DGAP-News: SolarWorld AG: Dr. Bertrand Piccard and the Solar Impulse Team Receive SolarWorld Einstein Award
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SolarWorld AG: Dr. Bertrand Piccard and the Solar Impulse Team Receive
SolarWorld Einstein Award
05.09.2011 / 14:01
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05.09.2011
Corporate News SolarWorld AG
(Securities Code No.: WKN 510 840)
(International Securities Identification Number: ISIN DE0005108401)
Blocking period: Monday, Sept. 5, 2011, 7 pm CET
Dr. Bertrand Piccard and the Solar Impulse Team Receive SolarWorld Einstein
Award
Freiburg junior scientist honored with SolarWorld Junior Einstein Award
SolarWorld AG will be presenting the SolarWorld Einstein Award for the
seventh time this evening. The award ceremony will take place in the
context of the 26th European Photovoltaic Exhibition and Conference. The
SolarWorld Einstein Award 2011 goes to the team around Dr. Bertrand Piccard
and AndréBorschberg for the development of the solar aircraft Solar
Impulse that can fly day and night without fuel. The first night flight and
a flight within Europe have already been completed successfully. The next
milestone of the project will be a flight around the world.
'With the award we honor personalities who alert us to the current
challenges of mankind with their work. Solar Impulse shows that with
technological innovation and the courage for new thinking we can overcome
the dependence on fossil resources', says the Chairman and CEO of
SolarWorld AG, Dr.-Ing. E. h. Frank Asbeck, explaining the choice of this
year's award winner.
The 2011 SolarWorld Junior Einstein Award goes to the Freiburg physicist
Paul Gundel. The 30-year-old described new microscopic measuring methods
for the characterization of silicon and solar cells in his thesis written
at the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE. Properties
crucial to solar cell like electron lifetime or mechanical stresses can now
be measured with a significantly higher level of accuracy. 'The solar cells
of the future will display very much finer structures in their basic
make-up than today's generation. To this end the photovoltaic industry will
require more precise measuring methods to be able to characterize the
structures and properties comprehensively and locally. Paul Gundel has
outwitted the conventional limits of physics in terms of local resolution
and detection limits by consistently implementing a clever idea. He is
making a new tool available to science and industry that will help to
increase the degrees of efficiency of solar cells', says Dr. Holger
Neuhaus, quoting from the decision of the jury.
The award ceremony will take place at the Cruise Center Hamburg-Altona. It
is the very first event ever to be staged at the cruise terminal which was
opened as recently as in June. The SolarWorld Einstein Award has been
bestowed since 2005 upon personalities from science, industry, politics and
society who have acquired special merits in the development of photovoltaic
technology. Previous award winners are Prof. Dr. Klaus Töpfer, Dr. Hermann
Scheer, Prof. Dr. Adolf Goetzberger and Dr. Rupert Neudeck.
About SolarWorld AG: The SolarWorld AG Group (ISIN: DE0005108401) is a
worldwide leader in offering brand-name, high quality, crystalline solar
power technology. Its strength is its fully integrated solar production.
From silicon as the raw material through wafers, cells and modules all the
way to turn-key solar systems of all sizes, the group combines all stages
of the solar value chain. The central business activity is selling quality
modules into the installation and distribution trades and crystalline
wafers to the international solar cell industry. Group headquarters are
located in Bonn, Germany. The group's largest production facilities operate
in Freiberg, Germany and Hillsboro in the U.S. State of Oregon.
Sustainability is the basis of the group strategy. Under the name
Solar2World, the group supports care projects using off-grid solar-power
solutions in developing countries, exemplifying sustainable economic
development. Worldwide, SolarWorld employs more than 3,600 people.
SolarWorld AG has been quoted on the stock exchange since 1999 and today is
listed on, among others, the TecDAX andÖkoDAX as well as in the
sustainability index NAI.
Contact
SolarWorld AG
Martin-Luther-King-Str. 24
53175 Bonn
Tel.: +49 (0) 228/55920-400
E-Mail: presse(at)solarworld.de
Internet: www.solarworld.de
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Company: SolarWorld AG
Martin-Luther-King-Straße 24
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Germany
Phone: +49 (0)228 - 559 20 470
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E-mail: placement(at)solarworld.de
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