Boon Han Lim

Professor at Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman (UTAR)

Selangor, Malaysia

About

 25-year experience in R&D, design, production, installation and application of sun tracking and high concentration and high temperature solar power system: including various type of on-axis sun trackers, heliostats (off-axis solar trackers) and solar furnaces.  10-year experience in R&D of high concentration solar furnaces: take part in designing and operating the first solar furnace that is use to purify polysilicon.  10-year experience in R&D of solar irradiance analysis  7-year experience in R&D, design, production, installation and yield and cost analysis in Low Concentration PV (LCPV) system: completed 2MW project, where the largest one is a 1MW power plant and it was the largest of its kind during that time in China.  17-year experience in flat plate PV module and system: grid-connected ground-mounted solar plant design, BAPV rooftop system design, BIPV system design, off-grid system design, PV module and solar cell production line setup and IEC (or TUV) certification application.  4-year experience in High Concentration PV (HCPV): applying Sunpower Co.’s silicon based concentrated solar cell in earlier of 2000s, from solar cell soldering techniques to module production of three 600W prototypes  4-year experience in designing, applying and installing giant astronomical detection equipment : applying laser, various optics components, optical measurement equipment, vacuum system and electronics system to carry out the Einstein’s prediction on gravitational wave detection;  2-year experience in material science, involve in high purity metal and alloys refinement.  Published 31 international peer review papers, 39 conference papers and co-inventors of 12 patents.

Experience

  • Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman (UTAR) (Kajang, Selangor, Malaysia)
    • Professor
      Jan 2026 - Present · 6 mos

    • Associate Professor
      Jan 2020 - Jan 2026 · 6 yrs 1 mo

      - Teaching Power Transmission and Distribution, Renewable Energy, Wind and Solar Power Engineering, Power Quality Control, Electrical Machines and Power Systems, Solar Cell Technologies. Provide training for solar energy industry, with train-the-trainer certificate

    • Assistant Professor
      May 2014 - Dec 2019 · 5 yrs 8 mos

      - Teaching Power Transmission and Distribution, Renewable Energy, Wind and Solar Power Engineering, Power Quality Control, Electrical Machines and Power Systems, Solar Cell Technologies. - Carry out consultancy - Research in Solar Energy Field. PV, CPV, Solar Thermal, Energy Efficiency

  • ASEAN Academy of Engineering and Technology (5 yrs 1 mo)
    • Fellow
      Jun 2025 - Present · 1 yr 1 mo

    • Associate Fellow
      Jun 2021 - Jan 2026 · 4 yrs 8 mos

  • Fulbright Malaysian Scholar 2024-2025 at UC San Diego
    Oct 2024 - Feb 2025 · 5 mos

  • Visiting Scholar under President's International Fellowship Initiative (PIFI) 2023-2024 at SHENZHEN INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    Jan 2024 - Mar 2024 · 3 mos

  • Member at Global Young Academy
    May 2015 - Jun 2020 · 5 yrs 2 mos

    Now I am an alumnus