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Symposium W: Nanostructured Solar Cells

• 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

Nanostructured Solar Cells

The development of low-cost photovoltaics is essential for our society.  Novel generation of nanostructured inorganic, organic, and hybrid solar cells will lead to improved device performance.  Nanostructuring of inorganic solar cells offers the possibility of reducing the cost of photovoltaics by allowing smaller amounts of lower-grade photovoltaic semiconductor materials to be used.  The film morphology of organic and hybrid solar cells is essential for obtaining efficient devices.  The device physics, including charge separation, charge extraction, and recombination is strongly influenced by the nanostructure.  Various fabrication methods and their influence on the device physics should be presented.  The synthesis of solar cells by solution-based methods or fabrication pathways using less traditional, abundant materials is identified as a promising route to wide-scale photovoltaic electricity generation.  Nanostructured solar-cell geometries are highlighted as essential in this approach.

Templating and self-assembling methods used to produce appropriate nanostructures from solutions are very promising for new generations of solar cells.  The scope of this symposium is to highlight new promising solar cells incorporating nanostructures and the investigation of the influence of the structure on the device physics.

Session topics will include:

• Organic, hybrid, and inorganic solar cells
• New and improved device structures and materials/composites
• Solution-processed nanostructured solar cells
• Nanowire solar cells
• Control over micro- and nanostructure using large-area coating/patterning techniques, self-assembly/organization
• Effects of nanostructures on device physics and solar-cell performance
• Nanophotonic light trapping
   

Invited speakers include:

P. Alivisatos (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab), H. Arakawa (Tokyo Univ. of Science, Japan), N. Armstrong (Univ. of Arizona), A. Di Carlo (Dypower, Italy), R. Friend (Univ. of Cambridge, United Kingdom), P. Ho (National Univ. of Singapore), K. Leo (Technische Univ. Dresden, Germany), M. McGehee (Stanford Univ.), J. Morante (Catalan Inst. for Energy Research [IREC], Spain), K. Reynolds (Eight19 Ltd., United Kingdom), M. Stutzmann (Technical Univ. Munich), N. Trétreault (EPFL, Switzerland), G. Tulloch (Dyesol, Australia), P. Yang (Univ. of California, Berkeley), Y. Yang (Univ. of California, Los Angeles).

Symposium Organizers

Lukas Schmidt-Mende
Ludwig-Maximilians University - Munich
Amalienstr. 54
81925 Munich, Germany
Tel 49-89-2180-3443, Fax 49-89-2180-17836
l.schmidt-mende@lmu.de 

Udo Bach
Monash University
Dept. of Materials Engineering
Rm. 143F, Bldg. 19
Clayton, Victoria
3800 Melbourne, Australia
Tel 61-399055343, Fax 61-399054597
udo.bach@sci.monash.edu.au 

Thomas Brown
University of Rome - Tor Vergata
Dept. of Electronic Engineering
Via del Politecnico 1
00133 Roma, Italy
Tel 39-06-72597779, Fax 39-06-2020519
thomas.brown@uniroma2.it 

Anna Fontcuberta i Morral
Ecole Polytechnique Federal de Lausanne
IMX-Station 12
CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
Tel 41-21-693-7394, Fax 41-2-693-6826
anna.foncuberta-morral@epfl.ch 

Matt Law
University of California, Irvine
Dept. of Chemistry
1120 Natural Science II
Irvine, CA 92697-2025
Tel 949-824-5996, Fax 949-824-8571
matt.law@uci.edu