Featured in Testing the waters – 07-2011

Concentrating on concentrators

Interview: He’s the one that brought photovoltaics to sunny Spain. Under Antonio Luque’s stewardship, the Institute of Solar Energy at the Madrid Polytechnic University (IES/UPM) became one of the world’s leading academic institutions in photovoltaics. John Perlin spoke with Antonio Luque in Madrid.
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How did your work in photovoltaics begin? In the 1970s I received an invitation to Boston College in the USA to study photovoltaics. It was based on an agreement Spain had with the United States. In return for allowing America to have military bases in Spain, Spanish scientists were given joint research grants in collaboration …

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