Martin Green (professor)

Martin Andrew Green (born 20 July 1948) is an Australian engineer who specialises in photovoltaics. He is a Scientia professor of Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), where he directs the Australian Centre for Advanced Photovoltaics. Green is best known for his development of the Passivated Emitter and Rear Cell (PERC) in 1983, a technology that significantly increased the conversion efficiency of silicon solar cells, reduced the cost of solar energy and powers over 90% of all solar panels globally today.

He is widely considered the "father of modern photovoltaics", and has won many prizes and awards achievements such as Pawsey Medal in 1981, the M. A. Sargent Medal in 1994, the Japan Prize in 2021 and the Millennium Technology Prize in 2022. Green is one of the world's most highly cited researchers (top 0.1% in field) and has been an author or co-author of over 800 research papers in the field of photovoltaics. He is editor-in-chief of the academic journal ''Progress in Photovoltaics'' and holds fellowships with the Royal Society of London, the Australian Academy of Science, the Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering and the Royal Society of New South Wales. Provided by Wikipedia