Summary

Solar energy is one of the ways to diminish our dependence on fossil fuels and to face greenhouse gas emissions. A photovoltaic cell (PV) is a tool for converting the sun’s energy into electrical energy. PV is a sustainable source and is inherently more sustainable than fossil fuel energy sources. This field is driven by the desire to manufacture low-cost PVs to economically harness the single most sustainable resource on the planet; the light of the sun. This seminar presents state-of-the-art PVs in the research community as well as the source of global power generation. The keynotes will be:

1. How green energy is crucial for sustainable development
2. A historical trend from photoelectric to PVs
3. Generations of PVs
4. Opportunities for enhancing solar energy harvesting
5. Limitations & challenges of production for the environment
6. Critical Materials for solar energy
7. Materials engineering: developing new materials

This activity took place on Wednesday October 6, 2021 and is part of our seminar series entitled Dimension Sustainable Development: Research in 3D.

Presentator : Masoud Shekargoftar

Postdoctoral researcher in the team of Diego Mantovani, researcher at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Denmark and at Friedrich–Alexander University Erlangen–Nürnberg, Germany. Masoud received a PhD in plasma physics from Masaryk University, Czech Republic.

Moderator : Michel Pigeon

Professor emeritus of civil engineering at Laval University, former rector of Laval University and doctoral student at Laval University entitled Global Warming, Youth Values ​​and Social Change.