At UNSW, Professor Bram Hoex and his research group are leading the international effort to understand, quantify and standardise how UV-induced degradation (UVID) should be tested and mitigated in modern silicon solar cells, suppported by the Australian Centre for Advanced Photovoltaics.

UNSW-ACAP researchers tackle corrosion in TOPCon and HJT solar cells, strengthening reliability and long-term performance in next-generation PV.

At the 2025 ACAP Conference, Silicon research program lead A/Prof. James Bullock showed how far we’ve come with Silicon solar cells – and how far we can still go.

New ACAP research uncovers impact of soldering flux on degradation of HJT and TOPCon cell

Researchers at UNSW have developed a methodology using copper plating of a TOPCon solar cell that could increase their lifetime.

ACAP supported research by UNSW’s Associate Professor Brett Hallam  and Dr Yuchao Zhang has addressed one of the big bottlenecks in the...