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 (UNSW, Australia)
Energy management and related technologies
TBD
Dr. Jun Hashimoto (AIST, Japan)
Advanced applications and core technologies for massive installation
Solar to X
TBD
Prof. dr. ir. Andrea Ramirez Ramirez (Delft Univ. Tech., the Netherlands)
TBD
Dr. Francesca Maria Toma (LBNL, USA)
Industrial scale low-temperature direct CO2 electrolysis - The fossil fuel independent future
Dr. Seyed Schwan Hosseiny (DLR (German Aerospace Center), Germany)
Advanced applications of photovoltaics
High efficiency solar array for LEO satellites
Dr. Martin Kroon (Airbus, the Netherlands)

High-efficiency commercial multi-junction photovoltaic laser power converters for various power and spectral range applications
Prof. Simon Fafard (Broadcom, Canada)
Field performance of photovoltaic systems and related issues

Single-Axis Trackers: More Energy with Intelligent Tracker Control
Dr. Kyumin Lee (Array Technologies, USA)
Photovoltaic modules, solar cells, advanced materials, sophisticated processes, cell and module characterizations
Wafer-based silicon photovoltaics and related technologies
(Tentative) Manufacturing high-efficiency n-type crystalline Si solar cells
Dr. Qi Wang (Jinko Solar, China)
TBD
Dr. Delfina Muñoz (CEA-Liten, France)

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)

(Tentative) Recent Development in High Efficiency Silicon Heterojunction Solar Cell Technology
Dr. Xixiang Xu (Longi, China)

Sustainable aluminum metallization processes for photovoltaics terawatt era
Dr. Kosuke Tsuji (Toyo Aluminium, Japan)
Organic and inorganic thin-film photovoltaics, III-V high-efficiency devices and related technologies
Machine learning and fast experimental screening-assisted development of next-generation solar cell
Prof. Akinori Saeki (Osaka Univ., Japan)
(Tentative) Organic solar cells
Prof. Thuc-Quyen Nguyen (UC Santa Barbara, USA)

Grain boundaries and dislocations in various photovoltaic materials
Dr. Daniel Abou-Ras (HZB, Germany)

(Tentative) Development and Prospects of Cu2O tandem Solar Cells
Dr. Soichiro Shibasaki (Toshiba Corp., Japan)
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)
(Tentative) Sn-based perovskite PV
Prof. Maria Antonietta Loi (Univ. Groningen, the Netherlands)
(Tentative) Perovskite cells commercialization
Dr. Olga Malinkiewicz (Saule Technologies, Poland)
(Tentative) High efficiency perovskite solar cells
Dr. Dong Suk Kim (KIER, Korea)
Emerging materials and game-change technologies
(Tentative) Colloidal nanocrystals of hybrid perovskite semiconductors for optoelectronic and photovoltaic applications
Dr. Joseph M. Luther (NREL, USA)

(Tentative) Thermodynamics of emerging photovoltaic concepts
Dr. Andreas Pusch (UNSW, Australia)

(Tentative) Bulk photovoltaic effect of two-dimensional materials in polar structure
Dr. Yijin Zhang (Univ. Tokyo, Japan)
Area 3&4: Future tandem solar cells for extreme high efficiency
(Tentative) Perovskite/Si tandem solar cell
Dr. Kenji Yamamoto (Kaneka Corp., Japan)

(Tentative) Highly efficient perovskite-CIGS tandem solar cells
Dr. Fan Fu (EMPA, Switzerland)