Program

PROGRAM

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Wednesday 28 March 2007
12h30 – 14h15: Lunch available for early arrivers
14h15 – 14h30: Welcome and Opening
14h30 – 15h50: Tutorial Session 1
- 14h30: Optical modelling of thin film solar cells and structures, Marko Topic, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Electrical Engineering [Presentation]
- 15h10: Electrical modelling of thin film solar cells, Marc Burgelman, University of Gent, ELIS [Presentation]
15h50 – 16h10: Coffee break
16h10 – 17h30: Tutorial Session 2
- 16h10: Numerical simulation of nanoelectronic devices, Hans Kosina, Technische Universität Wien, Austria [Presentation]
- 16h50: Novel concepts in photovoltaics, Antonio Martí Vega, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Instituto de Energía Solar – ETSIT [Presentation]
17h30 – 18h15: Pre-presentation of the posters

Thursday 29 March 2007
9h00 – 10h50: Session 1a: Optical modelling
- 9h00: Quantum efficiency of thin film solar cells - optical modeling of short circuit current density and its spectral dependence, Aleš Poruba, J. Springer, J. Holovský, A. Purkrt, M. Vanécek, Institute of Physics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech republic
- 9h30: Optical optimisation of Ag/ZnO back reflector for NIP solar cell, Thomas Söderström, F.-J. Haug, V. Terrazzoni-Daudrix, X. Niquille, S. Perregaux, C. Ballif
[Presentation]
- 9h50: Anti-reflection layer at the TCO/Si interface for high efficiency thin-film solar cells deposited on rough LP-CVD front ZnO, Peter Buehlmann, A. Billet, J. Bailat, D. Domine, S. Faÿ, C. Ballif [Presentation]
- 10h10: Design of novel concepts of light management in thin-film silicon solar cell using optical simulations, Janez Krc, M. Zeman, A. Campa, M. Topic
- 10h30: Modelling the current density increase due to "light-trapping" effect in conjugated polymer/fullerene-based bulk heterojunction solar cells, Adam Purkrt, J. Springer, A. Poruba, M. Vanécek, L. Goris, J. Manca [Presentation]
10h50 – 11h10: Coffee break
11h10 – 12h10: Session 1b: Optical modelling, materials oriented
- 11h10: Recombination through amphoteric states at the amorphous/crystalline silicon interface: modeling and experiment, Sara Olibet, E. Vallat-Sauvain, C. Ballif
[Presentation]
- 11h30: Optical characterization of transparent tin oxide films deposited by CVD, Nazia Kesri, K. Sedda
- 11h50: Modeling of the near infrared reflectance spectra of LP-CVD ZnO, Jérôme Steinhauser [Presentation]
12h20 – 13h50: Lunch
13h50 – 15h40: Session 2a: Electrical modelling
- 13h50: Specific issues in modeling of thin-film silicon solar cells, Miro Zeman, Delft University of Technology – ECTM/DIMES [Presentation]
- 14h20: Design rules for surface conditioning of widegap chalcopyrite absorbers, David Fuertes Marrón, R. Klenk
- 14h40: Modelling of the effect of a buried pn-junction on cell performance in chalcopyrite thin film solar cells, Paul Pistor, R. Klenk
- 15h00: AFORS-HET 3.0: Development of a two-dimensional simulation mode, Torsten Geipel, M. Kriegel, R. Stangl, K. Lips [Presentation]
- 15h20: Modelling the effects of electronic parameters on the efficiency of amorphous silicon solar cells under AM1.5G spectrum, Christos Monokroussos, A. Al Tarabsheh, R. Gottschalg, A.N. Tiwari [Presentation]
15h40 – 16h00: Coffee break
16h00 – 17h00: Session 2b: Electrical modelling, materials oriented
- 16h00: Lifetime investigation of silicon thin film solar cells a simulation study using AFORS-HET 2.2, Eveline Rudigier, R. Stangl, M. Schmid
- 16h20: SCAPS simulations of capacitance profiles in the Cu(In,Ga)Se2 solar cells, Michal Cwil, P. Zabierowski, M. Igalson
- 16h40: Simulations of electrical characteristics of Cu(In,Ga)Se2 based solar cells with Zn(O,S) and (Zn,Mg)O buffers: metastability issues, Pawel Zabierowski
[Presentation]
19h00 – 22h00: Social Event: guided town walk with dinner

Friday 30 March 2007
9h20 – 10h00: Session 3, Empirical I-V modelling
- 9h20: Applicability of the bilinear I-V curve translation method for indoor characterization of thin film devices, Artur Skoczek, M. Nikoaeva-Dimiotrova, E.D. Dunlop [Presentation]
- 9h40: Empirical J-V modelling of CIGS solar cells, Jonas Marlein, M. Burgelman
[Presentation]
10h00 – 10h30: Coffee break
10h30 – 12h20: Poster session
12h20 – 13h50: Lunch
13h50 – 17h00: Practicum and Demonstrations
- 13h50: Introduction
- 14h20: Demonstrations
- 15h00: Practicum
17h00: Meeting Summary, Closing and Adjourn

Poster presentations
- Influence of phosphorus doping on the structural and optoelectronic performance of (mc-Si:H) thin films, Gullanar M. Hadi
- Numerical simulation of diffraction gratings and their potential for implementation in thin-film silicon solar cells, Andrej Campa, J. Krc, F. Smole, M. Topic
- Separation of signals from amorphous and microcrystalline part of a tandem thin film silicon solar cell in Fourier Transform Photocurrent Spectroscopy results, Jakub Holovský, A. Poruba, J. Bailat, M. Vanécek
- Calculation of Cu(In,Ga)(S,Se)2 based solar cells parameters from their spectral photoresponse at various stages of preparation, Mikhail Tivanov, E. Zaratskaya, Valery Gremenok, V. Zalesskii, A. Mazanik, N. Drozdov, A. Fedotov, S. Zukotynski, K. Bente
- CIGS-based thin film solar cells with graded band gap and nanostructured contacts, Valery Gremenok, V. Zalesskii, S. Sergyjenja, A. Khodin, K. Bente, S. Zukotynski
- HIT Solar cell simulations with ASPIN2, Marko Nerat, F. Smole, M. Topic
- AFORS-HET, Version 2.2, Simulation of thin film solar cells and measurements, Rolf Stangl, M. Kriegel, T. Geipel
- Deep level transient spectroscopy measurements on Cu(In,Ga)(S,Se)2-thin film solar cells, Martin Knipper, J. Parisi
- Impurity Photovoltaic Effect in GaAs solar cell with two deep impurity levels, Khelifi Samira, J. Verschraegen, M. Burgelman, A. Belghachi1
- Bifacial a-Si:H solar cells: Origin of the asymmetry between front and back illumination, Nicolas Wyrsch, C. Ballif
- Investigation of the electronic properties of the recombination- heterointerface in CGS / recombination-heterointerface / CIGS monolithic tandem solar cell, Gregor Cernivec, F. Smole1, M. Topic, M. Burgelman
- Material and device characterization of thin-film polycrystalline-Si solar cells based on aluminum-induced crystallization and epitaxial growth as a first step towards modelling, Dries Van Gestel, I. Gordon, L. Carnel, G. Beaucarne, J. Poortmans
- Modelling MEH-PPV:PCBM (1:4) bulk heterojunction solar cells, Ben Minnaert, M. Burgelman
- Relation between luminescence, quasi-Fermi levels and voltage in semiconductor diodes, Rudi Brüggemann
- Efficient single and multijunction n-i-p solar cells with high quality hot-wire microcrystalline silicon simulated using AMPS, Robert L. Stolk, F.A. Rubinelli, H. Li, R.H. Franken, J.K. Rath and R.E.I. Schropp