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BELLINGHAM, Washington, USA -- Video presentations on advances in photovoltaics technologies, grid integration systems, solar energy, OLEDs, market prospects, and other sustainable energy topics reported at SPIE Optics + Photonics recently have been published with free access on the SPIE website.

Eight plenary talks and more than 120 conference presentations have been posted in video format at SPIE.org/OPsolarpresentations. Presenters represent industry, academia, and government labs, and include leading researchers and developers such as:

  • Ward Bower (Sandia National Labs)
  • Howard Branz (U.S. National Renewable Energy Lab)
  • Dick de Boer (Philips Research)
  • Samson Jenekhe (University of Washington)
  • Kazuhiko Kato (Japan Research Center for Photovoltaic Technologies)
  • Vahan Garboushian (Amonix)
  • Andreas Gombert, (Concentrix Solar)
  • Ifor Samuel (University of St. Andrews)
  • Frank van Mierlo (1366 Technologies)
  • Kai-Ming Ho (Iowa State University and Ames Lab)
  • Sean Shaheen (University of Denver).

The presentations provide free online access to nearly 50% of the talks given in the Solar Energy and Technology symposium and the OLEDs (optical light-emitting diodes) at Optics + Photonics, held in August in San Diego.

Full-length manuscripts for accepted papers from the symposium are published in the SPIE Digital Library, and in print volumes and digital collections.

Related links:
Event website SPIE.org/x57032.xml
Daily conference reports and photos from Optics + Photonics 2011 SPIE.org/x51938.xml.

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