Researcher's Profile

  • Project Professor
  • Takaya KUBO
  • Initiatives for Global Security and Energy Transition
E-mail
ukubomail.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Tel
03-5452-5140
FAX
03-5452-5140
URL

Biography

    
March 1992 Doctor degree, Graduate School of Engineering, Organic and Polymeric Materials, Tokyo Institute of Technology
April 1992 Nippon Oil Corporation(now JX Nippon Oil and Energy)
August 2006 Project Associate Professor, RCAST, The University of Tokyo(UTokyo)
April 2007 Project Associate Professor, RCAST, UTokyo
August 2011 Project Professor, Academic Industrial Joint Laboratory for Renewable Energy, RCAST, UTokyo
April 2023 Project Professor, Initiatives for Global Security and Energy Transition, RCAST, UTokyo

Research Interests

Modern society relies heavily on cheap fossil fuels, a situation that is causing environmental problems such as global warming. erefore renewable energy is becoming increasingly important to our society. Among the various forms of renewable energy, solar energy has particular advantages since solar energy is an abundant, limitless energy resource. One of the most crucial challenges in the promotion of solar power generation systems is, however, the reduction of power generation costs. Organic solar cells or organic/inorganic solar cells make promising candidates for low cost and environmentally-friendly solar cells. To achieve this target, we have been exploring novel materials, and extensively researching solar cells based on new concepts, by employing time-resolved spectroscopy as a tool to probe key processes such as light harvesting and charge transport.


 

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