Tuesday June 17, 2008
Opening Address (09:00 - 09:15)
IDTechEx, United Kingdom, Dr Harry Zervos, Technology Analyst
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)
Boeing Spectrolab, United States, Dr Nasser Karam, Vice President
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
NASA - Johnson Space Center, United States, Dr John Bacon,
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)
IDTechEx, Inc., United States, Mr Raghu Das, CEO
10:05 - 10:30 "Photovoltaics in East Asia" Activity by biggest developers Technology portfolio comparison Timelines to commercialization
Invest in Germany, United States, Mr Claus Habermeier, Director
10:30 - 10:55 "The German Photovoltaic Market and German Government PV Incentive Programs" PV market and industry in Germany Government Incentive Program
Organic PV (11:30 - 15:30)
Arizona State University, Flexible Display Center, United States, Prof Ghassan Jabbour, Director of ASU Advanced Photovoltaics Center
11:30 - 11:55 "Organic Photovoltaics research at Arizona State University" Materials Novel architectures Results & Future work
Stanford University, United States, Dr Alex Mayer, Post Doctoral Scholar
11:55 - 12:20 "Charge Transport in Semicrystalline Polymer 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.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States, Dr Jon Mapel, Post-Doctorate Researcher
12:20 - 12:45 "Organic solar concentrators" Organic materials for non-tracking optical concentration to III-V solar cells Increasing conversion efficiency and optical flux gain
Plextronics Inc, United States, Mr Andy Hannah, CEO
14:15 - 14:40 "Plexcore PV - A New Organic Ink System Enabling 5% OPV Efficiency" Advances in Plexcore active layer technology 5.4% Efficiency from Single Layer Organic Solar Cells
Solarmer Energy, Inc, United States, Dr Gang Li, Senior Research Fellow
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
Global Photonic Energy Corporation, United States, Mr Aaron Wadell, Chief Operating Officer
15:05 - 15:30 "The Path to Commercial Organic Solar Cells" Power Output Lifetime Manufacturability & Cost
Investment Forum (16:00 - 17:30)
Wednesday June 18, 2008
Keynotes (09:00 - 09:50)
NREL, United States, Dr Arthur Frank, Principal Scientist
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
INL, United States, Steven Novack, Program Manager
09:25 - 09:50 "Solar Nantennas: Future Energy Solutions" Antennas as an alternative solar energy solution Modeling, materials and structures, manufacturingApplications: near and future plans
Inorganic PV - CIGS-Concentrators (09:50 - 11:35)
ISET International Solar Electric Technology Inc, United States, Dr Vijay K Kapur, President
09:50 - 10:15 "Manufacturing of Ink Based CIGS Solar cells and Modules" Attributes of ISET's Ink Based Technology for CIGS Solar Cells and modules Thin Film CIGS Solar Cells Attributes
Soliant Energy, United States, Mr Brad Hines, CTO
10:15 - 10:40 "Rooftop concentrators: Lower system costs through higher efficiency" 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
Vitex Systems Inc, United States, Dr Robert Jan Visser, CTO
10:40 - 11:05 "Encapsulation of (Flexible) Thin Film Solar Cells by Multilayer Thin Film Barix Barrier Coatings and Barix coated Plastic Films" introduction into Barix multilayer barrier coatings encapsulation of CdTe and CIGS solar cells Flexible Solar Cells industrialisation, cost, equipment
CSEM - Centre Suisse d'Electronique, Switzerland, Dr Thomas Hinderling, CEO
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)
TKK Finland, Finland, Mr Janne Halme,
12:00 - 12:25 "Dye solar cells on flexible substrates" 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
McMaster University, Canada, Dr Ray LaPierre, Assistant Professor
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.
Solexant, United States, Dr Damoder Reddy,
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 (14:15 - 16:50)
Optomec, United States, Stephen Barnes,
14:30 - 14:55 "M3D Aerosol-Jet® Printing 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
Oak Ridge National Laboratory, United States, Dr Ronald Ott,
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
Colorado State University, United States, Dr James Sites, Dept of Physics
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
Imaging Technology International, United States, Ms Cindy Morgan, VP, Development Tools
16:30 - 16:55 "Inkjet technologies for Photovoltaic Applications" Photovoltaic fabrication equipment Low-cost manufacturing of thin film solar modules using inkjet printing
Northfield Automation Systems, Inc., United States, Mr Mark Wegner, executive Vice President
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.
