Featured in Bags of cash – 11-2022

A sustainability swan song

Pioneering PV researcher Martin Green has received an abundance of accolades over his 50-year career of fundamental solar research with teams at the University of New South Wales (UNSW). That contribution was further recognized on Sept. 26, when he picked up the WCPEC-8 Award in Milan, Italy. Green spoke with pv magazine about the role of technologies such as PERC cells and his efforts to advance non-toxic thin film semiconductors for the tandem cells of the future.

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Jonathan Gifford

09 Nov 2022

Conference General Chair Alessandra Scognamiglio presents Martin Green with the WCPEC Award at the opening session of WCPEC-8 in Milan. | Photo: EUPVSEC

While your work on crystalline silicon technology has had a profound impact on the modern solar industry, you are now working on thin films, and we’re not talking about commercialized products such as CIGS, CdTe or even a-Si. Can you tell us more about your work in this field and the progress you’re making?We would …

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