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aims to provide a congruent plan for the national CIGS industry, including module and systems manufacturers, suppliers, and end-users, that will identify common challenges and define the areas of technical developments needed to sustain and advance a competitive U.S. photovoltaic industry.
Larry Kazmerski, Joseph Laia, and Richard Swanson will serve as co-chairs for the groundbreaking effort, which will include participation from all sectors of the photovoltaic industry and support the development and growth of advanced solar PV-related manufacturing processes throughout the United States.
“The National CIGS PV Roadmap effort is a vital initiative, bringing together all sectors of the photovoltaic industry to identify critical challenges and coalesce industry direction and market leadership,” concludes Joseph Laia. “I am delighted to be selected co-chair of the CIGS PV Roadmap. I look forward to providing guidance on solutions- driven initiatives that tackle top industry concerns on the technical barriers, manufacturing processes, and business challenges associated with CIGS thin- film solar PV.”
“I am honoured and excited to be working with my co-chairs and the roadmap team to help DOE further define and clarify the role CIGS can play in our energy future,” gushes Swanson. “We’ll be building on earlier PV roadmap initiatives, and collaborating with partners from industry, universities, and government to help set the direction for this promising renewable energy technology.”
Serving as the champions for the U.S. CIGS PV Roadmap, the co-chairs will direct the activities and decisions of the Roadmap Executive Steering Committee (RESC) and guide roadmap working groups addressing six focus areas relevant to the entire industry, including roll-to-roll; rigid glass; metrology; modules and packaging; substrates and materials; and reliability, certification, and test.
Kazmerski is Director of the National Centre for Photovoltaics at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), where he has led NREL efforts in measurements and characterization for more than 20 years. Kazmerski has published more than 310 journal papers in the areas of solar cells, thin films, semiconductor materials and devices, surface
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and interface analysis, scanning probe microscopy, nanoscale technology, high-temperature superconductivity, and semiconductor defects, and is a three-time recipient of the R&D 100 awards for novel measurement and characterisation devices.
Laia most recently served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Miasolé. Prior to Miasolé, he was Group Vice President of Metrology at KLA-Tencor, responsible for all of KLA’s eight wafer metrology businesses, and served as Chief Executive Officer of Blue29 LLC, a subsidiary of KLA Tencor Corp. He has over a decade of national laboratory experience and spent a number of years in semiconductor capital equipment companies. He holds 10 patents, has published 25 papers, and has edited one book in the area of materials processing.
Swanson founded SunPower Corporation to develop and commercialise cost-effective photovoltaic power systems in 1991, and currently serves as its president emeritus. Along with his students and co-workers, Swanson has published more than 200 articles in journals and conference proceedings, as well as several book chapters. In 2002, Swanson received the William R. Cherry award by the IEEE for outstanding contributions to the photovoltaic field, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2009. Most recently, he received the Economist’s Innovation Award for Energy and Environment, the 2010 IEEE Junichi Nishizawa Medal, and the Karl Boer Solar Energy Medal of Merit.
As the primary sponsor of the effort, PVMC is providing resources for managing and coordinating the roadmap activities. Members of the CIGS PV Roadmap represent all areas of the PV industry including module producers and integrators, equipment suppliers, materials and metrology tools, end-users, and the research community.
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