Wednesday, 27th May
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Conference Program Day by Day
| Wednesday, 27th May |
| 08:30 - 10:30 | Session 07 | Passivation, Interfaces and Contacts | Chairs: S. Collin, Y. Romanyuk |
| 08:30 | INVITED: Investigation of carrier recombination processes in alkaline treated CIGS solar cells | Takeaki Sakurai (University of Tsukuba, Japan) |
| 09:00 | Role of internal interfaces in high efficiency Cu(In,Ga)Se2 solar cells | Oana Cojocaru-Miredin |
| 09:15 | Electronic Structure of Mo/Absorber Interface in High Performance Cu(In,Ga)(S,Se)2-based Cells | Norio Terada (Kagoshima University & AIST, Japan) |
| 09:30 - 09:45 | Break |
| 09:45 | Sputtered transparent front contact for flexible CIGS cells on steel foil, integrating Cd-free buffer layer | Theodoros Dimopoulos (AIT - Austrian Institute of Technology, Austria) |
| 10:00 | Device analysis comparing the RbF-PDT impact on CIGS cells with CdS and ZnOS buffer layer | Ana Kanevce (Zentrum fur Sonnenenergie- und WasserstoffForschung, Germany) |
| 10:15 | TEM study of thermal annealing effects on chemical and structural properties of Zn(O,S) buffer layers in CIGS solar cells | Xiaowei Jin (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany) |
| 10:30 - 10:45 | Break |
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10:45 - 12:00 | Poster Sessions |
| 13:30 - 14:30 | Session 08 | Alternative Chacopyrite Absorbers and Concepts | Chairs: C. Kaufmann, T. Friedmeier |
| 13:30 | INVITED: Cu(In,Ga)Se2 thin-film micro-concentrator solar cells | Sascha Sadewasser (International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory, Portugal) |
| 14:00 | High efficiency solar cells based on co-evaporated Cu(In,Ga)S2 thin films | Nicolas Barreau (Institut des Materiaux Jean Rouxel, France) |
| 14:15 | Investigation of AgGaSe2 as a wide band gap solar cell absorber | Jes Larsen (Uppsala University, Sweden) |
| 14:30 - 14:45 | Break |
| 14:45 - 16:30 | Session 09 | CIGS Absorbers | N. Barreau, D. Abou-Ras |
| 14:45 | INVITED: Effects of Ag and KF-PDT on Low Bandgap CuInSe2 Solar Cells | Nicholas Valdes (University of Delaware, USA) |
| 15:15 | Investigation of back grading influence on voltage loss in low-temperature co-evaporated Cu(In,Ga)Se2 thin films | Shih-Chi Yang (Empa, Switzerland) |
| 15:30 - 15:45 | Break |
| 15:45 | Formation, reduction, and prevention of Ga gradients in Cu(In,Ga)Se2 solar cell absorber layers | Roland Mainz (Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin/PVcomB, Germany) |
| 16:00 | Effects of KF Post-deposition treatments on Cu(In,Ga)Se2 Single Crystals | Omar Ramirez (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg) |
| 16:15 | Chemical and electronic properties of buffer/Cu(In,Ga)Se2 interfaces with varying Ga/(Ga+In) absorber ratios | Mary Blankenship (University of Nevada, Las Vegas USA) |