Next Generation Solar Energy

From Fundamentals to Applications

12.-14. Dezember 2011, Schloss Erlangen

Program
- Tuesday, 13.12.2011


Session 2b	Solar Fuels – Materials & Devices I

9:00 – 9:35	Scalability in Solar Energy Conversion: First-row Transition Metal-based Chromophores for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells Prof Dr Jim McCusker Department of Chemistry, Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA

9:35 – 10:00	Designing Organic Materials for Photovoltaic Devices Prof Dr Anthony Harriman Molecular Photonics Laboratory, School of Chemistry, Newcastle University, UK

10.00 – 10.25	Molecular Photovoltaics - What can we Learn from Model Studies Prof Dr Bo Albinsson Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden

10.25 – 10.45	Coffee Break

Session 2c	Solar Fuels – Materials & Devices II

10:45 – 11:20	Porphyrin-sensitised Titanium Dioxide Solar Cells Prof Dr David Officer Intelligent Polymer Research Institute (IPRI), University of Wollongong, Australia

11.20 – 11.45	Light-Harvesting, Charge Separation, and Charge-Transportation Properties of Novel Materials for Organic Photovoltaics Prof Dr Hiroshi Imahori Kyoto University, Japan

11.45 – 12.10	Phthalocyanines for Molecular Photovoltaics Prof Dr Tomas Torres Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain

12.10 – 13.30	Lunch Break

Session 3	Next Generation PV Chair: Prof Dr. Christoph J. Brabec

Session 3a	Next Generation PV – Fundamentals

13.30 – 14:05	Photophysics of semiconductor nanostructures in relation to problems of solar energy conversion Dr Victor Klimov Center for Advanced Solar Photophysics, Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), New Mexico, USA

14:05 – 14.30	Progress in intermediate band solar cells Dr Antonio Martí Vega Instituto de Energía Solar - ETSIT Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain

14:30- 14:55	Microscopic and Macroscopic Simulation in Photovoltaics Prof Dr Jenny Nelson Imperial College, London, UK

14.55 – 15.20	Lunch Break

Session 3b	Next Generation PV – Materials & Devices I

15:20 – 15:55	Third Generation Photovoltaics: Thin Film Tandem Cells, Up/Down Conversion and Hot Carrier Cells Prof Dr Garvin Conibeer School of Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering (SPREE), University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

15:55 – 16:20	Development, Design, Synthesis and Upscaling of CQD Dr Sofie Khalil Bayer Technology Materials, Leverkusen, Germany

16:20 – 16:45	Probing Triplet States in OPV Materials and Devices Prof Dr Vladimir Dyakonov Chair of Experimental Physics VI Julius-Maximilians University of Würzburg and Bavarian Center for Applied Energy Research e.V. (ZAE Bayern), Würzburg, Germany

16:45 – 17:00	Coffee Break

Session 3c	Next Generation PV – Materials & Devices II

17:00 – 17:35	Future Generation Solar Photon Conversion to Electricity and Solar Fuels: Multiple Exciton Generation in Colloidal Nanocrystals and Quantum Dot Solar Cells and Singlet Fission in Molecules Dr Arthur Nozik National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Boulder, Colorado, USA

17:35 – 18:00	Plasmon-enhanced Solar Upconversion for Photovoltaics and Photocatalysis Prof Dr Jennifer Dionne Materials Science & Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, USA

18:00 – 18:25	Alternative Materials for Scaling Up Flexible Dye Solar Cells Prof Dr Peter D. Lund School of Science, Aalto University, Finland

18:25 - 21:00	Get-together at the Poster Session II