://dx.doi.org/10.26190/unsworks/26576

Conference Presentations

Sen C; Wang H; Wu X; Khan MU; Chan C; Hoex B, 2023, 'Hidden Fingerprints: How Solar Cell Handling Leads to Damp Heat Failures in Silicon Heterojunction Technology', presented at PVSEC-34 -International Photovoltaic Science and Engineering Conference, Shenzhen, China, 06 November 2023 - 10 November 2023, https://www.pvsec-34.com/

Sen C; Wang H; Wu X; Khan MU; Mao L; Jiang F; Zhang G; Chan C; Hoex B, 2023, 'Al2O3 Barrier Layers: A Novel Approach to Preventing Humidity-Induced Failure in Heterojunction', presented at 40th EU PVSEC Conference and Exhibition, Lisbon, Portugal, 18 September 2023 - 22 September 2023, https://www.eupvsec.org/index.php/conference/conference

Kim M; Chen D; Liu S; Wright M; Chan C; Ciesla A; Abbott M; Hallam B, 2020, 'Prediction of outdoor degradation using indoor testing result', presented at 30th International Photovoltaic Science and Engineering Conference & Global Photovoltaic Conference 2020, 08 November 2020 - 13 November 2020

Chen D; Kim M; Varshney U; Sen C; Liu S; Zhang YUCHAO; Hamer P; Chong C; Ciesla A; Chan C; Chen R; Abbott M; Hallam B, 2019, 'Light and Elevated Temperature Induced Degradation (LeTID): the Past , the Present and What Lies Ahead', presented at 2019 Asia Pacific Solar Research Conference, Canberra, Australia, 02 December 2019, http://dx.doi.org/10.26190/unsworks/27901

Ciesla A; Chen R; Rougieux F; Hallam B; Chan C; Chen D; Chong C; Abbott M; Wenham S, 2019, 'Hydrogen Charge States & Recombination Activity in PV Silicon', presented at 18th Conference - Gettering and Defect Engineering in Semiconductor Technology - GADEST, Zeuthen, Germany, 22 September 2019 - 27 September 2019

Chen D; Abbott M; Hallam B; Wenham S; Chan C, 2018, 'A study of hydrogen induced degradation in p- and n-type Silicon + Other progress at UNSW (氢致衰减的新发现: 对于n型/p型硅片的进一步研究 + UNSW的其他进展)', presented at 17th Issue PV WE CLASS-Crystalline Silicon Advanced Technology and Materials Forum, Wuxi, China, 24 May 2018 - 24 May 2018

Chen D; Hamer P; Kim M; Bourett-Sicotte G; Liu S; Ciesla A; Chan C; Chen R; Fung TH; Vargas C; Ye Q; Abbott M; Hallam BJ; Wenham SR, 2018, 'Hydrogen Induced Degradation : A Possible Mechanism for Light and Elevated Temperature Induced Degradation (LeTID) in n-type Silicon', presented at 8th International Conference on Crystalline Silicon Photovoltaics, Lausanne Switzerland, 19 March 2018 - 18 May 2018, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.solmat.2018.05.034

Hallam B; Chen D; Kim M; Vicari Stefani B; Hamer P; Holman Z; Shi J; Abbott MD; Chan CE; Hoex B; Wenham S, 2017, 'The roles of defects, gettering and hydrogenation for next generation silicon solar cells: An industrial perspective', presented at 17th Gettering and Defect Engineering in Semiconductor Technology Conference, George, USA, 01 October 2017 - 06 October 2017

Chen D; Abbott M; Chan C; Chen R; Ciesla A; Hallam B; Kim K; kim M; liu S; Samadi A; Wenham S, 2017, 'New insights into LeTID: Degradation of multi-crystalline silicon PERC Cells', presented at PVQAT TG13 Cell Task Force Technical Committee, Wuxi, China, 21 September 2017 - 22 September 2017

Conference Abstracts

Wang L; Hamer P; Pollard M; Chan C, 2021, 'Suppression of LeTID in P-type Multi-crystalline PERC Silicon Solar Cells by Biased Annealing Process', in SiliconPV 2021 conference proceedings, presented at SiliconPV 2021 conference

Theses / Dissertations

Sen C, 2021, Understanding and Mitigating Light and Elevated Temperature-Induced Bulk and Surface Degradation in Commercial Silicon Solar Cells, http://dx.doi.org/10.26190/unsworks/22503

Patents

Wenham S; Shi Z; Fung T; Abbott M; Mai L; Hallam B; Ciesla A; Chan C; Chen R; Kim M; Bagnall D; Payne D; Chong C; Chen D, 2023, Advanced hydrogen passivation that mitigates hydrogen-induced recombination (HIR) and surface passivation deterioration in PV devices, China, Patent No. 109983561

Ciesla A; Chen D; Shi Z; Fung T; Abbott M; Mai L; Hallam B; Chan C; Chen R; Kim M; Bagnall D; Payne D; Chong C; Wenham S, 2023, A method for improving wafer performance for photovoltaic devices, Patent No. China - 109983559; South Korea - 2519569

Ciesla A; Hallam B; Chan C; Chong C; Chen D; Bagnall D; Payne D; Mai L; Abbott M; Kim M; Chen R; Wenham S; Fung T; Shi Z, 2021, Advanced hydrogen passivation that mitigates hydrogen-induced recombination (HIR) and surface passivation deterioration in PV devices, Patent No. United States 2021 pat no.11031520

Wenham S, 2021, Thermal processing in silicon, South Korea, Patent No. 10-2230171

Ciesla A; Hallam B; Chan C; Chong C; Chen D; Bagnall D; Payne D; Mai L; Abbott M; Kim M; Chen R; Wenham S; Fung T; Shi Z, 2021, A method for improving wafer performance for photovoltaic devices, Patent No. US pat no. 10910509

Ciesla A; Wenham S; Hallam B; Chan C; Chong CM; Chen R; Abbott M; Payne D, 2019, A method for processing silicon material, Patent No. 10461212; Chine 2021 pat no. ZL201680015469.X, http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=10461212.PN.&OS=PN/10461212&RS=PN/10461212

Ciesla A; Hallam B; Wenham S; Chan C, 2019, A monolithically integrated solar cell system, Patent No. 10211354, http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=10211354.PN.&OS=PN/10211354&RS=PN/10211354

Wenham S; Hamer P; Sugianto A; Chan C; Song L; Lu PHD; Ciesla A; Mai L; Chong CM; Hallam B; Xu G; Edwards M, 2018, Apparatus and method for processing a semiconductor wafer, Patent No. ZL2016105440806

Wenham S; Hamer P; Hallam B; Sugianto A; Chan C; Song L; Lu PHD; Ciesla A; Mai L; Chong CM; Xu G; Edwards M, 2018, High concentration doping in silicon, Patent No. 9947821, https://pdfpiw.uspto.gov/.piw?Docid=09947821&homeurl=http:%2F%2Fpatft.uspto.gov%2Fnetacgi%2Fnph-Parser%3FSect1%3DPTO1%2526Sect2%3DHITOFF%2526d%3DPALL%2526p%3D1%2526u%3D%25252Fnetahtml%25252FPTO%25252Fsrchnum.htm%2526r%3D1%2526f%3DG%2526l%3D50%2526s1%3D9947821.PN.%2526OS%3DPN%2F9947821%2526RS%3DPN%2F9947821&PageNum=&Rtype=&SectionNum=&idkey=NONE&Input=View+first+page

Wenham S; Hamer P; Hallam BJ; Sugianto A; Chan C; Song L; Lu P; Wenham A; Mai LY; Chong C; Xu G; Edwards M, 2017, Advanced hydrogenation of silicon solar cells, U.S., Patent No. US-9847443-B2, http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect2=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=/netahtml/PTO/search-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&d=PALL&RefSrch=yes&Query=US-9847443-B2

Hallam BJ; Edwards M; Wenham S; Hamer P; Chan C; Chong C; Lu P; Ly M; Song L; Sugianto A; Wenham A; Xu G, 2017, Thermal processing in silicon, Patent No. United State Pat No. 9824897, South Korea Pat No. 10-2289901, http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect2=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=/netahtml/PTO/search-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&d=PALL&RefSrch=yes&Query=US-9824897-B2

Wenham S; Hamer P; Hallam BJ; Sugianto A; Chan C; Song L; Lu P; Wenham A; Mai L; Chong C; Xu G; Edwards M, 2017, Advanced hydrogenation of silicon solar cells, Taiwan, Patent No. I601302, https://twpat5.tipo.gov.tw/tipotwoc/tipotwekm?!!FR_I601302

Wenham S; Hamer P; Hallam BJ; Sugianto A; Chan C; Song L; Lu P; Wenham A; Mai L; Chong C; Xu G; Edwards M, 2017, Advanced hydrogenation of silicon solar cells, Australia, Patent No. AU2013266009 (B2); South Korea patent no. 10-2102873, http://pericles.ipaustralia.gov.au/ols/auspat/applicationDetails.do?applicationNo=2013266009

Wenham SR; Hamer P; Sugianto A; Chan C; Song L; Lu D; Wenham A; Mai L; Chong C; Hallam B; Xu G; Edwards M, 2016, Advanced Hydrogenation of Silicon Solar Cells, Singapore, Patent No. 11201407270X

Preprints

Sen C; Wang H; Wu X; Khan MU; Chan C; Abbott M; Hoex B, Four Failure Modes in Silicon Heterojunction Glass-Backsheet Modules, http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4293027

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