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Tuesday, 17 Jun 2008
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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
- 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
- PV market and industry in Germany
- Government Incentive Program
10:55 Coffee-Exhibition break
Organic PV (11:30 - 15:30)
11:30 - 11:55 "Organic Photovoltaics Research at Arizona State University"- Materials
- Novel architectures
- Results & Future work
- 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.
- Organic materials for non-tracking optical concentration to III-V solar cells
- Increasing conversion efficiency and optical flux gain
12:45 Lunch-Exhibition Break
- OPV Ink System Advantages in Performance & Processing
- Pathway to improving OPV Efficiency & Lifetime
- OPV Market Adoption
• Novel interfacial layers for polymer solar cell
• Inverted polymer solar cells'
• Vacuum free process for semitransparent & flexible polymer solar cells
- Power Output
- Lifetime
- Manufacturability & Cost
15:30 Coffee-Exhibition Break
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
- 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
- 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
- introduction into Barix multilayer barrier coatings encapsulation of CdTe and CIGS solar cells Flexible Solar Cells industrialisation, cost, equipment
11:05 Coffee-Exhibition break
- 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
- 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.
- Cost Drivers in Solar Cell Manufacturing
- Economics of Printing Process
- Grid Parity with Printed Solar Cells
13:15 Lunch-Exhibition Break
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
- 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
- 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
15:45 Coffee-Exhibition Break
- Photovoltaic fabrication equipment
- Low-cost manufacturing of thin film solar modules using inkjet printing
- Equipment platforms for managing thin film substrates
- Process flow with islands of automation.
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