BEST POSTER AWARD
About the Award
The Best Poster Award recognizes outstanding work by poster presenters at the PVSC. A panel of judges selects one winning poster from each technical track at each poster session.
No application is needed. As a poster presenter you are automatically eligible, and every poster presentation is reviewed.
Award package: winners receive a certificate, and their posters are moved to a central location in the conference center to recognize their outstanding work.
How Posters Are Reviewed
- Before the conferencePoster session chairs familiarize themselves with the poster content and review the technical content.
- After posters are hungSession chairs select the top three to four posters as finalists, marked with a ribbon.
- During the poster sessionSession chairs listen to each finalist’s summary.
Selection Criteria
Clarity of Presentation
- Guides the viewer through the work in a logical order: motivation, objectives and approach, key results and impact.
- Good use of graphics, figures, text and white space for easy viewing.
- Text scaled for comfortable reading.
- Graphics convey complex information efficiently.
Technical Merit
- Research is novel (e.g. new materials, device designs, conversion mechanisms, theoretical approaches or characterization methods).
- Addresses a critical gap in PV technology.
- Results come from systematic analysis.
- Conclusions are fully supported by data.
Impact
- Results represent a significant advance over the current state of the field, or a critical breakthrough enabling one.
Oral Presentation
- An organized, concise summary emphasizing motivation, approach, key results and impact.
- Presenter is knowledgeable about all aspects of the poster and can answer specific questions.
- Presenter understands the broader impact and can suggest ways to extend the research.
Questions? Contact the Awards Chair at [email protected].