Miroslav Zeman received the International Prize of the Slovak Academy of Sciences (SAV) for the field of technical sciences on Tuesday in the premises of the Primate's Palace in Bratislava. He is an expert in the field of photovoltaics as a renewable energy source and a recognized university professor at Delft University of Technology.
"I take it as a sign of recognition for my contribution to building a sustainable society in the field of energy," Zeman told TASR. According to his words, in his career he mainly focused on improving solar cells. "I tried to increase the efficiency of the solar cells, because that's what we need, to use as little surface as possible to convert the solar device into electricity," he added.
In 2006, the professor founded the Slovak Organization for Renewable Energy Sources, the aim of which is to support the implementation of solar energy in Slovakia.
At the university, he teaches at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science and heads the Department of Sustainable Electricity. From the beginning of his work, he has been a member of a group of scientists who researched solar cells. Since then, he has led more than 30 Dutch and six European projects dealing with the development of thin-film solar cells and their production technologies.
The collaboration between Delft University of Technology and SAV started in 1998 with the purchase of a measuring system from the Physics Institute of SAV. Between 2002 and 2004, Vojtech Nádaždy participated in the Dutch Helianthos project at Delft University of Technology, which supported the development of amorphous silicon solar cells and modules. Nádaždy was the first researcher in Professor Zeman's solar cell group to produce an amorphous silicon solar cell with an efficiency above ten percent. These experiences helped in the introduction of organic and perovskite solar cell research to the SAS Physics Institute.
In 2020, Zeman became a member of the advisory committee of CEMEA SAS. His task was to facilitate the development of tandem solar cells based on a combination of crystalline silicon and perovskite solar cells.
Source: TASR
