Dr Michelle Vaqueiro Contreras
Lecturer
Engineering
Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering
Dr. Vaqueiro Contreras currently holds an ACAP Postdoctoral fellowship at 国产精品 awarded in 2020 focusing on the applications听of graphene oxide multilayer films for solar cells. She听completed a PhD听in Electrical and Electronic Engineering in 2018 at the University of Manchester and working at the National Graphene Institute, focusing on the identification of light element impurities responsible for high minority carrier recombination in silicon and the application of graphene oxide as new passivation material. Her findings on the recombination mechanisms relating C-O-H interactions in silicon have proven to be of high impact to the solar cell industry as hydrogen introduction in silicon is mostly recognized as advantageous.听She has extensive experience in a variety of electrical characterisation of defects in silicon, surface characterisation, micro-fabrication and dielectric deposition techniques. She is interested in novel passivation materials and processes compatible with large-scale manufacture for high-efficiency solar cells, as well as in the identification and mitigation of defects in silicon.
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Room 309, Tyree Building
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CONACyT-Manchester Scholarship of Quality Postgraduate Studies
CONACyT-SENER Scholarship of Quality Postgraduate Studies in Sustainable Energies
Distinguished Achievement Medal as Postgraduate of the Year at the University of Manchester (UK), given to one outstanding research student per faculty for research excellence during his/her postgraduate program.
My Research Supervision
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Zhuangyi Zhou (PhD student)
Keyi Shao (Thesis project A-C)