Call for Papers

Topics will include:

• Absorber–Development of new silicon-enabled absorbers that could offer higher absorption and/or lower Auger recombination. This also extends to alternative absorber fabrication methods such as layer separation/transfer, epitaxial wafer processes, and solid-/liquid-induced crystallization aimed at kerfless silicon or ultra-thin silicon absorbers. Research related to bulk Si defects analysis, gettering, bulk hydrogenation, and lifetime degradation / mitigation are also encouraged.
• Carrier-selective passivating contacts–We welcome contributions discussing fundamental, underlying principles of carrier-selective contacts (i.e. surface passivation, band alignment/bending, Fermi-level pinning at interfaces), innovative deposition techniques and doping methods, contact hydrogenation, new materials (including transparent electrodes and doping-free approaches) and new functionalities (temperature stability, transparency, patterned depositions).
• High efficiency device concepts–We seek contributions aimed at improved solar cell performance, including the development of novel photon management strategies (e.g. advanced surface textures, up- and down conversion), multi-junction architectures (e.g. III-V/Si or Perovskite/Si tandems), new metallization technologies (especially to passivated contacts), and back-contacted architectures.
• We invite contributions dealing with module- and integrated system-related material aspects ranging from the interconnection and encapsulation of silicon solar cells to optical design of silicon modules (e.g. new anti-reflective coatings, albedo for bifacial modules) as well as integrating Si modules into systems (e.g. PV-battery interface, building integration, vehicle integration) and recycling.
• Silicon and silicon-enabled photovoltaic devices, such as all-silicon tandem solar cells, tandem-on-silicon solar cells, new device architectures, bifacial cells, silicon nanowires/nanocrystals solar cells, and thin-film silicon solar cells. Absorber, doping, contact, passivation, transparent conductor, and metallization materials for silicon (or tandem) photovoltaic devices.
• Silicon film materials such as amorphous silicon, nanocrystalline silicon, silicon carbides and oxides, epitaxial silicon and epitaxial layers on silicon, silicon-germanium, barium-disilicide, silicon clathrates and silicon-(carbon-)tin alloys. Methods of making and/or doping silicon including (PE)CVD, kerfless wafering, laser- and metal-induced crystallization, and implantation.
• Characterization and modeling of the structural, mechanical, electrical, and optical properties of silicon-related materials and devices on cell and module level ranging from novel measurement techniques to multi-scale modeling approaches.

Joint Sessions are being considered with EL06—Contacting Materials and Interfaces for Optoelectronic Devices,
EL08—Frontiers of Halide Perovskites—Linking Fundamental Properties to Devices.

• A tutorial complementing this symposium is tentatively planned.

Invited Speakers:

• Teresa Barnes (National Renewable Energy Laboratory, USA)
• Jia Chen (Jolywood(Suzhou) Sunwatt Co., Ltd., China)
• Valerie Depauw (Interuniversity Microelectronics Centre, Belgium)
• Frederic Dross (DSM Advanced Solar, USA)
• Weiyuan Duan (Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Germany)
• Martin Heinrich (Fraunhofer-Institut für Solare Energiesysteme, Germany)
• Jasmin Hofstetter (1366 Technologies, USA)
• Christiana Honsberg (Arizona State University, USA)
• Dana Kern-Sulas (National Renewable Energy Laboratory, USA)
• Lars Korte (Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin, Germany)
• Sarah Kurtz (University of California, Merced, USA)
• Martin Ledinsky (Institue of Physica of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic)
• Alison Lennon (University of New South Wales, Australia)
• Takuya Matsui (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan)
• Rebecca Saive (University of Twente, Netherlands)
• Kwangyong Seo (Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Republic of Korea)
• Akira Terakawa (Panasonic Corporation, Japan)
• Barbara Terheiden (Universität Konstanz, Germany)
• Karsten Wambach (bifa Umweltinstitut GmbH, Germany)
• Qi Wang (Jinko Solar, China)
• Stefaan De Wolf (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia)
• Kenji Yamamoto (Kaneka Corporation, Japan)
• Huanping Zhou (Peking University, China)

Symposium Organizers