SEMI Roadmap for Photovoltaics: What's Hot and What's Not?

A talk about SEMI Roadmap for Photovoltaics.

Speaker: Martin Green, Scientia Professor at UNSW Australia and Director of the Australian National Energy Agency (ARENA).

Abstract

Industry roadmaps have played a major role in the microelectronics industry in focussing manufacturers, researchers and equipment suppliers on common targets for future technology development. In 2010, the first roadmap for the photovoltaics industry was published, with the 6th major update published very recently on April 29. The key features of the new roadmap will be described. Particularly interesting are variations from the 2012 roadmap on which a similar seminar was presented, as these indicate refinements in thinking about the future of the industry based on the very rapid progress over the intervening 3 years.

Bio

Martin Green is currently a Scientia Professor at the University of New South Wales and Director of the Australian National Energy Agency (ARENA) supported Centre for Advanced Photovoltaics. He was formerly a Director of CSG Solar, a company formed specifically to commercialise the University’s thin-film, polycrystalline-silicon-on-glass solar cell. His group's contributions to photovoltaics are well known including the development of the world’s highest efficiency silicon solar cells and the successes of several spin-off companies.
He is the author of six books on solar cells and numerous papers in the area of semiconductors, microelectronics, optoelectronics and, of course, solar cells. International awards include the 1999 Australia Prize, the 2002 Right Livelihood Award (also known as the Alternative Nobel Prize), the 2004 World Technology Award for Energy and the 2007 SolarWorld Einstein Award.