Dr Jessica Yajie Jiang
Senior Lecturer
Engineering
Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering
Dr Jessica Yajie Jiang is a Senior Lecturer at School of Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering (SPREE). She completed her PhD on investigating optical properties of photovoltaic materials: silver and perovskite under the supervision of Professor Martin A. Green in University of New South Wales (UNSW), in 2015. After completion of her PhD, she has been a full-time postdoctoral researcher at UNSW. She was awarded Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) postdoc fellowship in 2015 and Australian Centre for Advanced Photovoltaics (ACAP) research fellowship in 2017. She has consistently innovated in her research to enhance the performance of solar cells and modules through a rigorous understanding of their optical, electrical and thermal properties. Her research addresses both material synthesis, cell and module fabrication, characterization and testing all of which is supported by advanced computer simulation. To date, she has won >13million project funds for research and development. She also serves as editor for IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics, and co-founded a UNSW spin-out company EnerJIN to manufacture an autonomous multifunction sensor for photovoltaics application.
Her research areas expand in a variety of topics, such as Si solar cells & modules, characterization, high efficiency III-V photovoltaics, concentrator photovoltaics, spectrum splitting, perovskite technology, BIPV&VIPV. Her main research interests are:
- Super-efficient coloured PV for buildings and vehicles
- Advanced metallization for Si solar cells
- > 30% Si PV using Singlet Fission
- Landmark 50% efficient spectrum splitting solar module
- Reducing PV module operating temperature for improved efficiency and durability
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Location
Room 315, Tyree Energy Technologies Building (TETB)
UNSW SYDNEY NSW 2052 AUSTRALIA
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- CI & Project manager, ARENA project, $4.5M, 2023-2028, “Rear-Junction p-type PERC/TOPCon Hybrid Solar Cells (RJ-PERP)”
- CI & Stream lead, ARENA project, $5.8M, 2023-2028, “Low-cost >30% Efficient Silicon Photovoltaic Solar Cells Achieved through Singlet Fission”
- Lead CI, ACAP X-project, $60,000, 2022, “High Efficiency Coloured PV based-on Highly Luminous Perovskite Quantum Dots”
- Lead CI, ACAP Collaboration Grants Round 6, $70,000, 2021-2022, “Super-efficient coloured PV for vehicles”
- CI, ACAP Collaboration Grants Round 6, $70,000, 2021-2022, “Development of III-V cells on GaAs & InP for a 50% efficient spectrum splitting CPV receiver”
- Lead CI, ACAP Infrastructure grant, $359,550, 2021-2022, “Infrared-Variable Angle Spectroscopic Ellipsometer”
- CI, ACAP X-project, $50,000, 2021-2022, “Demonstration of Vehicle Integrated Solar Power Generation”
- Lead CI, Materials & Manufacturing Futures Institute Seed grant, $20,000, “Coloured glass for high efficiency vehicle integrated solar modules”
- CI, ARENA project, $ 2.12M, 2020-2022, “Reduced Solar Module Temperature”
- CI, UNSW Digital Grid Futures Institute 2020 Interdisciplinary Seed Funding, $20,000, 2020, “Autonomous Data-Sensing to Enable the Smart Energy Revolution”
- CI, Contract Research, $102,000, 2020-2022, “Enhancing the performance of photovoltaic panels by phase change inhibited materials”
- Lead CI, ACAP Collaboration Grants Round 4, $70,000, 2018-2020, “High efficiency spectrum splitting CPV receiver using a triple-junction solar cell with internal Bragg reflector”
- Lead CI, ACAP Postdoctoral Fellowship, $410,000, 2018-2020, “Practical 50% efficient spectrum splitting CPV receivers using intermediate Bragg reflectors”
- Lead CI, ARENA Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, $96,924, 2015-2016, “Characterisation of light distribution within silicon solar cells”
- Lead CI, UNSW Faculty Postdoctoral Writing Fellowship, $12,036, 2015