Award Winners
Award Winners
PVSEC AWARD
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.
PVSEC SPECIAL AWARD
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.
HAMAKAWA AWARD
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 science 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) |
- |
| 1998 | PVSEC-10 (WCPEC-2) | Yukinori Kuwano (SANYO Electric Co., Ltd.) |
- | - |
| 1999 | PVSEC-11 | Makoto Konagai (Tokyo Tech.) |
Kazuo Inamori (Kyocera Corporation) |
- |
| 2001 | PVSEC-12 | Choong-Hyun Chung (Yonsei Univ.) |
Dong-Won Kim (Ministry of Commerce, Industry & Energy(MOCIE)) |
- |
| 2003 | PVSEC-13 (WCPEC-3) | Tadashi Saito (Tokyo Univ. Agriculture and Technology) |
Satoshi Iue (SANYO Electric Co., Ltd.) |
- |
| 2004 | PVSEC-14 | Somsak Panyakaow (Chulalongkorn Univ.) Porponth Sichanugrist (NSTDA) |
Wandee Khunchornyakong (Solartron Public Co., Ltd.) Chai Chewagate (EGAT) |
- |
| 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.) |
- |
| 2006 | PVSEC-16 (WCPEC-4) | Kosuke Kurokawa (Tokyo Univ. Agriculture and Technology) |
- | - |
| 2007 | PVSEC-17 | Kenji Yamamoto (Kaneka Corporation) | Osamu Ikki (RTS Corporation) |
- |
| 2009 | PVSEC-18 | Subhendu Guha (United Solar Ovonic Corporation) S. P. Gon Chowdhury (-) |
Prasanto Sakhamuri (Hind High Vac Ltd.) |
- |
| 2009 | PVSEC-19 | Jinsoo Song (Korea Institute of Energy Research) |
Boo Sup Lee (Dongjin Semichem. Co., Ltd.) Wan-Keun Lee (Shinsung Holdings Co., Ltd.) |
- |
| 2010 | PVSEC-20 (WCPEC-5) | - | - | - |
| 2011 | PVSEC-21 | Masafumi Yamaguchi (Toyota Tech. Inst.) Makoto Tanaka (Panasonic Corporation) |
Yoshihisa Tawada (Showa Shell Sekiyu K. K. and Solar Frontier K. K.) |
- |
| 2012 | PVSEC-22 | Deren Yang (Zhejiang Univ.) |
Sicheng Wang (Energy Research Institute, National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC)) |
- |
| 2013 | PVSEC-23 | Chuck Hsu (Sino-American Silicon Products Inc. (SAS)) |
Simon Tsuo (Motech Industries, Inc.) Sam Hong (Neo Solar Power Corporation) |
- |
| 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 |
| 2017 | PVSEC-27 | Yoshihiro Hishikawa (AIST) |
Izumi Kaizuka (RTS Corporation) Japan Photovoltaic Energy Association (JPEA) |
Tsutomu Miyasaka |
| 2018 | PVSEC-28 (WCPEC-7) |
Takahiro Wada (Ryukoku Univ.) Donghwan Kim (Korea Univ.) |
- | - |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 2021 | PVSEC-31 |
Martin A. Green (UNSW) |
Arnulf Jaeger-Waldau (EU Commission, JRC) |
Ian Marius Peters |
| 2022 | PVSEC-32 (WCPEC-8) |
Chung-wen Lan (National Taiwan Univ.) Armin Gerhard Aberle (SERIS) |
- | - |
| 2022 | PVSEC-33 |
Akira Yamada (Tokyo Tech.) |
Shigeru Niki (NEDO) |
Shuzi Hayase |
| 2023 | PVSEC-34 |
Xixiang Xu (LONGi Central R&D Institute) Xiaodan Zhang (Nankai Univ.) |
Dengyuan Song Energy Research Institute, National Development and Reform Commission (ERI) |
Zhengxin Liu |
| 2024 | PVSEC-35 |
Noritaka Usami (Nagoya Univ.) |
Akito Yoshii (NAMICS) |
Atsushi Wakamiya |
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