42ND IEEE PHOTOVOLTAIC SPECIALISTS CONFERENCE
TECHNICAL
PROGRAM
MONDAY, JUNE 15TH
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MONDAY, JUNE 15TH
Monday, June 15, 2015
Keynote - Keynote
8:15 - 8:30 AM
Empire Ballroom
Highlights & Announcements
Chair(s): Alexandre Freundlich
8:15 Conference Welcome
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Steven Ringel , Alexandre Freundlich
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General Conference Chair , Program Chair
8:20 IEEE Electron Device Society and IEEE Photonics Society Welcome Address
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Dalma Novak , Christopher Jannuzzi
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IEEE Photonics Society , IEEE Electron Device Society
8:25 Technical Program Highlights
Alexandre Freundlich
42nd IEEE PVSC Program Chair
Area 3 - Plenary
8:30 - 9:00 AM
Empire Ballroom
Area 3 Plenary
Chair(s): Paul Sharps
(1) Challenges and Perspectives of CPV Technology
Andreas W. Bett
Fraunhofer ISE, Freiburg, Germany
Area 2 - Plenary
9:00 - 9:30 AM
Empire Ballroom
Area 2 Plenary
Chair(s): Sylvain Marsillac
(2) Polarization Probes Polycrystalline PV Performance Precisely
Robert W. Collins
University of Toledo, Toledo, OH, United States
Area 9 - Plenary
9:30 - 10:00 AM
Empire Ballroom
Area 9 Plenary
Chair(s): Clifford Hansen
9:30 (3) Challenges and Opportunities of High-Performance Solar Cells and PV Modules in Large Volume
Production
Pierre J. Verlinden
State Key Laboratory of PV Science and Technology, Trina Solar, Changzhou, China
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MONDAY, JUNE 15TH
Break
10:00 - 10:30 AM
Empire Ballroom Foyer (Level 2)
Coffee Break
Keynote - Keynote
10:30 - 12:00 PM
Empire Ballroom
Opening Keynotes
10:30 (4) Opening Remarks
Steven A. Ringel
42nd IEEE PVSC Conference Chair
10:40 (5) Keynote I: Changing our Energy Future Quietly with Utility Scale PV
Raffi Garabedian
Chief Technology Officer, First Solar, Inc.
11:05 (6) Keynote II: How about Solar in the Great Global Energy Transition
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Jeremy Leggett , Susan Spencer
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Founding Director, Solarcentury, Founder & Chairman, SolarAid, Chairman, CarbonTracker & Firefly Clean Energy ,
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President and Founder, ROCSPOT, North American Ambassador for Solar Aid
11:30 (7) Cherry Award Introduction
Sarah Kurtz
Cherry Award Chair
11:35 (8) Cherry Award Presentation
Christiana Honsberg
Arizona State University
Area 1 - Orals
1:30 - 3:00 PM
Strand 10 (Level 2)
Spectral Modification using Nanostructures
Chair(s): Antonio Marti, Louise Hirst, Sheila Bailey
1:30 (9) Colloidal Nanoparticles for Intermediate Band Solar Cells
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Gergely Zimanyi , Marton Voros , Giulia Galli
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University of California, Davis, CA, United States, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States
1:45 (10) Novel non-radiative exciton harvesting scheme yields a 15% efficiency improvement in high-efficiency
III-V solar cells
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Mael Brossard , Chung-Yu Hong , Mumin Hung , Peichen Yu , Martin D. B. Charlton , Pavlos G. Savvidis
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Pavlos G. Lagoudakis
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School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom, Department of
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Photonics, National Chiao Tung University, Hisnchy, Taiwan, Arima Photovoltaic & Optical Corp. Taiwan, Taoyuan,
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Taiwan, School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom,
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Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, IESL-FORTH, Heraklion, Greece
2:00 (11) A Kinetic Rate Model of Novel Upconversion Nanostructures for High-Efficiency Photovoltaics
Eric Y. Chen, Jing Zhang, Diane G. Sellers, Yujun Zhong, Joshua M. O. Zide, Matthew F. Doty
University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States
2:15 Best Student Presentation Award Finalist
(12) Investigation of State-Filling and Carrier Collection of Doped InAs QDs through Direct Absorption
Measurement
Stephen J. Polly, Michael A. Slocum, Staffan Hellstroem, David V. Forbes, Seth M. Hubbard
Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY, United States
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MONDAY, JUNE 15TH
2:30 (13) Design, synthesis, and photophysical properties of InP/CdS/CdSe and CdTe/CdS/CdSe (core/shell/shell)
quantum dots for photon upconversion
Diane G Sellers, Matthew F Doty
University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States
2:45 (14) Design of Core/Shell Colloidal Quantum Dots for MEG Solar Cells
Stanko Tomic, Jacek Miloszewski, Edward Tyrrell
University of Salford, Manchester, United Kingdom
Area 2 - Orals
1:30 - 3:00 PM
Empire A (Level 2)
Progress in CdTe Technology
Chair(s): Chris Ferekides, Ayodhya Tiwari
1:30 (15) Invited: Resetting the Defect Chemistry in CdTe
W.K. Metzger, J.M. Burst, D.S. Albin, E. Colegrove, J. Moseley, J. Duenow, A. Kanevce, S.B. Farrell, H. Moutinho,
M.O. Reese, S. Johnston, T. Barnes, C. Perkins, H. Guthrey, S.H. Wei, M. Al-Jassim
National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, United States
2:00 (16) Current Enhancement of CdTe-based Solar Cells
Naba R Paudel, Yanfa Yan
Department of Physics & Astronomy, The University of Toledo, Toledo, OH, United States
2:15 (17) The Effect of a Post-Activation Annealing Treatment on Thin Film CdTe Device Performance
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Ali Abbas , Drew Swanson , Amit Munshi , Kurt L Barth , Walajabad S Sampath , Geoff D West , Jake W Bowers ,
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Piotr M Kaminski , John M Walls
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Loughborough University, Loughborough, United Kingdom, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United
States
2:30 (18) ZnO nanowire radial CdTe solar cells
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Jonathan D Major , Ramon Tena-Zaera , Eneko Azaceta , Leon Bowen , Ken Durose
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Stephenson Institute for Renewable Energy, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom, CIDETEC, San
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Sebastián, Spain, G. J. Russell Microscopy Facility, University of Durham, Durham, United Kingdom
2:45 (19) Twin Boundaries Enhanced Current Transport in 14.4%-Efficient CdTe solar Cells by RF Sputtering
Hui Li, Xiangxin Liu, Zhongming Du, Biao Yang
The Key Laboratory of Solar Thermal Energy and Photovoltaic System, Institute of Electrical Engineering, Chinese
Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, PR China, Beijing, China
Area 3 - Orals
1:30 - 3:00 PM
Empire B (Level 2)
III-V Solar Cells - Metamorphic Multijunctions
Chair(s): Minjoo Larry Lee, Stephanie Tomasulo, Yoshitaka Okada
1:30 (20) Design Flexibility of Ultra-High Efficiency 4-Junction Inverted Metamorphic Solar Cells
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Ryan M. France , John F. Geisz , Ivan Garcia , Myles A. Steiner , William E. McMahon , Daniel J. Friedman , Tom
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E. Moriarty , Carl Osterwald , J. Scott Ward , Anna Duda , Michelle Young , Waldo Olavarria
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National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, United States, Instituto de Energia Solar, Madrid, Spain
2:00 (21) Metamorphic III-V solar cells: recent progress and potential
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Ivan Garcia , Ryan M. France , John F. Geisz , William E. McMahon , Myles A. Steiner , Daniel J. Friedman
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Instituto de Energía Solar, Univ. Politécnica de Madrid, Avda Complutense s/n, 28040 Madrid, Spain, Madrid, Spain,
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National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, Colorado 80401, USA, Golden, CO, United States
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MONDAY, JUNE 15TH
2:30 (22) Investigations of Metamorphic (Al)GaInP for III-V Multijunction Photovoltaics
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Drew W. Cardwell , Nathan Vaughn , Pran Paul , Chris Ratcliff , Santino D. Carnevale , Dan Chmielewski , Aaron R.
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Arehart , Tyler J. Grassman , Steven A. Ringel
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Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States, Dept. of
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Materials Science & Engineering, Columbus, OH, United States, Institue for Materials Research, Columbus, OH,
United States
2:45 Best Student Presentation Award Finalist
(23) Direct-gap 2.1-2.2 eV AlInP Solar Cells on GaInAs/GaAs Metamorphic Buffers
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Michelle A Vaisman , Kunal Mukherjee , Taizo Masuda , Kevin Nay Yaung , Eugene A Fitzgerald , Minjoo L Lee
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Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United
States
Area 9 - Orals
1:30 - 3:00 PM
Strand 11 (Level 2)
Module Materials, Manufacturing and Production
Chair(s): Alex Bradley, Fatima Toor
1:30 (24) 335Watt World Record P-type Mono-crystalline Module With 20.6 % Efficiency PERC Solar Cells
Shu Zhang, Weiwei Deng, Xiujuan Pan, Haijun Jiao, Hui Chen, Daming Chen, Hongwei Huang, Yanfeng Cui, Jianmei
Xu, Jun Feng, Ming Zhong, Yifeng Chen, Zhiqiang Feng, Pierre J. Verlinden
State Key Laboratory of PV Science and Technology, Changzhou Trina Solar Energy Co., Ltd., Changzhou, China
2:00 (25) Invited: First Solar Quality & Reliability Strategy
Pat Buehler
First Solar, Inc
2:15 (26) Online Education with PV Factory
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Malcolm D. Abbott , Keith R. McIntosh , Alison J. Lennon , Yang Li , Zhong Lu , Alex Li
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PV Lighthouse, Coledale, Australia, University of NSW, Sydney, Australia
2:30 (27) Low cost high energy yield solar module lines and its application
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Thomas Soderstrom , Yu Yao , Maria Gragert , Benjamin Strahm , Jens Krause , Pierre Papet
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Meyer Burger, Gwatt, Switzerland, Meyer Burger Research, Hauterives, Switzerland, Roth and Rau, Germany,
Germany
2:45 (28) Thermal Processes Driving Laser-Welding for Module Interconnection
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Henning Schulte-Huxel , Sarah Kajari-Schröder , Rolf Brendel
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Institute for Solar Energy Research Hamelin, Emmerthal, Germany, Institute of Solid-State Physics, Leibniz
University of Hanover, Hanover, Germany
Area 11 - Orals
1:30 - 3:00 PM
Strand 13 (Level 2)
System and Balance-of-System Component Reliability
Chair(s): Chris Flueckiger, Jeff Newmiller
1:30 (29) A System Reliability Tradeoff Study for Centralized and Distributed PV Architectures
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Corey Bufi , Ahmed Elasser , Mohammed Agamy
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GE Power and Water, Schenectady, NY, United States, GE Global Research, Niskayuna, NY, United States
1:45 (30) Dominant Factors Affecting Reliability of Alternating Current Photovoltaic Modules
Patrick Chapman, Paul Parker, Phil Gilchrist
SunPower Corp., Austin, TX, United States
2:00 (31) Recommendations for Isolation Monitor Ground Fault Detectors on Residential and Utility-Scale PV
Systems
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Jack D Flicker , Jay Johnson , Mark Albers , Greg Ball
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Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States, Sunpower Corporation, Richmond, CA, United
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States, DNV GL-Energy, Oakland, CA, United States
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MONDAY, JUNE 15TH
2:15 (32) Arc-Fault Unwanted Tripping Survey with UL 1699B-Listed Products
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Jay Johnson , Kenneth M. Armijo , Daniel Eizips , Bijay Shrestha , Modi Avrutsky
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Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM,
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United States, Tigo Energy, Los Gatos, CA, United States, Tigo Energy, Los Gatos, CA, United States, Tigo
Energy, Los Gatos, CA, United States
2:30 (33) Characterization of Fire Hazards of Aged Photovoltaic Balance-of-System Connectors
Eric Schindelholz, Benjamin B. Yang, Kenneth M. Armijo, Bonnie B. McKenzie, Jason M. Taylor, N. Robert Sorenson,
Olga Lavrova
Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States
2:45 (34) Ensuring the reliability of PV systems through the formation of the IECRE Conformity Assessment
System and the development of new International Standards
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George Kelly , Adrian Haering , Ted Spooner , Greg Ball , Sarah Kurtz
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Sunset Technology, Mount Airy, MD, United States, SMA Solar Technology, Niestetal, Germany, UNSW, Sydney,
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Australia, DNV GL, Oakland, CA, United States, NREL, Golden, CO, United States
Joint Area Session - Orals
1:30 - 3:00 PM
Empire C/D (Level 2)
Joint Area 4 & 8: Characterization of Si Photovoltaics
Chair(s): Mariana Bertoni, Allen Barnett
1:30 (35) Spatially Resolved Lifetime Spectroscopy from Temperature-Dependent Photoluminescence Imaging
Ziv Hameiri, Mattias Klaus Juhl, Raymond Carlaw, Thorsten Trupke
The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
2:00 (36) Contactless Electroluminescence Imaging for Cell and Module Characterization
Steve Johnston
National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, United States
2:15 (37) Investigation of Dapant Segregation induced Surface-Fields using THz Pulse Transmission
Markus Lenz, Amir Kianfar, Sven Nordmann, Simon Sawallich, Michael Nagel, Birger Berghoff, Joachim Knoch
2:30 Best Student Presentation Award Finalist
(38) Frequency Division Multiplex Based Quantum Efficiency Determination of Solar Cells
Thomas Mißbach, Christian Karcher, Gerald Siefer
Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE, Freiburg, Germany
2:45 (39) Finite Element Model Analysis of Solar Cell Luminescence Images
Johnson Wong, Vinodh Shanmugam
Solar Energy Research Institute of Singapore , Singapore, Singapore
Joint Area Session - Orals
1:30 - 3:00 PM
Strand 12 (Level 2)
Joint Area 6 &1: Hybrid Materials and Devices
Chair(s): Vikram Dalal, Nicole Kotulak
1:30 (40) Invited: Overcoming the Absorption-Extraction Compromise in Colloidal Quantum Dot Photovoltaics
Susanna M. Thon
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States
2:00 Best Student Presentation Award Finalist
(41) Optical Loss Analysis of Monolithic Perovskite/Si Tandem Solar Cell
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Jonathan P Mailoa , Colin D Bailie , Austin J Akey , Eric T Hoke , Eric C Johlin , William H Nguyen , Sarah E Sofia ,
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Michael D McGehee , Tonio Buonassisi
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United
States
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MONDAY, JUNE 15TH
2:15 (42) Perovskite and a-Si:H/c-Si tandem solar cell
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Fabio Matteocci , Stefano Razza , Simone Casaluci , Narges Yaghoobiniya , Aldo Di Carlo , Luca Serenelli ,
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Massimo Izzi , Galuco Stracci , Alberto Mittiga , Mario Tucci
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CHOSE - Center for Hybrid and Organic Solar Energy, Dept. Electr. Eng. University of Rome , Rome, Italy, ENEA
Research Centre Casaccia, Rome, Italy
2:30 (43) Effect strategy for stabilized perovskite solar cells using thin film tandem device structure
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Wei QIN , Yuliang ZHANG , Wei ZI , Zhou YANG , Dong YANG , Pengcheng DING , Wei YU , Shengzhong
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(Frank) LIU , Can LI
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State Key Laboratory of Catalysis, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian
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National Laboratory for Clean Energy, Dalian, China, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Shaanxi Normal
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University, Xi'an, China, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, Collaborative Innovation
Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China
2:45 (44) Development of perovskite solar cells with nanophotonic front electrodes for improved light incoupling
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Ulrich Wilhelm Paetzold , Weiming Qiu , Friedhelm Fingers , Jef Poortmans
, David Cheyns
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IMEC, Leuven, Belgium, IEK5-Photovoltaik, Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH, Jülich, Germany, Katholieke
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Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, Hasselt University, Hasselt, Belgium
Break
3:00 - 3:30 PM
Empire Ballroom Foyer (Level 2)
Coffee Break
Area 2 - Orals
3:30 - 5:00 PM
Empire A (Level 2)
Advances in Buffer Layers, Interface and Back Contact Engineering
Chair(s): Sylvain Marsillac, Tim Gessert
3:30 (45) Impact of Buffer Layer on Kesterite Solar Cells
Homare Hiroi, Noriyuki Sakai, Yasuaki Iwata, Takuya Kato, Hiroki Sugimoto
Solar Frontier K.K., Kanagawa, Japan
4:00 (46) Bifacial Cu(In,Ga)Se2 solar cells with submicron absorber thickness: Back-contact passivation and light
management
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Wiebke Ohm , Wiebke Riedel , Ümit Aksünger , Dieter Greiner , Christian A. Kaufmann , Martha Ch. Lux1,2
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Steiner , Sophie Gledhill
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Freie Universität Berlin, Department of Physics, Berlin, Germany, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin, Institute for
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Heterogeneous Materials Systems, Berlin, Germany, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin, Institute Competence Centre
Photovoltaics Berlin (PVcomB), Berlin, Germany
4:15 (47) Cu rich domains and secondary phase in PVD-CdS/PVD-CuIn1-xGaxSe2 heterojunctions
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Xiaoqing He , Peter Ercius , Jeff Bailey , Geordie Zapalac , Neil Mackie , Atiye Bayman , Joel Varley , Vincenzo
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Lordi , Angus Rockett
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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,
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National Center for Electron Microscopy, Berkeley, CA, United States, MiaSolé Hi-Tech, Santa Clara, CA, United
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States, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory , Livermore, CA, United States
4:30 (48) Temperature effect during Atomic Layer Deposition of Zinc Oxysulfide –Zn(O,S) buffer layers on
Cu(In,Ga)(S,Se)2 synthesized by co-evaporation and electro-deposition techniques
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Cathy Bugot , Cédric Broussillou , Alexis Sorba , Ludovic Parissi , Nathanaëlle Schneider , Daniel Lincot ,
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Frédérique Donsanti
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Institut de Recherche et développement sur l'Energie Photovoltaïque-IRDEP (UMR 7174, EDF-CNRS-Chimie
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Paristech), IPVF, Chatou, France, NEXCIS Photovoltaic Technology, Rousset, France
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MONDAY, JUNE 15TH
4:45 (49) Influence of the ZnS precursor thickness on high efficiency Cu2ZnSn(S,Se)4 thin-film solar cells grown
by stacked-sputtering and selenization process
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Gee Yeong Kim , Dae-Ho Son , Trang Thi Thu Nguyen , Seokhyun Yoon , Minsu Kwon , Chan-Wook Jeon , Dae2
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Hwan Kim , Jin-Kyu Kang , William Jo
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Department of Physics, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, South Korea, Advanced Convergence Research Center,
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Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology, Daegu, South Korea, Department of Chemical Engineering,
Yeungnam University, Gyeongsan, South Korea
Area 3 - Orals
3:30 - 5:00 PM
Strand 10 (Level 2)
High Concentration PV - Systems
Chair(s): Scott Burroughs, Michael Wiemer, Matthew Lumb
3:30 (50) Ultra High Efficiency HCPV Modules
Kanchan Ghosal, Brent Fisher, Doug Lilly, John Gabriel, Steve Seel, Scott Burroughs
Semprius Inc., Durham, NC, United States
3:45 (51) Summary of Europe-Japan Collaborative Research on Concentrator Photovoltaics
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Masafumi Yamaguchi , Antonio Luque
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Toyota Tech. Inst., Nagoya, Japan, UPM, Madrid, Spain
4:00 (52) Receiver-Module-Integrated Thermal Management of High-Concentration Photovoltaic Thermal Systems
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Stephan Paredes , Brian R. Burg , Patrick Ruch , Emanuel Loertscher , Fabio Malnati , Gianluca Ambrosetti ,
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Andrea Pedretti , Bruno Michel
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IBM Research - Zurich, Rüschlikon, Switzerland, Airlight Energy & Dsolar, Biasca, Switzerland
4:15 (53) Refractive Concentrator Optics Architectures, Tracker Precision, and Cumulative Energy Harvest
John P.D. Cook, Pratibha Sharma, Lianne de la Salle, Fred Carle, Patrick M. White, Viktar Tatsiankou, Nate
Bosscher, Joan E. Haysom, Elena Dragomirescu, Henry Schriemer, Karin Hinzer
SUNLAB, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada
4:30 (54) Designing and Prototyping the Polyhedral Specular Reflector, a Spectrum-Splitting Module with
Projected >50% Efficiency
Carissa N. Eisler, Pilar Espinet, Cristofer A. Flowers, Sunita Darbe, Emily C. Warmann, John Lloyd, Michelle Dee,
Harry A. Atwater
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
4:45 Best Student Presentation Award Finalist
(55) A Novel Instrument for Cost-Effective and Reliable Measurement of Solar Spectral Irradiance
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Viktar Tatsiankou , Karin Hinzer , Henry Schriemer , Joan Haysom , Richard Beal
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University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada, COFOVO Energy, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Area 4 - Orals
3:30 - 5:00 PM
Empire C/D (Level 2)
Surface Passivation
Chair(s): Giso Hahn, Ziv Hameiri
3:30 (56) Silicon Surface Passivation by Gallium Oxide
Thomas G. Allen, James Bullock, Andres Cuevas
Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
3:45 (57) Role of Hydrogen in the Permanent Passivation of Boron-Oxygen Defects in Czochralski Silicon
Nitin Nampalli, Brett Hallam, Catherine Chan, Malcolm Abbott, Stuart Wenham
University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
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MONDAY, JUNE 15TH
4:00 (58) Interface optimization prior to amorphous-to-microcrystalline transition phase silicon thin film based on
the passivation of crystalline silicon
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Liping Zhang , Wanwu Guo , Wenzhu Liu , Jian Bao , Jieyu Bian , Jinning Liu , Dongliang Wang , Fanying Meng ,
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Zhengxin Liu
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Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China,
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State Key Laboratory of PV Science and Technology, Trina Solar, Changzhou, China
4:15 (59) Spray Coated Aluminum Oxide Thin Film For P-type Crystalline Silicon Surface Passivation
Kalaivani S, Anil Kottantharayil
National Center for Photovoltaic Research and Education, and Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute
of Technology, Mumbai, India
4:30 (60) ALD Al2O3 Based Nanolaminates For Solar Cell Applications
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Daniel K Simon , Paul M Jordan , Martin Knaut , Thomas Mikolajick , Ingo Dirnstorfer
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Nanoelectronic Materials Laboratory gGmbH (NaMLab), Dresden, Germany, TU Dresden, Institut für Halbleiter- und
Mikrosystemtechnik, Dresden, Germany
4:45 (61) Reduction of the Interface Defect Density on Crystalline Silicon Solar Cell Substrates by Wet-chemical
Preparation of Ultrathin SiOx Passivation Layers
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Patrice Balamou , Heike Angermann , Bert Stegemann
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HTW Berlin - University of Applied Sciences Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und
Energie, Institut für Silizium-Photovoltaik, Berlin, Germany
Area 9 - Orals
3:30 - 5:00 PM
Strand 11 (Level 2)
Power Electronics, Storage and Balance of Systems
Chair(s): Jack Flicker, Sudipta Chakraborty
3:30 (62) Experimental Evaluation of Load Rejection Over-Voltage from Grid-Tied Solar Inverters
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Austin A. Nelson , Anderson S. Hoke , Sudipta Chakraborty , Justin Chebahtah , Trudie Wang , Brian Zimmerly
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National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, United States, SolarCity, San Mateo, CA, United States
3:45 Best Student Presentation Award Finalist
(63) Parallel-Input Series-Output Interleaved Flyback based Solar PV Module Integrated Micro-Inverter
NATARAJ PRAGALLAPATI, TIRTHASARATHI LODH, MAHESH KUMBHAR, VIVEK AGARWAL
INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, MUMBAI, India
4:00 (64) Hybrid DC Switch for Solar Array Fault Protection
Tiefu Zhao, Vijay Bhavaraju, Peter Theisen
Eaton - Corporate Research & Technology, Menomonee Falls, WI, United States
4:15 (65) A New Circuit of Modular Multilevel Inverter for Grid-Connected Photovoltaic Conversion Plants
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Hamed Nademi , Lars Norum , Anandarup Das
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Process Automation division, ABB AS, Oslo, Norway, Department of Electric Power Engineering, NTNU University,
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Trondheim, Norway, Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi , New Delhi, India
4:30 (66) Performance of Differential Power-Processing Submodule DC-DC Converters in Recovering Inter-Row
Shading Losses
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Kate Doubleday , Chris Deline , Carlos Olalla , Dragan Maksimovic
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University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, United
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States, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain
4:45 (67) Analysis of Different PWM Schemes for 3-Level Boost Converter to Reduce Current Stress in DC Link
Capacitors of Single Phase NPC Inverter
Rajesh Farswan, Baylon Fernandes
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India
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MONDAY, JUNE 15TH
Area 10 - Orals
3:30 - 5:00 PM
Strand 13 (Level 2)
Sustainability
Chair(s): Gabrielle Gaustad, Annick Anctil
3:30 (68) Assessment of leaching tests for evaluating potential environmental impacts of PV module field
breakage
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Parikhit Sinha , Andreas Wade
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First Solar, Tempe, AZ, United States, First Solar, Mainz, Germany
3:45 Best Student Presentation Award Finalist
(69) Life cycle assessment of Silicon Solar Panels manufacturing in the United States
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Kayla Collins , Brian Powell , Annick Anctil
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Clemson University, Clemson, SC, United States, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, United States
4:00 (70) GHG Emission and Energy Payback Time of AC Electricity Generated by SunPower® Oasis®
Photovoltaic Power Plant
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2
2
Loic FRANCKE , Marie-Sophie ARMAND , Marissa YAO , Craig OESER
1
2
Total, Paris la Défense, France, SunPower Corporation, San Jose, CA, United States
4:15 (71) Price Volatility in PV-Critical Material Markets: Perspectives for Solar Firms, Consumers, and Policy
Makers
Michele L Bustamante, Gabrielle Gaustad
Golisano Institute for Sustainability, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY, United States
4:30 (72) Toxicity and Safety Aspects of Nanoparticle Spread in Third Generation Photovoltaic Device Processing
Environments
1
1
1
2
2
1
Bahareh Sadeghimakki , Yaxin Zheng , Navid M.S. Jahed , Phuc H. Pham , Niels C. Bols , Siva Sivoththaman
1
2
Electrical and Computer Engineering Department (CAPDS Lab), Waterloo, ON, Canada, Department of Biology,,
Waterloo, ON, Canada
4:45 (73) Inexpensive and Environmentally Friendly Recycling of Photovoltaic Scrap
Wolfram J. Palitzsch, Ulrich M. Loser
Loser Chemie GmbH, Langenweißbach, Germany
Joint Area Session - Orals
3:30 - 5:00 PM
Empire B (Level 2)
Joint Area 2, 6 & 8: Characterization of Thin Film Photovoltaics
Chair(s): Mowafak Al-Jassim, Chaffra Affouda
3:30 (74) Recombination Analysis in Cadmium Telluride Photovoltaic Solar Cells with Photoluminescence
Spectroscopy
1
1
2
2
1
Darius Kuciauskas , Pat Dippo , Zhibo Zhao , Long Cheng , Wyatt Metzger
1
2
NREL, Golden, CO, United States, First Solar, Perrysburg, OH, United States
4:00 Best Student Presentation Award Finalist
(75) Development of Two-photon Excitation Time-resolved Photoluminescence Microscope for Lifetime and
Defect Imaging in Thin Film Photovoltaic Materials and Devices
1
2
2
1
1
Alyssa M Allende Motz , Darius Kuciauskas , Steve Johnston , Jeff Squier , Dean H Levi
1
2
Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO, United States, National Renewable Energy Lab, Golden, CO, United States
4:15 (76) Spectroscopic Ellipsometry Studies of CH3NH3PbX3 Thin Films and their Growth Evolution
Kiran Ghimire, Alex Cimaroli, Feng Hong, Tingting Shi, Nikolas Podraza, Yanfa Yan
Wright Center for Photovoltaics Innovation and Commercialization & Department of Physics and Astronomy,
University of Toledo, Toledo, OH, United States
11
MONDAY, JUNE 15TH
4:30 (77) Using Combined Photoreflectance and Photoluminescence for Understanding Optical Transitions in
Perovskites
1
2
1
1
1
Carmen M Ruiz , Victoria Gonzalez-Pedro , Antonin Moreau , Judikael Le Rouzo , Jean-Jacques Simon , Ivan Mora2
1
Sero , Ludovic Escoubas
1
2
Aix Marseille Université, CNRS, Université de Toulon, IM2NP UMR 7334, Marseille, France, Photovoltaics and
Optoelectronic Devices Group, Departament de Fisica, Universitat Jaume I, Castello, Spain
4:45 (78) Assessing the accuracy of imaging techniques for defect characterization on thin film solar cells
1,2
1
2
1,2
Andreas Vetter , Bernhard Hofbeck , Peter Kubis , Christoph J. Brabec
1
2
ZAE Bayern (Bavarian Center of Applied Energy Research), Erlangen, Germany, i-MEET, Friedrich-AlexanderUniversität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany
Joint Area Session - Orals
3:30 - 5:00 PM
Strand 12 (Level 2)
Joint Area 1,3,4 &7: III-V on Si via Direct III-V/Si Heteroepitaxy
Chair(s): Kyle Montgomery, Stephanie Tomasulo
3:30 (79) Progress in the Development of Epitaxial GaAsP/Si Dual-Junction Solar Cells
1,2
2
2
3
2,3
Tyler J Grassman , Daniel J Chmielewski , Santino D Carnevale , John A Carlin , Steven A Ringel
1
2
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States, Dept.
3
of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States, Institute for
Materials Research, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States
4:00 (80) Investigation of GaP/Si heteroepitaxy on MOCVD prepared Si(100) surfaces
Emily L. Warren, Alan E. Kibbler, Ryan M. France, Andrew G. Norman, Jerry M. Olson, William E. McMahon
National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Go, CO, United States
4:15 Best Student Presentation Award Finalist
(81) High-Performance Metamorphic Tunnel Junctions on Si for III-V/Si Multijunction Solar Cells
1
1,2
1
3
1,3
Daniel J. Chmielewski , Tyler J. Grassman , Santino Carnevale , John A. Carlin , Steven A. Ringel
1
2
Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States, Dept. of
3
Materials Science and Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States, Institute for Materials
Research, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States
4:30 (82) Evolution of the Silicon Bottom Cell Photovoltaic Behavior during III-V on Si Multi-junction Solar Cells
Production
1
2
1
3
4
3,4
Elisa García-Tabarés , Diego Martín , Ignacio Rey-Stolle , Tyler J. Grassman , John A. Carlin , Steven A. Ringel
1
2
Instituto de Energía Solar, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain, Área de Tecnología Electrónica.
3
Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, Spain, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, The Ohio State
4
University, Columbus, OH, United States, Institute for Materials Research, The Ohio State University, Columbus,
OH, United States
4:45 (83) Watching the formation of the GaP/Si(100) heterointerface in situ
1,2,3
1,2,3
1,2
1
1
Oliver Supplie
, Matthias M. May
, Sebastian Brückner , Andreas Nägelein , Peter Kleinschmidt , Thomas
1,2
Hannappel
1
2
3
Ilmenau University of Technology, Ilmenau, Germany, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Humboldt
Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Social Activity
5:30 - 8:00 PM
Elite Hall (Level 1)
Exhibitor's Reception
12
TUESDAY, JUNE 16TH
Tuesday, June 16, 2015
Keynote - Keynote
8:15 - 8:30 AM
Empire Ballroom
Highlights & Announcements
8:15 Past Year PV Specialist Distinctions, Awards and Honors
Alexandre Freundlich
8:20 2015 PV Specialist EDS Fellows
Christopher Jannuzzi
IEEE Electron Device Society
8:25 Technical Program Highlights
Alexandre Freundlich
Area 5 - Plenary
8:30 - 9:00 AM
Empire Ballroom
Area 5 Plenary
Chair(s): Arno Smets
(84) The Future of Thin Film Silicon Solar Modules
Edward Hamers
HyET Solar, Arnhem, Netherlands
Area 4 - Plenary
9:00 - 9:30 AM
Empire Ballroom
Area 4 Plenary
Chair(s): Mariana Bertoni
(85) Skin care for healthy solar cells
Andres Cuevas
Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
Area 10 - Plenary
9:30 - 10:00 AM
Empire Ballroom
Area 10 Plenary
Chair(s): Annick Anctil
(86) US PV market development trends: Where we are today and where we are going
Robert Margolis
NREL, Washington, DC, United States
13
TUESDAY, JUNE 16TH
Break
10:00 - 10:30 AM
Elite Hall (Level 1)
Coffee Break
Area 2 - Posters
10:30 - 12:00 PM
Elite Hall B (Level 1)
Absorber Preparation and Material Properties (I)
Chair(s): James Sites, Bart Vermang, Lorelle Mansfield
C6 (87) Large performance improvement in Cu2ZnSnSe4 based solar cells by surface engineering with a
nanometric Ge layer
1
1
1
1
1
1
Sergio Giraldo , Markus Neuschitzer , Simón López-Marino , Yudania Sánchez , Haibing Xie , Mónica Colina ,
1
1
1
1,2
1
Marcel Placidi , Paul Pistor , Victor Izquierdo-Roca , Alejandro Pérez-Rodríguez , Edgardo Saucedo
1
2
Catalonia Institute for Energy Research (IREC), Sant Adriá del Besòs-Barcelona, Spain, Universitat de Barcelona,
Barcelona, Spain
C10 (88) Solution Processed Cu2NiSnS4 Nanoparticles: Potential Absorber Material for Thin Film Solar Cells
1
1
1
1
Anvita Kamble , Krishnaiah Mokurala , Sudhanshu Mallick , Parag Bhargava
1
2
Indian Institute of Technology bombay, Mumbai, India, Indian Institute of Technology bombay, Mumbai, India,
3
4
Indian Institute of Technology bombay, Mumbai, India, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India
C14 (89) MgxCd1-xTe for II-VI/Si tandem solar cell applications
1,2
1,3
1,3
1,2
1,2
1,2
Shi Liu , Xin-Hao Zhao , Calli Campbell , Maxwell Lassise , Yuan Zhao , Ernesto Suarez , Yong-Hang
1,2
Zhang
1
2
Center for Photonics Innovation, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States, School of Electrical,
3
Computer, and Energy Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States, School for Engineering of
Matter, Transport and Energy, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States
C18 (90) Study of Structural, Optical and Electrical Properties of Solution Processed Cu2CoSnS4 Absorber layer
for Thin Film Solar Cells
1
2
3
4
Krishnaiah Mokurala , Anvita Kamble , Parag Bhargava , Sudhanshu Mallick
1
2
Indian Institute of Technology bombay, Mumbai, India, Indian Institute of Technology bombay, Mumbai, India,
3
4
Indian Institute of Technology bombay, Mumbai, India, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India
C22 (91) Differences between CuGa/In and Cu/Ga/In Films for Selenization
1,2
2
2
2
2
2
Christopher P. Muzzillo , Lorelle M. Mansfield , Clay DeHart , Karen Bowers , Robert C. Reedy , Bobby To ,
2
1
Kannan Ramanathan , Timothy J. Anderson
1
2
University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, United
States
C26 (92) Fabrication of Single-Crystal Solar Cells from Phosphorous-Doped CdTe Wafer
Tursun Ablekim, Santosh K. Swain, Narendra S. Parmar, Kelvin G. Lynn
Center for Materials Research, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, United States
D2 (93) Impact of the Stack Order in Cu-Zn-Sn Metal Precursors on the Properties of Cu2ZnSnS4 Thin Films
1,2
2
1
1
Mohamed Abusnina , Mohammad Matin , Helio Moutinho , Mowafak Al-Jassim
1
2
National Renewable Energy Laboratory NREL, Golden, CO, United States, University of Denver, Denver, CO,
United States
D9 (94) Advances on CdTe thin film deposition using CdTe colloidal dispersions for photovoltaic applications
Antonio Arce-Plaza, Yasuhiro Matsumoto, Manuel Perez-Guzman, Mauricio Ortega-Lopez
Research Center and Advanced Studies of the National Polytechic Institute, Mexico, Mexico
D13 (95) Solution-Deposited CuIn(S,Se)2 Absorber Layers From Metal Chalcogenides
1
2
2
1
1
Panagiota Arnou , Carl S. Cooper , Andrei V. Malkov , John M. Walls , Jake W. Bowers
1
CREST (Centre for Renewable Energy Systems and Technology), School of Electronic, Electrical and Systems
2
Engineering, Loughborough University, Loughborough , United Kingdom, Department of Chemistry, Loughborough
University, Loughborough , United Kingdom
14
TUESDAY, JUNE 16TH
D17 (96) Phosphorus doping of polycrystalline CdTe by diffusion
Eric Colegrove, David S. Albin, Harvey Guthrey, James Burst, Helio Moutinho, Stuart Farrell, Mowafak Al-Jassim,
Wyatt Metzger, Steve Harvey
National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, United States
E1
(97) Effects Of Stoichiometry In Undoped CdTe Heteroepilayers On Si
1
2
2
2
2
1
Timothy A. Gessert , Eric Colegrove , Brian Stafford , Wei Gao , Siva Sivananthan , Darius Kuciauskas , Helio
1
1
1
Moutinho , Stuart Farrell , Teresa M. Barnes
1
2
National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, United States, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL,
United States
E5
(98) High efficiency Cu2ZnSnSe4:In doped based solar cells
1
2
1
1
1
2
Sergio Giraldo , Carmen M. Ruiz , Moisés Espíndola-Rodríguez , Yudania Sánchez , Marcel Placidi , Dario Cozza ,
2
2
1,3
1
Damien Barakel , Ludovic Escoubas , Alejandro Pérez-Rodríguez , Edgardo Saucedo
1
2
Catalonia Institute for Energy Research (IREC), Sant Adrià del Besòs-Barcelona, Spain, Aix-Marseille University 3
IM2NP, Marseille, France, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
E9
(99) Fabrication and Characterization of Cu2ZnSn(S, Se)4 with Aluminum Doping by Spray Pyrolysis Followed
by Selenization
1
2
1
1
1
2
Wei-Chih Huang , Xin Zeng , Shih-Yuan Wei , Chung-Hao Cai , Tzu-Ying Lin , Lydia Helena Wong , Chih-Huang
1
Lai
1
2
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, School of
Materials Science & Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore
E13 (100) In Situ Antimony Doping of CdTe
Md I Khan, Vamsi Evani, Vasilios Palekis, Prasad Bane, Shamara Collins, Don Morel, Chris Ferekides
University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, United States
E17 (101) Structural and electrical characterisation of MgCl2 treated CdTe solar cells
1
2
1
Jonathan D Major , Mohammed K Al Turkestani , Ken Durose
1
2
Stephenson Institute for Renewable Energy, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom, Department of
Physics, Umm Al-Qura University, Mecca, Saudi Arabia
2+
E21 (102) The reduction of Cu and crystal growth processes during colloidal synthesis of Cu2ZnSnS4
nanoparticles
Kazuki Morishita, Hiroyuki Suto, Itaru Kamiya
Toyota Technological Institute, Nagoya, Japan
E25 (103) XPS Se 3d peaks in Bridgman CuInSe2+x
Sunyoung Park, Clifford H. Champness, Ishiang Shih
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
F1
(104) Cu2ZnSnSe4 based solar cells prepared at high temperatures on Si/SiO2 sodium-free substrate
1
1
1
1
1
Marcel Placidi , Moisés Espíndola-Rodríguez , Simón López-Marino , Yudania Sánchez , Markus Neuschitzer ,
1
1
2
1,3
1
Victor Izquierdo-Roca , Xavier Fontané , Xavier Alcobé , Alejandro Pérez-Rodríguez , Edgardo Saucedo
1
2
Catalonia Institute for Energy Research, Sant Adrià del Besòs-Barcelona, Spain, Centres Científics i Tecnològics
3
(CCiTUB), Barcelona, Spain, IN2UB, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
F5
(105) Synthesis and characterization of CZTS thin film and solar cell by stacked layer reactive sputtering
1
2
1
Om P. Singh , J. S. Tawale , Vidya N. Singh
1
2
3
National Physical Laboratory, New Delhi, India, National Physical Laboratory, New Delhi, India, National Physical
Laboratory, New Delhi, India
F9
(106) A better understanding of reaction pathways of the formation of CZTSSe absorbers using co-sputtered
Cu-Zn-Sn-S precursors
Solange Temgoua, Romain Bodeux, Laurent Michely, Stephane Borensztajn, Negar Naghavi
IRDEP, Chatou, France
F13 (107) Evaluation of the CIGS precursor layer deposited by CuGa-NaF sputtering target and its effect for Na
distribution
1
1
2
1
1
Keita Umemoto , Ichiro Shiono , Hajime Chiba , Yuichi Kondo , Shoubin Zhang
1
2
Mitsubishi Materials Corporation, Sanda-Shi, Japan, Mitsubishi Materials Corporation, Naka-Shi, Japan
15
TUESDAY, JUNE 16TH
F17 (108) Fabrication of Cu2ZnSnS4 films by electrodeposition using Reline electrolyte
2
2
1
2
2
1
1,2
Linsong Wu , Jingyi Tan , Kai Tan , Peng Lin , Gang Wang , Shiping Jin , Yixin Lin
1
School of Energy and Power Engineering, Huazhong University of Science & Technology, Wuhan, 430074, China,
2
China-EU Institute for Clean and Renewable Energy, Huazhong University of Science & Technology, Wuhan,
430074, China
F21 (109) Emerging ternary chalcogenide thin film PV device development
1
1,2
1,2
1,3
2
Andriy Zakutayev , Adam W. Welch , Lauryn L. Baranowski , Francisco W. S. Lucas , Eric S. Toberer , Colin A.
2
Wolden
1
2
National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, United States, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO, United
3
States, Federal University of Sao Carlos, São Carlos, Brazil
F25 (110) Stability of the Solution for Single-step Electrodeposited Cu-Zn-Sn Metallic Precursors
Chao Zhang, Wei Hang, Chaowen Deng, Yitong Yang, He Wang, Zaixiang Qiao
Tianjin Institute of power source, Tianjin, China
G1 (111) Optical properties of indium-doped CdTe/MgCdTe double heterostructures
1,2
1,3
1,3
1,2
1,3
1,3
Xin-Hao Zhao , Shi Liu , Yuan Zhao , Calli M Campbell , Maxwell B Lassise , Ying-Shen Kuo , Yong-Hang
1,3
Zhang
1
2
Center for Photonics Innovation, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States, School for Engineering of
3
Matter, Transport and Energy, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States, School of Electrical, Computer
and Energy Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States
Area 3 - Posters
10:30 - 12:00 PM
Elite Hall C (Level 1)
III-V Solar Cells (I)
Chair(s): Masakazu Sugiyama, Alexander Haas, Corinne Packard
G23 (112) GaInNAs solar cell with back surface reflector
Timo Aho, Arto Aho, Antti Tukiainen, Ville Polojärvi, Jussi-Pekka Penttinen, Marianna Raappana, Mircea Guina
Optoelectronics Research Center, Tampere University of Technology, Tampere, Finland
G26 (113) The Stability of Metallized, Thin, Flexible III-V Structures for High Temperature Applications and Wafer
Bonding
Tingyu Bai, Brett Beekley, Michael Jackson, Mark Goorsky
UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, United States
G29 (114) On the use of Sb to Improve the Performance of GaInP Subcells of Multijunction Solar Cells
1
1
2
2
2
2
Laura Barrutia , Enrique Barrigón , Francesca Peiró , Lluis López-Conesa , José Manuel Rebled , Sonia Estradé ,
1
1
Ignacio Rey-Stolle , Carlos Algora
1
2
Instituto de Energía Solar, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain, Laboratory of Electron Nanoscopies
(LENS)-MIND/IN2UB, Barcelona, Spain
G32 (115) Development Of Wet Etch Processing For InxAl1-xAsySb1-y Solar Cells Grown On InP
1,2
1,2
1,3
1
1
Mitchell F. Bennett , Maria Gonzalez , Matthew P. Lumb , Michael K. Yakes , Kenneth J. Schmieder , Stephanie
1
1
1
1
Tomasulo , Joshua Abell , Jerry R. Meyer , Robert J. Walters
1
2
Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States, Sotera Defense Solutions, Herndon, VA, United
3
States, George Washington University, Washington, DC, United States
H3 (116) Design Principles of Nanostructured Window Solar Cells
1
1
2
1
3
1
1,3,4
Yusi Chen , Yangsen Kang , Dong Liang , Jieyang Jia , Li Zhao , Yijie Huo , James S. Harris
1
2
Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States, Department of Physics,
3
Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States, Department of Material Science and Engineering, Stanford, CA,
4
United States, Department of Applied Physics, Stanford, CA, United States
H6 (117) Ultrathin GaAs solar cells with a nanostructured back mirror
1
1
1
1
1
Stéphane Collin , Nicolas Vandamme , Julie Goffard , Andrea Cattoni , Aristide Lemaître , Jean-François
2
Guillemoles
1
2
Laboratoire de Photonique et de Nanostructures (LPN-CNRS), Marcoussis, France, Institut de Recherche et
Développement sur l'Energie Photovoltaïque, Chatou, France
16
TUESDAY, JUNE 16TH
H9 (118) Structure of the Acceptor Defects in P-type GaAsN Grown by Chemical Beam Epitaxy
Omar Elleuch, Li Wang, Kan-Hua Lee, Koshiro Demizu, Kazuma Ikeda, Nobuaki Kojima, Yoshio Ohshita, Masafumi
Yamaguchi
Toyota Technological Institute, Nagoya, Japan
H12 (119) High Temperature InGaN Solar Cell Modeling
1
2
2
2
Y. Fang , D. Vasileska , C. Honsberg , S.M. Goodnick
1
2
Department of Physics, Arizona State University, TEMPE, AZ, United States, School of Electrical, Computer and
Energy Engineering, Arizona State University, TEMPE, AZ, United States
H15 (120) High Separation Rate of Epitaxial Lift-Off Using Hydrophilic Solvent for III-V Solar Cell and Reusable
Ray Hua Horng, Fan-Lei Wu, Sin-Liang Ou, Yu-Cheng Kao
National Chung Hsing Univrsity, Taichung, Taiwan
H18 (121) The Bias-dependence of Luminescent Coupling Efficiency in Multijunction Solar Cells
1
2
1
1
4
1
3
1
Jieyang Jia , Yu Miao , Yangsen Kang , Yijie Huo , Mojgan Mazouchi , Yusi Chen , Li Zhao , Huiyang Deng , James
1,3
S. Harris
1
2
Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States, Department of
3
Microelectronics and Nanoelectronics, Beijing, China, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford
4
University, Stanford, Stanford, CA, United States, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of
Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States
H21 (122) Epitaxial Growth and Layer Transfer of InP via Electrochemically Etching / Annealing of Porous Buried
InP Layers: A Pathway for III-V Substrate Re-Use
Xiaolu Kuo, Mark S Goorsky
UCLA MSE, Los Angeles, CA, United States
H24 (123) Adjusting the conductivity of GaInNAs solar cells from p- to n-type with the As/III ratio
1
1
1,2
1
Fabian Langer , Svenja Perl , Sven Höfling , Martin Kamp
1
Technische Physik, Physikalisches Institut and Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen Research Center for Complex Material
2
Systems, Universtiy of Wuerzburg, Würzburg, Germany, SUPA, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of St
Andrews, St Andrews, Scotland
H27 (124) Prospect of InGaAsN Solar Cells Grown By Chemical Beam Epitaxy For High-Efficiency Multi-Junction
Solar Cells
Kan-Hua Lee, Kazuma Ikeda, Omar Elleuch, Li Wang, Koshiro Demizu, Nobuaki Kojima, Yoshio Ohshita, Masafumi
Yamaguchi
Toyota Technological Institute, Nagoya, Japan
H30 (125) Coreshell InGaN/GaN MQW Nanopillar Photovoltaic Device
1
1
1
2
2,3
4
Yun-Jing Li Li , Yuh-Lin Tsai , Jet-Rung Chang , Shih-Pang Chang , Chien-Chung Lin , Yuh-Jen Cheng , Hao-Chun
2
2
1
Kuo , Peichen Yu , Chun-Yen Chang
1
Department of Elctronics Engineering and Institute of Electronics, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu 300,
2
Taiwan, Department of Photonics and Institute of Electro-Optical Engineering, National Chiao Tung University,
3
Hsinchun 300, Taiwan, Institute of Lighting and Energy Photonics, National Chiao Tung University, Tainan 711,
4
Taiwan, Research Center for Applied Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei 115, Taiwan
I1
(126) High Temperature Characterization of GaAs Single Junction Solar Cells
Aymeric Maros, Srikanth Gangam, Justin Smith, Stephen Goodnick, Mariana Bertoni, Christiana B. Honsberg
School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States
I3
(127) Germanium Solar Cells Grown by Molecular Beam Epitaxy for Lattice-matched, Four-junction Solar
Cells
Taizo Masuda, Joseph Faucher, Minjoo Larry Lee
Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States
I5
(128) Luminescent Coupling Effects in Double-Junction Solar Cells
1
2
2
3
2
2
2
1
Mojgan Mazouchi , Jieyang Jia , Yijie Huo , Yu Miao , Yangsen Kang , Yusi Chen , James S. Harris , Mitra Dutta
1
2
University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States,
3
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
17
TUESDAY, JUNE 16TH
I7
(129) Effects of Arsenic Source Molecule on N-H related Defects Formation in GaAsN Grown by Chemical
Beam Epitaxy
1
1
1
1
1
2
Yoshio Ohshita , Koshiro Demizu , Omar Elleuch , Kazuma Ikeda , Nobuaki Kojima , Hideaki Machida , HIroshi
2
1
Sudoh , Masafumi Yamaguchi
1
2
Toyota Technological Institute, Nagoya, Japan, Gas-Phase Growth Ltd., Koganei, Japan
I9
(130) Indium Gallium Antimonide a better bottom subcell layer in III-V multijunction solar cells.
1
1
1
2
Raja A Penumaka , Bibek Tiwari , Indranil Bhattacharya , Simon Foo
1
2
Tennessee Technological University , Cookeville , TN, United States, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL,
United States
I11 (131) Development of a 2.0 eV AlGaInP Solar Cell Grown by OMVPE
1,2
1
1
1
1
1
1
Emmett E. Perl , John Simon , John F. Geisz , Waldo Olavarria , Michelle Young , Anna Duda , Pat Dippo , Daniel
1
1
J. Friedman , Myles A. Steiner
1
2
National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, United States, University of California at Santa Barbara,
Santa Barbara, CA, United States
I13 (132) Single and Multijunction Solar Cells with 1.0 eV Si-Ge-Sn Junction
1
1
2
Radek Roucka , Andrew Clark , Barbara Landini
1
2
Translucent Inc., Palo Alto, CA, United States, Sumika Electronic Materials, Phoenix, AZ, United States
I15 (133) Defect-Induced Performance Enhancement in Moderately Dislocated (1E8cm-2) GaAs Tunnel Diodes
Kaveh Shervin, Akhil Mehrotra, Alex Freundlich
University of Houston, Houston, TX, United States
Area 4 - Posters
10:30 - 12:00 PM
Elite Hall D (Level 1)
Surface Passivation
Chair(s): Shubham Duttagupta , Sachit Grover, Stuart Bowden
I17 (134) Metal-assisted etching of high aspect ratio structures for solar cell applications: Controlling the
porosity of Au thin films.
Katherine M. Booker, Maureen Brauers, Erin L. Crisp, Shakir Rahman, Klaus J. Weber, Andrew W. Blakers
Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
I21 (135) Implementation of Printed-AlOx PERC Technology on Multi-crystalline Silicon Solar Cells: Impact of
Wafer Quality
Tsung-Cheng Chen, Chen-Hao Ku, Yung-Sheng Lin, Cheng-Shun Hu, Ching-Chang Wen
E-TON SOLAR TECH CO., LTD., Tainan, Taiwan
I25 (136) Impact of Ozone-Based Cleaning on Surface Recombination with Different Passivation Materials
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4
5
1,3,6
1,3
Kristopher O. Davis
, Ismail Kashkoush , Adrienne Blum , Kortan Öğütman
, Eric Schneller , Ronald A.
5
1,2,3,6
Sinton , Winston V. Schoenfeld
1
2
Florida Solar Energy Center, University of Central Florida, Cocoa, FL, United States, CREOL, the College of Optics
3
and Photonics, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, United States, c-Si Division, U.S. Photovoltaic
4
5
Manufacturing Consortium, Orlando, FL, United States, Akrion Systems, LLC, Allentown, PA, United States, Sinton
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Instruments, Boulder, CO, United States, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of
Central Florida, Orlando, FL, United States
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I29 (137) Progress with Surface Passivation of Heavily Doped n Silicon by Industrial PECVD SiNx films
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3
1,2
Shubham Duttagupta , Bram Hoex , Armin G. Aberle
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2
Solar Energy Research Institute of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore, Department of Electrical and Computer
3
Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore, School of Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy
Engineering (SPREE), UNSW Australia, Sydney, Australia
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TUESDAY, JUNE 16TH
I33 (138) Microstructure of hydrogenated amorphous silicon layers studied by spectroscopic ellipsometry for the
surface passivation in heterojunction solar cells
1,2,3
1
1
1
2
2
2,4
Wanwu Guo
, Liping Zhang , Jian Bao , Fanying Meng , Yifeng Chen , Esther Lee , Zhiqiang Feng , Pierre
2
1,3
Verlinden , Zhengxin Liu
1
New Energy Technology Center, Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology (SIMIT), Chinese
2
Academy of Sciences (CAS), Shanghai, China, State Key Laboratory of PV Science and Technology (SKL-PVST),
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4
Trina Solar,, Changzhou, China, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, Jiangsu Collaborative
Innovation Center of Photovoltaic Science and Engineering, Changzhou University, , Changzhou, China
I37 (139) Effects of Stacking Passivation Structure with Interface Tuning Layer for Crystalline Si Solar Cell
Applications
1,5
1,2,4
1
3,4
3,4
Norihiro Ikeno , Takakaaki Katsumata
, Yoshihiro Yamashita , Shin-ichi Satoh , Haruhiko Yoshida , Koji
3,4
2
1,4
Arafune , Toyohiro Chikyow , Atsushi Ogura
1
2
3
4
Meiji Univ., Kawasaki, Japan, NIMS, Tsukuba, Japan, Univ. of Hyogo, Himeji, Japan, JST-CREST, Saitama,
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Japan, JSPS Research Fellow , Tokyo, Japan
I41 (140) New and Effective Anti Reflection (AR) Coating Of SiC-SiO2 Nano Composite for P-Type Silicon Solar
Cell
1,2
1
1,3
1
1,3
Azmira Jannat , Woojin Lee , M. Shaheer Akhtar , Zhen Yu Li , O-Bong Yang
1
School of Semiconductor and Chemical Engineering, Solar Energy Research Center Chonbuk National University,
2
567 Baekjedaero, Deokjin-gu, Jeonju,Jeonbuk 561-756, South Korea, Solar Energy Engineering, Chonbuk National
3
University, Jeonju, Jeonbuk 561-756, South Korea, New & Renewable Energy Material Development Center
(NewREC), Chonbuk National University, Jeonbuk 561-756, South Korea
J1
(141) SiOx(C)/SiNx Dual-Layer Anti-Reflectance Coating For Improving Solar Cell Efficiency
1
1
2
1
Xiaojie Jia , Chunlan Zhou , Yehua Tang , Wenjing Wang
1
The Key Laboratory of Solar Thermal Energy and Photovoltaic System, Institute of Electrical Engineering, CAS,
2
Beijing, China, Eoplly New Energy Technology Co., Ltd, Nantong, China
J5
(142) Ultraviolet-Induced Degradation of PECVD SiNx:H Passivation
Takefumi Kamioka, Daisuke Takai, Tomihisa Tachibana, Takuto Kojima, Yoshio Ohshita
Toyota Technological Institute, Nagoya, Japan
J9
(143) Photo-Carrier Generation at a-Si Layer in SiNx/a-Si Stacked Passivation with Extremely Low Surface
Recombination Velocity
Koichi Koyama, Koichi Higashimine, Keisuke Ohdaira, Hideki Matsumura
Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Nomi, Japan
J13 (144) Al2O3/SiON stack structure for n-type c-Si solar cells
1
2
1
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2
2
2
Youngseok Lee , Seunghwan Lee , Nagarajan Balaji , Cheolmin Park , Sungyoun Chung , Jungmo Kim , Junsin Yi
1
2
Department of Energy Science, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, South Korea, College of Information and
Communication Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, South Korea
J17 (145) An Excellent Encapsulation of Silicone on an Optimized-ZnO-nanowires anti-reflection layer for
Crystalline-Si photovoltaic devices
1
1
2
2
3
Siou-Yi Lin , Shoou-Jinn Chang , Yu-En Wu , Hau-Cheng Wu , Ting-Jen Hsueh
1
Institute of Microelectronics & Department of Electrical Engineering National Cheng Kung University, Tainan,
2
Taiwan, Department of Electrical Engineering, National Kaohsiung First University of Science and Technology,
3
Kaohsiung, Taiwan, National Nano Device Laboratories, Tainan, Taiwan
J21 (146) Inverted and upright pyramid textures for high light trapping in thin crystalline silicon solar cells
Xianqin MENG, Rafael Kleiman
Engineering Physics, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada
J25 (147) Interface investigations of hydrogen plasma etched silicon surfaces for heterojunction silicon solar cell
applications
Thomas Mueller, Muzhi Tang, Jia Ge, Johnson Wong
Solar Energy Research Institute of Singapore (SERIS), Singapore, Singapore
J29 (148) SiO2/SiNx Stacking Layer for Rear Surface Passivation of PERC
1
2
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3
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Kyotaro Nakamura , Keitarou Okamoto , Yusuke Kawamoto , Yasushi Yoshino , Yoshio Ohshita
1
2
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Meiji University, Kawasaki, Japan, MITSUBOSHI DIAMOND INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD, Settsu, Japan, NORITAKE
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CO., LIMITED, Miyoshi, Japan, Toyota Technological Institute, Nagoya, Japan
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TUESDAY, JUNE 16TH
J33 (149) Rear Contact Solar Cell With ZrO2 Nano Structured Front Surface For Efficient Light Trapping and
Enhanced Surface Passivation
Rahul Pandey, Rishu Chaujar
Delhi Technological University , New Delhi, India
J37 (150) New Concept of PECVD Reactor for Efficient Production of Silicon Heterojunction Solar Cells
1
2
1
2
1
1
Omid Shojaei , Antoine Descoeudres , Ulrich Kroll , Loris Barraud , Fabrice Jeanneret , Arnaud Limouzin , Matthieu
2
2
Despeisse , Christophe Ballif
1
2
INDEOtec, Neuchatel, Switzerland, CSEM, Neuchatel, Switzerland
J40 (151) Modified Silicon nanotips with improved carrier lifetime by using solution process for efficient solar
cells applications
1
1
1
1
2
1,2,3
Thiyagu Sunbramani , Hong-Jhang Syu , Chen-Chih Hsueh , Chien-Ting Liu , Song-Ting Yang , Ching-Fuh Lin
1
2
Graduate Institute of Photonics and Optoelectronics, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, Graduate Institute
3
of Electronics Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Electrical Engineering,
National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
J43 (152) Recombination lifetime estimation at crystalline defects layer induced by SiNx deposition using plasma
CVD
1
1
1
2
1
Tomihisa Tachibana , Takuto Kojima , Daisuke Takai , Atsushi Ogura , Yoshio Ohshita
1
2
Toyota Tech. Inst, Nagoya, Japan, Meiji Univ., Kawasaki, Japan
K2
(153) The Influence of ALD SiOx/AlOx stacks passivation on Interdigitated Back Contact Solar Cells
Yun Kuo Tsao, Chia Chih Chuang
Motech Industries, Inc. Science Park Branch, Tainan, Taiwan
K5
(154) Industrial applications of a novel technology for commercial multicrystalline silicon solar cells
1
1
1
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2
2
2
2
Enyu Wang , Hong Yang , He Wang , Jianming Dong , Jin Liu , Kewei Zhao , Chun Gong , Andreas Teppe
1
2
3
Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China, Xi'an Jiaotong University, xi'an,
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China, Lu'an Photovoltaics Technology CO.,LtdLu'an Photovoltaics Technology CO.,Ltd, Changzhi, China, Lu'an
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Photovoltaics Technology CO.,Ltd, Changzhi, China, Lu'an Photovoltaics Technology CO.,Ltd, Changzhi, China,
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Lu'an Photovoltaics Technology CO.,Ltd, Changzhi, China, Lu'an Photovoltaics Technology CO.,Ltd, Changzhi,
China
K7
(155) Optimization of local contact formation on Screen-printed Al2O3 Passivated Solar Cells
1,2
1
Xusheng WANG , Guoqiang Xing
1
2
Canadian Solar Inc, Suzhou, China, Photovoltaic Research Institute of Soochow University, Suzhou, China
K9
(156) Raman Spectroscopy Study of Crystalline Damage Induced by PECVD SiN
1
1
1
2
2
1
Yoshihiro Yamashita , Norihiro Ikeno , Nagisa Aizawa , Tomihisa Tachibana , Yoshio Ohshita , Atsushi Ogura
1
2
Meiji University, Kawasaki, Japan, Toyota technological institute, Nagoya, Japan
K11 (157) Electrical and Optical Characterization of Crystalline-Si Solar Cell with Down Shifting Eu-Doped Silicate
Phosphors Film Depending on the Coverage of Phosphors Particles Using Spin-on Film Process
Guo-Chang Yang, Wen-Jeng Ho, Chien-Wu Yeh, Yu-Tang Shen, Ruei-Siang Sue, Chia-Hua Hu, Yu-Jie Deng
National Taipei University of Technology, Taipei, Taiwan
K13 (158) Transparent conducting oxide-based, passivated contacts for high efficiency crystalline Si solar cells
1
2
1
2
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1
Woojun Yoon , Eunhwan Cho , Jason D. Myers , Youngwoo Ok , Matthew P. Lumb , Jesse A. Frantz , David
1
1
2
1
Scheiman , Phillip P. Jenkins , Ajeet Rohatgi , Robert J. Walters
1
2
U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States, University Center of Excellence for Photovoltaic
3
Research and Education, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, United States, The George Washington
University, Washington, DC, United States
K15 (159) A New Method to Determine Surface Recombination Velocity for Point Contact Solar Cells
Z ZHOU, A LIAO, I Perez-Wurfl
UNSW, Sydney, Australia
20
TUESDAY, JUNE 16TH
Area 5 - Posters
10:30 - 12:00 PM
Elite Hall E (Level 1)
Thin-Film Silicon PV Technology
Chair(s): Rajiv O Dusane, Nikolas Podraza, Matthias Meier
K20 (160) EFFECT OF OXIDATION ON WETTING BEHAVIOR BETWEEN SILICON AND SILICON CARBIDE
zineb benouahmane, lifeng zhang
K21 (161) Methods of Nano-crystallization of Thin Silicon Films
1
2
2
Michal Kolodziej , Tomasz Kolodziej , Andrzej Kolodziej
1
AGH University of Science and Technology, Department of Automatics and Biomedical Engineering, Krakow,
2
Poland, AGH University of Science and Technology, Department of Electronics, Krakow, Poland
K22 (162) Passivated interfaces in fluorinated microcrystalline silicon thin film solar cells
Josua Stuckelberger, Simon Hänni, Bjoern Niesen, Franz-Josef Haug, Christophe Ballif
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Neuchâtel, Switzerland
K23 (163) Quantum Efficiency Simulations with Inputs from Spectroscopic Ellipsometry for Evaluation of Carrier
Collection in a-Si:H Solar Cells
Puruswottam Aryal, Zhiquan Huang, Nikolas J. Podraza, Robert W. Collins
Center for Photovoltaics Innovation & Commercialization and Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of
Toledo, Toledo, OH, United States
K24 (164) ~23% Increase in Efficiency of 100nm Thin Film a-Si Solar Cells Using Combination of Si/InN and Au
Nanoparticles
1
1
2
2,3
4
1
Farsad Imtiaz Chowdhury , Aaesha Alnuaimi , Sabri Alkis , Ali Kemal Okyay , Munir Nayfeh , Ammar Nayfeh
1
Institute Center for Microsystems (iMicro), Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS),
2
Masdar Institute of Science and Technology, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, UNAM – National Nanotechnology
Research Center and Institute of Materials Science and Nanotechnology, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey,
3
4
Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey, Department of Physics,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States
K25 (165) Symmetry-Breaking Nanostructures for Enhanced Light-Trapping in Thin Film Solar Cells
Swapnadip Ghosh, Seok Jun Han, Brittany R Hoard, Ethan C Culler, Jose E Bonilla, Eric J Martin, John K Grey,
Sang M Han, Sang E Han
University of New Mexico , Albuquerque, NM, United States
K26 (166) Roadmap for Multi-functional PV Contacts
1
1
2
1
David Ginley , John Perkins , Inna Kozinsky , Joe Berry
1
2
NREL, Golden, CO, United States, DOE EERE, Washington, DC, United States
K27 (167) Study of Prolonged Light-Soaking (~400 Hrs) Effect on Pm-Si:H Solar Cell Structures
1
1
1
2
Leon Hamui , B. Marel Monroy , Guillermo Santana , Pere Roca i Cabarrocas
1
2
IIM-UNAM, Mexico, Mexico, CNRS-LPICM, Palaiseau, France
K28 (168) Solar cell composed of colossal magneto-capacitance and SiGe/Si thin film
C.-F. Hsieh
Center for Measurement Standards, Industrial Technology Research Institute, Hsinchu, Taiwan
K29 (169) Numerical Analysis and Optimal Design of Efficient Si/SiC Thin-film Solar Cells
1
2
3
4
5
Mohamed H Ibliha , Leonardo Bueno , Bruno Vizcarra , Ghulam M Chaudhry , Mahbube Khoda Siddiki
1
Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, University of Missouri Kansas City, Kansas City, MO,
2
United States, Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering, University of Missouri Kansas City, Kansas City,
3
MO, United States, Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, University of Missouri Kansas City,
4
Kansas City, MO, United States, Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, University of Missouri
5
Kansas City, Kansas City, MO, United States, Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering,
University of Missouri Kansas City, Kansas City, MO, United States
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TUESDAY, JUNE 16TH
K30 (170) Fabrication of Flexible Amorphous Silicon Thin Film Solar Cells and Modules with Monolithic Series
Structure on Flexible Glass Substrate
1,2
3
1,2
1
1
1
1
1
Wang Li , Guoping Du , Shiyong Liu , Lu Liu , Shipeng Wang , Weizhi Han , Haiyan Huang , Chuan Lu , Xinwei
1
Niu
1
2
3
Chint Solar (Zhejiang) Co., Ltd., Hangzhou, China, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, Nanchang University,
Nanchang, China
K31 (171) Performance of Inorganic Photovoltaic Structures Employing Heterojunctions with Large Band Gap
Materials
1,2
1
2
Rosendo Lopez Delgado , Arturo Ayon , Mario Enrique Alvarez Ramos
1
2
University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, United States, University of Sonora, Hermosillo, Sonora,
Mexico
K32 (172) Highly Conductive TCO by RF Sputtering of Al:ZnO for Thin Film Photovoltaics
Navid Mohammad Sadeghi Jah, Mohsen Mahmoudysepehr, Siva Sivoththaman
Centre for Advanced Photovoltaic Devices and Systems,Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Waterloo,
ON, Canada
K33 (173) a-Si:H Based Photovoltaic Cell with MoOx Hole Collection Layer
1
2
2
2
1
Erenn Ore , Jimmy Melskens , Arno Smets , Miro Zeman , Gehan Amaratunga
1
2
Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, EWI Faculty, Delft University of
Technology, Delft, Netherlands
K34 (174) ZnO:Al for thin-film solar cell application: Optimization and prediction of conductivity on textured
substrates
1
1
2
1
1
Nicolas Sommer , Jürgen Hüpkes , Noel Wilck , Florian Lentz , Uwe Rau
1
2
IEK-5 Photovoltaics, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Jülich, Germany, Institute of Semiconductor Electronics,
RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
K35 (175) Correcting the inherent distortion in luminescence images of silicon solar cells
Anthony S. Teal, Mattias K. Juhl
University of NSW, Sydney, Australia
K36 (176) Improving surface passivation capability of silicon heterojunction solar cells with amorphous silicon by
optical emission spectrometry
1
2
3
4
5
6
Guanghong Wang , Ge Wang , Ruidan Hu , Lei Zhao , Hongwei Diao , Wenjing Wang
1
2
Institute of Electrical Engineering, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, Institute of Electrical
3
Engineering, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, Institute of Electrical Engineering, the Chinese
4
Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, Institute of Electrical Engineering, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing,
5
6
China, Institute of Electrical Engineering, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, Institute of Electrical
Engineering, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
K37 (177) Changing in irradiation behavior and temperature-coefficient variation caused by light-induced
degradation of a-Si/µc-Si solar cells
Johannes A. Weicht, Frank U. Hamelmann, Grit Behrens
University of Applied Sciences Bielefeld, Minden, Germany
Area 9 - Posters
10:30 - 12:00 PM
Elite Hall F (Level 1)
Modules, Manufacturing, Systems and Applications (I)
Chair(s): Olga Lavrova, Dan Riley, Clifford Hansen
N17 (178) A technique for tracking the global maximum power point of photovoltaic arrays under partial shading
conditions
jawad ahmad, Alessandro Ciocia, Paolo D Leo, Filippo Spertino
politecnico di torino, torino, Italy
N20 (179) MPP Tracking of PV Based Low Voltage DC Microgrid System with Adaptive Droop Algorithm.
Sijo Augustine, Mahesh K. Mishra, N. Lakshmi Narasamma, T. Sreekanth
IIT Madras, Chennai, India
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TUESDAY, JUNE 16TH
N23 (180) Flexible silicon heterojunctions solar cells and modules
André Augusto, Luc Reboulet, Stanislau Y Herasimenka, Stuart Bowden
Arizona State University, Electrical Engineering, Tempe, AZ, United States
N26 (181) Experimental Performance Investigation of Uniform and Non-uniform Cooling Techniques for
Photovoltaic Systems
Haitham M.S. Bahaidarah
King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia
N29 (182) Design and implementation of electronic equipment that emulates photovoltaic panels
1
2
3
Lina M Barrera Gamboa , Ricardo Andrés Osorio Muñoz , César Leonardo Trujillo Rodriguez
1
2
Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas, Bogotá, Columbia, Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas,
3
Bogotá, Columbia, Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas, Bogotá, Columbia
N32 (183) PV System Power Loss and Module Damage due to Partial Shade and Bypass Diode Removal Depends
on Cell Behavior in Reverse Bias
Adria E Brooks, Daniel Cormode, Alexander D Cronin
University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States
O3 (188) Tessera: Scalable, Shade Robust Module
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
Anna Carr , Koen De Groot , Mark Jansen , Evert Bende , John Van Roosmalen , Lars Okel , Wilma Eerenstein ,
2
2
3
3
4
Rudi Jonkman , Robert Van der Sanden , Jan Bakker , Bart De Gier , Adriaan Harthoorn
1
2
3
4
ECN, Petten, Netherlands, Heliox, Best, Netherlands, Eurotron, Bleskensgraaf, Netherlands, Stafier Solar
systems, Zevenaar, Netherlands
N35 (184) A Novel Single Stage Zero Leakage Current Transformer less Inverter for Grid Connected PV Systems
Phani Kumar Chamarthi, Mini Rajeev, Vivek Agarwal
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India
N38 (185) A Convergence Algorithm for Maximum Power Point Tracking of Photovoltaic Arrays with Bypass
Diodes
1
2
Brandon M Contino , Guangyong U Li
1
2
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States
N41 (186) Design and Thermal Testing of a Power Supply Prototype for the Space Plasma Ionic Charge Analyzer
(SPICA) CubeSat
1
1
2
Rachid Darbali-Zamora , Eduardo I. Ortiz-Rivera , Amilcar A. Rincon-Charris
1
2
University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez, PR, United States, Inter American University of Puerto Rico, Bayamon, PR,
United States
N44 (187) Ultra-Dense Energy Storage Utilizing High Melting Point Metallic Alloys and Photovoltaic Cells
Alejandro Datas, Antonio Martí, Carlos del Cañizo, Antonio Luque
Instituto de Energía Solar - Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
O6 (189) Development and Prototype Validation of a Novel Bidirectional Intelligent Conversion and Connection
Unit (BICC) for Grid-Connected Photovoltaic-Storage Systems
1
1
1
1
Antonia Sonia A. C. Diniz , Lauro V. B. Machado Neto , Suellen C. S. Costa , Thiago A. Silverio , Marcio E. M.
2
2
2
2
3
Souza , Denio A. Cassini , Francisco H. A. F. Souza , Danilo D. S. Alves , Wilton de C. Padrão , Flavio M. C.
3
4
Michel , Delly Oliveira Filho
1
2
GREEN Solar-IPUC, Pontificia Universidade Catolica Minas Gerais –PUCMinas, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, Companhia
3
Energética de Minas Gerais – CEMIG-D, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, Engetron Ltda, Belo Horizonte, Brazil,
4
Universidade Federal de Viçosa - UFV, Viçosa, Brazil
O9 (190) Partial Shading Abatement through a Two-Stage Power Electronic System Topology for Photovoltaic
Modules
Mark Elliott, Michael McIntyre, Joseph Latham
University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, United States
O12 (191) Development of a Solar Photovoltaic Module Emulator
Yunus Erkaya, Paul Moses, Isaac Flory, Sylvain Marsillac
Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, United States
23
TUESDAY, JUNE 16TH
O15 (192) A Multivariate Approach to Utilizing Mid-sequence Process Control Data
1,3
2
Rhett Evans , Matthew Boreland
1
2
Australian Centre for Advanced Photovoltaics, UNSW, Sydney, Australia, School of Photovoltaic and Renewable
3
Energy Engineering, Sydney, Australia, Solinno Pty Ltd, Sydney, Australia
O18 (193) Printed module interconnects
1
1,2
1
Jeremy D. Fields , Gregory Pach , Maikel F.A.M. van Hest
1
2
National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, United States, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, United
States
O21 (194) Electrical Power System Support-Function Capabilities of Residential and Small Commercial Inverters
Sigifredo Gonzalez, Jay Johnson, Jason Neely
Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States
O24 (195) Low-cost Copper Conductive Grids for Thin-film Solar Cells Formed by Screen Printing and Laser
Sintering.
1
1
1
2
2
3
Simon J Henley , Miroslaw Kula , Adam N Brunton , C. W. Aaron Chan , Richard Dixon , Brendan Dunne
1
2
3
M-Solv Ltd., Oxford, United Kingdom, Intrisiq Materials Ltd., Farnborough, United Kingdom, Nexcis Photovoltaic
Technology, Rousset, France
O27 (196) Advanced Maximum Power Point Tracking Scheme for Centralized Inverters for Large Solar
Photovoltaic Power Plants
1
2
3
4
5
Prashant Jain , Vivek Agarwal , Bishnu Prasad Muni , Deepak Gehlot , Gautam S
1
2
3
Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited, Hyderabad, India, Fellow, IEEE, Bombay, India, Bharat Heavy Electricals
4
5
Limited, Hyderabad, India, Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited, Hyderabad, India, Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited,
Hyderabad, India
O29 (197) Micro Chiplet Printer For Micro-scale Photovoltaic System Assembly
1
1
1
1
1
1
Jeng Ping Lu , Gregory L. Whiting , David K. Biegelsen , Sourobh Raychaudhuri , Rene A. Lujan , Janos Veres ,
1
1
2
3
2
Eugene M. Chow , Patrick Y. Maeda , Vipin Gupta , Gregory N. Nielson , Scott M. Paap
1
2
PARC, a Xerox company, Palo Alto, CA, United States, Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, CA, United
3
States, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States
O31 (198) Module-based Storage for Regulating PV Power Intermittency at the Point of Generation
Doug L Maskell, Srivatsan Ramasubramanian, Qing Xu
NTU, Singapore, Singapore
O33 (199) Chaos Control DC-DC boost converter by FPGA
1
2
Ammar N Natsheh , Mohammed S Al-Habibah
1
2
Middle East University, Amman, Jordan, Solutions Company, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
O35 (200) Reliability Prediction of PV Inverters Based on MIL-HDBK-217F N2
Firas Abdullah Obeidat
1, manchester, United Kingdom
O36 (201) Comparison study on MPPT techniques for PV module using MATLAB/Simulink
1
1
2
Sagar P Patel , Homraz Amrolia , Amar Hinduja
1
2
Institute of Technology,Nirma University, Ahmedabad, India, Kolorrol Energy Pvt. Ltd., Ahmedabad, India
O37 (202) Performance Enhancement of a Shaded Light Trapping Solar Module
Cheng-Yu Peng, Zhong-Jia Ji, Shang-Yeh Wen, Huei-Ting Yan
Industrial Technology Research Institute, Taiwan, Taiwan
O38 (203) Expedited Nonlinear Equivalent Resistance MPPT via Solar Power Prediction
1
1
2
1
Chaitanya Poolla , Abraham Ishihara , Rodney Martin , Steve Rosenberg
1
2
Carnegie Mellon University (SV), Mountain View, CA, United States, NASA Ames Research Center, Mountain View,
CA, United States
O39 (204) Development of an Ion-Barrier Film on Solar Panel Glass
1
1
2
2
2
2
Sergiu C. Pop , Ralf Schulze , Brenor Brophy , Sina Maghsoodi , Y. Sam Yang , Ze'ev R. Abrams , Peter
2
Gonsalves
1
2
Yingi Green Energy Americas Inc., San Francisco, CA, United States, Enki Technology Inc., San Jose, CA, United
States
24
TUESDAY, JUNE 16TH
O40 (205) Novel Solar PV-Fuel Cell fed Dual-Input-Dual-Output DC-DC Converter for DC Microgrid Applications
Prajof Prabhakaran, Vivek Agarwal
Indian Insitute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India
O41 (206) Novel Boost-SEPIC type Interleaved DC-DC Converter for Low-Voltage Bipolar DC Microgrid-tied Solar
PV Applications
Prajof Prabhakaran, Vivek Agarwal
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India
O42 (207) Novel Transformer-Less Inverter Topology for Single-Phase Grid Connected Photovoltaic System
Mini Rajeev, Vivek Agarwal
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India
O43 (208) Design and Implementation of a Low Cost Solar Panel Emulator
Ahmed Sanaullah, Hassan A Khan
EE Dept. Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), Lahore, Pakistan
O44 (209) A Single Stage Coupled Inductor Based High Gain DC-AC Buck-Boost Inverter for PhotoVoltaic (PV)
Applications
T. Sreekanth, N. Lakshmi Narasamma, Mahesh K. Mishra, Sijo Augustine
IIT Madras, chennai, India
P1
(210) A Novel Maximum Power Extraction Technique for Rapidly Changing NUI Conditions
1
2
2
ASWANI UPPADA , Siddhartha P Duttagupta , Eldho T I
1
2
RESEARCH SCHOLAR, MUMBAI, India, PROFESSOR, MUMBAI, India
P2
(211) Analytical model of stress distribution of solder strip of crystalline silicon cells under temperature field
Ao Wang, He Wang, Hong Yang, Dingyue Cao
Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China
P3
(212) High Temperature Stability of Broadband Anti-Reflection Coatings on Soda Lime Glass for Solar
Modules
1,2
1
1
Gerald Womack , Piotr M Kaminski , John M Walls
1
CREST (Centre for Renewable Energy Systems and Technology), School of Electronic, Electrical and Systems
2
Engineering, Loughborough University, Loughborough, United Kingdom, National Structural Integrity Research
Centre (NSIRC Ltd.), Granta Park, Great Abington, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Area 10 - Posters
10:30 - 12:00 PM
Elite Hall G (Level 1)
PV Deployment and Sustainability
Chair(s): Kristen Ardani, Gabrielle Gaustad, Mike Coddington
P4
(213) Impacts of Retail Electricity Rate Feedback, Rate Design, and Photovoltaic Compensation Mechanisms
on Distributed Solar Deployment in the United States
Naïm R. Darghouth, Ryan Wiser, Galen Barbose, Andrew D. Mills
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States
P5
(214) “Nanogrids in India: A conceptual solution for off grid/rural electrification”
1
1
Alpesh Dharamsinh Desai , Indrajit Mukhopadhyay
1
2
School of Solar Energy,Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University, Gandhinagar, India, School of Solar Energy,Pandit
Deendayal Petroleum University, Gandhinagar, India
P6
(215) BOS Cost Reduction via Direct PV Charging of Electrical Vehicles
1,2
S Krauter
1
2
University of Paderborn, Paderborn, Germany, Photovoltaik Institut Berlin, Berlin, Germany
P7
(216) Planning and Designing of distributed PV of Suzhou Industrial Park
1
2
Tao Li , Wenjing Wang
1
2
CAS, beijing, China, CAS, beijing, China
25
TUESDAY, JUNE 16TH
P8
(217) Grid-connected Solar Photovoltaic for Petrol Stations in Kuwait
1
1
2
1
Ahmad AL-Otaibi , Yehya AL-Hadban , Khaled Al-Mazeedi , Ayman Al-Qattan
1
2
Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research, Shuwaikh, Kuwait, Kuwait Petroleum Corporation, Shuwaikh, Kuwait
P9
(218) IEEE 1547 Standards Advancing Grid Modernization
Thomas Basso
National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, United States
P10 (219) Enhancement of Grid Connected Storage Systems
1
2
1
Richard John Bravo , Chuong Ly , Victor Tran
1
2
Southern California Edison, Westminster, CA, United States, Southern California Edison, Pomona, CA, United
States
P11 (220) Distributed Energy Resources Challenges for Utilities
1
2
3
4
Richard John Bravo , Roger Salas , Chase Sun , Thomas Bialek
1
2
Southern California Edison, Westminster, CA, United States, Southern California Edison, Pomona, CA, United
3
4
States, Pacific Gas and Electric, San Francisco, CA, United States, San Diego Gas and Electric, San Diego, CA,
United States
P12 (221) Economic analysis of a grid connected photovoltaic system in Recife, Brazil
1
2
3
4
Alvaro Calazans , Ghulam M Chaudhry , Mahbube K Siddiki , Michael Kelly
1
2
Department of Electrical Engineering Federal University of Campina Grande, Campina Grande, Brazil, Department
of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, University of Missouri Kansas City, Kansas City, MO, United States,
3
Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, University of Missouri Kansas City, Kansas City, MO,
4
United States, Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, University of Missouri Kansas City,
Kansas City, MO, United States
P13 (222) Economic Competitiveness of U.S. Utility-Scale Photovoltaics Systems: Regional Cost Modeling of
Installed Cost ($/W) and LCOE ($/kWh)
1
2
1
1
1
1
Ran Fu , Ted James , Donald Chung , Douglas Gagne , Anthony Lopez , Aron Dobos
1
2
1National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO, United States, Pacific Gas & Electric Company
(PG&E), San Francisco, CA, United States
P14 (223) Methodology for Technical Analysis to Massify PV Systems as an Option for Distributed Energy
Generation in Low-Tension Voltage Systems
1
2
3
Johann Hernández , Carlos Arredondo , William vallejo
1
2
Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas, Bogotá, Columbia, Universidad de Medellín, Medellín, Columbia,
3
Universidad del Atlántico, Barranquilla, Columbia
P15 (224) Photovoltaic Projects Developed in Non-Interconnected Zones in Colombia
Johann Hernández, Cesar Trujillo, Francisco Santamaría
Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas, Bogotá, Columbia
P16 (225) A Simple Green Process to Recycle Si from Crystalline-Si Solar Cells
1
2
Wen-Hsi Huang , Meng Tao
1
School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States,
2
School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States
P17 (226) Real Time Estimation of PV Output in Distribution Systems Based on Smart Meters and Irradiance
Measurement
1,2
1,2
Kyohhei Kamono , Yuzuru Ueda
1
2
Tokyo University of Science, Tokyo, Japan, CREST, JST, Saitama, Japan
P18 (227) Field Verification and Data Analysis of High PV Penetration Impacts on Distribution Systems
1
2
1
1
1
Farid Katiraei , Barry Mather , Ahmadreza Momeni , Li Yu , Gerardo Sanchez
1
2
Quanta, Markham, ON, Canada, NREL, Denver, CO, United States
P19 (228) Effective large scale PV integration: Methods to match load profile with actual PV output
1,2
Stefan Krauter
1
2
University of Paderborn, Paderborn, Germany, Photovoltaik Institut Berlin, Berlin, Germany
P20 (229) A Study on the Maximum Use of PV Power in a Residential Community –the case of Utilizing of Demand
Response Program–
1
1
1
2
2
Hiroto Kuroiwa , Tomohide Yazamazaki , Shinji Wakao , Kei Morita , Yasuo Nakatsuka
1
2
Waseda University, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan, JX Nippon Oil & Energy Corporation, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan
26
TUESDAY, JUNE 16TH
P21 (230) Solar Power Simulations for a Renewable Integration Study in New Mexico Using Sparse Input Data
1
2
Matthew Lave , Abraham Ellis
1
2
Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, CA, United States, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM,
United States
P22 (231) Open Use Solar PV Plant Power Production Data Sets
Rick Meeker, James Langston, Ruturaj Soman
Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, United States
P23 (232) Solar on US Tribal Lands
1
2
Paula J Mints , Curt Shannon
1
2
SPV Market Research, San Jose, CA, United States, Conation Energy, Phoenix, AZ, United States
P24 (233) Photovoltaic Crystalline and Thin film Capacity, Production, Shipments and Inventory, 1982-2019, Past
and Future Trends
Paula J Mints
SPV Market Research, San Jose, CA, United States
P29 (238) Impact of Micro-inverter Reactive Power Support Capability in High Penetration Residential PV
Networks
Ibrahima Ndiaye, Xinhui Wu, Mohammed Agamy
GE Global Research Center, Niskayuna, NY, United States
P25 (234) Sizing Considerations Based on Name plate specifications of photovoltaic (PV) module
1
2
3
PG Nikhil , D Subhakar , Supinder Jeet Singh
1
2
3
National Institute of Solar EnergyA, HARYANA, India, Vellore Institute of Technology, TAMIL NADU, India, Ministry
of New and Renewable EnergyC, NEW DELHI, India
P26 (235) Displacing California's Coal and Nuclear Generation With Solar PV and Wind by 2022 Using Vehicle-ToGrid Energy Storage
1
2
Larry D Partain , Lewis M Fraas
1
2
Solar Cell Electricity, Los Altos, CA, United States, JX Crystals, Issaquah, WA, United States
P27 (236) PV-Induced Low Voltage and Mitigation Options
Jimmy E. Quiroz, Matthew J. Reno, Robert J. Broderick
Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States
P28 (237) "ALTERNATIVES BUSINESS MODELS FOR DEPLOYMENT OF SOLAR PV APPLICATIONS IN RURAL
INDIA"
2
1
Saumya Anand Srivastava , A. B. Rao
1
2
A.B. Rao, Mumbai, India, Saumya Anand Srivastava, Mumbai, India
P30 (239) The Modeling of Distribution Feeders Enhanced by Distributed Generation in DIgSILENT
1
2
2
Insu Kim , Raeey Regassa , Ronald Harley
1
2
Alabama A&M University, Huntsville, AL, United States, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, United States
P31 (240) The Investigation of the Maximum Effect of the Volt/Var Control of Distributed Generation on Voltage
Regulation
1
2
2
Insu Kim , Ronald Harley , Raeey Regassa
1
2
Alabama A&M University, Huntsville, AL, United States, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, United States
P32 (241) Practical Considerations in Application of Correlation-Based Islanding Detection with Synchrophasors
1
1
1
1
2
2
Michael E. Ropp , Scott J. Perlenfein , Dustin D. Schutz , Chris A. Mouw , Sigifredo Gonzalez , Jason Neely ,
3
Michael A. Mills-Price
1
2
Northern Plains Power Technologies, Brookings, SD, United States, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque,
3
NM, United States, Advanced Energy, Bend, OR, United States
27
TUESDAY, JUNE 16TH
Joint Area Session - Posters
10:30 - 12:00 PM
Elite Hall A (Level 1)
Joint Area 1,3,4 & 7: III-V on Si and Other Alternative Substrates
Chair(s): Tyler Grassman, Ken Schmeider, Ignacio Rey-Stolle
R14 (242) The Design of Single-Junction GaAs and Dual-Junction GaAs/Si in the Presence of Threading
Dislocation Density
1
1
1
2,3
1
Ibraheem Almansouri , Stephen Bremner , Anita Ho-Baillie , Steven A. Ringel , Martin A. Green
1
Australian Centre for Advanced Photovoltaics (ACAP), School of Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering,
2
University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering, The Ohio State
3
University, Columbus, OH, United States, Dept. of Materials Science & Engineering, The Ohio State University,
Columbus, OH, United States
R15 (243) Potential Performance of "Out-of-Sequence" Multi-junction Solar Cells: III-V on virtual Ge substrates
with active Si bottom sub-cell
Ibraheem Almansouri, Stephen Bremner, Anita Ho-Baillie, Martin A. Green
Australian Centre for Advanced Photovoltaics (ACAP), School of Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering,
University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
R16 (244) GaP/Si Heterojunction Solar Cells
1
1
1
2
1
Christopher T Chen , Rebecca Saive , Hal S Emmer , Shaul Aloni , Harry A Atwater
1
2
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, Molecular Foundry, Lawrence Berkeley National
Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States
R17 (245) Zinc Oxide and Silicon Based Heterojunction Solar Cell Model
1
1
1,2
Babar Hussain , Abasifreke Ebong , Ian Ferguson
1
2
University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC, United States, Missouri University of Science and
Technology, Rolla, MO, United States
R18 (246) Study on Effects of Intermediate Buffer Layer Structures for Growth of GaAs on GaP Substrates
1
2
3
Mitsuru Imaizumi , Masumi Hirotani , Tetsuo Soga
1
2
3
JAXA, Tsukuba, Japan, Daido Steel, Nagoya, Japan, Nagoya Inst. Tech., Nagoya, Japan
R19 (247) Towards a Monolithic, an All-Epitaxial and a Reusable-Substrate Design for III-V-on-Si Solar Cells
Nikhil Jain, Michael Clavel, Patrick Goley, Mantu K. Hudait
Bradley Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, United States
R20 (248) Suppression of Twin Formation in Layered In2Se3 Grown on GaAs(111)
Nobuaki Kojima, Hiroya Nakamura, Yoshio Ohshita, Masafumi Yamaguchi
Toyota Technological Institute, Nagoya, Japan
R21 (249) Optical and Electrical Analysis of Graded Buffer Layers in III-V/SiGe on Silicon Tandem Solar Cells
1
1
1
1
1
1
2
Dun Li , Xin Zhao , Martin Diaz , Brianna Conrad , Li Wang , Anastasia H. Soeriyadi , Andrew Gerger , Anthony
2
1
1
Lochtefeld , Allen Barnett , Ivan Perez-Wurfl
1
2
UNSW Australia, Sydney, Australia, AmberWave Inc., Salem, NH, United States
R22 (250) Light Management in Mechanically-Stacked GaAs/Si Tandem Solar Cells: Optical Design of the Si
Bottom Cell
1
2
1
3
2
3
3
Zhe Liu , Zekun Ren , Haohui Liu , Jonathan P. Mailoa , Nasim Sahraei , Sin-Cheng Siah , Sarah E. Sofia , Fen
1
2,3
3
Lin , Tonio Buonassisi , Ian Marius Peters
1
2
Solar Energy Research Institute of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore, Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research &
3
Technology, Singapore, Singapore, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States
R23 (251) Alternatives for Rear-Surface Passivation in III-V on Si Multi-junction Solar Cells
1
2
2
Diego Martín , Elisa García-Tabarés , Ignacio Rey-Stolle
1
2
Área de Tecnología Electrónica. Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Móstoles (Madrid), Spain, Instituto de Energía Solar,
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
28
TUESDAY, JUNE 16TH
R24 (252) Numerical analysis of photon recycling and luminescent coupling in III-V/Si tandems
1
3
2
2
3
3
3
ZEKUN Ren , Jonathan Mailoa , Zhe Liu , Haohui Liu , SinCheng Siah , Tonio Buonassisi , Ian Marius Peters
1
2
Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research & Technology (SMART), Singapore, Singapore, Solar Energy Research
3
Institute of Singapore (SERIS), , Singapore, Singapore, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA,
United States
R25 (253) 3 µm Thick GaSb Membrane Diodes Integrated with CVD Diamond Heat Spreaders for Thermally
Managed TPV Systems
Emma J. Renteria, Sadhvikas J. Addamane, Darryl M. Shima, Christopher P. Hains, Ganesh Balakrishnan
Center for High Technology Materials, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, United States
R26 (254) Thin Film III-V Photovoltaics using Single-Crystalline-Like, Flexible Substrates
1
1
1
1
1
2
2
Venkat Selvamanickam , Pavel Dutta , Monika Rathi , Yao Yao , Ying Gao , N Zheng , Phil Ahrenkiel , Jae-Hyun
1
Ryou
1
2
University of Houston, Houston, TX, United States, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, SD,
United States
R27 (255) Indium Zinc Oxide Mediated Wafer Bonding for III-V/Si Tandem Solar Cells
Adele C Tamboli, Maikel Van Hest, Myles Steiner, Emmett Perl, Stephanie Essig, Andrew Norman, Paul Stradins
National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, United States
R28 (256) Self-Catalyzed High-Quality Core-Shell GaAsP NWs and the Application on Photovoltaics
1
1
2
1
Yunyan Zhang , Jiang Wu , Marin Aagesen , Huiyun Liu
1
2
University College London, London, United Kingdom, 2. Gasp Solar ApS, Gregersensvej 7, Denmark
R29 (257) Short Circuit Current Improvement of SiGe Solar Cell in a Gallium Arsenide Phosphide-Silicon
Germanium Dual Junction Solar Cell on Silicon Substrate
1
1
1
1
1
1
2
xin Zhao , dun Li , li Wang , brianna Conrad , anastasia H. Soeriyadi , martin Diaz , anthony Lochtefeld , andrew
2
1
1
Gerger , ivan Perez-wurfl , allen Barnett
1
2
School of Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering, UNSW Australia, sydney, Australia, AmberWave Inc,
Salem, NH, United States
Area 1 - Orals
1:30 - 3:00 PM
Empire B (Level 2)
Hot Carrier Solar Cells
Chair(s): Gavin Conibeer, Stephen Bremner
1:30 (258) Hot-carrier effects in type II heterostructures
1
1
2
1
3
Louise C. Hirst , Michael K. Yakes , Christopher G. Bailey , Joseph G. Tischler , Vincent R. Whiteside , Ian R.
3
4
5
1
Sellers , Matthew P. Lumb , David V. Forbes , Robert J. Walters
1
2
U. S. Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, United
3
4
States, The University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, United States, The George Washington University, Washington,
5
DC, United States, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY, United States
2:00 (259) Broadband Photoelectric Hot Carrier Collection with Wafer-Scale Metallic-Semiconductor Photonic
Crystals
1
1
1
1
1
2
Jeffrey B. Chou , David P. Fenning , Yu Wang , Miguel A.M. Polanco , Jonathan Hwang , Firas Sammoura , Jaime
2
2
3
1
1
1
Viegas , Mahmoud Rasras , Asmaa El-Faer , Alexie Kolpak , Yang Shao-Horn , Sang-Gook Kim
1
2
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States, Masdar Institute of Science and
3
Technology, Masdar City, United Arab Emirates, University of Dammam, Dammam, Saudi Arabia
2:15 Best Student Presentation Award Finalist
(260) Carrier Dynamics and Phonon Properties of Hafnium Nitride: Potential Hot Carrier Solar Cell Absorber
Simon Chung, Santosh Shrestha , Xiaoming Wen, Hongze Xia, Yu Feng, Shujuan Huang, Neeti Gupta, Gavin
Conibeer
School of Photovoltaics and Renewable Energy Engineering. UNSW Australia, Sydney, Australia
2:30 (261) Effects of hot carriers at elevated temperatures in Type-II InAs/AlAs0.84Sb0.16 quantum wells.
Jinfeng Tang, Vincent R Whiteside, Hamidreza Esmaielpour, Sangeetha Vijeyaragunathan, Tetsuya D Mishima,
Michael B Santos, Ian R Sellers
University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, United States
29
TUESDAY, JUNE 16TH
2:45 (262) Theoretical investigation of plasmon enhanced optically-coupled hot carrier extraction
Jianfeng Yang, Yu Feng, Robert Patterson, Shujuan Huang, Santosh Shrestha, Gavin Conibeer
School of Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering, UNSW Australia, Sydney, Australia
Area 2 - Orals
1:30 - 3:00 PM
Empire A (Level 2)
Advances in Chalcogenides solar cells
Chair(s): Marika Edoff, Wyatt Metzger
1:30 (263) Invited: Point defect characteristics in quaternary chalcogenide compound semiconductors
Susan Schorr
HZB, Berlin, Germany
2:00 (264) Significantly improved interface recombination velocity and minority carrier lifetime for CdTe/MgCdTe
double heterostructures
1,2
1,3
1,3
1,2
1,2
1,2
Shi Liu , Xin-Hao Zhao , Calli Campbell , Maxwell Lassise , Yuan Zhao , Yong-Hang Zhang
1
2
Center for Photonics Innovation, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States, School of Electrical,
3
Computer, and Energy Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States, School for Engineering of
Matter, Transport and Energy, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States
2:15 Best Student Presentation Award Finalist
(265) A stochastic model for Cu(InGa)(SeS)2 absorber growth during selenization/sulfization
1,2
2,3
2,3
1
Robert J Lovelett , William N Shafarman , Robert W Birkmire , Babatunde A Ogunnaike
1
Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States,
2
3
Institute of Energy Conversion, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States, Department of Materials
Science and Engineering, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States
2:30 (266) Statistical Process Control for Cu(In,Ga)(S,Se)2 electrodeposition-based manufacturing process of
60x120cm² modules up to 14,0% efficiency
Cedric Broussillou, Cedric Viscogliosi, Alexandre Rogee, Pierre-Philippe Grand, Sylvie Bodnar, Christophe
Debauche, Jean-Louis Allary, Bertrand Bertrand, Cyrille Guillou, Ludovic Parissi, Stephane Coletti
NEXCIS Photovoltaic Technology, Rousset, France
2:45 (267) Control of CIGS Roughness By Initial Selenization Temperature
1
2
2
2
1
1
2
Marsha Langhorst , Eugene Bykov , Qiongzhong Jiang , John Kim , Steve Rozeveld , Melissa Mushrush , Art Wall ,
1
1
Ankur Khare , Rebekah Feist
1
2
The Dow Chemical Company, Midland, MI, United States, NuvoSun, Inc., Milpitas, CA, United States
Area 4 - Orals
1:30 - 3:00 PM
Empire C/D (Level 2)
Advanced Cell Structures
Chair(s): Brett Hallam, Ron Sinton
1:30 (268) Advances in crystalline silicon heterojunction research and opportunities for low manufacturing costs
1,2
1
2
Christophe Ballif , Matthieu Despeisse , Stefaan De Wolf
1
2
CSEM, PV-center, Neuchâtel, Switzerland, PV-lab, IMT, EPFL, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
2:00 (269) 20.76% Efficient PERC Solar Cell on a p-Type Multi-Crystalline Silicon Substrate
Weiwei Deng, Daming Chen, Zhen Xiong, Jianwen Dong, Feng Ye, Hui Li, Huijun Zhu, Ming Zhong, Yang Yang,
Yifeng Chen, Zhiqiang Feng, Pierre J. Verlinden
State Key Laboratory of PV Science and Technology, Trina Solar, Changzhou, Jiangsu, Changzhou, China
2:15 (270) Approaching efficiencies above 25% with both sides-contacted silicon solar cells
1
1
1
1
1
2
3
Martin Hermle , Frank Feldmann , Johannes Eisenlohr , Armin Richter , Jan Benick , Benjamin Lee , Ajeet Rohatgi ,
2
1
Paul Stradins , Stefan W. Glunz
1
2
3
Fraunhofer ISE, Freiburg, Germany, National Renewable Energy Laboratory , Golden, CO, United States, Georgia
Institute of Technology , Atlanta, GA, United States
30
TUESDAY, JUNE 16TH
2:30 (271) >20% Efficient 80 µm Thin Industrial-Type Large-Area Solar Cells from 100 µm Sawn c-Si Wafers
Yvonne Schiele, Nils Brinkmann, Jan Ebser, Renate Horbelt, Alexander Frey, Josh Engelhardt, Giso Hahn, Barbara
Terheiden
University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany
2:45 (272) 730 mV Implied Voc Enabled by Tunnel Oxide Passivated Contact with PECVD Grown and Crystallized
n+ Polycrystalline Si
1
1
1
1
1
1
Yuguo Tao , Elizabeth Lori Chang , Ajay Upadhyaya , Brian Roundaville , Young-Woo Ok , Keeya Madani , Chia1
1
1
1
1
2
1, 2
Wei Chen , Keith Tate , Vijaykumar Upadhyaya , Francesco Zimbardi , Jim Keane , Adam Payne , Ajeet Rohatgi
1
2
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, United States, Suniva Inc., Norcross, GA, United States
Area 5 - Orals
1:30 - 3:00 PM
Strand 12 (Level 2)
Advances in Thin Film Silicon Materials and Solar Cells
Chair(s): Christophe Ballif, Hitoshi Sai
1:30 (273) Liquid Phase Crystallized Silicon Solar Cells on Glass: Material Quality and Device Design
1
1
1
1
1
1
2
Daniel Amkreutz , William D. Barker , Sven Kühnapfel , Paul Sonntag , Jan Haschke , Stefan Gall , Jan Schmidt ,
3
1
Onno Gabriel , Bernd Rech
1
2
Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin fuer Materialien und Energie GmbH - Silicon Photovoltaics, Berlin, Germany, Institut für
3
Solarenergieforschung Hameln, Emmerthal, Germany, Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin fuer Materialien und Energie
GmbH - PVcomB, Berlin, Germany
2:00 (274) Microstructure Model for Nanocrystalline Hydrogenated Silicon Oxide Thin-Films in Silicon
Heterojunction Solar Cells
Alexei Richter, Lei Zhao, Friedhelm Finger, Kaining Ding
IEK-5 Photovoltaik, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Jülich, Germany
2:15 (275) Characterization of Structure and Growth Evolution for nc-Si:H in the Tandem Photovoltaic Device
Configuration
Zhiquan Huang, Lila R. Dahal, Maxwell M. Junda, Puruswottam Aryal, Robert W. Collins, Nikolas J. Podraza
Wright Center for Photovoltaics Innovation and Commercialization & Department of Physics and Astronomy,
University of Toledo, Toledo, OH, United States
2:30 (276) Ultrathin nanostructured c-Si solar cells by low temperature and scalable processes.
1
1
1
1
2
2
Alexandre Gaucher , Andrea Cattoni , Ines Massiot , Christophe Dupuis , Wanghua Chen , Romain Cariou , Martin
2
2
3
3
3
1
Foldyna , Pere Roca i Cabarrocas , Loic Lalouat , Emmanuel Drouard , Christian Seassal , Stephane Collin
1
2
Laboratoire de Photonique et de Nanostructures (LPN), Marcoussis, France, Laboratoire de Physique des
3
Interfaces et Couches Minces (LPICM), Palaiseau, France, Institut des Nanotechnologies de Lyon (INL), Ecully,
France
2:45 (277) Highly controlled microcrystalline silicon growth using in-situ Raman spectroscopy
Thomas Fink, Stefan Muthmann, Matthias Meier
IEK5 - Photovoltaics, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Jülich, Germany
Area 9 - Orals
1:30 - 3:00 PM
Strand 11 (Level 2)
Solar Resource Measurement and Modeling
Chair(s): Matthew Lave, Charles McBrearty
1:30 (278) Satellite-to-Irradiance Modeling – A New Version of the SUNY Model
1
1
1
1
2
3
Richard Perez , James Schlemmer , Karl, Jr. Hemker , Sergey Kivalov , Adam Kankiewicz , Christian Gueymard
1
2
Atmospheric Sciences Research Center, SUNY,, Albany, NY, United States, Clean Power Research, Napa, CA,
3
United States, Solar Consulting Services, Colebrook, NH, United States
31
TUESDAY, JUNE 16TH
1:45 (279) A Sky Radiance-Based Approach to Diffuse Irradiance Transposition
Owen W Westbrook
juwi solar Inc, Boulder, CO, United States
2:00 (280) Comparison of Methods for Estimating the Impact of Spectrum on PV Output
Benjamin C Duck, Christopher J Fell
1CSIRO Energy Technology, Newcastle, Australia
2:15 (281) Evaluation of Spectrally Distributed Irradiance in the Netherlands Regarding the Energy Performance of
various PV technologies
Luna Mutiara, Kaj Pegels, Angèle Reinders
University of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands
2:30 (282) Field Spectra Binning for Energy Yield Calculations and Solar Cell Design
1,2
2
2
2
2
2
Ivan Garcia , William E. McMahon , Aron Habte , John F. Geisz , Myles A. Steiner , Manajit Sengupta , Daniel J.
2
Friedman
1
Instituto de Energía Solar, Univ. Politécnica de Madrid, Avda Complutense s/n, 28040 Madrid, Spain, Madrid, Spain,
2
National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, Colorado 80401, USA, Golden, CO, United States
2:45 Best Student Presentation Award Finalist
(283) Research on Impacts of Distributed versus Centralized Solar Resource on Distribution Network Using
Power System Simulation and Solar Now-casting with Sky Imager
Dung A Nguyen, Jan Kleissl
UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States
Area 10 - Orals
1:30 - 3:00 PM
Strand 13 (Level 2)
Trends in PV Deployment: Market, Policy, and Financing Insights
Chair(s): Kristen Ardani, Geoff Klise
1:30 (284) The Impacts of Net Metering on Utility Profits and Rates: Case Studies of Two Prototypical Utilities
Galen Barbose, Andy Satchwell, Andrew Mills, Ryan Wiser, Pete Cappers, Naim Darghouth
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States
1:45 Best Student Presentation Award Finalist
(285) Peak Coincidence Benefits of Distributed PV Generation on PJM
Philip R Diefenderfer, Edward R Prescott, Peter Mark Jansson
Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA, United States
2:00 (286) Interconnection Assessment Methodology and Cost Benefit Analysis for High-Penetration PV
Deployment in the Arizona Public Service System
1
1
1
1
1
2
Murali Baggu , Julieta Giraldez , Tom Harris , Nicholas Brunhart-Lupo , Lars Lisell , David Narang
1
2
National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, United States, Arizona Public Service, Phoenix, AZ, United
States
2:15 (287) PV Market in Japan and Impacts of Grid Constriction
Haruki YAMAYA, Takashi OHIGASHI, Hiroshi MATSUKAWA, Izumi KAIZUKA, Osamu IKKI
RTS Corporation, Tokyo, Japan
2:30 (288) Applications and Economics of Combined PV and Battery Systems for Commercial & Industrial Peak
Shifting
1
2
1,3
Daniel Katz , Rob van Haaren , Vasilis Fthenakis
1
2
3
Columbia University, New York, NY, United States, First Solar, Bridgewaters, NJ, United States, Brookhaven
National Lab, Upton, NY, United States
2:45 (289) PV-Battery Systems for Increasing the Share of Renewable Energy and Avoiding Repowering Lines in
Islands where Grid-Parity Is Reached
1
2
3
Ricardo Guerrero-Lemus , José M. Valle , Benjamín González-Díaz
1
2
3
Departamento de Física, La Laguna, Spain, ENDESA, S/C Tenerife, Spain, Departamento de Ingeniería Industrial,
La Laguna, Spain
32
TUESDAY, JUNE 16TH
Joint Area Session - Orals
1:30 - 3:00 PM
Strand 10 (Level 2)
Joint Area 1,3,7 & 8: Characterization of Multijunction and Concentrator Cells
Chair(s): David Wilt, Alex Haas
1:30 (290) Cross-Sectional Transport Imaging in a Multijunction Solar Cell
1
2
3
1
4
4
Nancy M Haegel , Chi-Wen Ke , Hesham Taha , Harvey Guthrey , Chris M. Fetzer , Richard R. King
1
2
National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, United States, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA,
3
4
United States, Nanonics Imaging Ltd, Jerusalem, Israel, Boeing Spectrolab, Sylmar, CA, United States
1:45 (291) Photoluminescence Imaging Characterization of Thin-Film InP
1
1,2
3
4
4
3
Steve Johnston , Alyssa Allende Motz , James Moore , Maxwell Zheng , Ali Javey , Peter Bermel
1
2
National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, United States, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO, United
3
4
States, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States, University of California, Berkeley, CA, United States
2:00 (292) Absolute Electroluminescence Imaging of Multi-Junction Solar Cells and Calibration Standards
1
1
1
1
2
3
Masahiro Yoshita , Lin Zhu , Changsu Kim , Hidefumi Akiyama , Shaoqiang Chen , Toshimitsu Mochizuki , Hidehiro
4
5
5
6
Kubota , Tetsuya Nakamura , Mitsuru Imaizumi , Yoshihiko Kanemitsu
1
2
ISSP, Univ. of Tokyo, JST-SENATN, and JST-CREST, Kashiwa, Japan, East China Normal Univ., Shanghai,
3
4
China, Fukushima Renewable Energy Institute, AIST, Koriyama, Fukushima, Japan, ATTO Corp. and JST5
6
SENTAN, Taito-ku, Tokyo, Japan, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan, ICR,
Kyoto Univ. and JST-CREST, Uji, Kyoto, Japan
2:15 (293) Determining Subcell Carrier-Collection Efficiencies of Triple-Junction Solar Cells Using Time-Resolved
Photoluminescence
1
1
2
3
1
David M. Tex , Toshiyuki Ihara , Hidefumi Akiyama , Mitsuru Imaizumi , Yoshihiko Kanemitsu
1
2
Institute for Chemical Research and JST-CREST, Kyoto University, Uji, Kyoto, Japan, Institute for Solid State
3
Physics and JST-CREST, The University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba, Japan, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency,
Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
2:30 Best Student Presentation Award Finalist
(294) Extending Characterization Applications of Electron Channeling Contrast Imaging
1
1
1,2
1,2
1
Julia I. Deitz , Santino D. Carnevale , Steven A. Ringel , David W. McComb , Tyler J. Grassman
1
2
The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States, Institute for Materials Research, Columbus, OH, United
States
2:45 (295) A High-Concentration Programmable Solar Simulator for Testing Multi-Junction Concentrator
Photovoltaics
1
2
2
2
Tasshi Dennis , Brent Fisher , Matt Meitl , John Wilson
1
2
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, CO, United States, Semprius, Inc., Durham, NC, United
States
Break
3:00 - 3:30 PM
Elite Hall (Level 1)
Coffee Break
33
TUESDAY, JUNE 16TH
Area 1 - Orals
3:30 - 5:00 PM
Empire B (Level 2)
Quantum Well Devices
Chair(s): Jessica Adams, Masakazu Sugiyama
3:30 (296) Investigation of InAlGaAs / InGaAs Quantum Well Solar Cells
1
2
3
3
4
Christopher G. Bailey , David V. Forbes , Matthew P. Lumb , Raymond Hoheisel , Maria Gonzalez , Seth M.
2
5
5
6
6
6
Hubbard , Louise C. Hirst , Ken Schmeider , Michael K. Yakes , Phillip P. Jenkins , Robert J. Walters
1
2
Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, United States, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester , NY, United
3
4
States, George Washington University, Washington, DC, United States, Sotera Defense Solutions, Annapolis
5
6
Junction, MD, United States, National Research Council, Washington, DC, United States, U.S. Naval Research
Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States
4:00 (297) Comparison of Electron and Hole Mobilities in Multiple Quantum Well Solar Cells Using a Time-of-Flight
Technique
1
3
1
3
3
2
Kasidit Toprasertpong , Taizo Tanibuchi , Hiromasa Fujii , Tomoyuki Kada , Shigeo Asahi , Kentaroh Watanabe ,
1
3
1
Masakazu Sugiyama , Takashi Kita , Yoshiaki Nakano
1
2
School of Engineering, the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, Research Center for Advanced Science and
3
Technology, Tokyo, Japan, Graduate School of Engineering, Kobe University, Kobe, Japan
4:15 (298) Measurement of Energy Distribution of Conduction Electrons in Superlattice by Visible-Light
Photoemission Spectroscopy
1
1
1
2
1
1
Fumiaki Ichihashi , Kenji Nishitani , Xinyu Dong , Takahiko Kawaguchi , Makoto Kuwahara , Takahiro Ito , Shunta
1
1
1
Harada , Miho Tagawa , Toru Ujihara
1
2
Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan, Venture Business Laboratory, Nagoya, Japan
4:30 (299) Demonstration of Record Open Circuit Voltage III-V Dilute Nitride Solar Cells Using Resonantly Coupled
Multi Quantum Wells
1
1
2
2
Alexandre Freundlich , Gopi Vijaya , Dinghao Tang , David J. Smith
1
2
University of Houston, Houston, TX, United States, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States
4:45 (300) Effect of Carrier Confinement and Doping in Quantum Well Tunnel Junctions
1
1,2
1,3
1
1,3
Chaffra A Affouda , Matthew P Lumb , Mitchell F Bennett , Kenneth J Schmieder , Maria Gonzalez , Michael K
1
1
Yakes , Robert J Walters
1
2
Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States, The George Washington University, Washington, DC,
3
United States, 3Sotera Defense Solutions, Annapolis Junction, MD, United States
Area 2 - Orals
3:30 - 5:00 PM
Empire A (Level 2)
Progress in CZTS Technology
Chair(s): Dr. Aaron Arehart, Theresa Magorian Friedlmeier
3:30 (301) Investigations of the main loss mechanisms in Cu2ZnSn(S,Se)4 solar cells spray-coated from waterethanol based ink: Reducing the density of defects to reach efficiencies close to 10%
1
1
1
1
1
Gilles DENNLER , Gerardo LARRAMONA , Stéphane BOURDAIS , Christophe CHONE , Bruno DELATOUCHE ,
1
2
2
Camille MOISAN , Sergiu LEVCENKO , Thomas UNOLD
1
2
IMRA Europe, Sophia Antipolis, France, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie (HZB), Berlin,
Germany
4:00 (302) Flexible Kesterite Solar Cells on Ceramic Substrates for Advanced Thermal Processing
1
2
2
1
1
1
Teodor K Todorov , John Olenick , Kathy Olenick , Oki Gunawan , Talia Gershon , Charles Sturdevant , Yun Seog
1
1
1
Lee , Liang-yi Chang , Supratik Guha
1
2
IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, United States, ENrG Inc., Buffalo, NY, United States
4:15 Best Student Presentation Award Finalist
(303) Combinatorial Screening of Group-I Dopants in Cu2ZnSn(S,Se)4
Andrew D Collord, Hugh W Hillhouse
University of Washington Department of Chemical Engineering, Seattle, WA, United States
34
TUESDAY, JUNE 16TH
4:30 (304) The effect of Ag incorporation on the phase stability, crystallinity and band structure on the
(Cu,Ag)2ZnSn(S,Se)4 kesterite solar cells
Shih-Yuan Wei, Chung-Hao Cai, Wei-Chih Huang, Tzu-Hsuan Yeh, Chih-Huang Lai
National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan
4:45 (305) Improvement of Voc in Cu2ZnSnS4 Monograin Layer Solar Cells with Tin Oxide Inter-Layer
1
2
2
1,3
1,3
Kaia Ernits , Li Xianglin , Lydia H. Wong , Dieter Meissner , Axel Neisser
1
2
crystalsol OU, Akadeemia tee 15a, Tallinn, Estonia, Energy Research Institute@Nanyang Technological University,
3
Singapore, Singapore, crystalsol GmbH, Simmeringer Hauptstrasse 24, 1110, Tallinn, Austria
Area 3 - Orals
3:30 - 5:00 PM
Strand 10 (Level 2)
High, Medium, & Low Concentration PV - Cells to Systems
Chair(s): Karin Hinzer, Roland Winston, Damien Buie
3:30 (306) Field Investigation of the Effect of Spectral Response upon Photovoltaic Energy Yields
1
2
1
2
Matthew S. Norton , Vasiliki Paraskeva , Robert P. Kenny , George E. Georghiou
1
2
European Commission, Ispra, Italy, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus
3:45 Best Student Presentation Award Finalist
(307) Performance and Reliability Evaluation of Concentrated Photovoltaic (CPV) Power Plants
Christopher Raupp, Sai Tatapudi, Bulent Bicer, Govindasamy TamizhMani
ASU-PRL, Mesa, AZ, United States
4:00 Best Student Presentation Award Finalist
(308) Optimization of a four junction solar cell CPV system using ray tracing and SPICE modeling
Pratibha Sharma, Matthew. M. Wilkins, Henry Schriemer, Karin Hinzer
University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada
4:15 (309) Introducing novel light management to design a hybrid high concentration photovoltaic/water splitting
system
1
1
2
1
1
2
José JH Videira , Keith WJ Barnham , Anna Hankin , Matthew Leak , Jonathan Johnson , Geoff H Kelsall , Robert
3
1
Airey , Amanda J Chatten
1
2
Department of Physics, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, Department of Chemical Engineering,
3
Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, EPSERC National Centre for III-V Technologies, University of
Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom
4:30 (310) Micro-concentrator Module for Microsystems-enabled Photovoltaics: Optical Performance
Characterization, Modelling and Analysis
1
1
1
2
2
2
Tian Gu , Gautam Agrawal , Alyssa Vessey , William C Sweatt , Bradley H Jared , Jose Luis Cruz-Campa , Ronald
2
2
2
2
2
2
1
Goeke , William K Miller , David L Zamora , Eric Langlois , Murat Okandan , Gregory N Nielson , Michael W Haney
1
2
University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States
4:45 (311) Flat-Plate Photovoltaics with Solar-Tracking Origami Micro-Concentrator Arrays
1
1
2
1
3
1
Chih-Wei Chien , Kyusang Lee , Matthew Shlian , Stephen Forrest , Max Shtein , Pei-Cheng Ku
1
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States,
2
3
School of Art and Design, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, Department of Materials Science
and Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
Area 6 - Orals
3:30 - 5:00 PM
Strand 12 (Level 2)
Device Stability, Scale-up and applications
Chair(s): Ching-Fuh Lin, Susan Spencer
3:30 (312) Invited: R2R Production and Low Light Applications of Dye Sensitized Solar Cells
1, 2
Kethinni Chittibabu
1
2
Molecular Photovoltaics, Shrewsbury, MA, United States, G24 Power Ltd, Newport, Wales, United Kingdom
35
TUESDAY, JUNE 16TH
4:00 (313) Invited: OPV stability: Designed to last
1
2
2
1
3
3
4
Ronn Andriessen , Eszter Voroshazi , Tom Aernouts , Yulia Galagan , Jan Kroon , Sjoerd Veenstra , Jean Manca ,
5
René Janssen
1
2
3
Solliance/Holst Centre , Eindhoven, Netherlands, Solliance/imec, Leuven, Belgium, Solliance/ECN, Eindhoven,
4
5
Netherlands, Solliance/UHasselt, Diepenbeek, Belgium, Solliance/TUe, Eindhoven, Netherlands
4:30 (314) Comparative Indoor and Outdoor Degradation of Organic Photovoltaic Cells via Inter-laboratory
Collaboration
1
1
2
3
4
Charles A Owens , Gretta M Ferguson , Martin Hermenau , Eszter Voroshazi , Yulia Galagan , Birger
5
6
7
8
9
4
Zimmermann , Roland Rösch , Dechan Angamo , Gerardo Teran , Christian Uhrich , Ronn Andriessen , Harald
6
5
8
7
1
Hoppe , Uli Würfel , Monica Lira-Cantu , Frederik C Krebs , David M Tanenbaum
1
2
Department of Physics and Astronomy, Pomona College, Claremont, CA, United States, Institut f€ur Angewandte
3
4
Photophysik, Technische Universit€at , Dresden, Germany, Imec, Leuven, Belgium, Holst Centre, High Tech
5
6
Campus , Eindhoven, Netherlands, Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE, Freiburg, Germany, Institute
7
of Physics, Ilmenau University of Technology, Ilmenau, Germany, Dept. of Energy Conversion and Storage,
8
Technical University of Denmark, Roskilde, Denmark, Centre d'Investigaci_o en Nanoci_encia i Nanotecnologia
9
(CIN2, CSIC), ETSE, Campus UAB, Barcelona, Spain, Heliatek GmbH, Dresden, Germany
4:45 Best Student Presentation Award Finalist
(315) Blade Coating of Diketopyrrolopyrrole Based Organic Photovoltaics from Non-halogenated Solvent
Systems
1,2
2
1,2
2,3
2
2
4
Jeffrey G Tait , Tamara Merckx , Wenqi Li , Cindy Wong , Robert Gehlhaar , David Cheyns , Mathieu Turbiez ,
1,2
Paul Heremans
1
2
3
4
KULeuven, Leuven, Belgium, imec, Leuven, Belgium, The Cooper Union, New York, NY, United States, BASF
Schweiz AG, Basel, Switzerland
Area 9 - Orals
3:30 - 5:00 PM
Strand 11 (Level 2)
Models for Power and Energy Prediction
Chair(s): Ken Sauer, Joshua S Stein, Sara MacAlpine
3:30 (316) Performance Model for Characterizing AC Modules and Predicting Their Power
Daniel M Riley
Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States
3:45 (317) Modeling Maximum Power Point Tracking Efficiency for PV Systems
Owen W Westbrook
juwi solar Inc, Boulder, CO, United States
4:00 (318) Experimental and Numerical Study of the Influence of String Mismatch on the Yield of PV Modules
Augmented By Static Planar Reflectors
1,2
2
1
1
3
3
Marko Pavlov , Anne Migan , Vincent Bourdin , Michel Pons , Martial Haeffelin , Jordi Badosa
1
2
3
LIMSI, Orsay Cedex, France, GeePs, Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France, LMD, Palaiseau Cedex, France
4:15 (319) Comparison of the Effects of Spectrum on Cadmium Telluride and Monocrystalline Silicon Photovoltaic
Module Performance
1
2
1
1
Mitchell Lee , Lauren Ngan , William Hayes , Alex F. Panchula
1
2
First Solar , San Francisco, CA, United States, First Solar, Tempe, AZ, United States
4:30 (320) Data Requirements for Calibration of Photovoltaic System Models Using Monitored System Data
Clifford W. Hansen, Katherine A. Klise, Joshua S. Stein
Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States
4:45 (321) Accuracy of Energy Assessments in Utility Scale PV Power Plant using PlantPredict
Kendra Passow, Lauren Ngan, Mitchell Lee, Alex Panchula
First Solar, San Francisco, CA, United States
36
TUESDAY, JUNE 16TH
Area 10 - Orals
3:30 - 5:00 PM
Strand 13 (Level 2)
PV Interconnection - Working with Utilities
Chair(s): Michael Coddington, Ward Bower
3:30 (322) PV Impact Assessment for Very High Penetration Levels
1
2
1
1
3
Danling Cheng , Barry Mather , Richard Seguin , Joshua Hambrick , Robert P. Broadwater
1
2
Electrical Distribution Design Inc., Blacksburg, VA, United States, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden,
3
CO, United States, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, United States
3:45 (323) PV Systems on Secondary Network Distribution Systems; Utilizing Advanced Inverters and Utility
Grade Relays to Control Reverse Power Flow
Michael H Coddington, Blake Lundstrom
NREL, Golden, CO, United States
4:00 (324) Low-Cost Variability Sensors for Ubiquitous Deployment
1
2
2
Matthew Lave , Joshua Stein , Robert Broderick
1
2
Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, CA, United States, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM,
United States
4:15 (325) Field Demonstration of Using Advanced PV Inverter Functionality to Mitigate the Impacts of HighPenetration PV Grid Integration on the Distribution System
Barry Mather
National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, United States
4:30 (326) Technical Evaluation of the 15% of Peak Load PV Interconnection Screen
Matthew J. Reno, Robert J. Broderick
Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States
4:45 Best Student Presentation Award Finalist
(327) Maximum PV Size Limited by the Impact to Distribution Protection
1
1,2
2
1
John A. Seuss , Matthew J. Reno , Robert J. Broderick , Santiago Grijalva
1
2
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, United States, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM,
United States
Joint Area Session - Orals
3:30 - 5:00 PM
Empire C/D (Level 2)
Joint Area 4 & 5: Junction Formation
Chair(s): Nils Peter-Harder, Zachary Holman
3:30 Best Student Presentation Award Finalist
(328) Development of p-type silicon solar cells with molybdenum oxide rear contacts
James Bullock, Andrés Cuevas, Di Yan, Yimao Wan, Christian Samundsett , Thomas G Allen
The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
3:45 (329) Evaluation of metal oxides prepared by reactive sputtering as carrier-selective contacts for crystalline
silicon solar cells
Mathieu Boccard, Laura Ding, Priyaranga Koswatta, Mariana Bertoni, Zachary Holman
Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States
4:00 (330) Silicon heterojunction solar cells with nanocrystalline Silicon Oxide emitter: Insights into charge carrier
transport
Simon Kirner, Luana Mazzarella, Lars Korte, Bernd Stannowski, Bernd Rech, Rutger Schlatmann
Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin, Berlin, Germany
4:15 (331) Development of High Efficiency Rear-emitter n-type Silicon Heterojunction Solar Cells
1
1
1
Yu Cao , Miao Yang , Yue Zhang
1
2
Hanergy Thin Film Solar Group, Chengdu, China, Longi Silicon Materials Corp, Xi'an, China
37
TUESDAY, JUNE 16TH
4:30 (332) Impact of Acid Texture Roughness on Ion Implanted Emitters
1
1
2
2
Nicholas Bateman , Manav Sheoran , Jeannie Yong , Rob Steeman
1
2
Applied Materials, Varian Semiconductor Equipment, Gloucester, MA, United States, REC Solar Pte. Ltd.,
Singapore, Singapore
4:45 (333) Screen-Printed Dopant Paste Interdigitated Back Contact Solar Cells
Giuseppe Scardera, Daniel Inns, Gonghou Wang, Shannon Dugan, Jeffrey Dee, Francesco Lemmi, Homer
Antoniadis
DuPont Silicon Valley Technology Center, Sunnyvale, CA, United States
Social Activity
5:30 - 7:00 PM
Celestin E (Level 3)
Cherry Award Reception & PV Jobs Fair
38
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17TH
Wednesday, June 17, 2015
Keynote - Keynote
8:15 - 8:30 AM
Empire Ballroom
Highlights & Announcements
Chair(s): Alexandre Freundlich, Sarah Kurtz
Technical Program Highlights
1
2
Alexandre Freundlich , Sarah Kurtz
1
2
42nd IEEE PVSC Program Chair , 42nd IEEE PVSC Deputy Program Chair
Lunch Poster Sessions Details/Logistics
1
2
Alex Howard , Maria Gonzalez
1
2
42nd IEEE PVSC Operations Chair , 42nd IEEE PVSC Posters Chair
Area 1 - Plenary
8:30 - 9:00 AM
Empire Ballroom
Area 1 Plenary
Chair(s): Seth Hubbard
8:30 (334) High-efficiency solar cells by nanophotonic design
Albert Polman
FOM Institute AMOLF, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Area 7 - Plenary
9:00 - 9:30 AM
Empire Ballroom
Area 7 Plenary
Chair(s): David Wilt, Claus Zimmerman, Mitsuru Imazumi
9:00 (335) Flexible Blanket Solar Arrays: Next-Generation Game-Changing Technology
Brian R. Spence
Deployable Space Systems, Inc. (DSS), Goleta, CA, United States
Area 8 - Plenary
9:30 - 10:00 AM
Empire Ballroom
Area 8 Plenary
Chair(s): Angus Rockett
9:30 (336) Across all photovoltaic generations : universal characterization by hyperspectral luminescence
imaging
1
1
1
1
1
1
Laurent Lombez , Amaury Delamarre , Jean Rodière , Pierre Rale , François Gibelli , Gilbert El Hajje , Myriam
1
1
1,2
Paire , Daniel Ory , Jean-François Guillemoles
1
2
Insitute of R&D on Photovoltaics Energy, UMR CNRS EDF Chimie ParisTech, Chatou, France, Next PV, LIA
CNRS-RCAST Université de Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
39
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17TH
Break
10:00 - 10:30 AM
Elite Hall (Level 1)
Coffee Break
Area 1 - Orals
10:30 - 12:00 PM
Strand 13 (Level 2)
Light Management
Chair(s): Peichen Yu, Albert Polman, Jeremy Munday
10:30 (337) Multi-resonant light trapping: new paradigm, new limits
1
1
1
1
2
3
Stéphane Collin , Julie Goffard , Andrea Cattoni , Clément Colin , Christophe Sauvan , Philippe Lalanne , Jean4
François Guillemoles
1
2
Laboratoire de Photonique et de Nanostructures (LPN-CNRS), Marcoussis, France, Laboratoire Charles Fabry,
3
4
Palaiseau, France, Laboratoire Photonique, Numérique et Nanosciences, Talence, France, Institut de Recherche et
Développement sur l'Energie Photovoltaïque, Chatou, France
10:45 (338) Resonant dielectric high-contrast gratings as spectrum-splitting optical elements for ultrahigh
efficiency (>50%) photovoltaics
Sunita Darbe, Harry A. Atwater
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
11:00 (339) 3D-Printed and Milled External Light Traps for Solar Cells
1
2
1
1
3
4
Lourens van Dijk , Ulrich W. Paetzold , Gerhard A. Blab , E.A. Pepijn Marcus , A. Jolt Oostra , Jorik van de Groep ,
4
5
1
Albert Polman , Ruud E.I. Schropp , Marcel Di Vece
1
2
Debye Institute for Nanomaterials Science, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands, Forschungszentrum Jülich,
3
4
5
Julich, Germany, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands, AMOLF, Amsterdam, Netherlands, Energy
research Centre of the Netherlands (ECN) and Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, Netherlands
11:15 Best Student Presentation Award Finalist
(340) Optimized metal free back reflectors for high efficiency open rear c-Si solar cells
1
2
2
2
1
1
Andrea Ingenito , Stefan Luxembourgb , Pierpaolo Spinelli , Arthur Weeber , Olindo Isabella , Miro Zeman
1
2
Delft University of Technology, delft, Netherlands, ECN Solar Energy, Petten, Netherlands
11:30 (341) Freeform Surface Relief Diffractive Optic for Photovoltaic Spectrum Splitting
1
2
3
4
5
6
Shelby D Vorndran , Silvana Ayala , Yuechen Wu , Juan M Russo , Melissa A Zaverton , Tom Milster , Raymond K
7
Kostuk
1
2
University of Arizona College of Optical Sciences, Tucson, AZ, United States, University of Arizona Department of
Electrical and Computer Engineering, Tucson, AZ, United States
11:45 (342) Condition for Perfect Resonant Antireflection in Solar Cells
1
1,2
1
1,3
1
Ken X. Wang , Zongfu Yu , Sunil Sandhu , Victor Liu , Shanhui Fan
1
2
Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, United States,
3
Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), Palo Alto, CA, United States
Area 2 - Orals
10:30 - 12:00 PM
Empire A (Level 2)
Progress in CIGS Technology
Chair(s): William N. Shafarman, Thibaud Hildebrandt
10:30 (343) Improved Photocurrent in Cu(In,Ga)Se2 Solar Cells: from 20.8% to 21.7% Efficiency
Theresa Magorian Friedlmeier, Philip Jackson, Andreas Bauer, Dimitrios Hariskos, Oliver Kiowski, Roland Wuerz,
Michael Powalla
Zentrum für Sonnenenergie- und Wasserstoff-Forschung Baden-Württemberg (ZSW), Stuttgart, Germany
40
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17TH
11:00 Best Student Presentation Award Finalist
(344) Correlation between grain composition and charge carrier collection in Cu(In,Ga)Se2 solar cells
1
1
1
2
2
2
2,3
Bradley West , Sebastian Husein , Michael Stuckelberger , Barry Lai , Jorg Maser , Benjamin Stripe , Volker Rose ,
4
4
1
Harvey Guthrey , Mowafak Al-Jassim , Mariana Bertoni
1
2
Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States, Advanced Photon
3
Source, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL, United States, Center for Nanoscale Materials, Argonne National
4
Laboratory, Lemont, IL, United States, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, United States
11:15 (345) Optoelectronic Investigation of Sb-doped Cu(In, Ga)Se2
Lorelle M Mansfield, Darius Kuciauskas, Patricia Dippo, Jian V Li, Karen Bowers, Bobby To, Clay DeHart, Kannan
Ramanathan
National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, United States
11:30 (346) Gas flow sputtering of Cu(In,Ga)Se2 for thin film solar cells
Marika Edoff, Johan Lindahl, Timo Wätjen, Tomas Nyberg
Ångström Solar Center, Department of Engineering Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
11:45 (347) Optimizing the Growth Path for Cu(In,Ga)Se2 Thin Films Co-Evaporated at Low Temperatures on
Flexible Polyimide Foil
Dieter Greiner, Jakob Lauche, Susanna Harndt, Reiner Klenk, Rutger Schlatmann, Christian A. Kaufmann
Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Area 3 - Orals
10:30 - 12:00 PM
Strand 10 (Level 2)
III-V Solar Cells - Wafer Bonding; Transfer Printing
Chair(s): Dan Friedman, Daniel Derkacs, Harry Atwater
10:30 (348) Four-Junction Wafer Bonded Concentrator Solar Cells
1
1
1
1
1
1
Frank Dimroth , Thomas N.D. Tibbits , Markus Niemeyer , Felix Predan , Paul Beutel , Christian Karcher , Eduard
1
1
1
1
2
2
2
Oliva , Gerald Siefer , David Lackner , Andreas W. Bett , Rainer Krause , Charlotte Drazek , Eric Guiot , Jocelyne
2
3
3
Wasselin , Aurélie Tauzin , Thomas Signamarcheix
1
2
3
Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE, Freiburg, Germany, Soitec S.A., Bernin, France, CEA-LETI,
Grenoble, France
11:00 (349) Mechanically stacked four-junction concentrator solar cells
1
1
1
1,2
1
3
Myles A. Steiner , John F. Geisz , J. Scott Ward , Ivan Garcia , Daniel J. Friedman , Richard R. King , Philip T.
3
1
1
1
1
1
Chiu , Ryan M. France , Anna Duda , Waldo J. Olavarria , Michelle Young , Sarah R. Kurtz
1
2
National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, United States, Instituto de Energia Solar, Univ. Politecnica de
3
Madrid, Madrid, Spain, Boeing-Spectrolab, Sylmar, CA, United States
11:30 (350) Electrical Conductivity Across InP and GaAs Wafer-Bonded Structures with Miscut Substrates
Mark K Seal, Jeff Mc Kay, Mark S Goorsky
Department of Materials Science, University of California, Los Angeles , CA, United States
11:45 (351) Transfer-Printing for the Next Generation of Multi-junction Solar Cells
1,2
3
3
2
2,4
2
Matthew P Lumb , Matthew Meitl , Scott Burroughs , Kenneth J Schmieder , Maria Gonzalez , Michael K Yakes ,
2
1,2
2,4
5
6
2
Shawn Mack , Raymond Hoheisel , Mitchell F Bennett , Chris W Ebert , David V Forbes , Christopher G Bailey ,
2
Robert J Walters
1
2
The George Washington University, Washington, DC, United States, US Naval Research Laboratory, Washington,
3
4
DC, United States, Semprius Inc., Durham, NC, United States, Stera Defense Solutions, Annapolis Junction, MD,
5
6
United States, Veeco Process Equipment Inc., Somerset, NJ, United States, Rochester Institute of Technology,
Rochester, NY, United States
41
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17TH
Area 4 - Orals
10:30 - 12:00 PM
Empire C/D (Level 2)
Passivated Contacts
Chair(s): Andres Cuevas, Bonna Newman
10:30 (352) Ion Implanted Screen Printed N-type Solar Cell with Tunnel Oxide Passivated Back Contact
1
1
1
1
1
1
Ajay Upadhyaya , Young Woo Ok , Elizabeth Chang , Vijaykumar Upadhyaya , Keeya Madani , Keith Tate , Brian
1
2
2
2
1,2
1
Rounsaville , Vinodh Chandrasekaran , Vijay Yelundur , Atul Gupta , Ajeet Rohatgi , Eunhwan Cho
1
2
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, United States, Suniva Inc, Norcross, GA, United States
10:45 (353) Tunnel Oxide Passivated Carrier-Selective Contacts based on ultra-thin SiO2 Layers grown by PhotoOxidation or Wet-Chemical Oxidation in ozonized Water
Anamaria Moldovan, Frank Feldmann, Martin Zimmer, Jochen Rentsch, Martin Hermle
Fraunhofer ISE, Freiburg, Germany
11:00 Best Student Presentation Award Finalist
(354) Transparent Conductive Oxides in Silicon Heterojunction Solar Cells: Influence on Carrier
Recombination
1
1
1
1
1
1
Andrea Tomasi , Florent Sahli , Lorenzo Fanni , Johannes Peter Seif , Silvia Martin de Nicolas , Niels Holm , Jonas
1
2
1
2
1
1,2
Geissbühler , Bertrand Paviet-Salomon , Philipp Löper , Sylvain Nicolay , Stefaan De Wolf , Christophe Ballif
1
2
Pv-Lab, EPFL, Neuchâtel, Switzerland, PV-center, CSEM, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
11:15 Best Student Presentation Award Finalist
(355) Carrier-Selective Contacts in Silicon Solar Cells
Priyaranga Koswatta, Mathieu Boccard, Zachary Holman
Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States
11:30 (356) N-type Silicon Solar Cells Featuring an Electron-Selective TiO2 Contact
Xinbo Yang, Qunyu Bi, Klaus Weber
Research School of Engineering, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
11:45 (357) Ion Implanted Passivated Contacts for Interdigitated Back Contacted Solar Cells
1
1
1
1
2
1
David L. Young , William Nemeth , Vincenzo LaSalvia , Robert Reedy , Nicholas Bateman , Pauls Stradins
1
2
NREL, Golden, CO, United States, Applied Materials, Gloucester, MA, United States
Area 7 - Orals
10:30 - 12:00 PM
Strand 12 (Level 2)
Blankets, Space Experience and Mobile Power
Chair(s): Theodore Stern, Phillip jenkins, Rao Tatavarti
10:30 (358) Recent Space PV Concentrator Advances: More Robust, Lighter, and Easier to Track
1
1
2
3
3
4
4
Mark O'Neill , A.J. McDanal , Henry Brandhorst , Kevin Schmid , Peter LaCorte , Michael Piszczor , Matt Myers
1
2
3
Mark O'Neill, LLC, Keller, TX, United States, Carbon-Free Energy, LLC, Auburn, AL, United States, Deployable
4
Space Systems, Inc., Goleta, CA, United States, NASA Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, OH, United States
10:45 (359) Encapsulated Photovoltaic Blankets and Modules for Deployable Solar Arrays
Matthew B Wrosch, Nicholas E Walmsley, Eric P McNaul
Vanguard Space Technologies, Inc., San Diego, CA, United States
11:00 (360) Flexible and Lightweight Epitaxial Lift-Off GaAs Multi-Junction Solar Cells for Portable Power and UAV
Applications
1
1
1
1
1
1
Christopehr L. Stender , Jessica Adams , Victor Elarde , Todd Major , Haruki Miyamoto , Mark Osowski , Noren
1
1
1
1
1
2
Pan , Rao Tatavarti , Francis Tuminello , Andree Wibowo , Christopher Youtsey , Sabrina Rawlings
1
2
MicroLink Devices, Inc, Niles, IL, United States, US Army RDECOM CERDEC, Aberdeen Proving Grounds, MD,
United States
42
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17TH
11:15 (361) Development of Space Solar Sheet with Inverted Triple-junction Cells
1
1
1
1
1
1
Hiroshi Yamaguchi , Ryo Ijichi , Yoshiyuki Suzuki , Sachiyo Ooka , Keiji Shimada , Naoki Takahashi , Hidetoshi
1
1
1
2
2
2
Washio , Kazuyo Nakamura , Tatsuya Takamoto , Mitsuru Imaizumi , Taishi Sumita , Kazunori Shimazaki , Tetsuya
2
3
Nakamura , Takeshi Oshima
1
2
3
SHARP Corporation, Yamatokoriyama, Japan, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Tsukuba, Japan, 3
Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA), Takasaki, Japan
11:30 (362) Post-Flight Analysis of MISSE-8 Advanced Photovoltaic Technologies
1
2
1
3
3
3
David Wilt , Tracy Wisler , Alex Howard , Philip Jenkins , David Scheiman , Justin Lorentzen
1
2
3
ARFL, KAFB, NM, United States, ATA, Albuquerque, NM, United States, NRL, Washington DC, DC, United States
11:45 (363) Trade Study of Power Options for Jupiter and Outer Planet Missions
Geoffrey A. Landis, Jeremiah S. McNatt
NASA John Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, OH, United States
Area 11 - Orals
10:30 - 12:00 PM
Strand 11 (Level 2)
Field Reliability Experience and Soiling
Chair(s): Kent Whitfield, Ralph Gottschalg
10:30 (364) Fundamental Studies of the Adhesion of Dust to PV Module Surfaces: Chemical and Physical
Relationships at the Microscale
1
2
2
2
3
Lawrence L. Kazmerski , Antonia Sonia A.C. Diniz , Christiana M. Brasil , Lauro V. Neto , Leila de Oliveira Cruz
1
Renewable and Sustainable Energy Instutute (RASEI), University of Colorado Boulder and National Renewable
2
Energy Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States, Pontificia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais (PUCMinas), Belo
3
Horizonte, MG, Brazil, Instituto Militar de Engenharia (IME), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
10:45 Best Student Presentation Award Finalist
(365) Performance Restoration of Dusty Photovoltaic Modules using Electrodynamic Screen
Arash Sayyah, Mark Horenstein, Malay Mazumder
Boston University, Boston, MA, United States
11:00 (366) Soiling and self-cleaning of PV modules under the weather conditions of two locations in Arizona and
South-East India
1
1
2
2
3
Werner Herrmann , Markus Schweiger , Govindasamy Tamizhmani , Bill Shisler , Kamalaksha CS
1
2
TÜV Rheinland Energie und Umwelt GmbH, Cologne, Germany, TÜV Rheinland PTL, Tempe, AZ, United States,
3
TÜV Rheinland India, Bangalore, India
11:15 (367) Evaluation of PV Module Field Performance
John H Wohlgemuth, Timothy Silverman, David C. Miller, Peter McNutt, Michael D. Kempe, Michael Deceglie
National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, United States
11:30 (368) The Reliability Investigation of PV Junction Box based on 1GW Worldwide Field Database
Maoyi Chang, Chienyu Chen, C. H. Hsueh, W. J. Hsieh, Eva Yen, K. L. Ho, H. P. Chuang, C. Y. Lee, Haomin Chen
AU Optronics, Taichung, Taiwan
11:45 (369) RPN analysis of field exposed mono crystalline Silicon PV modules under composite climate of India
O.S. Sastry, Birinchi Bora, Yogrsh Kumar Singh, Manander Bangar, Rashmi Singh, Renu Dahiya, Mithilesh Kumar,
Kamlesh Yadav, Ramayan Singh, Avinash Kumar, Supriya Rai
National Institute of Solar Energy, Gurgaon, India
43
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17TH
Joint Area Session - Orals
10:30 - 12:00 PM
Empire B (Level 2)
Joint Area 8 & 9: PV Cell & Module Testing Methods and Quantification
Chair(s): Dennis Tasshi, Clifford Hansen
10:30 Best Student Presentation Award Finalist
(370) Hyperspectral laser beam induced current system for solar cell characterization
1,2
3,4,5
3,5
3,4,5
1,2,6
Ahsan Ashraf , Kristopher O. Davis
, Kortan Öğütman , Winston V. Schoenfeld
, Matthew D. Eisaman
1
Sustainable Energy Technologies Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, United States,
2
3
Department of Physics and Astronomy, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, United States, Florida Solar
4
Energy Center, University of Central Florida, Cocoa, FL, United States, CREOL, the College of Optics and
5
Photonics, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, United States, c-Si Division, U.S. Photovoltaic Manufacturing
6
Consortium, Orlando, FL, United States, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Stony Brook
University, Stony Brook, NY, United States
10:45 (371) Quantifying and Reducing Curve-Fitting Uncertainty in Isc
1
2
1
Mark Campanelli , Benjamin Duck , Keith Emery
1
2
National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, United States, CSIRO Energy Flagship, Mayfield West NSW,
Australia
11:00 Best Student Presentation Award Finalist
(372) Process-to-Panel Modeling of a-Si/c-Si Heterojunction Solar Cells
1
2
1
2
1
Raghu Vamsi K. Chavali , Eric C. Johlin , Jeffery L. Gray , Tonio Buonassisi , Muhammad A. Alam
1
2
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States, Department
of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States
11:15 (373) Quantum Efficiency Measurement of Concentrator Photovoltaic Modules
Markus Mundus, Christoph Rapp, Thomas Missbach, Gerald Siefer, Jochen Hohl-Ebinger, Andreas Walter Bett,
Wilhelm Warta
Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
11:30 Best Student Presentation Award Finalist
(374) Comparison of Energy Yield Data of Fifteen PV Module Technologies Operating in Five Different
Climates
1
1
2
Markus Schweiger , Werner Herrmann , Uwe Rau
1
2
TÜV Rheinland AG, Cologne, Germany, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Jülich, Germany
11:45 (375) Quantifying Solar Cell Cracks in Photovoltaic Modules by Electroluminescence Imaging
1
2
1
2
1
1
Sergiu V. Spataru , Peter Hacke , Dezso Sera , Stephen Glick , Tamas Kerekes , Remus Teodorescu
1
2
Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark, National Renewable Energy Laboratory , Golden, CO, United States
Area 1 - Posters
12:00 - 2:15 PM
Elite Hall A (Level 1)
Light Management and Avant Garde Concepts
Chair(s): Stéphane Collin, Laurent Lombez , Stephen Goodnick
A1
(376) Theoretical Efficiency Limits of a 2 Terminal Dual Junction Step Cell
1
2
2
2
2
2
Sabina Abdul Hadi , Tim Milakovich , Mayank Bulsara , Evelina Polyzoeva , Eugene A. Fitzgerald , Judy L. Hoyt ,
1
Ammar Nayfeh
1
Institute Center for Future Energy Systems (iFES) Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
2
(EECS) Masdar Institute of Science and Technology, P.O. Box 54224, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, MIT
Microsystems Technology Laboratories, Cambridge, MA, United States
A4
(377) Enhanced Optical Absorption of Glancing Angle Deposited CIGS Nanorods
Matthew Brozak, Hilal Cansizoglu, Tansel Karabacak
44
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17TH
A7
(378) Enhanced forward scattering and transmitted light diffraction with a low aspect-ratio silicon nanopillar
for high efficiency thin Si solar cell
Jeayoung Choi, Natasa Vulic, Stephen Goodnick, Christiana Honsberg
Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States
A10 (379) Wide Spectral Response and Ambient Air-Stable Nanowire Window-Absorber Type Solar Cells
Hongmei Dang, Vijay P Singh, Sai Guduru
University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, United States
A13 (380) Non-reciprocal metasurfaces for nanophtonic light trapping: optical isolators versus solar cells
1
1
1
1
1
2
Sze Ming Fu , Yan Kai Zhong , Sheng Lun Yan , Nyan Ping Ju , Po Yu Chen , Ming-Hsuan Kao , Chang-Hong
2
2
3
3
1
Shen , Jia-Min Shieh , Yi-Chun Lai , Peichen Yu , Albert Lin
1
2
Department of Electronic Engineering, National Chiao-Tung Univeristy, Hsinchu, Taiwan, National Device
3
Laboratory(NDL), Hsinchu, Taiwan, Department of Photonics, National Chiao-Tung Univeristy, Hsinchu, Taiwan
A16 (381) Photonic Density of State (PDOS) Enhancement by Brillouin Zone Engineering
1
1
1
1
1
2
Sze Ming Fu , Yan Kai Zhong , Sheng Lun Yan , Nyan Ping Ju , Po Yu Chen , Ming-Hsuan Kao , Chang-Hong
2
2
3
3
1
Shen , Jia-Min Shieh , Yi-Chun Lai , Peichen Yu , Albert Lin
1
2
Department of Electronic Engineering, National Chiao-Tung Univeristy, Hsinchu, Taiwan, National Device
3
Laboratory(NDL), Hsinchu, Taiwan, Department of Photonics, National Chiao-Tung Univeristy, Hsinchu, Taiwan
A19 (382) Photovoltaic Characteristics of GaAs Solar Cells with Selective Filters
1,2
1
1
1
2
1
Chung-Yu Hong , Mu-Min Hung , Tung-Ting Yang , Yi-Chin Wang , Yu-Chen Lin , Peichen Yu
1
2
National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, Arima Photovoltaic & Optical Corporation, Taoyuan, Taiwan
A22 (383) Estimating the Theoretical Limit of the Power Conversion Efficiency of a Luminescent Solar
Concentrator Device from the Perspective of Shockley-Queisser Limit
1
2
Yilin Li , Wen-Ji Dong
1
2
1, Pullman, WA, United States, 2, Pullman, WA, United States
A25 (384) Numerical Study of Surface-dependent performances of Nano-scale Solar Cells
1
2
2
1
1
Shih-Li Lin , Hung-Ruei Tseng , Shun-Chieh Hsu , Yin-Han Chen , Chien-Chung Lin
1
2
Institute of Lighting and Energy Photonics, National Chiao-Tung University, Tainan, Taiwan, Institute of Photonic
System, National Chiao-Tung University, Tainan, Taiwan
A28 (385) Optimization of Thin Film Coatings for Textured Silicon Solar Cell Above Low Band Gap Solar Cell
Christine M Longhitano , Keith W Goossen
University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States
B3
(386) Study of Close Space Sublimation (CSS) Grown SnS Thin-films for Solar Cell Applications
Naba R Paudel, Chuanxiao Xiao, Yanfa Yan
Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH, United States
B6
(387) Effect of Quantum Efficiency on the Performance of Multijunction Tandem Cells
Tor O. Saetre
University of Agder, Grimstad, Norway
B9
(388) Potential of transition metal nitrides and metal hydrides as Hot Carrier solar cell absorbers
Santosh Shrestha, simon Chung, Neeti Gupta, Pei Wang, Xiaoming Wen, Gavin Conibeer
School of Photovoltaics and Renewable Energy Engineering, UNSW Australia, Sydney NSW 2052, Australia
B12 (389) Spectral and Temperature Sensitivity of Area De-Coupled Double Tandem Modules
Rune Strandberg
Department of Engineering Sciences, University of Agder, Grimstad, Norway
B15 (390) HIGH EFFICIENT SOLAR SYSTEW BY CURRENT MATCHED PARTITIONS
1
2
Don Wagner , Lili He
1
2
Sol Solution, Inc., , Los Gatos,, CA, United States, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA, United States
B18 (391) Impact of Structure Symmetry on the Light Trapping Properties of Periodic Nanostructures for Ultrathin Silicon Solar Cells
1,2
3
PUQUN WANG , Marius Peters
1
2
Solar Energy Research Institute of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore, NUS Graduate School for Integrative Science
3
and Engineering, Singapore, Singapore, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Boston, MA, United
45
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17TH
States
B21 (392) Wide-angle Antireflective Nanopillar Array Solar Cell for Increasing Annual Power Output
Keiji Watanabe, Tetsufumi Kawamura, Jiro Yamamoto, Masatoshi Morishita, Mieko Matsumura, Wei Sun, Takashi
Hattori, Taro Osabe, Yasuhiro Shimamoto
Central Research Laboratory, Hitachi Ltd., Tokyo, Japan
B24 (393) Improved Voltage Response in III-V Solar Cells Based on Engineered Spontaneous Emission
Yunlu Xu, Edo Waks, Jeremy Munday
University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States
Area 2 - Posters
12:00 - 2:15 PM
Elite Hall B (Level 1)
Absorber Preparation and Material Properties (II)
Chair(s): Dr. Sylvain Marsillac, Dr. Andriy Zakutayev, Dr. Aaron Arehart
C7 (394) Non-vacuum route for CIGS thin film absorber on flexible glass substrates
1
1
2
1
1
Amol C Badgujar , Madhuri Kukkadapu , Sean Garner , Sanjay R Dhage , Shrikant V Joshi
1
International Advanced Research Center for Powder Metallurgy and New Materials (ARCI), PO Balapur, Hyderabad2
500005, India, Corning Incorporated, SP-AR-01-1 Corning, NY 14831, NY, United States
C11 (395) Enhancing the Efficiency of CdTe Solar Cells Using a Nanocrystalline Iron Pyrite Film as an Interface
Layer
Khagendra P. Bhandari, Paul J. Roland, Prakash Koirala, Naba R. Paudel, Robert W. Collins, Yanfa Yan, Michael J.
Heben, Randy J. Ellingson
The University of Toledo, Toledo, OH, United States
C15 (396) Comparative study of structural and electronic properties of CZTSe and CZTS based solar cells grown
by cosputtering and reactive annealing
Romain Bodeux, Julien Leguay
IRDEP, Chatou, France
C19 (397) Uniformity assessment of a 6-inch Copper-Zinc-Tin-Sulfide solar cell sputtered from a quaternary
compound target
1,2
1
1
2
2
Patrice Bras , Léo Mauvy , Jan Sterner , Erik Särhammar , Charlotte Platzer-Björkman
1
2
Midsummer AB, Järfälla, Sweden, Uppsala University, Solid State Electronics, Uppsala, Sweden
C23 (398) Influence of NaF addition on Cu2ZnSn(S,Se)4 thin film solar cells
Chung-Hao Cai, Shih-Yuan Wei, Wei-Chih Huang, Chih-Huang Lai
National Tsing-Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan
C27 (399) Study of Cu2SnS3 Thin Films for Photoactive Applications
Sandra Dias, S.B. Krupanidhi
Materials Research Centre,Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
D5 (400) Depth resolved preferential orientation of Cu(In,Ga)Se2 thin films based on the 112 peak model
1,2
2
2
1
Tomasz Drobiazg , Ludovic Arzel , Nicolas Barreau , Paweł Zabierowski
1
2
Faculty of Physics, Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland, Institut des Matériaux Jean Rouxel (IMN)—
UMR 6502, Université de Nantes, CNRS, Nantes, France
D10 (401) Effect of Cu and Cl on EVT-CdTe Solar Cells
Vamsi Evani, Md I Khan, Shamara Collins, Vasilios Palekis, Prasad Bane, Don Morel, Christos Ferekides
University Of South Florida, Tampa, FL, United States
D14 (402) The Effect of Sputtering Target Preparation and Deposition Temperature on ZnTe:Cu Film Properties
1
2
2
1
2
2
Brooke R Faulkner , James M Burst , Timothy A Gessert , Timothy R Ohno , Bobby To , Craig L Perkins , Joel N
2
Duenow
1
2
Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO, United States, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, United
States
46
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17TH
D18 (403) Hybrid Functional Calculations on the Na and K Incorporation in Substitutional and Interstitial Positions
in Cu2ZnSnSe4 .
1,2
3
3
4
3
Elaheh Ghorbani , Janos Kiss , Hossein Mirhosseini , Thomas D. Kühne , Claudia Felser
1
2
3
Johannes Gutenberg univesity, 55122 , Mainz, Germany, IBM, Mainz, Germany, MPI for Chemical Physics of
4
Solids, Dresden, Germany, Department of Chemistry, University of Paderborn, Warburger Str. 100, 33098 ,
Paderborn, Germany
E2
(404) Selecting CdS:F or CdS:O for window layer application in CdTe-based solar cells.
1
1
1
2
1
Eric Hernández , Victor Rejón , Mariely Loeza , Inés Riech , Juan Luis Peña
1
2
Applied Physics Department, CINVESTAV-IPN, Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico, Materials Science Laboratory, Faculty of
Engineering, University of Yucatán, Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico
E6
(405) Effects of Se flux on the properties of the quaternary-sputtered CIGS thin film solar cells
Chia-Hao Hsu, Wei-Hao Ho, Chih-Huang Lai
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan
E10 (406) Internal Stress Analysis in Thin Film CdTe Deposited by Magnetron Sputtering
Piotr M Kaminski, Ali Abbas, Chao Chen, Sibel Yilmaz, Francesco Bittau, Jake W Bowers, John M Walls
CREST (Centre for Renewable Energy Systems and Technology), School of Electronic, Electrical and Systems
Engineering, Loughborough University, Loughborough, LE11 3TU, United Kingdom, Loughborough, United Kingdom
E14 (407) Order-disorder related band gap changes in Cu2ZnSn(S,Se)4: Impact on solar cell performance
1
1
2
1
1
1
Christoph Krämmer , Christian Huber , Thomas Schnabel , Christian Zimmermann , Mario Lang , Erik Ahlswede ,
1
1
Heinz Kalt , Michael Hetterich
1
2
Institute of Applied Physics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany, Zentrum für Sonnenenergieund Wasserstoff-Forschung Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart, Germany
E18 (408) The influence of the degree of Cu–Zn disorder on the radiative recombination transitions in
Cu2ZnSn(S,Se)4 solar cells
1
1
1
1
2
2
Mario Lang , Christian Zimmermann , Christoph Krämmer , Christian Huber , Thomas Schnabel , Tobias Abzieher ,
2
1
1
Erik Ahlswede , Heinz Kalt , Michael Hetterich
1
2
Institute of Applied Physics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsuhe, Germany, Zentrum für
Sonnenenergie- und Wasserstoff-Forschung Baden-Württemberg (ZSW), Stuttgart, Germany
E22 (409) Ga-Grading CIGS Solar Cell by One-Step Sputtering from a Quaternary Target without Post-selenization
Tzu-Ying Lin, Chih-Huang Lai
101, Sec. 2, Kuang-Fu Road, Hsinchu 30013,Taiwan, R. O. C. Department of Materials Science and Engineering,
Hsinchu, Taiwan
E26 (410) Continous Wave Laser Assisted Post Deposition Chlorine Treatment of CdTe
1
2
2
2
1
Sudhajit Misra , Md I. Khan , Vasilios Palekis , Christos Ferekides , Michael A. Scarpulla
1
2
Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, Electrical Engineering,
University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, United States
F2
(411) Cu Profiles in CdTe Solar Cells
1
2
1
Andrew Moore , Tian Fang , Jim Sites
1
2
Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States, First Solar, Inc., Perrysburg, OH, United States
F6
(412) Bandgap Control of ZnSnP2 via Phase Transition between Chalcopyrite and Sphalerite
Shigeru Nakatsuka, Yoshitaro Nose, Yasuharu Shirai
Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
F10 (413) Photoelectrical properties of undoped and Na-doped Cu2ZnSnS4 single crystals measured by optical
time-resolved spectroscopy
1,2
1
1
1,3
3
1,2
Le Quang Phuong , Makoto Okano , Yasuhiro Yamada , Akira Nagaoka , Kenji Yoshino , Yoshihiko Kanemitsu
1
2
3
Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto University, Uji, Kyoto, Japan, JST-CREST, Uji, Kyoto, Japan, Department
of Applied Physics and Electronic Engineering, University of Miyazaki, Miyazaki, Japan
F14 (414) Microestructural and optical characterization of CZTS thin films deposited in one step by spray
pyrolysis
Edwin Ramirez, Asdrubal Ramirez, Mikel Hurtado, Gerardo Gordillo
National University of Colombia, Bogota, Columbia
47
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17TH
F18 (415) Growth of CuInSe2 thin films by a chemical spray pyrolysis/co-evaporation hybrid method
1,2
1,2
2
2
1
Pablo Reyes-Figueroa , Thomas Painchaud , Ludovic Arzel , Nicolas Barreau , Velumani S
1
Department of Electrical Rngineering(SEES), Centro de Investigacion y de Estudios Avanzados del IPN, Mexico
2
City, Mexico, Université de Nantes, Nantes, France
F22 (416) Cu2SnS3-based thin film solar cell from electrodeposition-annealing route
Erika V. C. Robert, Jessica de Wild, Phillip J. Dale
University of Luxembourg, Physics & Material Sciences, Laboratory for Energy Materials , Belvaux, Luxembourg
F26 (417) Characterization of Cu2SnSe3 Thin Films fabricated by Coevaporation
1
1
1
1
1
1
2
Tooru Tanaka , Satoshi Tokunaga , Shun Sakamoto , Katsuhiko Saito , Qixin Guo , Mitsuhiro Nishio , Xiuxun Han
1
2
Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Saga University, Saga, Japan, Laboratory of Clean Energy
Chemistry and Materials, Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, China
G2 (418) Physicochemical Study of Synthetic Dyes Adsorption on TiO2 Thin Films for Dye Sensitized Solar Cells
1
1
1
1
2
3
william vallejo , Carlos Diaz , Catalina Fajardo , Karen NAvarro , Johann Hernandez , Carlos Arredondo
1
2
3
Universidad del Atlántico, Barranquilla, Columbia, Universidad Distrital, BOgotá, Columbia, Universidad de
Medellin, Medellin, Columbia
G5 (419) Cu(In,Ga)Se2 Thin Films and Solar Cells Fabricated on Polyimide Foils Using Thermal Cracked
Selenium
H Wang, ZX Qiao, C Zhang
Tianjin Institute of Power Sources, Tianjin, China
G8 (420) Device Fabrication Using Crystalline CdTe and CdTe Ternary Alloys Grown by MBE
1,2
2
3
3
2
Katherine N. Zaunbrecher , James M. Burst , Shahram Seyedmohammadi , Roger J. Malik , Jian V. Li , Timothy A.
2
2
Gessert , Teresa M. Barnes
1
2
Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO,
3
United States, First Solar, Santa Clara, CA, United States
G11 (421) Synthesis, Optical Spectroscopy and Electronic Structures of FeS2 Nanocrystals and Solid Films for
Photovoltaic Application
1,2,3
1,2,3
1
1
1
1
1
Guangmei Zhai
, Rongwei Xie
, Heng Wang , Jitao Zhang , Yongzhen Yang , Hua Wang , Xuemin Li , Xuguang
1
1
Liu , Bingshe Xu
1
Key Laboratory of Interface Science and Engineering in Advanced Materials of Ministry of Education of the People's
2
Republic of China, Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan, China, Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Solar Cell
3
Materials and Technology, Changzhou University, Changzhou, China, State Key Laboratory of Electronic Thin Films
and Integrated Devices, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China
Area 3 - Posters
12:00 - 2:15 PM
Elite Hall C (Level 1)
III-V Solar Cells (II)
Chair(s): Minjoo Larry Lee, Andrew Gerger, Stephanie Tomasulo
G24 (422) Low-Cost Growth of III-V layers on Si Using Close-Spaced Vapor Transport
1
1
1
1
1
2
Jason W. Boucher , Ann L. Greenaway , Andrew J. Ritenour , Allison L. Davis , Benjamin F. Bachman , Shaul Aloni ,
1
Shannon W. Boettcher
1
2
Materials Science Institute, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, United States, Molecular Foundry, Lawrence
Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States
G27 (423) Comparison of top and bottom n-contact GaAs solar cell performance
Naresh Das
Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD, United States
H13 (429) Laser-based Measurement of Tunnel Junctions in Triple-junction Solar Cells: Lab-scale
Characterization and In-line Screening
Kristine Drew, Pascal Dufour, Stefan Myrskog
Morgan Solar Inc., Toronto, ON, Canada
48
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17TH
G30 (424) Native Oxide and Optical Constant Determination of InP Lattice-Matched Quaternary Materials using
Variable Angle Spectroscopic Ellipsometry
1
1
1
1
1
2
Nicole A. Kotulak , Matthew P. Lumb , Michael K. Yakes , Kenneth J. Schmieder , Maria Gonzalez , Chris Ebert ,
1
Robert J. Walters
1
2
US Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States, Veeco MOCVD, Somerset, NJ, United States
H1 (425) Epitaxial and Non-epitaxial Large Area GaSb-based Thermophotovoltaic (TPV) Cells
1
1
1
2
2
2
Nassim Rahimi , Daniel J Herrera , Shaimaa Abdallah , Veronika Stelmakh , Walker Chan , Ivan Celanovic , Luke
1
Lester
1
2
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, United States, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States
H4 (426) Tunable GaInP Solar Cell Lattice Matched to GaAs
Islam E Hashem Sayed, C. Zachary Carlin, Brandon Hagar, Peter C. Colter, Salah Bedair
North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, United States
H7 (427) Modeling of Gas Curtains in a Dual Chamber Hydride Vapor Phase Epitaxial Photovoltaic Growth
Reactor
Kevin L Schulte, John Simon, David L Young, Aaron J Ptak
National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, United States
H10 (428) Impacts of optical properties of anti-reflection coatings on characteristics of InGaP/GaAs/Si hybrid
triple-junction cells
Naoteru Shigekawa, Jianbo Liang
Osaka City University, Osaka, Japan
H16 (430) Development of an InAlAsSb top cell material for a lattice matched triple junction solar cell to InP
Michael A Slocum, David V Forbes, Nichole M Hoven, Brittany L Smith, Seth M Hubbard
Rochester Institute of Technologyu, Rochester, NY, United States
H19 (431) Lattice-matched 3-junction cell with 1.2-eV InGaAs/GaAsP superlattice middle cell for improved current
matching
1
2
1
3
3
3
Hassanet Sodabanlu , Hiromasa Fujii , Kentaroh Watanabe , Ryusuke Onitsuka , Takaaki Agui , Hiroyuki Juso ,
3
4
4
4
2
1, 2
Tatsuya Takamoto , David Lackner , Frank Dimroth , Andreas W. Bett , Masakazu Sugiyama , Yoshiaki Nakano
1
2
Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, Tokyo, Japan, School of Engineering, the University of
3
4
Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, Sharp Corporation, Nara, Japan, Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems, Freiburg,
Germany
H22 (432) Studying Anomalous Open-Circuit Voltage Drop-Out in Concentrated Photovoltaics Using
Computational Numerical Analysis
1
1
2
2
2
1
Margaret A. Stevens , Chandler Downs , David Emerson , James Adler , Scott Maclachlan , Thomas Vandervelde
1
2
The Renewable Energy and Applied Photonics Laboratory, Tufts University, Medford, MA, United States, Math
Department, Tufts University, Medford, MA, United States
H25 (433) The effect of luminescence coupling in external quantum efficiency measurement of multi-junction
solar cells
1
2
2
Mitsunobu Sugai , Mitsuru Imaizumi , Tetsuya Nakamura
1
2
Advanced Engineering Services, Tsukuba, Japan, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Tsukuba, Japan
H28 (434) Modeling Wide Bandgap GaInP Photovoltaic Cells For Conversion Efficiencies Up to 16.5%
1
2
1
3
3
1
Yubo Sun , Kyle H. Montgomery , Xufeng Wang , Stephanie Tomasulo , Minjoo Larry Lee , Peter Bermel
1
2
3
Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States, University of California-Davis, Davis, CA, United States, Yale
University, New Haven, CT, United States
H31 (435) Engineering controlled spalling in (100)-oriented GaAs for wafer reuse
1
1
1
2
2
1,2
Cassi A. Sweet , Joshua E. McNeely , Brian Gorman , David L. Young , Aaron J. Ptak , Corinne E. Packard
1
2
Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO, United States, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, United
States
I2
(436) Determination of the Cooling Requirements for Single Cell Photovoltaic Receivers under Variable
Atmospheric Parameters
1,2
2
1
Marios Theristis , Cameron Stark , Tadhg S. O'Donovan
1
Institute of Mechanical, Process and Energy Engineering, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, United Kingdom,
2
Center for Sustainable Energy Systems, Fraunhofer USA, Albuquerque, NM, United States
49
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17TH
I4
(437) Time-Resolved Photoluminescence of MBE-Grown 1eV GaAsSbN for Multi-Junction Solar Cells
1
2
3
3
3
3
Tomos Thomas , Naofumi Kasamatsu , Kian Hua Tan , Satrio Wicaksono , Wan Khai Loke , Soon Fatt Yoon ,
4
2
1
Andrew Johnson , Takashi Kita , Nicholas J Ekins-Daukes
1
2
3
Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, Kobe University, Kobe, Japan, Nanyang Technological
4
University, Singapore, Singapore, IQE plc., Cardiff, United Kingdom
I6
(438) A Novel GaP/InGaAs/InGaSb Triple Junction Photovoltaic Cell with Optimized Quantum Efficiency
1
1
1
1
2
Bibek Tiwari , Raja Penumaka , Indranil Bhattacharya , Satish M. Mahajan , Simon Foo
1
2
Tennessee Technological University, Cookeville, TN, United States, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL,
United States
I8
(439) Quantum dot array based intermediate band solar cell: effect of light concentration
1
2
2
Stanko Tomic , Tomah Sogabe , Yoshitaka Okada
1
2
University of Salford, Manchester, United Kingdom, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
I10 (440) Effects of High Energy Proton Implantation on the Luminescence Properties of InAs Sub-Monolayer
Quantum Dots
1
1
2
2
1
Sourabh Upadhyay , Arjun Mandal , N.B.V Subrahmanyam , Pitamber Singh , Subhananda Chakrabarti
1
2
Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay, Mumbai, India, Bhabha Atomic Research Center, Mumbai, India
I12 (441) Evaluation of strained InAlAs as a window layer for wide bandgap materials lattice matched to InP
1
1
1,2
1,3
1,3
Michael K. Yakes , Kenneth J. Schmieder , Matthew P. Lumb , Mitchell F. Bennett , Maria Gonzalez , Paul D.
1
1,3
1
1
1
1
Cunnigham , Ani Khachatrian , Louise C. Hirst , Stephanie Tomasulo , Nicole A. Kotulak , Joseph S. Mellinger ,
1
Robert J. Walters
1
2
Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States, George Washington University, Washington, DC,
3
United States, Sotera Defense Solutions, Arlington, VA, United States
I14 (442) Identifying Representative Spectra for which Multi-Junction Solar Cells Should be Optimized to
Maximize Annual Energy Yield
Mark D. Yandt, Karin Hinzer, Henry Schriemer
Sunlab, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada
I16 (443) Influence of High Growth Rate on GaAs-based Solar Cells Grown by Metalorganic Chemical Vapor
Deposition
1
1
2
1
1
Chaomin Zhang , Yeongho Kim , Chris Ebert , Nikolai Faleev , Christiana B. Honsberg
1
2
School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States, Veeco
MOCVD, Somerset, NJ, United States
Area 4 - Posters
12:00 - 2:15 PM
Elite Hall D (Level 1)
Junction Formation and Device Physics
Chair(s): Mathieu Boccard , Martin Hermle, Christophe Ballif
I18 (444) Crystalline Si solar cells fabricated by CO2 laser doping
1
1
1
1
1
2
Yasuaki Ishikawa , Tatsuki Honda , Seiya Yoshinaga , Yunjian Jiang , Yukiharu Uraoka , Yosuke Watanabe , Hiroshi
2
Ikenoue
1
2
Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Nara, Japan, Kyusyu University, Fukuoka, Japan
I22 (445) Mercury: Industrial IBC Cell With Front Floating Emitter For 20.9% and Higher Efficiency
1
1
1
1
1
2
Agnes Mewe , Pierpaolo Spinelli , Teun Burgers , Gaby Janssen , Nicolas Guillevin , Bas van de Loo , Erwin
2
3
1
1
Kessels , Ard Vlooswijk , Bart Geerligs , Ilkay Cesar
1
2
3
ECN Solar Energy, Petten, Netherlands, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, Netherlands, Tempress
Systems, Vaassen, Netherlands
I26 (446) Implementation of Tunneling Pasivated Contacts into Industrially Relevant n-Cz Si Solar Cells
William Nemeth, Vincenzo LaSalvia, Matthew Page, Emily Warren, Arrelaine Dameron, Andrew Norman, Benjamin
Lee, David L. Young, Paul Stradins
NREL, Golden, CO, United States
50
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17TH
I30 (447) Temperature dependent analysis of heterojunction silicon solar cells: Role of intrinsic layer thickness
Mohit Agarwal, Rajiv O Dusane
Department of Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science,Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai,
India
I34 (448) Metal-Thin Insulator-Semiconductor Inversion Layer (MIS-IL) solar cells on exfoliated Silicon Foils
1
1
1
1
2
2
JAEHYUN AHN , DONGHYI KOH , EMMANUEL ONYEGAM , SAYAN SAHA , RAJESH RAO , LEO MATHEW ,
1
SANJAY BANERJEE
1
2
The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States, Applied Novel Devices, Austin, TX, United States
I38 (449) 21 % p-Type Industrial PERC Cells with Homogeneous Emitter Profile and Thermally Grown Oxidation
Layer
Lung-Chieh Cheng, Ming-Chun Kao, Hsi-Hao Huang, Po-Sheng Huang, Li-Wei Cheng
Topcell Solar International Co., LTD, Taoyuan Country, Taiwan
I42 (450) Lowly Doped Emitters for Crystalline Solar Cells
1
1
1,2
1
1
Vanesa Fano , Muhammad Azam Rasool , Ahmed Habib , Aloña Otaegi , Jose Ruben Gutierrez , Juan Carlos
1
1
Jimeno , Nekane Azkona
1
2
Technological Institute of Microelectronics (TiM) (UPV/EHU), Zamudio, Spain, Faculty of Science, Department of
Physics, Mansoura University, Mansoura, Egypt
J6
(452) Measurement of metal induced recombination in solar cells
Daniel Inns, Dmitry Poplavskyy
Dupont Silicon Valley Technology Center, Sunnyvale, CA, United States
J10 (453) Relevance Of TCO Workfunction In n-Silicon Oxide Emitter – c-Si (p) Heterojunction Solar Cell
1
1
1
1
1
2
2
Massimo Izzi , Luca Serenelli , Pietro Mangiapane , Enrico Salza , Mario Tucci , Marco Della Noce , Iurie Usatii ,
2
2
2
2
3
Eugenia Bobeico , Lucia V. Mercaldo , Laura Lancellotti , Paola Delli Veneri , Domenico Caputo , Giampiero de
3
Cesare
1
2
3
ENEA Casaccia Research Centre, Rome, Italy, ENEA Portici Research Centre, Portici, Italy, DIET, University of
Rome “ La Sapienza”, Rome, Italy
J14 (454) Double-Heterojunction Crystalline Silicon Solar Cell with Electron-Selective TiO2 Cathode Contact
Fabricated at 100ºC with Open-Circuit Voltage of 640 mV.
1,2
1,2
1,2
1,2
1,3
Janam Jhaveri , Ken A. Nagamatsu , Alexander H. Berg , Gabriel Man , Girija Sahasrabudhe , Sigurd
1,2
1,3
1,2
1,2
Wagner , Jeffrey Schwartz , Antoine Kahn , James C. Sturm
1
Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials (PRISM), , Princeton University, Princeton, NJ,
2
3
United States, Department of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States, Department
of Chemistry, Princeton University, Pinceton, NJ, United States
J18 (455) Investigation of Laser Pattern for High Efficiency PERC Mono Silicon Solar Cells
Cheng-Wen Kuo, Ta-Ming Kuan, Shin-ing Peng, Chih-Chiang Huang, Li-Guo Wu, Cheng-Yeh Yu
TSEC Corporation, Hsinchu, Taiwan
J22 (456) Silicon Epitaxy by Low-Temperature RF-PECVD using SiF4/H2/Ar Gas Mixtures for Emitter Formation in
Crystalline Solar Cells
1,2
1,2
1
1
2
Ronan Léal , Jean-Christophe Dornstetter , Farah Haddad , Jean-Luc Maurice , Gilles Poulain , Pere Roca i
1
Cabarrocas
1
2
LPICM, CNRS, Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France, TOTAL - New Energies, Paris La Défense, France
J26 (457) Numerical investigation for thin film photovoltaics cells with coupled optical and electrical method
Chuanhong Liu, Junfeng Qiao, Zhaoyu Zhang
School of Electronic and Computer Engineering, Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School, Shenzhen, China
J30 (458) Modeling of Silicon Heterojunction Solar Cells
Pietro Luppina, Paolo Lugli, Stephen Goodnick
Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
J34 (459) A Kinetic Monte Carlo Study of Transport in Silicon Heterojunction Solar Cells
Pradyumna Muralidharan, Dragica Vasileska, Stephen M Goodnick, Stuart Bowden
Arizona State University, TEMPE, AZ, United States
51
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17TH
2
J38 (460) High Implied Voc (>715 mV) and low emitter saturation current density (~10fA/cm ) from a lightly B
doped implanted emitter
1
1
1
1
1
1
Young-Woo Ok , Ajay D Upadhyaya , Brian Rounsaville , Keeya Madini , Keenan Jones , Kyungsun Ryu ,
2
2
2
2
1,2
Chandrasekaran Vinodh , Arnab Das , Bruce McPherson , Atul Gupta , Ajeet Rohatgi
1
2
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, United States, Suniva Inc., Norcross, GA, United States
J41 (461) Laser-Induced Damage for Silicon Solar Cells
Alona Otaegi, Vanesa Fano, Muhammad Azam Rasool, Jose Ruben Gutierrez, Juan Carlos Jimeno, Eneko
Cereceda
Technological Institute of Microelectronics (TiM), University of the Basque Country, Zamudio, Spain
J44 (462) Epitaxial Emitter Reverse Saturation Current Density:Modeling and Experimental Validation
John S Renshaw, James M Gee
Applied Materials, Santa Clara, CA, United States
K3
(463) Considerations in the Extraction of Physically Significant Parameters for Various c-Si Cell
Architectures
1,2
1,2,3
1,2
1,2,3
Eric Schneller , Krisopher O. Davis
, Kortan Öğütman , Winston V. Schoenfeld
1
2
Florida Solar Energy Center, Cocoa, FL, United States, c-Si Division, U.S. Photovoltaic Manufacturing Consortium,
3
Orlando, FL, United States, CREOL. the College of Optics and Photonics, Orlando, FL, United States
K6
(464) Griddler 2: Two Dimensional Solar Cell Simulator with Facile Definition of Spatial Distribution in Cell
Parameters and Bifacial Calculation Mode
Johnson Wong, Ranjani Sridharan
Solar Energy Research Institute of Singapore , Singapore, Singapore
K8
(465) Application of ion implanted emitter in PERC solar cells
1,2
1,2
1,2
1
Jian Wu , Yunyu Liu , Xusheng Wang , Guoqiang Xing
1
2
Canadian Solar Inc., 199 Lushan Road, SND, Suzhou, China, Photovoltaic Research Institute of Soochow
University, Suzhou, China
K10 (466) Investigation of Light-Induced Degradation on P-type Multi-Crystalline Silicon PERC Cells
1
2
3
4
Kuo-Yi Yen , Shao-Peng Su , Sean H.T. Chen , Li-Wei Cheng
1
2
Topcell Solar International Co., LTD., Taoyuan, Taiwan, Topcell Solar International Co., LTD., Taoyuan, Taiwan,
3
4
Topcell Solar International Co., LTD., Taoyuan, Taiwan, Topcell Solar International Co., LTD., Taoyuan, Taiwan
K12 (467) Modeling of Hydrogen Selective Emitter for n-type Silicon Solar Cells
1
1
1
2
3
2
Matthew G Young , Larry Cousar , Hafeezuddin Mohammed , Ralf Schulze , Jianming Wang , Sergiu C Pop ,
1
1
Douglas Hutchings , Seth Shumate
1
2
Picasolar, Inc., Fayetteville, AR, United States, Yingli Green Energy Americas Inc., San Francisco, CA, United
3
States, Yingli Group Co. Ltd., Baoding, China
K14 (468) Experimental and simulated analysis of p a-Si:H defects on silicon heterojunction solar cells: trade-offs
between Voc and FF
1,2
1
1,4
1,3
1,2
1,3,4
Lei Zhang , Ujjwal K Das , Shu Zhan , Hsiang-Yu Liu , Steven S Hegedus , Robert W Birkmire
1
2
Institute of Energy Conversion, Newark, DE, United States, Department of Electrical & Comupter Engineering,
3
University of Delware, Newark, DE, United States, Department of Materials Science & Engineering, University of
4
Delaware, Newark, DE, United States, Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Delware, Newark, DE,
United States
K16 (469) The influence of the substrate lifetime and wafer thickness on n-type interdigitated back contact solar
cells
Wei Zhang, Chen Chen, Rui Jia, Yun Sun, Zhao Xing, Zhi Jin
Institute of Microelectronics of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
K17 (470) Effects of N-type Hydrogenated Microcrystalline Silicon Oxide Film on Performance of a-Si/c-Si
Heterojunction Solar Cell
1
2
2
1
2
2
Yue Zhang , Cao Yu , Miao Yang , Hui Yan , Jinyan Zhang , Xixiang Xu
1
2
Beijing University of Technology, Beijing, China, Hanergy Thin Film Solar Group, Chengdu R&D Center, Chengdu,
China
K18 (471) Reasons for Low Fill Factor of Amorphous/Crystalline Silicon Heterojunction Solar Cell
Lei Zhao, Guanghong Wang, Ge Wang, Hongwei Diao, Wenjing Wang
Key Laboratory of Solar Thermal Energy and Photovoltaic Systems of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of
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Electrical Engineering, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
K19 (472) A Through Way of Mapping Efficiency With Photoluminescence
Kortan Öğütman, Kris Davis, Eric Schneller, Vijay Yelundur, Winston V Schoenfeld
Area 8 - Posters
12:00 - 2:15 PM
Elite Hall E (Level 1)
Characterizaion of Photovoltaics
Chair(s): Harvey Guthrey, Keith Emery, Michael Gostein
M3 (473) Theory and analysis of temperature coefficient of open-circuit voltage (dVoc/dT) in heterojunction solar
cells
1
2
Sachit Grover , Jian V. Li
1
2
Scifiniti, Inc. (currently at First Solar Inc.), San Jose, CA, United States, NREL, Golden, CO, United States
M5 (474) Comparison of Physical and Electrical Equivalent Circuits of Solar Cells
1,2
Michael A. Slonim
1
2
Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheva, Israel, Israeli Independent
Academy for Development of Sciences, Beer-Sheva, Israel
M7 (475) Applications of The Green's Expression for Saturation Current vs. Bandgap in Si and CIGS Solar Cells
Luigi Abenante, Mario Tucci
ENEA, Rome, Italy
M9 (476) Efficient Approximation of Photovoltaic Model Using Dependent Thevenin Equivalent circuit based on
exponential sums function
Mohamed Abd-ElHakeem Mohamed
Faculty of Engineering, Electric Eng.Al-Azhar University,, Qena, Egypt
M11 (477) An Active Subspace Analysis of the Single-Diode Model
1
2
1
Brian R. Zaharatos , Mark Campanelli , Paul Constantine
1
2
Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO, United States, National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL), Golden, CO,
United States
M13 (478) Models for Low Energy Electron Beam Induced Current Experiments in polycrystalline thin film
photovoltaics
Paul Haney, Heayoung Yoon, Nikolai Zhitenev
National Institute for Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, United States
M15 (479) Minority Carrier Diffusion Length Measurements in Solar Cells by Electron Beam Induced Current
Sergey Maximenko, Robert Walters
Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States
M17 (480) Identification of EL2 as the Lifetime-Limiting Defect using Temperature-Dependent Photoluminescence
Decay with Linearization Method to Decouple Effects of Diffusion and Surface Recombination
Martin W. Gerber, Rafael N. Kleiman
McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada
M19 (481) Effect of series resistance on degradation of Isc, Power output and Fill Factor of HIT technology
Rashmi Singh, Birinchi Bora, Kamlesh Yadav, O.S. Sastry, Mithilesh Kumar, Avinash Kumar, Renu Dahiya,
Manander Bangar, Supriya Rai, Arun Kumar
National Institute of Solar Energy, Gurgaon, India
M21 (482) Analyses of Diamond Wire Sawn Wafers: Effect of Various Cutting Parameters
1
1
1
1
1
1
Bhushan Sopori , Prakash Basnyat , Srinivas Devayajanam , Rekha Schnepf , Santosh Sahoo , Lynn Gedvilas ,
1
2
2
2
3
3
Helio Moutinho , James Gee , Ferdinando Severico , Antoine Manens , Hubert Seigneur , Winston Schoenfeld ,
3
Steve Preece
1
2
National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, United States, Applied Materials, Santa Clara, CA, United
3
States, PVMC, Orlando, FL, United States
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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17TH
M23 (483) Characterization of silicon solar cells by means of their luminescence under high frequency sinusoidal
excitations
Nekane Azkona, Federico Recart, Pedro Rodríguez, Juan Carlos Jimeno
UPV/EHU - Institue of Microelectronic Technology, Zamudio, Spain
M25 (484) State-of-the-Art Multiparameter Characterization of the Chemical and Field Effect Passivation of Very
+
High Lifetime n-Si with n Front Surface Field (FSF)
Marshall Wilson, Andrew Findlay, John D'Amico, Alexandre Savtchouk, Jacek Lagowski
Semilab SDI, Tampa, FL, United States
M27 (485) More Accurate Imaging of the Local Saturation Current Density in Solar Cells by Using Alternative PL
Evaluation Methods
1
1
2
2
Otwin Breitenstein , Jan Bauer , David Hinken , Karsten Bothe
1
2
Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics, Halle, Germany, Institute for Solar Energy Research Hamelin
(ISFH), Emmerthal, Germany
M29 (486) Direct Measurement of Dopant Distribution Depth in an Individual Silicon Micropillar
Amal A. Kabalan
Bucknell University, Lewsiburg, PA, United States
M31 (487) New metrology method for homogeneity assessment in epitaxial layers grown at low temperature
1
3
2
2
3
1
Ronan Leal , Vamsi Velidandla , Gilles Poulain , Perine Jaffrennou , Jim Xu , Pere Roca i Cabarrocas
1
2
3
LPICM CNRS, Cedex, France, TOTAL, Paris, France, Zeta Instruments, San Jose, CA, United States
M33 (488) Recent Advances in Glow Discharge Optical Emission Spectroscopy for characterization of layers/film
used in the Photovoltaic field
1
1
2
Philippe HUNAULT , Christophe MORIN , Patrick CHAPON
1
2
HORIBA Scientific, Edison, NJ, United States, HORIBA Scientific, Lonjumeau, France
M35 (489) Determination of the Optical Absorption Coefficients of a Weakly Absorbing Film on a Transparent
Substrate by Spectrophotometry
Geordie Zapalac
MiaSole, Santa Clara, CA, United States
M37 (490) The Characterization of Al2O3 and TiO2 Antireflection Coatings with a Novel X-Ray Reflectivity Method
and Other Experimental Techniques
Chao Li, Firouz Shahriarian, Mark S. Goorsky
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United
States
M39 (491) Methods for sheet resistance and thickness measurements of highly resistive interfacial layers in
photovoltaic TCO thin films
Christian Hagendorf, Kai Kaufmann, Volker Naumann, Martina Werner, Stephan Großer, Tommy Tänzer
Fraunhofer Center for Siliscon Photovotlaics CSP, Halle, Germany
M41 (492) Study of Recombination in CdMgTe/CdTeSe Heterostructures Using Photoluminescence Intensity and
Lifetime Measurements with Confocal Photoluminescence Microscopy
1
1
1
1
1
Craig Swartz , Madhavie Edirisooriya , Olanrewaju Ogedengbe , Bobby Hancock , Sandeep Sohal , Elizabeth
1
1
1
1
2
1
LeBlanc , Pathiraja Jayathilaka , Mark Holtz , Thomas Myers , Katherine Zaunbrecher , Odille Noriega
1
2
Texas State University, San Marcos, TX, United States, NREL, Golden, CO, United States
M43 (493) Photoluminescence of Crystalline CdTe Double Heterostructures Grown by MBE
1,2
2
2
2
2
Katherine N. Zaunbrecher , Pat Dippo , Darius Kuciauaskas , Timothy A. Gessert , Teresa M. Barnes , Thomas H.
3
3
3
3
Myers , Madhavie Edirisooriya , Pathiraja A.R.D. Jayathilaka , Olanrewaju S. Ogedengbe
1
2
Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO,
3
United States, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX, United States
N1 (494) Photoluminescence Imaging of Large-Grain CdTe for Grain Boundary Characterization
1
1,2
1
1
1
Steve Johnston , Alyssa Allende Motz , Matthew O. Reese , James M. Burst , Wyatt K. Metzger
1
2
National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, United States, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO, United
States
54
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17TH
N3 (495) Analysis of Alloying and Built-in Voltage in Thin Film Chalcogenide Solar Cells using Modulation
Spectroscopy
1
1
2
3
1
Alan E. Delahoy , Zimeng Cheng , Jingong Pan , Shou Peng , Ken K. Chin
1
2
New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ, United States, CNBM Optoelectronic Materials Co. Ltd., Chengdu,
3
China, Bengbu Design & Research Institute for Glass Industry , Bengbu, China
N5 (496) Local Photocarrier Dynamics in CdTe Solar Cells Under Optical and Electron Beam Excitations
1,2
1
1,2
1,2
1
1
Heayoung P. Yoon , Paul M. Haney , Yohan Yoon , Sangmin An , James I. Basham , Nikolai B. Zhitenev
1
2
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, United States, Maryland NanoCenter, College
Park, MD, United States
N7 (497) Alkali segregation and matrix concentrations in thin film Cu(In,Ga)Se2 at targeted interfaces
characterized in 3-D at the nanoscale
1,2
2
1
1
Adam W Stokes , Mowafak Al-Jassim , David Deircks , Brian Gorman
1
2
Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO, United States, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, United
States
N8 (498) Characterization and Post-Processing of Cadmium Sulfide Polycrystalline Thin Films
Hang Xu, Lili Wu, Wenwu Wang, Guanggen Zeng, Wei Li, Jingquan Zhang, Bing Li, Lianghuan Feng
Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
N9 (499) Reconstruction of the charge collection probablity in a CIGS solar cell by the regularization method
1,2
3
3
1,2,4
Yutong Pang , Harry Efstathiadis , Daniel Dwyer , Eisaman Matthew
1
2
Sustainable Energy Technologies Department, Brookhaven National Lab, Upton, NY, United States, Department of
3
Physics and Astronomy, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, United States, Colleges of Nanoscale Science
4
and Engineering, State University of New York Polytechnic Institute, Albany, NY, United States, Department of
Electrical and Computer Engineering, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, United States
N10 (500) Effects of Back Contact Resistance, Depletion Width and Relaxation Time Distributions in Admittance
Spectroscopy of CZTSe Devices
1
2
3
1,2
Anna E Caruso , Dennis S Pruzan , Elizabeth A Lund , Michael A Scarpulla
1
2
Electrical and Computer Engineering Department University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, Materials
3
Science and Engineering Department University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, Chemical Engineering
Department University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States
N11 (501) Accurate and Rapid Measurement of High-Capacitance PV Cells and Modules Using Dark and Light I-V
Characteristics with 10ms Pulse - Part 2
1
1
1
1
2
Junichiro Abe , Hisashi Kojima , Kazutaka Iwamoto , Yuji Fujita , Yoshihiro Hishikawa
1
2
Kyoshin Electric, Kyoto, Japan, AIST, Ibaraki, Japan
N12 (502) Real-time Growth Assessments of Size Orientation and Facet Asymmetries of Self-assembled Quantum
Dots
Manori V. Gunasekera, Alexandre Freundlich
University of Houston, HOUSTON, TX, United States
N13 (503) Ultrafast Transient Absorption Study of Hot Carrier Dynamics in Hafnium Nitride and Zirconium Nitride
xiaoming wen
University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
N14 (504) Improved performance of GaInNAs Solar Cell after UV-activated hydrogenation
1
1
1
2
2
3
Vincent R Whiteside , Miwa Fukuda , Joel C Keay , Mohamed Al Khalfioui , Mathieu Leroux , Khalid Hossain , Terry
3
1
D Golding , Ian R Sellers
1
2
3
University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, United States, CRHEA-CNRS, Valbonne, France, Amethyst Research Inc.,
Ardmore, OK, United States
N15 (505) Electroluminescence Imaging of PV devices: Determining the Image Quality
Karl G Bedrich, Martin Bliss, Tom R Betts, Ralph Gottschalg
Loughborough University, CREST, Loughborough, United Kingdom
N16 (506) Numerical Investigation of Capacitance Frequency Technique for Perovskite based Solar Cells
Vikas Nandal, Pradeep R. Nair
Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India
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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17TH
Area 9 - Posters
12:00 - 2:15 PM
Elite Hall F (Level 1)
Modules, Manufacturing, Systems and Applications (II)
Chair(s): Adria Brooks, Owen Westerbrook, Bruce King
N18 (507) An Experimental Study of the Effect of Converging Channel Heat Exchanger on PV System
Ahmer A.B. Baloch, Haitham M.S. Bahaidarah, Palanichamy Gandhidasan
King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia
N21 (508) Analysis of Spectrum Variations in different Seasons in Composite Climate zone of India
Manander Bangar, Birinchi Bora, Renu Dahiya, Arun Kumar, O.S. Sastry
National Institute of Solar Energy, Gurgaon, India
N24 (509) Performance modeling of three PV module technologies based on clearness index and air-mass using
contour map
Birinchi Bora, O.S. Sastry, Arun Kumar, Manander Bangar, Renu Dahiya
National Institute of Solar Energy, Gurgaon, India
N27 (510) Impact of time- and spatial discretization on the agreement between measured and modeled
performance of large photovoltaic power plants
1
2
Hugo Capdevila , Tobias Gerstmaier
1
2
capdevila ite, Stuttgart, Germany, Soitec Solar GmbH, Freiburg, Germany
N30 (511) Solar Irradiance Prediction Model based on a Statistical Approach for Microgrid Application
1
1
2
1
2
Rachid Darbali-Zamora , Carlos J. Gómez-Mendez , He Li , Eduardo I. Ortiz-Rivera , Jin Wang
1
2
University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez, PR, United States, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States
N33 (512) Characterization of Global Irradiance Sensors for use with PV Systems
1
2
Anton Driesse , Wim Zaaiman
1
2
PV Performance Labs, Freiburg, Germany, European Solar Test Installation, Ispra, Italy
N36 (513) PVLIB Python 2015
1
2
3
4
William F. Holmgren , Robert W. Andrews , Antonio T. Lorenzo , Joshua S. Stein
1
2
Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States, Heliolytics, Toronto, ON,
3
4
Canada, College of Optical Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States, Sandia National
Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States
N39 (514) Understanding Next Generation Cadmium Telluride Photovoltaic Performance due to Spectrum
1
2
1
1
1
Mitchell Lee , Lauren Ngan , William Hayes , Jim Sorensen , Alex Panchula
1
2
3
First Solar , San Francisco, CA, United States, First Solar, Tempe, AZ, United States, First Solar, Perrysburg, OH,
United States
N42 (515) Field Testing of Flat-Plate and Concentrator Photovoltaic Systems at the Solar Technology Acceleration
Center
1
2
3
Cara S. Libby , Sarah R. Kurtz , Steven Coley
1
2
Electric Power Research Institute, Palo Alto, CA, United States, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden,
3
CO, United States, Electric Power Research Institute, Knoxville, TN, United States
O1 (516) A Novel 24 Kalman Filter Bank Estimator For Solar Irradiance Prediction For PV Power Generation
1
1
2
Conor J Lynch , Michael J O'Mahony , Richard A Guinee
1
2
Dept. of Process, Energy and Transport, Cork, Ireland, Dept. of Process, Energy and Transport, Cork, Ireland,
3
Adjunct Faculty, Dept. of Process, Energy and Transport, Cork, Ireland
O4 (517) Addressing PV Plant Performance Test Uncertainties - Case Studies with Data Analysis
Jitendra Morankar, Amine Alami, Igor Koshkin
RES Americas, Broomfield, CO, United States
O7 (518) Incidence-angle dependent external quantum efficiency: laboratory characterization and use in
irradiance-to-power modeling.
1
2
3
2
B.G. Potter , C.W. Hansen , J.H. Simmons , B.H. King
1
2
University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States,
3
Florida Gulf Coast University, Ft. Myers, FL, United States
56
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17TH
O10 (519) Modeling the performance of HIT technology for composite climatic zone of India
Supriya Rai, Birinchi Bora, O.S. Sastry, Manander Bangar, Y.K. Singh, Avinash Kumar, Kamlesh Yadav, Mithilesh
Kumar, Rashmi Singh, Renu Dahiya, Arun Kumar
National Institute of Solar Energy, Gurgaon, India
O13 (520) Improved PV Performance modelling by combining the PV_LIB Toolbox with the Loss Factors Model
(LFM)
1
2
3
1
Juergen Sutterlueti , Steve Ransome , Joshua S. Stein , Joerg Scholz
1
2
3
Gantner Instruments, Zwoenitz, Germany, SRCL, Kingston upon Thames, United Kingdom, Sandia National
Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States
O16 (521) Clustering Techniques for Photovoltaic System Simulations Under Nonuniform Irradiance Conditions
Tomas Tinoco De Rubira, Oliver Toole
Aurora Solar Inc, Palo Alto, CA, United States
O19 (522) Hierarchical Development of Simulator for Photovoltaic System with Commercial Photovoltaic Modules
Huan-Liang Tsai, P. Truomglhu Le
Da-Yeh University, Chang-Hua, Taiwan
O22 (523) Modeling The Performance Of Amorphous Silicon Photovoltaic Modules For Different Geographical
Locations In North-America
1
2
1
Alessandro Virtuani , Artur Skoczek , Davide Strepparava
1
2
SUPSI, Canobbio, Switzerland, GEOMODEL, Bratislava, Slovakia
O25 (524) Improvement of Prediction Interval Estimation Algorithm with Just-In-Time Modeling for PV System
Operation
1,3
1,3
2,3
1,3
Tomohide Yamazaki , Shinji Wakao , Yu Fujimoto , Yasuhiro Hayashi
1
Dept. of Electrical Engineering & Bioscience, Waseda University, 3-4-1 Ohkubo, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan,
2
3
Institute for Nanoscience & Nanotechnology, Waseda University, 3-4-1 Ohkubo, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan, JST,
CREST, 4-1-8 Honcho, Kawaguchi, Saitama, Japan
Area 11 - Posters
12:00 - 2:15 PM
Elite Hall G (Level 1)
System Reliability and Soiling
Chair(s): Chris Flueckiger, Jeff Newmiller
Q1 (525) Spread of Flame Testing of Glass – Backsheet c-Si Solar Modules: Degradation Progression and Effect
of Module Laminate Materials
Tim D Fletcher, Nancy Phillips
3M Company, Renewable Energy Division, St. Paul , MN, United States
Q3 (526) Accurately Measuring PV Soiling Losses with Soiling Station Employing Module Power Measurements
1
2
2
Michael Gostein , Tim Düster , Christopher Thuman
1
2
Atonometrics, Austin, TX, United States, E.ON Climate & Renewables North America, San Francisco, CA, United
States
Q5 (527) Modeling of Soiled Photovoltaic Modules With Neural Networks Using Particle Size Composition of Soil
1
2
3
Fani Mani , Subrahmanyam Pulipaka , Rajneesh Kumar
1
2
3
Birla Institute of Technology Science, Pilani, India, Birla Institute of Technology Science, Pilani, India, Birla Institute
of Technology Science, Pilani, India
Q7 (528) DC Risk Managment for Photovoltaic Assets
Robert W. Andrews, Michael T. Yan
Heliolytics, Toronto, ON, Canada
Q9 (529) Predictive Reliability for AC Photovoltaic Modules Based on Electro-Thermal Phenomena
1
2
3
4
5
Kenneth M Armijo , Benjamin Yang , Olga Lavrova , Daniel Riley , Sigifredo Gonzalez
1
2
Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM,
3
4
United States, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States, Sandia National Laboratories,
5
Albuquerque, NM, United States, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States
57
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17TH
Q11 (530) Failure Modes and Effect Analysis of Module Level Power Electronics
1
1
1
1
3
Raja Ayyanar , Siddharth Kulasekaran , Jinia Roy , Arkanatha Sastry M R , GovindSamy TamizhMani , Jack D
2
4
5
Flicker , Devarajan Srinivasan , Ian Tilford
1
2
Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United
3
4
5
States, TUV Rheinland PTL, Tempe, AZ, United States, Poundra, Tempe, AZ, United States, Bosch, San Mateo,
CA, United States
Q13 (531) Working towards the Development of a Standardized Artificial Soiling Method
Sravanthi Boppana, Vidyashree Rajasekar, GovindaSamy TamizhMani
ASU, Mesa, AZ, United States
Q15 (532) The efficacy of fire-fighting foams for disrupting power generation from silicon solar panels
1
2
1
2
Jeffrey P. Bosco , Zuki Tanaka , Brian A. Ott , Daren T. Slee
1
2
Exponent, Inc., Thermal Sciences Practice, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Exponent, Inc., Electrical Engineering
Practice, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Q17 (533) Initial Results of a Five Site Study Comparing Spatial Variability of Soiling and Ambient Particulate
Concentrations
1
2
1
1
2
3
2
Liza Boyle , Patrick Burton , Holly Flinchpaugh , Victoria Danner , Charles Robinson , Ken Blackwell , Bruce King ,
1
Michael P Hannigan
1
2
University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, Sandia National Laboratory, Albuquerque, NM, United States,
3
Florida Solar Energy Center, Cocoa, FL, United States
Q19 (534) Advanced Smart Grid Distribution Testing
Richard John Bravo, James Hernandez, Victor Tran
Southern California Edison, Westminster, CA, United States
Q21 (535) Macro- and Microscale Particle Size Effects of Soil on Photovoltaic Surfaces
Patrick D. Burton, Alex Hendrickson, Bruce H. King
Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States
Q23 (536) Photovoltaic Module Performance and Soiling Analysis for Field Environment
ChienYu Chen, Haomin Chen, C.H Hsueh, MaoYi Chang
AU OPTRONICS CORPORATION, Taichung, Taiwan
Q25 (537) Analysis of Temperature effect on Optimum Sizing of Solar Photovoltaic Water Pumping System
Renu Dahiya, Birinchi Bora, Kamlesh Yadav, Manander Bangar, Arun Kumar, O.S. sastry
National Institute of Solar Energy, Gurgaon, India
Q27 (538) Photovoltaic System Performance Monitoring for Manufacturing Quality Assurance
1
2
2
3
Neelkanth G Dhere , Subhash V Ghaisas , Adinath Funde , Priyadarshini Karve
1
2
3
Florida Solar Energy Center, Cocoa, FL, United States, University of Pune, Pune, India, Samuchit Enviro Tech Pvt.
Ltd., Pune, India
Q29 (539) Performance Evaluation of Photovoltaic Modules and Systems: Results after 10 years of Field Exposure
in Brazil
1
1
1
1
1
Antonia Sonia A. C. Diniz , Marcelo M. Viana , Cristiana B. Maia , Suellen C. S. Costa , Thiago A. Silverio , Marcio
2
2
2
3
E. M. Souza , Denio A. Cassini , Francisco H. A. F. Souza , Lawrence L. Kazmerski
1
2
GREEN Solar-IPUC, Pontificia Universidade Catolica Minas Gerais –PUCMinas, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, Companhia
3
Energética de Minas Gerais – CEMIG-D, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Instutute
(RASEI), University of Colorado Boulder and National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, United States
Q31 (540) Energy and Economic Losses due to Soiling on Utility Scale PV Systems to Guide Timing of Cost
Effective Cleaning
Dale S.L. Dolan, Vladimir Prodanov, Taufik Taufik
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA, United States
R1 (541) The Effect of Saharan Dust on PV System Yields in the Tropical Environment of Barbados
1
1
2
Darlene Field , Thomas Rogers , Andrea Sealy
1
2
University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, St. Michael, Barbados, Caribbean Institute of Meterology and
Hydrology, St.James, Barbados
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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17TH
R3 (542) Performance and Reliability of PV Inverter Component and Systems due to Advanced Inverter
Functionality
Jack D Flicker, Jason Neely, Sigifredo Gonzalez
Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States
R5 (543) Availability of Utility-Scale Photovoltaic Power Plants
Kirby Hunt, Anthony Blekicki, Robert Callery
First Solar, Tempe, AZ, United States
R7 (544) Evaluation and Prediction of Soiling Loss on PV modules with Artificially Deposited Dust
Jim J John, Sonali Warade, Abhishek Kumar, Anil Kottantharayil
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India
R9 (545) Regional Soiling Stations for PV: Design, Calibration and Installation
1
2
2
2
2
Bruce H. King , Govindasamy TamizhMani , Sai Tatapudi , Vidyashree Rajasekar , Sravanthi Boppana
1
2
Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States, Arizona State University Photovoltaic Reliability
Laboratory, Mesa, AZ, United States
R10 (546) Dust mitigation on PV modules in western Saudi Arabia
1
1
1
1
1
2
Elisabeth Klimm , Karl-Anders Weiss , Karolina Slamova , Jan Hermann , Michael Koehl , Albraa A Jaber , Abdiaziz
2
A Farah
1
2
Fraunhofer ISE, Freiburg, Germany, SABIC CRI, Jeddah Thuwal, Saudi Arabia
R11 (547) Environmental Degradation of the Optical Surface of PV Modules and Solar Mirrors by Soiling and High
RH and Mitigation Methods for Minimizing Energy Yield Losses
1
1
1
1
1
2
Malay Mazumder , Mark Horenstein , Calvin Heiling , Jeremy Stark , Arash Sayyah , Julius Yellowhair , Atri
1
Raychowdhury
1
2
Boston University, Boston, MA, United States, Sandia National Laboratories , Albuquerque, NM, United States
R12 (548) Cleaning Frequency Optimization for Soiled Photovoltaic Modules
Mohammad Naeem, Govindasamy TamizhMani
Photovoltaic Reliability Laboratory (ASU-PRL)Photovoltaic Reliability Laboratory (ASU-PRL), Mesa, AZ, United
States
R13 (549) Angle of Incidence Effect on Five Soiled Modules from Five Different PV Technologies
Vidyashree Rajasekar, Sravanthi Boppana, GovindaSamy TamizhMani
Arizona State University-Photovoltaic Reliability Lab, Mesa, AZ, United States
Area 1 - Orals
2:30 - 4:00 PM
Strand 13 (Level 2)
Quantum Dot and Intermediate Band Solar Cells
Chair(s): Chris Bailey, Stanko Tomic
2:30 (550) Intermediate Band Solar Cell Design using InAs quantum dots in AlAsSb Cladding
1
1
1
2
2
Seth Hubbard , Staffan Hellstroem , Zachary Bittner , Ramesh Laghumavarapu , Diana Huffaker
1
2
Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY, United States, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles,
CA, United States
2:45 (551) Investigation of Room Temperature Non-linear Sub-bandgap Photocurrent Generation in InAs/GaAs
Quantum Dot Solar Cells
Tian Li, Mario Dagenais
University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States
3:00 (552) Saturable Two-step Photocurrent Generation in Intermediate-band Solar Cells Including InAs Quantum
Dots Embedded in Al0.3Ga0.7As/GaAs Quantum Wells.
Shigeo Asahi, Haruyuki Teranishi, Naofumi Kasamatsu, Tomoyuki Kada, Toshiyuki Kaizu, Takashi Kita
Kobe University, Kobe, Japan
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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17TH
3:15 (553) High Si Content SRO/SiO2 Bilayer Superlattices with Boron and Phosphorus Doping for Next
Generation Si Quantum Dot Photovoltaics
Terry Chien-Jen Yang, Keita Nomoto, Ziyun Lin, Lingfeng Wu, Binesh Puthen-Veettil, Tian Zhang, Xuguang Jia,
Gavin Conibeer, Ivan Perez-Wurfl
Australian Centre for Advanced Photovoltaics, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
3:30 (554) Ultrafast Photocarrier Transport Dynamics in InAs/GaAs Quantum Dot Superlattice Solar Cell
Taizo Tanibuchi, Tomoyuki Kada, Naofumi Kasamatsu, Takuya Matsumura, Shigeo Asahi, Takashi Kita
Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Kobe University, Kobe, Japan
3:45 (555) Carrier Collection in Quantum Dots Solar Cells with Barrier Modification
Yushuai Dai, Stephen Polly, Staffan Hellstroem, David. V. Forbes, Seth. M Hubbard
NanoPower Research Laboratory, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester , NY, United States
Area 2 - Orals
2:30 - 4:00 PM
Empire A (Level 2)
Worldwide Industry Advances
Chair(s): Robert W. Collins, BJ Stanbery
2:30 (556) Invited: Current Status at Solar Frontier: From Fundamental Research to Industrial Mass Production of
Cd-free Cu(In,Ga)(Se,S)2 Solar Cell
Motoshi Nakamura, Takuya Kato, Rui Kamada, Hiroki Sugimoto
Technology Development Division, Atsugi Research Center, Solar Frontier K.K., Atsugi, Kanagawa, Japan
3:00 (557) Wait-time effects in CIGS PV module production
1
1
1
1
2
2
Philipp Kratzert , Sebastian Jander , Jovana Djordjevic-Reiss , Ralf Hunger , Erik Wallin , tobias jarmar , Dirk
1
2
2
Herrmann , Olle Lundberg , Lars Stolt
1
2
Solibro Hi-Tech GmbH, Leipzig, Germany, Solibro Research AB , Uppsala, Sweden
3:15 (558) Methodology for improved cell integration design based on distributed-element circuit analysis
Gregory M. Kimball
MiaSolé Hi-Tech Corp., Santa Clara, CA, United States
3:30 (559) Controlling the Thermal Impact of ns Laser Pulses for the Preparation of the P2 Interconnect by Local
Phase Transformation in CIGSe
1
1
1,2
1
3
3
Christof Schultz , Manuel Schüle , Kamil Stelmaszczyk , Moshe Weizman , Orman Gref , Felice Friedrich ,
2
2
2
1,2
1
1
Christian Wolf , Christian A. Kaufmann , Björn Rau , Rutger Schlatmann , Frank Fink , Bert Stegemann
1
2
PVcomB / HTW Berlin - University of Applied Sciences, Berlin, Germany, PVcomB / Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für
3
Materialien und Energie GmbH, Berlin, Germany, PVcomB / Technical University, Berlin, Germany
3:45 (560) Assessing the Cost and Potential of Monolithic CIGS Modules
Kelsey A. W. Horowitz, Michael Woodhouse
National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) , Golden, CO, United States
Area 3 - Orals
2:30 - 4:00 PM
Strand 10 (Level 2)
III-V Solar Cells - Lower Cost
Chair(s): Aaron Ptak, Homan Yuen, Frank Dimroth
2:30 (561) A GaAs Nanowire Array Solar Cell with 15.3% Efficiency at 1 Sun
Ingvar Åberg, Giuliano Vescovi, Damir Asoli, Umear Naseem, James P. Gilboy, Christian Sundvall, Andreas
Dahlgren, K. Erik Svensson, Nicklas Anttu, Mikael T. Björk, Lars Samuelson
Sol Voltaics AB, Lund, Sweden
60
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17TH
3:00 (562) High Performance Ultrathin GaAs Solar Cells
1
1
3
3
1
2
Sung-Min Lee , Anthony Kwong , Daehwan Jung , Joseph Faucher , Lang Shen , Roshni Biswas , Minjoo Larry
3
1,2
Lee , Jongseung Yoon
1
Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA,
2
United States, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United
3
States, Department of Electrical Engineering, Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States
3:15 (563) Relationship Between EL2 Density, SRH Lifetime, and Photovoltaic Device Performance in GaAs at
High MOCVD Growth Rates
1
1,3
1
1,4
1
Kenneth J Schmieder , Matthew P Lumb , Michael K Yakes , Maria Gonzalez , Paul D Cunningham , Ani
1,4
1,4
1
1
2
5
Khachatrian , Mitchell F Bennett , Louise C Hirst , Nicole A Kotulak , Ziggy Pulwin , Christopher G Bailey , Seth M
6
1
2
1
Hubbard , Joseph S Melinger , Chris W Ebert , Robert J Walters
1
2
U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States, Veeco MOCVD, Somerset, NJ, United States,
3
4
George Washington University, Washington, DC, United States, Sotera Defense Solutions, Annapolis Junction, MD,
5
United States, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, United States,
6
NanoPower Research Labs, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY, United States
3:30 (564) Modeling of Effects of Using Polycrystalline Substrates for Low Cost III-V Photovoltaics
Zachary S. Bittner, Elisabeth L. McClure, Stephen J. Polly, David V. Forbes, Seth M. Hubbard
Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY, United States
3:45 (565) Low Cost GaAs Solar Cells Grown by Hydride Vapor Phase Epitaxy and the Development of GaInP
Cladding Layers
John Simon, Kevin L. Schulte, David L. Young, Aaron J. Ptak
NREL, Golden, CO, United States
Area 4 - Orals
2:30 - 4:00 PM
Empire C/D (Level 2)
Device Physics and Analysis
Chair(s): Keith McIntosh , Paul Basore
2:30 Best Student Presentation Award Finalist
(566) Experimental assessment of temperature coefficient theories for silicon solar cells
1,2
1
2
Olivier Dupré , Rodolphe Vaillon , Martin A. Green
1
Université de Lyon, CNRS, INSA-Lyon, UCBL, Centre for Energy and Thermal Sciences (CETHIL), UMR5008, F2
69621, Villeurbanne, France, Australian Centre for Advanced Photovoltaics (ACAP), School of Photovoltaic and
Renewable Energy Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
2:45 (567) Interdigitated Back-Contacted Silicon Heterojunction Solar Cells using Semi-Industrial Processing
Equipment
1
1
2
1
1
Paula C.P. Bronsveld , Maciej K. Stodolny , Leo A.A. Duval , Petra Manshanden , Lambert J. Geerligs
1
2
ECN, Petten, Netherlands, EindhovenTechnical University, Eindhoven, Netherlands
3:00 (568) Deriving the generation profile for silicon solar cells from lumped optical parameters
1
2
Andreas Fell , Keith R. McIntosh
1
2
Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, PV Lighthouse, Coledale, Australia
3:15 (569) Investigation of Light-Induced Regeneration Phenomena on P-type Cz PERC Cells
Jun-Rui Huang, Yi-Feng Lin, Kai Liang, Spencer Su, Sean H.T. Chen, Li-Wei Cheng
Topcell Solar International Co., LTD., No. 1560, Zhongshan Rd., Guanyin Township, Taoyuan Country, R.O.C.
(Taiwan), Taiwan
3:30 (570) A New Expression for Intrinsic Fill Factor of Silicon Solar Cells
Mehdi Leilaeioun, Zachary Holman
Arizona state university, Tempe, AZ, United States
3:45 (571) High Efficiency N-type Silicon Solar Cells with Local Back Surface Fields Formed by Laser Chemical
Processing
Xinbo Yang, Andreas Fell, Lujia Xu, Evan Franklin, Daniel Macdonald, Klaus Weber
Research School of Engineering, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
61
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17TH
Area 7 - Orals
2:30 - 4:00 PM
Strand 12 (Level 2)
Space Arrays and Structures
Chair(s): Jeremy Banik, Bao Hoang
2:30 (572) Solar Electric Propulsion for Future NASA Missions
Geoffrey A. Landis, Steven R. Oleson, Carolyn R. Mercer
NASA John Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, OH, United States
2:45 (573) Analytic Representation of Space Solar Array Performance: A Structural Based Alternative to Historical
Metrics
1
2
Jeremy A Banik , Bernie F Carpenter
1
2
AFRL, Albuquerque, NM, United States, Aerospace, Albuquerque, NM, United States
3:00 (574) UltraFlex and MegaFlex – Development of Highly Scalable Solar Power
David M. Murphy, Michael I. Eskenazi, Michael E. McEachen, James W. Spink
Orbital ATK, Goleta, CA, United States
3:15 (575) Flexible Solar Array With Structural Photovoltaic Assembly
Theodore Stern, Kenneth Steele
Alliance Spacesystems, Los Alamitos, CA, United States
3:30 (576) Advancements of the Lightweight Integrated Solar Array and Transceiver (LISA-T) Small Spacecraft
System
1
1
1
1
2
1
Tiffany Russell , Armando Martinez , Darren Boyd , Michael SanSoucie , Brandon Farmer , Todd Schneider , Greg
2
1
1
1
Laue , Leo Fabisinski , Les Johnson , John A. Carr
1
2
NASA MSFC, Huntsville, AL, United States, ManTech NeXolve Corporation, Huntsville, AL, United States
3:45 (577) Development and Implementation of Unique Testing Methods for the Solar Probe Plus Array
Andrew P Gerger, Paul Sharps, Richard Stall, Christopher Sulyma, Karen de Zetter, Paul Johnson, Kevin Crist
SolAero Technologies Corporation, Albuquerque, NM, United States
Area 9 - Orals
2:30 - 4:00 PM
Strand 11 (Level 2)
System Performance Modeling
Chair(s): Kendra Passow, Steve Ransome
2:30 (578) Investment Risks of Utility-scale PV: Opportunities and Limitations of Risk Mitigation Strategies to
Reduce Uncertainties of Energy Yield Predictions
Björn Müller, Wolfgang Heydenreich, Nils Reich, Christian Reise, Boris Farnung
Fraunhofer ISE, Freiburg, Germany
2:45 (579) Revisiting the Model Parameters of an Existing System Using the Photovoltaic System Analysis
Toolbox (PV_SAT)
Ian C. Tse, Kenneth J. Sauer, Ryan A. Desharnais, Venkata R. Abbaraju
Yingli Green Energy Americas, Inc., San Francisco, CA, United States
3:00 Best Student Presentation Award Finalist
(580) Estimation of annual performance loss rates of grid-connected photovoltaic systems using time series
analysis and validation through indoor testing at standard test conditions
Alexander Phinikarides, George Makrides, George E. Georghiou
FOSS Research Centre for Sustainable Energy, Photovoltaic Technology Laboratory, Department of Electrical and
Computer Engineering, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus
3:15 (581) Dependence on Geographic Location of Air Mass Modifiers For Photovoltaic Module Performance
Models
Katherine A. Klise, Clifford W. Hansen, Joshua S. Stein
Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States
62
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17TH
3:30 (582) Simplified Method for Modeling the Impact of Arbitrary Partial Shading Conditions on PV Array
Performance
Sara MacAlpine, Chris Deline
National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, United States
Joint Area Session - Orals
2:30 - 4:00 PM
Empire B (Level 2)
Joint Area 2 & 8: Characterization of CdTe Photovoltaics
Chair(s): Dean Levi, Harvey Guthrey
2:30 (583) A Fundamental Study of the Effects of Grain Boundaries on Performance of Poly-Crystalline Thin Film
CdTe Solar Cells
1
1
2
3
2
3
1
Tadas Paulauskas , Chris Buurma , Cyrus Sun , Maria Chan , Moon Kim , Fatih Sen , Robert Klie
1
2
University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States, Universty of Texas at Dallas, Dallas, TX, United States,
3
Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, United States
3:00 (584) Creation and Analysis of Atomic Structures for CdTe Bi-crystal Interfaces by the Grain Boundary Genie
1
2
1
3
3
1
1
Christopher Buurma , Fatih Sen , Tadas Pauluaskas , Ce Sun , Moon Kim , Sivalingam Sivananthan , Robert Klie ,
2
Maria Chan
1
2
University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL, United States,
3
University of Texas at Dallas, Dallas, TX, United States
3:15 (585) Atomistic simulations of grain boundaries in CdTe
1
2
2
3
3
2
Fatih G. Sen , Christopher Buurma , Tadas Paulauskas , Ce Sun , Moon Kim , Sivalingam Sivanantham , Robert F.
2
1
Klie , Maria K.Y. Chan
1
2
Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL, United States, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States,
3
University of Texas at Dallas, Dallas, TX, United States
3:30 (586) Opto-Electronic Characterization of CdTe Solar Cells from TCO to Back Contact with Nano-Scale CL
Probe
1,2
1
3
1
1
John M Moseley , Mowafak M Al-Jassim , Naba Paudel , Hasitha Mahabaduge , Darius Kuciauskas , Harvey L
1
1
3
1
1,2
Guthrey , Joel Duenow , Yanfa Yan , Wyatt K Metzger , Richard K Ahrenkiel
1
2
National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, United States, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO, United
3
States, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH, United States
3:45 (587) Bulk Lifetime, Doping and Recombination in CdTe:P Single Crystals
1
1
1
1
1
1
James M. Burst , Stu B. Farrell , Matthew O. Reese , David S. Albin , Joel N. Duenow , Eric Colegrove , Teresa M.
1
1
2
2
2
1
Barnes , Steve W. Johnston , Tursun Ablekim , Santosh Swain , Kelvin G. Lynn , Darius Kuciauskas , Wyatt K.
1
Metzger
1
2
National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, United States, Center for Materials Research, Washington
State Univ., Pullman, WA, United States
Break
4:00 - 4:30 PM
Elite Hall (Level 1)
Coffee Break
63
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17TH
Area 1 - Posters
4:30 - 6:00 PM
Elite Hall A (Level 1)
Novel Material Systems and Concepts
Chair(s): Tyler Grassman , Andrea Ingenito , Arno Smets
A2
(588) Effective Counter Electrode based on Mesoporous Carbon Materials for Dye Sensitized Solar Cells:
Enhanced Plasma treatment
1
1,2
1
1
1,2
ZHEN YU LI , M.Shaheer Akhtar , Jin-Ho Song , Azmira Jannat , O-Bong Yang
1
School of Semiconductor and Chemical Engineering & Solar Energy Research Center, Chonbuk National University,
2
Jeonju, South Korea, New and Renewable Energy Materials Development Center (NewREC), Chonbuk National
University, Jeonju, South Korea
A5
(589) Novel 3C-SiC Encapsulated Coaxial Silicon Nanowire Solar Cell For Optimal Photovoltaic Performance
Rahul Pandey, Rishu Chaujar
Delhi Technological University , Delhi, India
A8
(590) Low Temperature ALD grown ZnO as emitter and TCO for a thin-film a-Si PIN Solar cells
1
2,3
2,3
1
Aaesha Alnuaimi , Burak Tekcan , Ali Okyay , Ammar Nayfeh
1
Institute Center for Microsystems – iMicro, EECS, Masdar Institute of Science and Technology, Abu Dhabi, United
2
Arab Emirates, Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering,UNAM-National Nanotechnology Research
3
Center, Ankara, Turkey, Institute of Materials Science and Nanotechnology, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey
A11 (591) Cross-sectional electric field distributions in BaSi2 homo and BaSi2/Si hetero pn junctions
1
1,2
3
2
1
1
Masakazu Baba , Kentaro Watanabe , Kosuke O. Hara , Takashi Sekiguchi , Weijie Du , Ryota Takabe , Kaoru
1
4,5
1,5
Toko , Noritaka Usami , Takashi Suemasu
1
2
Institute of Applied Physics, University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan, National Institute for Materials Science, Ibaraki,
3
Japan, Graduated School of Medical and Engineering Science, Yamanashi University, Yamanashi, Japan,
4
5
Graduated School of Engineering, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan, Japan Science and Technology Agency,
CREST, Tokyo, Japan
A14 (592) Special dispersion chiral nematic reflectors for luminescent solar concentrators
1
2
1
1
Michael G. Debije , Dick K. G. De Boer , Dirk J. Broer , Paul P. C. Verbunt
1
2
Eindhoven Univeristy of Technology, Eindhoven, Netherlands, Philips Research, Eindhoven, Netherlands
A17 (593) Ion Exchanged Glass Frits For Enhanced Front Side Paste Performance
Markus Eberstein, Stefan Koerner
Fraunhofer IKTS, Dresden, Germany
A20 (594) ab initio Electronic Transport Model for Photovoltaics
1
2
1
Alireza Faghaninia , Joel W Ager , Cynthia S Lo
1
Department of Energy, Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO,
2
United States, Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States
A23 (595) Alloying ZnS to Create Transparent Conducting Materials
1
2
1
Alireza Faghaninia , Kunal R Bhatt , Cynthia S Lo
1
Department of Energy, Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO,
2
United States, Department of Energy Science and Engineering, Mumbai, India
A26 (596) Amorphous Cu-Sb-S Based Semiconductors for Thin-Film Solar Cell Applications
Nicholas D. Franzer, Naba R. Paudel, Yanfa Yan
University of Toledo, Toledo, OH, United States
B1
(597) Rapid Thermal Annealing of InAlAsSb Lattice-Matched to InP for Top Cell Applications
1,2
2,3
4
4
2
2
Maria Gonzalez , Matthew P. Lumb , Louise C. Hirst , Stephanie Tomasulo , Joseph G. Tischler , Woojun Yoon ,
2
2
2
4
4
2
Joshua Abell , Igor Vurgaftman , Mitchell F. Bennet , Kenneth J. Schmieder , Nicole A. Kotulak , Michael K. Yakes ,
2
2
Jerry R. Meyer , Robert J. Walters
1
2
Sotera Defense Solutions, Inc., Annapolis Junction, MD, United States, US. Naval Research Laboratory,
3
4
Washington , DC, United States, The George Washington University, Washington , DC, United States, NRC
residing at the US Naval Research Laboratory, Washington , DC, United States
64
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17TH
B4
(598) Interface Engineered Wetting Layer Free InAs QDs on GaAs(001)
1
2
1
2
1
Manori V. Gunasekera , Dinghao Tang , Alexandre Freundlich , David A. Smith , Irene Rusakova
1
2
University of Houston, HOUSTON, TX, United States, Arizona State University, Arizona, TX, United States
B7
(599) Optical Properties of InN-Based Photodetection Devices
1
2
2
2
3
4
Lung-Hsing Hsu , Chien-Chung Lin , Yi-Chia Hwang , Chen-Fung Su , Shih-Yen Lin , Hao-Chung Kuo
1
2
Institute of Lighting and Energy Photonics, National Chiao Tung University, Tainan, Taiwan, Institute of Photonic
3
System, National Chiao Tung University, Tainan, Taiwan, Research Center for Applied Sciences, Academia Sinica,
4
Taipei, Taiwan, Institute of Electro-Optical Engineering, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan
B10 (600) Nickel Oxide Carrier Selective Contacts for Silicon Solar Cells
Raisul Islam, Pranav Ramesh, Ju Hyung Nam, Krishna Saraswat
Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States
B13 (601) Solution Processed Titanium Oxide for Si Heterojunction Solar Cells
1
1
2
4
1,2,3
Yu-Tsu Lee , Ting-Chun Lin , Fang-Ru Lin , Chien-Hsun Chen , Zingway Pei
1
2
1. Department of Electrical Engineering, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan, 2. Graduate Institute
3
of Optoelectronic Engineering, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan, 3. Research Center for
4
Sustainable Energy and Nanotechnology, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan, 4. Green Energy and
Environment Research Laboratories, Industrial Technology Research Institute, Chutung, Taiwan
B16 (602) Copper Oxide Thin Films prepared by Chemical Bath Deposition Technique
1
1
1
2
Zheng-Dong Lin , Shoou-Jinn Chang , Yi-Hao Chen , Ting-Jen Hsueh
1
2
Institute of Microelectronics, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, National Nano Device Laboratories,
Tainan, Taiwan
B19 (603) Single Crystal Cu2O Photovoltaics by the Floating Zone Method
1,2
2
2
1,2
1,2
Stefan T. Omelchenko , Yulia Tolstova , Samantha S. Wilson , Harry A. Atwater , Nathan S. Lewis
1
2
Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis, Pasadena, CA, United States, California Institute of Technology,
Pasadena, CA, United States
B22 (604) Atmospheric Pressure Processed Silver-Nanowire (Ag-NW) / ZnO Composite Transparent Conducting
Contacts
1
1,2
1
1
1
John D. Perkins , Shruti Aggarwal1 , Maikel van Hest , Tom Gennett , David S. Ginley
1
2
National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, United States, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University,
New Delhi, India
B25 (605) Fabrication and Characterization of ZnSnxGe1-xN2Alloys for Light Absorbers
Amanda Shing, Naomi Coronel, Nathan S. Lewis, Harry A. Atwater
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
B27 (606) Comparison of V2O5 and WO3 sandwicheds, via Sol-Gel, to Development as Photovoltaics Cells
1
1
2
1
Guilherme Elias Silva , Kayo Vinycyus de Sou Oliveira , Rodrigo Fernando Bianchi , Dane Tadeu Cestarolli , Elidia
1
Maria Guerra
1
2
Federal University of São João Del Rei, Ouro Branco, Brazil, Federal University of Ouro Preto, Ouro Preto, Brazil
B28 (607) Development of Al doped ZnO as TCO by Atomic Layer Deposition
Soumyadeep Sinha, Sandeep K Maurya, Balasubramaniam R. Kavaipatti, Shaibal K Sarkar
Department of Energy Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India
C1 (608) Fabrication and Characterization of BaSi2 Films on Ge(111) Substrates by Molecular Beam Epitaxy
1
1
2
3,4
1,4
Ryota Takabe , Kaoru Toko , Kosuke O. Hara , Noritaka Usami , Takashi Suemasu
1
2
3
University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan, University of Yamanashi, Yamabashi, Japan, Nagoya University, Nagoya,
4
Japan, JST-CREST, Chiyoda-ku, Japan
C2 (609) Growth and Characterization of Highly Mismatched Zn1-xCdxTe1-yOy Alloys for Intermediate Band Solar
Cells
1,2
1
1
1
1
1
Tooru Tanaka , Kosuke Mizoguchi , Toshiki Terasawa , Yuuki Okano , Katsuhiko Saito , Qixin Guo , Mitsuhiro
1
3,4
3
Nishio , Kin Man Yu , Wladek Walukiewicz
1
2
Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Saga University, Saga, Japan, PRESTO, Japan Science and
3
Technology Agency, Kawaguchi, Japan, Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,
4
Berkeley, CA, United States, Department of Physics and Materials Science, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon,
Hong Kong
65
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17TH
C3 (610) Molecular Beam Epitaxy of Cu2O Heterostructures for Photovoltaics
Yulia Tolstova, Samantha S. Wilson, Stefan T. Omelchenko, Nathan S. Lewis, Harry A. Atwater
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
C4 (611) Molecular beam epitaxy of InAlAsSb for the top cell in high-efficiency InP-based lattice-matched triplejunction solar cells
1
1,2
1
1
1,3
Stephanie Tomasulo , Maria Gonzalez , Joseph G. Tischler , Joshua Abell , Matthew P. Lumb , Michael K.
1
1
4
4
4
1
Yakes , Louise C. Hirst , Francisco J. Delgado-Gonzalez , Miriam Herrera , Sergio I. Molina , Igor Vurgaftman , Jerry
1
1
R. Meyer , Robert J. Walters
1
2
Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States, Sotera Defense Solutions , Annapolis Junction, MD,
3
4
United States, George Washington University, Washington, DC, United States, Universidad de Cadiz, Cadiz, Spain
C5 (612) Control carrier recombination of multi-scale textured black silicon surface for high performance solar
cells
1
2
2
2
1
Guodong Yuan , Miao Hong , Yan Peng , Yiming Zhu , Jinmin Li
1
2
Institute of semiconductors, Beijing, China, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai, China
Area 2 - Posters
4:30 - 6:00 PM
Elite Hall B (Level 1)
Contacts, Buffers, Substrates and Interfaces
Chair(s): Chris Ferekides, Harin Ullal, Katherine Zaunbrecher
C8 (613) Molybdenum Oxide Contacts for Nanowire CdS-CdTe Solar Cells
Hongmei Dang, Vijay P Singh
University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, United States
C12 (614) Properties of ZnO thin films prepared by reactive evaporation
Asdrubal Ramirez, Edwin Ramirez, Gerardo Gordillo
National University of Colombia, Bogota, Columbia
C16 (615) THE GROWTH MODEL OF CDTE THIN FILM BY CLOSE SPACED SUBLIMATION
1,2
1
1
1
1
Guogen Liu , Zimeng Chen , Alan Delahoy , George Georgiou , Ken Chin
1
2
CNBM New Energy Materials Research Center, Newark, NJ, United States, Chemical, Biological and
Pharmaceutical Engineering, Newark, NJ, United States
C20 (616) Effect of different Conducting Oxides (TCOs) on CdTe layers
Dahiru G. Diso
C24 (617) CIGS Solar Cell on Silicon Substrate
1
1
2
Yi-Hao Chen , Shoou-Jinn Chang , Ting-Jen Hsueh
1
2
Institute of Microelectronics,National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, National Nano Device Laboratories,
Tainan, Taiwan
C28 (618) Effect of Substrate Temperature on Sputtered Molybdenum Film as a Back Contact for Cu(In,Ga)Se2
Solar Cells
1
1
1
1
2
3
Tasnuva Ashrafee , Krishna Aryal , Grace Rajan , Shankar Karki , Vikash Ranjan , Angus Rockett , Robert W.
4
1
Collins , Sylvain Marsillac
1
2
Virginia Institute of Photovoltaics, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, United States, Pilkington North America,
3
2401 East Broadway, , Northwood , OH, United States, Dept. of Materials Science & Engineering, Univ. of Illinois
4
Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States, Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH,
United States
D6 (619) Development of Co-evaporated In2S3 Buffer Layer for Cu2ZnSnSe4 Thin Film Solar Cells
1,2
3
4,5
1,6
4,5
1,2
Marie Buffiere , Nicolas Barreau , Guy Brammertz , Sylvester Sahayaraj , Marc Meuris , Jef Poortmans
1
2
3
4
imec, Leuven, Belgium, KUL-ESAT, Leuven, Belgium, IMN, Univ. Nantes, Nantes, France, imec-imomec, Hasselt,
5
6
Belgium, Univ. Hasselt, Hasselt, Belgium, KUL-MTM, Leuven, Belgium
D11 (620) ZnS top layer to enhance the crystallinity of CZTS absorber during the annealing
1
1
2
2
1
Andrea Cazzaniga , Rebecca B. Ettlinger , Andrea Crovetto , Ole Hansen , Jørgen Schou
1
2
DTU Fotonik, Roskilde, Denmark, DTU Nanotech, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark
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D15 (621) Effects of Oxygen Plasma Treatment on the Performance of CdTe Thin- Film Solar Cells
1
1
1
2
1
Alexander J Cimaroli , Naba R Paudel , Brooke E Paquin , Drew E Swanson , Yanfa Yan
1
2
University of Toledo, Toledo, OH, United States, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States
D19 (622) Efficient Bifacial Cu2ZnSnSe4 Solar Cells
1
1
1
1
1
Moises Espindola-Rodriguez , Yudenia Sánchez , Simon López-Marino , Victor Izquierdo-Roca , Diouldé Sylla ,
1
2
1
1
Markus Neuschitzer , Osvaldo Vigil-Galán , Edgardo Saucedo , Marcel Placidi
1
2
IREC, Jardins de les Dones de Negre, 1 2, Sant Adrià del Besòs (Barcelona), Spain, IREC, Jardins de les Dones
3
de Negre, 1 2, Sant Adrià del Besòs (Barcelona), Spain, IREC, Jardins de les Dones de Negre, 1 2, Sant Adrià del
4
Besòs (Barcelona), Spain, IREC, Jardins de les Dones de Negre, 1 2, Sant Adrià del Besòs (Barcelona), Spain,
5
6
IREC, Jardins de les Dones de Negre, 1 2, Sant Adrià del Besòs (Barcelona), Spain, IREC, Jardins de les Dones
7
8
de Negre, 1 2, Sant Adrià del Besòs (Barcelona), Spain, Instituto Politécnico Nacional , México DF, Mexico, IREC,
9
Jardins de les Dones de Negre, 1 2, Sant Adrià del Besòs (Barcelona), Spain, IREC, Jardins de les Dones de
Negre, 1 2, Sant Adrià del Besòs (Barcelona), Spain
E3
(623) Co−electroplated Kesterite Bifacial Thin Film Solar Cells
Jie Ge, Yue Yu, Yanfa Yan
The university of toledo, Toledo, OH, United States
E7
(624) The Formation of the MOSe2 Layer at CIGS/Mo Interface and its Effect on the CIGS Device Performance
Falah S. Hasoon , Hamda A. Al-Thani
National Energy & Water Research Center, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
E11 (625) Optimization of Buffer Layer/i-Layer Band Alignment
1
2
2
Yukari Inoue , Matej Hála , Susanne Siebentritt
1
2
TDK Corporation Technical Center, Chiba, Japan, Laboratory for Photovoltaics, Physics and Materials Science
Research Unit, Université du Luxembourg, Belvaux, Luxembourg
E15 (626) Comparison of DC and RF Sputtered Aluminium-Doped Zinc Oxide for Photovoltaic Applications
1
1
1
2
2
1
Patrick J M Isherwood , Michael N Gona , Jake W Bowers , Nuno Neves , Paul Newbatt , John M Walls
1
2
CREST, Loughborough University, Loughborough, United Kingdom, Innovnano SA, Coimbra, Portugal
E19 (627) Gallium-doped Magnesium Zinc Oxide (GMZO) Transparent Conducting Oxide Layers for CdTe Thinfilm Photovoltaics
Jason M. Kephart, W.S. Sampath
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States
E23 (628) Thermal treatment improvement of CuSbS2 absorbers
1,2
1,3
1,3
1
2
Francisco W. S. Lucas , Adam W. Welch , Lauryn L. Baranowski , Patricia C. Dippo , Lucia H. Mascaro , Andriy
1
Zakutayev
1
2
National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, United States, Federal University of Sao Carlos, Sao Carlos,
3
Brazil, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO, United States
E27 (629) Study of a Low Power Plasma reactor for synthesis of doped and undoped Zinc oxide as the window
layer in CIGS solar cells
1,2,3
2
1
1
Alexandre Ma
, Frédérique Donsanti , Frédéric Rousseau , Daniel Morvan
1
Institut de Recherche de Chimie Paris (IRCP), Equipe 2PM (Procédés, Plasmas, Microsystèmes) , Paris, France,
2
3
Institut de Recherche et Développement sur l'Energie Photovoltaïque (IRDEP) , Chatou, France, Agence de
l'Environnement et de la Maîtrise de l'Énergie (ADEME) , Angers, France
F3
(630) The Effect of Back Contact and Rapid Thermal Processing Conditions on Flexible CdTe Device
Performance
1
2
1
1
1
2
1
H. P. Mahabaduge , D. M. Meysing , W. L. Rance , J. M. Burst , M. O. Reese , C. A. Wolden , T. A. Gessert , W. K.
1
3
1
Metzger , S. Garner , T. M. Barnes
1
2
National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, United States, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO, United
3
States, Corning Incorporated, Corning, NY, United States
F7
(631) Chemical and Mechanical Techniques Enabling Direct Characterization of CdS/CdTe Heterojunction
Region in Completed Devices
1
1
2
2
2
2
Daniel M Meysing , Jiaojiao Li , Matthew O Reese , Hasitha Mahabaduge , Wyatt K Metzger , James M Burst ,
2
1
Teresa M Barnes , Colin A Wolden
1
2
Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO, United States, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, United
States
67
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17TH
F11 (632) Effects of annealing temperatures on the properties of Zinc-doped Cadmium Sulfide thin films grown by
the SILAR technique.
P.A. NWOFE, P.E. AGBO, C.N. UKWU
F15 (633) The Role of the Intrinsic Zinc Oxide Layers on the Performance of Wide-bandgap (AgCu)(InGa)Se2 ThinFilm Solar Cells.
1,3
3
2,3
1,3
Uwadiae Obahiagbon , Christopher P. Thompson , William N. Shafarman , Steve S. Hegedus
1
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States,
2
3
Department of Material Science and Engineering, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States, Institute of
Energy Conversion (IEC), University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States
F19 (634) Thermal Behavior of ITO/TiO2/CdS/CdTe Solar Cells
1
1
1
1
2
Juan L. Peña , Eric Hernández-Rodríguez , Victor Rejón , Ricardo Mis-Fernández , Inés Riech
1
2
Applied Physics Department, CINVESTAV-IPN U. Mérida, Mérida, Mexico, Materials Science Laboratory, Faculty of
Engineering, University of Yucatán, Mérida, Mexico
F23 (635) Evolution of the Optical Response of Sputtered CdS:O as a Function of Temperature and the
Implications for Thin Film Photovoltaics
Adam B. Phillips, Jon M. Stone, Zhaoning Song, Geethika K. Liyanage, Corey R. Grice, Naba R. Paudel, Yanfa Yan,
Michael J. Heben
University of Toledo, Toledo, OH, United States
F27 (636) Effect of Molybdenum Deposition Temperature on the Performance of CuIn1-xGaxSe2 Based Solar
Cells
1
1
1
1
1
1
Puja Pradhan , Puruswottam Aryal , Abdel R Ibdah , Prakash Koirala , Jian Li , Nikolas J Podraza , Angus A.
2
3
1
Rockett , Sylvain Marsillac , Robert W Collins
1
2
University of Toledo, Toledo, OH, United States, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States,
3
Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, United States
G3 (637) The CdS/CdTe Solar Cells With Reactively Sputtered a-MoOx/Mo Back Contact
1
1
1
2
1
Victor Rejón , Ricardo Mis-Fernández , Eric Hernández-Rodríguez , Inés Riech , Juan L. Peña
1
2
Applied Physics Department, CINVESTAV-IPN U. Mérida, Mérida, Mexico, Materials Science Laboratory, Faculty of
Engineering, University of Yucatán, Mérida, Mexico
G6 (638) Interfacial engineering and nanoscale characterization of Zn(S,O) alternative buffer layer for CIGS thin
film solar cells.
Purvesh Soni, Oana Cojocaru-Mirédin, Dierk Raabe
Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung GmbH, Düsseldorf, Germany
G9 (639) Studies on Process Induced Optoelectronic and Structural Modifications of CdS/CZTS Heterojunction
Interface Affecting Solar Cell Efficiency
Ratheesh R Thankalekshmi , Alok C Rastogi
Binghamton University,State University of New York , Binghamton, NY, United States
G12 (640) Fabrication of CdS/CdTe solar cells with transparent p-type conductive SrCuSeF back contact
1
1
1
1
2
2
Takahiro Wada , Shuya Kitabayashi , Koichi Yamamoto , Hiroshi Sakakima , Yohei Ogawa , Aikyo Hosono ,
2
Tamotsu Okamoto
1
2
Ryukoku University, Otsu, Japan, Kisarazu National College of Technology, Chiba, Japan
G14 (641) Theoretical Exploration of Cd-free CIGS Solar Cells with A Charged Tunneling Electron Collector Layer
William Xu, Cangming Ke, Selvaraj Venkataraj, Johnson Wong, Rolf Stangl
Solar Energy Research Institute of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
G16 (642) Boost efficiency of pure sulfide CZTS solar cell via hybrid buffer
Chang Yan, Fangyang Liu, Kaiwen Sun, Ning Song, Fangzhou Zhou, Xiaojing Hao
UNSW Australia, sydney, Australia
G18 (643) Efficiency improvement of ammonia-free CBD-ZnS Cu(In,Ga)Se2 solar cells by sulfur treatment
Tzu-Hsuan Yeh, Chia-Hao Hsu, Wei-Hao Ho, Shi-Yuan Wei, Chih-Huang Lai
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan
68
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G20 (644) Material stability study of (Zn)CdTe/MgCdTe double heterostructures grown on InSb substrates using
MBE
1,2
1,3
1,2
1,3
Xin-Hao Zhao , Shi Liu , Calli M Campbell , Yong-Hang Zhang
1
2
Center for Photonics Innovation, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States, School for Engineering of
3
Matter, Transport and Energy, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States, School of Electrical, Computer
and Energy Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States
Area 4 - Posters
4:30 - 6:00 PM
Elite Hall D (Level 1)
Contact Formation and Module Integration
Chair(s): Abba Ebong , Marius Peters, Alison Lennon
I19 (645) Silver Flake Interactions with Organics in Photovoltaic Backside Tabbing Paste
Cerise Baker, Lindsey Karpowich, Weiming Zhang
Heraeus Photovoltaic Technology, W. Conshohocken, PA, United States
I23 (646) A new approach: low cost masking material and efficient copper metallization for higher efficiency
silicon solar cells
1,2
1
1
2
2
3
Marco Balucani , Konstantin Kholostov , Aliaksei Klyshko , Roberto Pagliucci , Dario Bernardi , Luca Serenelli ,
3
3
Massimo Izzi , Mario Tucci
1
2
3
DIET, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy, Rise Technology S.r.l., Rome, Italy, ENEA Casaccia Research
Centre, Rome, Italy
I31 (648) Improved adhesion for plated solar cell metallisation
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
C.M Chong , A Wenham , R Chen , J Ji , Z Shi , L Mai , A Sugianto , S Wenham
1
2
3
University of New South Wales, Sydeny, Australia, University of New South Wales, Sydeny, Australia, University of
4
5
New South Wales, Sydeny, Australia, University of New South Wales, Sydeny, Australia, University of New South
6
7
Wales, Sydeny, Australia, University of New South Wales, Sydeny, Australia, University of New South Wales,
8
Sydeny, Australia, University of New South Wales, Sydeny, Australia
I35 (649) Analysis of Copper Penetration in Selective-Emitter Silicon Solar Cells using Laser Ablation
Inductively-Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry
Jack Colwell, Alison Lennon
School of Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
I39 (650) The impact of rapid thermal processing (RTP) on crystalline silicon solar cell performance and light
induced degradation (LID)
1
1
1
1
Abasifreke Ebong , Nian Chen , Ahrar Chowdhury , Unsur Veysel
1
2
University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC, United States, University of North Carolina at Charlotte,
3
4
Charlotte, NC, United States, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC, United States, University of
North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC, United States
I43 (651) Investigating Light-Induced Plating of Silicon Solar Cells Using In-Situ Current-Voltage Analysis
Pei-Chieh Hsiao, Zi Ouyang, Xi Wang, Alison Lennon
The School of Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering, The University of New South Wales, Sydney,
Australia
J3
(652) Innovative Methods for Low-Temperature Contact Formation For Photovoltaics Applications
1
1
2
2
1
2
April M Jeffries , Jignesh Vanjaria , Jacob Clenney , Laura Ding , Owen Hildreth , Mariana Bertoni
1
School For Engineerinng of Matter, Transport and Energy, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States,
2
School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering, Tempe, AZ, United States
J7
(653) Electrical Characterization of Thermally-formed Nickel Silicide for Nickel-Copper Plated Solar Cell
Contacts
1
1
2
2
2
1
Joseph Karas , Sangpyeong Kim , Lynne Michaelson , Krystal Munoz , Tom Tyson , Stuart Bowden
1
2
Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States, Technic Inc., Cranston, RI, United States
J11 (654) Metal contact open by using green 532nm nano-laser ablation on back-contact n-type silicon solar cells
Kuang-Chieh Lai, Zong-Liang Yao, Chia-Chih Chuang, Chi-Chun Li , Chien-Chun Wang
Motech industries, Inc., Tainan, Taiwan
69
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17TH
J15 (655) Metal-free c-Si Solar Cells in Module
Jacques Levrat, Kilian Thomas, Antonin Faes, Jonathan Champliaud, Christophe Allebé, Nicolas Badel, Loris
Barraud, Fabien Debrot, Antoine Descoeudres, Agata Lachowicz, Mohammad M. Kiaee, Matthieu Despeisse,
Christophe Ballif
PV-Center, Centre Suisse d'Electronique et de Microtechnique (CSEM) SA, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
J19 (656) Formation of Metal-Metal Oxide Patterns using Masked Light-Induced Anodization
Zi Ouyang, Derwin Lau, Pei Hsuan Lu, Jie Cui, Alison Lennon
The School of Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering, The University of New South Wales, Sydney,
Australia
J23 (657) Cu Backside Busbar Tape: Eliminating Ag and Enabling Full Al Coverage in Crystalline Silicon Solar
Cells and Modules
1
1
1
2
Nelson T. Rotto , Scott R. Meyer , Mark J. Votava , Daniel L. Meier
1
2
3M Renewable Energy Division, 3M Center, St. Paul, MN, United States, Lightdrop Harvest, LLC, St. Marys, PA,
United States
J27 (658) Electroplated Al as the Front Electrode in Crystalline-Si Solar Cells
Wen-Cheng Sun, Haifeng Zhang, Laidong Wang, Clarence J. Tracy, Meng Tao
Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States
J31 (659) Inkjet Patterned ALD Aluminium Oxide for Rear PERC Metal Contacts
1
2
1
1
1
Alexander To , Rasmus Davidsen , Xinrui An , Alison Lennon , Allen Barnett
1
2
UNSW, Sydney, Australia, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark
J35 (660) The Effects of Nano Ag Particles on Gridline Sintering for Silicon Solar Cells
Veysel Unsur, Ahrar A Chowdhury, Nian Chen, Abasifreke Ebong
University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC, United States
Area 7 - Posters
4:30 - 6:00 PM
Elite Hall C (Level 1)
Space Photovoltaics
Chair(s): Claus Zimmermann, Scott Billets, Takeshi Ohshima
L30 (661) Recovery of high energy proton defects in GaInP2/GaAs/Ge triple junction solar cells by isothermal
annealing
1
1
1
2
2
1
Christian Brandt , Waqaas Rehman , Claus Zimmermann , Stephen Taylor , Carsten Baur , Thomas Andreev
1
2
Airbus DS GmbH, 85521 Ottobrunn, Germany, ESA/ESTEC, 2200 Noordwijk, Netherlands
L31 (662) Solar cell measurements at high temperature
1
1
1
1
1
Jonathan Grandidier , Pawan K Gogna , Michael J Errico , Bill J Nesmith , David E. Lee
1
2
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States,
3
4
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States,
5
Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems, Redondo Beach, CA, United States
L32 (663) Defects in GaAs Solar Cells with InAs Quantum Dots Created by Proton Irradiation
1
2
3
3
2
Shin-ichiro Sato , Kenneth J. Schmieder , Seth M. Hubbard , David V. Forbes , Jeffery H. Warner , Takeshi
1
2
Ohshima , Robert J. Walters
1
2
Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Takasaki, Japan, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States,
3
Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY, United States
L33 (664) Temperature Dependence of Triple Junction Solar Cells After High Fluence Irradiations
1
1
2
3
1
David A Scheiman , Justin Lorentzen , Raymond Hoheisel , Scott R Messenger , Phillip P Jenkins
1
2
Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States, George Washington University, Washington, DC,
3
United States, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, United States
L34 (665) Carbon Nanotube Metal Matrix Composites for Solar Cell Electrodes
1,2
1
1,3
Nathanael D Cox , Jamie E Rossi , Brian J Landi
1
2
NanoPower Research Laboratory, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY, United States, Department of
3
Microsystems Engineering, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY, United States, Department of
Chemical Engineering, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY, United States
70
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17TH
L35 (666) Novel Environmental Protection for Multi-Junction Solar Cells
Carol Martinez , Samuel Pellicori
Optical Coating Solutions, Inc., Camarillo, CA, United States
L36 (667) Predicting Failure Modes and Computing Reliability for the Solar Probe Plus Solar Array
Edward M. Gaddy
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States
L37 (668) Charging/Discharging Test to Arraying Structure of IMM3J Solar Cell
1
1
2
2
2
1
Masamichi Ohira , Teppei Okumura , Yohei Hagiwara , Mitsunobu Sugai , Jirou Harada , Mitsuru Imaizumi
1
2
JAXA, Tsukuba, Japan, AES, Tsukuba, Japan
L38 (669) Flight Results for the Passive MISSE 7 Coatings and Coverglass Panel Experiment
1
1
1
2
Paul E. Hausgen , Geoffrey K. Bradshaw , David Wilt , Phil Jenkins
1
2
Air Force Research Laboratory, Kirtland AFB, NM, United States, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington D.C,
DC, United States
L39 (670) Modular Solar Array Flight Experiment A Platform for Rapid Technology Evaluation
1
2
Nathan D Gapp , Bernard F Carpenter
1
2
Air Force Research Lab, Kirtland AFB, NM, United States, Aerospace Corporation, Albuquerque, NM, United States
L40 (671) Additive Manufacturing of Titanium 6Al-4V Alloy Structural Brackets for Primary Structure and Solar
Array Applications on Spacecraft
Christopher Stahl, Jordan Croom, Gregory Dudder, Sarah Li
Space Systems/Loral LLC, Palo Alto, CA, United States
L41 (672) Thermal Characterization of Hybrid Photovoltaic Module for the Conversion of Sunlight into Microwave
in Solar Power Satellite
1
1
2
Daisuke Sato , Noboru Yamada , Koji Tanaka
1
2
Nagaoka University of Technology, Nagaoka, Japan, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Sagamihara, Japan
L42 (673) Space Environment Testing of Photovoltaic Array Systems at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center
1
1
2
3
Todd A Schneider , Jason A Vaughn , Kenneth H Wright Jr. , Brandon S Phillips
1
2
NASA/MSFC, Huntsville, AL, United States, University of Alabama Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States,
3
Aerodyne Inc, Huntsville, AL, United States
L43 (674) Evaluation of Radiation Tolerance of Perovskite Solar cell For Use in Space
1
2
2
3
4
1
Yu Miyazawa , Masashi Ikegami , Tsutomu Miyasaka , Takeshi Ohshima , Mitsuru Imaizumi , Kazuyuki Hirose
1
2
Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, JAXA, Sagamihara, Japan, University of Toin Yokohama, Yokohama,
3
4
Japan, Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Takasaki, Japan, Aerospace Researches and Development Directorate,
JAXA, Tsukuba, Japan
L44 (675) The “V-Array” High Performance Solar Array
1
1
2
David Rohweller , Geoffrey W Marks , Mark A Kruer
1
2
Astro Aerospace, Carpinteria, CA, United States, Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems, Redondo Beach, CA,
United States
M1 (676) Behavior of Silicon Bypass Diodes in Proton and High Temperature Environments for Mercury Probe
MMO
1
2
1
1
Hiroyuki Toyota , Mitsuru Imaizumi , Hironori Maejima , Hajime Hayakawa
1
2
ISAS/JAXA, Sagamihara, Japan, ARD/JAXA, Tsukuba, Japan
M2 (677) Dark Current Characterization of Irradiated Solar Cells
Don Walker, Yao Yue, Colin J. Mann, John Nocerino, Simon H. Liu
The Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, CA, United States
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Area 8 - Posters
4:30 - 6:00 PM
Elite Hall E (Level 1)
Photovoltaic Testing Methods & Quantification
Chair(s): Angus Rockett, Keith Emery, Matthew Norton
M4 (678) Stability of Isotype Reference Cells used for Multi-Source Solar Simulator Calibration
1
1
2
2
Geoffrey K. Bradshaw , David M. Wilt , Don Walker , Colin J. Mann
1
2
Air Force Research Laboratory, Albuquerque, NM, United States, The Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, CA,
United States
M6 (679) Temperature-Dependent Light-Stabilized States in Thin-Film PV Modules
Michael G. Deceglie, Timothy J Silverman, Bill Marion, Sarah R. Kurtz
National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, United States
M8 (680) Spectral Responsivity of WPVS Reference Cells under varied Temperatures and its Influence on
Performance Measurements beyond STC
Sebastian Dittmann, Mauro Pravettoni, Loris Manni, Gabi Friesen
University of Applied Sciences and Art of Southern Switzerland, Canobbio, Switzerland
M10 (681) Measurement of Temperature Coefficient of Photovoltaic Modules in Field and Comparison with
Laboratory Measurements
Rajiv Dubey, Pranjal Batra, Shashwata Chattopadhyay, Anil Kottantharayil, Brij Arora, K. L Narasimhan , Juzer Vasi
National Centre for Photovoltaic Research and Education, IIT Bombay, MUMBAI, India
M12 (682) A New Method to Characterize c-Si PV Cell and Module
Shu-Tsung Hsu, Yean-San Long, Teng-Chun Wu
30011, Hsinchu, Taiwan
M14 (683) Contact Resistance Measurement – Observations on Technique and Test Parameters
1
2
1
1
Rob Janoch , Christopher E. Dube , Andrew M. Gabor , Andrew Anselmo
1
2
BrightSpot Automation LLC, Westford, MA, United States, Applied Materials, Gloucester, MA, United States
M16 (684) Recent Advancements in Outdoor Measurement Techniques for Angle of Incidence Effects
1
1
1
2
Bruce H. King , Daniel Riley , Charles D. Robinson , Larry Pratt
1
2
Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States, CFV Solar Test Lab, Albuquerque, NM, United
States
M18 (685) Spectrum Sensitivity, Energy Yield, and Revenue Prediction of PV and CPV Modules
Geoffrey S Kinsey
U.S. Department of Energy, Washington, DC, United States
M20 (686) The First Proficiency Testing for Primary Calibration of Terrestrial Photovoltaic Reference Cells
1
1
2
1
Haitao Liu , Shiyu Sang , Liqing Zhou , Yonghui Zhai
1
2
Institute of Electrical Engineering, CAS, Beijing, China, Tibet Institute of Energy Research, Lhasa, China
M22 (687) Impact of Solar Simulator Spectrum on Multi-Junction Solar Cell Measurement
1
1
2
1
1
Justin R Lorentzen , David A Scheiman , Raymond Hoheisel , Robert J Walters , Philip P Jenkins
1
2
US Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States, George Washington University, Washington, DC,
United States
M24 (688) Rapid, enhanced IV characterization of multi-junction PV devices under one sun at NREL
Tom E. Moriarty, Ryan M. France, Myles A. Steiner
National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, United States
M26 (689) Interleaving as a Best Practice for Outdoor Comparative Performance Testing of Photovoltaic Panel
Technologies
Bennet Myers
SunPower Corp., Richmond, CA, United States
M28 (690) ER-2 High Altitude Solar Cell Calibration Flights
Matthew G. Myers, David S. Wolford, David B. Snyder, Michael F. Piszczor
NASA Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, OH, United States
72
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17TH
M30 (691) On the Reliability of Photovoltaic Short-Circuit Current Temperature Coefficient Measurements
1
1
2
Carl R Osterwald , Mark Campanelli , George J Kelly
1
2
National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, United States, Sunset Technology Inc., Mount Airy, MD,
United States
M32 (692) Comparison of curve correction procedure of current and voltage as per IEC 60891for thin film
technology
1
2
2
3
Sarah Sowmya Priya , O.S. Sastry , Birinchi Bora , Avinash Kumar
1
2
3
Karunya University, Coimbatore, India, National Institute of Solar Energy, Gurgaon, India, Tezpur University,
Tezpur, India
M34 (693) Evaluation of Protocols for Temperature Coefficient Determination
Sandra B. Schujman, Jonathan R. Mann, Gary Dufresne, Linda M. LaQue, Crispin Rice, John Wax, David J.
Metacarpa, Pradeep Haldar
U.S. Photovoltaic Manufacturing Consortium (PVMC), SUNY Polytechnic Institute, Albany, NY, United States
M36 (694) Sensor placement optimization in on-site photovoltaic module inspection robot for fast and robust
failure detection
1
1
1
1
1
2
Kyohichiro Tada , Syuhei Kawamoto , Noboru Yamada , Tetsuya Kimura , Masahiro Iwahashi , Toshiya Tadaumi ,
3
Kazuhiko Kato
1
2
3
Nagaoka University of Technology, Nagaoka, Japan, ATOX Co., Ltd., Minato-ku, Japan, Research Center for
Photovoltaic Technologies, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba, Japan
M38 (695) Toward a set of Integrated and Portable Facilities for Solar Simulators' Key Parameters Calibration
Junchao Zhang, Haifeng Meng, Limin Xiong, Yingwei He, Bifeng Zhang
National Institure of Metrology, Beijing, China
M40 (696) Industry’s First Class A+++AA LED Solar Simulator and I-V / EQE Testing System for Accurate
Measurement of Solar Cell Performance
Mohan K Bhan, Evan Palmer
OAI, San Jose, CA, United States
M42 (697) On-site Detection of Defected Panels in Mega Solar Systems by Handy Electroluminescence
Surveillance
Takashi Fuyuki, Ayumi Tani
Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Takayama, Ikoma, Japan
M44 (698) Non-Contact Measurement of Electric Potential of PV Modules
Yoshihiro Hishikawa, Kengo Yamagoe
AIST, Tsukuba, Japan
N2 (699) New Technology for Precise Outdoor PV Module Performance Measurements
1
1
2
Yoshihiro HISHIKAWA , Kengo YAMAGOE , Hisashi KOJIMA
1
2
AIST, Tsukuba, Japan, Kyoshi Electric Co Ltd, Kyoto, Japan
N4 (700) Effects of a Neutral Density Filter in Measuring Low Light Performance With a Pulsed Light Xe arc Solar
Simulator
1
1
2
Nicholas Riedel , Larry Pratt , Alexander Edler
1
2
CFV Solar Test Laboratory, Albuquerque, NM, United States, h.a.l.m Elektronik GmbH, Frankfurt, Germany
N6 (701) The Impact of Atmospheric Parameters on the Spectral Performance of Multiple Photovoltaic
Technologies
1,2
2
1
Marios Theristis , Cameron Stark , Tadhg S. O'Donovan
1
Institute of Mechanical, Process and Energy Engineering, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, United Kingdom,
2
Center for Sustainable Energy Systems, Fraunhofer USA, Albuquerque, NM, United States
73
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17TH
Area 9 - Posters
4:30 - 6:00 PM
Elite Hall F (Level 1)
Modules, Manufacturing, Systems and Applications (III)
Chair(s): Will Holmgren, Jessica Forbess, Clifford Hansen
N19 (702) Photovoltaic system fault detection and diagnostics using laterally primed adaptive resonance theory
neural network
C. Birk Jones, Joshua Stein, Bruce H. King
Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States
N22 (703) Users’ Interaction with PV-powered Products: an Evaluation of 6 products by 100 end-users
1
1,2
Georgia Apostolou , Angele Reinders
1
Design for Sustainability, Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands,
2
Department of Design, Production and Management,Faculty of Engineering Technology University of Twente,
Enschede, Netherlands
N25 (704) Feasibility analysis of a solar photovoltaic array integrated on façades of a commercial building
1
2
2
2
2
Leonardo Bueno , Bruno O Vizcarra , Mohamed H Ibliha , Ghulam M Chaudhry , Mahbube K Siddiki
1
Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering, University of Missouri Kansas City, Kansas City, MO, United
2
States, Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, University of Missouri Kansas City, Kansas
City, MO, United States
N28 (705) A New Design for Luminescent Solar Concentrating PV Roof Tiles
1
1
1
1
2
Guillaume Doudart de la Grée , Argyrios Papadopoulos , Michael Debije , Mark Cox , Zachar Krumer , Angèle
2
1
Reinders , Alex Rosemann
1
2
Technical University of Eindhoven, Eindhoven, Netherlands, University of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands
N31 (706) High Efficiency Bifacial Modules in Outdoor Testing
Christoph Erben, Jiunn B. Heng, Zhigang Xie, Junaid Fatehi, Bobby Yang
Silevo, Fremont, CA, United States
N34 (707) Central Inverter Topology Issues in Large-Scale Photovoltaic Power Plants: Shading and System
Losses
1
2
1
5
3
4
Nicole C. Foureaux , Alysson A. P. Machado , Érico V Silva , Igor A. Pires , Braz de J. Cardoso Filho , José A. Brito
1
2
Graduate Program in Electrical Engineering - UFMG, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, Undergraduate Program in Automation
3
Engineering - UFMG, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, Dept. of Electrical Engineering /UFMG, Belo Horizonte, Brazil,
4
5
COELBA S.A, Salvador, Brazil, Dept. of Electronics Engineering, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
N37 (708) Modelling of Integrated Standalone Streetlamp PV system
1
1,2
1
1,3
Siyu Guo , Changsheng Wu , Manuel Danner , Marius Peters
1
2
Solar Energy Research Institute of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA,
3
United States, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, MA, United States
N40 (709) Development of a Photovoltaic Panel Model to Find the Solar Cells Optimal Reconfiguration under
Partial Shading Condition
Johann Hernández, Alvaro Romero , Jeisson Gamba
Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas, Bogotá, Columbia
N43 (710) Performance Evaluation of a Mono-Crystalline PV Module Cooled By a Flat Plate Solar Collector in
Thermosyphon Mode
Johann Hernández, Hugo Arias, Javier Cabrera
Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas, Bogotá, Columbia
O2 (711) Lightweight, Zero-Penetration, Pre-formed Support Molds Adapted for Rigid Thin-Film Solar Modules
1
1
1
1
2
Graeme Housser , Ankush Halbe , Kevin Sharpe , Pradeep Haldar , Francis Babineau
1
2
PVMC, Albany, NY, United States, Johns Manville, Littleton, CO, United States
O5 (712) The research on a new type of BIPV modules constructed by Thin-film Photovoltaic Panel(or
Module)/PU/Color organic-coated Steel Plate
1,2
2
2
2
Yu Huacong , Wang Qi , Lu Chuanda , Wei Chenggang
1
2
Hanergy PV Science & Technology Co., Ltd., Beijing, China, Nanjing Hanergy Solar PV CO., Ltd, Nanjing, China
74
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17TH
O8 (713) Outdoor performance comparison of concentrator photovoltaic and flat-plate systems
Kenta Imai, Yasuyuki Ota, Kensuke Nishioka
Faculty of Engineering, University of Miyazaki, Miyazaki, Japan
O11 (714) Performance of grid-connected PV system in Southern Norway
1,2
3
4
5
1
Anne G. Imenes , Rolf E. Grundt , Kjetil Boysen , Jan O. Odden , Hans G. Beyer
1
2
Faculty of Engineering and Science, the University of Agder, Grimstad, Norway, Teknova AS, Kristiansand S,
3
4
5
Norway, Agder Energi Nett, Arendal, Norway, Eltek AS, Kristiansand S, Norway, Elkem Solar AS, Kristiansand,
Norway
O14 (715) Cost, Performance and Yield Comparison of eight different Micro-Inverters
1,2
1
Stefan Krauter , Jörg Bendfeld
1
2
University of Paderborn, Paderborn, Germany, Photovoltaik Institut Berlin, Berlin, Germany
O17 (716) A cost analysis was completed using PVMC’s Balance of System Cost Analysis Tool (BOS-CAT) for
Lightweight PV (LPV) applications to evaluate mounting installation methods and associated BOS costs of
flat membrane commercials roofs.
David J Metacarpa, David Fobare, Adam A Garney, Fadong Yan, Daniel J Dwyer, Eric Holton, Pradeep Haldar
PVMC, Albany, NY, United States
O20 (717) Effect of spectrum and temperature on seasonal Performance of CdTe technology in composite climate
of India
1
1
1
1
1
2
Yogesh Kumar Singh , Birinchi Bora , Ramayan Singh , Swati Agaria , Vikrant Sharma , Avinash Kumar , O.S.
1
Sastry
1
2
National Institute of Solar Energy, Gurgaon, India, Tezpur University, Tezpur, India
O23 (718) Study on Attached PV Roof's Temperature with FEM Simulation
1,2
1
1
1,2
Yunlin Sun , Siming Chen , Shuquan Chen , Hui Shen
1
2
ShunDe SYSU Institute for Solar Energy, Foshan, China, Institute for Solar Energy Systems, Sun Yat-sen
University, Guangzhou, China
O26 (719) Reduced Silicon Usage in Flat Photo-Voltaic Panels
William Sweatt, Gregory Nielson, Murat Okandan
Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States
O28 (720) Module to Module Monitoring System, M3S, a new strategy for PV-System monitoring
Alena Ulasenka, Juan C. Jimeno, Gorka Obieta, Ruben Gutierrez, Maria Jose Saenz
UPV/EHU, Zamudio, Spain
O30 (721) Solar Irradiance, Wind and Temperature Monitoring for Residential Photovoltaic Applications
Muhammad Usama, Muhammad N Qaiser, Hassan A Khan
EE Dept. Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), Lahore, Pakistan
O32 (722) Demonstration and performance of colored PV modules for BIPV applications.
1
1
2
2
Zeger Vroon , Michiel Ritzen , Barend Vermeulen , Harmen Rooms
1
2
Zuyd University, Heerlen, , Netherlands, TNO-Solliance, Eindhoven, , Netherlands
O34 (723) Design and Analysis of Capacity Ratio of Large-scale Photovoltaic/Battery Station for Smoothing
Fluctuation
1,2
1,2
1,2
1,2
1,2
Wang Yibo , Cao Rui , Yang Zilong , Wang Haoyi , Xu Honghua
1
2
Chinese Academy of Science, Institute of Electrical Engineering, Beijing, China, Solar Thermal Technology and
Photovoltaic System Laboratory, CAS, Beijing, China
75
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17TH
Area 10 - Orals
4:30 - 5:30 PM
Empire B (Level 2)
Deployment and Resiliency panel
Chair(s): Robert Walters
76
THURSDAY, JUNE 18TH
Thursday, June 18, 2015
Keynote - Keynote
8:15 - 8:30 AM
Empire Ballroom
Highlights & Announcements
Chair(s): Alexandre Freundlich, Steven A. Ringel, Kyle Montgomery
8:15 Technical Program Highlights
Alexandre Freundlich
42nd IEEE PVSC Program Chair
8:25 Introduction of 42nd PVSC Young Investigator Award Recipient
1
2
Kyle Montgomery , Steven Ringel
1
2
42nd IEEE-PVSC Awards Chair , General Conference Chair
8:25 PVSC Young Investigator Award Presentation
Steven A. Ringel
42nd IEEE PVSC General Chair
Area 6 - Plenary
8:30 - 9:00 AM
Empire Ballroom
Area 6 Plenary
Chair(s): Woojun Yoon
8:30 (728) From Nanostructured to Thin-film Perovskite Solar Cells
Henry Snaith
Department of Physics, University of Oxford, Clarendon Laboratory, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PU, United Kingdom
Area 11 - Plenary
9:00 - 9:30 AM
Empire Ballroom
Area 11 Plenary
Chair(s): Charlie Hasselbrink
9:00 (729) Quantifying Reliability - The Next Step for a Rapidly Maturing PV Industry
Sarah R Kurtz
NREL, Golden, CO, United States
Keynote - Plenary
9:30 - 10:00 AM
Empire Ballroom
Special Plenary
Chair(s): Alex Freundlich
(730) A Changing Vision for U.S. PV Research
Becca Jones-Albertus
U.S. Department of Energy, Washington, DC, United States
77
THURSDAY, JUNE 18TH
Break
10:00 - 10:30 AM
Elite Hall (Level 1)
Coffee Break
Area 1 - Posters
10:30 - 12:00 PM
Elite Hall A (Level 1)
Quantum Confined Materials and Devices
Chair(s): Matt Lumb, Tom Vandervelde , Ammar Nayfeh
A3
(731) Photo-Conductance Properties of Ultrahigh-Density InAs/GaAsSb Quantum Dots
Naoki Akimoto, Shunsuke Uchida, Koichi Yamaguchi
University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan
A6
(732) Effect of Shell Coating Technique on Carrier Collection Properties of Core/Shell Nanostructures
Hilal Cansizoglu, Mehmet F. Cansizoglu, Tansel Karabacak
University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Little Rock, AR, United States
A9
(733) Theoretical investigation of the carrier escape in InGaN quantum well solar cells
Nicolas Cavassilas, Clémentine Gelly, Fabienne Michelini, Marc Bescond
IM2NP - CNRS - AMU, Marseille, France
A12 (734) Optical and electrical properties of CuInS2 Quantum Dot layers for photovoltaic applications
1
1
1
1,2
Filip Granek , Magdalena Wozniak , Marek Basta , Michal Dusza
1
2
Wroclaw Research Centre EIT+, Wroclaw, Poland, Institute of Low Temperature and Structure Research, Polish
Academy of Science, Wroclaw, Poland
A15 (735) Positioning Effect of Type-II GaSb/GaAs Quantum Ring Layer on Solar Cell Performances
1
2
3
3
4
4
shun-chieh hsu , Yin-Han Chen , Hsuan-An Chen , Shih-Yen Lin , Tien-Lin Shen , Hao-Chung Kuo , Cheng-Lun
5
5
1
Shih , Jinn-Kong Sheu , Chien-Chung Lin
1
2
Institute of Photonic System, National Chiao-Tung University, Tainan, Taiwan, Institute of Lighting and Energy
3
Photonics, National Chiao-Tung University, Tainan, Taiwan, Research Center For Applied Sciences, Academia
4
Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, Institute of Electro-Optical Engineering, National Chiao-Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan,
5
Department of Photonics, National Cheng-Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan
A18 (736) Two-Step Photocarrier Generation in InAs/GaAs Quantum Dot Superlattice Intermediate Band Solar Cell
1
1
1
1
1
1
2
Tomoyuki Kada , Taizo Tanibuchi , Shigeo Asahi , Toshiyuki Kaizu , Yukihiro Harada , Takashi Kita , Ryo Tamaki ,
2
2
Yoshitaka Okada , Kenjiro Miyano
1
2
Kobe University, Kobe, Japan, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
A21 (737) Effect of InGaAsSb capping layer on the structural properties of InAs/InGaAsSb quantum dots
Yeongho Kim, Nikolai Faleev, Christiana B. Honsberg
Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States
A24 (738) Stain compensation in multi-stack InAs/AlAsSb QD solar cells
1
2
3
4
4
Ramesh B Laghumavarapu , Paul J Simmonds , Zhexin Zhao , Mukul Debnath , Baolai L Liang , Zhachary S
5
5
5
6
1,4
Bittner , Staffan Hellstrom , Seth M Hubbard , Andrew Norman , Diana L Huffaker
1
Electrical Engineering Department, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States,
2
Department of Physics/Materials Science and Engineering, Boise State University, Boise, ID, United States,
3
4
Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, California NanoSystems Institute,
5
University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Department of Physics, Rochester Institute of
6
Technology, Rochester, NY, United States, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, United States
A27 (739) Modified Shockley-Queisser Limit for Quantum Dot Solar Cells
Tian Li, Mario Dagenais
University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States
B2
(740) Nanoscale Band Engineering of Quantum Dot Solar Cells
1
1
1
2
Yanshu Li , Andrei Sergeev , Vladimir Mitin , Kimberly Sablon
1
2
the State University of New York at Buffalo, Amherst, NY, United States, Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD,
United States
78
THURSDAY, JUNE 18TH
B5
(741) Physical and Optoelectronic Properties of VxInySz Intermediate Band Semiconductors Deposited by
Atomic Layer Deposition
Robert F. McCarthy, Richard D. Schaller, Alex B. F. Martinson
Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, United States
B8
(742) How does energy filtering improve quantum-dot based photovoltaic devices
1
2
3
3
1
Fabienne Velia Michelini , Adeline Crépieux , François Gibelli , Jean-François Guillemoles , Nicolas Cavassilas ,
4
Robert Whitney
1
2
Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS, IM2NP UMR 7334, Marseille, France, Aix-Marseille et Toulon Universités, CNRS,
3
CPT UMR 7332, Marseille, France, EDF, CNRS, Chimie Paristech, CNRS, IRDEP UMR 7174, Chatou, France,
4
Université Joseph Fourier, CNRS, LPMMC UMR 5493, Grenoble, France
B11 (743) Mechanism for formation of ultra thin SiNx on a-Si - XPS and FTIR studies
1
2
3
1
1
Dharmendra Kumar Rai , Ashish K. Panchal , Dayanand S. Sutar , Chetan S. Singh , K. R. Balasubramaniam
1
2
Department of Energy Science and Engineering, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India, Electrical Engineering Department, S.
3
V. NIT, Surat, India, Department of Physics and Central Surface Analytical Facility, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India
B14 (744) Challenges with Balancing Excitations in Intermediate-Band Solar Cells
Tor O Saetre
University of Agder, Grimstad, Norway
B17 (745) HIT Intermediate-Band Solar Cells with Self- Assembled Colloidal Quantum Dots and Metal
Nanoparticles
1
1,3
2
1
1,4
1
Ignacio Tobías , Manuel J Mendes , Alfredo Boronat , Esther López , Pablo García-Linares , Irene Artacho ,
1
2
1
Antonio Martí , Santiago Silvestre , Antonio Luque
1
2
Instituto de Energía Solar - Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain, Departament d'Enginyeira
3
Electrònica, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya , Barcelona, Spain, CENIMAT/I3N, Departamento de Ciencia dos
4
Materiais, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal, CEA-LITEN, LPMV, Le Bourget du Lac, France
B20 (746) Improving Efficiency in Intermediate Band Solar Cells by Introducing Carrier Losses to Optimize the
Intermediate Band Position
Qiaoyi WANG, Judy Rorison
University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
B23 (747) Investigation on Stabilities of Halide Treated PbSe Quantum Dots Thin Films for Photovoltaic Devices
Zhilong Zhang, Robert Patterson, Santosh Shrestha, Gavin Conibeer, Shujuan Huang
University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
B26 (748) Does Below-Bandgap Absorption Improve Solar Cell Efficiency?
1,2
1,2
Yuan Zhao , Yong-Hang Zhang
1
2
Center for Photonics Innovation, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States, School of Electrical,
Computer, and Energy Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States
Area 2 - Posters
10:30 - 12:00 PM
Elite Hall B (Level 1)
Device Characterization, Modeling and Manufacturing Progress
Chair(s): Sylvain Marsillac, BJ Stanbery, Ana Kanevce
C9 (749) Diode Laser Annealing of CZTS Thin Film Solar Cells
1
2
3
4
5
Mohammad S Ahmmed , Xiaojing Hao , Jongsung Park , Evatt R Hawkes , Martin A Green
1
2
School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, Sydney, Australia, School of Photovoltaic and Renewable
3
Energy Enginnering, Sydney, Australia, School of Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Enginnering, Sydney,
4
Australia, School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering/School of Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy
5
Enginnering, Sydney, Australia, School of Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Enginnering, Sydney, Australia
C13 (750) Simulating Cl Diffusion in Polycrystalline CdTe
1
2
1
1
2
Richard Akis , Daniel Brinkman , Da Guo , Dragica Vasileska , Christian Ringhofer
1
2
School of ECEE, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States, School of Mathematical & Statistical
Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States
79
THURSDAY, JUNE 18TH
C17 (751) Efficiency enhancement in Cu2ZnSnS4 solar cells with silica nanoparticles embedded in absorber layer
1,2
3,4
2
1,5
1,6
Balakrishna Ananthoju , Sundara Murthy Mopurisetty , Himanshu Tyagi , D. Bahadur , N.V. Medhekar ,
3,4
1,2,4
Swaroop Ganguly , M. Aslam
1
2
IITB-Monash Research Academy, Mumbai, India, Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay,
3
Mumbai, India, Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India,
4
National Centre for Photovoltaic Research and Education, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India,
5
Department of Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai,
6
India, Department of Materials Engineering, Monash University, Clayton, Australia
C21 (752) Process variability in Cu2ZnSnSe4 solar cell devices: Electrical and structural investigations
1,2
3,4
5
3,6,7
8
Guy Brammertz , Marie Buffiere , Christophe Verbist , Souhaib Oueslati
, Jonas Bekaert , Hossam
3,6,9
3,6,10
1,2,4
5
5
ElAnzeery
, Khaled Ben Messaoud
, Sylvester Sahayaraj
, Maria Batuk , Joke Hadermann , Christine
11
1,2
2,3,4
Koeble , Marc Meuris , Jozef Poortmans
1
2
imec division IMOMEC - partner in Solliance, Diepenbeek, Belgium, Institute for Material Research (IMO) Hasselt
3
4
University, Diepenbeek, Belgium, imec- partner in Solliance, Leuven, Belgium, Department of Electrical Engineering
5
(ESAT), KU LeuvenDepartment of Electrical Engineering (ESAT), KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, Electron
6
Microscopy for Materials Science (EMAT), University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium, KACST-Intel Consortium Center
7
of Excellence in Nano-manufacturing Applications (CENA), Riyad, Saudi Arabia, Department of Physics, Faculty of
8
Sciences of Tunis, Tunis, Tunisia, Department of Physics, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium,
9
10
Microelectronics System Design Department, Nile University, Cairo, Egypt, Université de Tunis El Manar, Faculté
11
des Sciences de Tunis, Unité de Physique des dispositifs à semiconducteurs, Tunis, Tunisia, Helmholtz-Zentrum
Berlin für Materialien und Energie GmbH, Berlin, Germany
C25 (753) Effect of SiO2 passivation on CdTe based solar cells
1
2
Vinay Budhraja , Srinivas Devayajanam
1
2
ITM University Gurgaon, Gurgaon, India, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, United States
D1 (754) Light trapping for ultra-thin CIGS solar cells
1
1
2
2
1
2
2
Andrea Cattoni , Julie Goffard , Fabien Mollica , Marie Jubault , Clement Colin , Daniel Lincot , Negar Naghavi ,
1
Stephane Collin
1
2
Laboratoire de Photonique et de Nanostructures (LPN/CNRS), Marcoussis, France, 2IRDEP, UMR EDF-CNRSChimie Paristech, EDF R&D, Chatou, France
D8 (755) 1D and 2D numerical simulations of Cu2ZnSnSe4 solar cells
1
1
1
2
2
1
Dario Cozza , Carmen Ruiz , David Duché , Markus Neuschitzer , Edgardo Saucedo , Jean-Jacques Simon ,
1
Ludovic Escoubas
1
2
IM2NP - CNRS, Marseille, France, IREC, Barcelona, Spain
D12 (756) CZTS Solar Cell Device Simulations with Varying Absorber Thickness
Christopher Frisk, Yi Ren, Shuyi Li, Charlotte Platzer-Björkman
Ångström Solar Center, Division of Solid State Electronics, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
D16 (757) Strategies for Designing High Efficient Thin-Film Amorphous Silicon Solar Cells
Ahmadreza Ghahremani, Aly E. Fathy
University of Tennessee Knoxville, Knoxville, TN, United States
D20 (758) Using Computational Simulation to Model Sublimation-Based CdS/CdTe Processing
1,2
1
1,2
1
Davis R Hemenway , Anthony P Nicholson , Kurt L Barth , Walajabad S Sampath
1
2
Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States, Direct Solar, Fort Collins, CO, United States
E4
(759) Compositional Dependence Photoluminescence Study of Polycrystalline CuGaSe2 Thin Films
1
2
2
2
1
1
Muhammad M. Islam , Hajime Shibata , Koji Matsubara , Shigeru Niki , Takeaki Sakurai , Katsuhiro Akimoto
1
2
University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST),
Tsukuba, Japan
E8
(760) Evaluation of “rollover” in Cu(In,Ga)(Se,S)2 thin film solar cells using Suns–Voc measurements
Rui Kamada, Motoshi Nakamura, Shunsuke Adachi, Takuya Kato, Hiroki Sugimoto
Solar Frontier K.K., Atsugi, Kanagawa, Japan
E12 (761) Performance Analysis of Cu(In,Ga)(Se,S)2 Thin Film Solar Cells
Tetiana Lavrenko, Kerstin Marzinzig, Thomas Walter
University of Applied Sciences Ulm, Ulm, Germany
80
THURSDAY, JUNE 18TH
E16 (762) Substrate Heating Effects on Properties of CdS Thin Films Prepared by Thermal Evaporation for
Photovoltaic applications
Won-Jae Lee, Gilberto A. Umana-Membreno, John Dell, Lorenzo Faraone
The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Australia
E20 (763) Non-Sulfurized CZTS(Cu2ZnSnS4) Compound Solar Cell by Non-Vacuum Chemical Bath Stacking
Deposition Method
1
2
1
1
3
Shih-Mao Lin , Ting-Jen Hsueh , Shoou Jinn Chang , Chih-Hung Lin , Shih-Chih Chen
1
2
Institute of Microelectronics, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, National Nano Device Laboratories,
3
Tainan, Taiwan, Graduate School of electronic and Optoelectronic Engineering, National Yunlin University of
Science and Technology, Yunlin, Taiwan
E24 (764) CZTS nanocrystals: preparation, characterization and band gap regulation
1,2
Frank (Shengzhong) Liu
1
Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Dalian National Laboratory for Clean Energy, Chinese Academy of Sciences,
2
Dalian, China, Key Laboratory of Applied Surface and Colloid Chemistry, National Ministry of Education Institute for
Advanced Energy Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an, China
E28 (765) On the magnitude of the persistent photoconductivity (PPC) effect in CIGS layers with and without
sodium
Marek Maciaszek, Pawel Zabierowski
Faculty of Physics, Warsaw University of Technology, Warszawa, Poland
F4
(766) Dependence of defect signature on conductivity of polycrystalline Cu(In,Ga)Se2 layers by photocurrent
spectroscopy
1
1
1
1
2
Karolina Macielak , Małgorzata Igalson , Aleksander Urbaniak , Paweł Zabierowski , Nicolas Barreau
1
2
Faculty of Physics, Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland, Institut des Matériaux Jean Rouxel (IMN),
Université de Nantes, Nantes, France
F8
(767) Current Voltage Analysis of Band Tail Effects in CZTSSe through Numerical Simulation
James E. Moore, Charles J. Hages, Nathaniel J. Carter, Rakesh Agrawal, Jeffery L. Gray, Mark S. Lundstrom
Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States
F12 (768) Broad-band absorption enhancement in lower absorption coefficient region in CZTS solar cells with
embedded Aluminum nanoparticles into absorber layer
1,2
3,4
5
2,3,4
1,2
Sundara Murthy Mopurisetty , Balakrishna Ananthoju , Mohit Bajaj , M. Aslam
, Swaroop Ganguly
1
2
Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India, National Centre for
3
Photovoltaic Research and Education, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India, IITB-Monash
4
Research Academy, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India, Department of Physics, Indian Institute
5
of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India, IBM Semiconductor Research and Development Center, Bangalore, India
F16 (769) Modeling and Simulation of CZTS/CTS Tandem Solar Cell using wxAMPS Software
Muteeu A. Olopade, Olusola O. Oyebola, Adeyinka D. Adewoyin, David O. Emi-Johnson
F20 (770) Sub-100 nm resolution 3D Tomography of CZTSe Using Transmission X-Ray Microscopy
1
2
3
4
4
3
1,2
Dennis S Pruzan , Anna E Caruso , Yijin Liu , Ingrid Repins , Carolyn Beall , Michael Toney , Michael Scarpulla
1
2
University of Utah Materials Science and Engineering, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, University of Utah
3
Computer and Electrical Engineering, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, Stanford Synchrotron Radiation
4
Lightsource, Stanford, CA, United States, NREL, Golden, CO, United States
F24 (771) Optimization of Antireflective coatings for CIGS solar cells via Real Time Spectroscopic Ellipsometry
1
1
1
1
2
3
Grace Rajan , Krishna Aryal , Tasnuva Ashrafee , Shankar Karki , Abdel-Rahman Ibdah , Vikash Ranjan , Robert W.
2
1
Collins , Sylvain Marsillac
1
2
3
Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, United States, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH, United States, Pilkington
North America, Northwood, OH, United States
F28 (772) On the temperature behavior of shunt-leakage currents in Cu(In,Ga)Se2 solar cells: the role of grain
boundaries and rear Schottky contact
1
1
2
2
2
2
Giovanna Sozzi , Roberto Menozzi , Nicholas Cavallari , Matteo Bronzoni , Filippo Annoni , Marco Calicchio ,
2
Massimo Mazzer
1
2
Department of Information Engineering - University of Parma, Parma, Italy, IMEM-CNR Institute, Parma, Italy
81
THURSDAY, JUNE 18TH
G4 (773) Electrical and Structural Functionality of CIGSe Solar Cells Patterned with Picosecond Laser Pulses of
Different Wavelengths
1
1
1
1,2
1
2
Bert Stegemann , Manuel Schüle , Christof Schultz , Kamil Stelmaszczyk , Moshe Weizman , Christian Wolf ,
2
2
1,2
1
Christian A. Kaufmann , Björn Rau , Rutger Schlatmann , Frank Fink
1
2
PVcomB / HTW Berlin - University of Applied Sciences, Berlin, Germany, PVcomB / Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für
Materialien und Energie GmbH, Berlin, Germany
G7 (774) A physics-based compact model for CIGS and CdTe solar cells: from voltage-dependent carrier
collection to light-enhanced reverse breakdown
1
2
3
3
1
Xingshu Sun , John Raguse , Chris Deline , Timothy Silverman , Muhammad A. Alam
1
2
Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States,
3
National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, United States
G10 (775) The film morphology evolution and growth simulation of Cu2ZnSnS4 (CZTS) solar cells during
electrodeposition
1
2
2
2
2
1
1,2
Kai Tan , Peng Lin , Linsong Wu , Jingyi Tan , Gang Wang , Shiping Jin , Yixin Lin
1
School of Energy and Power Engineering, Huazhong University of Science & Technology, Wuhan, 430074, China,
2
China-EU Institute for Clean and Renewable Energy, Huazhong University of Science & Technology, Wuhan,
430074, China
G13 (776) Degradation of CIGS solar cells due to the migration of alkali-elements
1,2,3
1
4
1
1
2
Mirjam Theelen
, Vincent Hans , Nicolas Barreau , Henk Steijvers , Zeger Vroon , Miro Zeman
1
2
3
TNO Solliance, Eindhoven, Netherlands, Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands, M2i, Delft,
4
Netherlands, Institut des Máterieaux Jean Rouxel (IMN)-UMR, Nantes, France
G15 (777) Characterization and numerical modeling of Cu(In,Ga)(S,Se)2 solar cells
1
1
2
Christopher P Thompson , William N. Shafarman , Dongho Lee
1
2
Institute of Energy Conversion, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States, SDI Samsung, Yeongtong-gu
Suwon-si, Korea
G17 (778) 11.3% CdS Ferroelectric-Semiconductor Coupling Solar Cell
Biao Yang, Jiali Shuai, Fang Huang, Xiangxin Liu, Hui Li
Institution of Electrical Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
G19 (779) Achievement of 16.5% Total Area Efficiency on 1.09m2 CIGS Modules in TSMC Solar Production Line
Sean Yang, Kwang-Ming Lin, Wen-Chin Lee, Wen-Shun Lo, Chia-Hsiang Chen, Jyh-Lih Wu, Chi-Yu Chiang, ChungHsien Wu, Yu-Lun Sun, Henry Lo, Chin-Hsiang Chang, Liham Chu
TSMC Solar Ltd., Taichung, Taiwan
G21 (780) Cu2ZnSnS4 thin film growth optimization and post rapid thermal annealing of solar cells and its
influence on device performance
Liyuan Zhang , Sreejith Karthikeyan, Mandip J. Sibakoti, Stephen A. Campbell
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States
G22 (781) Simulated Performance of Monocrystalline CdTe/MgCdTe Double Heterostructure Solar Cells
1,2
1,2
Yuan Zhao , Yong-Hang Zhang
1
2
Center for Photonics Innovation, Tempe, AZ, United States, School of Electrical, Computer, and Energy
Engineering, Tempe, AZ, United States
Area 3 - Posters
10:30 - 12:00 PM
Elite Hall C (Level 1)
High, Medium, and Low Concentration - Cells to Systems
Chair(s): Kanchan Ghosal, Eckart Gerster, Daniel Derkacs
G25 (782) Concentrated Photovoltaic Electrochemical Cell (CPEC): A Route toward High-Efficiency, Cost-Effective
Solar Hydrogen Production
1
1
2
3
3
Masakazu Sugiyama , Akihiro Nakamura , Kentaroh Watanabe , Yasuyuki Ota , Kensuke Nishioka , Yoshiaki
1
2
Nakano , Katsushi Fujii
1
2
School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, Global Solar plus Initiative, The University of Tokyo,
3
Tokyo, Japan, Department of Applied Physics and Electronics Engineering, Miyazaki University, Miyazaki, Japan
82
THURSDAY, JUNE 18TH
G28 (783) Silicon Heterojunction Solar Cells with Plated Contacts for Low Concentration Photovoltaics
1
1
1
1
1
Christophe Allebé , Jacques Levrat , Jonathan Champliaud , Matthieu Despeisse , Antoine Descoeudres , Loris
1
1
1
1
1
2
2
Barraud , Antonin Faes , Agatha Lachowicz , Nicolas Badel , Fabien Debrot , Jonas Geissbuhler , Stefaan De Wolf ,
1, 2
Christophe Ballif
1
2
PV-Center, Centre Suisse d'Electronique et de Microtechnique (CSEM) SA, Neuchatel, Switzerland, Ecole
Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Institute of Microengineering (IMT), Photovoltaics and thin film
electronics laboratory (PV-Lab), Neuchatel, Switzerland
G31 (784) Burner, Emitter, and Recuperator Development For Lightweight Thermophotovoltaic Power Supply
1
1
1
1
2
3
Lewis M Fraas , Leonid Minkin , James Avery , Hui She , Luke Ferguson , Fatih Dogan
1
2
JX Crystals Inc, Issaquah, WA, United States, C12 Advanced Technologies LLC, Everett, WA, United States,
3
Missouri U Science & Technology, Rolla, MO, United States
H2 (785) Transmissive Spectrum Splitting Multi-junction Solar Module for Hybrid CPV/CSP System
1
1
1
1
2
2
2
Yaping Ji , Adam Ollanik , Nicholas Farrar-Foley , Xu Qi , Leila Madrone , Pete Lynn , Vince Romanin , Daniel
3
1
Codd , Matthew Escarra
1
2
3
Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, United States, Otherlab, San Francisco, CA, United States, University of San
Diego, San Diego, CA, United States
H5 (786) Design and fabrication of a concentrating system adapted to microcells array
Sebastien Jutteau, Myriam Paire, Florian Proise, Laurent Lombez, Jean-François Guillemoles
IRDEP, Chatou, France
H8 (787) New-Type Solar Concentrator Concept – Approach to Reduced-Cost CPV Module Technology
1
2
3
4
5
Nina Khuchua , Revaz Melkadze , Aleksandre Moseshvili , Kakha Chitaia , Giorgi Melikidze
1
2
3
Iv. Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Tbilisi, Georgia, Iv. Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Tbilisi, Georgia, Iv.
4
5
Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Tbilisi, Georgia, SolConEnergy Ltd , Tbilisi, Georgia, SolConEnergy Ltd, Tbilisi,
Georgia
H11 (788) Repair of damaged lens surface of CPV using silica based coating
Shota Kurogi, Takuya Hirohata, Ahmad Nawwar, Yasuyuki Ota, Kensuke Nishioka
Faculty of Engineering, University of Miyazaki, Miyazaki, Japan
H14 (789) Design Optimizations for a Lens-to-Channel Waveguide Solar Concentrator
Yuxiao Liu, Ran Huang, Christi K. Madsen
Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, United States
H17 (790) Optimization of the Least-Material Approach for Passive Ultra-High CPV Cooling
1
1,2
2
3
1
Leonardo Micheli , Eduardo F. Fernández , Florencia Almonacid , K. S. Reddy , Tapas K. Mallick
1
Environment and Sustainability Institute, University of Exeter, Penryn, TR10 9FE, UK , Pernyn, United Kingdom,
2
3
Centre of Advanced Studies in Energy and Environment, University of Jaen, Jaen 23071, Spain, Jaen, Spain, Heat
Transfer and Thermal Power Laboratory, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology
Madras, Chennai 600 036, India, Chennai, India
H20 (791) Losses of Luminescent Solar Concentrators Unveiled and the Potential of Quantum Dot/Organic Dye
Molecule Linking
Clemens Tummeltshammer, Alaric Taylor, Anthony J Kenyon, Ioannis Papakonstantinou
University College London, London, United Kingdom
H23 (792) Optimizing Defocus to Increase Efficiency in Concentrator Photovoltaic Modules
1
2
1
2
1
2
Brent A Wacaser , Abdulaziz Alyahya , Peter D. Kirchner , Abdullah Alowais , Yves Martin , Mohammad Halawani ,
1
2
2
2
1
Robert L. Sandstrom , Nunilo N. Eugenio , Mazzen Aljuwaied , Alhassan Badahdah , Theodore G. VanKessel ,
2
Hussam Khonkar
1
2
IBM Research, Yorktown Heights, NY, United States, King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST),
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
H26 (793) Pushing the Limits of a Hybrid Thermal / PV System
Mark C. A. York, Simon Fafard, Julien Sylvestre, Richard Arès, Vincent Aimez
Laboratoire Nanotechnologies Nanosystèmes (LN2) - CNRS UMI-3463, Institut Interdisciplinaire d'Innovation
Technologique (3IT), Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada
H29 (794) PVMirror: A Tandem Solar Cell that Collects Diffuse Light
Zhengshan J. Yu, Kathryn C. Fisher, Zachary C. Holman
Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States
83
THURSDAY, JUNE 18TH
H32 (795) Fabrication of Highly Transparent CPV Module for Efficient Dual Land Use in Middle DNI Region
Daiki Hirai, Kazuya Okamoto, Noboru Yamada
Nagaoka university of technology, Nagaoka, Japan
Area 4 - Posters
10:30 - 12:00 PM
Elite Hall D (Level 1)
Silicon Material: Technology and Analysis
Chair(s): Florian Schindler, Jason Tan, Andreas Fell
I20 (796) Optimization of Pulling Speed for Decreasing Thermal Stress in Different Quartz Crucible Size with
Czochralski Method
Kwanghun Kim, Sungsun Baik
R&D Center, WoonginEnergy, Daejeon, Korea
I24 (797) Modeling of Silicon Solar Cells Voltage Increase on Localized Emitter Area Approach
Peinan Teng, Xinrui An, Alexander To, Allen Barnett
UNSW Australia, Sydney, Australia
I28 (798) Efficiency Improvement Employing CdTe Quantum Dot Based Luminescent Down Shifting
Nanostructures on c-Silicon Solar Cells
1
2
2
2
1
Arturo A Ayon , Ulises Tronco , Emmanuel Saucedo , Ruben Ruelas , Rosendo Lopez
1
2
UT San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, United States, U. of Guadalajara, Guadalajara, Mexico
I32 (799) Low-Temperature Ozone-Ambient Grown Native Oxide Passivation of Crystalline Silicon
1
1
2
1
2
David Barchet , Heidi Potts , Mitchell Brocklebank , Zahidur R. Chowdhury , Lyudmila Goncharova , Nazir P.
1
Kherani
1
2
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, Department of
Physics and Astronomy, London, ON, Canada
I36 (800) Reduction of Temperature Coefficients in Multicrystalline Silicon Solar Cells after Light-Induced
Degradation
1
1
2
1
Charly Berthod , Rune Strandberg , Jan O Odden , Tor O Sætre
1
2
University of Agder, grimstad, Norway, Elkem Solar AS, Kristiansand, Norway
I40 (801) Investigating the Benefits of Multi Bus-bars for Industrial Al-BSF Silicon Solar Cells
Nian Chen, Abasifreke Ebong
University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC, United States
I44 (802) High quality tunneling oxides for passivated contacts and Heterojunctions for high efficiency silicon
solar cells
1
1
1
2,3
3
3
Karim Mohamed Gad , Daniel Vössing , Daniel Hiller , Patrice Balamou , Bert Stegemann , Heike Angermann ,
1
Martin Kasemann
1
University of Freiburg, Department of Microsystems Engineering – (IMTEK), 79110 Freiburg, Germany , Freiburg,
2
Germany, Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft (HTW), Wilhelminenhofstr. 75 a, 12459 Berlin, Germany , Berlin,
3
Germany, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie (HZB), Institute for Photovoltaics, Berlin, Berlin,
Germany
J4
(803) Nano-precipitates … a New Recombination Model
Janet Jacobs, Bruce Hamilton, Simon Leonard, Vladimir Markevich, Tony Peaker
Photon Scienec Institute, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
J8
(804) Lifetime Limitations of Epitaxial P- and N-type Si Foils
Stefan Janz, Nena Milenkovic, Marion Drießen, Stefan Reber
Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems, Freiburg, Germany
J12 (805) Ingot Pulling with Electron Beam Heating: Process Enhancements
1
1
2
2
Anatoly Kravtsov , Alexey Kravtsov , Rihards Fuksis , Mihails Pudzs
1
2
SIA KEPP EU, Riga, Latvia, Institute of Electronics and Computer Science, Riga, Latvia
84
THURSDAY, JUNE 18TH
J16 (806) High efficiency Si-heterojunction technology – it’s ready for mass production
1
1
1
1
1
Boris Legradic , Benjamin Strahm , Damien Lachenal , Derk Bätzner , Walter Frammelsberger , Jérôme
1
1
1
2
2
2
Meixenberger , Pierre Papet , Guillaume Wahli , Jun Zhao , Daniel Decker , Egbert Vetter
1
2
Meyer Burger Research, Hauterive, Switzerland, Roth & Rau AG, Hohenstein-Ernstthal, Germany
J20 (807) 19.1 % Laser-Doped Selective Emitter P-type Multi-crystalline UMG Silicon Solar Cell
Pei Hsuan Doris Lu, Brett Hallam, Catherine Chan, Alison Wenham, Malcolm Abbott , Daniel Chen, Moon Yong Kim,
Ly Mai, Sisi Wang, Nino Borojevic, Chee Mun Chong, Stuart Wenham
UNSW, Sydney, Australia
J24 (808) Monocrystalline Upgraded Metallurgical Grade Silicon Obtained through Vacuum Degassing and
Czochralski growth for Solar Cell Application
1
2
1
1
1
2
Francisco Marques , Andresa Côrtes , Rafael Merlo , Douglas Silva , Gustavo Viana , Paulo Mei
1
2
Physics Institute Gleb Wataghin, University of Campinas, Campinas, Brazil, Mechanial Engineering Institute,
University of Campinas, Campinas, Brazil
J28 (809) A New Method for Bulk Passivation of Multicrystalline-Si by Sulfur
Arunodoy Saha, Haifeng Zhang, Wen-Cheng Sun, Meng Tao
School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States
J32 (810) Imaging of carrier lifetime variation during c-Si solar cell fabrication
Ashok Kumar Sharma, S Saravanan, Balraj A, Firoz Ansari, Gurappa Burkul, Sandeep Kumbhar, K L Narasimhan, B
M Arora, Anil Kottantharayil
National Centre for Photovoltaic Research and Education (NCPRE), Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (IITB),
Mumbai, India
J36 (811) Using Minority Carrier Lifetime Measurement to Determine Saw Damage Characteristics on Si Wafer
Surfaces
Bhushan Sopori, Srinivas Devayajanam, Prakash Basnyat
National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, United States
J39 (812) Efficiency Dispersion in Production of Crystalline-Si Solar Cells by Numerical Simulation
Laidong Wang, Haifeng Zhang, Wen-Cheng Sun, Meng Tao
School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States
J42 (813) Stability Of Hydrogen Passivated UMG Silicon With Implied Open Circuit Voltages Over 700mV
Sisi Wang, Alison Wenham, Phillip Hamer, Brett Hallam, Ly Mai, Catherine Chan, Nitin Nampalli, Chee Mun Chong,
Stuart Wenham , Lihui Song, Malcolm Abbott
The School of Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering, The University of New South Wales, Sydney,
Australia
K1
(814) Fabrication of 40 µm Thin Silicon Solar Cells with Different Crystal Orientation by SLiM-cut Process
1
1
1
1,2
Teng-Yu Wang , Chien-Hsun Chen , Sung-Yu Chen , Chen-Hsun Du
1
Green Energy and Environment Research Labs, Industrial Technology Research Institute, Hsinchu, Taiwan,
2
Institute of NanoEngineering and MicroSystems, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan
K4
(815) Investigation of high performance slicing wafer was fabricated with various cycle time and tension in
fixed abrasive wire saw technology
Tim Wang
Moteh, Taiwna, Taiwan
Area 6 - Posters
10:30 - 12:00 PM
Elite Hall E (Level 1)
Organic, Hybrid and Perovskites materials and devices
Chair(s): Sam Stranks, Susanna Thon, Peichen Yu
K38 (816) Induction of photocurrent through polyaniline as hole transporting layer to photoactive perovskite
sensitized TiO2 thin film: Application to solar cells
Sadia Ameen, M. Nazim, Hyung-Kee Seo, Hyung-Shik Shin
Chonbuk National University, Jeonju, Korea
85
THURSDAY, JUNE 18TH
K39 (817) The effect of the molar ratio of PVP to AgNO3 on Synthesis of AgNWs
1
1
2,3,4
5
6
2,3
Ayse Bedeloglu , Gokcenur Saglam , Ismail Borazan
, H. Levent Hosgun , Nimet Canli Yilmaz , Ali Demir
1
2
Department of Fiber and Polymer Engineering, Bursa, Turkey, Faculty of Textile Technologies and Design, Istanbul,
3
4
Turkey, TEMAG Laboratory, Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey, Center for Nanotechnology and
5
Molecular Materials, Winston-Salem, NC, United States, Department of Chemical Engineering, Bursa Technical
6
University, Bursa, Turkey, Yildiz Technical University, Faculty of Science and Letters, Department of Physics,
Istanbul, Turkey
K40 (818) The Effect Of Acid Treatment Of PEDOT:PSS Anode For Organic Solar Cells
1, 2
3
1
2
Ismail Borazan , Ayse Bedeloglu , Ali Demir , David Carroll
1
2
Department of Textile Engineering, Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey, Center for Nanotechnology and
3
Molecular Materials, Winston-Salem, NC, United States, Department of Fiber and Polymer Engineering, Bursa,
Turkey
K41 (819) Low Temperature Two-Step Solution Process for Perovskite Solar Cells with Planar Structure
Sheng-Kai Chang, Hsin-Che Lee, Sheng-Pang Lin, Ching-Fuh Lin
Room405, EEBuilding, No. 1, Sec. 4, Roosevelt Rd., Taipei 10617, Taiwan (R.O.C.), Taipei, Taiwan
K42 (820) The Minority Carrier Lifetime Measurements: An Electrical Passivation Study
Meixi Chen, James Hack, Abhishek Iyer, Robert Opila
University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States
K43 (821) Profile and interface control of hybrid organic-silicon nanorod solar cells
Yu Cheng Chen, Yi Cheng Lin, Liang Chian Yu, Peichen Yu
National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu , Taiwan
K44 (822) Cu2SnS3 Nanostructures for Inorganic-Organic Hybrid Photonic Applications
Sandra Dias, S.B. Krupanidhi
Materials Research Centre,Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
L1
(823) Metal Doped Titanium Dioxide Electrode for Dye Sensitized Solar Cells
1,2
1
1
DuanYang Dong , Yuan Lin , Jia Liu
1
2
Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, School of Advanced Materials, Peking
University, Peking University Shenzhen, GuangDong, China
L2
(824) Low Cost Spin Coating Fabrication Of Efficient Perovskite Thin Film Layers
Jose J Galindo, Donato Kava, Shaimum Shahriar, Cheik O Sana, Robert Cotta, David Buck, Luis Echegoyen, Deidra
R Hodges
The University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX, United States
L3
(825) Numerical Analysis of Hybrid Perovskite Solar Cells with Various Inorganic Hole Conducting Materials
Mohammad I. Hossain, Fahhad H. Alharbi, Nouar A. Tabet
Qatar Environment & Energy Research Institute , Doha , Qatar
L4
(826) Imaging surface potential and internal electric fields across heterojunction solar cells using scanning
Kelvin probe microscopy
Rachelle Ihly, Joseph M Luther, Sanjini U Nanayakkara
NREL, Golden, CO, United States
L5
(827) A Strategy for Increasing Dielectric Constant of Fullerene Derivatives
1,2
2
2
1,2
Fatemeh Jahani , Solmaz Torabi , L. Jan Anton Koster , Jan C. Hummelen
1
2
Stratingh Institute for Chemistry, University of Groningen, Nijenborgh 4, 9747 AG, Groningen, Netherlands, Zernike
Institute for Advanced Materials, University of Groningen, Nijenborgh 4, 9747 AG, Groningen, Netherlands
L6
(828) Optimization of MoO3 Buffer Layer Thickness for Short Circuit Current Enhancement in Ag Nanoparticle
Incorporated CuPc Organic Solar Cell
Devika Kataria, S.Sundar Kumar Iyer
Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, Kanpur, India
L7
(829) Role of Halide Anion on Exciton Binding Energy and Disorder in Hybrid Perovskite Semiconductors
2
1
1
1
Aravindh Kumar , Naresh K. Kumawat , Parul Maheshwari , Dinesh Kabra
1
2
Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India, Department of Electrical
Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India
86
THURSDAY, JUNE 18TH
L8
(830) Molecular Alignment and Rashba Splitting in Organometal Halide Perovskite CH3NH3PbI3 Absorbers
1,2
1
Junwen Li , Paul H. Haney
1
Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD,
2
United States, Maryland Nano-Center, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States
L9
(831) Novel Low Cost Hole Transporting Materials for Efficient Organic-inorganic Perovskite Solar Cells
1
2
3
4
5
6
Jiewei Liu , Sandeep Pathak , Thomas Stergiopoulos , Tomas Leijtens , Konrad Wojciechowski , Stefan Schumann ,
7
8
Nina Kausch-busies , Henry Snaith
1
2
3
University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, University of Oxford,
4
5
Oxford, United Kingdom, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, University of Oxford, Oxford, United
6
7
Kingdom, Heraeus Precious Metals GmbH & Co. KG, Leverkusen, Germany, Heraeus Precious Metals GmbH &
8
Co. KG, Leverkusen, Germany, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
L10 (832) Capacitance Effect from High to Low Level Lighting by Real-Time One-Sweep Method for OPV device
Yean-San Long, Shu-Tsung Hsu, Teng-Chun Wu, Yu-Tai Li
1, Hsinchu, Taiwan
L11 (833) Furan-Bridged Thiazolo [5,4-d]thiazole based D-π-A-π-D type Linear Chromophore for SolutionProcessed Bulk-Heterojunction Organic Solar Cells
1
1
2
1
1
M. Nazim , S. Ameen , M. S. Akhtar , H.-K. Seo , H.S. Shin
1
2
Chonbuk National University, Jeonju, Korea, Chonbuk National University, NewREC Centre, Jeonbuk , Korea
L12 (834) Photoresponse and AC Impedance Characterization of Electrodeposited TiO2-based Nanocomposite
Films for Dye-sensitized Solar Cells
1
2
The-Vinh Nguyen , O-Bong Yang
1
2
Hochiminh University of Technology, Hochiminh, Vietnam, Chonbuk National University, Jeonju, Korea
L13 (835) Band Gap Shifting of CdTe/PbTe superlattices on ITO for Solar Cell
Fei Qin, Pritpal Singh
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Villanova University, Villanova, PA, United States
L14 (836) Solution processed: low cost, environmentally benign Cu2ZnSnS4 nanoparticles
Kusum Rawat, P.K. Shishodia
University of Delhi, Zakir Husain Delhi College, Delhi, India
L15 (837) In-situ flexural OPV measurements on flexible glass substrate
1
1
2
Swathi S . K , Praveen Ramamurthy , Sean Garner
1
2
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, Corning Incorporated, Corning, NY, United States
L16 (838) Characterization and Analysis of Structural and Optical Properties of Perovskite Thin Films
Shaimum Shahriar, Cheik Sana, Jose Galindo, Donato Kava, Deidra Hodges, Edison Castro, Robert Cotta, David
Buck, Luis Echegoyen
The University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX, United States
L17 (839) Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Solar Cell Efficiency Improvement by Employing Au Nanocluster
1
2
Manisha Sharma , Dr.Arturo A Ayon
1
2
University of Texas , San Antonio, TX, United States, University of Texas, San Antonio, TX, United States
L18 (840) Two-dimesional diode equivalent circuit model for large-area Z-type transparent DSC module
1
1
1
2
Myunghun Shin , Jeong-Hyeok Park , Jeong-Hun Lee , Joo-Cheol Lee
1
2
Korea Aerospace University, Goyang, Korea, Dong-Jin Semichem Inc., Seongnam, Korea
L19 (841) Synthesis and Optical Properties of Photovoltaic Materials Based on the Indenofluorines and
Ambipolar Dithienonaphthothiadiazol
1,2
1
2
Yasuhiro Shirai , Tatsuaki Nakanishi , Liyuan Han
1
Global Research Center for Environment and Energy based on Nanomaterials Science (GREEN), National Institute
2
for Materials Science (NIMS), Tsukuba, Japan, Photovoltaic Materials Unit, National Institute for Materials Science,
Tsukuba, Japan
L20 (842) Optimization of twin donor layer organic solar cell by systematic variation of substrate temperature
1
1
1
1,2
Ashish Singh , Dipjyoti Das , Anamika Dey , Parameswar K. Iyer
1
2
Centre for Nanotechnology, Guwahati, India, Department of Chemistry, Guwahati, India
87
THURSDAY, JUNE 18TH
L21 (843) Thorough Organic/Si Nanostructure Heterojunction Provided by Surfactant Assisted PEDOT:PSS
1
1
1
1
1
1,2,3,4
Hong-Jhang Syu , Thiyagu Subramani , Chien-Ting Liu , Shu-Chia Shiu , Jiun-Jie Chao , Ching-Fuh Lin
1
2
Graduate Institute of Photonics and Optoelectronics, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, Graduate Institute
3
of Electronic Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Electrical Engineering,
4
National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, Innovative Photonics Advanced Research Center, National Taiwan
University, Taipei, Taiwan
L22 (844) Hybrid Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells with Vertically Aligned ZnO/ZnO1-xSx Nanorods in Core-Shell like
Nanostructure
Ratheesh R Thankalekshmi , Alok C Rastogi
Binghamton University,State University of New York , Binghamton , NY, United States
L23 (845) Validating Reaction Mechanisms and Controlling Reaction Equilibrium to Optimize Hybrid Perovskite
Composition, Improve Crystal Formation and Solar Cell Efficiency
1,3
2
1
1
2
1
Hsinhan Tsai , Wanyi Nie , Pradeep Cheruku , Nathan H. Mack , Aditya D. Mohite , Hsing-Lin Wang
1
2
C-PCS, Los Alamos National Lab, Los Alamos, NM, United States, MPA-11, Los Alamos National Lab, Los Alamos,
3
NM, United States, MSNE, Rice Univeristy, Houston, TX, United States
L24 (846) Simulation of perovskite solar cells with inorganic hole transporting materials
1
1
2
1
Yan Wang , Zhonggao Xia , Yiming Liu , Hang Zhou
1
2
Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School, Shenzhen, China, University of Southern Denmark, Sønderborg,
Denmark
L25 (847) Heterojunction Formation between Zinc Oxide Nanowires and Cu2ZnSnS4 Nanoparticles For Inorganic
3D Solar Cell Applications
Sarah Wozny, Kai Wang, Nooraldeen Alkurd, Weilie Zhou
Advanced Materials Research Institute, New Orleans, LA, United States
L26 (848) Uniform Perovskite Photovoltaic Thin Films via Ultrasonic Spray Assisted Deposition Method
Zhonggao Xia, Gaoda Chai, Yan Wang, Hang Zhou
Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School, Shenzhen, China
L27 (849) High Efficiency of Organic Photovoltaic Device by the Energy Conversion Layer
Dong Bin Yeo, Kyong Chan Heo, Geon Bae, Sang Hoon Chae, Chang-Bum Moon, Woo Young Kim, Chul Gyu Jhun
Hoseo University, Asan-city, South Korea
L28 (850) Dark Current Reduction and Bandgap-Voltage Offset in Solution-processed Nanocrystal Solar Cells
1
1
1,2
3
1,4
Woojun Yoon , Janice E. Boercker , Matthew P. Lumb , Diogenes Placencia , Edward E. Foos , Joseph G.
1
1
1
Tischler , Phillip P. Jenkins , Robert J. Walters
1
2
U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States, The George Washington University, Washington,
3
4
DC, United States, NRC/NRL Postdoctoral Fellow, Washington, DC, United States, NSWC Indian Head EOD
Technology Division, Indian Head, MD, United States
L29 (851) Two-step sequential substrate vibration-assisted spray coating (SVASC) as a path to high performance
perovskite solar cells
1
1
Fatemeh Zabihi , Morteza Eslamian
1
2
UM-SJTU Joint Institute, Shanghai, China, UM-SJTU Joint SJTU, Shanghai, China
Area 11 - Posters
10:30 - 12:00 PM
Elite Hall F (Level 1)
Cell and Module Reliability
Chair(s): Allan Ward, Benoit Braisaz, Wei Zhou
Q2 (852) Effects of PV Module Soiling on Glass Surface Resistance and Potential-Induced Degradation
1
2
2
3
1
Peter Hacke , Patrick Burton , Alexander Hendrickson , Sergiu Spataru , Stephen Glick
1
2
National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, United States, Sandia National Laboratory, Albuquerque, NM,
3
United States, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark
Q4 (853) Quantifying PV Module Defects in the Service Environment
Alexander Z. Bradley, James G. Kopchick, Babak Hamzavy
DuPont, Wilmington, DE, United States
88
THURSDAY, JUNE 18TH
Q6 (854) The Investigation of Snail Trails in Photovoltaic Modules
1
1
1
1
Jipeng Chang , Hong Yang , He Wang , Dingyue Cao
1
2
3
Xi'an Jiaotong University, xi'an, China, Xi'an Jiaotong University, xi'an, China, Xi'an Jiaotong University, xi'an,
4
China, Xi'an Jiaotong University, xi'an, China
Q8 (855) All India Survey of Photovoltaic Module Degradation 2014: Survey Methodology and Statistics
1
1
1
1
1
Shashwata Chattopadhyay , Rajiv Dubey , Vivek Kuthanazhi , Jim Joseph John , Chetan Singh Solanki , Brij Mohan
1
1
1
1
2
2
2
Arora , K. L. Narasimhan , Anil Kottantharayil , Juzer Vasi , Birinchi Bora , Yogesh Kumar Singh , O. S. Sastry
1
2
National Centre for Photovoltaic Research and Education, Mumbai, India, National Institute of Solar Energy,
Gurgaon, India
Q10 (856) Nondestructive Techniques to Determine Degradation Modes: Experimentation with 18 Years Old
Photovoltaic Modules
Matthew Chicca, GovindaSamy TamizhMani
Q12 (857) Effect of Shading on CIGS, CdTe and a-Si:H Thin Film Photovoltaic Modules
Neelkanth G Dhere, Eric Schneller, Ashwani Kaul
Florida Solar Energy Center, Cocoa, FL, United States
Q14 (858) Multi-Stress Durability Testing to Better Predict Outdoor Performance of PV Modules
1
1
1
1
1
William J. Gambogi , James G. Kopchick , Thomas Felder , Steven W. MacMaster , Alexander Z. Bradley , Babak
1
1
1
2
3
4
4
Hamzavy , Bao-Ling Yu , Katherine M. Stika , Lucie Garreau-Iles , Chiou Fu Wang , Hongjie Hu , Yushi Heta , T.
1
John Trout
1
2
(1) E. I. DuPont de Nemours and Company, Wilmington, DE, United States, Du Pont de Nemours International S.A.,
3
Geneva, Switzerland, DuPont (China) Research& Development and Management Co., Ltd., Shanghai, China,
4
DuPont K.K., Utsunomiya, Japan
Q16 (859) Cu Migration and its Impact on the Metastable Behavior of CdTe Solar Cells
1
1
2
3
4
4
1
Da Guo , Richard Akis , Daniel Brinkman , Andrew Moore , Tian Fang , Igor Sankin , Dragica Vasileska , Christian
2
Ringhofer
1
2
School of Eletrical, Computer and Energy Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States, School
3
of Mathematical and Statistical Science, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States, Department of Physics,
4
Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States, First Solar, Perrysburg, OH, United States
Q18 (860) EMP durability of different PV modules and module components
1
1
1
2
3
Alexander Hauser , Fabrice Monti Di Sopra , André Richter , Armin Kaelin , Markus Nyffeler
1
2
3
Meyer Burger Technology AG, Gwatt, Switzerland, EMProtec GmbH, Hinwil, Switzerland, armasuisse, Bern,
Switzerland
Q20 (861) Evaluating the Marginal Effects of Field Defects on Power Degradation as a Mean to Prioritizing Field
Failure Modes for Crystalline Silicon Modules
1
2
1
1
Joseph Kuitche , Rong Pan , Govindasamy TamizhMani , Sai Tatapudi
1
2
Arizona State University Photovoltaic Reliability Laboratory (ASU-PRL), Mesa, AZ, United States, Arizona State
University, Tempe, AZ, United States
Q22 (862) Analysis of Accelerated Degradation Test for Lifetime Prediction of Crystalline Silicon PV Modules
1
2
1
1
Joseph M Kuitche , Rong Pan , Govindasamy TamizhMani , Sai Tatapudi
1
2
Arizona State University Photovoltaic Reliability Laboratory (ASU-PRL), Mesa, AZ, United States, Arizona State
University, Tempe, AZ, United States
Q24 (863) Durability of Photovoltaic Backsheet Outer Weatherable Layers
Amy A. Lefebvre, Gregory S. O'Brien, Bryan S. Douglas, James D. Knapp, Dana Garcia, Gunter Moeller
Arkema Inc., King of Prussia, PA, United States
Q26 (864) Failure Analysis of PV Module in Salt Mist Combined with PID Test
1
1
1
1
Yi-Wei Lin , Y.T. Li , M.F. Lin , H.S. Wu
1
2
310 Rm. 168, Blog. 21 , Sec. 4 Chung Hsing Rd., Chutung, Hsinchu, Taiwan, 310 Rm. 168, Blog. 21 , Sec. 4 Chung
3
Hsing Rd., Chutung, Hsinchu, Taiwan, 310 Rm. 168, Blog. 21 , Sec. 4 Chung Hsing Rd., Chutung, Hsinchu, Taiwan,
4
310 Rm. 168, Blog. 21 , Sec. 4 Chung Hsing Rd., Chutung, Hsinchu, Taiwan
89
THURSDAY, JUNE 18TH
Q28 (865) Holistic View Of Interactions in Modules Affecting Durability – Adhesion and Snail Trails
1
2
2
2
1
1
1
Andreas Meisel , Youyong Xu , Jane Fan , Jinyong Wang , Thomas Dang , Christopher Alcantara , Daniel Inns ,
1
3
3
3
1
Mason L. Terry , Jane Kapur , Babak Hamzavy , William Gambogi , Homer Antoniadis
1
2
DuPont Silicon Valley Technology Center, Sunnyvale, CA, United States, DuPont (China) Research& Development
3
and Management Co., Ltd., Shanghai, China, E. I. DuPont de Nemours and Company, Wilmington, DE, United
States
Q30 (866) Application of Flexible Glass to Prevent PID in PV Modules
1, 2
1
2
3
Jaewon Oh , GovindaSamy TamizhMani , Stuart Bowden , Sean Garner
1
2
Photovoltaic Reliability Laboratory, Arizona State University, Mesa, AZ, United States, Solar Power Laboratory,
3
Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States, Corning Incorporated, Corning, NY, United States
Q32 (867) Visual and electrical degradation of 22 years field aged mono-crystalline silicon PV module in
composite climate of India
1
1
2
2
Pramod Rajput , G.N. Tiwari , Birinchi Bora , O.S. Sastry
1
2
IIT Delhi, Delhi, India, National Institute of Solar Energy, Gurgaon, India
R2 (868) Selection of Best Methods to Calculate Degradation Rates of PV Modules
Sanjay M Shrestha, Govindsamy Tamizhmani
Arizona State University, Mesa, AZ, United States
R4 (869) Correlation of power loss to string and module level performance of arrays of c-Si, CIGS technologies
in North East climate
R Sundaramoorthy, John Delallo, James Alexander, John Wax, Kevin Sharpe, David Taylor, David Metacarpa, Jim
Lloyd, Pradeep Haldar
US–PVMC, Colleges of Nanoscale Science & Engineering, SUNY Polytechnic Institute, Albany, NY, United States
R6 (870) Statistical Methods to Determine Dominant Degradation Modes of Fielded PV Modules
Neelesh Umachandran, Joseph Kuitche, Govindasamy Tamizhmani
Arizona State University, Mesa, AZ, United States
R8 (871) Leakage current path activation of CIGS thin film solar modules
Sebastian Voswinckel, Viktor Wesselak, Pia Manz, Esther Fokuhl, Benno Trautmann
University of Applied Sciences Nordhausen, in.RET - Institute for Renewable Energy Technology, Nordhausen,
Germany
Keynote
12:00 - 1:30 PM
Celestin GH (Level 3)
IEEE-PVSC Women in Photovoltaics (WiPV) Luncheon
Area 1 - Orals
1:30 - 3:00 PM
Empire B (Level 2)
Novel Materials and Concepts
Chair(s): Gergely Zimanyi, Kyle Montgomery , Adele Tamboli
1:30 (872) Low-temperature Synthesized, P-type Transparent Conducting Materials for PV Devices
Rachel Woods-Robinson, Xiaojie Xu, Joel W. Ager
Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States
2:00 (873) Making Optimal Use of New Photovoltaic Materials for Multi-junction Solar Cells
Stephen P Bremner, Chuqi Yi, Ibraheem Almansouri, Anita Ho-Baillie, Martin A Green
UNSW, Sydney, Australia
2:15 (874) InAlAs Solar Cells Grown by Alternative MOVPE Precursors
Brittany L. Smith, Zachary S. Bittner, Staffan D. Hellstroem, Michael A. Slocum, Seth M. Hubbard, David V. Forbes
Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY, United States
90
THURSDAY, JUNE 18TH
2:30 (875) Characterization of ZnSiP2 for Si-Based Tandem Photovoltaics
1
2
2
2
1
2
Aaron D. Martinez , Emily L. Warren , Patricia C. Dippo , Darius Kuciauskas , Brenden R. Oritz , Harvey Guthrey ,
2
2
1,2
1,2
Anna Duda , Andrew G. Norman , Eric S. Toberer , Adele C. Tamboli
1
2
Colorado School fo Mines, Golden, CO, United States, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, United
States
2:45 Best Student Presentation Award Finalist
(876) Combinatorial Growth of ZnSnN2 Absorber Films
1,2
2
2
3
2
Angela N. Fioretti , Andriy Zakutayev , Andrew Norman , Celeste Melamed , Mowafak Al-Jassim , Eric S.
1,2
1,2
Toberer , Adele C. Tamboli
1
2
Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO, United States, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, United
3
States, Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA, United States
Area 2 - Orals
1:30 - 3:00 PM
Empire A (Level 2)
Devices Characterization and modeling
Chair(s): Susan Schorr, Angus Rockett
1:30 (877) Bandgap gradients in (Ag,Cu)(In,Ga)Se2 thin film solar cells deposited by three-stage co-evaporation
Christopher P Thompson, Lei Chen, William N Shafarman, Jinwoo Lee, Shannon Fields, Robert W Birkmire
Institute of Energy Conversion, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States
2:00 (878) Photocarrier recombination dynamics in Cu2ZnSn(S,Se)4 and Cu(In,Ga)Se2 studied by temperaturedependent time resolved photoluminescence (TR-PL)
1
1
1
1
2
2
Mohammad Abdul Halim , Muhammad Monirul Islam , Xianjia Luo , Takeaki Sakurai , Noriyuki Sakai , Takuya Kato ,
2
3
3
3
1
Hiroki Sugimoto , Hitoshi Tampo , Hajime Shibata , Shigeru Niki , Katsuhiro Akimoto
1
2
3
University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan, Solar Frontier, Tokyo, Japan, AIST, Tsukuba, Japan
2:15 (879) Designing CIGS solar cells with front-side point contacts
1
1
1
2
2
2
Giovanna Sozzi , Davide Pignoloni , Roberto Menozzi , Fabian Pianezzi , Patrick Reinhard , Benjamin Bissig ,
2
2
Stephan Buecheler , Ayodhya Tiwari
1
2
Department of Information Engineering - University of Parma, Parma, Italy, Laboratory for Thin Films and
Photovoltaics, Empa—Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Duebendorf, Switzerland
2:30 (880) High intensity and integrated Suns-Voc characterization of high performance kesterite solar cells
1
1
1,2
Oki Gunawan , Tayfun Gokmen , David Mitzi
1
2
IBM T J Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, United States, Duke University, Durham, NC, United
States
2:45 Best Student Presentation Award Finalist
(881) Choice of Substrate Material for Epitaxial CdTe Solar Cells
1
2
1
Tao Song , Ana Kanevce , James R. Sites
1
2
Department of Physics, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States, NREL, Golden, CO, United
States
Area 4 - Orals
1:30 - 3:00 PM
Empire C/D (Level 2)
Silicon Material: Analysis
Chair(s): Gianluca Coletti, Martin J. Binns
1:30 (882) Implications of Accelerated B-O Complex Formation for Mitigating LID in Czochralski Silicon
Brett J Hallam, Malcolm D Abbott, Phill G Hamer, Nitin Nampalli, Stuart R Wenham
School of Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
2:00 (883) Can vacancies and their complexes with nonmetals prevent the lifetime to reach its intrinsic limit in
silicon?
1
1
1
1
2
Fiacre E Rougieux , Nicholas E Grant , Chog Barugkin , Daniel H Macdonald , John D Murphy
1
2
The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom
91
THURSDAY, JUNE 18TH
2:15 (884) Spatial characterization of interstitial oxygen and its related defects in Czochralski silicon wafers and
ingots: a way to improve the material and device quality
1
1
1
1
1
Benoit MARTEL , Jordi VEIRMAN , Miguel CASCANT , Nicolas ENJALBERT , Mathieu TOMASSINI , Raphael
1
1
1
1
2
2
PEYRONNET , Jacky STADLER , Emanuelle FAYARD , Sébastien DUBOIS , Xavier BRUN , Pierre BONNARD
1
2
CEA-INES, Bourget du Lac, France, AET-Technologies, Meylan, France
2:30 (885) A New Light Induced Volume Degradation Effect of mc-Si Solar Cells
1
1
1
1,2
1
1
1
1
H.-C. Ploigt , P. Engelhart , F. Stenzel , F. Kersten , K. Petter , A. Stekolnikov , T. Lindner , M. Bartzsch , A.
1
2
1
Szpeth , J. Heitmann , J. W. Müller
1
2
Hanwha Q CELLS GmbH, 06766 Bitterfeld-Wolfen, Germany, Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg,
09599 Freiberg, Germany
2:45 (886) Light-Induced Degradation Free and High Efficiency P-Type Indium-Doped PERC Solar Cells on
Czochralski Silicon
1
1
1
1
1
1
Eunhwan Cho , J.-H. Lai , Young-woo Ok , Ajay D. Upadhyaya , Vijaykumar D. Upadhyaya , Ajeet Rohatgi , M.J.
2
2
2
2
2
Binns , Jesse Appel , Jason Guo , Hongbin Fang , Ethan Good
1
2
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, United States, SunEdison, Portland, OR, United States
Area 5 - Orals
1:30 - 3:15 PM
Strand 11 (Level 2)
Light Management in Thin-Film Silicon Solar Cells
Chair(s): Edward Hamers, Nick Prodaza
1:30 (887) Improved Flexible Thin-Film Solar Cells with Nanoimprinted Light Management Texture
1
1
1
2
2
1
Karen Wilken , Ulrich W. Paetzold , Matthias Meier , Nicole Prager , Matthias Fahland , Friedhelm Finger , Vladimir
1
Smirnov
1
2
IEK-5 Photovoltaik, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Jülich, Germany, Fraunhofer Institute for Electron Beam and
Plasma Technology, Dresden, Germany
1:45 (888) Triple-functional n-type microcrystalline silicon oxide layers in hydrogenated amorphous
silicon/microcrystalline silicon tandem solar cells
1,2
1,2
1
1
1
1
1
1
Jia Fang , Lisha Bai , Guofu Hou , Xinliang Chen , Changchun Wei , Guangcai Wang , Jian Sun , Dekun Zhang ,
1,2
1,2
Ying Zhao , Xiaodan Zhang
1
Institute of Photo-Electronic Thin Film Devices and Technology of Nankai University, Key Laboratory of Photo2
electronic Thin Film Devices and Technology, Tianjin, China, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemical Science
and Engineering, Tianjin, China
2:00 (889) Photon tunneling in tandem solar cell
Andre Hoffmann, Karsten Bittkau, Chao Zhang, Matthias Meier, Reinhard Carius, Uwe Rau
IEK-5, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Jülich, Germany
2:15 (890) Nanoscale Investigation of Polarization-Dependent Light Coupling to Individual Waveguide Modes of
Nanophotonic Thin-Film Solar Cells
Ulrich Wilhelm Paetzold, Stephan Lehnen, Karsten Bittkau, Uwe Rau, Reinhard Carius
IEK5-Photovoltaik, Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH, Jülich, Germany
2:30 (891) High Performance Ultrathin Silicon Solar Microcells Enabled with Nanophotonic Light Management and
Spectral Upconversion
1
1
3
3
1
4
3
Sung-Min Lee , Weigu Li , Purnim Dhar , Sergey Malyk , Yu Wang , Wonmok Lee , Alexander Benderskii ,
1,2
Jongseung Yoon
1
Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA,
2
United States, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United
3
4
States, Department of Chemistry, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Department of
Chemistry, Sejong University, Seoul, South Korea
2:45 (892) Four-wire thin-film silicon devices: Towards high efficiency
1
1
2
2
1
Federico Ventosinos , Seonyong Park , Paul O'Brien , Nazir Kherani , Erik V. Johnson
1
2
LPICM-CNRS, Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering,
University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
92
THURSDAY, JUNE 18TH
3:00 (893) High-Efficiency Thin-Film Silicon Solar Cells on Honeycomb Textures
1
2
1
1
1
3
4
Hitoshi Sai , Keigo Maejima , Takuya Matsui , Takashi Koida , Koji Matsubara , Michio Kondo , Yoshiaki Takeuchi ,
5
6
2
Shuichiro Sugiyama , Hirotaka Katayama , Isao Yoshida
1
Research Center for Photovoltaics (RCPV), National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Techonology
2
(AIST), Tsukuba, Japan, Photovoltaic Power Generation Technology Research Association (PVTEC), Tsukuba,
3
4
Japan, Fukushima Renewable Research Institute, AIST (FREA), Koriyama, Japan, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd.,
5
6
Isahaya, Japan, Sharp Corporation, Hajikami, Japan, Panasonic Corporation, Kadoma, Japan
Area 6 - Orals
1:30 - 3:00 PM
Strand 12 (Level 2)
Perovskite Materials and Devices (I)
Chair(s): Aditya Mohite, Sam Stranks
1:30 (894) Invited: Highly efficient Perovskite Solar Cells
Yang Yang
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United
States
2:00 (895) Mechanically Stacked and Monolithically Integrated Perovskite/silicon Tandems and the Challenges for
High Efficiency
1
2
2
1
1
2
Colin D. Bailie , Jonathan P. Mailoa , Eric C. Johlin , William H. Nguyen , Eric T. Hoke , Austin J. Akey , Tonio
2
1
Buonassisi , Michael D. McGehee
1
2
Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States, MIT, Cambridge, MA, United States
2:15 (896) Identifying Recombination Mechanisms Through Materials Development In Perovskite Solar Cells
1
1
1,2
3
1,2
1
Matthew J Carnie , Joel Troughton , Brian O' Regan , Piers Barnes , Daniel Bryant , Trystan Watson , David
1
Worsley
1
2
SPECIFIC - Swansea University, Port Talbot, United Kingdom, Dept. of Chemistry, Imperial College London,
3
London, United Kingdom, Dept. of Physics, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
2:30 Best Student Presentation Award Finalist
(897) Spatially Resolved Characterization of Solution Processed Perovskite Solar Cells Using the LBIC
Technique
Zhaoning Song, Suneth C. Watthage, Brandon L. Tompkins, Geethika K. Liyanage, Adam B. Phillips, Randall J.
Ellingson, Michael J. Heben
Wright Center for Photovoltaics Innovation and Commercialization, School for Solar and Advanced Renewable
Energy, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH, United States
2:45 (898) Infrared light sensitive Sn/Pb binary perovskite solar cells with improved stability in air and organic
amine-free perovskite solar cells with improved stability against light exposure
1
2
1
1
1
2
1
Yuhei Ogomi , Qing Shen , Koji Nishinaka , Kosei Fujiwara , Keita Sakaguchi , Taro Toyoda , Shuzi Hayase
1
2
Kyushu Institute of Technology, Kitakyushu, Japan, The University of Electro-Communications, Vho-fu, Japan
Area 7 - Orals
1:30 - 3:00 PM
Strand 13 (Level 2)
Space Cells
Chair(s): Maria Gonzalez, Wolfgang Guter
1:30 (899) High performance 5J and 6J direct bonded (SBT) space solar cells
Philip T Chiu, Daniel C Law, Scott B Singer, Dhananjay Bhusari, Abdallah Zakaria, Xing Q Liu, Shoghig Mesropian,
Nasser H Karam
Spectrolab Inc., Sylmar, CA, United States
1:45 (900) Radiation effects on luminescent coupling in III-V solar cells
1
2,3
3
1
1
2
Myles A. Steiner , Matthew P. Lumb , Raymond Hoheisel , John F. Geisz , Ryan M. France , David Scheiman ,
2
2
Robert J. Walters , Phillip P. Jenkins
1
2
National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, United States, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Washington,
3
DC, United States, The George Washington University, Washington, DC, United States
93
THURSDAY, JUNE 18TH
2:00 Best Student Presentation Award Finalist
(901) Characterizations of radiation damages in multi-junction solar cells focused on subcell internal
luminescence quantum yields via absolute electroluminescence measurements
1
1
2
3
4
1
Lin Zhu , Masahiro Yoshita , Shaoqiang Chen , Tetsuya Nakamura , Toshimitsu Mochizuki , Changsu Kim , Mitsuru
3
5
1
Imaizumi , Yoshihiko Kanemitsu , Hidefumi Akiyama
1
2
Institute for Solid State Physics, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Japan, Department of Electronic Engineering, East
3
4
China Normal University, Shanghai, China, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Tsukuba, Japan, Fukushima
Renewable Energy Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Koriyama, Japan,
5
Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto University and JST-CREST, Uji, Japan
2:15 (902) Nanoparticle scattering for radiation-hard multi-junction space solar cells
Alexander Mellor, Nicholas P. Hylton, Francesca Shirley, Tomos Thomas, Kan-Hua Lee, Yahya Al-Saleh, Avraham
Braun, Stefan A. Maier, Nicholas J. Ekins-Daukes
Department of Physics, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
2:30 (903) Low Temperature Effects in Photovoltaic Devices for Deep Space Missions
1
2
3
Raymond Hoheisel , Robert Walters , Andreas Bett
1
2
The George Washington University, Washington, DC, United States, US Naval Research Laboratory, Washington,
3
DC, United States, Fraunhofer ISE, Freiburg, Germany
2:45 (904) Carbon Nanotube Reinforced Cu Metal Matrix Composites for Current Collection from Space
Photovoltaics
1
1
1
1
1
Adam B. Phillips , Brandon L. Tompkins , Zhaoning Song , Rajendra R. Khanal , Geethika K. Liyanage , Nathan D.
2
2
1
Gapp , David M. Wilt , Michael J. Heben
1
2
University of Toledo, Toledo, OH, United States, Air Force Research Lab, Kirtland Air Force Base, NM, United
States
Area 11 - Orals
1:30 - 3:00 PM
Strand 10 (Level 2)
Module Reliability
Chair(s): Gerhard Kleiss, Masaaki Yamamichi, Werner Hermann
1:30 (905) Thermal and Electrical Effects of Partial Shade in Monolithic Thin-Film Photovoltaic Modules
1
1
2
1
2
Timothy J Silverman , Michael G. Deceglie , Xingshu Sun , Rebekah L. Garris , Muhammad Ashraful Alam , Chris
1
1
Deline , Sarah Kurtz
1
2
National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, United States, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United
States
1:45 (906) Predicting the Long Term Power Loss from Cell Cracks in PV Modules
1
2
3
4
Vivek S. Gade , Narendra S. Shiradkar , Marco Paggi , Jared Opalewski
1
2
Jabil Circuit Inc., St. Petersburg, FL, United States, Florida Solar Energy Center, University of Central Florida,
3
4
Cocoa, FL, United States, IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca, Lucca, Italy, Jabil Circuit Inc., St. Petersburg,
FL, United States
2:00 (907) Impact of cracks in multicrystalline silicon solar cells on PV module power – A simulation study based
on field data
Arnaud Morlier, Felix Haase, Marc Köntges
Insitute for Solar Energy Research Hamelin (ISFH)), Emmerthal, Germany
2:15 (908) Silver-Carbon-Nanotube Metal Matrix Composites for Metal Contacts on Space Photovoltaic Cells
1
1
1
2
2
Omar K Abudayyeh , Cayla Nelson , Sang M Han , David M Wilt , Nathan Gapp
1
2
University of New Mexico , Albuquerque, NM, United States, Air Force Research Laboratories , Albuquerque, NM,
United States
2:30 (909) Mechanism analysis of snail trails in photovoltaic modules
1
1
2
3
1
1
Guangda Zhou , Xi Xiong , Wei Zhou , Yafeng Liu , Yan Sang , Zhining Kou
1
2
Hangzhou First PV Material CO., LTD, Hangzhou, China, Changzhou Trinasolar Energy CO., LTD, Changzhou,
3
China, Jiangxi Jinko Energy CO., LTD, Shangrao, China
94
THURSDAY, JUNE 18TH
2:45 (910) PV Module System Fire Classification: Industry Solutions
Christopher Flueckiger, Robert G. Backstrom, Chad Fischer, Pravinray D. Gandhi
Break
3:00 - 3:30 PM
Empire Ballroom Foyer (Level 2)
Coffee Break
Keynote - Plenary
3:30 - 5:00 PM
Empire A (Level 2)
International Cooperation
Chair(s): Masafumi Yamaguchi, Arnulf Jaeger Waldau, Steven A. Ringel
(907) Overview of PV R&D Project in Japan
1
2
Hiroyuki Yamada , Masafumi Yamaguchi
1
2
NEDO, Kawasaki, Japan, Toyota Tech. Inst., Nagoya, Japan
The Importance of International Collaboration in Rapidly Moving PV Forward as a Climate change Mitigation
Tool.
Gregory Wilson
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
NSF International Activities and Opportunities in Solar Energy Research
Eyad Abed
National Science Foundation
India with Recent Large Scale PV Installations - Learnings and Experiences.
Ardeshir Contractor
Kiran Energy, India
Social Activity
6:30 - 10:30 PM
Generations Hall
Conference Banquet (Ticket Required)
95
FRIDAY, JUNE 19TH
Friday, June 19, 2015
Area 1 - Orals
8:30 - 10:00 AM
Empire B (Level 2)
Emerging Photovoltaic Technologies
Chair(s): Seth Hubbard, Andrew Norman, Maria Gonzalez
8:30 (912) Absorption characteristics of reduced graphene oxide: application to TCO and solar cells active region
1
2
1
Mark Lundie , Zeljko Sljivancanin , Stanko Tomic
1
2
University of Salford, Manchester, United Kingdom, Vinca Institute, Belgrade, Serbia
8:45 (913) Optimization of GaAs Nanowire Solar Cell Efficiency via Optoelectronic Modeling
1
1
2
2
1
1
Anna H Trojnar , Christopher E. Valdivia , Azizur Rahman , Ray R. LaPierre , Karin Hinzer , Jacob J. Krich
1
2
SUNLAB, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada, Department of Engineering Physics, McMaster University,
Hamilton, ON, Canada
9:00 (914) Perovskite/Crystalline Silicon Tandem Solar Cells Fabricated by Non-Vacuum-Process
Abdullah Uzum, Hiroyuki Kanda, Seigo Ito
University of Hyogo, Himeji, Japan
9:15 (915) Immersion Graded Index Optics for Passive Solar Concentrators
Nina Vaidya, Olav Solgaard
Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States
9:30 (916) Rapid Sub-Wavelength Texturing for III-V Solar Cells by Laser Interference Lithography and Selective
Wet Etching
1,2
1,2
Wei Wang , Alexandre Freundlich
1
2
Center for Advanced Materials, houston, TX, United States, University of Houston, houston, TX, United States
9:45 (917) Large-Area III-Nitride Double-Heterojunction Solar Cells with Record-High In-content InGaN Absorbing
Layers
Chloe A. M. Fabien, Brendan P. Gunning, Joseph J. Merola, Evan A. Clinton, W. Alan Doolittle
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, United States
Area 2 - Orals
8:30 - 10:00 AM
Empire A (Level 2)
Materials characterization and modeling
Chair(s): Colin Wolden, Sylvain Marsillac
8:30 (918) 921mV Open Circuit Voltage Chalcopyrite Solar Cells
Homare Hiroi, Yasuaki Iwata, Kyouhei Horiguchi, Shunsuke Adachi, Noriyuki Sakai, Hiroki Sugimoto
Solar Frontier K.K., Kanagawa, Japan
9:00 (919) Direct nm-scale spatial mapping of traps in CIGS
1
1
1
2
3
2
Pran K. Paul , Drew W. Cardwell , Christine M. Jackson , Kevin Galiano , Krishna Aryal , Jonathan P. Pelz , Sylvain
3
5
4
1
Marsillac , Steven A. Ringel , Tyler J. Grassman , Aaron R. Arehart
1
2
Electrical and Computer Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States, Department of
3
Physics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Old
4
Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, United States, Electrical and Computer Engineering and Institute for Materials
5
Research, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States, Materials Science and Engineering, Columbus,
OH, United States
96
FRIDAY, JUNE 19TH
9:15 (921) Quantitative determination of grain boundary recombination velocity in CdTe by combination of
cathodoluminescence measurements and numerical simulations
1
1,2
1
1
1
Ana Kanevce , John Moseley , Darius Kuciauskas , Mowafak Al-Jassim , Wyatt K. Metzger
1
2
National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, United States, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO, United
States
9:30 (920) Monocrystalline ZnTe/CdTe/MgCdTe Double Heterostructure Solar Cells Grown on InSb Substrates
1,2
1,2
1,2
1,2
1,3
4
4
Ying-Shen Kuo , Jacob Becker , Shi Liu , Yuan Zhao , Xin-hao Zhao , Peng-Yu Su , Ishwara Bhat , Yong1,3
Hang Zhang
1
2
Center for Photonics Innovation, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States, School of Electrical,
3
Computer and Energy Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States, School for Engineering of
4
Matter, Transport and Energy, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States, Department of Electrical,
Computer, and Systems Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, United States
9:45 (922) ''Cd and impurity redistribution at the p-n junction of CIGS based solar cells resolved with atom-probe
tomography''
1
1
2
1
1
Anna Koprek , Oana Cojocaru-Mirédin , Roland Würz , Christoph Freysoldt , Dierk Raabe
1
2
Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung GmbH, Düsseldorf, Germany, Zentrum für Sonnenenergie- und WasserstoffForschung Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart, Germany
Area 4 - Orals
8:30 - 10:00 AM
Empire C/D (Level 2)
Contact Formation and Module Integration
Chair(s): Radovan Kopecek, Hartmut Nussbaumer
8:30 (923) Industrial Si solar cells with Cu based plated contacts
1
1
1
1
2
2
Jörg Horzel , Norbert Bay , Michael Passig , Holger Kühnlein , Yuan Shengzhao , Pierre Verlinden
1
2
RENA GmbH, Freiburg, Germany, State Key Laboratory of PV Science and Technology, Trina Solar, Changzhou,
China
9:00 (924) Front contact metallization of Si solar cells: insights from in-situ X-ray diffraction
1
2
1
1
1
2
Md. Imteyaz Ahmad , Jeremy D Fields , Vanessa L Pool , Jiafan Yu , Douglas Van Campen , Philip A Parilla , David
2
2
1
S Ginley , Maikel FAM Van Hest , Michael F Toney
1
2
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA, United States, National Renewable Energy Laboratory,
Golden, CO, United States
9:15 (925) Evaluation of Screen-Printed Metallization Concepts for Large-Area BC-BJ Solar Cells
1
1
1
1
2
3
Max Hendrichs , Milan Padilla , Johann Walter , Florian Clement , Andreas Fell , Bernd Rech
1
2
3
Fraunhofer ISE, Freiburg, Germany, College of Engineering and Computer Sience, Canberra, Australia, Helmholtz
Center Berlin, Berlin, Germany
9:30 (926) Concepts and Prospects of Passivated Contacts for Crystalline Silicon Solar Cells
Jimmy Melskens, Bas W. H. van de Loo, Bart Macco, Martijn F. J. Vos, Jurgen Palmans, Sjoerd Smit, W. M. M.
(Erwin) Kessels
Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, Netherlands
9:45 (927) Module Integration of Solar Cells with Diverse Metallization Schemes Enabled by SmartWire
Connection Technology
1
2
3
1
4
4
Yu Yao , Pierre Papet , Joost Hermans , Thomas Söderström , Dirk Habermann , André Richter
1
2
3
Meyer Burger AG, Gwatt, Switzerland, Meyer Burger Research AG, Hauterive, Switzerland, Roth & Rau B.V.,
4
Eindhoven, Netherlands, Meyer Burger Technology AG, Gwatt, Switzerland
97
FRIDAY, JUNE 19TH
Area 6 - Orals
8:30 - 10:00 AM
Strand 12 (Level 2)
Organic Materials and Devices
Chair(s): Annick Anctil, Kethinni Chittibabu
8:30 (928) Invited: From Nanostructure to High Efficiency in Organic Photovoltaics
Stephen Forrest
Departments of Physics and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI
48109
9:00 (929) Substrate-Correlated Interface Polarity Reversal at a Carbon Nanotube/Fullerene Junction
1
2
1
2
1
Olivia J Alley , Meng-Yin Wu , Josué F. Martínez Hardigree , Michael S. Arnold , Howard E. Katz
1
2
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, United States
9:15 (930) Characterizing Molecular Order at the Bulk Heterojunction through Structural Analysis and Device
Performance to Predict Ideal Structure in Small Molecule Organic Photovoltaic Donor Molecules
1
1
1
1
2
1
Susan D Spencer , Chenyu Zheng , John Andersen , Jeremy Cody , Scott Misture , Chris Collision
1
2
Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY, United States, Alfred University, Alfred, NY, United States
9:30 (931) Variations in Spectral Response Behaviour in Single Layer Organic Solar Cells with Active Layer
Thickness and Bias During Measurement
Sandeep Kumar, S. Sundar Kumar Iyer
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur, India
9:45 (932) Multijunction Organic Photovoltaic Cells for Underwater Solar Power
1
1
1
1
2
3
Robert J Walters , Woojun Yoon , Diogenes Placencia , David Scheiman , Matthew P. Lumb , Andrew Strang , Paul
3
1
Stavrinou , Phillip P. Jenkins
1
2
U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States, The George Washington University, Washington,
3
DC, United States, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
Area 8 - Orals
8:30 - 10:00 AM
Strand 13 (Level 2)
In-situ Characterization
Chair(s): Marina Leite, Angus Rockett
8:30 (933) In-situ chemical analysis of molten photovoltaic silicon by Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy
1
1
1
1
2
1
Loïc Patatut , Marion Sérasset , Hélène Lignier , David Pelletier , Mohamad Sabsabi , Malek Benmansour
1
2
CEA, LITEN, Department of Solar Technologies, Le Bourget du Lac, France, CNRC-NRC, Montréal, QC, Canada
8:45 (934) Through-the-glass Spectroscopic Ellipsometry for Simultaneous Mapping of Coating Properties and
Stress in the Glass
1
1
1
1
2
2
1
Jian Li , Puja Pradhan , Prakash Koirala , Xinxuan Tan , Baosheng Sang , Billy J. Stanbery , Robert W. Collins
1
1Center for Photovoltaics Innovation & Commercialization, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH, United States,
2
HelioVolt Corporation, Austin, TX, United States
9:00 (935) High speed spectroscopic ellipsometry technique for on-line monitoring in large area thin layer
production
1
1
1
1
Csaba Major , Gyorgy Juhasz , Zoltan Labadi , Miklos Fried
1
2
3
4
MTA EK MFA, Budapest, Hungary, MTA EK MFA, Budapest, Hungary, MTA EK MFA, Budapest, Hungary, MTA
EK MFA, Budapest, Hungary
9:15 (936) Raman spectroscopy study on in-situ monitoring of Cu2ZnSnS4 synthesis
1
2
2
1
1
Stephan van Duren , Yi Ren , Jonathan Scragg , Justus Just , Thomas Unold
1
2
Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Ångström Solar Center, Solid State Electronics, Uppsala University,
Uppsala, Sweden
98
FRIDAY, JUNE 19TH
9:30 (937) In-situ monitoring of the accelerated performance degradation of thin film solar cells
1,2,3
1
4
5,6
7,8
9
Mirjam Theelen
, Henk Steijvers , Nicolas Barreau , Marie Buffière , Guy Brammertz , Robert Jan van Vugt ,
1
2
Zeger Vroon , Miro Zeman
1
2
3
TNO Solliance, Eindhoven, Netherlands, Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands, M2i, Delft,
4
5
Netherlands, Institut des Máterieaux Jean Rouxel (IMN)-UMR, Nantes, France, imec Solliance, Leuven, Belgium,
6
7
8
KU Leuven, Heverlee, Belgium, imec IMOMEC Solliance, Diepenbeek, Belgium, Hasselt University, Diepenbeek,
9
Belgium, Eternal Sun, Delft, Netherlands
9:45 Best Student Presentation Award Finalist
(938) Optical Model Derivation for CIGS and Application to an Optical Monitoring System
Sravan Sunkoju, Sandra B. Schujman, Jonathan R. Mann, John Wax, David J. Metacarpa, Pradeep Haldar
U.S. Photovoltaic Manufacturing Consortium (PVMC), SUNY Polytechnic Institute, Albany, NY, United States
Area 9 - Orals
8:30 - 10:00 AM
Strand 11 (Level 2)
Building Integrated PV and Novel Applications
Chair(s): Wilfried van Sark, Nils Reich, Anton Driesse
8:30 (939) Modeling The Performance Of Amorphous And Crystalline Silicon Photovoltaic Modules For Different
Types Of Bulding Integration Conditions
Alessandro Virtuani, Davide Strepparava
SUPSI, Canobbio, Switzerland
8:45 (940) Shadow Analysis for BIPV and PIPV Systems in a Virtual Environment
Anton J Veldhuis, Angele Reinders
University of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands
9:00 (941) Real Life Lab BIPV field testing in the Netherlands
1,2
1,3
1
3
2
Michiel Ritzen , Zeger Vroon , Ronald Rovers , Chris Geurts , Bert Blocken
1
2
Zuyd University of Applied Sciences, Heerlen, Netherlands, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven,
3
Netherlands, TNO, Delft / Eindhoven, Netherlands
9:15 (942) Concept of a Split Tandem Photovoltaic Window
Marc Jobin, Cedric Pellodi
9:30 (943) Demonstration of PV modules with lightweight mounting systems on commercial rooftops
Ankush Halbe, Kevin Sharpe, Graeme Housser, David Metacarpa, Pradeep Haldar
SUNY Polytechnic Institite, Albany, NY, United States
9:45 (944) When PV modules are becoming real building elements: White solar module, a revolution for BIPV
Laure-Emmanuelle Perret-Aebi
CSEM SA, Jaquet-Droz 1, 2000 Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Area 11 - Orals
8:30 - 10:00 AM
Strand 10 (Level 2)
PID and Voltage Stress Effects
Chair(s): Vivek Gade, Michael Kempe
8:30 (945) Towards a PID Test Standard: Understanding and Modeling of Laboratory Tests and Field Progression
Max B. Koentopp, Christian Taubitz, Marcel Kröber
Hanwha Q CELLS GmbH, Bitterfeld, Germany
9:00 (946) Accelerated Testing and Modeling of Potential Induced Degradation as a Function of Temperature and
Relative Humidity
1
2
1
1
1
1
1
Peter Hacke , Sergiu Spataru , Kent Terwilliger , Greg Perrin , Stephen Glick , Sarah Kurtz , John Wohlgemuth
1
2
National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, United States, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark
99
FRIDAY, JUNE 19TH
9:15 (947) Evaluation of “PID 1500V Ready” modules: a new test protocol
1
2
Benoit Braisaz , Khalid Radouane
1
2
EDF R&D, Ecuelles, France, EDF EN, La Défense, France
9:30 Best Student Presentation Award Finalist
(948) Quantum Efficiency Loss after PID Stress: Wavelength Dependence on Cell Surface and Cell Edge
1, 2
1
2
3
Jaewon Oh , Stuart Bowden , GovindaSamy TamizhMani , Peter Hacke
1
2
Solar Power Laboratory, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States, Photovoltaic Reliability Laboratory,
3
Arizona State University, Mesa, AZ, United States, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, United
States
9:45 (949) Outdoor degradation of CdTe modules at open circuit and at maximum power point
1
2
2
1
1
Kostas Sinapis , Georgios Papageorgiou , Ken Durose , Menno van den Donker , Wiep Folkerts
1
2
Solar Energy Application Centre, Eindhoven, Netherlands, Stephenson Institute for Renewable Energy - University
of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
Break
10:00 - 10:30 AM
Empire Ballroom Foyer (Level 2)
Coffee Break
Area 2 - Orals
10:30 - 12:00 PM
Empire A (Level 2)
Advances in Buffer Layers and back contact Engineering
Chair(s): James Sites, Vikash Ranjan
10:30 (950) Towards a better understanding of the use of additives in Zn(S,O,OH) deposition bath for high
efficiency Cu(In,Ga)Se2-based solar cells
1
1
2
2
2
1
Thibaud Hildebrandt , Nicolas Loones , Muriel Bouttemy , Jackie Vigneron , Arnaud Etcheberry , Daniel Lincot ,
1
Negar Naghavi
1
2
IRDEP, Chatou, France, ILV UVSQ, Versailles, France
11:00 (951) Rear surface optimization of CZTS solar cells by use of a passivation layer with nano-sized point
openings
1,2
1
1
1
1
3
Bart Vermang , Yi Ren , Jonathan Joel , Christopher Frisk , Olivier Donzel-Gargand , Pedro Salomé , Jérôme
3
3
1
1
Borme , Sascha Sadewasser , Charlotte Platzer-Björkman , Marika Edoff
1
2
Ångström Solar Center, University of Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden, Department of Electrical Engineering, University
3
of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, Nanostructured Solar Cells, International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory, Braga,
Portugal
11:15 (952) Structural and Chemical Characterization of the Back Contact Region in High Efficiency CdTe Solar
Cells
1
2,3
2
2
3
2
Ali Abbas , Daniel M. Meysing , Jiaojiao Li , Joseph D. Beach , Teresa M. Barnes , John M. Walls , Colin A.
2
Wolden
1
2
Loughborough University, Loughborough, United Kingdom, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO, United States,
3
National renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, United States
11:30 (953) Back Contact Band Offset Study Of Mo-CZTS Based Solar Cell Structure By Using XPS/UPS
Techniques
1
2
2
2
Tara P Dhakal , Steve Harvey , Maikel van Hest , Glenn Teeter
1
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Center for Autonomous Solar Power (CASP) Binghamton
2
University, Binghamton, NY, United States, National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO, United
States
11:45 (954) VOC Enhancement of Sub-micron CIGS Solar Cells by Sulfization of the Mo Surface.
1,2
1
2
1
Kihwan Kim , Peipei Xin , Jaeho Yun , William N. Shafarman
1
2
University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States, Korea Institute of Energy Research, Daejeon, South Korea
100
FRIDAY, JUNE 19TH
Area 4 - Orals
10:30 - 12:00 PM
Empire C/D (Level 2)
Silicon Material: Technology
Chair(s): Frederic Dross, Paul Stradins
10:30 (955) Invited: Economics of Future Growth in Photovoltaics Manufacturing
1
1
2
Paul A. Basore , Donald Chung , Tonio Buonassisi
1
2
National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, United States, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Cambridge, MA, United States
11:00 Best Student Presentation Award Finalist
(956) High Efficiency Multicrystalline Silicon Solar Cells: Potential of n-type Doping
Florian Schindler, Jonas Schön, Bernhard Michl, Stephan Riepe, Patricia Krenckel, Jan Benick, Frank Feldmann,
Martin Hermle, Stefan Glunz, Wilhelm Warta, Martin Schubert
Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (ISE), Freiburg, Germany
11:15 (957) Indium-Doped Mono-Crystalline Silicon Substrates Exhibiting Negligible Lifetime Degradation
Following Light Soaking
1
1
1
2
1
1
1
Martin J Binns , Jesse Appel , Jason Guo , Jihong Chen , T.N. Swaminathan , Henry Hieslmair , Ethan A Good
1
2
SunEdison Inc, St. Peters, MO, United States, Silfex, Eaton, OH, United States
11:30 (958) Structural Control of Dendrite Crystals in Practical Size Silicon Ingots Grown by Floating Cast Method
Isao Takahashi, Supawan Joonwichien, Hiramatsu Takuya, Satoru Matsushima, Noritaka Usami
Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan
11:45 (959) High Performance Multicrystalline Wafers with Lifetime of 400µs at Industrial Scale
Zhen Xiong, Zhiqiang Zhang, Hongliang Ye, Shaoyong Fu, Zhiqiang Feng, Pierre J. Verlinden
State Key Laboratory of PV Science and Technology, Changzhou Trina Solar Energy Co., Ltd., Changzhou, China
Area 6 - Orals
10:30 - 12:00 PM
Strand 12 (Level 2)
Perovskite Materials and Devices (II)
Chair(s): Michael Heben, Carnie Matthew
10:30 (960) High Efficiency Millimeter-Scale Crystalline Perovskite Solar Cells
1
1
1
2
1
1
Aditya Mohite , Wanyi Nie , Hsinhan Tsai , Reza Asadpour , Jean-Christophe Blancon , Amanda Neukirch , Gautam
1
1
3
2
1
1
Gupta , Jared Crochet , Manish Chhowalla , Muhammad Alam , Hsing-Lin Wang , Sergei Tretiak
1
2
Los Alamos National Lab, Los Alamos, NM, United States, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States,
3
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, United States
11:00 (961) Real-space distribution of the electrical potential in planar and porous perovskite solar cells: carrier
separation and transport
1
1
2
1
1
1
3
2
1
C.-S. Jiang , M. Yang , Y. Zhou , B. To , S.U. Nanayakkara , J.M. Luther , W. Zhou , N.P. Padture , K. Zhu , M.M.
1
Al-Jassim
1
2
National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, United States, Brown University, Providence, RI, United
3
States, University of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA, United States
11:15 (962) Effects of domain size in polycrystalline perovskite organic-inorganic hybrids investigated by spatially
resolved optical spectroscopy
1
2
3
3
1,2
Henan Liu , Qiong Chen , Hui-Seon Kim , Nam-Gyu Park , Yong Zhang
1
2
Optical Science and Engineering Ph.D program, UNC Charlotte, Charlotte, NC, United States, Department of
3
Electrical and Computer Engineering, and EPIC, UNC Charlotte, Charlotte, NC, United States, School of Chemical
Engineering and Department of Energy Science, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, South Korea
11:30 (963) Highly Reproducible Vapor Deposition Technique, Device Physics And Instability Of Perovskite Solar
cells
Vikram Dalal, Hisham Abbas, Ranjith Kottokkaran, Andrew Kitahara, Balaji Ganapathy, Liang Zhang
Iowa State University, Ames, IA, United States
101
FRIDAY, JUNE 19TH
11:45 (964) Photo-stability of Crystalline Large-Grain Planar Perovskite Solar Cell
1
2
1
1
1
Wanyi Nie , Hsinhan Tsai , Hsing-Lin Wang , Gautam Gupta , Aditya Mohite
1
2
Los Alamos National Lab, Los Alamos, NM, United States, Rice University, Houston, TX, United States
Area 9 - Orals
10:30 - 12:00 PM
Strand 11 (Level 2)
System Performance Rating and Monitoring
Chair(s): Clifford Hansen, Rob Andrews, Joshua Stein
10:30 (965) Visualization of Operational Performance of Grid-Connected PV Systems in selected European
Countries
Panagiotis Moraitis, Bhayva B Kausika, Wilfried GJHM van Sark
Utrecht University, Copernicus Institute, Utrecht, Netherlands
10:45 (966) On-site Performance Verification Services to Significantly Reduce PV Energy Yield Prediction
Uncertainties
Björn Müller, Boris Farnung, Wolfgang Heydenreich, Klaus Kiefer, Nils Reich
Fraunhofer ISE, Freiburg, Germany
11:00 (967) Real-time Series Resistance Monitoring in PV Systems without the Need for IV Curves
Michael G. Deceglie, Timothy J Silverman, Bill Marion, Sarah R. Kurtz
National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, United States
11:15 (968) Monitoring Current, Voltage and Power in Photovoltaic Power Systems
1
2
2
2
Anton Driesse , Joshua Stein , Daniel Riley , Craig Carmignani
1
2
PV Performance Labs, Freiburg, Germany, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States
11:30 (969) In-Situ Module-Level I-V Tracers for Novel PV Monitoring
1
1
1
2
Jimmy E. Quiroz , Josh S. Stein , Craig K. Carmignani , Kellen Gillispie
1
2
Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States, Stratasense LLC, Sunnyvale, CA, United States
Area 11 - Orals
10:30 - 12:00 PM
Strand 10 (Level 2)
Module Materials and Component Durability
Chair(s): John Wohlgemuth, Michael Koehl, Bill Shisler
10:30 (970) Evaluation of the Durability of Flexible Barrier Materials
1
1
2
2
2
2
Michael D. Kempe , Dylan L. Nobles , Mark D. Weigel , Alan K. Nachtigal , Mark A. Roehrig , Tracie J. Berniard ,
2
2
Joseph C. Spagnola , Charlene M. Schubert
1
2
NREL, Golden, CO, United States, 3M, Saint Paul, MN, United States
10:45 Best Student Presentation Award Finalist
(971) Predicting Service Life of Bypass Diodes in Photovoltaic Modules
1
2
Narendra S. Shiradkar , Vivek S. Gade
1
2
Florida Solar Energy Center, University of Central Florida, Cocoa, FL, United States, Jabil Circuit Inc., St.
Petersburg, FL, United States
11:00 (972) Degradation in PV Encapsulation Transmittance: An Interlaboratory Study Towards a Climate-Specific
Test
1
2
3
4
5
6
David C Miller , Eleonora Annigoni , Amal Ballion , Jayesh G Bokria , Laura S Bruckman , David M Burns , Lamont
7
5
8
9
10
1
Elliott , Roger H French , Sean Fowler , Xiaohong Gu , Christian C Honeker , Michael D Kempe , Hussam
11
3
9
2
Khonkar , Michael Köhl , Peter J Krommenhoek , Laure-Emmanuelle Perret-Aebi
1
2
National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO, United States, École Polytechnique Fédérale de
3
Lausanne (EPFL), Neuchâtel, Switzerland, Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE, Freiburg, Germany,
4
5
Specialized Technology Resources, Inc. (STR), Enfield, CT, United States, Case Western Reserve University
6
7
(CWRU), Cleveland, OH, United States, The 3M Company, St. Paul, MN, United States, Atlas Material Testing
8
9
Technology LLC, Mount Prospect, IL, United States, Q-Lab Corporation, Cleveland, OH, United States, National
10
Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg, MD, United States, Fraunhofer Center for Sustainable
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FRIDAY, JUNE 19TH
Energy Systems (CSE), Boston, MA, United States,
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
11
King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST),
11:15 (973) Tests of functional coatings on glass adapted to extreme – arid and maritime - climatic conditions for
solar energy systems
Elisabeth Klimm, Karl-Anders Weiss, Michael Koehl, Bastian Spiegelhalter, Laura Ost, Markus Heck
Fraunhofer ISE, Freiburg, Germany
11:30 (974) Ultra-violet radiation Round Robin testing of various back-sheets for PV-modules
1
1
2
2
3
4
4
Michael Koehl , Amal Ballion , Yu-Hsien Lee , Hung-Sen Wu , Kurt Scott , Stephen Glick , Peter Hacke
1
2
3
4
Fraunhofer ISE, Freiburg, Germany, ITRI, Hsinchu, Taiwan, Ametek, Mount Prospect, IL, United States, NREL,
Golden, CO, United States
11:45 (975) Degradation of Poly(ethylene-terephthalate) under Accelerated Weathering Exposures
Abdulkerim Gok, Cara Fagerholm, Devin Gordon, Laura Bruckman, Roger French
Case Western Reserve University Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Cleveland, OH, United States
Joint Area Session - Orals
10:30 - 12:00 PM
Empire B (Level 2)
Joint Area 1,3,4 & 7: III-V on Si via Non-III-V Buffers and Bonding
Chair(s): Thomas Hannappel, Stephen Bremner
10:30 (976) III-V/SiGe on Si Radiation Hard Space Cells with Voc>2.6V
Andrew M Carlin, Eugene A Fitzgerald, Steven A Ringel
4Power LLC, Salem, NH, United States
11:00 (977) Development of highly-efficient GaInP/Si Tandem Solar Cells
1
1
1
2
2
2
2
Stephanie Essig , John F. Geisz , Myles A. Steiner , Agnes Merkle , Robby Peibst , Jan Schmidt , Rolf Brendel ,
1
1
1
1
Scott Ward , Daniel J. Friedman , Pauls Stradins , David L. Young
1
2
National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO, United States, Institute for Solar Energy Research
Hamelin (ISFH), Emmerthal, Germany
11:15 (978) Growth and characterization of GaAsP top cells for high efficiency III-V/Si tandem PV
1
1
2
2
1
Timothy J Milakovich , Rushabh D Shah , Sabina A Hadi , Ammar Nayfeh , Mayank T Bulsara , Eugene A
1
Fitzgerald
1
2
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States, Masdar Institute of Science and
Technology, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
11:30 (979) AlGaAs/Si dual-junction tandem solar cells fabricated by epitaxial lift-off and print transfer-assisted
bonding
1
1
1
2
3
4
2
Kanglin Xiong , Hongyi Mi , Tzu-hsuan Chang , Meng-Yin Wu , Shaoqin Gong , Weidong Zhou , Michael Arnold ,
5
1
Hao-Chih Yuan , Zhenqiang Ma
1
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, United States,
2
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, United States,
3
4
Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, United States, Department
5
of Electrical Engineering, University of Texas-Arlington, Arlington, TX, United States, National Renewable Energy
Laboratory, Golden, CO, United States
11:45 (980) Current matched GaAsP/SiGe tandem device on Si over 20% efficiency under indoor measurement
1
1
1
1
1
1
2
Li Wang , Brianna Conrad , Anastasia Soeriyadi , Martin Diaz , Xin Zhao , Dun Li , Anthony Lochtefeld , Andrew
2
3
1
1
Gerger , Chris Ebert , Ivan Perez-Wurfl , Allen Barnett
1
2
3
UNSW Australia, Sydney, Australia, AmberWave Inc., Salem, NH, United States, Veeco MOCVD, Somerset, NJ,
United States
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FRIDAY, JUNE 19TH
Joint Area Session - Orals
10:30 - 12:00 PM
Strand 13 (Level 2)
Joint Area 2 & 8: Characterization of Chalcopyrite and Kesterite Photovoltaics
Chair(s): Laurent Lombez, Marina S. Leite
10:30 (981) Advanced in situ characterization of phase formation for Cu2ZnSnS4 solar absorber material
Osama M Awadallah, Zhe Cheng
Florida International University, Miami, FL, United States
10:45 (982) Characterization of Surface Potential and Capacitance on CdS/Cu(In,Ga)Se2 Multi-layers by KFM and
EFM
1
3
1,2
Tomoaki
Ishii , Takashi Minemoto , Takuji Takahashi
1
2
Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo, Meguro-ku, Japan, Institute for Nano Quantum Information
3
Electronics, The University of Tokyo, Meguro-ku, Japan, College of Science and Engineering, Ritsumeikan
University, Kusatsu-shi, Japan
11:00 (983) Cryo-Cathodoluminescence Study of Cu2ZnSnS4 Thin Films
1
2
1
2
3
1
Elizabeth A.
Pogue , Samual J. Wilson , James C. Mabon , Tim J. Anderson , Glenn R. Teeter , Allen J. Hall , Angus
1
A. Rockett
1
2
University
of Illinois Champaign-Urbana, Urbana, IL, United States, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United
3
States, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, United States
11:15 (984) Latest Developments in the X-Ray Based Characterization of Thin-Film Solar Cells
1
1
1
2
2
Michael Stuckelberger
, Bradley3 West , Sebastian
Husein , 4Harvey Guthrey , 4Mowafak Al-Jassim
, Rupak
3
4
4,5
1
Chakraborty , Tonio Buonassisi , Jörg M. Maser , Barry Lai , Benjamin Stripe , Volker Rose , Mariana Bertoni
1
School
of
Electrical,
Computer
and
Energy
Engineering,
Arizona
State
University,
Tempe,
AZ,
United
States,
2
3
National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, United States, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4
Cambridge,
MA,
United
States,
Advanced
Photon
Source,
Argonne
National
Laboratory, Argonne, IL, United States,
5
Center for Nanoscale Materials, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, United States
11:30 (985) Imaging EQE in CIGS Solar Cells with High Spatial Resolution
1,2
3
3
3
4
5
5
Elizabeth Tennyson
, Jesse Frantz , Jason Myers , Robel Bekele , Jas Sanghera , Suok-Min Na , Alison Flatau ,
1,2
Marina Leite
1
2
Department of Materials 3Science and Eng. , College Park, MD, United States, IREAP, Univ. 4of Maryland, College
Park, MD, United States, U. S. Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States, University Research
5
Foundation, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Department of Aerospace and Eng. , College Park, MD, United States
11:45 (986) Development
of Scanning1 Capacitance Spectroscopy
of2 CIGS solar1 cells
1
1
1
Chuanxiao Xiao , Helio Moutinho , Chunsheng Jiang , Yanfa Yan , Dean Levi , Mowafak Al-Jassim
1
2
National Renewable Energy Laboratroy, Golden, CO, United States, The University of Toledo, Toledo, OH, United
States
Keynote - Plenary
12:15 - 1:00 PM
Empire A (Level 2)
Closing Ceremony
12:15 (987) Closing Remarks - Steven A. Ringel
12:20 (988) Technical Highlights - Alexandre Freundlich
12:40 (989) PVSC Napkin Award Presentation
Steven A. Ringel
12:45 (990) Best Poster and Student Paper Awards
Kyle Montgomery
12:50 (991) Upcoming Conference Announcements
Steven A. Ringel
1:00 (992) Closing of Conference
Steven A. Ringel
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