学术报告（11月20日 14:30-16:30）

主持人：沈辉 教授

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主要内容：

Over the last 4 decades, the cost of photovoltaic (PV) panels has decreased by more than two orders of magnitude, bringing PV technology among the cheapest methods of electricity production. Recent prices of solar electricity are today very competitive with the cheapest traditional fossil fuel technologies. The learning rate of PV manufacturing is seemingly picking up speed from  an historical -20% in cost reduction for every doubling of the cumulative production, to a new value of -23%, or even -40% for every doubling of the cumulative production if one takes into account the most recent cost reduction. The reasons of this recent reduction in manufacturing cost will be explained.

What is the next PV technology and how the current PV technologies will evolve? The lecture will include a presentation of the potential performance of crystalline silicon technologies and the evolution toward the next generation. Commercial multicrystalline silicon solar cells will reach an efficiency of more than 22% and monocrystalline silicon solar cells have a potential of more than 24%, using standard PERC structure. The next generation of solar cell will be based on passivated contact allowing to reach efficiencies up to 27%.

Prof. Pierre J. Verlinden个人简介：

EXPERIENCE: 35+ years experience in PV technology development

2014 to Present (2 years)    Sun Yat-Sen University, China

Adjunct Professor – Silicon PV Device Physics and Technology

2012 to Present (5 years)    Changzhou Trina Solar Energy Co., China

Vice- President, Chief Scientist and Vice-Chair of State Key Laboratory of PV Science and Technology

2005 to 2012 (7 years)    AMROCK Pty Ltd, Australia

Managing Director, CTO and Founder

2005 to 2009 (5 years)    Solar Systems Pty Ltd, Australia

Principal Scientist

2002 to 2005 (3 years)    Origin Energy Solar, Australia

Manager, PV Technology and Operations

1991 to 2001 (11 years)    SunPower Corporation, USA

Director of R&D (1994-2001)

Manager of R&D (1992-1994)

Solar Cells and Applications (1991-1992)

1987 (11 months)    Stanford University, USA

Visiting Scholar – NATO Research Fellowship

Summers of 1985 to 1988    Lab. De Photoelectricite, Universite d’Aix-Marseille III, France

Visiting Professor

1979 to 1991 (11 years)    Microelectronics Laboratory, Universite Catholique de Louvain (UCL), Belgium

Premier Assistant – Charge d’enseignement (Assistant Professor) (1987-1991)

Graduate Student – IRSLA Researcher (1979-1982)

EDUCATION

Universite Catholique de Louvain                  Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

• Ph.D. Electrical Engineering (1985)
• Master Electrical Engineering (1979)