{"68700":{"#nid":"68700","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Jiun-Hong Lai Wins Best Student Paper Award","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJiun-Hong Lai won the Best Student Paper Award at the \n37th IEEE Photovoltaics Specialists Conference, held June 19-24 in \nSeattle, Wash. Mr. Lai is a Ph.D. student in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at the Georgia Institute of Technology.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMr. Lai received the award for the paper entitled \u0022Large Area 19.6% Efficient Rear Passivated Silicon Solar Cells with Local AL BSF and Screen-Printed Contacts\u0022 that he co-wrote with his Ph.D. advisor Ajeet Rohatgi, ECE Regents\u0027 Professor and director of the University Center for Excellence in Photovoltaics Research and Education (UCEP).\u0026nbsp; Additional coauthors were Ajay Upadhyaya, Rishi Ramanathan, Arnab Das, Keith Tate, Vijaykumar Upadhyaya, Aditya Kapoor, and Chai-Wei Chen, all also of UCEP.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMoving high-efficiency and low-cost solar cell technology from the lab to commercial application requires overcoming numerous challenges. The small area lab-scale experiments used in the initial research must be extended to large-area, commercial grade cells before they can be accepted in the real world. Research at UCEP shows how new silicon solar cell technology can make this transition from the lab by adding three key improvements to the manufacturing process. The resulting efficiency of 19.6% in the demonstration cell represents the highest efficiency in this class of fully screen-printed commercial grade solar cell to date.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EECE Ph.D. student Jiun-Hong Lai won the Best Student Paper Award at the 37th IEEE Photovoltaics Specialists Conference, held June 19-24 in Seattle, Wash.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"ECE Ph.D. student Jiun-Hong Lai won the Best Student Paper Award at the 37th IEEE Photovoltaics Specialists Conference."}],"uid":"27241","created_gmt":"2011-07-05 17:37:48","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:09:40","author":"Jackie Nemeth","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2011-07-05T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2011-07-05T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"68701":{"id":"68701","type":"image","title":"Jiun-Hong Lai","body":null,"created":"1449177185","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:13:05","changed":"1475894597","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:17","alt":"Jiun-Hong Lai","file":{"fid":"192639","name":"jiun-hong_lai_picture.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/jiun-hong_lai_picture_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/jiun-hong_lai_picture_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":589440,"path_740":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/jiun-hong_lai_picture_0.jpg?itok=ktUEOcPQ"}}},"media_ids":["68701"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/","title":"Georgia Tech"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/","title":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/research\/UCEP\/","title":"University Center for Excellence in Photovoltaics Research and Education"}],"groups":[{"id":"1255","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"8862","name":"Student Research"},{"id":"144","name":"Energy"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"}],"keywords":[{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"},{"id":"166855","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"},{"id":"391","name":"University Center for Excellence in Photovoltaics Research and Education"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJackie Nemeth\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E404-894-2906\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jackie.nemeth@ece.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ejackie.nemeth@ece.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["jackie.nemeth@ece.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}