HSC Depth Study & iSTEM Material
For NSW students who require depth study material for their science subjects we have generated a variety of documents relating our research to the HSC material. This material can also be used for iSTEM in years 9 and 10.
This material covers the main topics, Organic Solar Cells, The SheM and "Lickable" diabetes test , and Printing. We have also created videos describing the solar cell efficiency equations and measurement as well as included data associated with the videos and alternate data to compare efficiencies.
Below is a link to a document containing an overview of our current research.
How does an Organic Solar Cell Work?
Paul Dastoor takes you into the solar cell itself to show you how it generates electricity.
Biosensors
Solar Cell Efficiency Videos
Equations
Here we derive the efficiency equation used for solar cells.
IV Curve theory
Here we look at how the efficiency equation relates to the IV curve measured from solar cells
Measurement
Here we show how we measure the solar cell parameters for the IV curve
Calculating the efficiency
Here we input the numbers we measured to get a typical efficiency for our solar cells
Scanning Helium Microscope
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