Our next Subject Dinner will be for Physicists, Engineers and Material Scientists and will take place on Saturday 22 March.
Booking is now open until 9 March.
At this event we will celebrate the contributions of Professor Robert Taylor, who joined Queen’s as Fellow in Physics in 1990 and will retire later this year.
Tickets cost ÂŁ50 per person for a 3-course dinner, including wine. Discounted tickets are available for those who joined Queen’s in or after 2015.
Old Members can bring a guest.
B&B rooms are available in College, for the Saturday night only, at an extra charge of ÂŁ50 per person. You can book this at the same time as your dinner ticket. Breakfast in Hall is included. Check in from 2pm on Saturday, check out by 10am prompt on Sunday morning.
Dress code: Lounge suits and equivalent.
Programme
15:45 Arrival and refreshments in the Shulman Auditorium Foyer
16:30 Afternoon programme: talk by Dr Matthew Wright
17:30 Time to change for dinner
18:30 Pre-dinner drinks in the Upper Library
19:00 Three-course dinner in Hall
20:30 Drinks in the Beer Cellar
23:00 Carriages
Afternoon programme
Using high energy ion beams to study losses in high efficiency solar cells
Over the past ten years, the efficiency of silicon solar panels we see on rooftops has increased rapidly. A significant contribution to this improvement has been reducing the electrical losses occurring at the silicon surface. In this talk, I will discuss my work using an analytical technique called time-of-flight elastic recoil detection analysis (ToF-ERDA) to better characterise the surfaces in high efficiency solar cells.