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Tuesday, 17 Jun 2008 Keynotes 09:15 Boeing Spectrolab 09:40 NASA - Johnson Space Center
Markets 10:05 IDTechEx 10:30 Invest in Germany 10:55 Coffee-Exhibition break
Organic PV 11:30 Arizona State University 11:55 Stanford University 12:20 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 12:45 Lunch-Exhibition Break 14:15 Plextronics 14:40 Solarmer Energy 15:05 Global Photonic Energy Corporation 15:30 Coffee-Exhibition Break
Investment Forum 16:00 SciReality LLC Kodak Quantenna Inc Tallwood Venture Capital IDTechEx
Wednesday, 18 Jun 2008 Inorganic PV - CIGS-Concentrators 09:50 ISET International Solar Electric Technology Inc 10:15 Soliant Energy 10:40 Vitex Systems Inc 11:05 Coffee-Exhibition break 11:35 CSEM - Centre Suisse d'Electronique
PV Processing/Testing 14:30 Optomec 14:55 Oak Ridge National Laboratory 15:20 Colorado State University 15:45 Coffee-Exhibition Break 16:30 imaging Technology international (iTi) 16:55 Northfield Automation Systems
Tuesday June 17, 2008 Opening Address (09:00 - 09:15) 09:00 - 09:15 "Opening Remarks - World Photovoltaics Market" Thin Film Photovoltaics Overview: technologies, markets, players Adoption & Commercialization: Drivers & Challenges
Keynotes (09:15 - 10:05) 09:15 - 09:40 "Low-Cost Solar to Electric Energy Generation Using Concentrating Photovoltaic III-V Solar Cell Technology" Highest efficiencies with tandem concentrator cells Efforts towards lower cost structures Development of technology suitable for terrestrial applications
09:40 - 10:05 "The Challenge of Space Photovoltaics" Needs of manned and unmanned space flight Specific challenges for selected mission scenarios Successfully meeting challenges: Bringing new opportunities in the consumer market.
Markets (10:05 - 11:30) 10:05 - 10:30 "Global Photovoltaic Trends and Progress in East Asia" Activity by biggest developers Technology portfolio comparison Timelines to commercialization
10:30 - 10:55 "Investment Opportunities in the Photovoltaic Industry in Germany" PV market and industry in Germany Government Incentive Program
Organic PV (11:30 - 15:30) 11:30 - 11:55 "Organic Photovoltaics Research at Arizona State University" Materials Novel architectures Results & Future work
11:55 - 12:20 "Polymer-Based Solar Cells" Polymer-base solar cell device operation and materials challenges. The importance of charge-transport for making highly efficient polymer-based solar cells. The potential for more ordered polymers to absorb light and transport charge in solar cells.
12:20 - 12:45 "Luminescent Solar Concentrators" Organic materials for non-tracking optical concentration to III-V solar cells Increasing conversion efficiency and optical flux gain
14:15 - 14:40 "Plexcore PV - A New Organic Ink System Enabling 5% OPV Efficiency" OPV Ink System Advantages in Performance & Processing Pathway to improving OPV Efficiency & Lifetime OPV Market Adoption
14:40 - 15:05 "Developing New Device Structures for Polymer Solar Cell Applications" • Novel interfacial layers for polymer solar cell
• Inverted polymer solar cells'
• Vacuum free process for semitransparent & flexible polymer solar cells
15:05 - 15:30 "The Path to Commercial Organic Solar Cells" Power Output Lifetime Manufacturability & Cost
Investment Forum (16:00 - 17:30) 16:00 - 17:30 "A Look Ahead at Key Developments for Solar Power: June-December 2008"
Wednesday June 18, 2008 Keynotes (09:00 - 09:50) 09:00 - 09:25 "Science, Technology and the Future of Sensitized Solar Cells" Industrial applications of sensitized solar cells and cell stability studies Effects of chemically modifying the nanostructure surface and reducing architectural disorder on the charge transport, recombination, and photovoltaic properties Results on InAs QDs as sensitizers in QD sensitized solar cells
09:25 - 09:50 "Solar Nantennas: Future Energy Solutions" Antennas as an alternative solar energy solution Modeling, materials and structures, manufacturing Applications: near and future plans
Inorganic PV - CIGS-Concentrators (09:50 - 11:35) 09:50 - 10:15 "Manufacturing of 'Ink Based' CIGS Solar Cells & Modules" Attributes of ISET's Ink Based Technology for CIGS Solar Cells and modules Thin Film CIGS Solar Cells Attributes
10:15 - 10:40 "Concentrating Photovoltaics for the Commercial Rooftop" Overview of various solar concentrator technologies: tracking and non-tracking, silicon cells and high-efficiency triple junction cells Bringing the efficiency of triple junction cells to the commercial rooftop How higher module efficiencies dramatically lower the cost of solar electricity Soliant Energy's offering: the most efficient rooftop solar panel you can buy
10:40 - 11:05 "Barix Multilayer Barriers for Protection of Solar Cells" introduction into Barix multilayer barrier coatings encapsulation of CdTe and CIGS solar cells Flexible Solar Cells industrialisation, cost, equipment
11:35 - 12:00 "Solar Islands" Solar Islands describes a new concept for the conversion of solar energy to usable energy (e.g. electricity or hydrogen) by means of a new way to construct large size islands which can align to the sun by simply turning to the right azimuth. The concept describes such systems floating in the sea, and others built on land. Solar Island can be used for CSP, but also to concentrate solar irradiation on PV panels, at a concentration between 5 and 20 suns. This opens up possibilities for large scale photovoltaic systems at extremely competitive costs.
Nano-enabled Technologies (11:35 - 14:15) 12:00 - 12:25 "Flexible Dye Solar Cells" status of development and remaining challenges of dye solar cells on flexible substrates quantification of the performance limiting factors of DSC optimization and electrochemical performance of stainless steel based DSC
12:25 - 12:50 "Nanowire Photovoltaics: Opportunities and Challenges" Semiconductor nanowires are being considered for next generation solar cells with reduced manufacturing costs and higher photoconversion efficiencies We report the synthesis of coaxial compound semiconductor III-V nanowires and fabrication of nanowire-based solar cells Enhanced carrier extraction, light trapping effects, and light absorption are presented.
12:50 - 13:15 "Towards Grid Parity with Printed Solar Cells" Cost Drivers in Solar Cell Manufacturing Economics of Printing Process Grid Parity with Printed Solar Cells
PV Processing/Testing (14:30 - 16:50) 14:30 - 14:55 "M3D® Aerosol-Jet® for Front-Side Metallization of Crystalline Photovoltaic Cells" M3D Aerosol Jet, a solution to reduce PV production costs Documented wafer efficiency improvement Reduces both material cost and wafer breakage Scaleable Technology
14:55 - 15:20 "Pulse Thermal Processing of Photovoltaic Material Systems" Revolutionary next level rapid thermal annealing of thin films and nanoparticle material systems Able to influence and enable all 3 generations of PV systems Large area, short processing times, high heating rates, all lend to the ability to control microstructures at the nanoscale
15:20 - 15:45 "Practical Information from Basic Solar-Cell Measurments" Summary of potential solar-cell losses Measurements needed to quantify individual losses at the cell level Extension of cell-level measurement and analysis to PV modules
16:30 - 16:55 "Inkjet as a Digital Fabrication Process for Photovoltaics" Photovoltaic fabrication equipment Low-cost manufacturing of thin film solar modules using inkjet printing
16:55 - 17:20 "Strategies for Roll to Roll Processing of Thin Films and other Electronic Substrates" Equipment platforms for managing thin film substrates Process flow with islands of automation.
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