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Symposium H: Nanostructured Solar Cells

Symposium H: Nanostructured Solar Cells Image

November 26 - 29, 2007
Chairs
Mike McGehee     Stanford University
David Ginger     University of Washington
Christiana Honsberg     University of Delaware
Jenny Nelson     Imperial College London
Jiangeng Xue     University of Florida


* Invited paper

SESSION H1: Intermediate Band Solar Cells
Monday Morning, November 26, 2007
Republic B (Sheraton)

8:30 AM *H1.1
Advances in the Research of the Intermediate Band (IB) Solar Cell. Antonio Luque and Antonio Marti; Instituto de Energia Solar, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain.

9:00 AM H1.2
Growth and Characterization of Intermediate Band Cells Containing InGaAs Quantum Dots Surrounded by Thin GaAsP Energy Fence Barrier Layers. Andrew Gordon Norman, Mark Hanna, Fude Liu, Pat Dippo, Scott Ward and Mowafak Al-Jassim; National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, Colorado.

9:15 AM H1.3
High Open Circuit 1.1 eV Dilute Nitride III-V Quantum Well Solar Cell. Aristotelis Fotkatzikis1,2, Andenet Alemu1, Lekhnath Bhusal1,2 and Alex Freundlich1,2,3; 1Photovoltaics and Nanostructures Laboratories, Center for Advanced Materials, University of Houston, Houston, Texas; 2Physics Department, University of Houston, Houston, Texas; 3Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of Houston, Houston, Texas.

9:30 AM *H1.4
Photogeneration and Carrier Collection in Quantum Confined p-i-n Solar Cells. Alex Freundlich, Center for Advanced Materials, University of Houston, Houston, Texas; Physics and ECE, University of Houston, Houston, Texas.

10:00 AM BREAK

SESSION H2: Inorganic Quantum Dot and Nanowire Solar Cells
Monday Morning, November 26, 2007
Republic B (Sheraton)

10:30 AM *H2.1
Photoluminescent Spectra of Nanostructured InAs Quantum Dots Enveloped in A GaAsSb Matrix. Michael Levy, Stephan Bremner and Christiana Honsberg; Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware.

11:00 AM H2.2
Controlled Formation of Nanocrystal Superlattices in Conjugated Polymer Composites. Alexandros Stavrinadis, Richard Beal, Jason M. Smith, Hazel E. Assender and Andrew A.R. Watt; Department of Materials, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.

11:15 AM H2.3
Atomistic Theoretical Modeling of Auger Recombination in Si and Ge Nanocrystals. Cem Sevik and Ceyhun Bulutay; Physics and Institute of Materials Science and Nanotechnology, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey.

11:30 AM H2.4
Photon Management for Solar Cells. Andries Meijerink, Peter Vergeer, Linda Aarts and Bryan van der Ende; Chemistry, Debye Institute, Utrecht, Netherlands.

11:45 AM H2.5
Large Area (> 1 cm^2) Arrays of Vertically-aligned Si Wires for Photovoltaic Device Applications. Brendan Melville Kayes, Michael A. Filler, Morgan C. Putnam, Michael D. Kelzenberg, Nathan S. Lewis and Harry A. Atwater; California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California.

SESSION H3: Multiexciton Generation
Monday Afternoon, November 26, 2007
Republic B (Sheraton)

1:30 PM *H3.1
Multiple Exciton Generation in Semiconductor Quantum Dots: Applications to Third Generation Solar Photon Conversion. Arthur J Nozik1,2, Matt C. Beard1, Randy J. Ellingson1, Joseph Luther1, Justin C. Johnson1, Qing Song1, Pingrong Yu1, Kathrine Gerth1 and Matt Law1; 1NREL, Golden, Colorado; 2Department of Chemistry, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado.

2:00 PM H3.2
ZnO Nanorods Solar Cells Sensitized with PbS Quantum Dots. Hung Chou Liao, Chin Ching Lin and San Yuan Chen; Department of Materials Science and Engineering, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan.

2:15 PM H3.3
Space-separated Multiexciton Generation in Si Nanocrystals. Dolf Timmerman, Ignacio Izeddin and Tom Gregorkiewicz; Van der Waals-Zeeman Institute, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

2:30 PM H3.4
Multiple Exciton Generation and Extraction from Hydrazine Treated PbSe Thin Film Device. Sung Jin Kim1, Won Jin Kim3, Yudhisthira Sahoo3, Alexander N Cartwright1,3 and Paras N Prasad2,3; 1Department of Electrical Engineering, University at Buffalo, the State University of New York, Amherst, New York; 2Department of Chemistry, University at Buffalo, the State University of New York, Amherst, New York; 3Institution of Lasers, Photonics and Biophotonics, University at Buffalo, the State University of New York, Amherst, New York.

2:45 PM H3.5
Charge Transport in Arrays of Lead Selenide Nanocrystals. Tamar Mentzel1, Scott Geyer2, Venda Porter2, Kenneth MacLean1, Moungi Bawendi2 and Marc Kastner1; 1Physics, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts; 2Chemistry, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

3:00 PM BREAK

SESSION H4: Organic Solar Cells
Monday Afternoon, November 26, 2007
Republic B (Sheraton)

3:30 PM *H4.1
Attainable Efficiencies in Organic Solar Cells. Sean E Shaheen1, Nikos Kopidakis2, Matthew O. Reese2, William L. Rance3, Jao van de Lagemaat2, David S. Ginley2, Garry Rumbles2, Brian A. Gregg2 and Arthur J. Nozik2; 1Dept. of Physics, University of Denver, Denver, Colorado; 2National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, Colorado; 3Physics, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado.

4:00 PM *H4.2
``Solvent Annealing" Effect in Plastic Solar Cells. Yang Yang1,3, Gang Li1,3, Yan Yao1, Hoichang Yang2, Vishal Shrotriya3 and Guanwen Yang1; 1Materials Sci. & Eng., UCLA, Los Angeles, California; 2Rensselaer Nanotechnology Center, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York; 3Solarmer Energy Inc., El Monte, California.

4:30 PM *H4.3
Additives Provide Kinetic Control of Morphology in Bulk Heterojunction Materials Processed via Spin Coating. Gui Bazan1, Jeff Peet1, Jin Young Kim1, Daniel Moses1, Alan Heeger1 and Thuc-Quyen Nguyen2; 1Materials, University of California-Santa Barabara, Santa Barbara, California; 2Chemistry, University of California-Santa Barabara, Santa Barbara, California.

SESSION H5: Organic Bulk Heterojunctions
Tuesday Morning, November 27, 2007
Republic B (Sheraton)

8:30 AM *H5.1
Correlation of Solar Cell Performance with Nanoscale Hole and Electron Transport in Bulk Heterojunction Conjugated Polymer/Fullerene Blends. ThucQuyen Nguyen, Mark Dante and Jeffrey Peet; Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California.

9:00 AM H5.2
Quantitative Nanoscale Composition and Efficiency Maps for Organic Solar Cells. Benjamin Watts1, Daniel Queen2, A.L. David Kilcoyne3, Harald Ade1 and Frances Hellman2; 1Physics, North Carolina State University, Berkeley, California; 2ALS, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California; 3Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California.

9:15 AM H5.3
Understanding P3HT Crystallite Orientation and Morphology in P3HT:PCBM Blends. Alex Christopher Mayer1, Michael F Toney2, Shawn R. Scully1 and Michael D. McGehee1; 1Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California; 2Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory, Menlo Park, California.

9:30 AM H5.4
Structure and Diffusion in P3HT:PCBM Blends. Benjamin Watts2, Lars Thomsen1, Warwick Belcher1, Harald Ade2 and Paul Christopher Dastoor1; 1Physics, University of Newcastle, Callaghan, New South Wales, Australia; 2Physics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina.

9:45 AM H5.5
Investigation of Loss Mechanisms in Polymer Blend Photovoltaics via Simultaneous Probing of Charge Separation and Charge Transport. Astrid Gonzalez-Rabade, Arne Morteani and Richard Friend; Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge University, Cambridge, United Kingdom.

10:00 AM BREAK

SESSION H6: Organic Solar Cell Device Physics I
Tuesday Morning, November 27, 2007
Republic B (Sheraton)

10:30 AM *H6.1
Bimolecular Recombination in Polymer / Fullerene Solar Cells. James R Durrant, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom.

11:00 AM H6.2
Free Carrier Generation and Recombination in P3HT/PCBM Bulk Heterojunctions Studied by Time-Resolved Microwave Conductivity. Nikos Kopidakis, Andrew J. Ferguson, Sean E. Shaheen and Garry Rumbles; National Renewable Energy Lab, Golden, Colorado.

11:15 AM H6.3
Monte Carlo Investigation of Bimolecular Recombination, Geminate Recombination and Space-charge Effects in Nanostructured Polymer Photovoltaic Devices. Chris Groves, R. Alex Marsh and Neil C. Greenham; Optoelectronics, Cambridge University, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom.

11:30 AM *H6.4
Dual Electron Donor/Electron Acceptor Character of a Conjugated Polymer in Efficient Photovoltaic Devices. Chris McNeill1, Agnese Abrusci1, Jana Zaumseil1, Richard Wilson2, Mary McKiernan2, Jonathan Halls2, Neil Greenham1 and Richard Friend1; 1Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom; 2Cambridge Display Technology Ltd., Cambridge, United Kingdom.

SESSION H7: Organic Solar Cell Device Physics II
Tuesday Afternoon, November 27, 2007
Republic B (Sheraton)

1:30 PM *H7.1
Charge Transport and Photogeneration in All-polymer Solar Cells. Magda Mandoc, Welmoed Veurman, Jan Anton Koster, Bert de Boer and Paul W.M. Blom; Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands.

2:00 PM H7.2
Defect Engineering in π-Conjugated Polymers. Dong Wang, Nikos Kopidakis, Xin Ai and Brian Gregg; National Renewable National Lab, Golden, Colorado.

2:15 PM H7.3
Photoexcitations and Charge Generation Dynamics in P3HT/PCBM Blended Films Studied by Ultrafast Transient Absorption Spectroscopy. Jorge Piris, Thomas J. Eisenmayer, Minh T. Trinh, Juleon M. Schins and Laurens D.A. Siebbeles; Optoelectronic Materials Section, Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands.

2:30 PM H7.4
Magnetic Studies of Singlet and Triplet Related Photovoltaic Processes in Organic Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells. Zhihua Xu and Bin Hu; Materials Science and Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee.

2:45 PM H7.5
Self-Organized Electroactive Polymer Blends and Nanocomposites with Enhanced Carrier Mobility for Organic Vertical Diodes. Cheng Huang1, Byung J. Jung1, Howard E. Katz1 and James E. West2; 1Materials Science and Engineering Department, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland; 2Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland.

3:00 PM BREAK

SESSION H8: Hybrid and Dye Sensitized Solar Cells
Tuesday Afternoon, November 27, 2007
Republic B (Sheraton)

3:30 PM H8.1
Oxide Engineering for Enhanced Performance in Conjugated polymer / Nanostructured ZnO Photovoltaic Devices. Dana C. Olson1, Yun-Ju Lee1, Matthew S. White3,2, Robert K. Grubbs1, Erik D. Spoerke1, Erica Fang1, Nikos Kopidakis2, Sean E. Shaheen4,2, David S. Ginley2, James A. Voigt1 and Julia W.P. Hsu1; 1Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico; 2National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, Colorado; 3Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado; 4Physics, University of Denver, Denver, Colorado.

3:45 PM H8.2
Photovoltaic Properties of Hybrid Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells from P3HT and Dye Sensitized ZnO Nanorods. Guillaume Poize1, Aurore Said2, Cyril Martini1, Julien Hocq3, James Durrant3, Johann Boucle4, Jenny Nelson4, Wladimir Marine2, Suzanne Giorgio2, Frederic Fages1 and Jorg Ackermann1; 1Laboratoire des Matériaux Moléculaires et des Biomatériaux, GCOM2 UMR CNRS 6114, , Université de la Méditerranée, Faculté des Sciences de Luminy, Case 901, 163, avenue de Luminy, Marseille, France; 2Centre de Recherche en Matière condensée et Nanosciences UPR CNRS 7251, , Campus de Luminy, 163 Avenue de Luminy,, Marseille, France; 3Department of Chemistry, Centre for Electronic Materials and Devices, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom; 4Department of Physics, Centre for Electronic Materials and Devices, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom.

4:00 PM H8.3
TiO2 Surface State Control for Dye Sensitized Solar Cells with High Efficiency and the Solidification -Fabrication of Charge Carrier Path. Shuzi Hayase, Yusuke Noma, Yoshitaka Hara, Fumi Inakazu, Daisuke Ogata, Takeshi Kougo and Yuhei Ogomi; Kyushu Institute of Technology, Kitakyushu, Fukuoka, Japan.

4:15 PM H8.4
Abstract Withdrawn

4:30 PM H8.5
Nanostructured Silicon Layers for use in Hybrid Inorganic/polymer Solar Cells. Pierre-Jean Alet1, Serge Palacin1, Remi de Bettignies3, Yassine Djeridane2 and Pere Roca y Cabarrocas2; 1Chemistry of Surfaces and Interfaces, CEA, Gif sur Yvette, France; 2LPICM, Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France; 3INES, CEA, Le Bourget du Lac, France.

4:45 PM H8.6
Hybrid Solar Cells from Polymers and Silicon Nanocrystals. Chin-Yi Liu and Uwe R. Kortshagen; Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

SESSION H9: Poster Session: Nanostructured Solar Cells I
Tuesday Evening, November 27, 2007
8:00 PM
Exhibition Hall D (Hynes)

H9.1
Polymer Free Carbon Nanotube Solar Cells. Jinquan Wei, Yi Jia, Qinke Shu, Kunlin Wang, Zhicheng Wang, Jianbin Luo, Wenjin Liu and Dehai Wu; Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.

H9.2
Electrode Optimizations of Organic Photovoltaic Devices. Matthew O. Reese, Matthew S. White, Garry Rumbles, David S. Ginley and Sean E. Shaheen; National Renewable Energy Lab, Golden, Colorado.

H9.3
Abstract Withdrawn

H9.4
Abstract Withdrawn

H9.5
Carbon Nanotubes Grown Directly on Indium Tin Oxide Coated Glass to Facilitate as a Large Area Electrode for Organic Solar Cells. Anthony Miller, Ross Hatton, G. Y Chen and Ravi Silva; Nano-electronics Centre, Advanced Technology Institute, University Of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey, United Kingdom.

H9.6
Birefringence in Transparent and Conducting Single Walled Carbon Nanotube Thin Film Electrodes and its Effects on the Conversion Efficiency of Organic Photovoltaics. Giovanni Fanchini, Steve Miller, Bhavin B Parekh and Manish Chhowalla; Materials Science and Engineering, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey.

H9.7
Tripodal Chromophores with Large Footprint for Aggregation Effect Studies on Metal Oxide Surfaces. Sujatha Thyagarajan1, Elena Galoppini1, Jovan M. Giaimo2 and Gerald J. Meyer2; 1Chemistry, Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey; 2Chemistry and Materials Science and Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland.

H9.8
Comparison Study of Various Blocking-layers at the Interface of Conductive Substrate and Nano-porous TiO2 for Dye Sensitized Solar Cells. Ho-Gyeong Yun, Yong-Seok Jun, Seung-Yup Lee, Jong-Hyeok Park, Hun-Kyun Pak, Man-Gu Kang and Jong-Dae Kim; IT Convergence & Components Lab., ETRI, Daejeon, South Korea.

H9.9
Spray Coated Semi Transparent Nano-carbon Counter Electrode for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell. Easwaramoorthi Ramasamy1,2, Won Jae Lee1, Dong Yoon Lee1 and Jae Sung Song1; 1Advanced materials and application research division, Korea Electrotechnology Research Institute, Changwon, South Korea; 2University of Science and Technology, Daejeon, South Korea.

H9.10
Fundamental Research of Nanohybrid Carbon Nanotube-Polymer Solar Cells. Tingying Zeng, Tzu-Fan Chen and Jordan Norris; Chemistry, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, Kentucky.

H9.11
PLD Inorganic Layers in Inverted bulk-heterojunction Devices and as Acceptors in Polymer/inorganic Bilayer Hybrid Devices. Matthew Schuette White1,2, Joseph Berry2, Dana Olson3, Julia Hsu3, Jim Voigt3, Sean Shaheen2 and David Ginley2; 1Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado; 2National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, Colorado; 3Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

H9.12
Inverted Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Solar Cell Based on ZnO Nanowires using Sol-Gel Method. Hey Jin Myoung1,2, SunYoung Lee1, Sunglyul Maeng1, In-Joo Chin2 and Sang-Hyeob Kim1; 1Cambridge-ETRI Joint R&D Center, Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Daejeon, South Korea; 2Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, Inha University, Incheon, South Korea.

H9.13
Fluorescence Energy Transfer in Hybrid Semiconductor Heterostructures: An Alternative Way of Pumping Fluorescent Beads and Organic Emitters. Soontorn Chanyawadee1, Stefan Rohrmoser1, Julia Baldauf1, Sameer Sapra2, Alexander Eychmuller2, Ian M. Watson3, Mohamed Henini4, David Lidzey5, Richard T. Harley1 and Pavlos G. Lagoudakis1; 1School of physics and Astronomy, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom; 2Physikalische Chemie, TU Dresden, Dresden, Germany; 3Institute of Photonics, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, United Kingdom; 4School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom; 5School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom.

H9.14
Poly-(thiophene)- CdSe Nanoparticle Composite Thin Films Electrochemically Tethered to Indium Tin Oxide Substrates. R. Clayton Shallcross, Steven Bowles, Jeffrey Pyun and Neal R Armstrong; Chemistry, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona.

H9.15
Abstract Withdrawn

H9.16
Broadband Optical Absorption Enhancement in Thin Film Photovoltaic Cells using Coherent Light Trapping. Mukul Agrawal and Peter Peumans; Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California.

H9.17
Plastic Near-Infrared Photodetectors Utilizing Low Band Gap Polymer. Yan Yao1, Yongye Liang2, Luping Yu2 and Yang Yang1; 1Materials Science and Engineering, UCLA, Los Angeles, California; 2Department of Chemistry, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois.

H9.18
Abstract Withdrawn

H9.19
Using Nanosphere Templating to Engineer Organic Photovoltaic Device Architectures. Martyn Alan McLachlan1, Sarah Berhanu1, Tim Jones2 and David McComb1; 1Materials, Imperial College London and London Centre for Nanotechnology, London, United Kingdom; 2Department of Chemistry, University of Warwick, Warwick, United Kingdom.

H9.20
Preparation and Elecyro-Optical Property of Novel Discotic Liquid Crystals and Poly(acryamide) Dispersed LC with Application to Organic Solar Cells. Fan Chris, Institute of Electro-Optical Engineering, National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan; Institute of Electro-Optical Engineering, National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.

H9.21
Charge Extraction in Polymer Diodes and Polymer: Fullerene Solar Cells - Influence of Thermalisation and Recombination. Carsten Deibel, Andreas Baumann, Jens Lorrmann and Vladimir Dyakonov; Experimental Physics VI, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany.

H9.22
Polymer Bulk Homojunction Light-Emitting Electrochemical Cells and Photovoltaic Cells Based on Gold Nano-Islands. Wayne Bonnet1, Jun Gao1, Corey Tracy1 and Guillaume Wantz2; 1Department of Physics, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada; 2IMS Laboratory, Université Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France.

H9.23
Environmental Passivation and Temperature Cycling of PCBM - Polymer Solar Cells. Annick Anctil1,2, Andrew S. Merrill3, Cory D. Cress2,4, Brian J. Landi2 and Ryne P. Raffaelle1,2,3; 1Material Science and Engineering, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York; 2NanoPower Research Laboratories, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York; 3Physics, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York; 4Microsystems Engineering, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York.

H9.24
Investigation of Recombination of Dissociated Electrons and Holes in Organic Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells. Jaime Sullivan, Zhihua Xu and Bin Hu; Materials Science and Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee.

H9.25
The Nature of the Charge Carriers in Conducting Polymers: A Detailed Study by in situ Techniques. Beatriz Meana-Esteban1, Fredrik Sundfors1, Andreas Petr2, Carita Kvarnstrom1, Lothar Dunsch2 and Ari Ivaska1; 1Åbo Akademi University, Åbo-Turku, Finland; 2Institute of Solid State and Materials Research Dresden, Dresden, Germany.

H9.26
Structural Study of P3HT and P3HT:PCBM Thin Films by using Synchrotron X-ray Diffraction. Takeaki Sakurai1, Susumu Toyoshima1, Masato Kubota2, Toshihiro Yamanari3, Tetsuya Taima3, Kazuhiro Saito3 and Katsuhiro Akimoto1; 1Institute of Applied Physics, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan; 2Photon Factory, High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), Tsukuba, Japan; 3Research Center for Photovoltaics, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba, Japan.

H9.27
In-situ Spectroscopy of Solvent Vapor Annealed Polymer-Fullerene Blends for Organic Photovoltaics. Steve Miller, Giovanni Fanchini and Manish Chhowalla; Materials Science and Engineering, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey.

H9.28
Pt-acetylide Organometallic Polymers as Active Materials for Organic Solar Cells. Jianguo Mei1,2, Katsu Ogawa1,2, Young-Gi Kim1,2, Kirk S Schanze1,2 and John R Reynolds1,2; 1Department of Chemistry, University of FLorida, Gainesville, Florida; 2Center for Macromolecular Science and Engineering, Gainesville, Florida.

H9.29
New C60 Derivatives as Electron Acceptor for Organic Solar Cells. HsinHan Tsai1, Leeyih Wang2,3, Syang-Peng Rwei1 and Chinwei Liang2; 1institue of organic and polymeric materials, National Taipei University of Technology, Taipei, Taiwan; 2Center for Condensed Matter Science, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan; 3Institute of Polymer Science and Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan.

H9.30
Synthesis of a Low Band Gap Polymer Having a Novel Fused Aromatic Thieno[3,4,b]pyrazine Moiety and Its Solar Cell Performance. Nobuyuki Miyaki1, Toshihiro Okamoto1, Alex Mayer2, Michael D McGehee2 and Zhenan Bao1; 1Chemical Engineering, Stanford University, Sunnyvale, California; 2Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California.

H9.31
Interaction of Coronene Polymers with Electron Deficient Molecules. Suresh Valiyaveettil2, Vajiravelu Sivamurugan2 and Ganpathi Balaji2; 1National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore; 2Department of Chemistry, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore.

H9.32
Novel Polythiophene/titania Hybrids with Tunable Absorption Spectra for Polymer Photovoltaic Cells. Leeyih Wang1,2, Yi-Ming Chang2 and Wei-Fang Su2; 1Center for Condensed Matter Sciences, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan; 2Institute of Polymer Science and Technology, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan.

H9.33
Polymer Solar Cell Using Poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene-mathanol) as Anode Electrode. Youn Soo Kim1, Young Kwan Lee2 and Jai Kyeong Kim1; 1Korea Institue of Science and Technology, Seoul, South Korea; 2Sungkunkwan University, Suwon, South Korea.

H9.34
Hole Mobility Studies on Thiophene-Based Conjugated Polymers and Oligomers Developed for Use in Organic Electronic Devices. N. C. Heston1, C. B. Nielsen2, C. R. Grenier2, D. B. Tanner2 and J. R. Reynolds1; 1Department of Physics, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida; 2Department of Chemistry, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida.

H9.35
TCSPC SNOM of Device Applicable Blends of Photovoltaic Conjugated Polymers. Ashley James Cadby, David George Lidzey and Gamal Khalil; Physics Department, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, United Kingdom.

H9.36
Efficient Thin Polymer Solar Cells with Post-annealing. Shun-Wei Liu1,2, Chi-Jiun Liao3, Chin-Chien Lee3, Chin-Ti Chen1 and Juen-Kai Wang4,5; 1Institution of Chemistry, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan; 2Department of Electrical Engineering and Graduate Institute of Electro-Optical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan; 3Department of Electronic Engineering, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei, Taiwan; 4Center for Condensed Matter Science, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan; 5Institute of Atomic and Molecular Science, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan.

H9.37
New Solution Processable Conjugated Dendrimers and Star-Shaped Molecules for Photovoltaic Device Applications. Benjamin Lee Rupert, Matthew Reese, William L. Rance, Nikos Kopidakis, David S. Ginley, Garry Rumbles and Sean E. Shaheen; National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, Colorado.

H9.38
NEXAFS Spectra of Conjugated Polymers: Contrast Mechanisms for Soft X-ray Characterization of Electronic Polymer Structures. Benjamin Watts1, Harald Ade1 and Jan Luning2,3; 1Physics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina; 2Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory, Marseille, France; 3LCP-MR, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France.

H9.39
Synthesis and Characterization of Novel Arylene Ether Polymers. Wen-Yao Huang, Chun-Che Lee and Mei-Ying Chang; Institute of Electro-Optical Engineering, Kaoshiung,Taiwan, Taiwan.

H9.40
Energy Migration and Excimer Formation in Discotic Liquid Crystalline Derivitives: dibenzo[a,c]phenazines. Wen-Yao Huang, Chun-Che Lee, Duo Zheng Fan and Yao Wei Chuang; Institute of Electro-Optical Engineering, Kaoshiung,Taiwan, Taiwan.

H9.41
Charge Carrier Dynamics in Regioregular Polythiophene-perylene Derivatives for Photovoltaic Applications. Francoise Provencher1, Simon Gelinas1, Ricardo Izquierdo2, Natalie Stingelin-Stutzmann3 and Carlos Silva1; 1Department of Physics, Université de Montréal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada; 2Department of Informatics, Université du Québec à Montréal, Montréal, Quebec, Canada; 3The Centre for Materials Research, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom.

H9.42
Morphological Effects on Exciton Dissociation and Charge Transport in Polymer Blend Photovoltaics. David P. Ostrowski1 and David A. Vanden Bout1,2,3; 1Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas; 2Center for Nano and Molecular Science and Technology, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas; 3Texas Materials Institute, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas.

H9.43
Influence of Solvent-Vapor Exposure on the Morphology and Device Performance of Bulk Heterojunction Organic Solar Cells. Ye Zhang1 and Debra J. Mascaro2; 1Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah; 2Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah.

H9.44
New Electron-Deficient (N-Type) Semiconducting Polymers. Shawn Sapp and Silvia Luebben; TDA Research, Inc., Wheat Ridge, Colorado.

H9.45
Controlled Surface Area CuPc Thin Films. Michael D. Fleischauer1, Ryan T. Tucker2 and Michael J. Brett1,2; 1NRC National Institute for Nanotechnology, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada; 2Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

H9.46
Homeotropic Alignment of Columnar Materials in Open Films for use in Organic Solar Cells. Ioana Raluca Gearba, Charles Black and Ronald Pindak; Center for Functional Nanomaterials, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York.

H9.47
Effect of Molecular Packing on the Exciton Diffusion Length in Organic Solar Cells. Seung-Bum Rim1, Jan Schoeneboom2, Peter Erk2 and Peter Peumans1; 1Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California; 2BASF Gmbh, Ludwigshafen, Germany.

H9.48
Study of Boron Subphthalocyanine Chloride based Photovoltaic Cells. Junbo Wu1, Seung Rim2 and Peter Peumans2; 1Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California; 2Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California.

H9.49
Morphology Control of CuPc and its Application on Organic Solar Cells. Yu-Sheng Hsiao1, Wha-Tzong Whang1, Shich-Chang Suen1 and Jau-Ye Shiu2; 1Department of Materials Science and Engineering, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan; 2Center of Applied Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan.

H9.50
Organic Rigid-Rod Sensitizers on Semiconductor Nanoparticles. Olena Taratula1, Elena Galoppini1, Piotr Piotrowiak1 and Gerald J. Meyer2; 1Chemistry, Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey; 2Chemistry and Materials Science and Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland.

H9.51
Abstract Withdrawn

H9.52
Synthesis and Characteristics of Starburst Fullerene-Chromophore Pentaads as Ultrafast Photoresponsive Charge Generators. Mohamed E. El-Khouly1, Robinson Anandakathir2, Sea Ho Jeon2, Long Y. Chiang2, Osamu Ito1 and Loon-Seng Tan3; 1Chemisry, Institute of Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced Materials, Tohoku University, Katahira, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Japan; 2Chemistry, University of Mass. -Lowell, Lowell, Massachusetts; 3Air Force Research Laboratory, MLBP, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio.

H9.53
Water-splitting Nanodevices from Self-assembled Porphyrin-based Nanostructures. Zhongchun Wang1, Craig J. Medforth1,2, James E. Miller1 and John A. Shelnutt1,3; 1Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico; 2Department of Chemical and Nuclear Engineering, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico; 3Department of Chemistry, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia.

H9.54
Determination of Nanomaterial Energy Levels for Organic Photovoltaics by Cyclic Voltammetry. Roberta A. DiLeo1,2,3, Nathan C. Darling3, Annick Anctil2,3, Cory D. Cress3,4, Brian J. Landi3 and Ryne P. Raffaelle1,2,3; 1Physics, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York; 2Material Science and Engineering, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York; 3NanoPower Research Laboratories, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York; 4Microsystems Engineering, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York.

H9.55
Solution-processed Organic Tandem Solar Cells with Imbedded Optical Spacers. Afshin Hadipour, Bert de Boer and Paul Blom; MEPOS, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands.

SESSION H10: Organic Solar Cells II
Wednesday Morning, November 28, 2007
Republic B (Sheraton)

8:30 AM *H10.1
Controlling the Morphology of Small Molecular Weight Organic Thin Film Bulk Heterojunctions Using Organic Vapor Phase Deposition. Stephen Forrest1, Richard Lunt2,1 and Fan Yang2,1; 1EECS and Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan; 2EE and Chem Eng., Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey.

9:00 AM *H10.2
Improved Light Absorption, Exciton Diffusion and Carrier Separation in Small Molecular Weight Organic Solar Cells. Peter Peumans, Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California.

9:30 AM *H10.3
Variable Gap Conjugated, Organometallic and Hyperbranched Polymers in Hybrid Photovoltaic Devices. John R. Reynolds, Kirk S. Schanze, Hui Jiang, Young-Gi Kim, Jianguo Mei, Katsu Ogawa, Qiquan Qiao and Prasad Taranekar; Chemistry, Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, Florida.

10:00 AM BREAK

10:30 AM *H10.4
Recent Advances in Organic Photovoltaic Cells and Integrated Modules for Portable Power. Bernard Kippelen, School of ECE, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, Georgia.

11:00 AM H10.5
Control of Electric Field Strength and Orientation at the Donor-Acceptor Interface in Organic Solar Cells. Albert Liu1, Shanbin Zhao1, Seung Bum Rim2, Martin Konemann3, Peter Erk3 and Peter Peumans2; 1Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California; 2Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California; 3BASF Gmbh, Ludwigshafen, Germany.

11:15 AM H10.6
Planar Heterojunction Photovoltaics Consisting of a Printed Colloidal Quantum Dot Film and a Small Molecule Hole Transport Layer. Alexi C Arango1, Matt Panzer1, Vladimir Bulovic1, David C Oertel2, Scott M Geyer2 and Moungi G Bawendi2; 1EECS, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts; 2Chemistry, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

11:30 AM H10.7
Nanostructured Organic Heterojunctions for Photovoltaic Applications: An Integrated Experimental and Computational Study. Ying Zheng, Sharon K. Pregler, Susan B. Sinnott and Jiangeng Xue; Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida.

SESSION H11/F7: Joint Session: Interfacial Issues in Organic Photovoltaics
Chair: David Ginley
Wednesday Afternoon, November 28, 2007
Back Bay C (Sheraton)

1:30 PM *H11.1/F7.1
Charge Photogeneration at Nanostructured Organic and Organic/inorganic Interfaces. James R Durrant, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom.

2:00 PM H11.2/F7.2
Effect of Surface Modification on the Polymer Disorder at the P3HT/ZnO Interface. Dana C. Olson1, Erik D. Spoerke1, Yun-Ju Lee1, Matthew T. Lloyd1, Todd M. Alam1, Nolanne Chang1, David R. Wheeler1, Cary G. Allen2, Darick Baker2, Thomas E. Furtak2, Rueben T. Collins2, James A. Voigt1 and Julia W.P. Hsu1; 1Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico; 2Physics, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado.

2:15 PM H11.3/F7.3
The Role of Bottom Contact Electrical Uniformity at the Nanometer Scale in the Performance of Organic Solar Cells. Peter Alex Veneman, Neal R Armstrong and Michael Brumbach; Chemistry, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona.

2:30 PM H11.4/F7.4
Electronic Structure at the Interface Between Bathocuproine and Metal Electrode. Susumu Toyoshima1,2, Takeaki Sakurai1, Taima Tetsuya2, Hiroo Kato3, Kazuhiro Saito2 and Katsuhiro Akimoto1; 1Institute of Applied Physics, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan; 2Recerch Center for Photovoltaics, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba, Japan; 3Faculty of Science and Technology, Hirosaki University, Aomori, Japan.

2:45 PM H11.5/F7.5
Interelectrode Morphology of Bulk Heterojunction Photovoltaic Devices as Revealed in-situ by Grazing-incidence X-ray Scattering. Brian D. Pate1,2 and Michael F. Durstock1; 1Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio; 2Engineering Division, Universal Technology Corporation, Dayton, Ohio.

3:00 PM BREAK

SESSION H12: Device Issues: Light Trapping, Electrodes, Device Structures
Wednesday Afternoon, November 28, 2007
Republic B (Sheraton)

3:30 PM H12.1
Multiple Bandgaps in Reflective Polymer Solar Cells. Kristofer Tvingstedt1,2, Viktor Andersson1,2, Fengling Zhang1,2 and Olle W. Inganas1,2; 1Biomolecular and organic electronics, IFM, Linkoping University, Linkoping, Sweden; 2Center of Organic Electronics, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden.

3:45 PM H12.2
An Effective Light Trapping Configuration for Thin-film Solar Cells. Seung-Bum Rim1, Shanbin Zhao2, Shawn Scully2, Michael D. McGehee2 and Peter Peumans1; 1Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California; 2Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California.

4:00 PM H12.3
Scattering-Enhanced Optical Absorption and Energy Conversion Efficiency of Dye-Sensitized ZnO Solar Cells. Qifeng Zhang1, Tammy P. Chou1, Bryan Russo1, Samson A. Jenekhe2 and Guozhong Cao1; 1Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington; 2Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington.

4:15 PM H12.4
Distance Dependence of Plasmonic Enhancement in Organic Bulk Heterojunction Photovoltaics. Anthony Morfa1,2, Thomas Reilly2, Jao van de Lagemaat2 and Kathy Rowlen1; 1University of Colorado, Boulder, Boulder, Colorado; 2National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, Colorado.

4:30 PM H12.5
Surface Plasmon Polariton Mediated Energy Transfer in Organic Photovoltaic Devices. Timothy Heidel1, Jonathan Mapel1, Madhusudan Singh1, Kemal Celebi2 and Marc A Baldo1; 1Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts; 2Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

4:45 PM H12.6
Abstract Withdrawn

SESSION H13: Poster Session: Nanostructured Solar Cells II
Wednesday Evening, November 28, 2007
8:00 PM
Exhibition Hall D (Hynes)

H13.1
III-V Semiconductor Vertical and Tilted Nanowires on Silicon Using Chemical Beam Epitaxy. Gokul Radhakrishnan1,2, Alexandre Freundlich1,2,3, Joe Charlson2 and Bodo Fuhrmann4; 1Photovoltaics and Nanostructures Laboratories at the Center for Advanced Materials, University of Houston, Houston, Texas; 2Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, Texas; 3Physics Department, University of Houston, Houston, Texas; 4Interdisciplinary Center of Materials Science, Martin Luther University of Halle, Halle, Germany.

H13.2
Energy Band Engineering for Improved Vertical Transport in Quantum Structured III-V p-i-n Solar Cells. Andenet Alemu and Alex Freundlich; Center for Advanced Materials, University of Houston, Houston, Texas.

H13.3
Evidence of Sequential Carrier Escape in III-V p-i-n Multi-Quantum Well Solar Cells. Andenet Alemu and Alex Freundlich; Center for Advanced Materials, University of Houston, Houston, Texas.

H13.4
To a Question About High-effective Solar Energy Conversion. Halyna Khlyap and Viktor Laptev; Physics, University, Stuttgart, Germany.

H13.5
New 3D Configuration for Solid State Inorganic Nanocomposite Solar Cells. Marian Nanu2, Diana Elena Nanu1, Barbara van der Zanden2, Camelia Joanta2, Harry Donker2 and Ben Meester2; 1Materials Science and Engineering, Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands; 2Advanced Photovoltaic Applications B.V., Bleiswijk, Netherlands.

H13.6
Multiexciton Generating Nanowires of PbSe and PbS. Song Jin, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin.

H13.7
Study of Carrier Multiplication in Semiconductor Nanocrystals by Transient Photoluminescence Spectroscopy. Gautham Padmanabhan Nair and Moungi G Bawendi; Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

H13.8
Development of Double-Gyroid Topology Nanowire Array Solar Cells. Hugh W Hillhouse1,2 and Rakesh Agrawal1,2; 1School of Chemical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana; 2The Energy Center, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana.

H13.9
Multi-exciton Generation and Dissociation in Blends of PbSe with Conjugated Organic Materials for High-efficiency Solar Cells. Minh Tuan Trinh1, Juleon M. Schins1, Jorge Piris1, Albert Goossens1, Arjan J. Houtepen2, Daniel Vanmaekelbergh2, Tobias Hanrath3, Rene A.J. Janssen3 and Laurens D.A. Siebbeles1; 1DelftChemTech, Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands; 2Debye Institute, University of Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands; 3Laboratory of Macromolecular and Organic Chemistry, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, Netherlands.

H13.10
Sensitization of TiO2 Nanoparticle Films by Chemical-bath Deposited CdS Nano-domains Studied by Time-Resolved Microwave Conductivity. Nikos Kopidakis, Jorge Piris, Andrew J. Ferguson, Garry Rumbles and Don C. Selmarten; National Renewable Energy Lab, Golden, Colorado.

H13.11
Growth of Cadmium Telluride Nanowires via Electrodeposition on Porous Nano Templates. Subarna Banerjee, Susanta K Mohapatra, Glenn P Sklar, Matthew N Savage and Jeffrey C LaCombe; Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering Department, University of Nevada, Reno, Reno, Nevada.

H13.12
Self-Assembly of Cadmium Telluride Nanoparticles into Nanowires for Optoelectronic Devices. Kevin Critchley1,2 and Nicholas A. Kotov1; 1Chemical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan; 2Physics and Astronomy, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom.

H13.13
Spray-casting of Semiconductor Nanorod Thin Films for Photovoltaic Devices. Artjay T Javier and Edward E Foos; Chemistry, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, District of Columbia.

H13.14
Towards Improved Photovoltaic Conversion using Dilute Magnetic Semiconductors. Jean-Francois Guillemoles2, Par Olsson1,2 and Christophe Domain1,2; 1MMC, EDF R&D, Moret sur Loing, France; 2IRDEP, CNRS/EDF/ENSCP joint laboratory, Chatou, France.

H13.15
Optical Anisotropy of InGaAs/Ga(As,P) Quantum Dots Grown on GaAs (311)B Substrates. Yuanchang Zhang1, Anup Pancholi1, Hassan Shah1, Jonathan Boyle1, Prasoon Pancholi1, Andrew G Norman2 and Valeria Gabriela Stoleru1; 1University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware; 2National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, Colorado.

H13.16
Bandstructure Engineering in InAs/GaAsSb/GaAs Quantum Dots for Optoelectronics and Photovoltaics. Jonathan Boyle and Valeria Gabriela Stoleru; Materials Science and Engineering, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware.

H13.17
Carrier Dynamics in Multi-Stacked (In,Ga)As/GaAs(1-x)P(x) Quantum Dot Structures for Solar Cell Applications. Anup Pancholi1, Yuanchang Zhang1, Hassan Shah1, Jonathan Boyle1, Prasoon Pancholi1, Andrew G Norman2 and Valeria Gabriela Stoleru1; 1Materials Science and Engineering, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware; 2National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Goldon, Colorado.

H13.18
Strain Balanced Quantum Dot Intermediate Band Solar Cell Development. Seth Hubbard1, Christopher Bailey1, Ryne Raffaelle1, Ryan Aguinaldo1, David Wilt2, William Maurer2 and Sheila Bailey2; 1Department of Physics, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York; 2Photovoltaic and Power Technologies Branch, NASA Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, Ohio.

H13.19
Thermal and Radiation Dependence of Quantum Dot Solar Cells. Cory D. Cress1,2, Hubbard M. Seth1,2,3, Brian J. Landi2, David M. Wilt4 and Ryne P. Raffaelle1,2,3; 1Microsystems Engineering, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York; 2NanoPower Research Laboratories, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York; 3Physics, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York; 4Glenn Research Center, NASA, Cleaveland, Ohio.

H13.20
K.P Method for Band Structure Calculation of Intermediate Band Solar Cell. Som Nath Dahal, Michael Y. Levy and Christiana Honsberg; Physics and Astronomy, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware.

H13.21
Germanium Nanocrystal Films for Photovoltaic Applications. Zachary Holman, Ryan Gresback and Uwe R. Kortshagen; Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

H13.22
Abstract Withdrawn

H13.23
Ab Initio Study of the Stability and Electronic Structure of Semiconductor Nanowires. Thomas Sadowski and Rampi Ramprasad; University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut.

H13.24
Enhancement of Silicon Solar Cell Efficiency using Colloidal Semiconductor Quantum Dot Spectral Converters. Anuj Rahul Madaria and Atul Konkar; Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California.

H13.25
Electrophoretic Deposition of CdSe Nanocrystals for Photovoltaic Applications. Nathanael J Smith1, Kevin Emmett2, Tony Watt1, James R. McBride1 and Sandra J. Rosenthal1; 1Department of Chemistry, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee; 2Department of Physics and Astronomy, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee.

H13.26
Tin Oxide and Niobium Oxide Nanowire Based Dye Sensitized Solar Cells. Suresh Gubbala1, Vivekanand Kumar1, Uros Cvelbar2 and Mahendra Sunkara1; 1Chemical Engineering, Universty of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky; 2Plasma Lab F4, Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia.

H13.27
Copper Phthalocyanine Nanowire Based Solar Cells. Vijay P Singh1,2, Suresh KS Rajaputra1,2, Sovannary Phok1,2, Gautam Chintakula1,2 and Gayatri Sagi1,2; 1electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky; 2Center for Nanoscale Science & Engineering, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky.

H13.28
Fabrication of Copper Indium Diselenide Nanowires. Sovannary Phok, Suresh KS Rajaputra and Vijay Singh; electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky.

H13.29
Abstract Withdrawn

H13.30
Plastic and Solid-state Dye-sensitized Photocells Incorporating Mesoscopic Carbon Materials. Tsutomu Miyasaka, Nobuyuki Ikeda and Masashi Ikegami; Graduate School of Engineering, Toin University of Yokohama, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan.

H13.31
Comparison Study of Charge Transport and Recombination in Dye-sensitized Solar Cells Prepared with TiO2, ZnO, SnO2, and In2O3. Shogo Mori, Yosuke Fukai, Yusuke Kondo, Akihiro Asano, Yukiko Uzawa, Masanori Miyashita, Kenji Sunahara and Eiji Suzuki; Department of Fine Materials Engineering, Shinshu University, Ueda, Japan.

H13.32
Efficient Flexible Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells based on Anodic Titanium Oxide Nanotube Arrays. Chien Chon Chen and Wei-Guang Diau; Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan.

H13.33
Dye-sensitized Solar Cells Based on Anatase, Brookite, and Rutile Nanoparticles. David Reyes-Coronado, Geonel Rodriguez-Gattorno and Gerko Oskam; Applied Physics, CINVESTAV - IPN, Merida, Yucatan, Mexico.

H13.34
Hollow Structured TiO2 Electrode for Quasi-solid Dye-sensitized Solar Cells. Su Chul Yang1, Eun-Sik Kwak1, Dae-Jin Yang2, Il-doo Kim1, Junkyung Kim1 and Hyunjung Lee1; 1Materials Science and Technology Division, Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Seoul, South Korea; 2Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, South Korea.

H13.35
Improving the Dye-sensitized Solar Cell Performance by Enhancing the Electrical Property of Tin Doped Indium Oxide. Sangwook Lee1, Shin Tae Bae1, Jun Hong Noh1, Hyun Suk Jung2 and Kug Sun Hong1; 1School of Materials Science and Engineering, Seoul National Univ., Seoul, South Korea; 2School of Advanced Materials Engineering, Kookmin University, Seoul, South Korea.

H13.36
Efficient Dye Sensitized Solar Cells using ZnO Nanoplants. Ashutosh Tiwari1, Michael Snure1 and Surabhi Pandey2; 1Materials Science & Engineering, university of utah, Saltlake city, Utah; 2TechnoMat Inc., Sandy, Utah.

H13.37
Acid Treated Carbon as Tri-iodide Reduction Electrocatalyst for Dye-sensitized Solar Cell Application. Won Jae Lee1, Easwaramoorthi Ramasamy1,2, Dong Yoon Lee1 and Jae Sung Song1; 1Advanced materials and application research division, Korea Electrotechnology Research Institute, Changwon, South Korea; 2University of Science and Technology, Daejeon, South Korea.

H13.38
Improvement on Morphological Properties of Anode Layer in Dye Sensitized Solar Cell Using Ion Beam Modification. Bangke Zheng, Satilmis Budak, Bopha Chhay, Robert Zimmerman and Daryush Ila; Center for Irradiation of Materials, Alabama A&M University, Normal, Alabama.

H13.39
Study on Dye Sensitized Solar Cells consisting of Shape-controlled TiO2 Nanoparticles. Jung-Kun Lee1 and Hyun Suk Jung2; 1Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; 2School of Advanced Materials Engineering, Kookmin University, Seoul, South Korea.

H13.40
Free-standing Grid-like Nanostructures Sssembled into 3-D Open Architectures for Photovoltaic Devices. Xiangyang Kong, school of materials science and engineering, shanghai jiao tong univesrity, Shanghai, China.

H13.41
Block-copolymer Directed Mesoporous TiO2 for Solar Cell Applications. Mihaela Nedelcu1, Henry J Snaith1,2, Jinwoo Lee3, Scott C Warren3, Mahendra C Orillal3, Ulrich B Wiesner3 and Ullrich Steiner1; 1Department of Physics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom; 2Department of Physics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom; 3Materials Science Department, University of Cornell, Ithaca, New York.

H13.42
Use of Anodic TiO2 Nanotubes in Solar Cell. Jan Macak1, Robert Hahn1, Thomas Stergiopoulos2, Andrei Ghicov1, Dimitris Tsoukleris2, Sergiu Albu1, Julia Kunze1, Doohun Kim1, Polycarpos Falaras2 and Patrik Schmuki1; 1Dep. of Materials Science, University of Erlangen, Erlangen, Bavaria, Germany; 2Institut of Physical Chemistry, NCRS Demokritos, Athens, Greece.

H13.43
Heterojunction MEH-PPV:CdS/TiO2 Solar Cells. Chanchana Thanachayanont1, Kroekchai Inpor2, Natthawut Temchuen2, Somjai Reabanko3, Pratya Boonchan3, Somboon Sahasithiwat1, Visanu Meeyoo3 and Porponth Sichanugrist2; 1National Metal and Materials Technology Center, Pathumthani, Thailand; 2Institute of Solar Energy Development, Pathumthani, Thailand; 3Mahanakorn University of Technology, Bangkok, Thailand.

H13.44
Titania Nanotubes for Photoelectrochemical and Photovoltaic Applications. Christiaan Richter1, Eugen Panaitescu2, Laura H. Lewis1, Ronald J. Willey1 and Latika Menon2; 1Chemical Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts; 2Physics, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts.

H13.45
Hybrid Solar Cell Designed by Aligned Electrospun TiO2 Nanofibers and Conjugated Polymer. Hee-Sang Shim, Won Bae Kim, Hyo-Jin Ahn, Yong Seok Kim, Sang Hoon Nam and Seung Mok Choi; MSE, Gwangju Institute of Science & Technology (GIST), Gwangju, South Korea.

H13.46
Nanocrystalline TiO2 films Deposited via Rapid Expansion Supercritical Solution for Dye-sensitized Solar Cells. Wen-Yao Huang, Chun-Che Lee, Yu Ting Lin, Yuan Hong Lin; Institute of Electro-Optical Engineering, Kaoshiung,Taiwan, Taiwan.

H13.47
Nanostructured Oxide Semiconductor Films with Controlled Morphology by a Flame Aerosol Reactor (FLAR). Elijah Thimsen, Neema Rastgar and Pratim Biswas; Energy Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Washington University in Saint Louis, Saint Louis, Missouri.

H13.48
Abstract Withdrawn

H13.49
Synthesis of Nanostructured SnO2 Thin Film Electrode Using the Nanoimprinted Glass. Takahiro Watanabe1, Akita Yasuyuki1, Masahiko Mitsuhashi2 and Mamoru Yoshimoto1; 1Department of Innovative and Engineered Materials, Toukyou Institute of Technology, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan; 2Knangawa Industrial Technology Center, Ebina, Japan.

H13.50

Efficiency Enhancement of Dye-sensitized Solar Cells with ToOx Blocking Layers Prepared by Sputtering. Lih-Ping Wang1, Kai-Lin Ou1, Yung-Liang Tung1, Kun-Mu Lee2 and Kuo-Chuan Ho2 and Song-Yeu Tsai1; 1Photovoltaic Technology Center, Industrial Technology Research Institute, Hsinchu, Taiwan; 2Institute of Polymer Science and Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taiwan.


H13.51
The Role of Multi-wall Carbon Nanotubes Within the Donor Layer of Bi-layer Organic Solar Cells. Anthony Miller, Ross Hatton and Ravi Silva; Advanced Technology Institute, University Of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey, United Kingdom.

SESSION H14: New Materials for Nanostructured Photovoltaics I
Thursday Morning, November 29, 2007
Republic B (Sheraton)

8:30 AM *H14.1
Nanoparticle/Polymer Composite Thin Films Created by Electropolymerization. Neal R Armstrong, Jeffrey Pyun and R. Clayton Shallcross; Chemistry, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona.

9:00 AM *H14.2
Bio-Inspired Synthesis of Nanostructured Semiconductor Thin Films for Solar Cells. Daniel E. Morse, Birgit Schwenzer and Qian Gu; Institute for Collaborative Biotechnologies and the California NanoSystems Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara, California.

9:30 AM H14.3
Hierarchical Assembly of 2D Nanostructures of Relevance for Organic Solar Cell Design. Michael Buettner, Sarah O'Donnell and Petra Reinke; Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia.

9:45 AM H14.4
Doped Silicon Nanoparticle Inks for Solar Cells. Xiaodong Pi1, Rebecca Anthony1, Stephen A. Campbell2 and Uwe Kortshagen1; 1Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota; 2Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

10:00 AM BREAK

10:15 AM H14.5
Hybrid PbS Nanocrystal-organic Photovoltaic Devices. D. M. Nanditha N Dissanayake, Ross A Hatton, Thierry Lutz, Giusca E Cristina, Richard James Curry and S. Ravi P Silva; Advanced Technology Institute, University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey, United Kingdom.

10:30 AM *H14.6
Solution-processed Infrared Solar Cells. Edward (Ted) H. Sargent, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

11:00 AM *H14.7
Material and Interface Engineering for High Efficiency Photovoltaic Materials and Devices. Alex K.-Y. Jen1,2, Hin-Lap Yip1, Steve Hau1, Nam-Seob Baek1, Hong Ma1 and David S. Ginger2; 1Materials Science and Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington; 2Chemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington.

11:30 AM H14.8
Synthesis of Highly Regioregular Poly[(2-methoxy-5-alkyloxy)-1,4-phenylenevinylene]s (PPVs) by Horner Reaction and Their Application for Efficient Photovoltaic Devices. Keisuke Tajima, Yuya Suzuki and Kazuhito Hashimoto; Applied Chemistry, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.

11:45 AM H14.9
High Aspect-ratio Polymer-polymer Heterostructures by Self-Organization for Efficient Organic Photovoltaics. Perq-Jon Chia1,2, Jing-Qiang Goh1, Mi Zhou1, Lay-Lay Chua1, Richard H. Friend3 and Peter K.H. Ho1; 1Physics, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore; 2Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore; 3Physics, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, United Kingdom.



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