Antonio Luque López (born Málaga, 15 August 1941) is a Spanish scientist and entrepreneur in the field of photovoltaic solar energy.

A result of his Ph.D. work was the first laser constructed in Spain in 1966, today kept at UPM's "Joaquin Serna" Museum for the History of Telecommunications.

[4] His scientific work has been one of genuine inventiveness directed towards reducing the cost of photovoltaic solar energy through the development of novel technologies and conception of new devices.

Initially, in the late 1970s and early 1980s, he researched static concentrators (not needing sun tracking) for their use with bifacial solar cells.

[24][25] In parallel to his work to advance HCPV, he began, since the early 1990s, a research programme on the theory of photovoltaic devices that could circumvent the Shockley-Queisser efficiency limit that ruled for most practical solar cells at the time.

[26] Cornerstone of this new science, later dubbed as third-generation solar cells, was the workshop held in 2002 in the mountain residence the Technical University of Madrid owns in Cercedilla in the Guadarrama Sierra, that gathered the very best international photovoltaic scientists of the time, including a Nobel Laureate, to privately discuss and work on the topic.

[30][31][32][33][34] In 2006 he co-founded and was first chairman of a new IES-UPM industrial spin-off that, named Centesil, was focused on the production of polycrystalline silicon for the manufacturing of solar cells.

[37] In between 2011 and 2014 he coordinated the European part of the "NGCPV" project, a joint EU-Japan initiative on the development of high efficiency photovoltaics, that involved 15 research centers and industrial companies.

From 2007 to 2009 he was member of the technical advisory board of the Nitol Group in Moscow In 2019 he founded Silbat, together with his son Ignacio, a seasoned technology entrepreneur, for the storage of electricity in the latent heat of fusion of metal-grade silicon and its retrieval by means of thermophotovoltaics.