Speaker: Cyrus Wadia, LBNL

To a full house of 400 people at the Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Cyrus Wadia provided an in-depth look at his research to discover and develop a new material system toward a more expansive solar photovoltaic future. He substantiates on what is required for solar to reach the 1.2BB people living without electricity today. He covers topics of: the history of photovoltaic R&D efforts; material selection based on abundance, new synthetic pathways for scaleable materials, and preliminary results of working solar cell devices he has fabricated with these principles in mind.