Light Harvesting SIG: Scalability of New technologies – Going from ‘Lab’ to ‘Fab’

Regardless of how promising a new technology is, it can only be commercialised if there is a suitable manufacturing process to scale it up. Unfortunately, many impressive research projects on renewable energy are carried out without taking scale-up challenges into account. As a result, many exciting technologies get stuck in the so-called valley of death between universities and industry. Given the pressing need for more renewable energy solutions that can be adopted at scale, the next session of the Light Harvesting Special Interest Group will focus on ‘Scalability of new technologies – going from ‘lab’ to ‘fab’.

Panel:

• Chair: Professor Michael De Volder, Professor of Advanced Materials Engineering, University of Cambridge
• Alex Smith, Head of Process Safety and Engineering, CPI
• Dr Su Varma, Academic Director, R&D Incubator, NSG Pilkington
• Dr Chris Case, Chief Technical Officer, Oxford PV.

Meeting summary can be found here.