MAX-PLANCK-INSTITUT FÜR PHYSIK KOMPLEXER SYSTEME
International Workshop on
Nanostructures in Photovoltaics
July 28 - August 4, 2001
Scientific Coordinators:
Dr. Richard Corkish
University of New South Wales
Sydney,
Australia
Dr. Stefan Kettemann
1. Inst. of Theoretical Physics, Universität
Hamburg
Germany
Dr. Jenny Nelson
Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College, London,
England
WORKSHOP PROGRAM
SATURDAY, JULY 28
| 18:00 | REGISTRATION | ||
| 19:00 | Welcome reception (Cafeteria at the Max Planck Institute) |
SUNDAY, JULY 29
| 11:00 - 12:00 | Martin Green (Centre for Third Generation Photovoltaics, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia) | ||
| Photovoltaic Principles | |||
| 12:00 - 13:00 | Peter Wuerfel (Institut fuer augewandte Physik, Univ. Karlsruhe, Germany) | ||
| Thermodynamic Limitations to Photovoltaics | |||
| 13:00 | LUNCH | ||
| 14:00 - 18:30 | Das Blaue Wunder ( Walking Tour Through Dresden ) | ||
| 19:00 | SUPPER | ||
| 20:00 - 21:00 | Keith Barnham (Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College, London) | ||
| An Introduction to Quantum Well Solar Cells |
MONDAY, JULY 30
| 09:00 - 09:15 | Peter Fulde ( Max-Planck-Institute for Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany) | ||
| WELCOME & OPENING | |||
| 09:15 - 10:15 | Detlef Heitmann ( Applied Physics, University of Hamburg, Germany) | ||
| Lateral Semiconductor Nanostructures: Prepararation, Far-Infrared and Raman Spectroscopy | |||
| 10:15 - 10:30 | COFFEE BREAK | ||
| 10:30 - 11:30 | Stephan Koch (Fachbereich Physik, Universitat Marburg, Germany) | ||
| Theory of the Optical Properties of Semiconductor Nanostructures | |||
| 11:30 - 12:30 | Vladimir Fal'ko (Dept. Physics, University of Lancaster, U.K.) | ||
| Mesoscopic Photovoltaic Effect and Adiabatic Charge Pumping | |||
| 12:30 | LUNCH | ||
| 14:00 - 15:00 | Mary Archer (Cambridge, UK) | ||
| Photovoltaics and Photoelectrochemistry - Similarities and Differences | |||
| 15:00 - 16:00 | Jenny Nelson (Imperial College, London) | ||
| Nanostructured and Molecular Materials for Solar Cells | |||
| 16:00 - 16:30 | COFFEE BREAK | ||
| 16:30 - 18:00 | Poster Session ( 2nd floor) | ||
| 18:00 | SUPPER | ||
| 19:30 - 20:30 | Hans Queisser (MPI Festkorperf., Stuttgart, Germany) | ||
| Dimensional Dependence of Photovoltaic Conversion Efficiency | |||
| 20:30 - 22:00 | Poster Session ( 2nd floor) |
TUESDAY, JULY 31
| 09:00 - 09:40 | Martin Green (Centre for Third generation Photovoltaics, UNSW, Sydney) | ||
| Limiting Conversion Efficiencies of Advanced "Third Generation" Photovoltaic Concepts | |||
| 09:40 - 10:20 | Arthur Nozik (National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, Co., USA) | ||
| Quantum Dot Solar Cells | |||
| 10:20 - 10:40 | COFFEE BREAK | ||
| 10:40 - 11:20 | Daniel Vanmaekelbergh (Debye Institute, Utrecht, Netherlands) | ||
| Probing the Single-Particle Orbital Energy Spectrum of Insulating Quantum Dots by Resonant Tunneling Spectroscopy | |||
| 11:20 - 12:00 | Mikhail Raikh (Dept. of Physics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA) | ||
| Many Body Effects in the Luminescence from Nanostructures | |||
| 12:30 | LUNCH | ||
| 14:00 - 14:40 | Masafumi Yamaguchi ( Toyota Technological Institute, Nagoya, Japan ) | ||
| Multi-junction Solar Cells and Novel Strctures for Solar Cell Applications | |||
| 14:40 - 15:10 | Andrew Brown (Centre for Third Generation Photovoltaics, UNSW, Sydney, Australia) | ||
| Limiting Efficiency for Multi-Band Solar Cells Containing Three and Four Bands | |||
| 15:10 - 15:40 | Zbigniew Kuznicki ( CNRS, Strasbourg, France) | ||
| Multi-Interface Novel Devices | |||
| 15:40 - 16:10 | Hartmut Presting (DaimlerChrysler AG, Ulm, Germany) | ||
| Growth Studies of Ge Islands for Enhanced Performance of Si Thin Film Solar Cells | |||
| 16:10 - 16:30 | COFFEE BREAK | ||
| 16:30 - 17:30 | Colloquium: Sergey Ganichev Inst. f. Experimentelle und Angewandte Physik, Univ. Regensburg) | ||
| Conversion of spin into directed electric current in quantum wells | |||
| 18:00 | SUPPER | ||
| 20:30 - 22:00 | Poster Session ( 2nd floor) |
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 1
| 08:30 - 09:10 | Peter Wuerfel (Institut fuer augewandte Physik, Univ. Karlsruhe, Germany) | ||
| 3-band and 4-band Solar Cells | |||
| 09:10 - 09:50 | Antonio Luque ( Instituto de Energía Solar, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain) | ||
| Thermodynamics of Solar Energy Conversion in Novel Structures | |||
| 09:50 - 10:00 | COFFEE BREAK | ||
| 10:00 - 10:40 | Alex Freundlich ( Space Vacuum Epitaxy Center, University of Houston, USA ) | ||
| Multijunction Quantum Well Solar Cells: A Route Toward Improved Efficiencies and Radiation Tolerance for Space Applications | |||
| 10:40 - 11:20 | Ned Ekins-Daukes (Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College, London) | ||
| Strain Balanced Quantum Well Solar Cells | |||
| 11:20 - 12:00 | Rudolf Morf ( Paul Scherrer Institute, Zürich, Switzerland ) | ||
| Theoretical Considerations on Quantum Well Solar Cells: Coupled Wells vs. Superlattice | |||
| 12:40 | LUNCH | ||
| 13:00 | EXCURSION TO PILLNITZ CASTLE | ||
| 19:00 | Conference Dinner at Villa Marie |
THURSDAY, AUGUST 2
| 9:00 - 9:40 | Michael Grätzel ( Insitute of Photonics and Interfaces, Ecole Politechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland ) | |||
| Dye Sensitized Nanocrystalline Solar Cells: Solid State and Electrolyte Based Versions | ||||
| 09:40 - 10:20 | Kirthi Tennakone (Institute of Fundamental Studies, Kandy, Sri Lanka ) | |||
| Dye Sensitized Composite Semiconductor Nanostructures | ||||
| 10:20 - 10:40 | COFFEE BREAK | |||
| 10:40 - 11:20 | Agapi Kambili (Dept. Physics, University of Bath, UK) | |||
| Electron and Electrolyte Transport in the Dye Sensitized Nanocrystalline Cell | ||||
| 11:20 - 12:00 | Andreas Hinsch (Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems, Freiburg, Germany) | |||
| Dye-sensitised Nano-crystalline Solar Cells: Major Factors Determining Solar Efficiency and Long-term Ageing | ||||
| 12:30 | LUNCH | |||
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Frank Willig (Hahn Meitner Institut, Berlin, Germany) | |||
| Femtosecond Electron Injection and Recombination Involving Dye Molecules on Nano-structured TiO2 in Ultra-high-vacuum | ||||
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Tianquan Tim Lian (Dept. Chemistry, Emory University, Atlanta, USA) | |||
| Electron Transfer and Carrier Relaxation Dynamics in photovoltaic nanomaterials | ||||
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Brian O'Regan (Energy Research Centre of the Netherlands, Petten, Netherlands) | |||
| Charge Transport vs. Recapture, a Critical Competition in Low-Temperature and Solid- State Sensitized Photovoltaic Cells | ||||
| 15:30 - 16:00 | COFFEE BREAK | |||
| 16:00 - 16:40 | Rolf Könenkamp ( Hahn Meitner Institut, Berlin, Germany ) | |||
| Nanostructures for Solar Cells with Extremely Thin Absorber | ||||
| 16:40 - 17:20 | Daniel Vanmaekelbergh (Debye Institut, Utrecht, Netherlands) | |||
| Non-Dispersive Long-Range Electron Transport in Nanoporous Semiconductors. | ||||
| 17:20 - 18:00 | Uwe Rau (Institute of Physical Electronics, University of Stuttgart, Germany) | |||
| An Effective Medium-Model for the Electronic Transport in Nano-scale Mixtures of Semiconductors | ||||
| 19:00 | SUPPER | |||
| 19:30 - 22:00 | Poster Session ( 2nd floor) |
FRIDAY, AUGUST 3
| 09:00 - 09:40 | Vladimir Dyakanov (University of Oldenburg, Germany) | |||||
| Electrical Transport Properties of Polymer-Fullerene Solar Cells | ||||||
| 09:40 - 10:20 | Tomas Markvart (School of Engineering Sciences, University of Southampton, UK) | |||||
| Thermodynamics and Reciprocity of Solar Energy Conversion | ||||||
| 10:20 - 10:40 | COFFEE BREAK | |||||
| 10:40 - 11:20 | Christiana Honsberg (University Center for Excellence in Photovoltaics, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA) | |||||
| Design Trade-Offs and Rules for Multiple Quasi-Fermi Level Solar Cells | ||||||
| 11:20 - 12:00 | Argyrios Varonides (University of Scranton, USA) | |||||
| Detailed Account of Net (under Auger and
Radiative Recombination) Photogenerated Carriers at the Intrinsic
Region of p-i(n)-n+ Multiple Quantum Well Solar Cells |
12:30 | LUNCH | ||||
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Andrey Rogach (Institute of Physical Chemistry, University of Hamburg, Germany) | |||||
| Synthesis of Surface-Modified Semiconductor Nanocrystals and Investigation of Photoinduced Charge Transport in Nanocrystal-Polymer Composites | ||||||
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Vladimir Pavlovich (National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Minsk, Belarus) | |||||
| Histons, New Quasi-Particles, And Electron Transfer In Bacterial Photosynthesis | ||||||
| 15:30 - 16:00 | COFFEE BREAK | |||||
| 16:00 - 16:40 | Antonio Martí (Instituto de Energía Solar, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain) | |||||
| Design Constrains of the Quantum Dot Intermediate Band Solar Cell | ||||||
| 16:40 - 17:20 | Neal Anderson (Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Massachussetts at Amherst, USA) | |||||
| On the Modeling of Quantum Well Solar Cells | ||||||
| 17:20 - 17:40 | Stefan Kettemann (I. Inst. of Theoretical Physics, University of Hamburg, Germany) | |||||
| The Potential of Multiband Photovoltaics/ Closing | ||||||
| 18:30 | SUPPER |
SATURDAY , AUGUST 4
| 10:30 - 12:00 | Review meeting: UNSW Centre for 3rd Generation Photovoltaics (by invitation) | ||
| 12:30 | LUNCH | ||
| 18:00 | SUPPER |