报告人：Yoshiaki Nakano, Professor（Dept.of Electrical Engineering and Information Systems，The University of Tokyo）

时间：2024年3月26日上午9:00

地点：粤海校区汇星楼3号报告厅

Abstract:

In this talk, current status of high-efficiency photovoltaic cells by III-V alloy semiconductors are reviewed focusing on their cost reduction as well as on studies toward even higher efficiencies. Then, green hydrogen production by advanced photovoltaics is introduced as a measure to store and transport solar electricity, which is the key to massive deployment of renewable energy for net-zero carbon world.

Biography：

Yoshiaki Nakano received the B. E., M. S., and Ph. D. degrees in electronic engineering, all from the University of Tokyo, Japan, in 1982, 1984, and 1987, respectively. He is currently Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Systems (EEIS), Graduate School of Engineering, the University of Tokyo.

In 1987, he joined the Department of Electronic Engineering, the University of Tokyo, became an associate professor in 1992, a full professor in 2000, and the department head in 2001. He moved to Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology (RCAST), the University of Tokyo, in 2002 as a professor, and served as the Director General of the center from 2010 till 2013. Then he moved back to the Engineering School to fill up the current professorship position with the Dept. of EEIS. His research interests have been physics and fabrication technologies of semiconductor distributed feedback lasers, semiconductor optical modulators/switches, monolithically-integrated photonic circuits, and high-efficiency heterostructure solar cells, as well as metal-organic vapor phase epitaxy of III-V compound semiconductors.

Dr. Nakano served as a member of the Science Council of Japan (SCJ), President of the Japan Institute of Electronics Packaging (JIEP), Vice President of the Institute of Electronics, Communication, and Information Engineers (IEICE), President of Electronics Society, IEICE, Chair of the IEEE Tokyo Section, an elected member of the Board of Governors of IEEE LEOS, a member of the Board of Directors of the Japan Society of Applied Physics (JSAP), the Editor-in-Chief of Applied Physics Express (APEX) and Japanese Journal of Applied Physics (JJAP), and a member of the Board of Directors of JIEP. He is Fellow of IEEE, Optica (former OSA), IEICE, and JSAP.

He is the recipient of the 1987 Shinohara Memorial Prize from the IEICE, the 1991 Optics Paper Award from the JSAP, the 1997 Marubun Science Prize, the 2007 Ichimura Prize, the 2007 IEICE Electronics Society Award, the 2007 Sakurai Medal from the OITDA, the 2019 IPRM Award, and the 2022 Distinguished Achievement and Contributions Award from the IEICE. He was presented the Prime Minister Award in Collaborative Research between Academia and Industry in 2007. He authored and coauthored over 480 refereed journal publications and over 960 international conference papers, and holds 40 patents.