Symposium NN-Thin-Film and Nanostructure Solar Cell Materials and Devices for Next-Generation Photovoltaics

Solar cells based on thin-film and nanostructure materials are fast developing photovoltaic (PV) area due to the advantage of material dimension/usage reduction as well as the potential of exceeding the efficiency limit of conventional solar cells. Thin-film materials (Si, III-Vs, chalcogenides, and perovskites etc) and nanostructure materials (nanoparticles, quantum wells, quantum dots, nanowires, and carbon nanotubes etc) can be synthesized by a variety of deposition, epitaxy, nanofabrication and solution based techniques. Their structural, optical and electrical properties can be investigated by a wide range of characterization techniques for PV related applications, either as the active absorbing materials or other important device components such as contact layer, passivation layer, back reflector or light trapping structure. Many new concepts and theories are also proposed making use of different thin-film and nanostructures to enhance light absorption and charge separation in solar cell devices. Underpinned by the ultimate demand of low-cost and high-efficiency from the PV industry, this symposium aims at providing a dynamic forum on the recent development in both existing and emerging fields of thin-film and nanostructure solar cell materials and devices. Submissions are invited to cover from fundamental to applied research, the material synthesis and characterization, device design, fabrication and characterization, theory, simulation and new concepts, to advance the state-of-the-art PV technology in the field of thin-film and nanostructure solar cells.

Topics will include:

Thin film solar cell materials and devices, including Si, III-Vs, chalcogenides, dye-sensitized and perovskites solar cells etc
Nanostructure solar cell materials and devices, including nanoparticles, quantum wells, quantum dots, nanowires, and carbon nanotubes etc
Thin films and nanostructures for PV related applications, including contact layer, passivation layer, back reflector and light trapping structure etc

Invited Speakers:

NN_Thin-Film and Nanostructure Solar Cell Materials and Devices for Next-Generation Photovoltaics _0 (Massachusetts InstituteTechnology, USA)
NN_Thin-Film and Nanostructure Solar Cell Materials and Devices for Next-Generation Photovoltaics _1 (Nanyang Technical University, Singapore)
NN_Thin-Film and Nanostructure Solar Cell Materials and Devices for Next-Generation Photovoltaics _2 (Azastra Inc., Universite de Sherbrooke, Canada)
NN_Thin-Film and Nanostructure Solar Cell Materials and Devices for Next-Generation Photovoltaics _3 (Stanford University, USA)
NN_Thin-Film and Nanostructure Solar Cell Materials and Devices for Next-Generation Photovoltaics _4 (AMOLF, Netherlands)
NN_Thin-Film and Nanostructure Solar Cell Materials and Devices for Next-Generation Photovoltaics _5 (University of Toronto, Canada)
NN_Thin-Film and Nanostructure Solar Cell Materials and Devices for Next-Generation Photovoltaics _6 (Northwestern University, USA)
NN_Thin-Film and Nanostructure Solar Cell Materials and Devices for Next-Generation Photovoltaics _7 (IBM Corp., USA)
NN_Thin-Film and Nanostructure Solar Cell Materials and Devices for Next-Generation Photovoltaics _8 (University of Tokyo, Japan)
NN_Thin-Film and Nanostructure Solar Cell Materials and Devices for Next-Generation Photovoltaics _9 (Forschungszentrum Juelich, Germany)
NN_Thin-Film and Nanostructure Solar Cell Materials and Devices for Next-Generation Photovoltaics _10 (University of Toronto, Canada)
NN_Thin-Film and Nanostructure Solar Cell Materials and Devices for Next-Generation Photovoltaics _11 (University of Oxford, United Kingdom)
NN_Thin-Film and Nanostructure Solar Cell Materials and Devices for Next-Generation Photovoltaics _12 (Magnolia Solar, USA)
NN_Thin-Film and Nanostructure Solar Cell Materials and Devices for Next-Generation Photovoltaics _13 (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
NN_Thin-Film and Nanostructure Solar Cell Materials and Devices for Next-Generation Photovoltaics _14 (University of Toledo, USA)
NN_Thin-Film and Nanostructure Solar Cell Materials and Devices for Next-Generation Photovoltaics _15 (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)