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Brett Hallam is affiliated with the University of New South Wales in Australia and specializes in engineering, with a particular focus on electrical and electronic engineering. Their research spans several interconnected fields, including renewable energy, sustainability, environmental engineering, atomic and molecular physics and optics, as well as materials chemistry.

The main topics driving their research include silicon and solar cell technologies, thin-film transistor technologies, photovoltaic system optimization techniques, solar cell performance optimization, photovoltaic systems and sustainability, semiconductor materials and interfaces, and silicon nanostructures and photoluminescence.

Brett Hallam's publication record includes multiple contributions to peer-reviewed scientific journals. Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by them are:

  • Digitalization to achieve sustainable development goals: Steps towards a Smart Green Planet (2021), published in The Science of The Total Environment
  • Design considerations for multi-terawatt scale manufacturing of existing and future photovoltaic technologies: challenges and opportunities related to silver, indium and bismuth consumption (2021), published in Energy & Environmental Science
  • Photovoltaics at multi-terawatt scale: Waiting is not an option (2023), published in Science
  • Progress in the understanding of light- and elevated temperature-induced degradation in silicon solar cells: A review (2020), published in Progress in Photovoltaics Research and Applications
  • The aluminium demand risk of terawatt photovoltaics for net zero emissions by 2050 (2022), published in Nature Sustainability

The venues where Brett Hallam frequently publishes research include:

  • Progress in Photovoltaics Research and Applications (10 publications)
  • Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells (8 publications)
  • Solar RRL (7 publications)
  • AIP conference proceedings (6 publications)
  • IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics (4 publications)

Brett Hallam maintains ongoing collaborations with a range of co-authors, with the most frequent collaborators being:

  • Matthew Wright (26 joint works)
  • Moonyong Kim (25 joint works)
  • Anastasia Soeriyadi (19 joint works)
  • Yuchao Zhang (17 joint works)
  • Catherine Chan (17 joint works)

The breadth of Brett Hallam's research reflects a multidisciplinary approach within engineering and renewable energy systems, focusing on the optimization and sustainability of solar and photovoltaic technologies. Their contributions include studies on material consumption risks, degradation mechanisms in silicon solar cells, and the development of scalable photovoltaic manufacturing processes.

Best Publications

  • Photovoltaics at multi-terawatt scale: Waiting is not an option

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  • Design considerations for multi-terawatt scale manufacturing of existing and future photovoltaic technologies: challenges and opportunities related to silver, indium and bismuth consumption

    Yuchao Zhang;Moonyong Kim;Li Wang;Pierre Verlinden

  • Evidence of an identical firing-activated carrier-induced defect in monocrystalline and multicrystalline silicon

    Daniel Chen;Moonyong Kim;Bruno V. Stefani;Bruno V. Stefani;Brett J. Hallam

  • Rapid Stabilization of High-Performance Multicrystalline P-type Silicon PERC Cells

    Catherine E. Chan;David N. R. Payne;Brett J. Hallam;Malcolm D. Abbott

  • Advanced Bulk Defect Passivation for Silicon Solar Cells

    Brett J. Hallam;Phill G. Hamer;Stuart R. Wenham;Malcolm D. Abbott

  • Advanced PERC and PERL production cells with 20.3% record efficiency for standard commercial p‐type silicon wafers

    Zhenjiao Wang;Peiyu Han;Hongyan Lu;Hongqiang Qian

  • Hydrogen induced degradation: A possible mechanism for light- and elevated temperature- induced degradation in n-type silicon

    Daniel Chen;Phillip G. Hamer;Moonyong Kim;Tsun H. Fung

  • Modulation of Carrier-Induced Defect Kinetics in Multi-Crystalline Silicon PERC Cells Through Dark Annealing

    Catherine Chan;Tsun Hang Fung;Malcolm Abbott;David Payne

  • Advanced Hydrogenation of Dislocation Clusters and Boron-oxygen Defects in Silicon Solar Cells

    Brett J. Hallam;Phill G. Hamer;Sisi Wang;Lihui Song

  • Hydrogen Passivation of B-O Defects in Czochralski Silicon

    Brett J. Hallam;Stuart R. Wenham;Phillip G. Hamer;Malcolm D. Abbott

  • A four-state kinetic model for the carrier-induced degradation in multicrystalline silicon: Introducing the reservoir state

    Tsun Hang Fung;Moonyong Kim;Daniel Chen;Catherine E. Chan

  • Effect of PECVD silicon oxynitride film composition on the surface passivation of silicon wafers

    Brett Hallam;Budi Tjahjono;Stuart Wenham

  • The role of hydrogenation and gettering in enhancing the efficiency of next-generation Si solar cells: An industrial perspective

    Brett Hallam;Daniel Chen;Moonyong Kim;Bruno Stefani

  • Manipulation of Hydrogen Charge States for Passivation of P-Type Wafers in Photovoltaics

    P. Hamer;B. Hallam;S. Wenham;M. Abbott

  • Acceleration and mitigation of carrier-induced degradation in p-type multi-crystalline silicon

    D. N. R. Payne;C. E. Chan;B. J. Hallam;B. Hoex

  • Eliminating Light-Induced Degradation in Commercial p-Type Czochralski Silicon Solar Cells

    Brett Hallam;Axel Herguth;Phillip Hamer;Phillip Hamer;Nitin Nampalli

  • Record Large-Area p-Type CZ Production Cell Efficiency of 19.3% Based on LDSE Technology

    B. Hallam;S. Wenham;A. Sugianto;L. Mai

  • Progress in the understanding of light- and elevated temperature-induced degradation in silicon solar cells: A review

    Daniel Chen;Michelle Vaqueiro Contreras;Alison Ciesla;Phillip Hamer

  • The silver learning curve for photovoltaics and projected silver demand for net‐zero emissions by 2050

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  • Hydrogen-induced degradation: Explaining the mechanism behind light- and elevated temperature-induced degradation in n- and p-type silicon

    Daniel Chen;Phillip Hamer;Moonyong Kim;Catherine Chan

  • Photoluminescence imaging for determining the spatially resolved implied open circuit voltage of silicon solar cells

    Brett Hallam;Budi Tjahjono;Thorsten Trupke;Stuart Wenham

  • Development of advanced hydrogenation processes for silicon solar cells via an improved understanding of the behaviour of hydrogen in silicon

    Brett J. Hallam;Phill G. Hamer;Alison M. Ciesla née Wenham;Catherine E. Chan

  • Modelling of hydrogen transport in silicon solar cell structures under equilibrium conditions

    P. Hamer;P. Hamer;B. Hallam;R. S. Bonilla;P. P. Altermatt

  • Apparatus and method for processing semiconductor wafer

    Wenham Stuart Ross;Hamer Phillip George;Hallam Brett Jason;Sugianto Adeline

  • Laser Enhanced Hydrogen Passivation of Silicon Wafers

    Lihui Song;Alison Wenham;Sisi Wang;Phillip Hamer

  • Influence of the formation- and passivation rate of boron-oxygen defects for mitigating carrier-induced degradation in silicon within a hydrogen-based model

    Brett Hallam;Malcolm Abbott;Nitin Nampalli;Phill Hamer

  • Pre-Fabrication Gettering and Hydrogenation Treatments for Silicon Heterojunction Solar Cells: A Possible Path to >700 mV Open-Circuit Voltages Using Low-Lifetime Commercial-Grade p-Type Czochralski Silicon

    Brett Hallam;Daniel Chen;Jianwei Shi;Roland Einhaus

  • Assessing the Impact of Thermal Profiles on the Elimination of Light- and Elevated-Temperature-Induced Degradation

    Chandany Sen;Moonyong Kim;Daniel Chen;Utkarshaa Varshney

  • Multiple pathways for permanent deactivation of boron-oxygen defects in p-type silicon

    Nitin Nampalli;Hongzhao Li;Moonyong Kim;Bruno Stefani

  • Impact of annealing on the formation and mitigation of carrier-induced defects in multi-crystalline silicon

    Tsun Hang Fung;Catherine E. Chan;Brett J. Hallam;David N.R. Payne

  • Modelling Kinetics of the Boron-Oxygen Defect System☆

    Brett Hallam;Malcolm Abbott;Jose Bilbao;Phill Hamer;Phill Hamer

  • The Aluminium Demand Risk of Terawatt Photovoltaics for Net Zero Emissions by 2050

    Alison Lennon;Marina Lunardi;Brett Hallam;Pablo Dias

Frequent Co-Authors

Stuart Wenham
Stuart Wenham University of New South Wales
Zachary C. Holman
Zachary C. Holman Arizona State University
Bram Hoex
Bram Hoex University of New South Wales
Thorsten Trupke
Thorsten Trupke University of New South Wales
Daniel Macdonald
Daniel Macdonald Australian National University
Jef Poortmans
Jef Poortmans KU Leuven
Rolf Brendel
Rolf Brendel University of Hannover
Martin A. Green
Martin A. Green University of New South Wales
Otwin Breitenstein
Otwin Breitenstein Max Planck Society

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