Symposium FF
Towards Next Generation Solar Cells: Emerging Materials, Phenomena and Device Architectures
Convener:
Alberto VOMIERO, University of Venice, Italy
Members:
Antonio ABATE, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin, Germany
Gerritt BOSCHLOO, Uppsala University, Sweden
David CAHEN, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Chao-Yu (Peter) CHEN, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
Ken DUROSE, University of Liverpool, UK
Giulia GRANCINI, Università di Pavia, Italy
Shuzi HAYASE, The University of Electro-Communications, Japan
Martin HEENEY, King Abdullah Univ. of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia
Nico LOVERGINE, University of Salento, Italy
Antonio MARTI, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain
Nazario MARTIN, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
Tsutomu MIYASAKA, Toin University of Yokohama, Japan
Mohammad K. NAZEERUDDIN, EPFL, Switzerland
Alessandro ROMEO, Università di Verona, Italy
Natalie STINGELIN, Georgia Tech, USA
Marko TOPIC, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Aron WALSH, Imperial College London, UK
Alberto VOMIERO, University of Venice, Italy
Members:
Antonio ABATE, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin, Germany
Gerritt BOSCHLOO, Uppsala University, Sweden
David CAHEN, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Chao-Yu (Peter) CHEN, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
Ken DUROSE, University of Liverpool, UK
Giulia GRANCINI, Università di Pavia, Italy
Shuzi HAYASE, The University of Electro-Communications, Japan
Martin HEENEY, King Abdullah Univ. of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia
Nico LOVERGINE, University of Salento, Italy
Antonio MARTI, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain
Nazario MARTIN, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
Tsutomu MIYASAKA, Toin University of Yokohama, Japan
Mohammad K. NAZEERUDDIN, EPFL, Switzerland
Alessandro ROMEO, Università di Verona, Italy
Natalie STINGELIN, Georgia Tech, USA
Marko TOPIC, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Aron WALSH, Imperial College London, UK
The list of Invited Speakers will be available at the end of July 2025
The panorama of photovoltaic technologies includes a series of devices based on diversified materials, photoconversion processes, efficiencies, and costs. Depending on the end-user application, various technology platforms are available. Thin-film technologies include chalcogenide semiconductors, amorphous/micromorphous silicon, and nano/micro/poly-Si. They are fast becoming highly interesting to the market, thanks to their outstanding functionality in integrated devices. Other emerging technologies are represented by perovskite solar cells, and organic and quantum dot solar cells, which offer increasingly high photoconversion efficiency, while maintaining highly competitive costs, with interesting progress toward device stability, mainly based on tailored materials fabrication.
New physical effects are also investigated to push the photoconversion efficiency above the Shockley-Queisser limit: intermediate bands, multiple exciton generation, hot carriers, and up/down conversion.
The success of the above emerging and prospective solutions calls for the availability of reliable materials systems and device architectures capable of efficiently harvesting the full spectrum of solar energy.
The Symposium “Towards Next Generation Solar Cells: Emerging Materials, Phenomena and Device Architectures”, which follows those on similar topics held in previous CIMTEC Conferences, provides a forum for materials scientists and experts from industry to discuss major advances in the aforementioned fields, from latest developments in inorganic thin film/perovskite/organic/hybrid devices to new findings and approaches for next-generation solar cells, focusing on fundamental materials science and processing, on new concepts and theories for light management, and on device physics, manufacturing, reliability, and long-term stability.
A Special Session covering last achievements in concentrated photovoltaics will complement the Symposium.
New physical effects are also investigated to push the photoconversion efficiency above the Shockley-Queisser limit: intermediate bands, multiple exciton generation, hot carriers, and up/down conversion.
The success of the above emerging and prospective solutions calls for the availability of reliable materials systems and device architectures capable of efficiently harvesting the full spectrum of solar energy.
The Symposium “Towards Next Generation Solar Cells: Emerging Materials, Phenomena and Device Architectures”, which follows those on similar topics held in previous CIMTEC Conferences, provides a forum for materials scientists and experts from industry to discuss major advances in the aforementioned fields, from latest developments in inorganic thin film/perovskite/organic/hybrid devices to new findings and approaches for next-generation solar cells, focusing on fundamental materials science and processing, on new concepts and theories for light management, and on device physics, manufacturing, reliability, and long-term stability.
A Special Session covering last achievements in concentrated photovoltaics will complement the Symposium.
Session Topics
- Silicon thin films and multi-junction Si solar cells
- CIGS (and related compounds) and CdTe solar cells
- Kesterite and other novel materials/concepts for inorganic thin film PV
FF-2 III-V solar cells
- III-V tandem solar cells (inc. III-V tandems on Si)
- III-V QW and QD solar cells
FF-3 Organic, dye sensitised and nanoparticle phovoltaics
- Small organic molecule and polymeric solar cells
- Perovskite solar cells
- Quantum dot solar cells
FF-4 Multiple energy level devices
- Intermediate band solar cells
- Up or down conversion for solar cells
FF-5 Excited state enhanced solar cells
- Hot-carrier solar cells
- Multi-exciton generation
- Hot luminescence devices
- Other novel concepts
FF-6 Advanced light trapping for photovoltaic devices
- Plasmonic coupling
- Photonic and nanophotonic light trapping
Special Session FF-7
State-of-the Art Development of Concentrated Photovoltaics