Biography
Dr Kaiwen Sun is an ARC DECRA Fellow & Senior Lecturer at the School of Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering, UNSW. He completed his PhD in investigating interface engineering in CZTS thin film solar cells at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in 2018. After completion of his PhD, he was awarded Australian Centre for Advanced Photovoltaics (ACAP) research fellowship in 2017 and ARC DECRA Fellow in 2022.His research focuses on view more
Dr Kaiwen Sun is an ARC DECRA Fellow & Senior Lecturer at the School of Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering, UNSW. He completed his PhD in investigating interface engineering in CZTS thin film solar cells at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in 2018. After completion of his PhD, he was awarded Australian Centre for Advanced Photovoltaics (ACAP) research fellowship in 2017 and ARC DECRA Fellow in 2022.His research focuses on developing high-efficiency earth-abundant and non-toxic Cu based chalcogenide thin film solar cells, which enables broadening the application of PV technologies into niche market and exploring high bandgap top cell alternative for Si-based tandem cell.
His main research interests are currently:
- Cu based chalcogenide thin film solar cells (CZTS, CIGS)
- New PV materials (Sb2SSe3, Adamantine materials)
- Photoelectrocatalysis, Solar fuels
My Awards
2024 The Energy & Environmental Science Oral Presentation Prize, International Conference on Advanced Materials for Energy, Environment, and Health (ICAMEEH) 2024, 24-27 September 2024, Adelaide, Australia
2023 UNSW Faculty of Engineering Research Excellence Award (ECA).
2023 Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) ($ 440,154, 2023-2026).
2022 Student Awards, The 33rd International Photovoltaic Science and Engineering Conference (PVSEC-33).
2021 UNSW Capital Expenditure Award, UNSW (Total $ 40,000)
2018 UNSW Research Staff Excellence Award (Faculty of Engineering).
2018 Australian Centre for Advanced Photovoltaics (ACAP) Research Fellowship.
Location
School of Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW,2052, Australia.
Publications
ORCID as entered in ROS
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5589-226X