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  • (1995) Heiser, Gernot; Altermatt, Peter; Williams, Angela-Margaret; Sproul, Alistair; Green, Martin
    Conference Paper
    This paper describes the use of three-dimensional (3D) device modelling for the optimisation of the rear contact geometry of high-efficiency silicon solar cells. We describe the techniques and models used as well as their limitations. Our approach is contrasted with previously published 3D studies of high-efficiency silicon solar cells. Results show that the optimum spacing is about 2/3 of that predicted by 2D simulations, and exhibits a much stronger dependence on contact spacing. The optimal value found is about 60% of that of the present UNSW PERL cells, however, the possible efficiency gain is only about 0.1% absolute.

  • (2005) Russell, Carol; Lee, Adrian
    Conference Paper
    In this paper we describe an institutionally funded Fellowship running 2001– 2004, which seeded and cultivated new communities of practice in innovative teaching using educational technology. The literature identifies some inherent challenges in such schemes. The Fellowship was able to surface and deal with these through a team-based action research approach. Key features were the buying out of staff time for a semester and the development of discipline-based projects in a supported cross-disciplinary group. The Fellowship has been central to shifting systemic institutional blocks to educational innovation.

  • (2008) Frances, Maude; Cox, Shane; Sidhunata, Harry; Leslie, Greg
    Conference Paper
    The Membrane Research Environment (MemRE), is a research infrastructure project of the Advanced Membrane Technologies for Water Treatment Research Cluster, a research project funded by the CSIRO flagship Water for a Healthy Country. The research cluster, a nationally distributed and multidisciplinary group of researchers including computational and physical chemists, physicists, material scientists, and chemical and mechanical engineers, aims to develop novel membrane materials in order to reduce the energy associated with desalination by 40%.

  • (2007) Theo, J.; Mazaheri, M.; Tabatabaei Balaei, Asghar; Dempster, A.G
    Conference Paper

  • (2009) Cox, Shane; Frances, Maude; Croucher, Joanne; Sidhunata, Harry; Leslie, Greg
    Conference Paper
    The Membrane Research Environment (MemRE) is a component research infrastructure project of the Advanced Membrane Technologies for Water Treatment Research Cluster, a research project funded by the CSIRO flagship Water for a Healthy Country. The research cluster, a nationally distributed and multidisciplinary group of researchers including computational and physical chemists, physicists, material scientists, and chemical and mechanical engineers, aims to develop novel membrane materials in order to reduce the energy associated with desalination by 40%. Common hurdles in multidisciplinary research projects include: a lack of consolidation of existing information relevant to the research from all the participating fields; an absence of information infrastructure to promote comparison of results; and the need for a common language to better enable project participants to communicate. MemRE has been designed and implemented as a solution to these hurdles, to provide an integrated research development tool and learning environment.

  • (2010) Cole, Fletcher; Cox, Shane; Frances, Maude
    Conference Paper
    An opportunity to explore the topic of data usages is presented by the collaborative research being undertaken by a federation of applied science research units affiliated with a number of different Australian research organizations (the Cluster). The research aims to investigate how members of the collaboration understand and work with data in their day-to-day practice.

  • (1995) Ye, A; Peng, Gang-Ding; Chu, Pak
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  • (1996) Peng, Gang-Ding; Chu, Pak; Ziong, Z; Whitbread, Trevor; Chaplin, Rodney
    Conference Paper

  • (1997) Waite, David; Tolmier, Davis; Yeomans, W; Buckley, C; Barclay, Shaun
    Conference Paper

  • (1995) Ng, Ken; Amal, Rose; Raper, Judy; Waite, David; Bustamante, Heriberto
    Conference Paper