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      • Symposium A: Amorphous and Polycrystalline Thin-Film Silicon Science and Technology
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Symposium V: Advanced Materials Processing for Scalable Solar-Cell Manufacturing II

• 2012 MRS Spring Meeting & Exhibit

• April 9 - April 13, 2012
• Moscone West Convention Center | Marriott Marquis - San Francisco, California-
• Meeting Chairs: Lara A. Estroff, Jun Liu, Kornelius Nielsch, Kazumi Wada

Advanced Materials Processing for Scalable Solar-Cell Manufacturing II

In the quest to achieve large-scale (ca. 100s of GW to TW) deployment of solar energy systems, a significant technical and market hurdle is the development of low-cost, high-volume materials manufacturing processes.  Indeed, there is a strong push by the U. S. Department of Energy to achieve total installed system costs of ~$1/W_p, which necessarily implies module costs of less than $0.5/W_p!  To achieve this goal, there is a tremendous need for high-throughput materials processing and manufacturing, which would simultaneously lead to high-performance absorber materials and charge-transport interfaces with minimal defects.  These must also lead to solar converters that can achieve long-term reliability.  Process control is critical to achieving commercial success for multicomponent systems such as CIGS, as well as for single- or polycrystalline Si, amorphous Si, CdTe, III-V, dye-sensitized, polymer, earth-abundant sulfide/phosphide, and next-generation solar cells.  Nano-structures and nanomanufacturing approaches are beginning to transform the PV manufacturing landscape by enabling low-cost printed thin-film PV module manufacturing.

This symposium will establish a forum for a strong industry-academia interaction, which will explore materials processing challenges related to scalable solar cell technologies, as well as novel materials processing approaches with the potential to provide novel cost-effective manufacturing capabilities to the solar industry.  Key themes to be considered include the intersection of solar-module manufacturing and nanomanufacturing, as well as low-temperature roll-to-roll manufacturing for novel solar-module technologies.  Technologies that can enable very high-efficiency module concepts (> 20%) in a relatively low-cost fashion will also be consid-ered. Processes that enable new coatings and energy-conversion-enhancement schemes such as up/down converters and antireflective layers will be addressed.

Session topics will include:

• Advanced and unconventional silicon processing
   - Crystal-growth methods
   - Wafering
   - Passivation and back-contact processes 
• Physical vapor deposition of semiconductors for solar cells
   - Advanced sputtering techniques
   - Evaporation and ion-beam processes
• Solution-based processes for solar cells
   - Electrochemical deposition
  • Large-area thin-film processing
  • Templated nanostructure deposition
  
    - Nanoparticle ink-based processes
  • Ink development
  • Microstructure development and process uniformity

   - Polymer and dye-sensitized solar-cell processes

   
• Solar-cell-material cutting-pasting transfer processes
• Roll-to-roll manufacturing for solar cells
• Processing of novel efficiency-enhancing coatings
  • Up/down converters
  • Durable antireflective coatings for solar PV modules
    • Different chemistries and future materials for making antireflective coatings
    • Deposition techniques including spray, roller, and dip
    • Durability and long-term performances
     
   
• Flexible packaging materials and processes for solar cells
• Material manufacturing processes for concentrated PV system
• Solar thermal converter materials and manufacturing
• Chemical vapor deposition of semiconductors for solar cells
  • Metal organic for III-V solar cells
  • Plasma-enhanced CVD
  • Atmospheric processing and atomic layer deposition
  • Nanostructure manufacturing processes
   

Invited speakers (tentative) include:

Thomas Anthopoulos (Imperial College London, United Kingdom), Hadj Benkreira (Univ. of Bradford, United Kingdom), Stacey Bent (Stanford Univ.), Tonio Buonassis (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology), Yi Cui (Stanford Univ.), David Ginley (National Renewable Energy Lab), Michael Graetzel (EPFL, Switzerland), Martin Green (Univ. of New South Wales, Australia), Michael Harvey (Brisbane Materials, Australia), Thomas Hoffmann (Centrosolar, Germany), Ali Javey (Univ. of California, Berkeley), Kishore Kamath (Abound Solar), Olivier Mal (Asahi Glass Co., Belgium), D. Milliron (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab), D. Mitzi (IBM T. J. Watson Research Ctr.), Rommel Noufi (National Renewable Energy Lab), Peter Peumans (Stanford Univ.), Mustafa Pinarbasi (SoloPower), K. V. Ravi (Crystal Solar, Inc.), S. Watkins (CSIRO, Australia).

Symposium Organizers

Loucas Tsakalakos
GE Global Research
Micro and Nano Structures Technologies
Thin Films Laboratory
1 Research Circle
Niskayuna, NY 12309
Tel 518-387-5715, Fax 518-387-6030
tsakalakos@ge.com   

Brent Nelson
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Process Development and Integration Laboratory
1617 Cole Blvd.
Golden, CO 80401-3393
Tel 303-232-6864
brent_nelson@nrel.gov 

Alberto Salleo
Stanford University
Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering
Geballe Laboratory for Advanced MaterialsMcCullough Rm. 239
476 Lomita Mall
Stanford, CA 94305
Tel 650-725-1025
asalleo@stanford.edu 

Sudip Mukhopadhyay
Honeywell Electronic Materials
New Materials for Alternative Energy
1349 Moffett Park Dr.
Sunnyvale, CA 94089
Tel 510-459-0701
sudip.mukhopadhyay@honeywell.com