Plenary speakers

Plenary speakers

Area 1
Area 2
Area 3
Area 4

Welcome address
Mr. Hideaki Ohmura (Aichi Prefectural Governor, Japan)

NEDO’s Photovoltaic R&D activities
Mr. Mitsuhiro Yamazaki (NEDO, Japan)

Energy Transition Toward Carbon Neutrality: The Role of Photovoltaics
Prof. Yukari Takamura (Univ. Tokyo, Japan)

Activities towards to carbon neutrality at Toyota
Mr. Koichi Nakata (Toyota Motor Corporation, Japan)

Towards low cost and sustainable PV systems at the TW scale
Prof. Brett Jason Hallam (ITP Renewables and UNSW, Australia)

Research directions in perovskite solar cells
Prof. Nam-Gyu Park (SungKyunKwan Univ., Korea)

Perovskite/Si tandem solar cells with 30% efficiency
Dr. Lars Korte (HZB, Germany)
Policy, market, deployment, energy management, and related technologies
Policy, market, deployment

Major innovative trends to address the multi TW Challenge
Dr. Daniel Mugnier (IEA PVPS, France)

Indian scenario of photovoltaics
Dr. Vineet Saini (Ministry of Science and Technology, India)
Energy management and related technologies

Evolution of PV power generation and augmented energy management
Prof. Hideo Ishii (Waseda Univ., Japan)
Advanced applications and core technologies for massive installation
Solar to X

From solar power to chemicals. System challenges of scaling up CO2 electrochemical conversion in industry
Prof. Dr. Andrea Ramírez Ramírez (Delft Univ. Tech., the Netherlands)
Advanced applications of photovoltaics

Application of high efficiency lightweight solar array to stratospheric uninhabited air system (UAS)
Mr. Paul Stevens (VOLTITUDE LTD., UK)
Field performance of photovoltaic systems and related issues

Performance monitoring and inspection of PV modules and strings
Prof. Yoshihiro Hishikawa (Ritsumeikan Univ., Japan)
Photovoltaic modules, solar cells, advanced materials, sophisticated processes, cell and module characterizations
Wafer-based silicon photovoltaics and related technologies

Passivating contacts for highest efficient silicon solar cells and beyond
Dr. Martin Hermle (Fraunhofer ISE, Germany)
Organic and inorganic thin-film photovoltaics, III-V high-efficiency devices and related technologies

First-principles study of defect and interface properties of thin-film solar cells
Prof. Su-Huai Wei (Beijing Computational Science Research Center, China)
Perovskite and emerging photovoltaics, advanced materials, sophisticated processes
Perovskite photovoltaics and related technologies

Tin perovskite solar cells fabricated via a two-step approach
Prof. Eric Wei-Guang Diau (National Chiao Tung Univ., Chinese Taipei)
Emerging materials and game-change technologies

Halide perovskites as a space photovoltaic technology: Evaluating radiation hardness
Dr. Joseph M. Luther (NREL, USA)