Antonio Luque
| Antonio Luque López | |
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Antonio Luque
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| Born |
August 15, 1941 Malaga |
| Nationality | Spanish |
| Alma mater | Technical University of Madrid |
| Known for | Bifacial solar cell, intermediate band solar cell, solar concentration techniques |
| Awards | Spanish National Research Prize (twice), EC Becquerel prize, King Jaime I prize, IEEE William Cherry prize, SolarWorld Einstein prize, Karl Böer Medal |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Photovoltaic energy |
| Institutions | Technical University of Madrid |
| Thesis | The construction of a ruby laser and a study of its output over time (1967) |
| Notable students | Gabriel Sala, Eduardo Lorenzo, Juan Carlos Miñano, Gabino Almonacid, Juan Carlos Jimeno, Antonio Martí. |
Antonio Luque López (born Málaga, 15 August 1941) is a Spanish scientist and entrepreneur in the field of photovoltaic solar energy. He is director of the at the Technical University of Madrid.
Luque graduated in Telecommunications Engineering at the Technical University of Madrid (UPM) in 1964, and obtained a Diplôme d'Études Approfondies in Solid State Physics at the University of Toulouse. In 1967 he completed his Ph.D. at UPM. A result of his Ph.D. work was the first laser constructed in Spain in 1966, today kept at UPM's "Joaquin Serna" Museum for the History of Telecommunications. He became Professor of Physical Electronics at the School of Telecommunication Engineering at UPM in 1970, and in 1979 founded the Institute of Solar Energy at the same university.
His scientific work has been particularly directed towards reducing the cost of solar energy. He is the inventor of the bifacial solar cell (1976) and the intermediate band solar cell (1997). He has worked extensively on solar concentration - optical methods for focussing the sun's rays more intensely on to the cells - and in 1988 presented the first monograph in English on this topic; he also chairs the international scientific committee at the Institute for Concentration Photovoltaic Systems (Isfoc), which opened in July 2006 in Puertollano.
He has been awarded the title of doctor honoris causa by the University of Jaén and by the Charles III University of Madrid, both in 2005, and by the University of Málaga in 2014. He is honorary member of the Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute in Saint Petersburg. He is a member of the Engineering Academies of Russia and Belarus. He has been a member of the advisory committee of the Hahn-Meitner Institute in Berlin since 2004, a member of the advisory council of the French National Institute for Solar Energy since 2005, and a member of the scientific advisory council of CASP (Center for Advanced Solar Photophysics) – part of the United States Department of Energy - since 2009. In 2011 he was admitted to membership of the Russian Academy of Science.
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