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Symposium J: Photonic and Plasmonic Materials for Enhanced Photovoltaic Performance

• 2011 MRS Fall Meeting & Exhibit

• November 28 - December 2, 2011
• Hynes Convention Center, Boston, MA
• Meeting Chairs: Cammy R. Abernathy, Paul V. Braun, Masashi Kawasaki, Kathryn J. Wahl

* Invited paper

 

8:30 AM *J1.1
A Thermodynamic Approach to Artificial Photonic Materials for Solar Energy Conversion.Harry A. Atwater, Applied Physics and Materials Science, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California.

9:00 AM J1.2
Ergodicity of Light-Trapping in Nanocrystalline Silicon Solar Cells.Hui Zhao¹, Eric A. Schiff¹, Baojie Yan², Jeff Yang² and Subhendu Guha²; ¹Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York; ²United Solar Ovonic. LLC, Troy, Michigan.

9:15 AM J1.3
Development of Photonic and Plasmonic Designs to Surpass the 4n² Light Trapping Limit.Jeremy N. Munday, Dennis M. Callahan and Harry A. Atwater; Applied Physics, CALTECH, Pasadena, California.

9:30 AM *J1.4
Wave Domain Light Trapping Theory.Zongfu Yu, Stanford University, Stanford, California.

10:00 AM BREAK

10:30 AM *J1.5
Photonic and Plasmonic Solar Cells with Absorption Beyond the Classical 4n2 Limit.Rana Biswas, Ames Laboratory, Ames, Iowa; Depts. of Physics & Astronomy; Electrical & Computer Engineering; Microelectronics Research Center, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa.

11:00 AM J1.6
Inverse Electromagnetic Design for Light Trapping in Solar Cells.Vidya Ganapati^1,2, Owen D. Miller^1,2 and Eli Yablonovitch^1,2; ¹Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California; ²Material Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California.

11:15 AM J1.7
Limiting Solar Cell Acceptance Angle: A Path to Exceeding 40% Efficiency with a Single Junction.Emily D. Kosten and Harry A. Atwater; California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California.

11:30 AM *J1.8
The Opto-Electronic Physics Required to Approach the Shockley-Queisser Efficiency Limit in Solar Cells.Eli Yablonovitch, Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley, California.

 

1:30 PM *J2.1
Trapping Light Fantastic.Diederik S. Wiersma, Filippo Pratesi, Kevin Vynck, Francesco Riboli and Matteo Burresi; micro and nano photonics, European laboratory for Non-linear Spectroscopy (LENS), University of Florence, and INFM-CNR BEC, sesto fiorentino (Florence), Florence, Italy.

2:00 PM *J2.2
Correlated Randomness for Broad-Band Light-Trapping in Semiconductor Systems.Peter Bermel^1,2, Michael Ghebrebrhan^1,2, Claudia Lau², Xing Sheng³, Jurgen Michel⁴, Lionel Kimerling³, Marin Soljacic² and Steven G. Johnson⁵; ¹Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts; ²Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts; ³Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts; ⁴Materials Processing Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts; ⁵Department of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

2:30 PM J2.3
Temporal Coupled Mode Theory of the Microsphere Solar Cell.Dennis M. Callahan, Jonathan Grandidier and Harry A. Atwater; Caltech, Pasadena, California.

2:45 PM J2.4
Visible Three Dimensional Photonic Crystals Using Silicon.Ganapathi Subramania and Arthur J. Fischer; Sandia National Laboratory, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

3:00 PM BREAK

3:30 PM J2.5
Intermediate Bands in Metallic Silicon: Design, Evolution, and Effectiveness for Sub-Band Gap Photon Management.Mark T. Winkler¹, Elif Ertekin¹, Daniel Recht², Joseph Sullivan¹, Michael J. Aziz², Jeffrey C. Grossman¹ and Tonio Buonassisi¹; ¹Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts; ²School of Engineering and Applied Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

3:45 PM J2.6
Solar Spectrum Splitting Parallel Multijunction High Efficiency Concentrating Photovoltaics.Lirong Z. Broderick¹, Marco Stefancich², Dario Roncati³, Brian R. Albert¹, Xing Sheng¹, Lionel C. Kimerling¹ and Jurgen Michel¹; ¹Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts; ²Material Science and Engineering, Masdar Institute of Science and Technology, Masdar, United Arab Emirates; ³, Progettazione Ottica Roncati, Ferrara, Italy.

4:00 PM J2.7
Flexible Concentrator Photovoltaics Based on Microscale Silicon Solar Cells Embedded in Luminescent Waveguides.Jongseung Yoon¹, Lanfang Li^2,3, Andrey Semichaevsky⁴, Jae Ha Ryu^2,3, Harley Johnson^3,4, Ralph Nuzzo^3,5 and John Rogers^2,3,4; ¹Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California; ²Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois; ³Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois; ⁴Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois; ⁵Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois.

4:15 PM J2.8
Impact of Plasmonic Nanoparticles on Hematite Photoanodes for Solar-Powered Water Splitting.Scott C. Warren, Elijah Thimsen and Michael Graetzel; Chem. and Chem. Eng., Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Lausanne, VD, Switzerland.

 

8:30 AM *J3.1
Plasmonic and High Index Nanostructures for Efficient Photovoltaic Energy Harvesting.Mark Brongersma, Stanford University, Stanford, California.

9:00 AM J3.2
Separating Optical and Electronic Pathways with the Nanocoax Photovoltaic Architecture.Michael J. Naughton and Michael J. Burns; Department of Physics, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts.

9:15 AM J3.3
Black Plasmons in Metallic Resonant Cavities.Mihail Bora, Elaine Behymer, Dietrich Dehlinger, Jerald Britten, Cindy Larson and Tiziana Bond; Engineering technologies Division, Lawrence Livermore Nat'l Lab, Livermore, California.

9:30 AM J3.4
High Index Contrast for Back Scatterers for Light Trapping.Angelika Basch^1,2, Thomas Soederstroem³, Sergey Varlamov³ and Kylie R. Catchpole¹; ¹Center of Sustainable Energy Systems, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia; ²Institute of Physics, University of Graz, Graz, Austria; ³ARC Centre of Excellence for Advanced Photovoltaics and Photonics, University of NSW, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

9:45 AM J3.5
Localized Plasmon Enhanced Nanovoid Solar Cells.Niraj N. Lal¹, Hang Zhou², Jatin K. Sinha³, Phil N. Bartlett³, Javier Garcia de Abajo⁴, Gehan A. Amaratunga² and Jeremy J. Baumberg¹; ¹Department of Physics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom; ²Centre for Advanced Photonics and Engineering, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom; ³School of Chemistry, University of Southampton, Southampton, Hampshire, United Kingdom; ⁴Nanophotonics Centre, Instituto de Optica - CSIC, Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain.

10:00 AM BREAK

10:30 AM *J3.6
Nanoscale Photon Management for Solar Cells and Transparent Electrodes.Yi Cui, Stanford University, Stanford, California.

11:00 AM J3.7
Hybrid Metal/Semiconductor Nanostructures for Optoelectronics and Photovoltaics.Pengyu Fan¹, Uday Chettiar², Farzaneh Afshimanesh¹, Linyou Cao³, Nader Engheta² and Mark Brongersma¹; ¹Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California; ²Electrical and Systems Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, California; ³University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California.

11:15 AM J3.8
Spectroscopic Evidence of Efficient Energy Transfer from Colloidal Nanocrystals to Functionalized Silicon Surfaces. Hue M. Ngyuen¹, Oliver Seitz², Weina Peng², Noir Nijem², Michael Nimmo¹, Yuri N. Gartstein¹, Yves J. Chabal¹ and Anton V. Malko¹; ¹Physics, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas; ²Materials Science, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas.
 

11:30 AM J3.9
Effect of Surface Plasmon Resonance on the Photoluminescence from Si Quantum Dot Structures for Third Generation Solar Cell Applications.Supriya Pillai, Joel J. Hohn, Craig M. Johnson and Gavin J. Conibeer; ARC Photovoltaic Centre of Excellence, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

 

1:30 PM *J4.1
Abstract Withdrawn

2:00 PM J4.2
Localized Surface Plasmon-Enhanced Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells through Metal@Oxide Nanostructures.Jifa Qi^1,2, Xiangnan Dang^1,2, Paula T. Hammond^2,3 and Angela M. Belcher^1,2,4; ¹Department of Materials Science and Technology, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts; ²The David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts; ³Department of Chemical Engineering, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts; ⁴Department of Biological Engineering, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

2:15 PM J4.3
The Effects of 100 nm-Diameter Au Nanoparticles on Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells.Changwoo Nahm, Hongsik Choi, Jongmin Kim, Dae-Ryong Jung, Chohui Kim and Byungwoo Park; WCU Hybrid Materials Program, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, Republic of.

2:30 PM J4.4
Role of Surface Plasmons in Light Harvesting of Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells.Bo Ding, Mengjin Yang, Bong Jae Lee and Jung-Kun Lee; Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

2:45 PM J4.5
Photonic and Plasmonic Crystal Fluorine-Doped Tin Oxide Electrode for Enhanced Light Trapping in Dye Sensitized Solar Cells.Fengli Wang¹, Navaneetha Subbaiyan², Qian Wang¹, Caitlin Rochford¹, Rongtao Lu¹, Alan Elliot¹, Francis D'Souza², Ron Hui Ron Hui¹ and Judy Wu¹; ¹The University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas; ²Wichita State University, Wichita, Kansas.

3:00 PM J4.6
Optimized Design of Porous 1DPC for DSC: Effect on Conversion Efficiency and Optical Properties.Silvia Colodrero¹, M Carmen Lopez-Lopez¹, Gabriel Lozano¹, Amparo Forneli², Emilio Palomares², Daniele Colonna³, Aldo di Carlo³ and Hernan Miguez¹; ¹ICMSE-Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Sevilla, Spain; ²ICIQ-Institut Català d'Investigació Química, Tarragona, Spain; ³CHOSE-Centre for Hybrid and Organic Solar Energy, Rome, Italy.

3:15 PM BREAK

3:45 PM J4.7
Optical-Fiber/TiO2-Nanowire-Arrays Hybrid Structures with Tubular Counterelectrode for High-Efficient Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell.Wenxi Guo^1,2, Chen Xu¹, Guang Zhu¹, Caofeng Pan¹, Changjian Lin² and Zhong Lin Wang¹; ¹Georgia Tech, Atlanta, Georgia; ²Xiamen, Xiamen, China.

4:00 PM J4.8
Enhancement of Efficiency in Dye Sensitized Solar Cells by Incorporation of Graphene.Soumitra Satapathi^1,2, Sriya Das³, Lian Li⁴, Ravi Mosurkal⁴, Lynne A. Samuelson⁴, Micah J. Green³ and Jayant Kumar^1,2; ¹Deaprtment of Physics and Applied Physics, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, Massachusetts; ²Center for Advanced Materials, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, Massachusetts; ³Department of Chemical Engineering, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas; ⁴US Army Natick Soldier Research, Development and Engineering Center, Natick, Massachusetts.

4:15 PM J4.9
Light Harvesting and Electron Transport Improvements with Radial Core-Shell Au-TiO₂ Nanowire Arrays in Dye Sensitized Solar Cells. Gayatri Sahu, Scott W. Gordon and Matthew A. Tarr; Department of Chemistry and Advanced Materials Research Institute, University of New Orleans, New Orleans, Louisiana.

4:30 PM J4.10
Effect of Light Scattering Design on the Incident Photon to Current Conversion Efficiency of Dye Solar Cells.Francisco Enrique Galvez^1,2, Erno Kemppainen³, Hernan Miguez¹ and Janne Halme³; ¹ICMSE-Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Seville, Spain; ²Meteorological State Agency of Spain (AEMET), Madrid, Spain; ³Department of Applied Physics, Aalto University School of Science, Espoo, Finland.

4:45 PM J4.11
Enhanced Light Harvesting through Optical Scattering in Solid-State Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells.Michael Lee and Henry J. Snaith; Physics, Condensed Matter, University of Oxford, Oxford, OXON, United Kingdom.

 

8:30 AM *J5.1
Three-Dimensional Photonic Crystal Intermediate Reflectors for Enhanced Light-Trapping in Tandem Solar Cells.Ralf B. Wehrspohn^1,2, Johannes Uepping¹, Uwe Rau³, Reinhard Carius³, Carsten Rockstuhl⁴, Falk Lederer⁴ and Rudolf Zentel⁵; ¹Institute of Physics, University of Halle, Halle, Germany; ²Fraunhofer Institute for Mechanics of Materials, Halle, Germany; ³Institute of Energy and Climate Research 5 - Photovoltaics, Research Center Jülich, Jülich, Germany; ⁴Department of Physics, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Jena, Germany; ⁵Institute of Organic Chemistry, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz,, Mainz, Germany.

9:00 AM J5.2
Influenece of the Nano-Mesh Metal Electrode to Light Excitation of Carriers in Semiconductor.Kumi Masunaga, Kenji Nakamura, Ryota Kitagawa, Eishi Tsutsumi, Tsutomu Nakanishi, Akira Fujimoto, Hideyuki Nishizawa and Koji Asakawa; Corporate Research and Development Center, Toshiba Corporation, Kawasaki, Japan.

9:15 AM J5.3
Development of Plasmonic Graphene Transparent Electrode.Guowei Xu¹, Jianwei Liu¹, Zhijun Chen², Victor A. Maroni² and Judy Wu¹; ¹Physics and Astronomy, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas; ²Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois.

9:30 AM J5.4
Thermal Stability of Nano-Structured Tungsten Selective Emitters.Heon J. Lee, Stephen P. Bathurst and Sang-Gook Kim; MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

9:45 AM J5.5
Self-Limited Plasmonic Nanowelding: Localizing Light and Heat in Nanostructures.Erik C. Garnett, Michael D. McGehee, Yi Cui and Mark L. Brongersma; Materials Science, Stanford University, San Francisco, California.

10:00 AM BREAK

10:30 AM J5.6
Implications of Durability of Materials to System Performance in Photovoltaics.Myles Murray and Roger H. French; Solar Durability- Lifetime Extension Center, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio.

10:45 AM J5.7
Synthesis and Spectroscopy of Metal-Semiconductor Hybrid Structures for Efficient Light Harvesting.Anshu Pandey, Bishnu Khanal, Hsing-lin Wang, Jeffrey M. Pietryga and Victor I. Klimov; Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico.

11:00 AM J5.8
Localized Surface Plasmon Enhanced Quantum Dot Solar Cells.Jiang Wu, Rick Eyi, Scott Mangham, Seungyong Lee, Vanga R. Reddy and Omar Manasreh; Electrical Engineering, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas.

11:15 AM J5.9
Solution-Chemical Derived Nickel Nanochains-Alumina Cermet for High Performance Selective Solar Absorbers.Xiaoling Shi, Xiaoxin Wang and Jifeng Liu; Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire.

11:30 AM J5.10
Wet Chemically Etched Silicon Nanowires: A Key Component in New Generation of Photovoltaic Devices.Vladimir Sivakov¹, Bjoern Hoffmann¹, Muhammad Bashouti³, Matthias Pietsch³, Felix Voigt^1,2, G. Broenstrup³, Florian Talkenberg¹, Sebastian Schmitt³, Arne Bochmann¹ and Silke Christiansen^1,3; ¹Semiconductor Nanostructures, Institute of Photonic Technology, Jena, Germany; ²Institute of Physics, Carl-von-Ossietzky University, Oldenburg, Germany; ³Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, Erlangen, Germany.

11:45 AM J5.11
Layer-by-Layer Construction of Transferred Titania Nanotube Arrays and Anodized Nanoparticles for Efficient Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells.Seunghyun Baik^1,2,4, Qing Zheng¹, Hosung Kang², Jongju Yun¹, Jiyong Lee¹ and Jong Hyeok Park³; ¹Department of Energy Science, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, Korea, Republic of; ²SKKU Advanced Institute of Technology, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, Korea, Republic of; ³Department of Chemical Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, Korea, Republic of; ⁴School of Mechanical Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, Korea, Republic of.

 

1:30 PM *J6.1
Design and Integration of 1-D Photonic Crystals in Thin-Film Silicon Solar Cells.Miro Zeman¹, Olindo Isabella¹, Pavel Babal¹, Arno Smets¹ and Janez Krc²; ¹Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands; ²University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia.

2:00 PM J6.2
Study of Photonic Crystals for Ultrathin Solar Cells Based on Epitaxy-Free Silicon.Ounsi El Daif¹, Xianqin Meng^2,3, Valerie Depauw¹, Guillaume Gomard^2,3, Christos Trompoukis¹, Emmanuel Drouard², Alain Fave³, Frederic Dross¹, Christian Seassal² and Ivan Gordon¹; ¹IMEC, Leuven, Belgium; ²Institut des nanotechnologies de Lyon, CNRS-Ecole centrale de Lyon, Lyon, France; ³Institut des nanotechnologies de Lyon, CNRS-INSA de Lyon, Lyon, France.

2:15 PM J6.3
Plasmonic and Photonic Light Trapping Nanostructures for Thin Film Si Solar Cells.Vivian Ferry^1,2, Marc Verschuuren³, Claire van Lare², Ruud E. I. Schropp⁴, Harry A. Atwater¹ and Albert Polman²; ¹California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California; ²FOM Institute AMOLF, Amsterdam, Netherlands; ³Philips Research, Eindhoven, Netherlands; ⁴Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands.

2:30 PM J6.4
Explore Light Trapping for Thin-Film Silicon Solar Cells---Design and Fabrication.Xing Sheng¹, Lirong Z. Broderick¹, Jifeng Liu³, Steven G. Johnson², Jurgen Michel¹ and Lionel C. Kimerling¹; ¹Materials Science and Engineering, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts; ²Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts; ³Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire.

2:45 PM J6.5
An Extensive Evaluation of Plasmonic Photovoltaic Devices from Both Optical and Electronic Perspectives.Xiaofeng Li, Vincenzo Giannini, Nicholas Hylton, Kan-Hua Lee, Ned Ekins-Daukes and Stefan Maier; Physics, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom.

3:00 PM BREAK

3:30 PM *J6.6
Excitation of Plasmon and Guided-Mode Resonances in Thin Film Silicon Solar Cells.Franz-Josef Haug, Karin Soederstroem, Ali Naqavi, Remi Biron, Celine Pahud and Christophe Ballif; Institute of Microengineering (IMT), Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Neuchâtel, Switzerland.

4:00 PM J6.7
Plasmonic Solar Cells with Embedded Silver Nanoparticles from Vapor Condensation.Rudi Santbergen, Tobias Pfeiffer, Xin Li, Tim Frijnts, Arno Smets, Andreas Schmidt-Ott and Miro Zeman; Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands.

4:15 PM J6.8
Optical Spectroscopy of Metallic Nanoparticle Arrays for Applications in III-V Photovoltaics.Nicholas P. Hylton¹, Vincenzo Giannini¹, Xiaofeng Li¹, Dries Vercruysse², Pol Van Dorpe², Kan-Hua Lee¹, Nicholas J. Ekins-Daukes¹ and Stefan A. Maier¹; ¹Physics, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom; ²IMEC, Leuven, Belgium.

4:30 PM J6.9
Optimized Scattering of the Solar Spectrum by Metal Nanoparticles. Tristan L. Temple, Rufina Sesuraj, David N. Payne and Darren M. Bagnall; Nano Research Group, University of Southampton, Southampton, Hampshire, United Kingdom.

4:45 PM J6.10
Direct Measurement of Light Trapping in Ultra-Thin Si Layers.Jorik van de Groep, Pierpaolo Spinelli, Rutger Thijssen and Albert Polman; Center for Nanophotonics, FOM Institute AMOLF, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

 

J7.1
Low-Temperature Phosphorus Doping to Silicon Using Phosphorus-Related Radicals.Taro Hayakawa^1,2, Yuuki Nakashima^1,2, Kouichi Koyama^1,2, Keisuke Ohdaira¹ and Hideki Matsumura^1,2; ¹Material science, Japan advanced institute of science and technology, Nomi, Ishikawa, Japan; ²JST-CREST, Nomi, Japan.

J7.2
Local Bandgap Change Measurement within a Dome-Shaped PbS Quantum Dot Using STEM-VEELS.Hee Joon Jung^1,6, Neil P. Dasgupta^2,6, Ai Leen Koh³, Phil V. Stockum^4,6, Mike C. Langston^2,6, Velimir Radmilovic⁵, Fritz B. Prinz^2,6 and Robert Sinclair¹; ¹Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California; ²Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California; ³Stanford Nanocharacterization Laboratory, Stanford University, Stanford, California; ⁴Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California; ⁵National Center for Electron Microscopy, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California; ⁶Nanoscale Prototyping Laboratory, Stanford University, Stanford, California.

J7.3
Plasmon Mapping of Individual Ion-Shaped Nanoparticles.Abdallah Slablab¹, Pierre-Eugène Coulon¹, Giancarlo Rizza¹, Sandrine Perruchas², Thierry Gacoin², Christian Cardin³, Christian Dufour³, Dominique Mailly⁴, Mathieu Kociak⁵, Arthur Losquin⁵, Pierre Stadelmann⁶ and Anas Mouti⁶; ¹Laboratoire des solides irradiés, Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France; ²LPMC, Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France; ³CIMAP/CNRS, ENSICAEN, Caen, France; ⁴LPS, Université d'Orsay, Orsay, France; ⁵LPN, LPN, Marcoussis, France; ⁶EPFL, EPFL, Lausanne, Swaziland.

J7.4
Real-Space Distribution of Cavity Modes in Single ZnO Nanowires.Frank Guell¹, Alejandro Goni², Josep Oriol Osso³, Luis Alberto Perez⁴, Eduardo Coronado⁴ and Joan Ramon Morante⁵; ¹Electronica, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain; ²ICMAB, Bellaterra, Catalunya, Spain; ³MATGAS, Bellaterra, Catalunya, Spain; ⁴INFIQC-CLCM, Córdoba, Argentina; ⁵IREC, Sant Adrià de Besòs, Catalunya, Spain.

J7.5
Flexible Thin Film Crystalline Templates for Silicon Photovoltaics.Daniela F. Bogorin¹, Lee Heatherly², Tolga Aytug¹, Sung-Hun Wee², Claudia Cantoni², Frederick A. List², Jon Bornstein³, Amit Goyal² and Mariappan Parans Paranthaman¹; ¹Chemical Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee; ²Materials Science and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee; ³Ampulse Corporation, Golden, Colorado.

J7.6
Difference in Gold, Silver, and InP/ZnS Photoluminescence.Scott Mangham, Jiang Wu, Seungyong Lee, Vanga Reddy and Omar Manasreh; University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas.

J7.7
Enhanced Optical Absorption in Nanopatterned Silicon Thin Films with a Nano-Cone-Hole Structure for Photovoltaic Applications.Qingguo Du, Chanhin Kam and Xiaowei Sun; nanyang technological university, Singapore, Singapore.

J7.8
Porous Silicon Antireflection Coatings for Colored Solar Cells.Josefine H. Selj and Erik S. Marstein; Solar Energy, Institutt for Energiteknikk, Kjeller, Norway.

J7.9
Angular Response of Photonic Crystal Based Dye Sensitized Solar Cells.M Carmen Lopez, J.Miguel Luque, Silvia Colodrero, Gabriel Lozano, Mauricio Calvo and Hernan Miguez; Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Seville, Spain.

J7.10
Abstract withdrawn 

J7.11
Enhancement in P3HT:ZnO Solar Cells with Plasmonic Gold Nanostructures.Jian Wang¹, Yun-Ju Lee¹, Hue M. Nguyen¹, Michael Nimmo¹, Michael L. Jespersen², Eric S. Pitt^3,2, Anton V. Malko¹, Richard A. Vaia² and Julia W. Hsu¹; ¹University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas; ²Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio; ³Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio.

J7.12
Effect of Inserting Polyfluorene Copolymer Layer in Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell.Young hee Jung and Changkook Hong; Advanced Chemicals & Engineering, chonnam national university, Gwang-ju, Korea, Republic of.

J7.13
Plasmonic Back Reflector for Thin Film Silicon Solar Cells.Rufina S. Sesuraj, Tristan L. Temple and Darren M. Bagnall; Nano Research Group, School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom.

J7.14
Glow Discharge Techniques in the Analysis of Photovoltaic Materials.Sebastian W. Schmitt¹, Cornel Venzago², Gerardo Gamez³, Vladimir Sivakov⁴, Björn Hoffmann⁴, Johann Michler³ and Silke Christiansen^1,4; ¹Photonic Nanostructures, MPI for the Sciene of Light, Erlangen, Germany; ²Anorganische Analytik, AQURA GmbH, Hanau, Germany; ³Mechanics of Materials and Nanostructures, EMPA, Thun, Switzerland; ⁴Photonic Nanostructures, IPHT, Jena, Germany.

J7.15
Linear Chains of Gold Nanospheres: Simulation and Construction towards Better Photovoltaic Cells.Paul Mark¹ and Laura Fabris^1,2; ¹Materials Science and Engineering, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey; ²Institute for Advanced Materials Devices and Nanotechnology, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey.

J7.16
Hydrogen Diffusion in pm-Si:H Solar Cells.Leon Hamui¹, B. M. Monroy¹, K. H. Kim², G. Santana¹ and P. Roca i Cabarrocas²; ¹IIM, UNAM, Mexico, Mexico; ²Laboratoire de Physique des Interfaces et des Couches Minces, Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France.

J7.17
Nanostructured Si by Metal-Assisted Etching to Enhance Light Trapping in Thin-Si Solar Cell Absorber Layers.Jihun Oh, Benjamin G. Lee and Howard M. Branz; NREL, Golden, Colorado.

J7.18
Rare Earth Doped Si-Based Layers for Frequency Conversion. Yong-Tao An, Christophe Labbe and Fabrice Gourbilleau; CIMAP, Caen Cedex 4, France.

J7.19
Evaluation of Absorption Loss by Metal Nanoparticles in Plasmonic Enhancement for Thin-Film Solar Cells.Zhu Wang¹, Fiona J. Beck^1,2 and Kylie R. Catchpole¹; ¹Centre for Sustainable Energy Systems, College of Engineering and Computer Science, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia; ²ICFO-Institut de Ciencies Fotonique, 08860 Castelldefelds, Barcelona, Spain.

J7.20
Simulation and Fabrication of Two Dimensional Core-Shell Structures for Broadband Solar Cells Absorption.Pao T. Lin¹, Yasha Yi², Xiaoman Duan¹, Lionel C. Kimerling¹;  ¹Materials Processing Center, Microphotonics Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Graduate Center, CUNY, New York University, New York, USA.

J7.21
Shape Dependent Photovoltaic Performance of InN Nanostructures/p-Si(100) Heterojunction Grown by Molecular Beam Epitaxy.Thirumaleshwara N. Bhat, Mohana K. Rajpalke, Mahesh Kumar, Basanta Roul and S. B. Krupanidhi; MRC, Indian Institute of science, Bangalore, Karnataka, India.

J7.22
Plasmonic-Enhanced Organic Solar Cells Based on Grating Structures.Akira Baba, Dai Murashima, Kazunari Shinbo, Keizo Kato and Futao Kaneko; Center for Transdisciplinary Research and Graduate School of Science and Technology, Niigata University, Niigata, Japan.

J7.23
Abstract Withdrawn 

J7.24
Oligothiophene Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells.Xiaoyan Jing¹, Jingyuan Liu¹, Milin Zhang¹ and Peng Wang²; ¹aKey laboratory of Superlight Materials and Surface Technology, College of Materials Science and Chemical Engineering, Harbin Engineering University, Harbin, China; ²State Key Laboratory of Polymer Physics and Chemistry, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Science, Changchun, China.

J7.25
The Development of Bifacial Dye Sensitized Solar Cells Based on Solid Electrolyte.Mustafa B. Cosar^1,2, Halil I. Yavuz^1,2 and Ahmet M. Ozenbas^1,2; ¹Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey; ²Center for Solar Energy Research and Applications (GUNAM), Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey.

J7.26
π-Conjugation Extension Correlated Charge Generation and Recombination in Indoline-Rhodanine Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells.Yi Yuan, Xiaoyan Jing and Jingyuan Liu; aKey laboratory of Superlight Materials and Surface Technology, College of Materials Science and Chemical Engineering, Harbin Engineering University, Harbin, China.

J7.27
Preparation of TiO2-ZrO2 Mixed Oxide Electrode for Dye Sensitized Solar Cells.Halil I. Yavuz^1,2, Mustafa B. Cosar^1,2 and Ahmet M. Ozenbas^1,2; ¹Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey; ²Center for Solar Energy Research and Applications (GUNAM), Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey.

J7.28
Core-Shell Type Nanocrystalline FTO Photoanodes for Dye Sensitized Solar Cells.Kerem C. Icli^1,3, Halil I. Yavuz^2,3 and Ahmet M. Ozenbas^2,1,3; ¹Micro and Nanotechnology Program, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey; ²Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey; ³Center for Solar Energy Research and Applications (GUNAM), Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey.

J7.29
Plasmonic Light Scattering for Epitaxial Silicon Thin Film Solar Cells.Ounsi El Daif¹, Lianming Tong², Bruno Figeys¹, Dries Vercruysse¹, Kris Van Nieuwenhuysen¹, Alexander Dmitriev², Pol Van Dorpe¹, Ivan Gordon¹, Ivan Gordon¹ and Frederic Dross¹; ¹IMEC, Leuven, Belgium; ²Chalmers, Göteborg, Sweden.

J7.30
Multiprobe Apertureless near-Field Imaging (MANI) of Optical Plasmonic Distribution.Hesham Taha², Boaz Fleischman² and Aaron Lewis¹; ¹Computer Science & Engineering, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel; ²Nanonics Imaging Ltd., Jerusalem, Israel.

J7.31
Fabrication of Embedded Silver Nanoparticles in Silicon and Impact on Carrier Lifetimes for Surface Plasmon-Enhanced Photovoltaics.Nirag Kadakia, Hassaram Bakhru and Mengbing Huang; Ion Beam Laboratory, State University of New York - Albany, Albany, New York.

J7.32
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J7.33
Approaches to Reduce Interface Defects for ZnO/Si Heterojunction Solar Cells.Eric S. Kozarsky, Chong Tong, Juhyung Yun, Tingfang Yen and Wayne A. Anderson; Electrical Engineering, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York.

J7.34
Numerical Investigation of Plasmonic Structures in Amorphous Silicon Using the Discrete Dipole Approximation.Giulia Tagliabue, Olivier Knutti, Majid Nabavi and Dimos Poulikakos; D-MAVT, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.

J7.35
Broadband Plasmonic Snowflake Antennas with an Adjustable Spectral Response. Rustu U. Tok, Eren S. Unlu and Kursat I. Sendur; Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey.

J7.36
Aggregation-Induced Increase of the Light Harvesting Efficiency and Quantum Yield of Electron Injection of Chalcogenoxanthylium Dyes on TiO2.Kacie R. Mulhern, Michael R. Detty and David F. Watson; Chemistry, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York.

J7.37
Advances in Hyperdoping for Sub-Gap Photon Management.Daniel Recht¹, Joseph T. Sullivan², Matthew J. Smith², David Hutchinson³, Mark T. Winkler², Aurore J. Said¹, Jeffrey M. Warrender⁴, Peter D. Persans³, Silvija Gradecak², Tonio Buonassisi² and Michael J. Aziz¹; ¹Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Cambridge, Massachusetts; ²Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts; ³Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts; ⁴US Army ARDEC - Benet Laboratories, Watervilet Arsenal, New York.

J7.38
Tuning Light Scattering by Periodic Metal Nanoparticle Arrays for Solar Cell Applications.David N. Payne, Tristan L. Temple and Darren M. Bagnall; Nano Research Group, University of Southampton, Southampton, Hampshire, United Kingdom.

J7.39
Compositional Variations in Nanoimprinted Bulk Heterojunction Organic Photoactive Layers Used in Light Trapping Device Architectures.John Tumbleston¹, Abay Gadisa^2,3, Brian Collins¹, Edward Samulski³, Rene Lopez² and Harald Ade¹; ¹Physics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina; ²Physics and Astronomy, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina; ³Chemistry, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

J7.40
Effect of Post Growth Annealing on Quaternary (InAlGaAs) Capped Multilayer InAs/GaAs QD Heterostructures with Variation in Capping Layer Thickness and Monolayer Coverage for the Seed QD Layer. Arjun Mandal¹, Utkarsha Verma² and Subhananda Chakrabarti¹; ¹Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India; ²Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Rajasthan, Jodhpur, India.

J7.41
Abstract Withdrawn 

J7.42
Light Trapping in Hydrogenated Amorphous and Nanocrystalline Silicon Based Thin-Film Solar Cells with Ag/ZnO Back Reflectors and the Plasmonic Effect on Light Trapping.Baojie Yan, Laura Sivec, Guozhen Yue, Jessica M. Owens, Jeffrey Yang and Subhendu Guha; United Solar Ovonic LLC, Troy, Michigan.

J7.43
Plasmonically Enhanced Silicon Based Schottky Photodetectors for near Infrared Detection.Levent Erdal Aygun¹, Kazim Gurkan Polat¹ and Ali Kemal Okyay^1,2; ¹Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey; ²UNAM-Institute of Materials Science and Nanotechnology, Ankara, Turkey.

J7.44
Absorption Enhancement for Inorganic Photovoltaics via Triangle-Shaped Metallic Gratings. Enes Battal¹, Taha Alper Yogurt¹, Levent Erdal Aygun¹ and Ali Kemal Okyay^1,2; ¹Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Bilkent University, 06800 Ankara, Turkey, Ankara, Turkey; ²UNAM-Institute of Materials Science and Nanotechnology, Bilkent University, 06800 Ankara, Turkey, Ankara, Turkey.

J7.45
Photovoltaic Studies on Multiferroric Thin Films Prepared by PLD. Arun Singh^1,2, Satyapraleash Sahoo¹ and Ram S. Katiyar¹; ¹Physics, University of Puerto Rico, San Juan; ²Physics, Jamia Millia Islamia University, New Delhi, Delhi, India.

J7.46
Structural and Optical Studies of Self-Assembled ZnTe Quantum Dot in ZnTe/ZnSe Heterostructure.Sung Joo Kim¹, Weiming Wang², Bor-chau Juang², Jacob R. Jokisaari¹, Jimmy Chen², Jamie D. Phillips² and Xiaoqing Pan¹; ¹Materials Science and Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan; ²Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan.

J7.47
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J7.48
Band Structure Engineering of Silicon through Non-Equilibrium Doping.Matthew J. Smith¹, Filippo Fabbri², Daniel Recht³, Michael J. Aziz³, Giancarlo Salviati² and Silvija Gradecak¹; ¹Materials Science and Engineering, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts; ²IMEM-CNR Institute, Parma, Italy; ³Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

J7.49
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J7.50
Device Analysis of Planar and Vertical Nanocoaxial Solar Cells.Timothy Kirkpatrick, Michael Burns and Michael J. Naughton; Physics, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts.

J7.51
Growth and Characterization of ZnTe/Zn_1-xCd_xSe Type-II Multilayer Quantum Structures for Photovoltaic Applications.Siddharth Dhomkar^1,2, Le Peng^1,3, Uttam Manna⁴, Richard Moug³, Ildar F. Salakhutdinov⁴, Maria C. Tamargo³, Ismail C. Noyan⁴ and Igor L. Kuskovsky²; ¹Department of Physics, The Graduate Center, The City University of New York, New York, New York; ²Department of Physics, Queens College of the City University of New York, Flushing, New York; ³Department of Chemistry, The City College of the City University of New York, New York, New York; ⁴Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, Columbia University, New York, New York.

J7.52
Abstract Withdrawn 

J7.53
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J7.54
Elucidation of Oxidizer Effects on Growth and Property of APCVD ZnO.Young Zo Yoo, SeoHyeon Kim, GeunSang Yoon, JeongWoo Park, Taejeong Park, BoGyong Kim and SuHo Park; R & D center, Samsung Corning Precision Materials, Chungcheongnam-do, Korea, Republic of.

J7.55
Characterization of Nanocrystalline Titanium Dioxide for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells by Spectroscopic Ellipsometry and Raman Spectroscopy. Takumi Moriyama¹, Tomoko Numata¹, Nataliya Nabatova-Gabain¹, Shozo Yanagida² and Li Yan³; ¹HORIBA, Ltd., Kyoto, Japan; ²Osaka University, Osaka, Japan; ³HORIBA Scientific, Edison, New Jersey.

J7.56
Absorption Enhancement in Tapered Silicon Nanowires for Photovoltaics.Baomin Wang, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

J7.57
Light Scattering by Electrochemically Grown ZnO Nanoparticles for Photovoltaic Application.Yuji Suzuki^1,2, Arman Ahnood¹, Poopathy Kathirgamanathan² and Arokia Nathan¹; ¹London Centre for Nanotechnology, University College London, London, United Kingdom; ²Organic Electronics, Wolfson Centre, School of Engineering, Brunel University, Uxbridge, United Kingdom.

 

8:30 AM *J8.1
Efficient Light Trapping in Metallic and Dielectric Nanostructured Thin-Film Solar Cells.Albert Polman, FOM Institute AMOLF, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

9:00 AM J8.2
A Conceptual Model for Predicting the Light Scattering Properties of Plasmonic Particles. Fiona J. Beck, Sudha Mokkapati and Kylie R. Catchpole; Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia.

9:15 AM J8.3
Plasmonic and Dielectric Scattering Arrays for Light Trapping in Thin-Film Silicon Solar Cells. Er-Chien Wang¹, Sudha Mokkapati¹, Thomas Soderstrom², Sergey Varlamov², Thomas P. White¹ and Kylie R. Catchpole¹; ¹Centre for Sustainable Energy Systems, Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia; ²ARC Photovoltaics Centre of Excellence, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

9:30 AM *J8.4
Thin-Film Silicon Solar Cells with a Photonic Pattern: Light Trapping towards Lambertian Limit.Lucio C. Andreani, Angelo Bozzola and Marco Liscidini; Department of Physics "A. Volta", University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy.

10:00 AM BREAK

10:30 AM *J8.5
Approaching the Lambertian Limit in Randomly Textured Thin-Film Solar Cells.Falk Lederer¹, Stephan Fahr¹, Carsten Rockstuhl¹ and Thomas Kirchartz²; ¹Physics and Astronomy, University of Jena, Jena, Germany; ²Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom.

11:00 AM J8.6
Light Trapping by Femtosecond Laser Texture in Thin Silicon Solar Cells.Benjamin G. Lee¹, Yu-Ting Lin², Renee Sher³, Eric Mazur^2,3 and Howard M. Branz¹; ¹National Center for Photovoltaics, National Renewable Energy Lab, Golden, Colorado; ²School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts; ³Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

11:15 AM J8.7
Enhanced Light Trapping in Polycrystalline Silicon Thin Films through Ion Implantation Induced Surface Textures and Deposition of Silver Nanostructures.Perveen Akhter¹, Nirag Kadakia² and Mengbing Huang²; ¹Department of Physics, University at Albany- SUNY, Albany, New York; ²College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering, University at Albany-SUNY, Albany, New York.

11:30 AM J8.8
Engineered Plasmonic-Photonic Arrays for Enhanced Photovoltaics.Jacob Trevino¹, Nate Lawrence², Gary Walsh² and Luca Dal Negro^1,2; ¹Materials Science and Engineering, Boston University, Brookline, Massachusetts; ²Electrical and Computer Engineering, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts.

 

1:30 PM *J9.1
Bio-Inspired Electro-Photonic Structure for Organic Solar Cells.Rene Lopez¹, John Tumbleston¹, Edward Samulski² and Doo-Huyn Ko²; ¹Physics and Astronomy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina; ²Chemistry, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

2:00 PM J9.2
Self-Assembled Plasmonic Electrodes for High-Performance Organic Photovoltaic Cells. Wade A. Luhman¹, Si Hoon Lee², Timothy W. Johnson², Russell J. Holmes¹ and Sang-Hyun Oh²; ¹Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota; ²Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

2:15 PM J9.3
A Plasmonic Nano-Patterned Rear Contact for Organic Solar Cells.Bjoern Niesen^1,2, Barry P. Rand¹, Pol Van Dorpe^1,2, Lianming Tong³, Alexandre Dmitriev³ and Paul Heremans^1,2; ¹IMEC, Leuven, Belgium; ²Electrical Engineering (ESAT), Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium; ³Applied Physics, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden.

2:30 PM J9.4
Light Management in 20-nm-Thick Organic Semiconducting Polythiophene Layers Using Split-Dipole Plasmonic Nanoantenna Arrays.Deirdre M. O'Carroll^1,2 and Alexa Abdelaziz¹; ¹Materials Science and Engineering, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey; ²Chemistry and IAMDN, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey.

2:45 PM BREAK

3:15 PM J9.5
Optical Resonator Effect to Enhance the Efficiency of Organic Photovoltaic Cells. Rafael Betancur¹, Pablo Romero-Gomez¹ and Jordi Martorell^1,2; ¹ICFO-Institut de Ciencies Fotoniques, Castelldefels, Barcelona, Spain; ²Fisica i Enginyeria Nuclear, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Terrassa, Barcelona, Spain.

3:30 PM J9.6
The Origin of Enhanced Light Harvesting in Organic Solar Cells with ITO-Free MoO₃/Ag/MoO₃ Transparent Anodes.Nicholas P. Sergeant¹, Afshin Hadipour², Bjoern Niesen², David Cheyns², Paul Heremans², Peter Peumans², Barry P. Rand² and Shanhui Fan¹; ¹Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California; ²IMEC, vzw, Leuven, Belgium.

3:45 PM J9.7
Plasmonic Polymer Tandem Solar Cell.Jingbi You¹, Jun Yang¹, Chunchao Chen¹, Wan-Ching Hsu¹, Hairen Tan², Xingwang Zhang², Ziruo Hong³ and Yang Yang¹; ¹Department of Materials Science and Engineering, UCLA, Los Angeles, California; ²Key Lab of Semiconductor Materials Science, Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, China; ³Graduate School of Science and Enginnering, Yamagata University,, Yamagata, Japan.

4:00 PM J9.8
Toward Some Photonic Structures to Improve Organic Solar Cells Efficiencies. David Duche, Judikael Le Rouzo, Jean-Jacques Simon, Francois Flory and Ludovic Escoubas; IM2NP, Marseille, France.