CTO Desert Technologies
Dr. Nabih Cherradi is Desert Technologies' Chief Technology Officer. Has spent over 30 years building on a long record of accomplishment of equipment's/production lines as well as business development in the semiconductor and photovoltaic industries. Prior to joining Desert Technologies, Nabih was CEO of EmpowerSun, a Swiss based photovoltaic energy consultancy, which he founded in 2009. In the meantime, he also co-founded ISWT a French solar developer company. From 2007-2009, as a Vice President/CTO, he accompanied Yingli Green Energy in its fast expansion with responsibility for the technology and manufacturing. He also participated in its IPO in New York (NYSE). As operations & process director at Applied Materials from 1997 to 2007 Nabih was responsible for installing turn-key semiconductor and photovoltaic production lines throughout the world, installing multiple GWs of production capacity across a ten year period. From 1990 to 1997, he acted as associate professor and research scientist at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology of Lausanne.
He holds a PhD on materials sciences from the University Henri Poincaré, Nancy as well as an MBA, from the Business School of Nancy, (France).
The solar photovoltaic (PV) market has experienced an accelerated growth, accompanied by remarkable cost declines for solar PV technologies. The levelized cost of electricity (LCOE) from solar photovoltaics decreased by 69% between 2010 and 2016 – coming well into the cost range of fossil fuels. Photovoltaic technology still has plenty of room for innovation and thus, cost reduction. New technologies, materials and highly productive manufacturing equipment are continually improved in order to reduce production costs and increase cell and module efficiencies at the same time. This presentation will discuss new developments that support the progress in crystalline silicon PV production by identifying manufacturing and technology issues and trends for wafer, cell and module production in particular. Definitely, Photovoltaics has a bright future, and its technological development is the key to success.
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