Speech theme:

Innovation in Perovskite Materials, from Solar cells to Displays

Speech summary:

Next-generation solar cells using halide perovskiteｓ as semiconductors have achieved the highest power conversion efficiency among existing solar cells. I can be manufactured by lowcost solution coating and printing prosesses. Because its high power per weight index, cells can be made into light weight and flexible devices. According to the general rule that a material having high photovoltaic efficiency is also highly efficient in light emission, a light emitting element using perovskite quantum dots opens promising applications to LED industries.

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Completed the Graduate School of Engineering, the University of Tokyo in 1981 (Doctor of Engineering). He has been a senior researcher at the Ashigara Research Institute of Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd. and has been a professor at the Graduate School of Engineering, Toin University of Yokohama (TUY) since 2001. He was the Dean of the Graduate School of Engineering from 2006 to 2009. From 2005 to 2010, he was also a guest professor at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the University of Tokyo. He founded Peccell Technologies Co., Ltd. in 2004 and is the CEO. He is currently a project professor at TUY and a fellow of Research Center of Advanced Science and Technology, the University of Tokyo. His research specializes in photoelectrochemistry and hybrid photovoltaic cells, especially perovskite solar cells. Awards include Rank Prize (2021), Japan Society of Applied Physics Achievement Award (2019), Chemical Society of Japan Award (2017), Ichimura Academic Award (2020), Clarivate Analytics Citation Honor Award (2017), etc.