Photovoltaics USA 2008
 

Photovoltaics Beyond Conventional Silicon

Conference Agenda

Tuesday, 17 Jun 2008

 Opening Address
09:00IDTechEx
 Keynotes
09:15Boeing Spectrolab
09:40NASA - Johnson Space Center
 Markets
10:05IDTechEx
10:30Invest in Germany
10:55Coffee-Exhibition break
 Organic PV
11:30Arizona State University
11:55Stanford University
12:20Massachusetts Institute of Technology
12:45Lunch-Exhibition Break
14:15Plextronics
14:40Solarmer Energy
15:05Global Photonic Energy Corporation
15:30Coffee-Exhibition Break
 Investment Forum
16:00SciReality LLC
Kodak
Quantenna Inc
Tallwood Venture Capital

Wednesday, 18 Jun 2008

 Keynotes
09:00NREL
09:25INL
 Inorganic PV - CIGS-Concentrators
09:50ISET International Solar Electric Technology Inc
10:15Soliant Energy
10:40Vitex Systems Inc
11:05Coffee-Exhibition break
11:35CSEM - Centre Suisse d'Electronique
 Nano-enabled Technologies
12:00TKK Finland
12:25McMaster University
12:50Solexant
12:50Lunch-Exhibition Break
 PV Processing/Testing
14:30Optomec
14:55Oak Ridge National Laboratory
15:20Colorado State University
15:45Coffee-Exhibition Break
16:30imaging Technology international (iTi)
16:55Northfield Automation Systems
 
 
 

Tuesday June 17, 2008

Opening Address (09:00 - 09:15)

IDTechEx, United Kingdom, Dr Harry Zervos, Technology Analyst
09:00 - 09:15 "Opening Remarks - World Photovoltaics Market"
  • Thin Film Photovoltaics Overview: technologies, markets, players
  • Adoption & Commercialization: Drivers & Challenges
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    Keynotes (09:15 - 10:05)

    Boeing Spectrolab, United States, Dr Nasser Karam, Vice President
    09:15 - 09:40 "Low-Cost Solar to Electric Energy Generation Using Concentrating Photovoltaic III-V Solar Cell Technology"
  • Highest efficiencies with tandem concentrator cells
  • Efforts towards lower cost structures
  • Development of technology suitable for terrestrial applications
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    NASA - Johnson Space Center, United States, Dr John Bacon,
    09:40 - 10:05 "The Challenge of Space Photovoltaics"
  • Needs of manned and unmanned space flight
  • Specific challenges for selected mission scenarios
  • Successfully meeting challenges: Bringing new opportunities in the consumer market.
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    Markets (10:05 - 11:30)

    IDTechEx, Inc., United States, Mr Raghu Das, CEO
    10:05 - 10:30 "Global Photovoltaic Trends and Progress in East Asia"
  • Activity by biggest developers
  • Technology portfolio comparison
  • Timelines to commercialization
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    Invest in Germany, United States, Mr Claus Habermeier, Director
    10:30 - 10:55 "The German Photovoltaic Market and German Government PV Incentive Programs"
  • PV market and industry in Germany
  • Government Incentive Program
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    Organic PV (11:30 - 15:30)

    Arizona State University, Flexible Display Center, United States, Prof Ghassan Jabbour, Director of ASU Advanced Photovoltaics Center
    11:30 - 11:55 "Organic Photovoltaics Research at Arizona State University"
  • Materials
  • Novel architectures
  • Results & Future work
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    Stanford University, United States, Dr Alex Mayer, Post Doctoral Scholar
    11:55 - 12:20 "Charge Transport in Semicrystalline Polymer Solar Cells"
  • Polymer-base solar cell device operation and materials challenges.
  • The importance of charge-transport for making highly efficient polymer-based solar cells.
  • The potential for more ordered polymers to absorb light and transport charge in solar cells.
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    Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States, Dr Jon Mapel, Post-Doctorate Researcher
    12:20 - 12:45 "Organic Solar Concentrators"
  • Organic materials for non-tracking optical concentration to III-V solar cells
  • Increasing conversion efficiency and optical flux gain
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    Plextronics, Inc., United States, Dr Troy Hammond, Vice President, Products
    14:15 - 14:40 "Plexcore PV - A New Organic Ink System Enabling 5% OPV Efficiency"
  • OPV Ink System Advantages in Performance & Processing
  • Pathway to improving OPV Efficiency & Lifetime
  • OPV Market Adoption
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    Solarmer Energy, Inc, United States, Dr Gang Li, Senior Research Fellow
    14:40 - 15:05 "Developing New Device Structures for Polymer Solar Cell Applications"
    ENovel interfacial layers for polymer solar cell
    EInverted polymer solar cells'
    EVacuum free process for semitransparent & flexible polymer solar cells
     
    Global Photonic Energy Corporation, United States, Mr Aaron Wadell, Chief Operating Officer
    15:05 - 15:30 "The Path to Commercial Organic Solar Cells"
  • Power Output
  • Lifetime
  • Manufacturability & Cost
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    Investment Forum (16:00 - 17:30)

    SciReality LLC, United States, Mr Ray Pimentel, Principal
    Kodak, United States, Subra Narayan, Director Venture Capital
    Quantenna Inc, United States, Dr Lawrence A. Kaufman, Financial Advisor
    Tallwood Venture Capital, United States, Mr Paul Vroomen,
    16:00 - 16:25 ""
     
     
     

    Wednesday June 18, 2008

    Keynotes (09:00 - 09:50)

    NREL, United States, Dr Arthur Frank, Principal Scientist
    09:00 - 09:25 "Science, Technology and the Future of Sensitized Solar Cells"
  • Industrial applications of sensitized solar cells and cell stability studies
  • Effects of chemically modifying the nanostructure surface and reducing architectural disorder on the charge transport, recombination, and photovoltaic properties
  • Results on InAs QDs as sensitizers in QD sensitized solar cells
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    INL, United States, Steven Novack, Program Manager
    09:25 - 09:50 "Solar Nantennas: Future Energy Solutions"
  • Antennas as an alternative solar energy solution
  • Modeling, materials and structures, manufacturing
  • Applications: near and future plans
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    Inorganic PV - CIGS-Concentrators (09:50 - 11:35)

    ISET International Solar Electric Technology Inc, United States, Dr Vijay K Kapur, President
    09:50 - 10:15 "Manufacturing of Ink Based CIGS Solar cells and Modules"
  • Attributes of ISET's Ink Based Technology for CIGS Solar Cells and modules
  • Thin Film CIGS Solar Cells Attributes
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    Soliant Energy, United States, Mr Brad Hines, CTO
    10:15 - 10:40 "Rooftop Concentrators: Lower System Costs through Higher Efficiency"
  • Overview of various solar concentrator technologies: tracking and non-tracking, silicon cells and high-efficiency triple junction cells
  • Bringing the efficiency of triple junction cells to the commercial rooftop
  • How higher module efficiencies dramatically lower the cost of solar electricity
  • Soliant Energy's offering: the most efficient rooftop solar panel you can buy
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    Vitex Systems Inc, United States, Dr Robert Jan Visser, CTO
    10:40 - 11:05 "Encapsulation of (Flexible) Thin Film Solar Cells by Multilayer Thin Film Barix Barrier Coatings and Barix Coated Plastic Films"
  • introduction into Barix multilayer barrier coatings encapsulation of CdTe and CIGS solar cells Flexible Solar Cells industrialisation, cost, equipment
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    CSEM - Centre Suisse d'Electronique, Switzerland, Dr Thomas Hinderling, CEO
    11:35 - 12:00 "Solar Islands"
  • Solar Islands describes a new concept for the conversion of solar energy to usable energy (e.g. electricity or hydrogen) by means of a new way to construct large size islands which can align to the sun by simply turning to the right azimuth.
  • The concept describes such systems floating in the sea, and others built on land.
  • Solar Island can be used for CSP, but also to concentrate solar irradiation on PV panels, at a concentration between 5 and 20 suns. This opens up possibilities for large scale photovoltaic systems at extremely competitive costs.
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    Nano-enabled Technologies (11:35 - 14:15)

    TKK Finland, Finland, Mr Janne Halme,
    12:00 - 12:25 "Dye Solar Cells on Flexible Substrates"
  • status of development and remaining challenges of dye solar cells on flexible substrates
  • quantification of the performance limiting factors of DSC
  • optimization and electrochemical performance of stainless steel based DSC
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    McMaster University, Canada, Dr Ray LaPierre, Assistant Professor
    12:25 - 12:50 "Nanowire Photovoltaics: Opportunities and Challenges"
  • Semiconductor nanowires are being considered for next generation solar cells with reduced manufacturing costs and higher photoconversion efficiencies
  • We report the synthesis of coaxial compound semiconductor III-V nanowires and fabrication of nanowire-based solar cells
  • Enhanced carrier extraction, light trapping effects, and light absorption are presented.
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    Solexant, United States, Dr Damoder Reddy,
    12:50 - 13:15 "Towards Grid Parity with Printed Solar Cells"
  • Cost Drivers in Solar Cell Manufacturing
  • Economics of Printing Process
  • Grid Parity with Printed Solar Cells
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    PV Processing/Testing (14:15 - 16:50)

    Optomec, United States, Stephen Barnes,
    14:30 - 14:55 "M3D Aerosol-Jet® Printing for Front-Side Metallization of Crystalline Photovoltaic Cells"
  • M3D Aerosol Jet, a solution to reduce PV production costs
  • Documented wafer efficiency improvement
  • Reduces both material cost and wafer breakage
  • Scaleable Technology
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    Oak Ridge National Laboratory, United States, Dr Ronald Ott,
    14:55 - 15:20 "Pulse Thermal Processing of Photovoltaic Material Systems"
  • Revolutionary next level rapid thermal annealing of thin films and nanoparticle material systems
  • Able to influence and enable all 3 generations of PV systems
  • Large area, short processing times, high heating rates, all lend to the ability to control microstructures at the nanoscale
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    Colorado State University, United States, Dr James Sites, Dept of Physics
    15:20 - 15:45 "Practical Information from Basic Solar-Cell Measurments"
  • Summary of potential solar-cell losses
  • Measurements needed to quantify individual losses at the cell level
  • Extension of cell-level measurement and analysis to PV modules
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    imaging Technology international (iTi), United States, Mr Bruce Morgan, Director, New Business
    16:30 - 16:55 "Inkjet Technologies for Photovoltaic Applications"
  • Photovoltaic fabrication equipment
  • Low-cost manufacturing of thin film solar modules using inkjet printing
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    Northfield Automation Systems, Inc., United States, Mr Mark Wegner, executive Vice President
    16:55 - 17:20 "Strategies for Roll to Roll Processing of Thin Films and other Electronic Substrates"
  • Equipment platforms for managing thin film substrates
  • Process flow with islands of automation.
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    Silver Sponsors

    Plextronics

    Bronze Sponsors

    Five Star Technologies
    Lambda Americas
    Rieke Metals Inc

    Speakers Include

    Arizona State University
    CSEM Centre Suisse d'Electronique et de Microtechnique SA
    Colorado State University
    Global Photonic Energy Corporation
    Invest in Germany GmbH
    Idaho National Laboratory (INL)
    International Solar Electric Technology Inc (ISET)
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    McMaster University
    Northfield Automation
    National Renewable Energy Laboratory NREL
    Oak Ridge National Laboratory
    Optomec
    Plextronics
    SOLARMER Energy, Inc.
    Solexant
    Soliant
    Stanford University
    TKK Finland

    Company Tours

    imaging Technology international Corporation
    Infinite Power Solutions
    National Renewable Energy Laboratory NREL
     
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