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Thorsten Trupke is affiliated with the University of New South Wales in Australia and specializes in engineering, particularly in electrical and electronic engineering.

Their research focuses predominantly on silicon and solar cell technologies, photovoltaic system optimization techniques, solar cell performance optimization, thin-film transistor technologies, perovskite materials and applications, integrated circuits and semiconductor failure analysis, and industrial vision systems and defect detection.

Trupke's recent publications include:

  • Understanding partial shading effects in shingled PV modules, 2020, Solar Energy
  • Progress with luminescence imaging for the characterisation of silicon wafers and solar cells, 2022, Fraunhofer-Publica (Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft)
  • Outdoor luminescence imaging of field-deployed PV modules, 2022, Progress in Energy
  • Half and full solar cell efficiency binning by deep learning on electroluminescence images, 2021, Progress in Photovoltaics Research and Applications
  • Improvements and gaps in the empirical expressions for the fill factor of modern industrial solar cells, 2023, Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

Frequently co-authored collaborators include Ziv Hameiri, Priya Dwivedi, Oliver Kunz, Arman Mahboubi Soufiani, and Yan Zhu.

Common venues for Thorsten Trupke's publications are:

  • Progress in Photovoltaics Research and Applications
  • 2022 IEEE 49th Photovoltaics Specialists Conference (PVSC)
  • Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells
  • Solar RRL
  • arXiv (Cornell University)

Their subfields of study cover electrical and electronic engineering, renewable energy, sustainability and the environment, industrial and manufacturing engineering, materials chemistry, and aerospace engineering.

Best Publications

  • Surface plasmon enhanced silicon solar cells

    S. Pillai;K. R. Catchpole;T. Trupke;M. A. Green

  • Improving solar cell efficiencies by down-conversion of high-energy photons

    T. Trupke;M. A. Green;P. Würfel

  • Improving solar cell efficiencies by up-conversion of sub-band-gap light

    T. Trupke;M. A. Green;P. Würfel

  • Photoluminescence imaging of silicon wafers

    T. Trupke;R. A. Bardos;M. C. Schubert;W. Warta

  • Application of NaYF 4 : Er 3 + up-converting phosphors for enhanced near-infrared silicon solar cell response

    A. Shalav;B. S. Richards;T. Trupke;Karl Krämer

  • Silicon nanostructures for third generation photovoltaic solar cells

    Gavin Conibeer;Martin Green;Richard Corkish;Young Cho

  • Diffusion lengths of silicon solar cells from luminescence images

    P. Würfel;T. Trupke;T. Puzzer;E. Schäffer

  • Efficiency enhancement of solar cells by luminescent up-conversion of sunlight

    T. Trupke;A. Shalav;B.S. Richards;P. Würfel

  • Temperature dependence of the radiative recombination coefficient of intrinsic crystalline silicon

    T. Trupke;M. A. Green;P. Würfel;P. P. Altermatt

  • Spatially resolved series resistance of silicon solar cells obtained from luminescence imaging

    T. Trupke;E. Pink;R. A. Bardos;M. D. Abbott

  • Enhanced emission from Si-based light-emitting diodes using surface plasmons

    S. Pillai;K. R. Catchpole;T. Trupke;G. Zhang

  • Very efficient light emission from bulk crystalline silicon

    Thorsten Trupke;Jianhua Zhao;Aihua Wang;Richard Corkish

  • Imaging interstitial iron concentrations in boron-doped crystalline silicon using photoluminescence

    D. Macdonald;J. Tan;T. Trupke

  • Photoluminescence Imaging for Photovoltaic Applications

    T. Trupke;B. Mitchell;J.W. Weber;W. McMillan

  • Advanced luminescence based effective series resistance imaging of silicon solar cells

    H. Kampwerth;T. Trupke;J. W. Weber;Y. Augarten

  • On the detection of shunts in silicon solar cells by photo‐ and electroluminescence imaging

    Otwin Breitenstein;Jan Bauer;Thorsten Trupke;Robert A. Bardos

  • Self-consistent calibration of photoluminescence and photoconductance lifetime measurements

    T. Trupke;R. A. Bardos;M. D. Abbott

  • Injection dependence of spontaneous radiative recombination in crystalline silicon : Experimental verification and theoretical analysis

    P. P. Altermatt;F. Geelhaar;T. Trupke;X. Dai

  • Luminescence imaging for the detection of shunts on silicon solar cells

    M. Kasemann;D. Grote;B. Walter;W. Kwapil

  • Suns-photoluminescence: Contactless determination of current-voltage characteristics of silicon wafers

    T. Trupke;R. A. Bardos;M. D. Abbott;J. E. Cotter

  • Doping dependence of the carrier lifetime crossover point upon dissociation of iron-boron pairs in crystalline silicon

    D. Macdonald;T. Roth;P. N. K. Deenapanray;T. Trupke

Frequent Co-Authors

Martin A. Green
Martin A. Green University of New South Wales
Daniel Macdonald
Daniel Macdonald Australian National University
Otwin Breitenstein
Otwin Breitenstein Max Planck Society
Wilhelm Warta
Wilhelm Warta Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems
Stefan W. Glunz
Stefan W. Glunz Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems
Kylie R. Catchpole
Kylie R. Catchpole Australian National University
Stuart Wenham
Stuart Wenham University of New South Wales
Bryce S. Richards
Bryce S. Richards Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Armin G. Aberle
Armin G. Aberle National University of Singapore

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