Symposium ES11-Advanced and Highly Efficient Photovoltaic Devices

The symposium will cover materials that can assist solar photovoltaic collectors to attain higher power-conversion efficiency through the use of novel electronic structure and/or innovative optical processes. The symposium will be interdisciplinary in nature, fusing the work of materials researchers from physical, chemical and computational backgrounds to the theme of Advanced and Highly Efficient Photovoltaic Devices. Abstracts will cover basic photovoltaic material and practical device research, as well as computer modelling and simulation and theoretical development of photovoltaic device concepts. Abstracts at all stages of development are welcome, from demonstrations of working prototype devices, development of component materials or predicted performance of advanced structures. It is anticipated that abstracts will fall into three categories:

- Electronic materials for highly efficient photovoltaic devices. This category includes multi-junction solar cells, rapid deposition techniques for III-V semiconductors and hybrid silicon based tandem solar cells as well as candidate materials for intermediate band solar cells and multiple exciton generation.

- Optical materials for highly efficient photovoltaic devices. Concentration technologies beyond conventional geometrical optics, such as nanophotonic or plasmonic structures and rectenna devices, spectral shaping such as singlet fission and schemes for controlling emissivity of solar cells.

- Thermal materials for highly efficient photovoltaic devices. This includes hot carrier solar cells as well as thermionic converters.

Topics will include:

Nanophotonic coatings and structures for solar cell devices
Hot-carrier, thermionic and rectenna solar cells
Simulation of advanced photovoltaic materials and devices
Novel multi-junction solar cell devices and sub-cell materials.
Intermediate band and impurity photovoltaic materials and devices
Spectral shaping using singlet fission and down-conversion in photovoltaic devices

Invited Speakers:

ES11_Advanced and Highly Efficient Photovoltaic Devices_0 (Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany)
ES11_Advanced and Highly Efficient Photovoltaic Devices_1 (University of Oregon, USA)
ES11_Advanced and Highly Efficient Photovoltaic Devices_2 (LPN-CNRS, France, France)
ES11_Advanced and Highly Efficient Photovoltaic Devices_3 (University of New South Wales, Australia)
ES11_Advanced and Highly Efficient Photovoltaic Devices_4 (Sharp Laboratory Europe, United Kingdom)
ES11_Advanced and Highly Efficient Photovoltaic Devices_5 (Stanford University, USA)
ES11_Advanced and Highly Efficient Photovoltaic Devices_6 (Arizona State University, USA)
ES11_Advanced and Highly Efficient Photovoltaic Devices_7 (Ben Gurion University, Israel)
ES11_Advanced and Highly Efficient Photovoltaic Devices_8 (IRDEP-CNRS, France)
ES11_Advanced and Highly Efficient Photovoltaic Devices_9 (Tampere University of Technology, Finland)
ES11_Advanced and Highly Efficient Photovoltaic Devices_10 (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
ES11_Advanced and Highly Efficient Photovoltaic Devices_11 (National Renewable Energy Laboratory, USA)
ES11_Advanced and Highly Efficient Photovoltaic Devices_12 (University of Kobe, Japan)
ES11_Advanced and Highly Efficient Photovoltaic Devices_13 (University of Ottowa, Canada)
ES11_Advanced and Highly Efficient Photovoltaic Devices_14 (University of Tokyo, Japan)
ES11_Advanced and Highly Efficient Photovoltaic Devices_15 (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom)
ES11_Advanced and Highly Efficient Photovoltaic Devices_16 (University of Tokyo, Japan)
ES11_Advanced and Highly Efficient Photovoltaic Devices_17 (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
ES11_Advanced and Highly Efficient Photovoltaic Devices_18 (Toyota Technolgical Institute, Japan)