International Photovoltaic Science
      and Engineering Conference

Award Winners

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The PVSEC Award is accorded to a person who has been devoting oneself to the progress of photovoltaic science and engineering for many years, belonging to the PVSEC society, in principle.
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The PVSEC Sperical Award is accorded to a person or group who has been contributing a great deal to the growth of photovoltaic industrial technology, or who has been actively participating in public-policy-making or the like.
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This award is established by the WCPEC-6 Organizing Committee in 2014 to honor the outstanding contributions of_Emeritus Professor, Yoshihiro Hamakawa_(Osaka Univ.)_to photovoltaic sicence and technology development. The purpose of the award is to recognize scientists and engineers who have made outstanding research and technological accomplishment, and creativity of PV energy conversion (new concepts, new materials and new devices).

Year Conference No. PVSEC AWARD PVSEC SPECIAL AWARD HAMAKAWA AWARD
1996 PVSEC-9 Yoshihiro Hamakawa
(Ritsumeikan Univ.)
Tadashi Sasaki
(International Center for Material Research and a Consultant to Sharp Corporation)
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1998 PVSEC-10 (WCPEC-2) Yukinori Kuwano
(SANYO Electric Co., Ltd.)
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1999 PVSEC-11 Makoto Konagai
(Tokyo Tech.)
Kazuo Inamori
(Kyocera Corporation)
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2001 PVSEC-12  Choong-Hyun Chung
(Yonsei Univ.)
 Dong-Won Kim
(Ministry of Commerce, Industry & Energy(MOCIE))
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2003 PVSEC-13 (WCPEC-3) Tadashi Saito
(Tokyo Univ. Agriculture and Technology)
Satoshi Iue
(SANYO Electric Co., Ltd.)
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2004 PVSEC-14 Somsak Panyakaow (Chulalongkorn Univ.)

Porponth Sichanugrist

(NSTDA)
Wandee Khunchornyakong
(Solartron Public Co., Ltd.)

Chai Chewagate
(EGAT)
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2005 PVSEC-15 Rongqiang Cui
(Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ.)

Yuwen Zhao
(Beijing Solar Energy Research Institute)
Dinghuan Shi
(Counselor of The State Council)

Zhengrong Shi
(Suntech Power Co.,Ltd.)
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2006 PVSEC-16 (WCPEC-4) Kosuke Kurokawa
(Tokyo Univ. Agriculture and Technology)
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2007 PVSEC-17 Kenji Yamamoto (Kaneka Corporation) Osamu Ikki
(RTS Corporation)
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2009 PVSEC-18  Subhendu Guha
(United Solar Ovonic Corporation)

S. P. Gon Chowdhury
(-)
 Prasanto Sakhamuri
(Hind High Vac Ltd.)
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2009 PVSEC-19 Jinsoo Song
(Korea Institute of Energy Research)
Boo Sup Lee
(Dongjin Semichem. Co., Ltd.)

Wan-Keun Lee
(Shinsung Holdings Co., Ltd.)
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2010 PVSEC-20 (WCPEC-5)
2011 PVSEC-21 Masafumi Yamaguchi
(Toyota Tech. Inst.)

Makoto Tanaka
(Panasonic Corporation) 

Yoshihisa Tawada
(Kaneka Corporation)

Jun Arai,
Shigeaki Kameda,
Katsumi Kushiya

(Showa Shell Sekiyu K. K. and Solar Frontier K. K.)

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2012 PVSEC-22 Deren Yang
(Zhejiang Univ.) 
 Sicheng Wang
(Energy Research Institute, National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC))
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2013 PVSEC-23  Chuck Hsu
(Sino-American Silicon Products Inc. (SAS))
 Simon Tsuo
(Motech Industries, Inc.)

Sam Hong
(Neo Solar Power Corporation)
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2014 PVSEC-24 (WCPEC-6) Tatsuya Takamoto
(Sharp Corporation)
Michio Kondo
(AIST)
Makoto Konagai
(Tokyo Tech.)

Hironori Katagiri
(Nagaoka National College of Technology)
2015 PVSEC-25 Koeng Su Lim
 (KAIST)

Sang Il Seok
(KRICT)
Sang Bong Lee
(LG Electronics)

Dong Kwan Kim
(Hanhwa Q CELLS Co., Ltd.)

Eun-Chel Cho
(Hyundai Heavy Industries Co., Ltd.)
 
Nam Gyu Park
(Sungkyunkwan Univ.)
2016 PVSEC-26 Thomas Reindl
(Solar Energy Research Institute of Singapore (SERIS))
Edwin KHEW
(Sustainable Energy Association of Singapore(SEAS))

Frank PHUAN
(Sunseap)

Armin G. Aberle
(Solar Energy Research Institute of Singapore(SERIS))

2017 PVSEC-27 Yoshihiro Hishikawa
(AIST)
Izumi Kaizuka
(RTS Corporation)

Japan Photovoltaic Energy Association (JPEA)

Tsutomu Miyasaka
(Toin Univ. Yokohama)

2018 PVSEC-28
(WCPEC-7)
Takahiro Wada
(Ryukoku Univ.)

Donghwan Kim
(Korea Univ.)
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2019 PVSEC-29
Zhiqiang Feng
(Trina Solar, Sun Yat-sen Univ.)

Ying Zhao
(China Renewable Energy Society, Nankai Univ.)
LONGi

Jianhua Lin
(Hangzhou First Applied Material Co., Ltd.)

Fang Lyu
(Chinese Academy of Science)

Yuepeng Wan
(GCL-Poly Energy Holdings Ltd.)

2020 PVSEC-30
Byung Tae Ahn
(KAIST)

Sewang Yoon
(KPVS)
Hwa Nyeon Kim
(LG Electronics)

Daniel JW Jeong
(Hanwha Solution Korea; Hanwha Q Cells GmbH)

Myung Ick Hwang
(Hyundai Energy Solutions)

Ralf B. Wehrspohn
(Fraunhofer Institute)

Hae-Seok Lee
(Korea Univ.)

2021 PVSEC-31
Martin A. Green
(UNSW)
Arnulf Jaeger-Waldau
(EU Commission, JRC)

Ian Marius Peters
(Forschungszentrum Juelich)

2022 PVSEC-32
(WCPEC-8)
Chung-wen Lan
(National Taiwan Univ.)

Armin Gerhard Aberle
(SERIS)
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2022 PVSEC-33
Akira Yamada
(Tokyo Tech.)
Shigeru Niki
(NEDO)

Shuzi Hayase
(Univ. Electro-Communications)