{"28055":{"#nid":"28055","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Ga. Tech Researcher Recognized by EPA","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDr. Ajeet Rohatgi, a Regents\u0027 and Electrical and Computer Engineering professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology, was recently recognized by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the American Solar Energy Society (ASES) for a lifetime\u0027s contribution to making solar technology a realistic, low-cost energy solution\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe U.S. EPA honored Dr. Rohatgi as an Individual Climate Protection Award Winner in a ceremony recently held at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.\n\nIn addition, ASES selected Dr. Rohatgi as this year\u0027s Hoyt Clarke Hottel Award Winner, for contributions in solar energy technology, and will honor him at the SOLAR 2009 conference, in Buffalo, New York later this year.\n\nRohatgi founded Georgia Tech\u0027s PV research program and later established the first University Center of Excellence for Photovoltaic Research and Education (UCEP), a program funded by the U.S. Department of Energy. In 2007, he founded Suniva, a Norcross, GA-based company, to commercialize the world\u0027s most advanced low-cost high-efficiency solar cells.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022This is a critical time in the history of solar research and deployment.  Never before in my career have I seen today\u0027s confluence of technological advances, political will and economic conditions necessary to bring solar into the mainstream.  I\u0027m honored to receive such recognitions as America and the world embrace photovoltaics as a practical energy solution,\u0022 said Rohatgi. \n\nThroughout his career, Dr. Rohatgi has pushed the frontiers of PV cell performance and cost through research into the effects of impurities in silicon solar cells, the design and modeling of solar cells and the development of new fabrication techniques that simultaneously speed manufacturing and reduce costs. Dr. Rohatgi has authored and co-authored over 375 technical papers about solar, set 14 solar cell world records and helped more than 40 of the world\u0027s largest solar companies develop new technologies. \n\n\n\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Ajeet Rohatgi Named Individual Climate Protection Award Winner"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"Dr. Ajeet Rohatgi, a Regents\u0027 and Electrical and Computer Engineering professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology, was recently recognized by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the American Solar Energy Society (ASES) for a lifetime\u0027s contribution to making solar technology a realistic, low-cost energy solution.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"EPA Names Ajeet Rohatgi  Individual Climate Protection Award Win"}],"uid":"27281","created_gmt":"2009-04-22 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:01:29","author":"Lisa Grovenstein","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2009-04-22T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2009-04-22T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1317","name":"News Briefs"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"472","name":"epa"},{"id":"836","name":"Rohatgi"},{"id":"167182","name":"solar"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"Lisa Grovenstein\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommunications \u0026amp; Marketing\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-894-8835","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}