Andrew Blakers
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Professor Andrew Blakers, Director of the Australian National University Centre for Sustainable Energy Systems, is involved with the development of SLIVER Cell (TM) photovoltaic technology which uses just one tenth of the costly silicon used in conventional solar panels while matching power, performance, and efficiency.[1]
Blakers invented the technology with colleague Dr Klaus Weber and developed it with funding from energy supplier Origin Energy and the Australian Research Council. Blakers and Weber won the Australian Institute of Physics' Walsh Medal for their work.[2]
Origin Energy Solar is now making pre-production SLIVER modules at its A$20M pilot plant in Regency Park, South Australia. Origin expects to be manufacturing its sliver cell technology for the Australian market by 2008.[3]
[edit] See also
- Martin Green
- Solar Cell
- Solar energy
- Solar power in Australia
- Photovoltaic and renewable energy engineering in Australia
