Shozo Yanagida
Professor
Biography
Shozo Yanagida is an emeritus professor of Osaka University and a research director of “Research Association for Technological Innovation of Organic Photovoltaics” (RATO) of University of Tokyo. Since he was promoted to a professor of newly established “Koza” (research course) of Graduate School of Engineering in Osaka University (1980), he had contributed to photochemical conversion of solar energy, e.g., excellent photocatalyses of both nano-sized (quantized) ZnS and poly- & oligo-paraphenylene. When he was staying at SERI (now ENREL) as a visiting professor of Dr. A. Nozik’s group in 1984, he understood that organic molecules and their aggregates are kinds of quantum dots themselves. He has his expertise in evaluation of dye-sensitized solar cells, i.e., molecular structured photovoltaics, and passion in improving photo-conversion efficiency and long-term durability of solar cells in view of unidirectional electron flow and electron lifetime in solar cell devices.
Abstract
Abstract : Computational verification of so-called perovskite solar cells using density functional theory