Invited speakers
Invited speakers
Area 1
Area 2
Area 3
Area 4
Joint session
Policy, market, deployment, energy management, and related technologies
Policy, market, deployment
Market developments and challenges in Australia
Dr. Linda Koschier (Australian Photovoltaic Institute, Australia)
A critical review of PV circular economy research
Dr. Garvin Heath (IEA PVPS, NREL, USA)
Energy management and related technologies
Achieving grid stability with high penetration of PVs- R&D of grid forming inverter
Dr. Jun Hashimoto (AIST, Japan)
The role of grid-forming inverters in future power systems
Dr. Ben Kroposki (NREL, USA)
"State of the art solar resource assessments and forecasts" / Activities of IEA PVPS Task 16
Dr. Jan Remund (Meteotest, Switzerland)
Advanced applications and core technologies for massive installation
Solar to X
Design and characterization of integrated systems for solar fuel production
Dr. Francesca Maria Toma (LBNL, USA)
Formate production from CO2 and water using a 1m2-sized artificial photosynthetic cell with a solar-to-chemical conversion efficiency of 10.5%
Dr. Naohiko Kato (Toyota Central R&D Labs., Inc., Japan)
Characterizing CO2 reduction catalysts on gas diffusion electrodes: Comparing activity, selectivity and stability of transition metal catalysts
Mr. Mark Sassenburg (Delft Univ. Tech., the Netherlands)
Advanced applications of photovoltaics
High-efficiency commercial multi-junction photovoltaic laser power converters for various power and spectral range applications
Prof. Simon Fafard (Broadcom, Canada)
Evolution of sensitization-based photovoltaic cells for diverse applications
Prof. Jae-Joon Lee (Dongguk Univ., Korea)
Demonstration test of EV equipped with a solar power generation system that utilizes solar energy for driving
Dr. Tsutomu Tanimoto (Nissan Motor Corp., Japan)
Next generation of low-cost solar arrays for space applications
Dr. Martin Kroon (Airbus, the Netherlands)
Field performance of photovoltaic systems and related issues
Single-axis trackers: More energy with intelligent tracker control
Dr. Kyumin Lee (Array Technologies, USA)
Progress in precise and reliable outdoor performance measurements of photovoltaic modules
Dr. Masahiro Yoshita (AIST, Japan)
Developments concerning the re-use of decommissioned PV modules
Mr. A. S. H. van der Heide (imec, Belgium)
Photovoltaic modules, solar cells, advanced materials, sophisticated processes, cell and module characterizations
Wafer-based silicon photovoltaics and related technologies
The re-discovery of hot-wire/catalytic CVD for high efficiency silicon solar cells
Dr. Kaining Ding (Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany)
Transparent crystalline silicon solar cells and modules
Prof. Kwanyong Seo (UNIST, Korea)
Recent development in high efficiency silicon heterojunction solar cell technology
Dr. Shi Yin (Longi, China)
Sustainable aluminum metallization processes for photovoltaics terawatt era
Dr. Kosuke Tsuji (Toyo Aluminium, Japan)
Challenges for silicon heterojunction technology: from raw materials to energy production
Dr. Wilfried Favre (CEA-Liten, France)
Manufacturing high-efficiency n-type crystalline Si solar cells with poly-Si based passivating contacts
Dr. Robert Dumbrell (Jinko Solar, China)
Organic and inorganic thin-film photovoltaics, III-V high-efficiency devices and related technologies
Grain boundaries and dislocations in various photovoltaic materials
Dr. Daniel Abou-Ras (HZB, Germany)
Development and prospects of Cu2O tandem solar cells
Dr. Soichiro Shibasaki (Toshiba Corp., Japan)
Machine learning and fast experimental screening-assisted development of next-generation solar cell
Prof. Akinori Saeki (Osaka Univ., Japan)
Organic solar cells processed from environmental-friendly solvents
Prof. Thuc-Quyen Nguyen (UC Santa Barbara, USA)
Perovskite and emerging photovoltaics, advanced materials, sophisticated processes
Perovskite photovoltaics and related technologies
Efficient and stable all-perovskite tandem solar cells and modules
Prof. Hairen Tan (Nanjing Univ., China)
Highly efficient large-area perovskite solar cells using modified new electron transfer layer
Dr. Dong Suk Kim (KIER, Korea)
Flexible perovskite solar cells for power sources in a low carbon society
Dr. Senol Öz (Saule Technologies, Poland)
Device operation mechanism and high efficiency design of perovskite solar cells
Prof. Takashi Minemoto (Ritsumeikan Univ., Japan)
Materials and interfaces engineering for perovskite solar cells
Dr. Takurou N. Murakami (AIST, Japan)
Materials chemistry for commercialization of perovskite photovoltaics
Prof. Atsushi Wakamiya (Kyoto Univ., Japan)
Materials and process development for efficient module perovskite solar cells toward commercialization
Dr. Takeru Bessho (Univ. Tokyo, Japan)
Emerging materials and game-change technologies
Thermodynamics of emerging photovoltaic concepts
Dr. Andreas Pusch (UNSW, Australia)
Bulk photovoltaic effect of two-dimensional materials in polar structure
Dr. Yijin Zhang (Univ. Tokyo, Japan)
Perovskite quantum dots for solar cells and beyond
Prof. Lianzhou Wang (Univ. Queensland, Australia)
Area 3&4: Future tandem solar cells for extreme high efficiency
High efficiency Perovskite/hetero-junction crystalline silicon tandem solar cells
Dr. Kenji Yamamoto (Kaneka Corp., Japan)
High-performance perovskite-CIGS thin-film tandem solar cells and mini-modules
Dr. Fan Fu (EMPA, Switzerland)