Dr. Amir Abdallah has academic and industrial experience in the development of solar cell efficiency and PV module technology. This includes fabrication of silicon solar cells, e.g., various process optimization and characterization to improve solar cell efficiency and PV module fabrication. At QEERI, Dr. Abdallah has contributed to the establishment and accreditation of the PV reliability lab. Further, as Lead Principle Investigator (LPI), he has secured two external funds with international collaborators - first project is to improve passivated contacts for PERC solar cell, and the second project is on technology development for PV module for desert climate.
Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute (QEERI), Doha, Qatar
2014 - presentASML, Eindhoven, Netherlands
2014Sulzer Turbo Services, Lomm, Netherlands
2011 - 2013King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia
2008 - 2011OTB Solar, Eindhoven, Netherlands
2007 - 2008Eindhoven University of Technology (Eindhoven, Netherlands)
2007Delft University of Technology (Delft, Netherlands)
2002“Doped Nickel Oxide Carrier-Selective Contact for Silicon Solar Cells” IEEE JOURNAL OF PHOTOVOLTAICS (2021); doi: 10.1109/JPHOTOV.2021.3095458
2021“Optimized Ni1−xAlxO hole transport layer for silicon solar cells” RSC Advances 38 (2020) 22377-22386; doi.10.1039/d0ra02982c
2020“Record Efficiency N-type and High-efficiency P-type Mono-like Silicon Heterojunction Solar Cells with High Temperature Gettering Process” ACS Appl. Energy Mater. (2019) 4900-4906; doi.org/10.1021/acsaem.9b00608
2019“Annealing of silicon heterojunction solar cells: Interplay of solar cell and Indium-Tin-Oxide properties” IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics, Volume: 9, Issue: 5 (2019) 1202 - 1207; doi.10.1109/JPHOTOV.2019.2924389
2019Atomic layer deposited ZnxNi1-xO: A thermally stable hole selective contact for silicon solar cells, Appl. Phys. Lett. 113, 262102 (2018), doi.org/10.1063/1.5056223
2018Delamination of CIGS thin film photovoltaic module in desert climate. 35th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition (2018), doi: 10.4229/35thEUPVSEC20182018-5BO.12.6
2018Performance of Silicon Heterojunction Photovoltaic modules in Qatar climatic conditions, Renewable Energy 97 (2016) 860-865, doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2016.06.044
2016Structural origins of intrinsic stress in amorphous silicon thin films, PHYSICAL REVIEW B 85, (2012) 075202, doi: 10.1103/PhysRevB.85.075202
2012Buckle initiation of patterned ITO structures on a polymer substrate, Engineering Fracture Mechanics 78 (2011) 877–889, doi.org/10.1016/j.engfracmech.2011.01.013
2011Buckle initiation and delamination of patterned ITO layers on a polymer substrate, Surface & Coatings Technology 205 (2011) 3103–3111, doi.org/10.1016/j.surfcoat.2010.11.025
2011The impact of silicon solar cell architecture and cell interconnection on energy yield in hot & sunny climates, Energy Environ. Sci. (2017)
2017Performance of Silicon Heterojunction Photovoltaic modules in Qatar climatic conditions, Renewable Energy 97 (2016) 860-865
2016Structural and physical properties of the dust particles in Qatar and their influence on the PV panel performance, Nature Scientific Reports (2016).
2016Emerging frontiers of N-Type silicon material for photovoltaic applications: The impurity-defect interactions. Front Nanosci Nanotech, Volume 1 (2015) 2-12.
2015Performance improvement techniques for photovoltaic systems in Qatar: Results of first year of outdoor exposure, Energy Procedia 77 (2015) 386 – 396.
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