Wednesday, 22 nd May - 9.10am Prof. Antonio LUQUE University of Madrid, Spain «What We Have Learned in the Development of the Intermediate Band Solar Cell» Prof. Antonio Luque was the founder of the Instituto de Energía Solar, at the Polytechnical University of Madrid (UPM) in 1979. Now emeritus, Prof. Luque servesed as Chair Professor of of Electronic Technology at this University since 1970. He invented the bifacial silicon solar cell in 1976 which gave rise to the foundation, in 1981, of the solar cells manufacturing company Isofotón of which he was the president until 1990. In 1997 he proposed the intermediate band solar cell in a PRL paper which today has received over 650 citations. He has published over 400 scientific papers as well as a several books and holds over 20 patents. Until his retirement, Prof. Luque served as the CEO of the Centre for the Technology of the Solar Silicon (CENTESIL) and still holds the position of Chairman of the Scientific Committee of the Institute for Photovoltaic Concentration Systems (IS- FOC) in Castilla La Mancha both founded by him. Prof. Luque is a member of the Royal Academy of Engineering of Spain and the Russian Academy of Sciences (among others). He is twice doctor honoris causa and is a Member of Honour of the Ioffe Institute at St. Petersburg. He has received several important Spanish and international prizes for his research among which the EC Becquerel Prize.
Thursday, 23 rd May - 8.30am Session 2 - Part 1: CIGS, CDTE and other Ternary Films Prof. Hironori KATAGIRI Nagaoka National College of Technology, Japan «CZTS Thin Film Solar Cells for Sustainable PV Expansion» Hironori KATAGIRI was born on February 27 th, 1955 in Niigata, Japan. He has been Professor of the Electrical and Electronic Systems Engineering department at the Nagaoka National College of Technology, Niigata, Japan, since 2001. 1973-1977: Niigata University, Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Awarded the degree of B.S.Eng. 1978-1979: Niigata University, Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Awarded the degree of M.S.Eng., Work supervised by Professor H. Yashima. 2001: Awarded the degree of Dr. Eng., Work supervised by Professor K. Yatsui.(Nagaoka University of Technology) 1981-1988: Research Associate at the Department of Electrical Engineering, Nagaoka National College of Technology 1989-2000: Associate Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering, Nagaoka National College of Technology
Thursday, 23 rd May - 10.50am Session 3: Part 1: Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell and Organic Photovoltaics Prof. Michael GRAETZEL EPFL, Switzerland «Performance and Industrialization of Mesoscopic Solar Cells» Professor at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Michael Graetzel directs there the Laboratory of Photonics and Interfaces. He pioneered the use of mesoscopic materials in energy conversion devices including photovoltaic cells, photoelectrochemical devices for the generation of fuels by sunlight as well as lithium insertion batteries. He discovered a new type of solar cell based on dye sensitized nanocrystalline oxide films. His recent awards include the Swisselectric Research Award, the Albert Einstein World Award of Science, the Paul Karrer Gold Medal, the 2010 Millenium Technology Grand Prize and the 2009 Balzan Prize. He received a doctoral degree in Natural Science from the Technical University Berlin and nine honorary doctor s degrees from European and Asian Universities. Author of over 1000 publications, which received over 100 000 citations (H-factor 151) and several books, he is a fellow of the European Academy of Science and of the Royal Society of Chemistry (UK) as well as a Max Planck Fellow, and a Honorary member of the Société Vaudoise de Sciences Naturelles.
Thursday, 23 rd May - 3.50pm Session 3: Part 2: Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell and Organic Photovoltaics Dr. Antonio FACCHETTI Northwestern University, USA «Molecular, Polymeric, and Interlayer Materials for Printed Organic Photovoltaics» Antonio Facchetti is a co-founder and the CTO of Polyera Corporation. He obtained a Ph.D in Chemical Sciences from the U. Milan (Italy) and carried out postdoctoral research at the University of California-Berkeley and at Northwestern University where he is currently an Adjunct Professor of Chemistry. Dr. Facchetti has published about 260 research articles, 7 book// book chapters and holds about 60 patents. He received the 2009 Italian Chemical Society Research Prize, the team IDTechEx Printed Electronics Europe 2010 Award, and the corporate 2011 Flextech Award. In 2010 he became a Kavli Fellow. He is the founder and Editor in Chief of Organic Photovoltaics and serves in the Editorial Advisory Board of Journal of Applied Polymer Science. He was selected among the «..top 100 Materials Scientist of the Past decade (2000-2010)» by Thomson Reuters. In 2012 he was elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advanced of Science (AAAS).
Friday, 24 th May - 8.30am Session 4: New Concepts Dr. Silke CHRISTIANSEN Max-Planck Institute, Germany «Nanowire Device Concepts for Thin Film Photovoltaics» Priv. Doz. Dr. Silke Christiansen is since 03/2010 leader of an independent scientific technology development and scientific research unit at the Max-Planck-Institute for the Science of Light in Erlangen, Germany. She has significant experience in the field of thin film epitaxy, nano-structure synthesis and characterization as well as silicon technology. From 2002-2007 she jointly managed a group at the Max-Planck-Institute of Microstructure Physics and the Martin-Luther University, Halle, Germany, and from 2008-2010 she lead a department of Photonic Nanostructures at the Institute of Photonic Technology (IPHT) in Jena, Germany. During this time she acquired several publicly funded projects, with large industry driven consortia, including 3 FP7 projects where she served as the coordinator. Between 2000 and 2002 she held a Feodor-Lynen grant from the Alexander von Humboldt foundation to work at IBM s T.J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, NY, USA in the Silicon Technology department on strained silicon for future nanoelectronics. In 2001 she obtained her habilitation from the University of Erlangen-Nurnberg in the materials science department. In 1998 she obtained her PhD in materials science from the same university. In 1997 she obtained a grant from the Bavarian ministry of science to spend a research semester at the Columbia University, New York, USA, working on laser crystallization of crystalline silicon films on glass and polymer substrates for thin film transistor and photovoltaic applications. Today she has more than 240 peerreviewed publications and 14 patents.