We are pleased to invite you to a seminar by Prof. Eugene A. Katz (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev), a leading researcher in the field of advanced photovoltaics and solar energy conversion.
Date: July 3
Time: 14:00–15:00
Location: Room 204, Building 2
Title:
New job of concentrated sunlight: is it resonable with perovskites?
Join us to explore how power conversion efficiency improves with light intensity, the promises and challenges of concentrator photovoltaics (CPV), and recent breakthroughs in perovskite-based micro-CPV cells for space, as well as innovative tools for studying photoinduced degradation.
Eugene A. Katz is professor at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. He received his MSc degree (1982) in Semiconductor Materials Science and Ph. D. (1990) in solid state physics from the National University of Science and Technology “MISIS”, Moscow. His research interests include studies and development of a wide range of materials and devices for solar energy conversion such as organic and perovskite-based photovoltaics, concentrator solar cells operated at ultra-high solar concentration (up to 10,000 suns),
as well as history of science. He has published more than 150 peer-reviewed papers on these topics (including those in Nature Energy, Advanced Materials, Energy & Environmental Science, etc) as well as popular-scientific book and a number of articles
on science history and fullerene-like structures in nanomaterials, living organisms and architecture. Based on the latter activity he has developed and is teaching an interdisciplinary course “Bridges between fine art and natural sciences: cases of
fullerenes, polyhedra, symmetry”.
Prof. Katz was awarded the IAAM Medal (by the International Association of Advanced Materials) for the outstanding research in the field of New Energy Materials & Technology.