Tuesday, 26th May
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Conference Program Day by Day
| Tuesday, 26th May |
| 08:30 - 09:45 | Session 04 | Kesterites Absorbers | Chairs: S. Schorr, C. Platzer-Bjorkman |
| 08:30 | INVITED: Emerging thin film photovoltaic inorganic materials: kesterite and beyond | Edgardo Saucedo (Catalonia Institut for Energy Research, Spain) |
| 09:00 | Influence of the rear interface on composition and photoluminescence of CZTSSe absorber | Antonio Cabas Vidani (Empa-Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Switzerland) |
| 09:15 | The influence of Na on wide band-gap kesterite thin film solar cells | Raquel Caballero (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain) |
| 09:30 | Random structure search: Solving the kesterite-stannite puzzle in (Cu,Ag)2ZnSnSe4 solid solution | Daniel Fritsch (Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin , Germany) |
| 09:45 | Break |
| 10:00 - 11:45 | Session 05 | New Absorber Materials | Chairs: E. Saucedo, S. Sadewasser |
| 10:00 | Fermi energy limits in Cu-oxides | Andreas Klein (Technische Universitat Darmstadt, Germany) |
| 10:15 | Interface modification by atomic layer deposition on highly pure Sb2S3 based solar cells | Ignacio Minguez Bacho (Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nurnberg, Germany) |
| 10:30 | BaZrS3 chalcogenide perovskite thin films grown by reactive co-sputtering | Corrado Comparotto (Uppsala University, Sweden) |
| 10:45 - 11:00 | Break |
| 11:00 | Reduced recombination in eco-friendly colloidal AgBiS2 nanocrystals for solution-processed solar cells | Ignasi Burgues (ICFO - The Institute of Photonic Sciences, Spain) |
| 11:15 | Over 10um grain size Sb2Se3 film and its effective surface passivation | Chong Wang (Huazhong University of Science and Techonlogy -HUST, China) |
| 11:30 | ALD interfacial buffer layers for Sb2Se3 solar cells – impact on the dominant recombination path | Thomas Weiss (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg) |
| 11:45 - 15:00 | Break |
| 15:00 - 17:15 | Session 06 | CdTe based Solar Cells | Chairs: M. Scarpulla, A. Romeo |
| 15:00 | INVITED: Origin of microsecond lifetimes in polycrystalline CdTe solar cells | Darius Kuciauskas (National Renewable Energy Laboratory, USA) |
| 15.30 | INVITED: The roles of Chlorine and Selenium in high efficiency CdTe-based devices | John Michael Walls (Loughborough University, UK) |
| 16:00 | Enhancement in performance of graded CdSeTe/CdTe solar cells towards 20% efficiency | Tushar Shimpi (Colorado State University, USA) |
| 16.15 - 16.30 | Break |
| 16.30 | Atomic-Resolution Characterization of Interfaces in Poly-Crystalline CdTe Devices | Robert Klie (University of Illinois / Colorado State University, USA) |
| 16.45 | Modelling Bubble Formation in sputter deposited CdTe Solar Cells | Peter Hatton (Loughborough University, UK) |
| 17.00 | An investigation on Arsenic doping of CdSexTe1-x absorber layers for thin film photovoltaics using Density Functional Theory | Akash Shah (Colorado State University, USA) |
| 17.15 | Band tails, material quality, passivation, contacts: what limits the voltage of CdSeTe solar cells | Onno Arthur (Arizona State University, USA) |