ENERGY

The field of energy covers both fundamental and applied research that involve materials development and characterisation and development of technology for alternative energy, renewable energy and sustainable technology. In fundamental energy research, the study includes material processing, device fabrication technology within a cleanroom environment, such as nanowire solar cell design and characterisation. Other fundamental research areas are developments of chemical, optical and electronic properties of materials to optimize energy harvest or generations using those materials. The development of advanced materials for renewable energy is also a part of fundamental research of energy whereby research can be conducted on materials made from non-organic and organic materials, such as crystalline silicon, cadmium telluride and copper indium gallium selenide/sulfide. The main strengths are the fabrications of photovoltaic semiconductor, glass and dielectric materials and characterisations of material structure, optical, electrical, thermal, and dielectric properties. The materials are fabricated in-house using state-of-art techniques, such as conventional solid-state, sol-gel, micro-emulsion, co-precipitation, mechanical alloying, PECVD and MOCVD. The research areas for applied research in energy covermachine developments, instrumentations, energy generations, and energy storages that are environmentally friendly, which include, but are not limited to solar tracking devices, modifications of stirling engines, water drainage systems, solar mirrors, dish concentrators, wind farms, gasifications of biomass, biogas, and smart materials for buildings.

List of Experts

Dr. Ernee Noryana Muhamad  
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Janet Lim Hong Ngee  
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Yusran Sulaiman  
Prof. Dr. Taufiq Yap Yun Hin 
Dr. Tan Yen Ping
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Tan Kar Ban 

Updated:: 14/05/2018 [nashrin]