<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><!--StartFragment--><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:-1.75pt;text-align:justify"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">The MIT Energy Initiative is very pleased to announce a special seminar at <b>2:00 PM</b> on <b>Wednesday, August 12th</b>. We hope you will join us!</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:-1.75pt;text-align:justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold; ">Concentrator Photovoltaics</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:-1.75pt;text-align:justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; "><b>Jeffrey M. Gordon</b>, Professor, Department of Solar Energy and
Environmental Physics, Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research,
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Sede Boqer Campus, Israel</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:-1.75pt;text-align:justify"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Room: <b>E19-319</b></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:-1.75pt;text-align:justify"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Time: <b>2:00 PM </b></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:-1.75pt;text-align:justify"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><i>Light refreshments to follow</i></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:-1.75pt;text-align:justify"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><b> </b></font><u><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: none; ">Abstract</span></b></font></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:-.45pt;text-align:justify;mso-pagination:
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mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"> <font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Unprecedented capabilities for ultra-efficient
yet affordable solar electricity generation at high concentration stem from the
confluence of progress in multi-junction photovoltaic technologies and advanced
optical design. Several generations of new optics that approach the
thermodynamic limit to concentration and optical tolerance, and have been
tailored to the exigencies of the latest generations of concentrator solar
cells, will be presented, some of which already comprise megawatt-scale
installations. In addition, experimental
results from novel localized irradiation probes that use ultra-intense
concentrated sunlight for investigating concentrator solar cells will be
reviewed. The findings include elucidating cell solid-state properties that are
of value in designing future generations of higher-efficiency solar converters.</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:-.45pt;text-align:justify;mso-pagination:
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mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; ">More information on Professor Gordon's research can be found <a href="http://bidr.bgu.ac.il/BIDR/research/staff/gordon/gordon.html">here</a>.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:-.45pt;text-align:justify;mso-pagination:
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