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Po K. Lau
Mr. Lau is a multi-disciplinary photovoltaic (PV) industrialist. He has in-depth experience in PV power system performances, power deliverables and economics from small 12V battery triggle charger to megawatt scale PV power plant in actual deployment. His past experience in PV also includes setting up of a module manufacturing production line, re-engineering an amorphous silicon solar cell factory and led the planning of multi-crystalline silicon ingot and wafer project.
Prior to his full engagement in this industry, Po had assumed senior executive positions in electronics original design manufacturing, plastics and metal parts fabrication, building materials manufacturing and distribution in Hong Kong.
Po has authored and co-authored a number of Canadian and US patents and has led design projects producing numerous PV products winning awards in International CES, Exhibition of Inventions of Geneva and Montreal Institute of Design.
He is a member of the IEEE and the Materials Research Society (MRS).

Cindy X. Qiu
Dr. Qiu is one of the pioneers in the development of low cost production of CuInSe2 thin film solar cells. She is the first author to report high efficiency CuInSe2 thin films solar cell deposited using one step electrodeposition method. She has held world record on efficiency of electrodeposited CuInSe2 cells from 1990 to 2001.
She is also working in the development of organic light emitting diode and organic solar cells. She has developed measurement technology to determine the conductivity of the organic materials.
Cindy has 13 patents (5 Canadian and 8 US) and twelve 12 pending patents (one Canadian and 11 US) to her credit.  She authored or coauthored more than 60 scientific papers in refereed journals and conference proceedings.

Ishiang Shih
Dr. Shih is the associate professor in McGill's Electrical Engineering Department.
Ishiang's major research areas include material research, semiconductor devices, superconductors, and MEMS devices. His material research activities include preparation of tellurium and selenium-tellurium crystals (Czochralski growth) and characterization of optoelectronic properties of the grown crystals. He established a procedure for the growth of tellurium crystal with a 100% yield. He developed techniques for both polycrystalline and monocrystalline tellurium thin films using vacuum deposition.
He has established Bridgman system for the growth of CuInSe2 crystals of good electronic quality. He also developed an electrochemical method for the deposition of CuInSe2 thin films and carried out optical and electrical measurements on junction devices. Based on these materials, he successfully developed high efficiency (> 10%) solar cells. In the superconductor research, he developed research experiments for high TC superconductors, YBaCuO, BiSrCaCuO, PbBiSrCaCuO and TlBaCaCuO, specifically for future electronic applications. He has done research work of micro tips for the field emission in flat panel display applications. He has established fabrication process to yield InGaAs optical detectors with the lowest leakage current ever reported. He also established fabrication technologies for micro- and nano-engineering. He has demonstrated and patented many devices including optical filters for WDM, optical switches, and microwave millimetre MEMS switches.
He has authored and co-authored more than 200 papers in refereed journals and conferences. He also applied and received more than 10 patents in fabrication process and devices for applications of material growth, solar cell, superconductor materials and devices, as well as MEMS devices.

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