TOP-SET Seminar: Photovoltaics at multi-terawatt scale
An NSERC CREATE TOP-SET Seminar in collaboration with the Department of Physics Colloquium Series
Mar 7, 2024 — 2:45 p.m. to 3:45 p.m.
A talk on recent advances in photovoltaics and associated challenges in reaching multi-terawatt scale manufacturing and deployment.
Event details
Photovoltaics at multi-terawatt scale: Waiting is not an option
Abstract: The world passed a photovoltaics (PV) milestone in 2022, reaching and quickly exceeding 1 TW of global installed PV capacity. Achieving global decarbonization goals for 2035 and 2050 will require continued expansion of PV manufacturing, as well as innovation in materials science and device and module design. Setting ambitious yet achievable targets for global PV deployment will help the industry and other stakeholders plan and act accordingly. Based on a recent international perspective piece (Science, April 7, 2023) and a review of innovation in PV device physics (Device, July 31, 2023), this talk will review recent advances in PV and associated challenges in reaching multi-TW scale manufacturing and deployment, including materials supply, eco-design, and the role of device innovation at a critical time in the energy transition.
Guest speaker

Nancy Haegel
National Renewable Energy Laboratory, United States
Nancy M. Haegel is a senior research advisor in the Materials, Chemical and Computational Sciences Directorate at NREL and Director of the National Center for Photovoltaics. Prior to her current role, she was the Center Director for Materials Science at NREL. Her research interests are in electronic materials and devices, with emphasis on transport characterization, high resistivity semiconductors and infrared imaging and detection. Haegel joined NREL in 2014, after 25 years in academia. She received her BS degree in Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science from the University of Notre Dame and a PhD in Materials Science from the University of California, Berkeley. Haegel is the author or co-author of ~ 160 publications, a Fellow of APS, and has been a Fulbright Senior Scholar at Hebrew University in Jerusalem and a Humboldt Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Garching, Germany.

Funding
This seminar is funded by the University of Ottawa.