Monday, 25th May
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Conference Program Day by Day
| Monday, 25th May |
| 08:30 | Opening and Welcome |
| 08:45 - 09:45 | Session 01 | Tandems | Chairs: B. Vermang, P. Schulz |
| 08:45 | INVITED: Highly Efficient Monolithic 2-Terminal CIGSe/Perovskite Tandem Solar Cells | Christian Kaufmann (Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin/PVcomB, Germany) |
| 09:15 | Emerging Wide Bandgap Chalcopyrites and Integration Methods for Efficient Multijunction Solar Devices | Nicolas Gaillard (University of Hawaii, USA) |
| 09:30 | CuGaSe2 / c-Si tandem solar cell exceeding 1 Volt Voc with tunnel junction at the interface | Adrien Rivalland (Institut des Materiaux Jean-Rouxel -IMN, France) |
| 0945 - 10:00 | Break |
| 10:00 - 12:15 | Session 02 | Ultrathin CIGS solar cells | Chairs: P. Salome, M. Edoff |
| 10:00 | ARCIGS-M: Strategies for high efficiency CIGS solar cells with thin absorber layers | Marika Edoff (Uppsala University, Sweden) |
| 10:15 | INVITED: Ultrathin CIGS solar cells with highly reflective back contacts | Stephane Collin (CNRS, France) |
| 10:45 | Innovative and industrially viable approach to fabricate AlOx and HfOx rear passivated ultra-thin Cu(In,Ga)Se2 solar cells | Gizem Birant (Uhasselt Imec, Belgium) |
| 11:00 | Break |
| 11:15 | Combining optical reflection and scattering at the back contact of ultrathin CIGSe solar cells | Thomas Schneider (Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany) |
| 11:30 | Advanced electrical characterization of ultra-thin CIGS solar cells in the dark | Jackson Lontchi (Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium) |
| 11:45 | Prediction of nanotexture transfer and optical gains in ultra-thin textured CIGS solar cells | Milan Kovacic University of Ljubljana, Faculty of electrical engineering, Slovenia) |
| 12:00 | The importance of contact pattern in passivation layers for ultrathin Cu(In,Ga)Se2 solar cells | Salome Pedro (INL- International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory, Portugal) |
| 12:15 - 14:15 | Break |
| 14:15 - 16:30 | Session 03 | Industrial Advancements and Durability in Chalcogenide base PV | Chairs: H.W. Schock, S. Paetel |
| 14:15 | Harmonizing Power Stabilization Methods on Thin-film Photovoltaics: A Round-Robin Test |Ankit Mittal (Austrian Institute of Technology, Austria) |
| 14:30 | Development of bandgap gradient for CIGS solar cells on flexible stainless-steel substrate | Yi Ren (Midsummer AB, Sweden) |
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14:45 | Study of wormlike defects induced by shading on a commercial Cu(In,Ga)(S,Se)2 module | Remi Aninat (TNO, The Netherlands) |
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15:00 | Post-Mortem Analysis of CIGS Solar Modules damaged due to Potential Induced Degradation (PID) | Pelin Yilmaz (University of Twente & TNO-Solliance, The Netherlands) |
| 15:15 - 15:30 | Break |
| 15:30 | Progress challenges and prospect of polycrystalline CdTe photovoltaics | Amit Munshi (Colorado State University, USA) |
| 15:45 | Progress in development of CIGS processes and modules at NICE Solar: status and future outlook | Tobias Repmann (Nice Solar Energy, Germany) |
| 16:00 | Al2O3 barrier film by atomic layer deposition: is it an effective encapsulation layer for flexible Cu(In,Ga)Se2 solar cell? | Shanting Zhang (Institut Photovoltaique d'Ile de France, France) |
| 16:15 | Ecodesign, Energylabel and Ressource effieciency of chalgogenide thin film technologies | Andreas Wade (Pvthin, First Solar) |