Martin Green (professor)

Martin Andrew Green AM ForMemRS (born 20 July 1948) is an Australian engineer and professor at the University of New South Wales who works on solar energy.[3][4][5][6][7][8] He is editor-in-chief of the academic journal Progress in Photovoltaics.[9]

Martin Green
Martin Green in 2015
Born
Martin Andrew Green

(1948-07-20) 20 July 1948
Brisbane, Australia
CitizenshipAustralian
Alma mater
Awards
Scientific career
Fields
ThesisProperties and applications of the metal-insulator-semiconductor (MIS) tunnel diode (1974)
Doctoral advisorJohn Shewchun[2]
Websiteresearch.unsw.edu.au/people/scientia-professor-martin-green

Education

Green was born in Brisbane on 20 July 1948,[10] and was educated at the selective Brisbane State High School, graduated from University of Queensland and completed his PhD on a Commonwealth Scholarship at McMaster University in Canada, where he specialised in solar energy. In 1974, at the University of New South Wales, he initiated the Solar Photovoltaics Group which soon worked on the development of silicon solar cells.[3] The group had their success in the early 80s through producing a 20% efficient silicon cell, which now has been improved to 25%.

Research

Green has published several books on solar cells both for popular science and deep research. The "buried contact solar cell" was developed at UNSW in 1984.[11] Green also serves on the Board of the Sydney-based Pacific Solar Pty Ltd. (now known as CSG Solar), as Research Director. Green's portrait was painted with fellow scientist, Ross Garnaut for the Archibald Prize 2010. The painting was a finalist, losing to a portrait of Tim Minchin.

Awards and honours

Green has received several awards including:

  • 1982 Pawsey Medal (Australian Academy)
  • 1988 Award for Outstanding Achievement in Energy Research
  • 1990 IEEE Cherry Award
  • 1992 CSIRO External Medal
  • 1995 IEEE Ebers Award
  • 1999 Australia Prize
  • 2000 Gold Medal from the Spanish Engineering Academy
  • 2000 Medal of Engineering Excellence for Distinguished Achievement in the Service of Humanity from the World Engineering Federation (Hannover, 2000),
  • 2000 Millennium Award from the World Renewable Congress
  • 2002 Right Livelihood Award for "his dedication and outstanding success in the harnessing of solar energy, the key technological challenge of our age."[12]
  • 2003 Karl Böer Solar Energy Medal of Merit Award from the University of Delaware
  • 2006 Finalist, European Inventor of the Year (together with Stuart Wenham)
  • 2008 Winner, 2008 Scientist of the Year Award
  • 2009 Zayed Future Energy Prize finalist, recognised at the award ceremony for his ground breaking research in photovoltaic (PV) technology that will result in increased efficiencies, bringing solar energy closer to grid parity.[13]
  • 2013 Foreign Member of the Royal Society (ForMemRS) of London

His nomination for the Royal Society reads:

Professor Green is cited for his extensive and distinguished contributions to photovoltaic science and technology. These include identifying the fundamental limits upon silicon solar cell performance and then leading his team to demonstrate experimental devices approaching this limit, with 25% cell efficiency now demonstrated. This is over 50% relatively higher in performance than at the beginning of his work. He has also developed innovative commercial versions of these high performance devices and pioneered the field of "third generation" photovoltaics, investigating advanced photovoltaic device concepts targeting Carnot-like solar conversion efficiencies.[1]

  • 2015 James Cook Medal of the Royal Society of New South Wales
  • 2018 Celebrated Members of IEEE Electron Devices Society
  • 2018 The Global Energy Prize for research, development and educational activities in the field of photovoltaics that have revolutionized the efficiency and costs of solar photovoltaics, making this now the lowest cost option for bulk electricity supply

References
  1. http://royalsociety.org/people/martin-green/
  2. Green, M. A.; Shewchun, J. (1974). "Current multiplication in metal-insulator-semiconductor (MIS) tunnel diodes". Solid-State Electronics. 17 (4): 349. doi:10.1016/0038-1101(74)90127-0.
  3. Wolfe, Philip (22 May 2018). The Solar Generation. Wiley - IEEE. p. 157, 258. ISBN 9781119425588.
  4. Martin Green's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  5. Green, M. A.; Emery, K.; Hishikawa, Y.; Warta, W.; Dunlop, E. D. (2012). "Solar cell efficiency tables (version 39)". Progress in Photovoltaics: Research and Applications. 20: 12–20. doi:10.1002/pip.2163.
  6. Zhao, J.; Wang, A.; Green, M. A.; Ferrazza, F. (1998). "19.8% efficient "honeycomb" textured multicrystalline and 24.4% monocrystalline silicon solar cells". Applied Physics Letters. 73 (14): 1991. doi:10.1063/1.122345.
  7. Pillai, S.; Catchpole, K. R.; Trupke, T.; Green, M. A. (2007). "Surface plasmon enhanced silicon solar cells" (PDF). Journal of Applied Physics. 101 (9): 093105. doi:10.1063/1.2734885. hdl:1885/16942.
  8. Green, M. A.; Emery, K.; Hishikawa, Y.; Warta, W. (2011). "Solar cell efficiency tables (version 37)". Progress in Photovoltaics: Research and Applications. 19: 84–92. doi:10.1002/pip.1088.
  9. Progress in Photovoltaics, Editorial Board. Retrieved 19 February 2015.
  10. "GREEN, Prof. Martin Andrew". Who's Who 2014, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2014; online edn, Oxford University Press.(subscription required)
  11. http://gcep.stanford.edu/pdfs/QeJ5maLQQrugiSYMF3ATDA/2.2.6.green_06.pdf
  12. Biography on Right Livelihood Award Archived 31 August 2006 at the Wayback Machine
  13. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 16 June 2010. Retrieved 8 June 2010.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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