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Solar photovoltaics in energy and environmental transitions
MONDAY 15 MAY 2023
at 5pm, VINCI amphitheatre at INSA School of Toulouse
We will try to answer several questions:
Jean-François Guillemoles has been awarded the Ivan Peychès prize. Congratulations!
THE JRU staff has been numerous at the JNPV conference and the MILAN WCPEC conference in Milan. Congrats to them !
The 2022 thematic school on « Physics of photovoltaics » has started in les Houches, France
Peroquium colloquium organised at the IPVF on halide perovskite materials.
Daniel Lincot has been nominated as Collège de France professor associated with the 2022 « Lilianne Bettencourt » technological innovation chair.
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General description
The aim of the IPVF Joint Research Unit (JRU, or UMR for Unité Mixte de Recherche in French) is to carry out fundamental research on the key aspects of photovoltaics to give birth to innovations on analytical techniques, processes, devices, relevant to the development of photovoltaic energy.
It is one of the components of the Institut Photovoltaïque d’Ile-de-France (IPVF), one of the Institutes for Energy Transition (ITE 
) selected by the French Plan for Future d’Investment.
The IPVF JRU is the only French JRU for which photovoltaics is the core of its research activities. This laboratory is very well included in the local research community, (Polytechnique and Paris Saclay campuses…), as well as on the national and international level, and benefits from the environment of a The lab is very well-equipped thanks to the ITE funding structure. Being at the interface between the academic and the industrial world, the IPVF is supervised by 4 supervisory bodies: a company, SAS IPVF (which also represents its industrial shareholders Total, EDF, Air Liquide, HORIBA, RIBER) and 3 academic partners (CNRS, École Polytechnique, ENSCP,) .
The JRU was created in 2018. Its birth has been proposed at the time of the establishment of the ITE IPVF and is the result of a brainstorming process within the Federation FedPV and the partners of the ITE. Its researchers come from highly recognized and highly visible research groups of the photovoltaic domain, and in particular from the former joint unit IRDEP (CNRS/EDF).
