Publisher Nature Publishing Group (NPG), US, has announced that Nature Photonics, its optics and photonics journal, will hold its second technology conference in Tokyo on October 19-21, 2010. The event, ‘Future Perspectives on Photovoltaics’, will include keynotes from Nobel Laureate Alan Heeger of the University of California at Santa Barbara, and Michael Grätzel of the École Polytechnic Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland. Japanese companies in the photonics field and the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) have signed up as key supporters of the event.
The conference will be held at Tokyo Fashion Town Hall on Odaiba Island. An adjoining exhibition will showcase the latest solar cell technologies and R&D from companies and research institutions worldwide.
The conference is hosted by NPG Nature Asia-Pacific and co-organised with Impress R & D. Heeger, who will give a keynote on the first day, shared the 2000 Nobel Chemistry with Prof. Hideki Shirakawa and Prof. Alan McDiarmid for their work on semiconducting polymers. Fellow speaker Prof. Grätzel invented the Grätzel cell, a dye-sensitised solar cell which was described in a paper in Nature in 1991.
Prof. Konagai of the Tokyo Institute of Technology, a well-known figure in photovoltaic research, heads the conference's advisory board of researchers from Japanese academia and industry. Working with Nature Photonics, Prof. Konagai and the advisory board are drawing a list of speakers from industry and academia. Plenary-style talks on the current status and future evolution of the key technologies in the field of photovoltaics will be complemented by a panel discussion.
Headquartered in Tokyo, Nature Photonics claims to rank first among all primary research journals in optics and photonics, with a 2008 Impact Factor of 24.982.
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