Next Generation Solar Energy

From Fundamentals to Applications

12.-14. Dezember 2011, Schloss Erlangen

Program
- Monday, 12.12.2011


	Chair Dr Robert Bartl Bayern Innovativ GmbH, Nuremberg, Germany

09:00 – 09:10	Opening Remarks and Introduction Prof Dr Christoph J. Brabec, ZAE Bayern, Erlangen, Germany Dr Silke Christiansen MPL, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, Erlangen, Germany Prof Dr Dirk Guldi & Prof Dr Ulf Peschel, FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany

09:10 – 09:20	Networks and Clusters for Open Innovation Prof Dr Josef Nassauer Chief Executive, Bayern Innovativ GmbH, Nuremberg, Germany

09:20 – 09:30	Welcome Addresses Prof Dr Joachim Hornegger Vice-President for Research, FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany

Session 1	Nanostructured PV Chair: PD Silke Christiansen

Session 1a	Nanostructured PV – Fundamentals

09:30 – 10:05	The Opto-Electronic Physics Required to Approach the Shockley-Queisser Efficiency Limit Prof Dr Eli Yablonovitch Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences Dept., University of California, Berkeley, USA

10:05 – 10:30	The Shockley-Queisser-limit and beyond Prof Dr Gottfried Heinrich Bauer Carl von Ossietzky Universität, Oldenburg, Germany

10:30 – 10:55	Designing Composite Nanomaterials for Photovoltaic Devices Prof Dr Bernd Rech Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin, Berlin, Germany

10:55 – 11:20	Coffee Break

Session 1b	Nanostructured PV – Materials & Devices I

11:20 – 11:55	Light-Material Interactions in Energy Conversion Prof Dr Harry Atwater Caltech, Applied Physics and Materials Science, Pasadena, USA

11:55 – 12:20	Functional Imaging of Hybrid Nanostructures: Visualizing Mechanisms of Solar Energy Utilization Prof Dr Lincoln Lauhon Department of Materials Science & Engineering,Northwerstern University, Evanston, USA

12:20 – 12:45	Are Photosynthetic Proteins Suitable for PV Applications Prof Dr Yossi Rosenwaks Tel-Aviv University, Dept. Physical Electronics, Israel

12:45 – 13:10	Detailed Balance Limit in Photovoltaic Systems Prof Dr Uwe Rau Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany

13:10 – 14:30	Lunch Break

Session 1c	Nanostructured PV – Materials & Devices II

14:30 – 15:05	Plasmonics and Nanophotonics for Next Generation Photovoltaics Dr Erik Garnett Stanford University, MaterialsScience and Engineering, Stanford, USA

15:05 – 15:30	Dispersion, Wave Propagation and Efficiency Analysis of Nanowire Solar Cells Prof Dr Bernd Witzigmann Dept. Electrical Engineering-Computational Electronics & Photonics, University of Kassel, Germany

15:30 – 15:55	Application of Nanostructures to Next Generation Photovoltaics: Opportunities & Challenges from an Industrial Research Perspective Dr Loucas Tsakalakos General Electric - Global Research Center, Niskayuna, New York, USA

15:55 – 16:15	Coffee Break

Session 2	Solar Fuels Chair: Prof Dr Dirk Guldi

Session 2a	Solar Fuels – Fundamentals

16:15-16:50	Triplet States in Organic and Organometallic Photovoltaic Cells Dr Kirk S. Schanze Department of Chemistry, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA

16:50-17:15	New Photoelectrode Architectures Prof Dr Joseph T. Hupp Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, USA

17:15 – 17:40	Dendrimers for Optoelectronic and Photovoltaic Applications Prof Dr Paola Ceroni University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

17:40 – 18:05	Photon management with luminenescent materials Dr Jan Goldschmidt Fraunhofer Institut für Solarre Energiesysteme (ISE), Freiburg, Germany

18:05 – 18:40	Economical Aspects of Next Generation Solarcell Technologies Dr Winfried Hoffmann Vice-President EPIA, Brussels, Belgium

18:40 – 21:00	Get-together at the Poster Session I