CEO, Trina Solar
Executive Director of Trienens, Northwestern University
Professor, KAUST
Associate Professor, Rice University
Manager Standards & Test Department, Renewable Energy, Consultant in Solar Energy
Director, Regional Engagement, Distributed Energy & Energy Efficiency, Neom
Manager - Research & Development, ACWA Power
General Manager of the Future Energy Technology Institute, KACST
External Projects Manager, Oxford PV
Head of Division Photovoltaics, Fraunhofer ISE Professor, University of Freiburg
CEO, RCT Solutions GmbH
Executive Director of Trienens, Northwestern University
Head of Disruptive Technologies at the California Technology Center, First Solar, Inc.
Senior Editor, Nature Energy
Distinguished Professor, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology
Associate Professor of Physical and Materials Chemistry, University of Alberta
Distinguished Professor, Purdue University
Senior Researcher, Technology Innovation Institute (TII)
Director Fraunhofer-Center for Silicon Photovoltaics CSP & Professor of Photovoltaic Energy Systems, Anhalt University of Applied Sciences
PhD Student, University of Freiburg and Fraunhofer ISE
Post-doctoral Fellow, KAUST
Postdoctoral Fellow, KAUST
PhD Student, University of Valencia
Vice President of Technology, Trina Solar & Vice President of State Key Lab of PV Science and Technology
Team Leader of Perovskite R&D, UniTest
Distinguished Researcher, National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)
Senior Research Director, Energy Center at Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute (QEERI)
The demand on flexible and stretchable energy harvesting devices is rapidly increasing, driven by the substantial market growth of a wide range of applications including wearables and humane robotics. In this talk, I will demonstrate a deep reactive ion etching based corrugation technique to transform large-scale commercial rigid solar cells with interdigitated back contacts into ultra-flexible and ultra-stretchable cells with negligible degradation in the initial efficiency. The design of the corrugated patterns to achieve the desired performance and characteristics of the solar cells in terms of flexibility, stretchability, specific weight, power output and heat dissipation will be discussed. Finally, the application of the corrugated cells in omni-directional light harvesting will be demonstrated.
Assistant Professor, KAUST
Assistant Professor, The Australian National University
Head of Materials R&D , Swift Solar