Semi-Annual Meeting
February 20-21, 2012
PROGRAM
Georgia Tech Global Learning Center
84 Fifth Street NW, Atlanta, GA 30308
Plenary sessions: 225/327
Lunches, Reception/Dinner: Georgia Tech Hotel
Day 1:
Monday, February 20, 2012
7:30
Registration, pick up name tags and meeting hand-out
Continental Breakfast
8:30
Opening Remarks – Ajeet Rohatgi/George Rozgonyi
o Introduction of new attendees and prospective members
o SiSoC membership status update
o Budget
o Project list summary
o Changes to the meeting format and sequencing
o Student award
o Summer 2012 meeting: TBD
Denis Gray (NSF-I/UCRC Evaluator) – NC State University
“Projects Evaluation and Survey Results”
9:00
Arnab Das/Ajeet Rohatgi – Georgia Institute of Technology
Final report for project 2010-GIT-2
“Implementation of Optimized Gettering and Passivation Strategies for
Multicrystalline Silicon Solar Cells with Focus on Grain Size Dependence and
Advance Features”
9:42
Project evaluation via NSF-I/UCRC “LIFE” website
MEETING PROGRAM
February 20-21, 2012
Day 1:
Monday, February 20, 2012 (continuation)
9:45
Yixin Yan/Liya Yu (PhD Dec 2011)/George Rozgonyi – NC State University
Final report for project 2010-NCSU-3
“Hierarchy of Grain Boundary Impurity Gettering and Passivation in Multi-Crystalline
Silicon: Moving on from the Ideal HOT Wafer to Real World Samples”
10:27
Project evaluation via NSF-I/UCRC “LIFE” website
10:30
Coffee Break
10:45
Jiun-Hong Lai/Ajeet Rohatgi – Georgia Institute of Technology
Final report for project 2010-GIT-3
“Understanding and Development of Dielectrics for Backside Passivation of Low Cost,
High Efficiency Silicon Solar Cells”
11:27
Project evaluation via NSF-I/UCRC “LIFE” website
11:30
Jon-Paul Maria – NC State University
Final report for project 2010-NCSU-1
“Conductive antireflection coatings for Si solar cells”
12:12
Project evaluation via NSF-I/UCRC “LIFE” website
12:15
Lunch (Georgia Tech Hotel)
13:30
Vikram Singh – GT Advanced Technologies
“GTAT roadmap for Silicon”
14:00
Meirong Shi/Khaled Youssef/George Rozgonyi – NC State University
Final report for project 2010-NCSU-2
“Impact of Oxygen, Carbon and Nitrogen on the Mechanical Properties and Crack
Initiation/Propagation in Silicon PV Wafers”
14:42
Project evaluation via NSF-I/UCRC “LIFE” website
14:45
Shreyes Melkote/Steven Danyluk – Georgia Institute of Technology
Progress report for project 2010-GIT-4
“Analysis of the Effects of Wafer Slicing on the Mechanical Integrity of Silicon
Wafers”
15:27
Project evaluation via NSF-I/UCRC “LIFE” website
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MEETING PROGRAM
February 20-21, 2012
Day 1:
Monday, February 20, 2012 (continuation)
15:30
Coffee Break
15:45
Scott Dunham – University of Washington
Final report for project 2010-UoW
“Technology computer aided design tools for silicon solar cells”
16:27
Project evaluation via NSF-I/UCRC “LIFE” website
16:30
Michael Stavola – Lehigh University
Stefan Estreicher – Texas Tech University
Final report for project 2010-TT-LU
“Light Impurities and Transition Metals in Si Solar-Cell Materials”
17:12
Project evaluation via NSF-I/UCRC “LIFE” website
17:15
Breakout Session I (List of suggested items provided on separate page)
IAB Members remain in TBD
PI’s meet in TBD
18:15
Adjourn for the day
18:30
Social Cocktail Reception and Dinner
Georgia Tech Hotel
20:00
Dinner Speaker: Minh Le – US Dept. of Energy
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MEETING PROGRAM
February 20-21, 2012
Day 2:
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
7:30
Continental Breakfast
8:00
John Benner – Bay Area PV Consortium Overview
8:30
Khaled Youssef/George Rozgonyi – NC State University
Shreyes Melkote – Georgia Institute of Technology
Progress report for project 2011-NCSU-GIT
“Collaborative Research on the Relationship between Micro- and Macro- scale
Mechanical Properties of PV Silicon Wafers”
9:02
Project evaluation via NSF-I/UCRC “LIFE” website
9:05
Rishi Ramanathan/Ajeet Rohatgi – Georgia Institute of Technology
Progress report for project 2011-GIT-2
“Development of 19% Efficient 243.4 cm2 Cast Multicrystalline Si Solar Cells through
Material Quality Enhancement and Implementation of Advanced Design Features”
9:37
Project evaluation via NSF-I/UCRC “LIFE” website
9:40
KyungSun Ryu/Ajeet Rohatgi – Georgia Institute of Technology
Progress report for project 2011-GIT-3
“Development of Advanced N-type Devices with focus on Bifacial and Back Junction
Architectures to achieve > 19% Efficiency”
10:12
Project evaluation via NSF-I/UCRC “LIFE” website
10:15
Coffee Break
10:30
Tae-Hun Shim/Jea-Gun Park – Hanyang University
YoHan Yoon/Bijaya Paudyal/George Rozgonyi – NC State University
Progress report for project 2011-NCSU+
“Effect of Metal Impurities in n-type Silicon”
11:02
Project evaluation via NSF-I/UCRC “LIFE” website
11:05
George Rozgonyi – NC State University
Ajeet Rohatgi – Georgia Institute of Technology
Introduction to project 2012-NCSU-GIT
“Cooperative study of defects and impurities in n-type CZ and p- and n-type mono-cast
Si and their impact on limiting high efficiency solar cell performance”
MEETING PROGRAM
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February 20-21, 2012
Day 2:
Tuesday, February 21, 2012 (continuation)
11:20
Breakout Session II
Prepare IAB feedback to NSF (LIFE forms)
Resolve outstanding issues as needed
Discuss new DOE/NSF opportunities
IAB Members remain in TBD
PI’s meet in TBD
12:20
Lunch (Georgia Tech Hotel)
13:35
Mike Seacrist – IAB feed-back to the SiSoC PI’s
o Results of breakout sessions and IAB recommendations
o Comments/suggestions re. ongoing projects
o Open discussion as needed
14:30
Adjourn Meeting
14:40
Tour of Georgia Tech SiSoC Research Facilities
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Baranowski
First
Name
Don
Dow Corning-HSC
don.baranowski@hscpoly.com
(989)301-5581
Mr.
Berg
Rick
Kayex, and SPX Division
richard.berg@spx.com
(585) 279-1282
Dr.
Binns
Jeff
MEMC Electronic Materials
jbinns@memc.com
(636) 675-5290
Dr.
Carroll
Alan
DuPont Electronics
alan.f.carroll@usa.dupont.com
(919) 248-5322
Dr.
Chen
Li-Min
ATMI
lichen@atmi.com
(310) 402-1897
Dr.
Cooper
Ian
Georgia Institute of Technology
ian.cooper@gatech.edu
(404) 894-4041
Mr.
Das
Arnab
Georgia Institute of Technology
arnab.das@gatech.edu
(404) 206-3630
Dr.
Duanmu
Ning
GT Solar
ning.duanmu@gtsolar.com
(603) 883-5200
Dr.
Dubois
Lawrence
ATMI
ldubois@atmi.com
(203) 739-1780
Prof.
Dunham
Scott
University of Washington
dunham@ee.washington.edu
(206) 543-2189
Prof.
Estreicher
Stefan
Texas Tech University
stefan.estreicher@ttu.edu
(806) 742-3723
Dr.
Frei
Michel
Applied Materials
michel_frei@amat.com
(408) 235-4589
Mr.
Geiger
Matthias
centrotherm PV AG
matthias.geiger@centrotherm.de
49-175-2606121
Dr.
Good
Ethan
SolarWorld
ethan.good@solarworldusa.com
(503) 844-3452
Prof.
Gray
Denis
North Carolina State University
denis_gray@ncsu.edu
(919) 515-1721
Mr.
Hook
David
North Carolina State University
dhhook@ncsu.edu
Dr.
Hu
Bing
Dow Corning - HSC
bing.hu@hscpoly.com
(989) 301-5461
Dr.
Hyun
DeocHwan
Hanwha Chemical Corp.
deochwan.hyun@hanwha.co.kr
8210-5006-7976
Dr.
Jeong
In-Taek
OCI Company Ltd.
itjeong@oci.co.kr
82-31-730-9874
Mr.
Lai
Jiun-Hong
Georgia Institute of Technology
jhlai@gatech.edu
(404) 894-3630
Dr.
Langenkamp
Martin
REC
martin.langenkamp@recgroup.com
4745418625
Dr.
Laughlin
Brian
DuPont Electronics
brian.j.laughlin@usa.dupont.com
(919) 248-5655
Dr.
Lee
Jay
University of Cincinnati
jay.lee@uc.edu
(513) 556-2493
Dr.
Lee
Sang Don
OCI Company Ltd.
sdlee@oci.co.kr
82-31-730-9734
Dr.
Lu
Jinggang
Suntech-Power
jinggang.lu@suntech-power.com
86-510-8531-8238
Prof.
Maria
Jon-Paul
North Carolina State University
jpmaria@ncsu.edu
(919) 513-2843
Prof.
Melkote
Shreyes
Georgia Institute of Technology
shreyes.melkote@me.gatech.edu
(404) 894-8499
Dr.
Mungekar
Hemant
Applied Materials
Hemant_Mungekar@amat.com
(408) 235-6247
Dr.
Ostrom
Nels
Confluence Solar
nostrom@confluencesolar.com
(314) 880-0888
Dr.
Paudyal
Bijaya
North Carolina State University
bijaya.paudyal@ncsu.edu
(919) 515-2706
Mr.
Ramanathan
Saptharishi
Georgia Institute of Technology
gtg063v@mail.gatech.edu
(404) 894-3630
Prof.
Rohatgi
Ajeet
Georgia Institute of Technology
ajeet.rohatgi@ece.gatech.edu
(404) 894-7692
Prof.
Rozgonyi
George
North Carolina State University
rozgonyi@ncsu.edu
(919) 515-2934
Mr.
Ryu
KyungSun
Georgia Institute of Technology
ksryu@gatech.edu
(404) 894-7692
Dr.
Schwarzkopf
Alex
NSF Representative
aschwarz@nsf.gov
(703) 292-8383
Mr.
Seacrist
Mike
MEMC Electronic Materials
mseacrist@memc.com
(636) 474-5750
Mr.
Sherman
Steven
Evergreen Solar
ssherman@evergreensolar.com
(508) 251-3306
Ms.
Shi
Meyrong
North Carolina State University
mshi2@ncsu.edu
(919) 523-8648
Prof.
Shim
Tae-Hun
Hanyang University
thshim@hanyang.ac.kr
82-2-2220-0234
Title
Last Name
Mr.
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Organization
Email Address
Phone
Dr.
Soh
Soonyoung
Hanwha Chemical Corp.
sysoh@hanwha.co.kr
8210 4314 6745
Prof.
Stavola
Michael
Lehigh University
mjsa@lehigh.edu
(610) 758-3946
Dr.
Stichtenoth
Daniel
Bosch Solar Energy AG
daniel.stichtenoth@de.bosch.com
49 361 2195 1330
Dr.
Suess
Terry
DuPont Microcircuit Materials
terry.r.suess@usa.dupont.com
(919) 248-5287
Dr.
Tsidilkovski
Edward
Evergreen Solar
etsidilkovski@evergreensolar.com
(508) 251-3438
Mr.
Wu
Hao
Georgia Institute of Technology
pingchina85@gmail.com
(404) 385-3832
Dr.
Yang
Chris
Georgia Institute of Technology
chris.yang@marc.gatech.edu
(404) 894-3594
Mr.
Yoon
Yohan
North Carolina State University
yyoon3@ncsu.edu
(919) 559-9898
Dr.
Youssef
Khaled
North Carolina State University
khaled_youssef@ncsu.edu
(919) 515-7217
Ms.
Yu
Liya
North Carolina State University
lyu2@ncsu.edu
(919) 274-1651
Mr.
Zheng
Zhidong
ReneSola
zhidong.zheng@renesola.com
86-158-68336363
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Current SiSoC Projects
February 20-21, 2012 – Atlanta, GA
Project ID
PI
Project Title
Mentors
2010-GIT-2
Rohatgi
Implementation of Optimized Gettering and Passivation Strategies for Multicrystalline Silicon
Solar Cells with Focus on Grain Size Dependence and Advance Features
Ning Duanmu (GT Solar)
2010-GIT-3
Rohatgi
Understanding and Development of Dielectrics for Backside Passivation of Low Cost, High
Efficiency Silicon Solar Cells
Michel Frei (Applied Materials)
2010-GIT-4
Melkote / Danyluk
Analysis of the Effects of Wafer Slicing on the Mechanical Integrity of Silicon Wafers
Lode Carnel (REC)
2010-NCSU-1
Maria / Rozgonyi
Conductive antireflection coatings for Si solar cells
Brian Laughlin (DuPont)
2010-NCSU-2
Rozgonyi / Youssef
2010-NCSU-3
Rozgonyi / Yu
2010-TT-LU
Estreicher / Stavola
Impact of Oxygen, Carbon and Nitrogen on the Mechanical Properties and Crack
Initiation/Propagation in Silicon PV Wafers
Ethan Good (SolarWorld)
Hierarchy of Grain Boundary Impurity Gettering and Passivation in Multi-Crystalline Silicon:
Moving on from the Ideal HOT Wafer to Real World Samples
Mike Seacrist (MEMC)
Light Impurities and Transition Metals in Si Solar-Cell Materials
Mike Seacrist (MEMC)
2010-UoW
Dunham
Technology computer aided design tools for silicon solar cells
Michel Frei (Applied Materials)
2011-GIT-2
Rohatgi
Development of 19% Efficient 243.4 cm2 Cast Multicrystalline Si Solar Cells through Material
Quality Enhancement and Implementation of Advanced Design Features
Ning Duanmu (GT Solar)
2011-GIT-3
Rohatgi
Development of Advanced N-type Devices with focus on Bifacial and Back Junction Architectures
to achieve > 19% Efficiency
Daniel Stichtenoth (Bosch)
Effect of Metal Impurities in n-type Silicon
2011-NCSU+
Rozgonyi/Park/Macdonald Nels Ostrom (Confluence)
2011-NCSU-GIT
Rozgonyi / Melkote
Collaborative Research on the Relationship between Micro- and Macro- scale Mechanical
Properties of PV Silicon Wafers
Jinggang Lu (Suntech Power)
2012-NCSU-GIT
Rozgonyi / Rohatgi
Cooperative study of defects and impurities in n-type CZ and p- and n-type mono-cast Si and their
impact on limiting high efficiency solar cell performance
Insert industry mentor here
Ending Projects
Ongoing Projects
New Project
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SiSoC Winter Review Meeting
February 20-21, 2012 – Atlanta, GA
Suggested Breakout Items
I. SiSoC General Items
 Approve minutes from the last meeting
 Membership situation
 Recruiting strategy
 Review/update named industry mentors of current projects, assess mentoring effectiveness
 University / Industry site visits
 Consider student internships at member sites
 Next semi-annual meeting
 August 2012 NREL Workshop, CO: Consider 1.5 day meeting near Denver airport,
start Thursday morning allowing workshop attendees to change location, finish
lunchtime Friday. Poster session with students Wednesday night prior to meeting
suggested. Finalize at Feb 2012 meeting.
 Ideas for speakers, guests, potential new members, new research candidates
II. Industry Members
 Membership status: reductions for 2012, delays in upgrades....any positive developments ?
 Recruiting strategy
 Financial status: 2012 budget, collection of membership fees
 Elect a new IAB Vice-Chairman…willing to take control after winter 2013 meeting
 New project topics: update at Aug 2012 meeting
 Timeline for initiating new 2013 projects: use same timeline / process as in past
 Project evaluations of ongoing projects: review/results (“Life Forms” / Denis Gray), need to
ensure that all eligible members provide their input, compile in last breakout session, review
highlights in closing session.
 Student award: collect votes and announce winner
 Evaluate current process for project progress reports, e.g. format, web posting, etc.
 Planning for reduction in NSF funding: (discussion from Aug 2011 follows)
 NSF funding to decrease by ~ 40% for years 6-10 starting in 2013. NCSU gets another
$10K for each school. Could bring new center with $150k membership, then get NSF
award of $55K for 5 years. New center could start the NSF clock again.
 Plan for covering this reduction…..suggest this be taken off-line with center admin to fully
analyze scenario of membership funds, admin costs, etc… with proposal to be made to
IAB in next meeting.
 (George Aug 2011)….allow creation of special account for setting aside funds for student
award and administrative expenses, and authorized the use of membership money to fund
this account (up to 16.5% of fees may be used to fund this account)
 Future direction, combining with other centers….topic for 2012 winter meeting
 Mechanism for working with DOE consortium (BAPVC)
 Other ideas ??
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Funds Distribution for Current SiSoC Projects
February 20-21, 2012 – Atlanta, GA
Projects
Title
2010
2011
2012
2010-GIT-2
Implementation of Optimized Gettering and Passivation Strategies for
Multicrystalline Silicon Solar Cells with Focus on Grain Size Dependence
and Advance Features
$70K
$70K
2010-GIT-3
Understanding and Development of Dielectrics for Backside Passivation of
Low Cost, High Efficiency Silicon Solar Cells
$70K
$70K
2010-GIT-4
Analysis of the Effects of Wafer Slicing on the Mechanical Integrity of
Silicon Wafers
$70K
$70K
$50K
$50K
Impact of Oxygen, Carbon and Nitrogen on the Mechanical Properties and
Crack Initiation/Propagation in Silicon PV Wafers
$75K
$75K
Hierarchy of Grain Boundary Impurity Gettering and Passivation in Multi2010-NCSU-3 Crystalline Silicon: Moving on from the Ideal HOT Wafer to Real World
Samples
$50K
$50K
Light Impurities and Transition Metals in Si Solar-Cell Materials
$70K
$70K
2010-UoW
Technology computer aided design tools for silicon solar cells
$70K
$70K
2011-GIT-2
Development of 19% Efficient 243.4 cm2 Cast Multicrystalline Si Solar
Cells through Material Quality Enhancement and Implementation of
Advanced Design Features
$47K
$70K
2011-GIT-3
Development of Advanced N-type Devices with focus on Bifacial and Back
Junction Architectures to achieve > 19% Efficiency
$35K
$70K
$60K
$90K
$60K
$90K
2010-NCSU-1 Conductive antireflection coatings for Si solar cells
2010-NCSU-2
2010-TT-LU
2011-NCSU+ Effect of Metal Impurities in n-type Silicon
2011-NCSUGIT
CORBI
2012NCSU/GIT
Total
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Collaborative Research on the Relationship between Micro- and Macroscale Mechanical Properties of PV Silicon Wafers
2013
Predictive Modeling for High Performance/High Yield PV Manufacturing
$25K
$25K
Collaborative study of defects and impurities in n-type CZ and p-type
monocast Si and their impact on limiting high effiency performance
$65K
$90K
$525K $727K $410K $115K
Student Award Selection
February 20-21, 2012 – Atlanta, GA
Student Award Criteria Guidelines
The student award is to recognize individuals that have done a particularly excellent job with their projects.
A score of 10 indicates that the results were novel, useful, and relevant for the solar industry. They should
in the presentation explain how their results will benefit the solar industry if their benefits are not already
obvious. A high score also indicates that the student did a good job of carrying out the research and in
explaining the findings to their sponsors.
Project ID
PI
2010-GIT-2
Rohatgi
2010-GIT-3
Rohatgi
2010-GIT-4
Melkote / Danyluk
2010-NCSU-1
Maria / Rozgonyi
2010-NCSU-2
Rozgonyi / Youssef
2010-NCSU-3
Rozgonyi / Yu
2010-TT-LU
Estreicher / Stavola
2010-UoW
Dunham
2011-GIT-2
Rohatgi
2011-GIT-3
Rohatgi
2011-NCSU+
Rozgonyi/Park
2011-NCSU-GIT
Rozgonyi / Melkote
Project Title
Mentors / Students
Implementation of Optimized Gettering and Passivation Strategies for
Multicrystalline Silicon Solar Cells with Focus on Grain Size Dependence and
Advance Features
Ning Duanmu (GT Solar) / Arnab Das (GIT)
Understanding and Development of Dielectrics for Backside Passivation of Low
Cost, High Efficiency Silicon Solar Cells
Michel Frei (Applied Materials) / Jiun-Hong Lai (GIT)
Analysis of the Effects of Wafer Slicing on the Mechanical Integrity of Silicon
Wafers
Lode Carnel (REC)
Conductive antireflection coatings for Si solar cells
Brian Laughlin (DuPont)
Impact of Oxygen, Carbon and Nitrogen on the Mechanical Properties and Crack
Initiation/Propagation in Silicon PV Wafers
Ethan Good (SolarWorld) / Meirong Shi (NCSU)
Hierarchy of Grain Boundary Impurity Gettering and Passivation in MultiCrystalline Silicon: Moving on from the Ideal HOT Wafer to Real World
Samples
Mike Seacrist (MEMC) / Yixin Yan (NCSU)
Light Impurities and Transition Metals in Si Solar-Cell Materials
Mike Seacrist (MEMC)
Technology computer aided design tools for silicon solar cells
Michel Frei (Applied Materials)
Development of 19% Efficient 243.4 cm2 Cast Multicrystalline Si Solar Cells
through Material Quality Enhancement and Implementation of Advanced Design
Features
Ning Duanmu (GT Solar) / Rishi Ramanathan (GIT)
Development of Advanced N-type Devices with focus on Bifacial and Back
Junction Architectures to achieve > 19% Efficiency
Daniel Stichtenoth (Bosch) / Kyung Sun Ryu (GIT)
Effect of Metal Impurities in n-type Silicon
Nels Ostrom (Confluence) / Yohan Yoon (NCSU)
Collaborative Research on the Relationship between Micro- and Macro- scale
Mechanical Properties of PV Silicon Wafers
Jinggang Lu (Suntech Power)
IAB Member: ______________________________________
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Score
1 to 10
SiSoC Meeting Locations
1 – Georgia Tech Hotel and Conference Center
800 Spring Street NW, Atlanta, GA, 30308
2 – Georgia Tech Global Learning Center
84 Fifth Street NW, Atlanta, GA, 30308
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Georgia Tech Global Learning Center Floormap
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