Photovoltaics: Novel Approaches and System Issues

Presentations

• Surpassing the classical light-trapping limit in thin film solar cells

  ORAL

  March 21, 2011, 11:15 AM – March 21, 2011, 11:27 AM

  Authors

  • Jeremy Munday

    • California Institute of Technology

  • Dennis Callahan

    • California Institute of Technology

  • Harry Atwater

    • California Institute of Technology

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• Resonance shifting: A simple, all-optical method for circumventing the reabsorption problem in luminescent concentrators

  ORAL

  March 21, 2011, 11:27 AM – March 21, 2011, 11:39 AM

  Authors

  • Noel Giebink

    • Center for Nanoscale Materials, Argonne National Laboratory
    • Argonne National Laboratory
    • Argonne National Lab

  • Gary Wiederrecht

    • Argonne National Lab

  • Michael Wasielewski

    • Northwestern University

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• Computational Design of All-Carbon Photovoltaics

  ORAL

  March 21, 2011, 11:39 AM – March 21, 2011, 11:51 AM

  Authors

  • Marco Bernardi

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Jeffrey Grossman

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    • MIT

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• Continuum and KMC simulations of realistic bulk heterostructure solar cell photovoltaic devices

  ORAL

  March 21, 2011, 11:51 AM – March 21, 2011, 12:03 PM

  Authors

  • Kanokkorn Pimcharoen

  • Daniel Olds

  • Phillip Duxbury

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• Computational Materials Design for High Efficiency Photovoltaic Solar Cells and Transparent Conducting Sulfides

  ORAL

  March 21, 2011, 12:03 PM – March 21, 2011, 12:15 PM

  Authors

  • Hiroshi Katayama-Yoshida

    • Osaka University

  • Yoshimasa Tani

    • Osaka University

  • Kazunori Sato

    • Osaka University

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• Efficient Black Silicon Solar Cells with Multi-Scale Surface Texture

  ORAL

  March 21, 2011, 12:15 PM – March 21, 2011, 12:27 PM

  Authors

  • Fatima Toor

    • National Renewable Energy Laboratory

  • William Nemeth

    • National Renewable Energy Laboratory

  • Matthew Page

    • National Renewable Energy Laboratory

  • Qi Wang

    • National Renewable Energy Lab
    • National Renewable Energy Laboratory

  • Howard Branz

    • National Renewable Energy Laboratory

  • Hao-Chih Yuan

    • National Renewable Energy Laboratory

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• Scalability of Nanocoax PV Architecture

  ORAL

  March 21, 2011, 12:27 PM – March 21, 2011, 12:39 PM

  Authors

  • Michael J. Naughton

    • Boston College

  • Zhifeng Ren

    • Boston College

  • Kris Kempa

    • Boston College

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• Physical effects of ultrathin photovoltaic junctions

  ORAL

  March 21, 2011, 12:39 PM – March 21, 2011, 12:51 PM

  Authors

  • T. Kirkpatrick

    • Boston College

  • K. Kempa

    • Boston College

  • Michael J. Naughton

    • Boston College

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• Amorphous Silicon-Carbon Nanostructure Solar Cells

  ORAL

  March 21, 2011, 12:51 PM – March 21, 2011, 1:03 PM

  Authors

  • Maria Schriver

    • UC Berkeley

  • Will Regan

  • Will Regan

  • Will Regan

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• Prediction of enhanced photovoltaic performance of amorphous silicon solar cells with filled nanopores

  ORAL

  March 21, 2011, 1:03 PM – March 21, 2011, 1:15 PM

  Authors

  • Jeffrey Grossman

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    • MIT

  • Joo-Hyoung Lee

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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• Optimizing materials for photon-enhanced thermionic emission

  ORAL

  March 21, 2011, 1:15 PM – March 21, 2011, 1:27 PM

  Authors

  • Jared Schwede

    • Stanford University

  • Daniel Riley

    • Stanford University

  • Igor Bargatin

    • Stanford University

  • Samuel Rosenthal

    • Stanford University

  • Roger Howe

    • Stanford University

  • Nicholas Melosh

    • Stanford University

  • Zhi-Xun Shen

    • Stanford University

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• Optimization and Characterization of Nanostructured Surfaces for Photon-Enhanced Thermionic Emission and Photoemission cathodes

  ORAL

  March 21, 2011, 1:27 PM – March 21, 2011, 1:39 PM

  Authors

  • Daniel Riley

    • Stanford University

  • Vijay Narasimhan

    • Stanford University

  • Joel Jean

    • Stanford University

  • Igor Bargatin

    • Stanford University

  • Jared Schwede

    • Stanford University

  • Z.-X. Shen

    • Stanford University
    • Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials, Departments of Physics and Applied Physics, Stanford University, CA 94305
    • SIMES, SLAC National Accelerator Lab.

  • Roger Howe

    • Stanford University

  • Nick Melosh

    • Stanford University

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• Design and characterization of transparent thin film nanostructure device

  ORAL

  March 21, 2011, 1:39 PM – March 21, 2011, 1:51 PM

  Authors

  • Uday Trivedi

  • Utpal Joshi

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• Interface properties of chalcopyrite heterocontacts

  ORAL

  March 21, 2011, 1:51 PM – March 21, 2011, 2:03 PM

  Authors

  • Christian Pettenkofer

    • Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin

  • Andreas Hofmann

    • Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin

  • Eike Janocha

    • Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin

  • Carsten Lehmann

    • Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin

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• Effects of Back Contact Materials on Substrate Configuration CdTe Solar Cells

  ORAL

  March 21, 2011, 2:03 PM – March 21, 2011, 2:15 PM

  Authors

  • Nathan G.F. Reaver

    • Dept. of Physics \& Astronomy, University of Toledo

  • Kristopher Wieland

    • Dept. of Physics \& Astronomy, University of Toledo

  • Alvin D. Compaan

    • Dept. of Physics \& Astronomy, University of Toledo

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