SUNLAB News
The SUNLAB to take part in Green Energy Doors Open
Come visit the SUNLAB as part of Green Energy Doors Open, Sunday, September 11, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. More details can be found here.
Dr. Joan Haysom wins the WiRE Woman of Distinction Award for Solar 2016
Congratulations to SUNLAB member Dr. Joan Haysom on winning the WiRE Woman of Distinction Award for Solar 2016. This award recognizes women who go "above and beyond business-as-usual, consistently demonstrate outstanding leadership, and have contributed significantly to the expansion and improvement of the power sector". Dr. Haysom received her award at CanSIA's Game Changer Awards Gala, held last May 16 in Niagara Falls, Ontario.Dr. Haysom is a senior renewable energy specialist at Leidos Canada and an adjunct professor at the University of Ottawa. She has been a member of the SUNLAB since 2010.
Congratulations to Dr. Joan Haysom for winning the WiRE Woman of Distinction Award for Solar!!!!!! @CanadianSIA
— WiRE (@WiREOntario) 17 mai 2016
SUNLAB students awarded scholarships
Congratulations to SUNLAB students Louis Béchard, Patrick McVey White, Meghan Beattie and Ross Cheriton on receiving scholarships for 2016-2017.Both Louis Béchard and Patrick McVey White, master's students at the SUNLAB, have been awarded a prestigious Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarship from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada. The program's objective is to help develop research skills and assist in the training of highly qualified personnel by supporting students who demonstrate a high standard of achievement in undergraduate and early graduate studies. The support will allow Louis to fully concentrate on his master's studies and Patrick to start his doctoral studies.Meghan Beattie, a master's student, and Ross Cheriton, a doctoral student, have been awarded Ontario Graduate Scholarships (OGS). OGS awards are merit-based scholarships available to students in all disciplines of academic study. The OGS program is jointly funded by the Province of Ontario and Ontario universities.
Prof. Karin Hinzer wins University of Ottawa Young Researcher of the Year Award
Congratulations to Prof. Karin Hinzer, SUNLAB director, on being awarded the University of Ottawa Young Researcher of the Year Award (engineering, science and medicine category) for 2016. Prof. Hinzer received her award in a ceremony held on April 7, 2016, at the Alex Trebek Alumni Hall.
CPV-13 to take place at the University of Ottawa in 2017
Professor Karin Hinzer will be chairing CPV-13, the 13th International Conference on Concentrated Photovoltaic Systems, which will take place at the University of Ottawa, May 1 to 3, 2017. The premier technical conference in the areas of high- and low-concentration PV components, modules, and tracker-based PV systems, CPV-13 will bring together students, academics, technologists, and financiers to engage in discussions of state-of-the-art CPV components, trackers, and installations.For more information, click here.
The SUNLAB part of the City of Ottawa Doors Open event
The SUNLAB is happy to take part in the City of Ottawa's Doors Open event. Come visit us between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m., on Saturday, June 4, 2016 at the University of Ottawa's Advanced Research Complex, 25 Templeton Street. You will be able to tour the SUNLAB as well as other world-class photonics laboratories.For more information, click here.
CPV-12 abstract submitted!
We are happy to announce that we have submitted abstract for the 12th International Conference on Concentrator Photovoltaics (CPV-12).The abstract is entitled "Effects of Lens Temperature on Chromatic Aberration and CPV System Performance", and describes work done in cooperation with CEA-LITEN, INES, Le Bourget du Lac, France.
SUNLAB student awarded IEEE PES scholarship
Congratulations to Lianne de la Salle, undergraduate student at SUNLAB, for being selected as a 2015/16 IEEE PES Scholarship Plus Initiative recipient! The Initiative provides multi-year scholarships and career experience opportunities to electrical engineering undergraduate students specializing in power and energy engineering.Lianne de la Salle has contributed to various SUNLAB research projects such as the study of CPV module acceptance angle, tracker precision and solar resource. As well, she has assisted in the maintenance of SUNLAB's outdoor solar test facility, ensuring tracker functionality and proper data collection.
Honourable mention at Innovation 360
We are very happy to announce that Ross Cheriton, a PhD student at SUNLAB, has won an honourable mention for his demonstration of InGaN/GaN solar cells at the TEXPO competition in Hull, Québec on September 29th, 2015. The honourable mention was for the Huawei Microsystems Design Award for most novel and industrially relevant results in the field of materials research and microsystems.
New GREEN NSERC project for SUNLAB and SOLANTRO
SUNLAB has been granted new funding from National Science and Engineering Research Council Canada (NSERC) for a project entitled “GREEN - Growing a Reliably Efficient Electrical Nanogrid".The GREEN project is a collaboration led by Prof. Henry Schriemer, between SUNLAB at uOttawa and Solantro Semiconductor Corp. The project will study load sensing power conditioning of adaptively-managed renewable power systems incorporating both energy generation and storage.Solantro Semiconductor Corp. is a fabless design, develop, and marketing house based in Ottawa, California and Arizona, producing sophisticated chipsets for distributed renewable energy systems management, which recently announced $11-million in series-B funding from private sources.
SUNLAB has moved to Advanced Research Complex
This has been very busy summer for SUNLAB - we have packed our solar research labs at SITE 3001 and SITE 3003 as well as all offices and moved across King Edward Avenue to newly finished Advanced Research Complex. Even though officially our new lab is going to open in September, we are all settled and unpacked! We are also awaiting arrival of our new equipment as our new solar research lab is expanding! Make sure you visit our Lab Facilities site after September to learn about updates on our NEW SUNLAB SOLAR RESEARCH LAB!
PVSC-42 Best Student Paper Award for SUNLAB
We are pleased to announce that our PhD student Viktar Tatsiankou in Electrical Engineering, has been awarded the Best Student Paper Award at the 42nd Photovoltaic Specialists Conference in New Orleans, USA. Viktar's presentation titled "A Novel Instrument for Cost-Effective and Reliable Measurement of Solar Spectral Irradiance" was presented at the concentrator photovoltaic session of the conference.
SUNLAB student awarded Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarship
Congratulations to Patrick White, Master's student at SUNLAB for being awarded the Alexander Graham Bell (AGB) Canada Graduate Scholarship - Master's (CGS-M) AND a University of Ottawa Excellence Scholarship! The Canada Graduate Scholarships-Master’s (CGS M) Program helps to develop research skills and assist in the training of highly qualified personnel by supporting students who demonstrate a high standard of achievement in undergraduate and early graduate studies. This support combined with the University of Ottawa Excellence Scholarship will allow Patrick to fully concentrate on his research studies at SUNLAB.
SUNLAB at 100% renewable energy OREC event
2nd place at the uOttawa Engineering and Computer Science Graduate Poster Competition
We are very pleased to announce that Viktar Tatsiankou, PhD student at SUNLAB, was awarded a 2nd place at the University of Ottawa graduate poster competition (Electrical Engineering Section) for his poster entitled: "A Novel Instrument for Characterization of Solar Spectral Irradiance".
SUNLAB representative is a finalist at Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP) Symposium
8th Edition of the Engineering and Computer Science Graduate Poster Competition
Today the 8th (!) edition of the Engineering and Computer Science Graduate Poster Competition is taking place. This annual event demonstrates the cutting-edge research that the Faculty’s graduate students are conducting and allows for networking with alumni, professors and industry professionals. It takes place today Tuesday, March 31, 2015 at Atrium, SITE Hall, University of Ottawa (800 King Edward Avenue)9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. – Poster presentations (a light lunch will be served)4 p.m. to 6 p.m. – Award ceremony and reception Our SUNLAB representatives are:Robert Li, M.A.Sc. Candidate"Design of A 35% High Concentrating Photovoltaic System That Operates in both Direct and Diffuse Illumination"Viktar Tatsiankou, Ph.D. Candidate - awarded a 2nd place in Electrical Engineering section!"A Novel Instrument for Characterization of Solar Spectral Irradiance"
Second abstract nominated for Best Student Paper Award at 42nd IEEE PVSC!
Congratulations to Viktar Tatsiankou, a PhD student at the SUNLAB, on his nomination as a finalist for the Best Student Paper Award at the 42nd IEEE Photovoltaics Specialists Conference (PVSC) for his upcoming oral presentation titled "A Novel Instrument for Cost-Effective and Reliable Measurement of Solar Spectral Irradiance”. The SSIM is a low-cost instrument designed to provide the photovoltaic community with an affordable and reliable tool for spectral measurements.
SUNLAB student visiting CEA-INES this summer
Patrick White, MSc student at SUNLAB, has been invited for an exchange this summer (April 20th - August 8th) at the Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA-INES) , an industry research laboratory in France.He will be analysing the effects of concentrating optics on cell efficiency. Building on testing at SUNLAB in studying the effects of spectral distribution on cell performance allows the associated losses to be quantified for particular lens designs. The goal in developing the Methodologies for characterizing Electrical, Thermal, and Optical Devices (METHOD) technique with CAE-INES to quantify the losses due to the optics and proposal optimal cell positioning.
Nomination for Best Student Paper Award at 42nd IEEE PVSC!
Congratulations to Pratibha Sharma, a PhD candidate at the SUNLAB, on her nomination as a finalist for the Best Student Paper Award at the 42nd IEEE Photovoltaics Specialists Conference (PVSC) to be held in New Orleans, in June 2015. Her presentation is entitled "Optimization of a four junction solar cell CPV system using ray tracing and SPICE modeling". Her work combines electrical modeling with optical ray tracing to analyze the effects of nonuniform illumination and chromatic aberrations on quadruple junction solar cells. The recipient of the award will be announced at the conference.