Solar Cell R&D - India's Emerging Innovation Base

Thursday, February 26, 2026

Time
11:30 am - 01:00 pm
Hall
The Leela Hotel
Room
Room: Bandhej

Discussing research pathways in perovskite, TOPCon, and heterojunction technologies,
along with the institutional ecosystem needed for commercialization, while
connecting these developments to global trends in efficiency gains,
accelerated reliability testing, and scaling strategies adopted by leading
manufacturing hubs worldwide.

11:30 am - 01:00 pmSolar Cell R&D - India's Emerging Innovation Base

Goutam Samanta

Head - PV Technology

Juniper Green Energy

Speakers
Speaker
Goutam Samanta, Juniper Green Energy

Head - PV Technology

India

More than 36 years professional experience (including last 29 years in International Photo Voltaic (PV) industries Solar PV Power Plant: Successfully installed more than 1500 MW module in ACME, Orange Renewable Power (Greenko Group) & Juniper Green Energy Core competency in Wafer, Solar Cell & Module: Technology, manufacturing, process, quality, product, reliability & R & D PV manufacturing: Successfully installed more than 800 MW cell & module manufacturing facilities in India Websol, Central Electronics Ltd (A Govt. of India Enterprise under DSIR) & Moser Baer-MBPV (Founder member of MBPV-Employee No 2) Audited more than 25 PV cell & module manufacturing facilities in India & China on behalf of Électricité de France (EDF) Auditor of Électricité de France (EDF) in South-east Asia Had in-depth training under guidance of Prof. Giuliano Martinelli, University of Ferara, Italy on crystal growth, ingot, wafer, cell & module manufacturing (at Helios Technology Srl, Padova, Italy) in 1994 Inter-University Microelectronics Centre (IMEC), Belgium: Worked with Dr. Jozef Szlufci & implemented Screen Printed Diffusion Technology at Central Electronics Ltd (Govt of India & Govt of Belgium project) in 1998 Sunpower Corporation, San Jose: Interacted with Prof Dr. Richard Swanson, CTO of Sunpower Corporation & also Dr. Charlie Gay, Board of Directors Sunpower Corporation, US for technical due-diligence on IBC (Inter-digitated Back Contact) Solar Cell Technology in 2004

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