1' Title : Status and Prospect of Photovoltaic Industry and Technology Development in Korea

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1. Title Status and Prospect of Photovoltaic
Industry and Technology Development in
Korea 2. Speaker Professor Donghwan Kim
(Korea University) 3. Time 1600 1730,
Thursday, October 11, 2007 4. Place e Lecture
Hall (room 83188), 2nd Research Building,
Sungkyunkwan University 5.
Summary Renewable energy is attracting
attention as the oil price goes up and the Kyoto
Protocol becomes a reality. The solar
photovoltaics (PV) industry expanded by more than
30 annually over the last six years and reached
2,500 MW and 17 billion market in 2006. It is
expected that PV market should reach 10 GW and
70 billion size in 2010. PV is a system
technology which converts the sunlight directly
into electricity and has many similarities with
semiconductor and display technologies. PV is
thus believed to be a technology that Korea
should take the leading edge if Korea utilizes
both the human and the hardware infrastructure
established by the related industries. As the
global PV market expands rapidly, the world is
experiencing a worsening shortage of silicon
feedstock. Technology development is performed in
three directions (1) developing solar grade
silicon, (2) minimizing the usage of silicon, (3)
developing new materials for substituting
silicon. Recent PV market trend and various
technologies will be reviewed and some tasks will
be presented for further advancement of PV
industry. 6. Background Education
1982 Metallurgical Engineering, Seoul National
University, B.S 1984 Metallurgical
Engineering, Seoul National University, M.S
1993 Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford
University, Ph.D. Work Experience
1992-1994 Research Professor, Colorado School of
Mines, U.S. 1995-Present Professor,
Department of Materials Science and Engineering,
Korea University 2004-Present President,
Korea Photovoltaics Development Organization,
Ministry of Commerce, Industry, and Energy 7.
Questions Professor Ji Beom Yoo(?
031-290-7396)
Sungkyunkwan University