LIA to highlight laser use in green energy production.
Press Release Summary:
LIA will unveil developments in green energy applications of laser technology at ICALEO®, from November 2-5, 2009. Plenary session, Frontiers and Challenges for the Green Economy, will describe application of laser technology to manufacture of solar-energy cells and other solutions. Keynote address, Frontiers, Opportunities, and Challenges for a Hydrogen Economy, will be led by Dr. John Turner. Other presentations will be given by Dave Clark, Dr. C. Martin Stickley, and Dr. Yongfeng Lu.
Original Press Release:
LIA Will Illuminate Lasers' Role in Global Energy Revolution
ORLANDO, Florida, September 17, 2009 - Carbon nanotubes, photovoltaics and the "hydrogen economy" - not exactly household concepts yet. But they are technologies at the forefront of the growing worldwide demand for "green" energy and manufacturing. And lasers are critical to this global revolution.
The Laser Institute of America (LIA), the trusted and respected advocate of cutting-edge applications of laser technology since 1968, will unveil the most up-to-the-minute developments in these and other fields when it gathers industry leaders from around the world at the 28th International Congress on Applications of Lasers and Electro-Optics (ICALEO®).
When ICALEO® kicks off November 2, 2009 at the Hilton located in the WALT DISNEY WORLD® Resort, "green" applications of laser technology will be at the forefront of the conference, which ends November 5th. The plenary session "Frontiers and Challenges for the Green Economy" at 9 a.m. on November 2nd will "unveil to even the most casual observers the necessity, the inevitability, of applying laser technology to the manufacture of solar-energy cells and other environmentally friendly energy solutions," says LIA Executive Director Peter Baker. "Lasers more than ever will be vital to helping companies satisfy customer demands for efficient and sustainable energy, while producing consistently high-quality products in the automotive, medical, food and aerospace industries."
Dr. John Turner, a Research Fellow from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colo., will give an overview of the future of energy in his keynote address "Frontiers, Opportunities and Challenges for a Hydrogen Economy." Other topics will include:
"Lasers - An Enabling Technology in the Photovoltaics Revolution" by Dave Clark, Senior Director, Strategic Marketing, Photovoltaics at Newport Corporation / Spectra-Physics, Mountainview, Calif.
Progress in high-power diode lasers and industrial applications, as well as opportunities in the solar energy industry, by Dr. C. Martin Stickley. Stickley is director of the College of Optics & Photonics, University of Central Florida, and he established the Super High Efficiency Diode Sources program while at the Department of Defense's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
Laser processing of carbon materials, from high-speed diamond film deposition to carbon nanotubes as semiconductor devices, by Dr. Yongfeng Lu, Lott Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
"The prospect of lasers in the green energy economy has never looked better," notes Congress General Chair Xinbing Liu, Director, Panasonic Boston Laboratory, Newton, Mass., USA. "This is the time to turn vision into reality."
ICALEO has been devoted to the field of laser materials processing for 27 years and is viewed as the premier source of technical information in the field. For more information and to register, please visit the LIA's ICALEO Web site at https://www.laserinstitute.org/ICALEO.
About LIA
Laser Institute of America (LIA) is the professional society for laser applications and safety serving the industrial, educational, medical, research and government communities throughout the world since 1968. LIA is the secretariat and publisher of the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) Z136 series of laser safety standards. For more information, visit www.laserinstitute.org.
