The IEEE San Francisco Bay Area Nanotechnology Council invites you to mark your calendar for its next noon-time seminar on January 16, 2007. All of us with Silicon in our veins will love this topic which mixes nanotechnology, Silicon ink, and printing to make low cost alternate energy sources. Dr. Homer Antoniadis, CTO of Innovalight, Inc. will sharing their product plans.

Talk Abstract:
Dr. Antoniadis will present a novel concept for low cost solar energy production using silicon nanotechnology. With a mix of nanotechnology, proven silicon reliability, and ink formulations, the comp! any is developing a low-cost manufacturing platform to reduce the cost of producing electricity compared to current technologies. He will examine the promise of taking current polysilicon-based solar cells to a completely new level of cost. The high cost of production of solar cells today has been one of the major factors inhibiting the overall growth of solar energy as a market. Innovalight’s silicon nanocrystalline ink holds the promise to bring flexible solar panels to less than $0.40 per watt, nearly an order of magnitude improvement on today’s polysilicon technology.

Speaker Biography:
Dr. Homer Antoniadis is the Chief Technology Officer at Innovalight, Inc. a venture-funded technology startup developing disrupting solar power generating products based on nanosized silicon. Prior to Innovalight Dr. Antoniadis was the Head of OLED product development at OSRAM Opto Semiconductors Inc. and the Program Director of the US Department of Energy program for developing light sources from light emitting polymers. He held positions at Xerox Corporation and as a principal research engineer/member of the OLED team at Hewlett-Packard Labs.
Homer has a PhD and MS in Physics from Syracuse University, and a BS in Physics from Ioannina University, Greece

Time: Registration & light lunch 11:30am. Presentation & Q/A 12:00 to 1pm

Place: National Semiconductor Building E-1 CMA room. 2900 Semiconductor Drive. Garage entrance at end of Drive, Bldg E to left of entrance, San Francisco Bay Area.