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PV: A meeting to discuss how optical nanostructures can make better solar cells.
Photovoltaic solar electricity is one of the key technologies for reducing the world’s reliance on fossil fuels for energy generation. Reduced costs and higher conversion efficiencies are essential for making photovoltaics economically competitive. Optical nanostructures have a major role to play in improving the efficiency of solar cells by increasing the absorption of incident light, especially for thin-film applications. Nanosolar concentrator systems, organic solar cells and dye-sensitized cells also stand to benefit from nanophotonic engineering schemes. Within this context, light management by anophotonic structures on a solar module level also needs to be considered. In addition, the upcoming area of nanophotonic materials for solar hydrogen will also be addressed since nanophotonic materials will play a pivotal role there. Thermophotovoltaics is another area that has been studied for some time but that may receive an important boost from recent developments in plasmonic nanostructures.
How optical nanostructures and materials improve the efficiency of solar cells and solar concentrator systems.
The scope of the meeting covers all aspects of photovoltaic efficiency improvement techniques including:
- Nano-textured surfaces of various types
- Nanostructures for solar concentrators
- Nanostructures for dye-sensitized solar cells
- Nanostructures for thin-film organic solar cells
- Materials for thermophotovoltaics
- Tandem cells
- Spectral flux management in multijunction solar cells
- Gratings and diffractive optics used with/on solar cells
- Resonance and plasmonic enhancement of optical absorption
- Spectral flux management
- Novel solar cell geometries
- Module light management with nanostructures
- Optical nanostructures for solar hydrogen
View the 2011 Meeting Archive containing the final program (PDF)
General Chair
- Thomas Krauss, Univ. of St. Andrews, UK
- Albert Polman, FOM Inst. AMOLF, Netherlands
- Ralf B. Wehrpohn, Fraunhofer Inst. for Mechanics of Materials and Martin-Luther-Univ. Halle- Wittenberg, Germany
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View the 2011 Meeting Archive containing the final program (PDF)
This event is part of the Renewable Energy and the Environment Congress, allowing attendees to access to all meetings within the Congress for the price of one and to collaborate on topics of mutual interest.
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