Kean Chern received his Bachelor's degree with first class honours in Electronics Engineering from Multimedia Unviersity, Malaysia in 2005, and his PhD degree in Engineering (Photovoltaics) from the Australian National University, Australia in 2012. He was a Test Engineer at Intel Corporation between 2005 to 2008 developing test libraries for Intel multi-core processors and chipsets. 

He is currently a Senior Research Fellow at the Australian National University conducting research in the Centre for Sustainable Energy Systems, developing high efficiency interdigitated back contact solar cells, and conducting research in characterisation and modelling of silicon solar cells.

PhD Engineering (Photovoltaics)

Characterisation of Silicon Solar Cells:
- Measurement and understanding of solar cell IV curves
- Optical characterisation and ray-tracing simulations
- 3D Simulations and understanding losses in silicon solar cells

Simulation and Modelling of Silicon solar cells:
- 2D and 3D simulation of silicon solar cells
- Modeling of highly doped silicon region
- Solar cell loss analysis

High Efficiency Silicon Solar Cells:
- Pathways towards 28%+ Si solar cells
- Novel device designs
- Polysilicon & other advanced passivated contacts
- Design optimisation of silicon solar cells

Teaching:
- Actively seeking high-calibre international and domestic PhD candidates. Interested candidates are welcome to contact me directly via: [email protected]